Introducing yayQuery – A jQuery podcast
November 6th, 2009
A few friends of mine got together to put together a new podcast we're calling…
yayQuery!
2009.11.13. Now visit the podcast at:
http://yayquery.com
http://yayquery.com
In our inaugural episode I'm joined by Rebecca Murphey, Alex Sexton (of goto.js fame), and Adam Sontag (ajpiano). We talk about…
- Underscore.js – a great utility belt (very handy for Ruby/Python folks), comes with John Resig's microtemplating script and lots more
- Thickbox – Rest in peace. Also alternatives: Colorbox, jQuery UI Dialog
- jQuery on mobile. Phonegap, XUI, jQTouch, going it alone
- Anti-Pattern of the week: css(key,val)
- $var and Hungarian notation
- … and dancing
Moar?
We hope to do this again (and again) and make things better. We're also working on proper podcast feeds and a site.
But really this is an experiment, for now. We'd love any and all feedback.
Good podcast, lookin' forward to more! I totally agree about the anti-pattern you brought up, I tend to use classes where I can instead of appending a bunch of inline styles. Maybe next podcast you can debate anonymous function styles? (function(){}()) vs (function(){})(). One method is promoted is more-so the method Douglas Crockford preaches to use and the other is used quite often in jQuery. I have my own opinions about it but I would love to hear what other people have to say :)
Yay guys, great idea, better content.
We want more.
We want Mr Logax also:)
omigawd it has dancing!
Really good stuff guys! Already looking forward to the next one.
All good points about Thickbox. Anyone using Thickbox should take note of the words I wrote many years ago.
"I developed the solution as a proof of concept and personal endeavor to showcase the jQuery library. With that said, I think I might owe some people an apology. ThickBox is not retail software. It has no support or documentation (except for this site). It’s the start of a great script and should be used as a launching point. If you see its potential, then the script was likely created for you. If, however, you only see the limitations of the solution, then honestly, the script is likely not for you."
"However, as of today please do not expect a great deal of support for a script that was really never meant to be a complete software solution. Remember, this stuff is free. If it so happens to come wrapped with great documentation and support, then even better, but please don't assume that it should."
The assassination of thickbox begins…. "The thickbox is dead. Long live the thickbox"
Nice job guys… I look forward to hearing your future podcasts in the future. I just tweeted this & it'll be listed on my tech tweet blog post.
Our jQuery Podcast will be launched next week w/ John Resig as host.
So, we will have two nice podcasts showcasing jQuery. Congrats!
Hey Cody, just wanted to say that I thought Thickbox was awesome back in the day, and while I definitely agree that it's course has been run, don't get your head down. That plugin has been a godsend to a ton of people over the last few years.
You'd be crazy to think that I'd let anybody even _look_ at code that I wrote 3 or 4 years ago, let alone use it on their websites. So I applaud the moves you are making now to make the web a better place.
This is great, please keep it up.
Oh the song and dancing was hot. LOL. Loved the first episode y'all. Looking forward to next week.
Loving it! I'd like to see more of the anti-pattern discussions, if you hang around the IRC channel you see A LOT of people doing stuff in the no-no way, or at least not in a optimal way, mainly because it's the first on that comes to mind (and perhaps they're not that familiar with jQuery yet = doesn't know its powers).
@Alex Sexton
+++
Enjoyed the first episode and looking forward to the next one.
Awesome! Looking forward to more.
Was the video out of sync with the audio for anyone else?
MOAR
Another blog using iNove…but I think it's not good to remove the back link of the theme author mg12.
Is there an XML feed for this podcast?
@skube
Not yet! but later today there will be.
For now the twitter feed is your best bet: http://twitter.com/yayquery
Hi thank for shere Introducing yayQuery – A jQuery podcast
Hi Paul
I will add http://twitter.com/yayquery in to my frind
I will follow you twitter for your news update