Lately I have been doing a lot more development using jQuery and I am loving it. If you think back to when you first started using ColdFusion I would imagine we have a similair story. Some of you may have read an article somewhere about this great language but I bet most of you may have a story closer to mine. I was getting into building dynamic sites and a friend told me you really need to pick up ColdFusion. It makes complex things very easy and cuts down on development time. I thought perfect, this is exactly what I need, more time to hang out with friends.
Fast forward to today and I find myself in the same position. I have used jQuery before but for smaller projects. Now that I am getting deep into some project I can truly understand what the hype it about. So I am doing today what someone did for me awhile back and that is trying to push some people in the right direction. If you have not had a chance to check it out then you really need to. Just as ColdFusion it make really easy things simple and what a time saver on code. Over the next couple of weeks you are going to see a lot of examples from me (I have at least 6 now) that I am going to walk you through. You may have seen most but for those who have not it will hopefully open up your eyes.
#1 by Ben Nadel on 6/30/08 - 9:48 AM
#2 by Rey Bango on 6/30/08 - 9:52 AM
#3 by Michael Brennan-White on 6/30/08 - 10:02 AM
That would have been sweet and helped me along the Path of the Ajax Masters.
#4 by Chris on 6/30/08 - 4:08 PM
#5 by Sebastiaan on 7/2/08 - 6:17 AM
Just a quick q: I know jQuery rocks, but doesn't it create a lot of overhead if you say only use 10% of the offered functionality? Wouldn't it be better to just build your own?
And how does jQuery compare to YUI? I know Ray Camden has had a post on jQuery where ExtJS and Spry where an issue, but what about YUI?
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