Category: jQuery

jQUERY UI IN ACTION: A smooth guide to getting, learning and using plugins supported by the jQuery Foundation – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

jQuery UI in Action TJ VanToll  (Manning – paperback)   TJ VanToll had two straightforward goals in mind when he decided to write this nicely prepared book: “I wanted to write about how to use the jQuery UI components in real-world usage scenarios and applications. I also wanted to tackle the tough questions for jQuery UI users. … Continue reading jQUERY UI IN ACTION: A smooth guide to getting, learning and using plugins supported by the jQuery Foundation – #bookreview

Adobe Edge Animate – Rocky Nook’s elegant new software how-to guide – #webdesign #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Adobe Edge Animate Using Web Standards to Create Interactive Websites Simon Widjaja (Rocky Nook – paperback, Kindle) Simon Widjaja’s new book is both elegant and practical. It is elegantly structured and illustrated, and it is practical in its approach to showing how to use Adobe Edge Animate. That software package, Widjaja says, “is a multimedia … Continue reading Adobe Edge Animate – Rocky Nook’s elegant new software how-to guide – #webdesign #bookreview

Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile – A good & wide-ranging how-to guide – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Creating Mobile Appls with jQuery Mobile Shane Gliser (Packt Publishing – paperback, Kindle) The long tagline on the cover of Shane Gliser’s new book deftly sums up its contents:  “Learn to make practical, unique, real-world sites that span a variety of industries and technologies with the world’s most popular mobile development library.” Gliser unabashedly describes … Continue reading Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile – A good & wide-ranging how-to guide – #programming #bookreview

The Modern Web: Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

The Modern Web Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript Peter Gasston (No Starch Press – Kindle, paperback) After a quick first glance, you might look right past this book. You might assume its title, “The Modern Web,” simply introduces some kind of heavily footnoted, academic study of the Internet. Not so, Web breath. … Continue reading The Modern Web: Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript – #bookreview

Four good books that can help boost your JavaScript skills – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Ready for some enlightenment that can boost your JavaScript programming skills? O’Reilly recently has published four books that can help you move from basic JavaScript library user to confident, experienced developer.  “JavaScript started out as a simple and approachable front-end scripting language,” the publisher notes. “It has matured into a true cross-platform environment targeted by … Continue reading Four good books that can help boost your JavaScript skills – #programming #bookreview

Building Web, Cloud, & Mobile Solutions with F# – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Building Web, Cloud, & Mobile Solutions with F# Daniel Mohl (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) F# (pronounced “F-sharp”) is a relatively new functional, open-source programming language developed by Microsoft and the F# Software Foundation. F# can be used to create scalable applications with ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Azure, HTML5, Web Sockets, … Continue reading Building Web, Cloud, & Mobile Solutions with F# – #programming #bookreview

Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual Chris Grover (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Chris Grover’s well-written and updated new book shows you how to build animated HTML 5 graphics for the iPhone, the iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe features. By the sixth page of the first chapter, you are using the software to begin … Continue reading Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual – #bookreview

Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual – #bookreview #html5 #animation

by Si Dunn

Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual Chris Grover (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Chris Glover’s well-written new book shows you how to build animated HTML 5 graphics for the iPhone, the iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe features. By the sixth page of the first chapter, you are using the software to create … Continue reading Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual – #bookreview #html5 #animation

Learning JavaScript Design Patterns – For better JavaScript and jQuery coding – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Learning JavaScript Design Patterns Addy Osmani (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) New to JavaScript and jQuery or looking to expand your skills? This well-focused how-to guide can help you learn how to recognize and apply reusable design patterns to your coding. “A pattern is a reusable solution that can be applied to commonly occurring problems in … Continue reading Learning JavaScript Design Patterns – For better JavaScript and jQuery coding – #programming #bookreview