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| jQuery Cookbook (Animal Guide) |
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| Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media |
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jQuery simplifies building rich, interactive web frontends. Getting started with this JavaScript library is easy, but it can take years to fully realize its breadth and depth; this cookbook shortens the learning curve considerably. With these recipes, you'll learn patterns and practices from 19 leading developers who use jQuery for everything from integrating simple components into websites and applications to developing complex, high-performance user interfaces. Ideal for newcomers and JavaScript veterans alike, jQuery Cookbook starts with the basics and then moves to practical use cases with tested solutions to common web development hurdles. You also get recipes on advanced topics, such as methods for applying jQuery to large projects. - Solve problems involving events, effects, dimensions, forms, themes, and user interface elements
- Learn how to enhance your forms, and how to position and reposition elements on a page
- Make the most of jQuery's event management system, including custom events and custom event data
- Create UI elements-such as tabs, accordions, and modals-from scratch
- Optimize your code to eliminate bottlenecks and ensure peak performance
- Learn how to test your jQuery applications
The book's contributors include: - Cody Lindley
- James Padolsey
- Ralph Whitbeck
- Jonathan Sharp
- Michael Geary and Scott González
- Rebecca Murphey
- Remy Sharp
- Ariel Flesler
- Brian Cherne
- Jörn Zaefferer
- Mike Hostetler
- Nathan Smith
- Richard D. Worth
- Maggie Wachs, Scott Jehl, Todd Parker, and Patty Toland
- Rob Burns
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- ISBN13: 9780596159771
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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 Straight-forward, clear, simple, like jQuery itself! |
| Review Date: November 28, 2009 |
| Reviewer: S. Gittens, Atlanta |
Much anticipated jQuery cookbook that was well worth the wait.
This cookbook will serve any (beginner to intermediate) jQuery/web 2.0 developer with 150+ easy to grasp "recipes". Nothing groundbreaking here, just great scripts that do 95% of what you need to do faster/efficiently. END NOTE: I was hoping for more AJAX-jQuery or JSON related material. This book with jQuery in Action is a good combo.
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Great Book on jQuery to Get Started
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| Review Date: December 19, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Frank Stepanski, PA |
jQuery is considered the most popular and easy to use JavaScript library. It used by websites big and small with large corportations like Google and MSN. Although there are a few books on jQuery already and the jQuery website ([...]) has lots of useful information, there is still a lacking of a good jQuery book that can show the reader some very useful ways to use jQuery. This is an excellent book on showing the introductory to intermediate developers how to use jQuery efficiently and quickly.
Chapter 1 : jQuery Basics
Chapter 2 : Selecting Elements with jQuery
Chapter 3 : Beyond the Basics
Chapter 4 : jQuery Utilities
Chapter 5 : Faster, Simpler, More Fun
Chapter 6 : Dimensions
Chapter 7 : Effects
Chapter 8 : Events
Chapter 9 : Advanced Events
Chapter 10 : HTML Form Enhancements from Scratch
Chapter 11 : HTML Form Enhancements with Plugins
Chapter 12 : jQuery Plugins
Chapter 13 : Interface Components from Scratch
Chapter 14 : User Interfaces with jQuery UI
Chapter 15 : jQuery UI Theming
Chapter 16 : jQuery, Ajax, Data Formats: HTML, XML, JSON, JSONP
Chapter 17 : Using jQuery in Large Projects
Chapter 18 : Unit Testing
The author takes the reader through the entire gambit of jQuery lerning from the basics of selecting elements, utilites, and effects to advanced event handling, ajax and plugins and much more.
This 'cookbook' can be used as either a learning tool for the beginner or as a reference book for the seasoned jQuery user who needs to find a script or technique quickly.
A great book and definitely worth buying if you really want to learn jQuery. |
Another Great O'Reilly Cookbook
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| Review Date: January 6, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Adam Barney, Lincoln, NE USA |
The jQuery Cookbook, like the many other Cookbook series of books from O'Reilly proves to be an extremely valuable addition to any web developer's bookshelf. There's nothing unexpected here - it's a book full of practical solutions to hundreds of everyday problems.
The first chapter, "jQuery Basics" is meant to be a crash course introduction to jQuery, but it likely won't suffice if you're new to jQuery, and certainly won't prepare you if you're relatively unfamiliar with javascript in general. This book is primarily intended for the everyday jQuery developer who wants a reference for specific issues that come up in projects.
If you are familiar with jQuery basics, a cover-to-cover reading of this book will take you to the next level, but most developers will only read the entries that pertain to the problems they face during development.
The jQuery Cookbook was written by the jQuery community - people who have faced these issues in their own development and have solved them in the real world. I found that a majority of the recipes were well written and clear with properly tested and working code. All-in-all, the jQuery Cookbook is a useful and reliable resource for practical jQuery development.
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Great organization and valuable information throughout
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| Review Date: December 6, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Sean McKenna, |
The organization of this book, like most of the O'Reilly cookbooks, is excellent. You will not be paging through the book trying to find that little nugget of information, it will be easy to find again when you discover you need it.
The book covers a number of general Javascript topics as well as JQuery specific topics. Any one of the chapters alone could well be worth the price of the book.
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A fantastic reference
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| Review Date: January 7, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Marcin Lejman, Poland |
This is a true gem among other jquery books. Down-to earth, very practical and immediately applicable. Examples are consise, but well thought-out, and it covers a great number of different cases.
I would call myself a beginner jquery coder, but during the first hour of browsing through this book, I learned more about this framework than from reading any of the more typical "beginner's guide to..." type of book I've tried. Better yet, I could immediately improve my own website with several nice tricks from this book. |
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