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In a new post to his blog William shows you how to create a Popurls clone with the powerful combination of PHP and jQuery. Popurls is an aggregation site with some of the latest news and happenings from all around the web.

Since I have a crazy workload right now, I feel this is the perfect time to write a quick n’ dirty tutorial on how to build your very own Popurls. Impress your friends and/or boss with a nifty, hand made news aggregator. Yes, very buzz word friendly.

He uses the SimplePie library to pull in the information from various feeds including Digg.com, Reddit.com, Wired’s news feed and Engadget. He shows how to use regular expressions to extract information from the feeds (if they’re uncooperative), a bit of PHP to work around potentially empty fields and the full jQuery/HTML/CSS you’ll need to make it look more like this

Scott Guthrie, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s .NET Developer Platform, announced that Microsoft is taking a more active role participating in the open-source, community-driven development of the jQuery JavaScript Library – during his keynote at MIX10 reported Peter Galli; the Open Source Community Manager for Microsoft’s Platform Strategy Group.

Microsoft will now work in concert with the jQuery JavaScript Library team to accelerate the creation of new features that make creating rich-web applications on any platform faster and easier.

Microsoft is already shipping jQuery with Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET MVC 2 products. Microsoft contributions to jQuery will be available under jQuery MIT or GPL2 license.

Google’s Ajax Libraries API is a programming interface that permits web developers to download popular JavaScript packages, such as Prototype, jQuery and Scriptaculous, directly from Googles servers instead of using local copies of these libraries. In this fourth part of a four-part series on using the API, you’ll learn how to serve the jQuery framework without compression.
– Introduction

Naturally, the major benefit in using this API is its capacity for delivering a specified JavaScript framework at a higher speed (source files are usually compressed by default). This can also improve the performance of a client-side application utilizing the interface.
However, its…

Welcome to the third part of the series titled “Using Google’s Ajax Libraries API.” Made up of four approachable tutorials, this series teaches you how to download and use your favorite JavaScript library by means of this client-side API. It complements the corresponding theory with a large variety of code samples.
– Introduction
If youre a web developer who builds JavaScript applications by using popular JavaScript libraries like Prototype, jQuery, Scriptaculous, and Dojo, then youll be pleased to know that Google has released a handy programming interface. Called Ajax Libraries API, this interface can be u…

In this second installment of a four-part series, you will learn how to develop an AJAX-driven application that makes use of Google’s Ajax Libraries API to work with the jQuery library. Using Google’s API means taking advantage of Google’s servers, which can be expected to react much more quickly than a single heavily-loaded server. Let’s get started.
– Introduction
A few months ago, Google released a brand new programming interface known as “Ajax Libraries API,” which

provides web developers with a number of intuitive methods that can be used for downloading some popular JavaScript libraries directly from Googles servers.
The group of framew…