Amazon.Com Addiction Continues Unabated….
I pay a quick visit to Amazon to get Kitty a few books and before you know it I’ve dropped an extra 70 quid on 3 JavaScript / JQuery books….
I have not had time to review them fully, but JQuery in Action is a thorough trawl through the functionality and use cases of this continually impressive library. I’ve got a pretty firm grasp of JQuery but my entire knowledge is built from blog posts so felt I needed something a bit more solid and this seems to fit the bill.
The JQuery Reference is very thin for a technical book and has yet to prove it’s worth now that we have decent JQuery intellisense in Visual Studio. I’ll have to wait and see how it pans out.
Lastly, Pro JavaScript Techniques is an overview of the ‘modern’ uses of the language, and how it has adopted several OOP paradigms as true client side development has matured in recent years.
If you are thinking of putting any of these on your Christmas list, I’d order them JQuery in Action, Pro JavaScript Techniques and The JQuery Reference – in order of usefulness.
December 10th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Hi Jon,
I’m glad you enjoyed the book, and pleased my work is grouped with friends like John and Karl. We all worked really hard to make sure there’d be plenty of routes for new and old jQuery fans to get into things and learn more.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to ping me, or stop by my blog. Constructive criticism welcome as well
– Yehuda Katz