jQuery Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in Web Development) [Paperback]

B.M. Harwani (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1430227095 | ISBN-13: 978-1430227090 | Publication Date: January 12, 2010 | Edition: 1st Edition.

jQuery is one of today’s most popular, if not the most popular, JavaScript Web application development frameworks and libraries.

jQuery Recipes by Bintu Harwani can get the reader started with or on jQuery fast and easy, as well as serve as a valuable long term reference. It should be one of the first pragmatic, code cookbook type reference on jQuery as well.

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About the Author

Bintu Harwani is a computer programmer and Web developer with several years of experience building content driven Web sites using a variety of Web development technologies including PHP, Ruby, Rails, and more. He is also author of friends of ED Foundation Joomla!.

Product Details

• Paperback: 496 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1st Edition. edition (January 12, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430227095
• ISBN-13: 978-1430227090
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,076,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

B.M. Harwani
Developer, Writer, and Entrepenuer

Areas of Expertise :
.NET, C#, Java, Joomla, jQuery, JSF, JSP, Objective C, PHP, VB

BIOGRAPHY
B.M.Harwani is founder and owner of Microchip Computer Education (MCE), based in Ajmer, India that provides computer education in all programming and web developing platforms. He graduated with a BE in computer engineering from the University of Pune, and also has a 'C' Level (master's diploma in computer technology) from DOEACC, Government Of India. Being involved in teaching field for over 16 years, he has developed the art of explaining even the most complicated topics in a straight forward and easily understandable fashion. He has written several books on various subjects that includes JSP, JSF, EJB, PHP, .Net, Joomla, jQuery and Smartphones. To know more, visit http://bmharwani.com

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars disappointing..., January 15, 2010

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Jeff Parker "Jeff Parker" (Kansas City, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: jQuery Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in Web Development) (Paperback)

I'd been looking forward to this book for quite a while. Imagine my disappointment when I got it and realized many of the "recipes" were pointless. Things like styling a breadcrumb menu with jQuery don't make any sense. I'm having a problem imagining many scenarios where you need to dynamically apply styles to breadcrumbs with javascript instead of just defining them in your stylesheet from the beginning. I mean, the subtitle says "A Problem Solution Approach" but I get the very real feeling that developers relying upon the "Solutions" found in this book are actually creating more Problems for themselves down the road.

This book has woefully too many similar instances where jQuery is used to add an extra layer of complexity to a simpler technique web developers already know. Additionally, many of the examples contain poor coding practices and the validation section is entirely a waste considering the strength and support for the validation plugin. I could go on, but I won't.

I love Apress books and I love jQuery but I'm just confused about what happened with this book!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Pretty But Very Useful, January 16, 2011

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MARGOT SHEEHAN (Gotham City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: jQuery Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in Web Development) (Paperback)

This butt-ugly volume is the most useful jQuery book I've come across. I paid full price, plus tax, for the print edition, and have not regretted it. It has been ten times more useful than the O'Reilly 'cookbook.' But your needs and mileage may differ. Me, was mostly interested in extensive DOM manipulation for a magazine-site project I was creating. The .toggle, .clone, and .appendTo methods were central to this, and jQuery Recipes served up the proper examples right away, bang-zoom. I've cross-referenced my needs with the O'Reilly book, and the two core guides from Packt Publishing, as well as the Manning book, jQuery in Action; and they all gave helpful backup information, but none of them gave me example nodes that I could comprehend and imitate right away.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Contains many recipes for common questions, September 11, 2010

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Andy Zhang "Andy" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: jQuery Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in Web Development) (Paperback)

This book has a list of jQuery recipes that a web developer can try and use. I found the form validation chapter was useful for the project I was working on and there are recipes for visual effects that I end up found better recipes elsewhere. Depending on what you are looking for, this book can be helpful if you can find the recipes you need. The layout and indexing of this book make your recipe search very easy. This is not a book for absolute jQuery beginners. It is more geared for web developers who has a specific jQuery question or issue to solve. I recommend to scan the table of index prior to get the book since no recipe book can ever include everything.