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Friday, 24th August 2007

Building a JavaScript Library. Slides from John Resig’s Google Tech Talk. Some great tips in here, including: make your APIs orthogonal, look for common patterns, keep things extensible and write the documentation yourself.

# 4:02 pm / api-design, googletechtalk, javascript, john-resig, jquery, libraries, slideshare

jQuery 1.1.4: Faster, More Tests, Ready for 1.2. The backwards compatibility policy for 1.2 is pretty clever: provide a plugin that restores removed functionality (such as XPath selectors).

# 4:22 pm / javascript, jquery

BCS Oxfordshire: 2007/8 Programme. Need to get these in to Upcoming and tagged for oxfordgeeks.net.

# 4:49 pm / bcs, oxfordgeeks