The coolest thing about John is how much stuff he does- he has his full time job at Mozilla, works on jQuery (he plays a huge part in the code, community and conferences) and has posted over 100 projects (http://ejohn.org/projects/). And, he mentioned yesterday he now spends a lot of his time doing art.

I was lucky enough to have dinner with him last night. He said he cares more about making stuff people can use than he does about money- and it definitely shows in all the work he puts into projects.

If anyone deserves this award, it's John. He's really made RIT proud.

"He said he cares more about making stuff people can use than he does about money"

This reminds me of Steve Wozniak.

Congrats John. You've made the web a better place!

Definitely! Makes me proud(er) to have graduated from RIT last year. :)

Makes me proud(er) for having dropped out of RIT years ago ;)

Me too. RIT is a fantastic school, arguably one of the best if you're going into technical domains like engineering or software.

Rock on!

And the hall of fame web site uses jQuery!

http://www.rit.edu/alumni/ihf/scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js

Hey John I know you are around HN and might look at this thread. I really want to hear what your opinion is of http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/

I've always thought a unification of it with jquery/node.js/processing.js into one ultimate stack would be interesting. Any thoughts?

Video of the induction ceremony from tonight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ghssAm4_nc

He certainly deserves it. jQuery took off in a way that none of the other frameworks really did (Prototype almost did), and because of it (and other frameworks, but you can't deny jQuery is in the lead) , a lot of the really awesome Javascript apps were attempted. Before all of these, how many people would have just gone? "Javascript. meh, it's just a scripting language."

Congratulations jeresig!! I am so happy for you!

jeresig kicks ass :)

I ran into him once in an elevator and said I really dig his work. I think he was a bit surprised that someone recognized him in public. Pretty humble fella. Definitely kicks ass.

john kicks ass. when he did some work for i2hub (this was before jquery), it was clear he had the chops and skills.

I did a spit-take because for some reason in my head I'd gotten jeresig mixed up with this kid who did a Google Tech Talk on jQuery when he was twelve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mwKq7_JlS8

Congrats John! Nice to see you're coming out of RIT (where I currently attend).

Congratulations to John. He has definitely made a huge impact on the web. I hated Javascript before jQuery came along. Now it's probably my favorite language to work with, and a big part of that is because of jQuery!

Absolutly - JavaScript was a bit pants before jQuery, but now you can see it's influence everywhere.

Node.js is an example of 'jQuery-like' JavaScript on the server side, and pretty much every JavaScript book out there since 2005 has included a chapter on jQuery.

Big congrats to John on this achievement.