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+title: "Refresh 006: Dr. jQuery"
+date: 2008-04-28T00:00:00+00:00
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+
+This past Thursday night saw the sixth meeting of [Refresh the
+Triangle](http://refreshthetriangle.org/), the local chapter of the
+Refresh tech network that Viget's helping to organize. [Nathan
+Huening](http://onwired.com/about/nathan-huening/) from
+[OnWired](http://onwired.com/) gave a great talk called "Dr. jQuery (Or,
+How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the [DOM]{.caps})," and his
+passion for the material was evident. In a series of increasingly
+complex examples, Nathan showed off the power and simplicity of the
+[jQuery](http://jquery.com/) JavaScript library. He demonstrated that
+most of jQuery can be reduced to "grab things, do stuff," starting with
+simple [CSS]{.caps} modifications and moving to [AJAX]{.caps},
+animation, and custom functionality.
+
+To get a good taste of the presentation, you can use
+[FireBug](http://www.getfirebug.com/) to run Nathan's [sample
+code](http://dev.onwired.com/refresh/examples.js) against the [demo
+page](http://dev.onwired.com/refresh/) he set up. You'll want to be
+running [FireFox 2](http://www.getfirefox.com/), as [FF3]{.caps} Beta 5
+gave me a lot of grief while I tried to follow Nathan's examples.
+
+Big thanks to Nathan and to Duke's [Blackwell
+Interactive](http://www.blackwell.duke.edu/) for hosting the event, as
+well as to everyone who came out; maybe we\'ve got you pictured on our
+[Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/refreshthetriangle/sets/72157604778999205/)
+page. 
+
+Hope to see you next month.