[jQuery] Getting a development team to use jQuery
Hi Jake,
I went through almost the exact same thing this January. My current
project is a very large J2EE financial services project. We have a couple
hundred developers world-wide on the project and when I came aboard we had
no User Interface architect or UI engineer (which, IMHO, almost always
seems to be an after thought in most IT projects).
I was tasked to clean up the interface and bring a common framework for
the html/css/javascript (dom/presentation/behaviors). There was so much
CSS classes and inline javascript events, it was really nuts. HTML tables
within tables within nested tables, yuck. I spent the month of December
creating a DOM API document targeted towards developers and completely
refactored an entire section of the application.
In January, we gathered most of the front-end developers together for an
hour session on the new framework. When I should how they would 'inherit'
presentation and behaviors when simply applying a single CSS class, they
we almost speechless. They had so many questions about the new DOM API and
how I was doing so much with so little code. It was a great session!
I would recommend to refactor a section of your code base, that your
developer know well and show the difference. And I would also provide a
reference DOM API document that would describe your special classes/ids
and its resulting behaviors.
Cheers and good luck!
-jf
--- Jake McGraw <jmcgraw1@gmail.com>