Since I started using jQuery about six months ago it has transformed the way that I do web development.  The selector engine and chaining of operations on wrapped sets continues to astound me.  These are things that just weren’t remotely possible using plain javascript or some of the other javascript libraries out there.  The power of being able to do so much with so little code is a huge productivity boost for doing any client-side manipulation of the DOM.

Below is a collection of jQuery links that I mostly pulled from my Google Reader Shared Items. 

Reference

50 Useful Javascript Tools
A collection of tools that will help you to achieve various tasks in Javascript development, including authoring, debugging, documenting, etc.

jQuery Cheat Sheet
Great reference for all of the different jQuery methods and handlers.  A resource that I keep handy at all times.

Visual Studio patched for better jQuery IntelliSense
How to enable IntelliSense for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008

What You Need to Know About jQuery 1.3
Summary of what is new in jQuery 1.3.

The 20 Most Practical and Creative Uses of jQuery
A set of jQuery examples from around the web.  There is some inspirational goodness here.

Plug-Ins

7 of my favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET
A collection of plug-ins that play nice with ASP.NET.  Included are a Datepicker, a client side table sorter.

37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins
37 jQuery plug-ins that you can download and play with.  Includes plug-ins like content sliders, horizontal accordions, image viewers, chart generators and more.

Tutorials

Creating a “Filterable” Portfolio with jQuery
Very cool tutorial and demo of creating an interactive UI for navigating categorized portfolio projects.  The categorized thumbnails dynamically fade in and out and then re-arrange themselves based on the selected category.

The Definitive Guide to Creating a Practical jQuery Plugin
In-depth tutorial on how to create a jQuery plug-in.

Use jQuery and quickSearch to interactively search any data
How to use one of the coolest and most useful jQuery plug-ins I’ve seen.  The quickSearch plug-in dynamically removes non matching items from a jQuery wrapped set in real time as you type.

Using jQuery to search Content and creating custom Selector Filters
Another take on searching page content.  Instead of filtering, this plug-in highlights the matching elements.

Client Templating with jQuery
Tutorial and code for client templating with jQuery.  Includes a modified version of John Resig’s templating engine that is updated to work with ASP.NET.

Garage Door Style Menu (using Animated Background Images with jQuery)
Very cool tutorial on how to create an animated garage door effect on menu items that reveals an image on hover.