I really love how JQuery UI gets better with every release. I was working from some of the latest subversion releases for a while, and the code and the quality of how its packed and delivered keeps getting better.

Good to hear - I am about to embark on something new, I have been watching jquery UI as I can see it saving a lot of time, but am still not committed (vs do something a bit lower level but have more control, and more pain).

Trying to read the entry on the jQuery UI blog and just getting a database connection error message. Given that the main jQuery UI site's 'Blog' link goes to the jQuery blog, perhaps it's not quite ready yet.

Apparently, they're having some trouble with the server load: http://twitter.com/jeresig/status/1288325448

(either that, or their server really IS on fire...?)

Things should be better now - we were getting a ridiculous number of requests. Let me know if you're still having problems, though.

Hasn't it been located on jqueryui.com for quite a while?

And does anyone know if they have fixed the tab-plugin so it doesn't break back/forward in the browsers?

From the linked blog post:

If you’re reading this, you probably know it already. We finally made the switch to our very own blog at http://blog.jqueryui.com/, where we’ll regularly blog about development, theming, and more during each release.

Amusing. I was trying to download jqueryui earlier - and wondered why it was so slow... obviously wasn't paying attention to the homepage.

Richard Worth was at DrupalCon and he demoed some of the stuff 1.7 enables and it was quite impressive.