jQuery: Functional, Unobstrusive JavaScript
jQuery is a powerful JavaScript library for dealing with HTML, events, animations, and Ajax. Unlike many libraries, jQuery puts the browser object model front-and-center through its ubiquitous wrapped element sets. In this talk, you will learn to progressively enhance your web applications the jQuery way: with unobtrusive, functional JavaScript.
In this talk, you will learn how to:
- select and modify elements with jQuery's powerful selectors
- use jQuery's utility functions
- register event handlers, including dynamic ones that track changes to the page over time
- play nice with other libraries with
noConflict - create Ajax requests that return HTML, JSON, and other data types
- breathe life into your interface with effects and animations
- unit test your JavaScript code with Screw.Unit, Smoke, and blue-ridge
About Stuart Halloway
Stuart Halloway is the CEO of Relevance, Inc. (www.thinkrelevance.com). With co-founder Justin Gehtland, Stuart helps companies adopt agile, as well as innovative technologies such as Clojure and Ruby on Rails. Stuart is the author of Programming Clojure, Rails for Java Developers, and Component Development for the Java Platform. Prior to founding Relevance, Stuart was the Chief Architect at Near-Time, and the Chief Technical Officer at DevelopMentor.
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