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I don't know why, but this just makes me optimistic about humanity

From Ajaxian.  Two competing JavaScript libraries have learned to peacefully share the "$" function.  That'd be a great Sesame Street skit if anybody but geeky developers understood the reference.



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cmyers said:

The bar is pretty low in I.T., sadly.  I get discouraged about it a lot, but then I try to do some home repair and I walk down the plumbing fixtures isle at Home Depot and I realize that IT isn't really all that screwed up.

# November 5, 2007 9:34 AM

Joshua Flanagan said:

I remember reading that the ASP.NET AJAX library also made a change before release so it could peacefully co-exist with other libraries like Prototype. I think they renamed the $ function to $get.

# November 5, 2007 3:00 PM

cmyers said:

Josh: Yep, caused me some pain, but was worth it.

They have $get() for document.getElementById() and $find() for finding a behavior by ID (behavior is a ASP.NET AJAX concept)

# November 5, 2007 5:12 PM

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About Jeremy D. Miller

Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#. Check out Devlicio.us!

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