John Resig is a JavaScript Tool Developer for the Mozilla Corporation and the author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques. He's also the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library.

Currently, John is located in Boston, MA. He's hard at work on his second book, Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja.

John Resig, JavaScript's Chuck Norris and creator of jQuery, shares his insight on the past, present, and future of this most popular JavaScript framework.

In this session, Paul Irish opens the jQuery source and runs through how the jQuery object works, covering self-executing anonymous functions as a global abatement technique, several interesting jQuery methods, internal jQuery paradigms, hiddenhancements, plugin architecture, and the evented model of application design.

You'll learn JavaScript techniques you can apply to your own code, as well as the basic workings of jQuery itself!

The magic of jQuery’s CSS-based selection makes it easy to think about our code in terms of the DOM, and sometimes that approach is exactly right.

Other times, though, what we’re trying to accomplish is only tangentially related to our nodes, and opting for an approach where we think in terms of functionality — not how that functionality is manifested on our page — can pay big dividends in terms of flexibility.

In this talk, we look at a small sample application where the DOM takes a back seat to functionality-focused modules, and see how the approach can change the way we write and organize our code.

Kyle Simpson, creator of LABjs, and James Burke, creator of RequireJS, will team up to cover asynchronous script loading and dependency management in-depth, hoping to dispel misconceptions and myths about this complicated topic, providing you with practical knowledge and techniques. We'll explain the different features of LABjs and RequireJS, respectively, and help compare and contrast their strengths and weaknesses for various use cases.

From simple client-side loading of jQuery and plugins to a complete build-time dependency management solution on your server, this talk will give you rock-solid script loading approaches you can implement immediately in your own jQuery projects.

One of the benefits of jQuery is the ability to write external plugins.

In this live-coding session, Ben explains how, with just a little thought and effort around generalization, parameterization and organization, you can convert your "just get the job done" jQuery code into a legitimate, reusable, modular jQuery plugin.

The road to jQuery success is paved with the guts of bugs slain along the way. At "Fixing These jQuery", you'll understand how to approach your jQuery and JavaScript problems methodologically, and we'll cover many of the common caveats that every jQuery user encounters sooner or later. You'll learn what you should do when your code doesn't do what it should. Sure, docs and support can provide a quick leg up when you're in a pinch, but once you arm yourself with the right tools and knowledge, you can traverse the thorniest of thickets!

Alex Sexton wants to help you make your application as super-sweet as possible.

He thinks that jQuery is an excellent tool for a good chunk of your common front-end needs. He thinks the jQuery plugin ecosystem is super-handy at times as well, but knows that you often wonder "what are the most handy tools that I should be using alongside jQuery?"

His talk is about the tools that fill in the biggest gaps and fit in the nicest with jQuery. He'll discuss templating, dependency management, progressive enhancement and other areas that jQuery could use a helping hand.

He'll also cover practical paths for structuring and implementing these third-party solutions in your app.

Server-side Templating engines have been commonplace for years and now they're making their way to the client-side.

Why keep building dynamic content using JavaScript string concatenation when you can take advantage of the maintainable models provided by client-side templating engines?

In this presentation, Rey shows you a new way to produce easily maintainable dynamic pages via pre-built JavaScript templates and the Official jQuery Templating plugin.