I came across this video on Amber Mac’s blog. It’s the most hilarious video that I’ve seen in a long time and a must see for anyone thinking about buying Windows Vista.

There will be a Sydney Beer 2.0 this Thursday (October 18) from 6.30 until 9.30 at Ivory Lounge, 20 Harris St Ultimo. Next month we’ll try to not clash with WSG and any distro release parties.

About 6 months ago I started using Prototype and Scriptaculous for AJAX development. I chose that combination over the Dojo Tookit because they were much better documented. While Prototype is a great AJAX library I’ve always felt that it has been let down by Scriptaculous. Effects are fine but as a web developer I’m really interested controls/components.

Recently I’ve been doing a lot of Drupal development which is how I discovered jQuery. While it’s still early days I feel safe in declaring that jQuery is my new best friend.

So why did I switch to jQuery?

1. It’s documentation is pretty good
2. It’s very similar to Prototype so migration was almost trivial
3. It seems easier to use
4. With jQuery UI I get controls rather than effects