1. Making The Case for jQuery
by Jonathan Sharp

2. Survey
• I use jQuery for:
• Personal
• Freelance projects
• My project at my company
• A number of projects at my company
• My company has officially adopted jQuery
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3. The Enterprise
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4. Enterprise Technology Adoption
• How is technology adapted for an enterprise?
• RFP (Request For Proposal)
• COTS (Commercial Of The Shelf)
• Developer need (Developer Driven)
• Ultimately it’s a management decision
• It’s an analytical decision
• Encourage dialog, be patient
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5. Enterprise Concerns
• Legal & Licensing
• Technology (aka Standards)
• Training
• Support
• Maintenance
• Productivity
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6. Legal
• Licensing
• MIT
• GPL
• Verify enterprise software licensing standards
• Preemptive research
know before you’re
asked!
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7. Technology “Standards”
• jQuery is enterprise grade
• 75+ major sites adopted jQuery
• Google Code, Netflix, Dell, MLB.com, BBC, Bank of
America, etc.
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8. Training
• Online documentation is excellent
• docs.jquery.com
• Books: Learning jQuery, jQuery In Action, etc.
• jQuery tutorials Abound
• Do training gap analysis
• jQuery focused or general web development?
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9. Training
• jQuery Conference
• Internal brown bag training
• Enterprise training opportunities, talk to:
• Karl Swedberg
• Rey Bango
• Jonathan Sharp
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10. Support
• jQuery Community
• 11,000+ subscribers to the jquery-en mailing list
• IRC
• Bug Tracker
• Commercial/Enterprise Support
• Life Ray
http://ui.jquery.com/liferay
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11. Maintenance
• What about long term maintenance?
• Dedicate a TPM (technical product manager)
• Responsible for following jQuery
• Point person for your enterprise
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12. Productivity
• jQuery increases productivity
• Needs to be quantified for management
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13. Enterprise Ownership
• Product owner
• Responsible for tracking jQuery project
• Common repository
• http://www.acmecompany.com/js/jquery-1.x.x.js
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14. Open Discussion
• What advice would you share in having jQuery
adopted?
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15. jQuery White Paper
• Developing a jQuery white paper
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16. Thank you! Presentations will be linked from
http://events.jquery.com
Jonathan Sharp
jdsharp@outwestmedia.com
http://twitter.com/jdsharp
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathansharp