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[Cross-posting from the Raincity blog]

I've submitted a proposal to the DrupalCon Szeged site for a tutorial session on jQuery in Drupal. I'd reallly like to get two co-presenters on board to structure it into three 30-minute tutorials, each covering two or three of the following suggested topics:

• how jQuery and Drupal relate to each other
• keeping up with jQuery versions
• the Drupal js object
• how behaviors are handled in Drupal 6
• AJAXifying Drupal with jQuery
• debugging JavaScript with Firebug
• AHAH and Drag&Drop

The topics I'd personally like to cover are i) keeping up with jQuery versions and ii) the Drupal js object. Maybe debugging as well. I'm totally open to suggestions regarding specific topics; the aim is that we will provide a really well-rounded, instructive and comprehensive session on using jQuery in Drupal in 90 minutes.

So, if you are heading to DrupalCon Szeged, haven't decided on what, if any, sessions to present, and feel comfortable with and interested in the above topics, please get in touch with me via my contact form.

Alternatively, if you're not planning on presenting but would be interested in attending such a session, I'd love to hear your feedback as to the content so please leave your comments.

I just posted Part Two of a fairly lengthy discussion of jQuery in Drupal over on the Raincity Studios website. Check out both installments:
The Lowdown on jQuery - Part One
The Lowdown on jQuery - Part Two

Drupal Camp Vancouver '08 was a roaring success and I enjoyed it enormously. There was a really interesting crowd at the event, with people from Seattle, Victoria, even as far away as Saskatoon and parts of Alberta. It was an amazing opportunity for networking and just getting to know more of the local (and obviously not-so-local) Drupal scene. My colleague Steve Krueger and I were delighted at the level of interest shown in our jQuery talks (we had to get moved to the big room because we couldn't all fit in our originally allocated space :-)). But then jQuery does somehow have that effect, probably because it's just so damn cool - and so putting it and Drupal together is a recipe for "sweet love" in the realm of code.

My presentation slides are below. Oh, and here's the link to the AJAX demo: http://www.katbailey.net/demo/node/56

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I gave an introductory presentation on jQuery to the Vancouver League of Drupallers the week before DrupalCon Boston. It covered the basics of the jQuery framework and an explanation of how to use it in Drupal. Here is the slideshare of the presentation:

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But of course at DrupalCon I was bombarded with new ideas about using jQuery, especially in Drupal 6. One of the main to-dos on my list since returning from Boston is to get up to speed on things like Drag and Drop, AHAH, the jQuery UI plugin in general and all the new ways that jQuery is being implemented in contrib modules. And who knows... maybe a jQuery presentation Part 2 will come of it...