For our second Rally Point meeting, Gabe Kessler did a presentation on ExpressionEngine 2 and JQuery. The long awaited version 2 introduces a lot of changes in how the ExpressionEngine deals with javascript—since the admin relies on jquery the developers put in place a mechanism for managing jquery so you have one place to deal with libraries and plugins and such. Gabe demonstrated the essential tags for the module and showed us where in the directory structure to drop plugins.
The real cool stuff was his walk through of the JQuery UI. He demonstrated how easy it is to set up customized JQuery UI elements using the jquery theme roller. Go ahead… click the link and dink around for a little while… I’ll wait here.
Back? Cool. Not satisfied with that bit of marvelous-ness, Gabe went on to demo some Google API tools. The code playground, web fonts, translation tool and other goodies were demoed to the accompaniment of oooos and ahs (most genuine). For a list of links to the items he displayed, visit Gabe’s delicious bookmarks group for Google API.
What the heck is this all about? Twice a month one of the Imps presents a topic of interest to everyone at lunch. Currently we’re doing this on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month.