Comments on: jQuery Tips, Tricks, and Miscellaneous

By: Ultimate collection of top jQuery tutorials, tips-tricks and techniques to improve performance

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:56:17 +0000

[...] jQuery Tips, Tricks, and Miscellaneous [...]

By: Shahriar Hyder

Shahriar Hyder — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:30:10 +0000

Very nice mate. I have also linked to yours from my blog post below where I am trying to collect the most useful and common jQuery code snippets for JavaScript over the web. Here is the title and the link to the jQuery link compilation endeavor:

Ultimate collection of top jQuery tutorials, tips-tricks and techniques to improve performance

http://technosiastic.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/collection-of-top-jquery-tutorials-tips-tricks-techniques-to-improve-performance/

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Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:52:14 +0000

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By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:51:20 +0000

No need to apologize and thanks for the input. As for the potential Manning book, I don't know how prudent it'd be to provide details right now, considering no offer has been made yet. But I will coyly say that it won't be on PHP but is a book that seems to be quite needed. As for the jQuery Visual QuickStart Guide, one is being written, just not by me. Thanks, as always, for your interest in my work!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:29 +0000

Sorry I didn’t notice it was so out of date! I’m guessing the new official one won’t be out of date: http://api.jquery.com/
That’s a shame about the jQuery Visual QuickStart, There is such a lack of good JavaScript books, hopefully later. I agree the appendix on JavaScript for jQuery in action was good, it taught me things I’ve not seen in the other JavaScript books I own or from online articles.
Manning? PHP Design Patterns in Action by Larry Ullman perhaps?

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:42:22 +0000

Hey, Jason. Thanks for the comments and for your interest in my writing a jQuery book. I had actually suggested a jQuery Visual QuickStart Guide last summer but it never happened. Oh well. As for the jQuery in Action, it’s hard for me to honestly evaluate it. First, as a writer myself, what I like or don’t like about a book is often not applicable to the primary reader. Second, I’m in discussions with that same publisher for writing other books, so that affects my assessment. But, to be clear, I do like it. It’s well-written and explains things well, I feel. Particularly the appendix on JavaScript. As for the code snippets vs seeing things in a larger context, I can see what you mean about that but sometimes writers are bound by the constraints of a book’s style. Thanks again for the feedback!

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:17:43 +0000

Thanks, Jason, for the recommendation. That looks great but I hope it’s not too out of date (it says it’s for jQuery 1.1.2).

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:35:21 +0000

I find this jQuery API website to be brilliant: http://jquery.bassistance.de/api-browser/

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:29:24 +0000

Larry, Thanks for the blogs on jQuery, with there being only 2 jQuery specific titled books out there I am sure there is room for a Quickstart guide authored by yourself

I own jQuery in Action (read in the comments you do too) but have not been having much luck with it to be honest. It has a lot of information but is not practical enough at all. What are your thoughts on the book?

Personally I found the typing of small examples approach not helpful. I want real examples, the menu example in later chapters is an improvement on earlier chapters though.