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Posted October 23rd, 2007 by wycatsHey guys,
As many of you already know, I have been working on jQuery in Action, a book on jQuery for Manning Publishers.
Almost the entire book is available on MEAP (Manning Early Access Program), and it’s going to be published in December of this year.
The book itself is pretty awesome. It tries to give you the information you need with a useful narrative, including motivation for certain parts of jQuery. One of the greatest things about the book, in my humble opinion, are the labs, which allow you to test out parts of jQuery without having to throw together an entire test case. For instance, there’s a selector lab, which lets you see, visually, which elements will be selected by a given jQuery selector, and a drag/drop lab, which lets you test drag options via radio buttons and then see the results in action quickly.
It’s currently the only book out that covers jQuery 1.2, as well as the important parts of jQuery UI (including stuff like the undocumented callback object that you get in the draggable/droppable primitives). Toward the end of the book, you get full-chapter examples (my favorite is the Ajax chapter, which covers building an Ajaxified store selling boots 
), and focuses heavily on jQuery best practices and Unobtrusive Scripting.
The book itself is very much in the spirit of jQuery: short and to the point, while covering the important background material necessary to fully understand the topics at hand (especially non-trivial topics like event binding and Ajax).
Without further ado, you can purchase the book (you’ll get the prerelease stuff now and the complete book when it’s released in December) at Manning’s Site. If you use the coupon code JQM30 before the end of October, you will also receive a 30% discount.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Nice news!
Thanks for the discount!
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Indeed! Thanks!
I hope it sells by the thousands! =)
October 24th, 2007 at 4:32 am
cool…can’t wait for the book release, cheers. c”,)
October 24th, 2007 at 5:32 am
Looks great. I just downloaded the free sample chapter. Are the sample files you mention in the chapter available with the prerelease?
October 24th, 2007 at 6:23 am
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October 25th, 2007 at 2:05 am
cover is hideous
otherwise a nifty monitor stand!
*buys*
October 25th, 2007 at 3:15 am
Why is the cover so awful?
October 25th, 2007 at 7:16 am
it’s got like, poo brown, and some 1/3rd english man, 1/3rd homeless man, 1/3rd pirate, wearig his freshly grown neckbeard, smoking a pipe on the cover!
i dunno, it just looks like a generic coding book.
mayhaps a nice cover would be… nice
October 26th, 2007 at 1:02 am
I’m using jquery quite a long time and I’m completely lucky with it. I just bought the book because maybe there’s something I didn’t know yet
The cover is really awful! Try http://images.google.com/images?q=wolfman … I know, I’ve seen this guy already 
Best
Florian
October 26th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Absolutely Awesome!!!! You guys are a head of the game ( i dont’s see
)
prototype in action” yet
October 30th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Pre-ordered my copy. Can’t wait for this. John Resig’s Pro JavaScript Techniques is one of my most frequently referenced books!
November 1st, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Just back from a week in Boston (including a day at jQuery Camp) to find that the discount coupon expired yesterday. Aargh, I hate that! Damn, and the book looks great too.
Howard
November 17th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
I missed the expiry date of the coupon too but thought it’s still a very good price for the gold mine of information it contains. I’ve skimmed through the ebook and the current 262 pages looks very juicy. Nice work, Bear & Yehuda! (Shame about the cover!
)
What I can’t do is download the “labs” app/code that the book references. Perhaps the URL won’t be published until the book is officially launched in December?
November 20th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Gratz! I’ve been telling everyone to get into JQuery for it’s syntax alone.
November 24th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
nice, pre-ordered paper book
Can’t wait to get my hands on it 
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