Great little time line viewer and other cool visualisations.

http://www.simile-widgets.org/

This useful addition to jquery will allow you to take a selection of objects and return a list of attributes on them.

I use it for returning a list of IDs from a sortable list of objects. The result is usually stored in a hidden input field and submitted when the user selects a ‘Save Order Button’ the reordering in the database is then handled by the code behind.

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A great set of hints on speeding up your jQuery for very complex pages. IE is an absolute DOG when it comes to jQuery.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1UzfcV/www.artzstudio.com/2009/04/jquery-performance-rules

http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/

or

http://jquery-week-calendar.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jquery.weekcalendar/full_demo/weekcalendar_full_demo.html

JQuery makes what used to be very tedious javascript features a few simple one liners. An added benefit is it is pretty much cross browser compatible. So you don’t need to code
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Handy little program to test on the various versions of IE

IE Tester

Sure to cause no end of frustration getting layouts to look the same in all versions.

Great little jquery addon to handle parent child relationships and sortable lists.

http://bitsinashortbit.wordpress.com/2007/07/22/nested-sortable-jquery-plugin/

This was written for jquery 1.1.x so if you have any issues with jquery 1.2.x or higher in IE which only allows dragging of objects once. Either downgrade jquery or download idrag_source.js from this post
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