I spotted it I forget when, but I was poking around at the RIT ScheduleMaker site he did a while ago, which is still the most useful thing for figuring out classes up here. I dread to think how I'd have to get a good schedule by hand.
I forget what revision it was on then, but it was pretty early on in things. I was looking for an excuse to use JQuery somewhere because it was that freakin' cool, and finally did last June on an internal site. Sam Collett wrote: > > I've used it since at least January 2005 (at least that was the first > time I emailed John about a bug when he was first working on it), but > not as much as I do now. > > I first found out about his coding skills when following the addEvent > coding contest (QuirksBlog - > http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/coding_techniques/contest/index.html) > - which he won of course. Incidentally, jQuery doesn't use his winning > code, but Dean Edwards' code (with a few modifications) and doesn't > even use the W3c (or Microsoft's) method of adding events. > > You could still select elements by a CSS expression and do basic > manipulation on the results (filtering, toggling, adding class names, > adding content etc), and attach (but not execute) events as well as > create plugins. It was also under an 'Attribution, Share Alike > License' and contained no indication of SVN revision (it may not have > even been under source control for all I know). > > It is bigger and better since then and from a glance over the source, > pretty much a rewrite too. > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/When---how-did-you-find-out-about-jQuery--tf2345107.html#a6530203 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
