| jQuery Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for jQuery Developers (Animal Guide) |  | Author: Cody Lindley
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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ISBN: 0596159773
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Publication Date: November 19, 2009
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Product Description
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
- 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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 Pro. Dev Take on the Book August 3, 2010
Devlin Liles
I have been a professional developer for 4 years now mainly focused in the windows services and back ground communication pipelines. I was asked to pick up support for an app written with alot of jQuery. I was given "jQuery Cookbook" by a friend and I fell in love. It is straight into the meat. Normally I have to wait 2-4 chapters before the useful stuff gets going and with the cookbook I was diving in right away. I haven't written any jQuery before reading the book but I did understand javascript and the DOM. With that foreknowledge the book made jQuery so amazingly easy. I could not have picked up jQuery in 2 short weeks without this book. I recommend this book to any professional developer that is looking to add jQuery to their skill set.
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 jquery cookbook review August 2, 2010
flyfanatic
If the author was trying to impress me with cryptic language, discussion sections that often had little to do with preceding examples and the occasional repetition of some items, then I was truly impressed. Actually, the book is is in need of an editor that can bring together chapters that appear to have been written by numerous authors.
Lots of Good Stuff August 1, 2010
Larry (Somerville, MA)
What can I say? The O'Reilly Cookbook series is great - and this book fits right in. The first few sections can almost be read and used as a tutorial. The other recipes are clear and well-written.
In addition to the basics, they also do a good job of covering topics like jQueryUI, Ajax, and unit testing.
Heck, for $25 all you need is to have one of them guide you to a solution and the book has already paid for itself!
Great Book July 15, 2010
C. Holliday
Really good book to get you started with jQuery. It starts out with a brief overview of everything web for those not familiar with some of the basics, most of which you can probably skip. I did find that the jQuery basics was helpful and it filled in some of gaps and showed me some techniques I wasn't aware of. Not being a hard core javascript or css writer it's easy to miss a lot of browser compatibility issues and jQuery deals with these issues for you very nicely but I've found that it can be a little tough to find what I'm looking for in the jQuery documentation online. For me, this book filled that gap nicely by covering many of the most frequent types of things you'd want to do. With web content getting more and more complex jQuery is a must-have tool to avoid compatibility issues and this book is a great way to get started and to quickly identify the proper techniques to using it.
 Good recipes May 20, 2010
orangekay (San Francisco, CA United States)
I like this book more than any other jQuery book I've seen, especially Dan Wellman's neverending stream of Packt titles. The recipes are all practical and to-the-point, with very little in the way of useless padding no one needs. Even though it's not a "Learn jQuery" sort of book, if you have a decent grasp of JavaScript, you shouldn't need much more to get going--maybe an up-to-date reference since this only covers 1.3.x I believe.
My one gripe is that the example code is a little tricky to read in black-and-white. Every sample hits you with a giant blast of markup with the little tidbit of JavaScript you need to focus on buried somewhere in the middle of it. It's set in bold, but it's still pretty tough to figure out exactly what it is on the page that you're supposed to be caring about without some careful study. I don't know how they could have improved the situation without paying for color plates, though, so I can't complain too much.
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