The project team is made up from various volunteers who all desire to see jQuery, a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML documents traversing, event handling and animating, become the best JavaScript tool possible.

Doug specializes in jQuery enhancements and front-end design, recently sharing his expert advice on the jQuery Widget Factory UI on Microsoft’s new Script Junkie blog. He joins the jQuery Project as part of their Infrastructure and Design Team. He will be helping to design and maintain the jQuery online properties, which include http://jquery.com and http://jqueryui.com.

In Doug’s own words: “I just really respect the team, so to be a part of it is so tremendously awesome!”

Doug with most of the team at JQCon

There is no question that his love of all things jQuery put him in excellent company. Congratulations Doug!

In the article Doug explains how to build a stateful plugin,a plugin that maintains its own state and often acts to trigger certain events, using the jQuery UI Widget Factory. This tool works as a framework to assist the development of a plugin, creating helpful, consistent structure within which to work.

The Widget Factory, like many frameworks, is a tool to assist in rapid, maintainable development. Doug goes through a specific example, creating a countdown timer for a Content Management System, to show how to set and use options, initialize and destroy the widget as well as trigger custom events.

In Doug’s own words: “[Widget Factory] is really an amazing tool available to jQuery plugin developers and the best way to learn to use it is by… you guessed it… just using it!”

Look out for more Doug’s articles over at Script Junkie, and be sure to check out his more regular coding advice at Fuel Your Coding. Congratulations on the article, Doug!

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Rob Bowen, Co-Editor

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As one of the genius minds behind the Arbenting sites, freelance web designer Angie Bowen knows a thing or two about creative inspiration. In her position as Co-Editor of FYC with her husband Rob, Angie will share her many years of design experience in exploring creativity with readers in the form of informative posts, in-depth interviews with fellow creative minds and more. If we’re lucky, maybe she’ll treat us to stories about and some pictures of her four furry catkids. After all, we’re one big happy family here at Fuel!

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