jQuery Changes From 1.4.2 to 1.6

Anders Janmyr

jQuery is a powerful library and it is possible to get by without using any of the new features. That’s why many of us just upgrade to a new version assuming that it is mostly bug and performance fixes. This is not the case. jQuery 1.4.2 was released in February 2010 and it’s been one [...]

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Building a Twitter live search app with Knockout, jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 3

Anders Fjeldstad

It’s not trivial to build a well designed web application front-end with the level of responsiveness, performance and features that users expect today. It’s easy to get lost in the boiling mix of jQuery event handlers, HTML markup and AJAX calls, and even a relatively simple GUI can quickly become a nightmare to maintain. One [...]

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Good Practices for Rich Web Applications

Anders Janmyr

Use jQuery jQuery is the best thing that has happened to Javascript since it got first class functions in version 1.2. The library is elegant, powerful and has exactly the right level of abstraction for working with the DOM. There is nothing more to say. Learn it and use it. Good resources are: the jQuery [...]

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