This Wednesday, June 11, I'll be speaking at the downtown meetup of jQuery LA. I'll be showing a relatively simple jQuery filter that does something useful with images, and show how it can be converted into a plugin without a whole lot of hassle. Then you can take that plugin and reuse it on other projects more easily, and even distribute it through the jQuery plugins registry, your GitHub account, or wherever you like.

:: Update 7/12 :: The talk went well. I had some nice feedback, and hopefully got some people feeling more comfortable about writing their own plugins. Unfortunately, capturing my screen simultaneously with projecting via AirPlay didn't work, so I have only an audio recording, and that's not very helpful.

Here for now are some links of interest:

• The sample project I demoed is available on GitHub. The plugin is called HiDPI Tamer, and is actually useful! It will keep screenshots from retina devices from overrunning your pages, without you having to fiddle with their widths and heights manually.
• How to Create a Basic Plugin (learn.jquery.com)
• Advanced Plugin Concepts (learn.jquery.com)
• I might do another couple of revisions to the plugin, and if I do and think it's ready for wider distribution, I'll put it where all plugins should go: The jQuery Plugin Registry