jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries among web developers and designers. And, many new plugins with amazing effects are created every day. Developers and users tend to select jQuery plugins whenever possible. If you’re still on the fence about jQuery, this article will help you understand why they are so popular.
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Other Intermediate

• Getting Directions Using the Google Maps API
• Working with Cookies in jQuery
• Creating an ISO datestamp
• Removing Useless Nodes From the DOM
• Implementing Push Technology Using Server-Sent Events

jQuery 1.9 was released on January 15, 2013 and marks an important milestone on the road to world domination. The code has been streamlined in readiness for version 2.0 which drops IE6, 7 and 8 support.
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Other jQuery

• The Return of the jQuery Plugin Registry
• Ten Useful JavaScript Libraries and jQuery Plugins for Web Developers
• Implementing a Cross-Browser Context Menu as a jQuery Plugin
• The Basics of jQuery
• Developing a Simple jQuery Game to Improve Your Memory

Cookies are the most used technology for storing data on the client side. My previous article, How to Deal with Cookies in JavaScript, explained how to perform CRUD operations with cookies using raw JavaScript. This article turns to jQuery, and will guide you through the use of jquery.cookie, a plugin which makes cookie processing simple.
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Other Intermediate

• Headless WebKit and PhantomJS
• Removing Useless Nodes From the DOM
• Discovering the High Resolution Time API
• Combining CoffeeScript with ASP.NET
• Creating a HTTP Server in Node.js

For all of you jQuery plugin developers out there, we have some exciting news to announce. The new jQuery Plugin Registry site recently went live. This new site replaces the old plugin registry, and will “put an emphasis on remedying a number of the issues” that plagued the old site. The site has a very simple interface, which allows plugin consumers to perform keyword based searches.
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Other Advanced

• Introducing the Geeksphone by Mozilla
• Prototypes in JavaScript
• Happy Holidays from CoffeeScript
• Debugging Unit Tests Using js-test-driver
• Fixing the details Element

Sometimes you need a nice effect to boost your website’s look and feel, and catch your visitors’ attention. There are many free and ready-to-use plugins out there that can enhance the style of your website. This tutorial will guide you through the development of a cross-browser jQuery plugin that creates randomly placed, randomly sized, flashing text inside a given box. It’ll also take into account disability issues (hey, we’re talking about flashing text), providing a stop() method to stop the effect. The plugin will allow several animations on the same page, with every animation being completely independent from the others. The final result will be a JavaScript file which you can easily include in your pages.
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Other Intermediate

• Working with Cookies in jQuery
• Navigation Timing API: How to Profile Page Loads Efficiently
• Implementing a Cross-Browser Context Menu as a jQuery Plugin
• Creating an ISO datestamp
• Removing Useless Nodes From the DOM

Whether you are a novice front end designer or an experienced web developer, every one of us has faced a situation where we write hundred lines of code and nothing seems to run as expected. If you have experience working in JavaScript and jQuery, then you might understand how troublesome it is to find a simple bug which was left behind unintentionally.
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Other Intermediate

• Creating a HTTP Server in Node.js
• Navigation Timing API: How to Profile Page Loads Efficiently
• Working with Geolocation and the Google Maps API
• An Overview of the JavaScript History API
• Discovering the High Resolution Time API

This tutorial will show you how to create a simple game using jQuery and HTML. The resulting game is intended to help you improve your memory skills. We will have an 8×6 grid of squares as the game window. Once you start the game, images of birds will appear in six of the squares, disappearing after a few seconds. Your goal is to remember the positions of the displayed images and click those squares.
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Other Beginner

• JavaScript Masters Unite: Welcome to JSPro
• Five Useful Functions Missing in Javascript
• Knockout.js: An Introduction
• An Introduction to CoffeeScript
• Getting Started with MooTools