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September is full. I’m giving five talks next month on jQuery and jQuery UI. Here’s my schedule:

Rich Web Experience - East (Washington, D.C. Area) Tag: rwe2008
September 4-6, 2008
Talk 1: jQuery
Talk 2: jQuery UI: Rich Interactivity Simplified

Rich Web Experience - West (San Jose, CA) Tag: rwe2008
September 8-10, 2008
Talk 1: jQuery
Talk 2: jQuery UI: Rich Interactivity Simplified

Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.)
September 18, 2008
A team of developers has invited me to come speak with them. Apparently they’re fans of jQuery (no surprise there) and want to learn more. Awesome. Thanks Ed Summers.

jQuery Conference 2008 (Boston, MA) Tag: jquerycon2008
September 28, 2008
Last year we had a one-day jQuery Camp right after TAE. This year we’ve graduated to a full conference :). I’ll be doing an introductory talk on jQuery UI.

The Ajax Experience 2008 (Boston, MA) Tag: tae2008
September 29-Oct 1, 2008
Talk: Rich Interactivity, Simplified, with jQuery U
This will be my second Ajax Experience. I had an absolutely awesome time last year meeting almost the entire jQuery Team and jQuery UI Team.

If you’ll be at any of these, I’d love to meet up with you. Contact me on identi.ca @rdworth.

Google announced recently that jQuery UI is the latest addition to their hosted AJAX Libraries API:

jQuery UI … is now hosted on our AJAX Libraries API! As usual, your users will get a performance boost when you use JQuery UI through our API, so get started by checking out the docs.

Now you can put one script tag on any page and benefit from cache, min, gzip, and google’s CDN:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.5.2/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>

and you’ve got all jQuery UI plugins and effects. Beauty.