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The Beauty of Open Source Software

I've been doing some web work lately using a relatively new javascript library called "jQuery". It's lightweight, simple, and powerful. It's also got a growing community of developers continuing to enhance and extend it. Yesterday, I came across a side project someone was doing - "date picker" (click on an icon, up pops an interactive calendar, you select a date, date fills in on a form). I was in need of something like that, so I gave it a longer look. I found that, although it was really neat, there were some things that I thought could have been done better, or make it easier to use. So I posted my comments to a mailing list. 4 or 5 ...

Posted August 16, 2006 in web, tagged , .   There are no comments yet.

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