It’s hard to write about what you like about an open source project that that solves (or at least attempts to solve) a problem that other open source projects are also trying to solve (using different methods). It looks like you’re competing with each other, but really all that’s going on is that two groups of people share a problem and are the kind of people who enjoy solving that kind of problem and have their own specific ideas about how to do it. How many flavors of Linux are there?
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Archive for October, 2008
How Many Flavors of Linux Are There?
October 8th, 2008 by Aaron N.jQuery, MooTools, the Ajax Experience, Programming to the Pattern, and What Really Makes One Framework Different From Another
October 3rd, 2008 by Aaron N.I just got back from the Ajax Experience in Boston and I’ve had a lot of stuff on my mind.
jQuery Has A Posse
First, I must first attest that hands down, jQuery was the most popular and well represented framework there. They ruled the roost. John Resig (creator of jQuery) spoke 7 times in 3 days, Microsoft demonstrated how jQuery is included in its SDK, and the crowd attending was definitely there to talk about the framework. More than anything, this made it clear to me that jQuery is doing something right.
Part of the task I set for myself in attending the conference was to attend as many of these jQuery sessions as I could both to learn as much of jQuery as I could (I have, in the past, dug into it, but I wanted to soak up as much as I could from the development team and John) and also to see if I could pick up on what accounts for the popularity of the framework.
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