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