JQuery JavaScript Library
Before I learned PHP, I used JavaScript a lot, and after learning PHP, I eased up on using JavaScript due to the amount of time it took for me to integrate the PHP output with the JavaScript. As a result my web applications functioned, but without any flair. Despite the dynamics added by PHP, they were still very much `static` in appearance. JQuery however, has revived my use of JavaScript, and has lived up to it’s promise of `Write Less, Do Nore`.
My friend and colleague Andy Sowards came across the JQuery library and introduced me to it. I’m now very much addicted to the genius behind the JQuery code libarary and I know use it on a daily basis.
The core JQuery code is adequate by itself, however, much like WordPress, JQuery’s real power lies is due to the plugins that are available for it. If you need a JavaScript to perform a specific task for you, then chances are that someone has written a JQuery plugin for it, or it can be accomplished by using the core JQuery code itself.
Don’t take my word for it, take a look at JQuery for yourself, and see just how much more you can accomplish, and how much less you have to write to make it happen.