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Reasons to like jQuery
- Less, simpler code to execute functions
- Easy to extend
- Growing libraries
- Established platform

jQuery
- Founder: John Resig
- JavaScript Foundation for Mozilla Foundation (formerly) - this was the reason it was very mature out of the box

jQuery Popularity
- almost quadruple in popularity in Google trends
- Books: Learning jQuery (Packt), UPDATE: jQuery in Action

jQuery Overview/Examples
- Core
- Selectors
- Attributes
- Transversing
- Manipulation
- CSS
- others I didn't catch

CF'afying JavaScript
- CFJS - cfjs.riaforge.org, Chris Jordan
- library of over 60 functions to be like a lot of CF functions

jQuery Examples
- create a proxy for your Custom CFCs with jQuery AJAX functions
- recommends using jQuery.ready() and jQuery.noConflict() and move away from the onload function. Also, doing ready() will help to eliminate the "flicker" of items being displayed then hidden.
- went through selector examples (click(), toggle(), etc.)
- I didn't know about the use of jQuery() instead of $. Note to self: go back and change the one application I did using jQuery and make that change, :)
- Best practice is to use CSS classes as opposed to using .css() - if you have CSS classes
- Using DOM manipulation would allow interactivity with DOM elements that aren't buttons like list items, without putting in an anchor tag, etc.
- Lots of documentation at jQuery site
- Recommends the jQuery UI library for UI elements

Specific to CF Integration
- Use AJAX library functions, can wrap in CF tags
- Always empty areas before reloading