Google relaunched their Google Code site with a new design and, you guessed it, jQuery under the hood! Dion Almaer, employee at Google and co-founder of Ajaxian.com, discusses the redesign on his blog and makes mention to the fact that the Google team is now using jQuery for the Google Code site. DeWitt Clinton also discusses this on the Google Code Blog:For example, the search results pages use a combination of the AJAX Search API and Custom Search Engines. The homepage gadgets use the AJAX Feed API and Google Reader feeds. The videos are powered by the YouTube API, the blogs by the Blogger API, the events powered by the Google Calendar API, the metrics by Google Analytics, the forums by...

Here’s some holiday cheer: Flot, a new plotting library/plugin for jQuery by Ole Laursen. The initial 0.1 release has some stunning features, including interactivity with your charts. Flot looks very promising, and we like to highlight promising developments in the jQuery community!See also:Flot AnnouncementFlot ExamplesAjaxian article on Flot

The jQuery Plugins site had been experiencing a few issues lately. So, today I moved it to its new home, http://plugins.jquery.com.If you’ve got a plugin hosted on the jQuery Plugins site, please give your plugin a look and make sure everything is where it should be. If you have any issues, please submit them to the jQuery Plugins Website Issue Queue.

On the 2nd anniversary of jQuery’s release we’re proud to bring you a brand new release of jQuery. This is primarily a bug fix release for jQuery 1.2. You can view the full list of what was fixed on the bug tracker. Downloading jQuery 1.2.2:jQuery Minified (15kb with Gzipping)jQuery Packed (28kb)jQuery Regular (93kb)If you wish to checkout the full release from the Subversion repository, you can do so by following the following instructions and checking out the source from the following location:svn co http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.2.2 Important Changes A lot of hard work was put into this release by Brandon Aaron and David Serduke. David is a new addition to the j...

jQuery UI is growing, and I’m already seeing quite a few sites using it exclusively to support their interface. As a matter of fact, it’s growing so well, that a LA-based open-source company decided to hire a person to exclusively work on jQuery UI full-time.I’m very happy to announce that I, Paul Bakaus, lead of jQuery UI, was hired by Liferay Inc., the company behind the world’s most popular open source java portal, to focus solely on bringing jQuery UI to a next level. This has an enormous effect to the whole project - I can now invest almost three times the amount of time and power, and I’m helping to deploy jQuery and jQuery UI in mission critical projec...

Paul Bakaus (jQuery UI Lead) and John Resig (jQuery Lead) working on the next release of jQuery UI (1.5) and jQuery Core (1.2.3).It’s a rare treat, in distributed Open Source development, to be able to work face-to-face with a fellow developer. Paul is located in Germany, I in Boston - and much of the jQuery team is scattered around the globe. He stopped into town for the weekend so that we could make sure that all the necessary code was in jQuery core for the upcoming jQuery UI 1.5 release candidate. We also had a chance to discuss the future of jQuery UI and plan out some of the best resource allocations for the upcoming months.All that being said, this next release is going to be...

We’re happy to announce a brand new release of jQuery. This is primarily a bug fix release for jQuery 1.2. You can view the full list of what was fixed on the bug tracker. Downloading jQuery 1.2.3:jQuery Minified (15kb with Gzipping)jQuery Packed (29kb)jQuery Regular (94kb)If you wish to checkout the full release from the Subversion repository, you can do so by following the instructions and checking out the source from the following location:svn co http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.2.3 Important Changes The primary purpose of this release was to fix a couple outstanding bugs from the jQuery 1.2.2 release. Specifically, this release is now compatible with Adobe AIR, will be ...

Hey everybody,The jQuery team is proud to release the first beta release of the new upcoming version of UI, jQuery UI 1.5! It has been a long path to this release - originally intended to be a bugfix release, it was growing into something we just couldn’t call 1.0.1, not even 1.1, no, it’s so damn delicious we had to call it 1.5.jQuery UI 1.5 is a complete overhaul of the library - many of the components have been completely rewritten from scratch to improve overall stability and performance, and we finally managed to settle on a unified API for all components. So let’s get straight to a list of all the changes:Unified APIThe API has been updated for all UI components. I...

The jQuery UI Team is pleased to announce its first Worldwide Sprint, to take place next Friday and Saturday, March 14-15, 2008. Two full days of testing, fixes, documentation, and general getting-stuff-done. Our goal is to get the jQuery UI 1.5 release (alpha, beta) ready for final, and we invite any and all to help. Whether you have an hour, or an afternoon, come and run really fast with us.How Will It Work?We’ll all gather in IRC (#jquery-sprint on freenode) throughout the two-day sprint, with a couple of scheduled meetings to keep everyone on the same page, and make sure things keep moving. Other than that we’ll just be doing as much as we can, as fast as we can. Opening t...

The jQuery Worldwide Sprint (see previous post) is over, and it was a wonderful momentum and great experience for many of us.We made great use of the sprint wiki page during the sprint, and it now serves as a reference of what we accomplished, including meeting summaries and irc logs.We moved a lot closer to jQuery UI 1.5, and we had 20+ people actively participating, working in one of four different groups:Development GroupThe dev group was solely focusing on the codebase of jQuery UI. They fixed more than 20 issues in our bugtracker, and implemented missing features such as the greedy option in Droppables. Additionally, we improved the core of UI in a very positive way: we got rid of tw...