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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.