John Resig inducted into the RIT Innovation Hall of Fame

The coolest thing about John is how much stuff he does- he has his full time job at Mozilla, works on jQuery (he plays a huge part in the code, community and conferences) and has posted over 100 projects (http://ejohn.org/projects/). And, he mentioned yesterday he now spends a lot of his time doing art.

I was lucky enough to have dinner with him last night. He said he cares more about making stuff people can use than he does about money- and it definitely shows in all the work he puts into projects.

If anyone deserves this award, it's John. He's really made RIT proud.

Congrats John. You've made the web a better place!

And the hall of fame web site uses jQuery!

http://www.rit.edu/alumni/ihf/scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js

Hey John I know you are around HN and might look at this thread. I really want to hear what your opinion is of http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/

I've always thought a unification of it with jquery/node.js/processing.js into one ultimate stack would be interesting. Any thoughts?

Video of the induction ceremony from tonight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ghssAm4_nc

He certainly deserves it. jQuery took off in a way that none of the other frameworks really did (Prototype almost did), and because of it (and other frameworks, but you can't deny jQuery is in the lead) , a lot of the really awesome Javascript apps were attempted. Before all of these, how many people would have just gone? "Javascript. meh, it's just a scripting language."

Congratulations jeresig!! I am so happy for you!

jeresig kicks ass :)

john kicks ass. when he did some work for i2hub (this was before jquery), it was clear he had the chops and skills.

I did a spit-take because for some reason in my head I'd gotten jeresig mixed up with this kid who did a Google Tech Talk on jQuery when he was twelve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mwKq7_JlS8

Congrats John! Nice to see you're coming out of RIT (where I currently attend).

Congratulations to John. He has definitely made a huge impact on the web. I hated Javascript before jQuery came along. Now it's probably my favorite language to work with, and a big part of that is because of jQuery!