Today is the 2 year anniversary of the release of jQuery (celebrated with the release of the excellent jQuery 1.2.2).
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.
Amusingly, the entire chain of popularity was due to the fact that I made a troll-y comment on a Prototype blog post (when they announced their new selector feature) and it was discovered and re-blogged by Ben Nolan (creator of the Behaviour library for Prototype). From there it hit the Rails community and was launched onto del.icio.us, digg, etc.
It's been fantastic watching it grow and mature over time - and really see the JavaScript community come alive during these past couple years. I'm happy with what we've achieved and I'm excited, looking forward, to our prospects. Here's to 2008!
Paul irish (January 15, 2008 at 1:31 am)
Congrats John and the rest of the team!
(btw- the first link has some botched syntax)
Vijay Santhanam (January 15, 2008 at 1:45 am)
Congrats EJohn!! Love your work!
Rob Ellis (January 15, 2008 at 2:44 am)
Nice work John - Great framework!
Svilen Sabev (January 15, 2008 at 3:09 am)
Happy to know that jQuery which i am using a lot has birthday on the same day as mine.
Happy birthday jQuery.
Mark G (January 15, 2008 at 3:24 am)
Happy Birthday to jQuery and to Svilen!
@John - your baby sure is growing up fast.
lrbabe (January 15, 2008 at 3:44 am)
Long life to jQuery !
(there is a problem in the link to the release)
Jeroen Sen (January 15, 2008 at 5:14 am)
To 2008! (and beyond)
Congrats John!
monk.e.boy (January 15, 2008 at 5:24 am)
jQuery is the best :-) tried a lot of these JS libraries and yours is the only on that makes sense :-)
monk.e.boy
nakagawa (January 15, 2008 at 6:03 am)
Happy birthday jQueryï¼
Estevão Lucas (January 15, 2008 at 6:53 am)
Happy birthday! and congratulations John
Jim Priest (January 15, 2008 at 8:33 am)
Where's the cake?? :)
Thanks for the great library! Looking forward to 08!
Charlie Chambers (January 15, 2008 at 9:35 am)
Thanks so much, John (et al.)!
I adore jQuery.
gdefacci (January 15, 2008 at 11:25 am)
Happy birtday jquery
but more important, really thanks a lot.
Clodelio Delfino (January 15, 2008 at 6:42 pm)
congrats to the team! cheers...
Mark G (January 15, 2008 at 7:20 pm)
@Jim Priest - here's the cake:
http://www.ajaxonomy.com/files/jquery_bday.jpg
John Barbagallo (January 15, 2008 at 7:48 pm)
Nice. Congrats!
Jordan Sissel (January 16, 2008 at 3:12 pm)
Hard to believe it's been 2 years since the release. I still remember hacking with it at 3am back at BarCamp NYC 2006. Kudos on the success :)
mrm (January 16, 2008 at 9:21 pm)
Congratulations to EJohn and the whole jQuery Team!
PS: The cake is a lie!
Alecs Galindo (January 17, 2008 at 11:29 am)
Thank you for the project!! Is a great library, I think is the best!!
Keep doing this!!
Saludos!
Dan (January 17, 2008 at 11:12 pm)
Dude, jQuery is an amazing library. I have been using it since March of '07. I used it in a group project for school, and fell in love with it.
Please keep up the amazing work. You are truly one of my heroes. Well OK, that sounds like a bit much, but lets just say that I really, really admire the work you've done, and think you're pretty damn cool :-D
Poznan Nieruchomosci (January 18, 2008 at 8:54 am)
I haven't realized it's two years now. Congrats EJohn!
Aprian (January 30, 2008 at 2:24 am)
Happy bday Jquery.
Thx and Congratulation for you and the jquery team.
Ben Nolan (February 4, 2008 at 12:03 am)
Congrats and happy bday jquery :)