Silicon Prairie News

In my interview with Jonathan Sharp a few months ago, he mentioned he was currently contributing to a manual being written on jQuery, a fast and concise JavaScript Library which simplifies the JavaScript language.

I received an email from him earlier this week with the news that it's been published and is now on Amazon with a release date of November 15th. The book, jQuery Cookbook, was edited by Cody Lindley and published by O'Reilly Media, Inc., the publisher of the iconic "animal books" for software developers, to which this book belongs.

Here's the start of its description on Amazon:

jQuery has emerged as the most popular Ajax framework, outpacing options such as Dojo and the Prototype JavaScript Framework. With jQuery Cookbook, you'll learn how to add components from the jQuery library to your websites and web applications, with detailed recipes for tasks ranging from basic integration to complex user interface development.

Next month, Jonathon will be presenting his best practices for refactoring jQuery code at the jQuery Conference in Boston. It'll be the event's third year and Jonathan will be serving as one of its organizers. The conference sold out in five days, so I imagine it'll be an exciting time for him.

Lastly, it was recently announced that Jonathan was officially added as a member of the jQuery Web and Design Team. He's been using jQuery since early 2006, and in the following year, he had the chance to meet some of the team members and earn a spot contributing to it. In his email, Jonathan wrote, "jQuery has been a great open source project and one of the key successes and reasons why it has become so popular has been because of the community that surrounds it."