John Resig
| John Resig | |
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| Born | May 8, 1984 |
| 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] |
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Website ejohn | |
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
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Gallery of Innovators | RIT Innovation Hall of Fame". Rit.edu. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ↑ Apress, John Resig bio blurb
- 1 2 Resig, John. Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja. Manning Publications. ISBN 1-933988-69-X.
- 1 2 Resig, John (2006-12-11). Pro Javascript Techniques. Apress. p. 350. ISBN 1-59059-727-3.
- 1 2 Bernstein, M. (2010). "Profile John Resig: The creator of jQuery talks about research, open source development and creating the most popular JavaScript library in use today". XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students. 17: 44. doi:10.1145/1836543.1836557.
- 1 2 John Resig's publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
- ↑ John Resig's blog, Next Steps in 2011
- ↑ Ignacio, Martin. "Processing.js". Processing.js. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ↑ John Resig. "John Resig - Processing.js". Ejohn.org. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ↑ "Bringing the Browser". Envjs. 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ↑ John Resig. "John Resig - Bringing the Browser to the Server". Ejohn.org. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ↑ "Home". GitHub. 2011-04-01. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ↑ John Resig. "John Resig - JavaScript Testing Does Not Scale". Ejohn.org. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ↑ "Sizzle JavaScript Selector Library". Sizzlejs.com. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ↑ John Resig (2009-04-25). "John Resig - New Processing.js and Sizzle.js Sites". Ejohn.org. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ↑ "FUEL - MozillaWiki". Wiki.mozilla.org. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ↑ John Resig (2008-06-24). "John Resig - Simple Extensions in Firefox 3". Ejohn.org. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ↑ "SXSW 2012 - More Secrets of JavaScript Libraries". Panelpicker.sxsw.com. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ↑ "Speakers | Webstock - New Zealand's web conference". Webstock. 2010-02-19. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ↑ "Speakers at TECH4AFRICA". Tech4africa.com. 2010-10-28. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ↑ John Resig - Blog. Ejohn.org. Retrieved on 2014-05-13.
- ↑ "Twitter / John Resig: My goal for 2008 was to do". Twitter.com. 2009-01-01. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ↑ Pro JavaScript Techniques : 9781590597279, APRESS.COM Archived June 9, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
