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Ryan Weald gives a brief overview of Backbone.js and the advantages it has for your project. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Web standards advocate Edward O'Connor gives a quick introduction to Node.js, a new event-driven networking engine for JavaScript. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

How do you use jQuery with Rails? In this episode I redo episode #43 using jQuery instead of Prototype/RJS.

See how to dynamically change a select menu based on another select menu using Javascript. In this episode everything is kept client side which leads to a more responsive user interface.

RJS and AJAX can be difficult to debug. Many times you don't get any error message in the browser. Learn different techniques for solving these tricky problems in this episode.