I was asked to share my knowledge at SkillSwap which was great evening (it's certainly encouraged me out of my little box and head to future events) (thanks also to John). The slides were updated for SkillSwap, and then also for the ThoughtWorks talk I gave, and in addition, I've recorded screencasts for each of [...]

Last Friday I did my first bit of public speaking. I presented jQuery at QCon. John asked me a couple of months ago, so I pushed the fear aside to give room for the flattery and agreed.

Last year I attended my first conference, d'Construct 07, and this year, I'm speaking at my first conference. I was asked if I could do a talk on jQuery for the QCon conference going on this week, which is where I'll be tomorrow. It's an hour long, and it'll be the first time I speak [...]

During a conversion with John Resig at the FOWA he mentioned it would be useful to have a tutorial that explained what jQuery doesn't do that Prototype does and visa versa, and in particular how X process is done in each library.