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Smashing JQuery: Professional Techniques with Ajax and JQuery (Smashing Magazine Book Series) [Paperback]

Jake Rutter
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Book Description

4 Feb 2011 047097723X 978-0470977231
From the world′s most popular resource for web designers and developer′s comes the ultimate guide to jQuery Begins with an exploration of fundamental jQuery concepts such as Document Object Model (DOM) scripting Explores writing "Don′t Repeat Yoursefl" (DRY) to gain a comprehensive understanding of these imperative modern techniques and best practices Shows how jQuery enables the user to adhere to these modern best practices with ease The succeeding chapters discuss a specific part of jQuery development such as manipulating the DOM, working with Ajax, and adding slick animation effects through tutorial style learning approach that utilizes working examples to explore the concept The books caps off by discussing popular ways of extending the core jQuery library with pugins and building web interfaces using jQuery UI

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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (4 Feb 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 047097723X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470977231
  • Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 1.7 x 23.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 491,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Enhance User Experience by Creating Richer and More Interactive Web Interfaces Smashing jQuery demonstrates how you can create rich Web interfaces by easily integrating the jQuery framework into your Web site with minimal JavaScript knowledge. jQuery allows Web designers to build interactivity that is compatible across all major browsers into their Web sites. Jake Rutter, an experienced Web designer and developer, shows you how to add interactivity through a series of tutorials, providing you with the ability to create great Web applications. jQuery can really up your development time and allow you to write interactive components that you thought were impossible without serious programming knowledge. Smashing jQuery provides practical techniques, solutions, and examples with real–world solutions that you can use in your everyday working environment building Web and mobile sites. Topics covered include: jQuery Fundamentals Ajax Requests Events and Effects Dom Manipulation with Tutorials on Tasks such as Building a Drop–Down Menu Gallery Lightboxes Form Management Dynamic Tabular Data Mouse Event Effects Modal Dialog Boxes Custom jQuery Plug–ins and much more Smashing Magazine (smashingmagazine.con) is one of the world’s most popular Web–design online magazines. True to the Smashing mission, the Smashing Magazine book series delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Visit www.wiley.com/go/smashingjquery to download example code files.

About the Author

Jake Rutter is a Web designer and developer with more than nine years of experience in user interface design and front–end development, working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript on Web sites and applications coded in PHP, Ruby on Rails, ASP, and Java.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Without any doubt, the worst developers guide I have come across.

Lovely print quality, with heavy and glossy paper, so first impressions are excellent. However...

From the beginning I found erroneous examples, where text seems to have been copy and pasted wrongly. Parts of the explanations were therefore discussing the wrong code samples. Then some of screen shots were obviously incorrect. And all the while, the code examples are repetitive in the extreme. These, illustrated step by step, repeat all of the code in each step, so that a 9 line code segment may end up with an additional 30 repeated lines. This becomes tedious by the end of the first code sample, but is repeated all the way through the book. I did not bother counting the number of pages given over to the Latin text content for the HTML being manipulated. But one example had a whole page of Latin elements!

At a guess, this 320 page book could be reduced to less than 100, and in so doing it may even be improved. I could not, in good conscience, recommend this book to anyone.

Would Amazon accept this one back for the reasons stated above? I doubt it.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Dreadful, avoid. 14 April 2011
By CMB VINE™ VOICE
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A couple of months before getting this book I read the Sitepoint book "jQuery: Novice to Ninja". It's an excellent book and I highly recommend it jQuery: Novice to Ninja (or alternatively, jQuery in Action, Second Edition though not as easy for beginners as Novice to Ninja).

When the Smashing book came out, I thought I'd get it to compare - Smashing Magazine being quite a trendy setup and I had high hopes for it.

The initial impression was wow - lovely colour screenshots, great layout and even the code samples are colour highlighted as in an IDE.

Looking at the contents, a sense of deja-vu - it's almost the same, and in the same order, as the Sitepoint book. But no harm there. Jake Rutter emphasizes the importance of unobtrusive Javascript, graceful degradation, progressive enhancement - just like Sitepoint, clearly on the ball there with trendy (and true) thinking.

Then I started to notice the errors. So I looked at the other reviews on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk and yes, lots of complaints about errors, sufficient for one person to return their copy! I jumped to the advanced chapter to see if there's any useful info there not in the Sitepoint book - how about Ajax? In the Sitepoint book it's relegated to Appendix A. Jake's book covers Ajax, but again, spoils it. The server side is a cop out, assumed to be beyond the scope of the book. A simple PHP form handler would have been much more useful! And again, statements that shock me with disbelief:

"POST requests are different from GET requests in that they post the data to the server-side process behind the scenes, which makes them safer, especially for transmitting sensitive data." On the next page he writes "The POST request is perfectly suited for submitting contact forms because they usually contain personal and confidential information that you need to keep secure." WOW! You mean like credit card details? Without SSL encryption? This guy is clearly on the designer side of life, without a clue what goes on "behind the scenes". Of course, the only way POST is more secure than GET is in the latter, the parameters are on the URL and can therefore be copied as bookmarks or emailed as a URL - not something you want to do with "sensitive" data. But anyone with wireshark or juggler can see the data is transmitted unencrypted, and therefore just as insecure.

Finally the writing style, or lack thereof. Maybe it's the over-use of writing in the first person present-tense: "I'm going to show you how to manipulate data that is in the tables. When I say manipulate I mean... I explain the following solutions... I use the following HTML table..." (page 161, but very typical, and that's over just a few sentences). It quickly gets tedious and reads as if self-centred.

Switch over to the Sitepoint book, and it's all about us and we... it just seems friendlier.

In short, the Sitepoint book was written by two highly experienced writers and was proof-read by a team of experts. It looks like Jake had no help, and he needed it.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Returned within a week! 20 Mar 2011
By K. Lee
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What a shame!
Flashy to look at, but did anyone (proof) read it?
I found the type in the examples very difficult to read; does the author produce websites like this?
The difference between ( and { is difficult to spot. In some cases the {s and the }s do not match. Fundamental programming!
I've only worked through about a quarter of the code and so far the errors are dreadful.
Some code examples are simply wrong!!!!!!
If you are OK with javascript you may see some of the errors a mile off! BUT if you are new to scripting this would destroy your confidence.
I do hope the rest of the book is more carefully written as the more complicated stuff may be too far gone to resolve without expert help...which is er.... why I bought the book!

Again, if you are OK with javascript you may be able to sort it out, but isn't that what Mr Rutter was paid to do?

A lost opportunity. This is not what I would call a professional book!

P.s Now having worked on - it gets worse. Sudden changes in coding approaches are made with no warning only some vague explanation out of sequence.
Examples with no clear results, more errors. It's now in for a refund.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid!
The book initially impresses because of the full-colour layout, however it becomes quickly apparent that the numerous screenshots are there to distract attention from the poor... Read more
Published 1 month ago by D. Rayment
3.0 out of 5 stars Now out of date, nice production with colour illustrations, spoilt by...
This book is a colourful introduction to the popular jQuery library. Note it was published in 2011 so it is rather out of date now. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. T. Anderson
2.0 out of 5 stars Not Smashing
Not a great introduction to JQuery, loads of other books out there which give a more informative view of JQuery I found this book far to broad brush as with the rest of the range.
Published 5 months ago by David A. Nash
4.0 out of 5 stars If you want to focus on improving your jQuery skills this book will...
I like Smashing books, owning a whole bunch on related topics so it made sense to get the one about jQuery. Read more
Published 5 months ago by M. Williams
1.0 out of 5 stars Looks nice on the outside
The book looks really nice on the outside, glossy paper, colourful etc... As for the inside, it just feels like a really quick copy and paste stolen from their website. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Steven C
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book and easy to use
Got this book for my partner who is a graphic and web designer. He finds the book easily to use as it is well layed out with plenty of sample code etc. Read more
Published 8 months ago by OrganicGreen
1.0 out of 5 stars Not even for beginners
I never review items on opinion websites or contribute to Amazon reviews, but this book is just so poor that I felt I had to. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Pixellator
3.0 out of 5 stars Not a good substitute for Google
This book is nicely presented and contains numerous code snippets. The problem is the way the material is collated: it's more of a start to end jQuery course but doesn't really... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Kevin Roche
3.0 out of 5 stars Simple errors are a problem
This could be a really useful book, as an introduction to JQuery. But be very careful working through his examples. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Chris
1.0 out of 5 stars Do not trust this book
As every reviewer has already said: first impressions are good: great paper quality, lots of colors, everything is bright and good use of white space. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Robin
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