Early last year, I made it a goal to blog, tweet and personally evangelize jQuery to better myself and the project.  My efforts got noticed by jQuery Evangelist Rey Bango and he brought me in as a advisor to the jQuery team.  While I was an advisor I took advantage of my situation and jumped in on projects the team was working on.  Mainly, the jQuery Conference in September and the Stack Overflow Dev Days talk in Toronto.

In November, it was voted on by the jQuery team to bring me on as a jQuery Team Member and I was added to the evangelism team.  I was truly surprised and honored by this action as I wasn't expecting it at the time. 

Being a team member made it easier for me to launch my new project...

I announced in October, at Stack Overflow Dev Days in Toronto, that I would be starting the Official jQuery Podcast in November.  I worked with the jQuery team to get infrastructure support and found a cohost, in Elijah Manor, that could give an outsiders perspective on topics.

We initially started with streaming the shows live on uStream.  But I think I am finding that to be too stressful and am reevaluating whether that is still viable.  Maybe at a later date.

Our first show, with guest John Resig, got the show ranked to #2 on the top Technology podcasts for the day which was very exciting.

We've since had guests Richard D. Worth, Paul Irish, Cody Lindley and Rey Bango.

Our planned shows for January will sure to be very exciting. We are planning to travel to Washington DC to do some shows live in person with the people we are going to interview.

You can find our show on iTunes or you can subscribe to the show with the raw RSS feed.

My plans for now are to do a weekly show as long as I can sustain them throughout 2010.