Learning jQuery

As many of you have discovered by now, jquery.com and its subdomains have been offline intermittently over the past several weeks. On behalf of the jQuery Project Team, I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

John Resig is aware of the problem and is working with the hosting company to get things resolved as quickly as possible. In the meantime, Remy Sharp, who runs jQuery for Designers, has graciously provided a few alternatives for API documentation:

• API Browser
• Visual jQuery
• Adobe Air App (zip) for offline browsing

He also has the raw XML file of the jQuery documentation in an SVN repository hosted at googlecode.com.

Jörn Zaefferer also has a jQuery API Browser that lets you browse by category as well as alphabetically. Also, it can be downloaded as a zip file.

Many thanks to Remy and Jörn for these great resources.

After many months of stellar work, the jQuery UI team has released version 1.5 of their flagship suite of user-interface widgets, components, and effects. This release was focused on bringing you a standardized development API across all of the components, allowing for a more seamless experience when working with the jQuery UI library. (more…)

Quite a few jQuery tutorials have been posted around the web recently. It’s always great to see more people not only learning jQuery, but also teaching it to others. Here are just a few that I think could be helpful to readers of Learning jQuery:
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Last week I attended The Ajax Experience conference in Boston (no, I didn’t go to a Red Sox game), sponsored by the folks at ajaxian.com The schedule was packed with outstanding presentations. But the highlight of my trip was jQueryCamp07, which was held at Harvard University on Saturday.

Throughout the week I had quite a few opportunities to talk with John Resig, the creator and lead developer of jQuery. But, like the social clod that I am, I forgot to do the one thing that I had set out to do: Thank John Resig, in person, for the jQuery JavaScript Library. It was only after I returned home on Sunday that I realized my oversight. So, at the risk of sounding sappy, I figure I ought to write in a public forum what I had meant to say face to face.
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Packt Publishing has just posted an excerpt of our new book Learning jQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques on their site. The excerpt covers table sorting, pagination, row highlighting/striping, and basic tooltips. It also gives a hat tip to Roger Johansson of 456 Berea Street and Christian Bach of jQuery Table Sorter fame (by the way, Christian has just released version 2.0 of the plugin, and it’s awesome!). Here is the summary:
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The jquery.com site is up and running again. The DNS is still propagating across the net, so it might not be available quite yet from every location, but it should be fully reachable within the next day.

I’ll leave source files on my server for the next couple days, so feel free to grab them from here (see previous post for details) if you’re still not able to get to jquery.com.

Thanks, everyone, for your patience.

Also, if you’d like to donate a few bucks to help John with the setup costs for the new web host, you can do that here or on the jquery.com home page: