How good is jQuery?

jQuery is not just good, jQuery is great! At Clarisoft Technologies we used it because it saves lot of time, resulted code is much simpler, and there are many free UI components out there. Below are links to some of them:

40 Exceptional jQuery Interface Techniques and Tutorials

20 Excellent JavaScript Navigation Techniques and Examples

Though there are some issues if you try to integrate with AJAX pages built with Microsoft.Net, lately Microsoft is showing better support for jQuery. So, you can start using it too!

The "sixth sense" from MIT

Now that we are going to work on projects with MIT alumni, I thought will worth to post links to some really cool stuff that are created in the MIT labs. So check these out:

1) The "sixth sense"
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

2) Shiftables, the toy blocks that think
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html

Enjoy the videos!