As I'm writing this on Friday the 13th, I fully expect Firefox to crash (much like Eclipse is doing in the background), my net connection to slow to a crawl, and my daughter to throw a glass of water over the laptop. So before that happens, here is a quick list of links and tidbits from the jQuery world over the past week.

• First off, I think a quick review of jQuery news every week is a good idea. A great idea. And I'm happy to see others doing it as well. The official jQuery blog started a similar series today with This Week in jQuery. I figure there is nothing wrong with multiple people gathering and collecting links, so the more the merrier!
• Use jQuery - A site to demonstrate web sites that make use of jQuery. I love that they categorize it by features. Want to play with tabs but see them in production first? Just folw the Tabs category.
• jQuery Plugin: autoResize - The name says it all. A textarea that grows as you type in it. Perfect for content-heavy editing.
• jQuery Plugin: imgPreview - Same author as the above, and again, it does exactly what you think. Again, I can see this being really useful in a CMS. Both together would make a great pair.
• jQuery Plugin: ColorBox - Yet another Lightbox plugin, but this one looks pretty slick, and I liked the options included with it. I've been a fan of Thickbox for a while but may give this one a try next.
• I'll end with two tips. The first is tip 25 from this excellent blog entry: Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips. Tip 25 is a shorthand way of doing $(document).ready:
  $(function (){
  // your code
  });
  It isn't that much shorter, but kind of nice.
• The second tip comes from the docs for jQuery Tabs: Open links in the current tab instead of leaving the page. Basically they just take over the A tag, but I like the technique and can see it being useful elsewhere.

That's it for this week. As a reminder, you can send me (ray @ camdenfamily dot com) your tips, blog entries, plugins, or other suggestions for jQuery FTW. Have a great weekend.

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