That is good news and BTW a heart-touching story -GTG
On 7/20/07, Brandon Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Excellent! Be sure and ping the list if you need any help with the presentation. I believe there are several people on the list who have recently given a similar presentation to their company. -- Brandon Aaron On 7/20/07, Michael Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > Nothing like a good success story to warm the spirits before the weekend > (as if the fact the working week is over didn't do that enough!) > > I first discovered jQuery a few months ago, when looking for an > alternative to YUI - which is a great library and well documented, but a > little large and awkward for my tastes. > > I ferget what stage jQ was at but it's entirely possible it hadn't > reached version 1.0. Already I could see it's potential and power - CSS > and XPath selectors, chainable functions, and only 20k for the packed > version. I began to use it in small personal projects, eventually > working my way up to a level of confidence in it's ability and my > understanding of it that I began to use it on client's websites here. I > can't claim to be a JavaScript expert but with jQuery, I didn't have to > be. > > Over the last few months I have used jQuery to handle AJAX work such as > adding products to a shopping cart in the background, and combined it > with plugins like tabs, validation, accordion, modal windows and just > about everything in the interface library. Websites I work on bounce, > fade, slide, pop up confirmations much nicer than your average alert() > and confirm() and generally wow our clients with the effects I've been > able to pull off. And - most important of all - the sites work perfectly > > with JavaScript turned off. Soon, I hope to be able to show you a > booking system I've been working on which blew our client's socks off. > And an e-commerce site which did the same. > > There's always been a problem though - I'm the only one in the office > truly sold on jQuery. A colleague of mine recently saw some code I'd > done and decided it looked simple enough to try at home. Over a weekend > he'd redesigned his football website to have drag and drop player > positioning, AJAX star ratings for players, and rounded-off corners on > his DIVs - and this with no prior jQuery knowledge other than what he'd > seen me produce. The problem still existed that if a JavaScript fix to > one of my works was required I was generally the only one who could do > it. > > No more! In this morning's annual review I told my bosses how much I > loved jQuery and how it had made keeping up with my ever increasing > workload so much easier. JavaScript now took minutes, not hours, and > went further and was more compatible than it would've ever been without > jQuery running under the hood. Convinced by my arguments and eulogising, > > I've now been given the job of teaching all of my colleagues the art of > jQuery in the hope that we as a company can standardise on it for all > present and future projects! > > We're only a small company but I'm really pleased to be able to take my > enthusiasm for jQuery forward and have it power all of our websites - > there really isn't a better library or community for us to be relying > on. Thank you to John, or anyone else who works directly with the > project and every single person who's ever written a plug-in I've used > or answered a question I've asked. Our clients love you - but they don't > know it. :) > > Regards, > Michael Price > >
