In this “State of jQuery” talk, Yehuda (who is one of the core members of the jQuery team) covers the updates in jQuery 1.4.3, as well as the plans for jQuery 1.5, due next year. He also gives a quick overview of other initiatives of the jQuery project, including jQuery Mobile and ongoing work on formalizing the governance of the jQuery project.

jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today because it allows to create web pages with rich user experiences. This tutorial shows you how to do things like add custom widgets and provide enhanced usability (like drag-and-drop) with very few lines of code.

Contrary to popular belief, Ajax is not rocket science, especially with the right library. This videos explore the popular Prototype and jQuery libraries showing how they can simplify typical Ajax techniques and make JavaScript easier to work with. We’ll look at how each library wraps the XHR object, smoothes out events, and how they each make use of the humble $.

Web 2.0 is here to stay. jQuery is a JavaScript library that abstracts away all of the gory details of working with JavaScript for web applicatons. This session demonstrates how to added Jquery to your ASP.NET applications today. It focuses on proper uses of Jquery including how to organize your JavaScript code, how to use selectors in jQuery . How to manipulate your web content dynamically. Along with uses of the standard jQuerylibrary time will also be spent exploring some of the most useful jQuery plugs ins.
Watch this video on …

Working on the development of jQuery one tends to learn about all the performance implications of a particular change to a JavaScript code base (whether it be from an API change or a larger internals rewrite). Performance is an ever-present concern for every single commit and for
every release. Performance implications must be well-defended and well-tested.

Development speed is all about the “”feedback loop”” between coding and testing the result. As any jQuery project grows more complex the developer’s feedback loop grows bigger. This video presents jQuery plugins and general tips that will help you reduce that feedback loop. jQuery plugins like Mockjax can speed up development by reducing dependencies on the backend and preventing conflicts with other developers. The video shows how you can use jQuery testing frameworks like QUnit and UITest to not only test your code but to help you quickly automate the …

This video shows you how to develop web applications with Sinatra and jQuery. Sinatra is a simple ruby web framework that allows to develop REST applications with a minimum of overhead. jQuery is a lightweight Javascript library.
Watch this video on Oredev.org

In this video, you will learn the basics of the various Ajax frameworks (Spry, jQuery, MooTools, YUI), including how to implement Ajax interface elements using Dreamweaver CS4, create interesting visual effects, and manage data. Most important, you’ll also learn to implement it all with an eye toward accessibility and standards-based markup.

Stephen Walther from the ASP.NET Team joins James Senior to discuss an announcement: Microsoft is about to make the first contributions to the jQuery open source project! In the past 6 months, we’ve been busy working on three features: Templating, Data-Linking and Globalization. This video show demos of the contributions in action and how/when they will be available for developers to use.

Download the video in alternate formats

This video introduces the JQuery JavaScript library.