On the 1st of June I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the Remix conference in Melbourne, Australia on the Microsoft/jQuery contribution story and the new Templating engine that were announced at Mix10 in Las Vegas earlier this year. This conference punctuated the Web Camps world tour that I’ve been on and was a welcome break to enjoy someone else running a big event :-) I loved the widescreen, colorful slide template they gave me to use and the “love the web” theme for the conference was definitely running high through the attendees. I overheard someone say that half the attendees were non-microsoft developers which was great to see as many of the talks were on open source, geo-location, HTML5 and other topics that were useful for all developers.
One of the things I try to stress in my talk is the contribution model that Microsoft are using when making contributions to jQuery. It’s the same as everyone else. We are behaving as any other member of the jQuery community does – i.e. propose a new feature, spec it out and then build a prototype – all out in the open on jQuery’s forums and Github. The community have been brilliant to work with. There is no shortage of enthusiasm, feedback, suggestions, code branches and more – it’s been great to see. Here is the slide that I use to describe the contribution model, where examples of cool stuff are templating, data-linking and Cool Stuff ++ are features that the core team library deem essential enough to include in the jQuery core library – in the future.
Below are the slides for the talk and you’ll see the code from the demo in my next post. They will also be releasing the video of the talk soon – I’ll let you know when that’s out too. Cheers and enjoy!