After talking to one of the MTVNI developers, I’ve decided to focus on jQuery learning next.  I need to really advance my JS skills to a much higher level to be updated and be competitive.

Resources:

• http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials = my next project, jquery
• http://w3schools.com/ = my endless resource
• http://www.freetechbooks.com/
• http://www.techtoolblog.com/archives/195-free-online-programming-books
• http://jqueryvsmootools.com/

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So I ask a ton of developers out there… what do you do to learn, enrich your knowledge, further your skills?  What books do you read? What feeds? What websites? What technologies do you focus on?  What I am realizing (which should have been obvious to me from the start) is that each developer is unique.

Each developer is like a Katamari ball, rolling around the technological virtual world within the capabilities of computers, collecting/sponging up all the information/skills/experience they can depending on the direction they are interested in taking and what data is available to be collected/sponged up.  There is no clear path.  There are endless possibilities.  It just depends on what the individual developer feels like doing.  The only way to win is to make the biggest ball you can make and just keep going.  Don’t stop.  Never stop learning.

huó dào lăo, xué dào lăo; xué dào lăo, xué bù liăo.

活到老，学到老；学到老，学不了。

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So I’m ADD and can’t focus on studying one thing at a time.  I figured maybe I should keep myself accountable by posting the stuff I learn.

So (yeah I start my sentences with “so” a lot, dont know why) I went through one of the tutorials today for jQuery.

How jQuery Works

• Google’s CDN to load the jQuery core file:
  • http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js
• jQuery’s ready event replaces window.onload:
  • $(document).ready(function(){ function_to_run(); });
• Adding and removing a CSS class (to a sample “a” element):
  • $(“a”).addClass(“class_name”);
  • $(“a”).removeClass(“class_name”);
• Special Effects
  • $(this).hide(“slow”);
• Callback functions – passed as arg to another func and executed after parent func has completed.
  • $.get(‘myhtmlpage.html’, myCallBack);
  • $.get(‘myhtmlpage.html’, function(){
    myCallBack(param1, param2);
    });