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Dmitri Gaskin is a twelve year old boy, but his age should not fool you: he knows probably more about jQuery and Drupal than most of you. Here's a one hour presention of Dmitri talking about jQuery. He's of course far from a professional tutor (he's quite excited during the whole pres.), but you can clearly see that he has a lot of potential and is definitely a lot smarter than most developers (including me ). I was mostly playing my C64 (and doing some BASIC programming) at that age.

Another jQuery plugin for rounded corners.

A simple, but cross-browser library. Applies SVG (using Keith Wood plugin for jQuery) or canvas method if supported on the client browser (includes explorercanvas patch for ie). If not, applies methods derivated from the work of Walter Zorn for compatibility.

It's an easy to use jQuery plugin that helps you create rounded corners with a few lines of code. You can even have your own corner effects.

I've seen the following code in jQuery's source and various jQuery plugins, but I did not really understand what it is meant to do:

Interface is a collection of rich interface components which utilizes the lightweight JavaScript library jQuery. With this components you can build rich client web applications and interfaces with the same simplicity as writing JavaScript with jQuery.

Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side.
The focus is on simple usage (all settings are optional), attractive looks and interactive features like zooming.
Although Flot is easy to use, it is also advanced enough to be suitable for Web 2.0 data mining/business intelligence purposes which is its original application.

Firebug is a superb Firefox extension providing tons of tools in a very usable structure to aid you in HTML+CSS+JavaScript development. It also has good support for logging in your JavaScript code. Now a jQuery developer can take use of this to log any jQuery object to the console.

The jQuery included in Drupal 5.7 (the current 5.x release) is v1.0.4 in compressed (packed) format.

I was happy to see that the jQuery website (or at least the plugins section) uses Drupal. But this is not what I'm writing about right now. I was looking for a nice looking slideshow or gallery viewer jQuery plugin to use in one of my company's projects. We already decided that the albums will be handled by the Acidfree Drupal module, but needed a pretty UI for displaying the images. You can search for such jQuery plugins using the advanced search on the plugins page. Restrict the search to type=plugin and enter the keywords "slideshow" and "gallery" into the "Containing any of the words" field. I specially liked Galleria (which is a very good looking gallery/album viewer) and the Cycle plugin (which is a tookit that allows you to easily create fancy slideshows, album viewers or whatever you want).