On Jul 9, 2007, at 8:56 AM, GianCarlo Mingati wrote:
got it!!
Now the eBook is available.
Nice job, well written and easy to understand. I'm sure i'll get
better and better from now on.
Kinda having a 'new toy' to play with...
So glad to hear it, GianCarlo!
I'll be posting a blog entry soon on learningjquery.com that details
some last-minute changes that the publisher decided to make. Most
notably, the book is now two books:
1. Learning jQuery is a 380-page gentle introduction and tutorial. It
has 6 chapters introducing the broad jQuery categories (selectors,
DOM manipulation, events, ajax, etc.), 3 chapters that provide in-
depth examples for working with tables, forms, and shufflers/
rotators, a chapter on plugins (how to create your own and intros to
Dimensions, Form, and Interface) and 3 appendices. It's available
now at packtpub.com and by the end of the week at amazon.com
2. jQuery Reference Guide is a 250+ page complete reference to the
jQuery API and selector expressions (up to v1.1.2), plus individual
chapters on the Dimensions plugin, Form plugin, and creating your own
plugin (and 3 appendices). This one should be available beginning of
August.
I'm afraid that some people will be disappointed by the decision to
split the book in two, but I think the publisher made it in good
faith. Jonathan and I were originally contracted to write
approximately 250 pages, and that is what the publisher was using to
determine pricing, etc. Once we really got into the writing, though,
the book grew and grew until now the combined total is over 600
pages. Also, after the publisher notified us of this change, we went
back to work on the reference book, writing a new introductory
chapter and splitting the plugins chapter from the tutorial book into
three separate chapters and re-writing them to be more reference-
like. We've tried really, really hard to make both books valuable in
their own right while also complementing each other.
I hope that this provides enough information to answer Armand's
question from a separate thread, at least about the two books that
I've been working on, but if anyone has additional questions, I'd be
happy to try to answer them. I can't speak for the other two books,
but knowing their authors, I'm sure they will be top quality. As far
as I know, they're both shooting for publication before the end of
the year.
By the way, people who pre-ordered the book on the publisher's web
site before this change was made should have been contacted by a rep
from PACKT. If not, you can send them a note and ask what the plan is
at http://www.packtpub.com/contact/.
--Karl
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Karl Swedberg
www.englishrules.com
www.learningjquery.com
