Techniques Behind Modern Web
15 Jan
John Resig, the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library, looks back when JQuery was born:
I remember doing the first release at BarCamp NYC (combined with the mention of two other projects of mine that fizzled: Feed Pile and Idea Shrub). While I had released a bunch of open source code in the past, this was the first one that I put some serious effort into getting publicity. Luckily it made it onto del.icio.us/popular, digg - and the rest is history.
Surely, today his baby is growing up fast. Congrats John!
To celebrate 2nd birthday of this great framework, the team has a new release, 1.2.2. Primarily, this has been a bug fix and optimization release. They landed over 120 bug fixes with more than 1157 tests in it. Some major changes are:
The latest release can be downloaded here.
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14 Jan
Looking for Prototype/script.aculo.us replacement on Rails? jRails project can be an answer if you prefer JQuery. Here is info from project site:
jRails provides drop-in functionality for these existing Rails methods.
Prototype
Scriptaculous
RJS
The visual effects in jRails are based on the new jquery-fx library. jRails currently uses a slightly modified version of jquery fx code to get some of the desired effects. This code is evolving and is subject to change. In the meatime, you can get a taste of the visual effects that… Read more »