Blog: jQuery
MVC, Ajax, and jQuery
Excerpt by James Curtis
Many people see Ajax as the technology that saved the web, that made it possible to create much richer Web 2.0 applications than was ever possible using just HTML and plain old JavaScript.
This course excerpt was originally posted October 24, 2013 from the online courseware MVC 4.0, Part 05 of 11: Validation and Working with Ajax by James Curtis
It is the Best of Times and it is the Worst of Times for Programmers
By Martin Schaeferle
Across the past six years, the US economy was mired in a recession. Yet throughout it all, there was one bright spot: the IT and programming job market.
This blog entry was originally posted June 11, 2013 by Martin Schaeferle
Soften Your Look with jQuery
By Don Kiely
As mentioned in a previous blog post, Microsoft made two commitments when it decided to embrace jQuery as its one and only client-side JavaScript library.
This blog entry was originally posted October 26, 2012 by Don Kiely
jQuery Plugins, Easy as 1,2,3
By Don Kiely
Despite the usefulness and comprehensiveness of jQuery, it doesn't do everything it could to make your JavaScript coding life simpler.
This blog entry was originally posted October 24, 2012 by Don Kiely
jQuery: Sticking to Commitments
By Don Kiely
Microsoft made two commitments when it decided to embrace jQuery as its one and only client-side JavaScript library.
This blog entry was originally posted October 22, 2012 by Don Kiely
Pulling Out the Big Gun: The Ajax Method
Excerpt by Don Kiely
All of the Ajax features in jQuery are convenience methods that make using Ajax fairly easy for the most common scenarios.
This course excerpt was originally posted October 18, 2012 from the online courseware ASP.NET 4 AJAX and jQuery Using Visual C# by Don Kiely
AJAX: The Technology that Saved the Web
Excerpt by Don Kiely
Many people see Ajax as the technology that saved the Web, that made it possible to create much richer Web 2.0 applications than was ever possible using just HTML and plain old JavaScript.
This course excerpt was originally posted October 16, 2012 from the online courseware ASP.NET 4 AJAX and jQuery Using Visual C# by Don Kiely
The jQuery User Interface Library: Small but Mighty
Excerpt by Don Kiely
One of the major benefits of jQuery is that the core library is quite small, just 83KB for the minified version.
This course excerpt was originally posted October 11, 2012 from the online courseware ASP.NET 4 AJAX and jQuery Using Visual C# by Don Kiely
jQuery: Compressed vs Uncompressed, the Choice is Yours
Excerpt by Don Kiely
The difference in the two files is that the development version is human readable with lots of whitespace and generous amounts of comments to help you understand the code.
This course excerpt was originally posted October 05, 2012 from the online courseware ASP.NET 4 AJAX and jQuery Using Visual C# by Don Kiely
7 Benefits of jQuery
By Martin Schaeferle
jQuery makes using a Web page's DOM, adding effects to the page, animating elements, and executing Ajax calls to the server extremely simple, hiding the complexity of the underlying JavaScript.
This blog entry was originally posted October 03, 2012 by Martin Schaeferle