Comment on: You Might Not Need jQuery
Why you would want to learn enough JS to do webdev is beyond me. JS is terrible. Let the standard improve and in the meantime use an API that makes the language sane. Letting jQuery gain so much power puts pressure on the standards org to force companies to work together more to improve the standard. If I were to make a lib that made JS usable, it would be jquery. IMO! :D
Use cygwin. Get away from M$. If you learn tools used in a POSIX system you're knowledge goes so much further.