Hey 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 most awesome things about the book, imho, 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. 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. 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 http://www.manning.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=485_93. If you use the coupon code JQM30 before the end of October, you will also receive a 30% discount. The Manning guys are tracking this code to see how strong the jQuery community's response will be :) -- Yehuda Katz Web Developer | Procore Technologies (ph) 718.877.1325
