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John Resig's
 Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja $39.99 If you need this book now, go to [...] and order it from the Manning Early Access Program. Thirteen chapters are completed. This is a must own book for professionals. Also consider Object-oriented Javascript and Pro Javascript Design Patterns. If you are bewildered by Javascript libraries, this book takes you to a deeper understanding and sense of independence from cut, paste and hope it works. You can pick any 5 consequtive pages at random and those pages alone are worth the purchase price. As a resource for anyone that has wasted over 100 hours debugging javascript this book is an invaluable resource.  Learning jQuery 1.3 $39.99 This was my first forray into jQuery. I needed a book that would explain the details of the language, its syntax, rules, etc. Plus, I wanted sample code and implementation ideas. This book, Learning jQuery 1.3, fit the bill nicely. Yes, there are thousands of tutorials and sample code online, but every now and then it's more helpful to have a good book by your side. Highly recommended.  Pro JavaScript Techniques $44.99 If you develop applications with more than 10% JavaScript, be sure to learn to do it the proper way with John's Pro JavaScript Techniques. Personally I bought it to properly learn JavaScript object oriented principles, but it also covers a in depth AJAX section. That last part may come in less handy because of there are so many frameworks available that take care of this but you can of course skip that part. Only because of chapters 2 and 3, I can highly recommended this for any serious JavaScript developer comming from a server-side environment. |
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