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#Four Ways To Do Pub/Sub With jQuery and jQuery UI (in the future)

Between jQuery 1.7 and some of work going into future versions of jQuery UI, there are a ton of hot new ways for you to get your publish/subscribe on. Here are just four of them, three of which are new.

(PS: If you're unfamiliar with pub/sub, read the guide to it that Julian Aubourg and I wrote here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptjunkie/hh201955.aspx)

##Option 1: Using jQuery 1.7's $.Callbacks() feature:

$.Callbacks are a multi-purpose callbacks list object which can be used as a base layer to build new functionality including simple publish/subscribe systems. We haven't yet released the API documentation for this feature just yet, but for more information on it (including lots of examples), see my post on $.Callbacks() here:

##Front-end blogs worth reading##

Even though for the last few years blogs have been losing popularity to Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus and so on, they're still not dead and have not been replaced with other media.

###Articles, showcases, resources###

  • A List Apart - articles design, development, and web standards
  • DailyJS - news, tips, examples and reviews of a variety of JavaScript frameworks and modules.
  • Mozilla Hacks - one of key resources for people developing for the Open Web