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#Four Ways To Do Pub/Sub With jQuery and jQuery UI (in the future)

Between jQuery 1.7 and some of work going into future versions of jQuery UI, there are a ton of hot new ways for you to get your publish/subscribe on. Here are just four of them, three of which are new.

(PS: If you're unfamiliar with pub/sub, read the guide to it that Julian Aubourg and I wrote here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptjunkie/hh201955.aspx)

##Option 1: Using jQuery 1.7's $.Callbacks() feature:

$.Callbacks are a multi-purpose callbacks list object which can be used as a base layer to build new functionality including simple publish/subscribe systems. We haven't yet released the API documentation for this feature just yet, but for more information on it (including lots of examples), see my post on $.Callbacks() here:

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A (very) WIP collection of optimized/recommended jQuery plugin patterns
from @addyosmani, @cowboy, @ajpiano and others.

Disclaimer:
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Whilst the end-goal of this gist is to provide a list of recommended patterns, this
is still very much a work-in-progress. I am not advocating the use of anything here 
until we've had sufficient time to tweak and weed out what the most useful patterns