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Comet works, and it’s easier than you think

I gave a talk this morning at the Yahoo! Web Developer Summit on Comet, cometd and Bayeux.

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4:22 pm / 5th December 2007 / bayeux, comet, cometd, java, javascript, jetty, speaking, talks, annotatedtalks

jQuery for JavaScript programmers

When jQuery came out back in January 2006, my first impression was that it was a cute hack. Basing everything around CSS selectors was a neat idea (see getElementsBySelector) but the chaining stuff looked like a bit of a gimmick and the library as a whole didn’t look like it would cover all of the bases. I wrote jQuery off as a passing fad.

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2:27 am / 15th August 2007 / javascript, jquery, libraries

JavaScript Libraries: The Big Picture

I just gave my first talk at XTech 2007 (I’m speaking again on Friday, on OpenID). Slides are on slideshare.net.

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5:26 pm / 16th May 2007 / javascript, javascriptlibraries, talks, xtech, xtech2007

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