This past weekend was the 2009 jQuery Conference here in Boston. It was an incredible event - 300 people attended and a ton of discussion, collaboration, and learning happened.
Nearly the entire jQuery project team had the opportunity to meet for two days prior to the conference and hash a number of things out - figuring out most of the planning for the upcoming year. The core dev team also had the opportunity to meet and work for two days just after the conference. We're much closer to shipping 1.3.3 now (which is likely to become 1.4, with all the new features that're being added).
(Left to Right: Mike Hostetler (Infrastructure), John Resig (Core), Paul Bakaus (UI), Brandon Aaron (Core), Richard D. Worth (UI), and Scott Jehl (UI and Design team)
A full list of the presentations that were given can be found on the events site. All the presentations that I gave can be found below.
I just want to let everyone know that I'm going to be presenting at the Ajax Experience this next week here in Boston. I'm going to be giving two presentations: One on the jQuery JavaScript library and another on JavaScript libraries, in general.
The jQuery presentation is going to be demo-heavy, writing lots of cool utilities from scratch. The JavaScript library presentation is going to be much more talk heavy, really picking apart why you would want to use a JavaScript library, all the way to finding the perfect library for you.
Thankfully, I'm going to be giving the JavaScript library presentation first, on Monday - so you should come to that and hear why you should use a library for development, then come to the jQuery presentation on Tuesday to hear why that library should be jQuery ;-)
In all, it's going to be a great time - there's tons of excellent JavaScript coders coming, and I'm really looking forward to meeting all of them.
This weekend I'm going to be attending Bar Camp NYC with Bob and Jordan. I'm really looking forward to meeting a lot of new faces. I'm currently planning two presentations (one on an unreleased Javascript libraray I've written and one on a brand new idea that I have) - but I'll be happy to give more (Perl, Javascript, AJAX, etc. etc.).
