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jQuery meeting – the man behind the dollar sign

John Resig. And a beer.Right-o Sydney jQuery cats: here it is! One night only! Saturday afternoon/evening drinks with the one-and-only… John Resig! He’s probably tired from his many flights and Web Stock obligations, so here is our chance to trick him into staying in Australia for good. I’m in the process of setting up a meetup on the jQuery meetup site (Join the Sydney group, and I’ll update the meetup details) but for now, here’s the details:

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iPadmé. Geddit?


C’mon… it’s only the second star wars joke I’ve made in 5 years.

jQuery 1.4 iPhone reference app

jQuery 1.4 reference appWelcome to the year twenty hundred and ten! As a very early christmas present, the jQuery team have announced they’ll be dropping the 1.4 release on us in the next couple of days. They’ve also unveiled a new documentation effort.

To help you get your head around the reams of new information, I’ve created a neat-o reference app for your iPhone – so now you’ve got no excuse not to know what jQuery.noop, .nextUntil(), or .unwrap() does!

To install it, go here on your iPhone then click “+” and “Add to Home Screen” for fullscreen app-y goodness.
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Parcycle: A Particle System with HTML5 canvas

All this PPK “iPhone developers are stupid” awesomeness got me thinking. Now, if there’s one guy I’ve got respect for, it’s PPK. And if he tells me to ditch objective-c for JavaScript, then I’m damn well going to do it. Accordingly, I decide to create “Parcycle“: a Particle Emitter system that I re-wrote from a set of great openGL iPhone tutorials by the good guys at 71Squared.

See the wonders of HTML5 Canvas!!

(here’s a proof-of-concept version as an offline iPhone Web app)

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PPK vs Degrassi Junior High


Shocking discovery uncovered by Henry.