I attended the jQuery Conference yesterday in Boston. It was rainy and crappy outside, which made for a great day to talk about JavaScript. Overall, I thought that the conference was great, I enjoyed the division of an Advanced Track and a Beginner Track, but I still would have liked to see what was going on over at the Beginner Track since there were some great speakers on the agenda. My favorite speaker was Mr. Resig who talked about the State of jQuery and made an announcement that Microsoft will be including jQuery in its .NET distribution and Nokia will be integrating it into their widget development platform. While the reaction from the crowd about Microsoft might not have been very warm, I think this will be a good thing for jQuery. It means more people looking at the code and more people working to improve and further develop the framework, blah blah blah. So, good stuff overall.

I also really enjoyed Kevin Hoyt’s talk about using jQuery with Adobe AiR apps.  It was a nice intro to AiR which I have just not had a chance to look at until now.  I was annoyed when I heard that Aza Raskin wasn’t going to be there for his talk about using jQuery in FireFox extensions, I was very much looking forward to that.

The conference was on $50 and you got a free t-shirt too, can’t beat that. I also ran into my buddy Frederick from W3EDGE.  Now, how long do you think it will take me to convert HubSpot’s YUI over to jQuery???