• First up is a new series by Andy Matthews, jQuery and AIR: Creating a new AIR project in Aptana. I'm a huge fan of AIR, but have only done a few projects using jQuery and AIR, so this could be fairly helpful to folks to who want to give it a try themselves. I've got to give credit to Aptana for doing a real good job on their AIR plugin for Eclipse. I've had issues getting it to work sometimes, but in general, it's rock solid.
• The jQuery Function Builder is a simple tool that helps you generate jQuery code. I wish I would have had this tool a few months ago when I was learning jQuery!
• Next up is a very, very slick article on integrating jQuery and Google Analytics: Extend Google Analytics with jQuery. Anyone who is a 'power' user of Google Analytics should take a look at this. I especially like the demo of tracking mailto links.
• While I am very pleased with the jQuery Validation plugin, this looks to be an interesting alternative: A jQuery inline form validation, because validation is a mess. Check out the demo as well. Note that it will actually scroll your browser to the first error, which is kind of cool. I also like how the errors automatically fade out when a field is corrected.
• This is a nice quickie: Query Logging is a small plugin that let's you log to Firebug's console via jQuery. I make heavy use of console.log so I can see this being pretty helpful.
• Need to associate metadata with DOM objects? The Metaobjects 1.5 plugin works by making use of the object tag. This is one of those interesting things that i don't quite grok yet.
• Related to the previous link, Hal Helms also demonstrates using metadata with an elements class property. He actually embeds the JSON right in the class, which frankly, I was surprised worked!

That's it for today. Have a great weekend!