John Resig, the creator of jQuery, the widely used JavaScript library, is joining Salman Khan's (*) Khan Academy, which develops free online courses and videos for various topics.
(*) Not the Indian movie star of the same name :-) This Salman Khan lives and works in the US, though he does have a partly Indian background.
Resig earlier worked for around 4 years for Mozilla. He's going to work full time on leading the open source and JavaScript efforts of the Khan Academy, according to his blog post (linked below).
John Resig: http://ejohn.org/about/
jQuery: http://jquery.com/
Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/
Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org/
Here is John Resig's blog post about this news:
http://ejohn.org/blog/next-steps-in-2011/
(*) jQuery users include Google, Dell, Bank of America, Major League Baseball, Digg, NBC, CBS News, Netflix, Technorati, Mozilla, Wordpress, Drupal, according to the jQuery site.
I had blogged recently about Salman Khan and his Khan Academy, here:
Bill Gates' favorite teacher, Sal Khan:
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