I am not front end
developer and I have done my share of bad designs and devalued front end
development for a while. But recently I have come to dive into the wondrous world of JQuery/JS and I hope to make the life of my end users a little less miserable. And I wanted this idea or tool not just to be mine so I been trying to make people around me use JQuery as well but to no avail. I realized later that these people take JQuery as a completely new technology or language and well in projects their are lots of learning curves and no one wants to add to that long list. To be honest that was the main reason that it took me this long to start to learn it myself.
The matter of fact is JQuery is not completely new, its just a JS plug in to get you going with fast and awesome development. So, if you are a web based application or system developer, you need to familiarize yourself with JQuery asap. To make things interesting I suggest you avoid the boring "Hello World" example you find when you learn something new and embark on it with something awesome, like the JQuery UI. Take one of the components and try to include it in your project. How? Just download the Jquery UI plugin here and include it in you project like this.
