Making The Case For jQuery

Making The Case for jQuery by Jonathan Sharp

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 jQuery Conference 2008 - Making The Case for jQuery 2

The Enterprise jQuery Conference 2008 - Making The Case for jQuery 3

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 jQuery Conference 2008 - Making The Case for jQuery 4

Enterprise Concerns • Legal & Licensing • Technology (aka Standards) • Training • Support • Maintenance • Productivity jQuery Conference 2008 - Making The Case for jQuery 5

Legal • Licensing • MIT • GPL • Verify enterprise software licensing standards • Preemptive research know before you’re asked! jQuery Conference 2008 - Making The Case for jQuery 6

Technology “Standards” • jQuery is enterprise grade • 75+ major sites adopted jQuery • Google Code, Netﬂix, Dell, MLB.com, BBC, Bank of America, etc. jQuery Conference 2008 - Making The Case for jQuery 7

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? jQuery Conference 2008 - Making The Case for jQuery 8

Training • jQuery Conference • Internal brown bag training • Enterprise training opportunities, talk to: • Karl Swedberg • Rey Bango • Jonathan Sharp jQuery Conference 2008 - Making The Case for jQuery 9

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 jQuery Conference 2008 - Making The Case for jQuery 10

Maintenance • What about long term maintenance? • Dedicate a TPM (technical product manager) • Responsible for following jQuery • Point person for your enterprise jQuery Conference 2008 - Making The Case for jQuery 11

Productivity • jQuery increases productivity • Needs to be quantiﬁed for management jQuery Conference 2008 - Making The Case for jQuery 12

Enterprise Ownership • Product owner • Responsible for tracking jQuery project • Common repository • http://www.acmecompany.com/js/jquery-1.x.x.js jQuery Conference 2008 - Making The Case for jQuery 13

Open Discussion • What advice would you share in having jQuery adopted? jQuery Conference 2008 - Making The Case for jQuery 14

jQuery White Paper • Developing a jQuery white paper jQuery Conference 2008 - Making The Case for jQuery 15

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

Making The Case For jQuery

by Jonathan Sharp on Sep 29, 2008

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