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Jeffrey Way provides a step-by-step screencast, accompanied by source code and plenty of documentation in the post titled You Still Can’t Create a jQuery Plugin? – NETTUTS.

Jeff Atwood on the Coding Horror blog recently discussed the phenomenon of being perceived or representing oneself as an expert. He provides examples of the modern “anti-expert” bias, and offers some advice to the New Experts, courtesy of James Bach:

1. Practice, practice, practice!
2. Don’t confuse experience with expertise.
3. Don’t trust folklore — but learn it anyway.
4. Take nothing on faith. Own your methodology.
5. Drive your own education — no one else will.
6. Reputation = Money. Build and protect your reputation.
7. Relentlessly gather resources, materials, and tools.
8. Establish your standards and ethics.
9. Avoid certifications that trivialize the craft.
10. Associate with demanding colleagues.
11. Write, speak, and always tell the truth as you see it.

Read the full article.

I started following @jquery on Twitter sometime ago, and they have provided a lot of great links and information.

One interesting link is to an article about methods for presenting information and creating systems to enhance user experience:

Delivering informative structure is the primary task an interactive user interface should be able to cope with. The more intuitive layout structure is designed, the better users can understand the content.

Read the full article on Noupe.