yayQuery Podcast - A jQuery Podcast

When is a forum signature more than just a forum signature? When it's a ticket to an enchanted world of magic, wonderment, and jQuery plugins! Join along as we share all sorts of new playthings and playmates, discovered after some opportunistic link clicking. And with the 1.4 point releases starting to flow, we're here to guide you through the nitty-gritty. Watch now and find out why yayQuery[12] is So Just Cloud!

Let the celeb-YAY-tion commence! It's jQuery's birthday, but you'll be the one unwrapping the gift of 1.4! We'll get you up to speed on all of the last-minute goodies, and bring you along on a mini-tour of the upcoming jQuery UI 1.8 release. With forays into CSS, ECMA 5, and outright falsehoods, it's sure to be the adventure of a lifetime! If you've missed us the last two weeks, you definitely won't want to miss yayQuery[10]!

We're playing naughty this week with the debut of nayQuery! Peter Higgins, Dojo Project Lead, joins us for a spirited discussion of the dark side of jQuery. We'll also get you up to speed on what's going on in the 1.4 alphas and explain why $ is special (because you can buy things with it). After all, Santa's got a lot of coal and he needs to give it to someone!

Please forgive our a/v sync issues. We're trying out new ways to get higher quality podcasts to your faces and sometimes we're better at javascript than we are at making podcasts.

With Rebecca on the disabled list, the yayQuery team overcomes adversity by talking about LABjs, the new asynchronous JavaScript loader on the scene. This leads to a rousing discussion of improving front-end perfromance with new image spriting techniques. And then: moar performance with your favorite segment, Hidden Performance Anti-Pattern for Beginners ... err, wait. It's all there for the taking in this the fifth episode of yayQuery. Now with a party line!

In this episode of yayQuery the team discusses Paul's recent adventures in the land of jQuery documentation. We know there's a Doc Brown 1.21 Jiggawatts joke somewhere in there, but we couldn't find it. Other topics include JSON, Compression & Minification, Plugins of the Week, Hidden Features inside of jQuery, and even a picture of Adam in his best Dark Helmet costume. Also get some coupon codes for some sweet discounts off some sweet conferences. Oh yeah. Jonathan Neal.

In this episode of yayQuery, the team introduces themselves. Paul Irish, Rebecca Murphey, Adam J. Sontag, and Alex Sexton each offer their insight on a variety of topics. Paul Irish continues his anti-pattern knowledge-giving that he started at jQuery Con '09 and then goes on to publicly show his support for the end of Thickbox's life. Mobile front-end development is discussed in some detail, however any information passed on is nullified by the dancing at the end of the video.