John Resig
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| Born | May 8, 1984 [citation needed] |
| Residence | New York City, USA |
| Institutions | Khan Academy Mozilla Corporation Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | Rochester Institute of Technology[1][2] |
| Known for | jQuery Processing.js Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja[3] Pro JavaScript Techniques[4] |
| Website ejohn |
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John Resig is an American software engineer and entrepreneur, best known as the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library.[5]
Education
Resig was educated at the Rochester Institute of Technology[1] graduating with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science in 2005. During this time he worked with Ankur Teredesai[6][7] on data mining instant messaging networks and Jon Schull on exploring new ways of encouraging real-time online collaboration.[1]
Careers
John Resig currently works as an application developer at Khan Academy.[8] Previously, he was a JavaScript tool developer for the Mozilla Corporation. For his work on jQuery he was inducted into the Rochester Institute of Technology's Innovation Hall of Fame[1] on April 30, 2010.[1]
Software projects
Resig has started or contributed to many JavaScript libraries, including:
- jQuery[5] a multi-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
- Processing.js,[9] a port of the Processing language to JavaScript.[10]
- EnvJS,[11] a port of the browser DOM to Rhino.[12]
- TestSwarm[13] a distributed continuous integration test suite for JavaScript.[14]
- Sizzle,[15] a standalone, pure-JavaScript, CSS selector engine.[16]
- FUEL,[17] a Firefox extension development kit.[18]
Resig is a frequent guest speaker at companies like Google and Yahoo! and has presented at many conferences related to web technology, including SXSW,[19] Webstock,[20] MIX, and Tech4Africa.[21]
Publications
Resig is the author of a widely read blog,[22][23] and is the author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques, published by Apress in 2006,[4][24] Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja with Bear Bibeault, published by Manning Publications in December 2012[3] and several other papers.[6]
References
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- ↑ 6.0 6.1 John Resig's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
- ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
- ↑ John Resig's blog, Next Steps in 2011
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- ↑ John Resig - Blog. Ejohn.org. Retrieved on 2014-05-13.
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- ↑ Pro JavaScript Techniques : 9781590597279, APRESS.COM[dead link]Archive copy at the Wayback Machine
External links
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- John Resig - About Me
- EnvJS
- Processing.js
- Test Swarm
- Sizzle.js
- FUEL
- John Resig on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- John Resig on Flickr
