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JQuery on Rails

The JRails library is a useful tool for programmers working on Rails. jRails is a drop-in jQuery replacement for Prototype/script.aculo.us on Rails. Using jRails, you can get all of the same default Rails helpers for JavaScript functionality using the lighter jQuery library. I plan to start programming with Rails soon so I'll definitely be adding this to my arsenal.

Learning Adobe Air

Jonathan Snook has a great article on 24ways.org about creating an Adobe Air application using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. This is a great way for web developers who don't know much or don't care about Flash to get started. I'd like to push this further by creating a desktop app that can also live on the web. Maybe even communicate with the desktop version. You can check out Snook's article ...