Learning jQuery, the Book
For those of you who have been following the jQuery blog the past couple months, you may have noticed John Resig’s mention of a secret: “There’s a jQuery book in the works!” Well, I am thrilled to be able to leak a little more information about that secret.
For the past few months my friend Jonathan Chaffer and I have been hard at work on the book, and everything is progressing well. Our writing is being supported by a stellar group of technical reviewers, some of whom are members of the jQuery development team. We’ll be able to divulge details about the book’s contents soon. The publisher is readying a web page for it, so as soon as that is completed, we can give you the full scoop.
About the Authors
Jonathan Chaffer is a long-time Drupal contributor and creator of Drupal’s CCK. He also likes to make up bizarre band names and album titles, based on snippets of conversations he overhears, at Tweak the Viking. Karl Swedberg (that’s me) is a jQuery zealot who runs the Learning jQuery blog and still tries to keep a bit of his former career as an English teacher alive at his other blog, English Rules. Jonathan and Karl work together at Structure Interactive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where they have been given a lot of freedom to use jQuery, as well as standards-based, semantic HTML & CSS, in many of their projects.
March 26th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Great news. Will it be published in tree-friendly PDF format? That will make the book cheaper too. Which might be important for some, as a book on a fast developing subject shouldn’t be too expensive.
March 26th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Hi Matthijs,
Yes, there will be a PDF e-book version. If other books by our publisher are any indication, it looks like the PDF format will be roughly 25% less than the hardcover version.
March 26th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Any ideas on actual cost of the book or an ETA?
March 26th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
ETA is sometime this summer. Wish I could tell you something more definite, but there are still too many variables in the equation. As for price, the publisher hasn’t set one yet (or at least told us yet), but I imagine we’ll be able to post more information about this sort of thing within the next few weeks.
April 16th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Congrats on the book. Looking forward to it!
August 7th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Hello!
I ordered the book on Amazon.com last week and it arrived yesterday. I’ve already read roughly half of the book and it is very well-written and to the point. Two thumbs way up! It will serve as a great resource!
Mike
August 9th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Thanks a lot, Mike! So glad you like it.