Christopher Schmitt (@teleject) and I recently discussed the upcoming jQuery Summit that his organization Environments for Humans is putting on, this is the 2nd jQuery conference they’ve done. These guys put on some of the best online conferences i’ve seen with the likes of CSS Summit, Accessibility Summit and the iPhone Summit, this next one on jQuery looks like it’s going to be awesome.
Before I get into the specifics of our conversation, we’re giving away 2 passes to the conference. All you need to do to enter is leave a comment below about what your last implementation of jQuery on a website project was. We will draw 2 random winners from those comments Friday November the 12th. Now that’s 2 tickets for a full pass, that’s right, you can win a pass for both days.
Christopher and I talked briefly about what makes a great conference and he believes that one of the main factors of success is having the speakers really dig into detail and then providing enough time for Q&A after the sessions. The other key to these summit series that Chris produces is that you can come back after the conference and watch the presentations over again – you can’t necessarily do that with an in person conference.
The jQuery Summit is on November 16th and 17th (9am to 5pm CT), that’s right 2 days of jQuery awesomeness! The conference is broken up into 2 tracks, the 16th is the designer track and the 17th is the developer track. The speaker breakdown is as follows.
DESIGNER TRACKjQuery & Common Client Requests jQuery vs. CSS3 jQuery & eCSStender jQuery UI Designer’s Perspective on jQuery jQuery & Google Maps Idiomatic jQuery jQuery Community |
DEVELOPER TRACKThe State of jQuery The jQuery Source Functionality-Focused jQuery & Performance Script Loading jQuery Pluginization Troubleshooting jQuery jQuery’s Best Friends jQuery Templating |
I could go on and on about a couple of these design sessions, now each and every one of them looks to be great, but the session by Chris Coyier, Jonathan Snook & Emily Lewis look like they will give us some great information that we can take directly back to our client work the moment we step away from the conference. I’m also particularly interested in the jQuery UI talk by Richard Worth, I think the jQuery UI is often an overlooked but extremely useful part of the overall usage of jQuery for our everyday client work.
The developer sessions are also equally impressive, to have John Resig and Paul Irish together gets you your money’s worth. The discussion of jQuery Pluginization (now that’s not a word…) by Ben Alman has a huge amount of promise, in that creating truly reusable/plug-ins for your projects can save you effort and make you more money when you build out client websites.
By no means do I want to discredit any of the other sessions, these people area all serious contributors to the web community and to have them all assembled here to put on a conference with the level of quality that Environments for Humans puts into it is hard for me understand why you’d want to miss out on this experience. Each day by itself will run you $179 and then $299 for both days, with a meeting room option for larger organizations. Considering how the prices of most conferences have been skyrocketing lately this is probably the best deal you’re going to get all year long.
We finished up talking about what’s next for Environments for Humans. Turns out jQuery Summit is the close out event for 2010. However in February of next year they are putting on the In Control 2011 Conference, in Orlando Florida on February 21st and 22nd. The format is a little different from Chris’ explanation, they give the speakers 2 hours to run their talk, which gives them plenty of time to dig into some serious detail and really spend time answering your questions. This conference is pretty serious business to, just look at the lineup on the website: 2011.incontrolconference.com. We’ll be sure to have Christopher back on again to give us the skinny on this conference too.
As always it’s a pleasure to talk about the things Environments for Humans has going on with Christopher. I do want to note that these guys don’t pay us a dime to talk up their conference, I have a lot of respect for what they do with these conferences and I believe that this is something that the unmatchedstyle community should pay attention too.
Now get going and leave us a comment so that you can get entered for the free ticket drawing. Remember we’re giving away 2 of these bad boys!
Update:
We have randomly chosen the winners of the two passes to the jQuery Summit from the list of comments.
Congratulations to: Candi (@candiRSX) and Rob Tarr (@forgeideas)!
We will email and DM you on twitter, please write us back then for your passes.
Also, Below is a discount code that’s worth 20% off any ticket/combo for jQuery Summit:
JQUERY2UMS
The last big jQuery piece I wrote was a YouTube gallery that used YQL to either go out and grab the latest X videos from a specified channel or specifically fetch individual videos by id and display the videos in a cycle gallery and the thumbnails in a sliding/clickable filmstrip.
I build a custom google map with the help jQuery. Great stuff guys!
My last usage of jQuery, and what I am still currently working on, is a content management system for mobile apps using the jQuery mobile library for all the beautiful effects and features. I discovered jQuery around 6 months ago and since it has been my main tool when creating stunning web content. Long live JQ! 🙂
Just started experimenting with jQuery Mobile.
I have only skimmed the surface of jQuery, using it for some basic UI enhancements, but the more I do with it, the more I’m impressed and want to dive deeper.
The last big project I did was a full website admin using jQuery andd jQuery-UI. Would love to win a pass to the conference.
The last bit of jQuery I implemented was some validation on a form. Really cutting edge stuff. ha. (Just happens to be the last thing I did.) jQuery made it super easy and fast to do.
Implemented a Jquery rotating banner on a homepage instead of using flash.
last time I worked with jQuery was to help awesomify a form 🙂
We’re talking about starting up some mobile projects with jQuery, and we already use it for a lot of things. I would love to get some insight as to how I can use it better.
The last little bit of jQuery I wrote for a site was this little plugin:
http://jsfiddle.net/seangaffney/NPMBv/
Just starting to get into jQuery, so this summit is going to be very useful!
Hi!
My last jQuery implementation was a wordpress plugin to check if there are new comments, twitter style 🙂
I am an intern for Chicago Apartment Finders, and have been implementing jQuery on both their admin and public websites.
I’m rebuilding my company’s website now using jQuery 1.4.3.
We also use jQuery heavily in our software product.
I love jQuery. It’s my weapon against Flash.
jQuery is the end-all DOM toolkit. I drank the kool-aid 2 years ago and used it for everything. Learn from me, don’t do that. Last jQuery Summit all I cared about where effects, results and solutions. This jQuery Summit, I’m focused on optimization, performance, and oojs. The lineup is much bigger than last years and ther are certainly more hardcore codeheads speaking, this is not a coincidence. This is fate.
Fronteers!
I’ve been using jQuery for managing form validation, not really exciting, but life is easier since I started using it.
Just used jQuery on a landing page I have been working on to send email via AJAX.
This summit should be really great.
I’m currently building a web app for teachers to create assessments and input student marks. It’s almost all jQuery ajax (.post & .load + multi-step UI .dialogs)
The last serious use of jquery was soon after I completed the Sitepoint javascript LIVE course.
There is a framework we built for the ‘Ethical Junction’ website. And it needed some form controls, namely to copy values from one set of data on one form over into the another section a few steps later. We also needed to bundle a semantic validated way of created behaviour like target = “_blank” – These were packaged into a a javascript class which were called on demand via data being entered into input fields or via setting class names.
It made the whole process of calculating various form entry fields and storing calculated values and moving them and dates around in the data store easy, and simplified the users interaction. Love it, look forward to doing more.
Playing with jQuery on AIR.
Summit looks good.
Congratulations to: Candi (@candiRSX) and Rob Tarr (@forgeideas)!
We will email and DM you on twitter, please write us back then for your passes.
Congrats guys! And thanks Gene for putting this on.