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Mastering jQuery

By : Alex Libby
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Mastering jQuery

By: Alex Libby

Overview of this book

<p>Mastering jQuery has been written not only to help maximize your skills with core functionality in the library, but also to explore some of the more intriguing ways of using the library to achieve real-world solutions that could feature on any website or online environment.</p> <p>You'll start with a look at some of the more advanced ways to incorporate the library into your pages, followed by working with forms and advanced form validation using regular expressions. Next you'll move on to animating in jQuery, advanced event handling, and using jQuery effects.</p> <p>Finally, you will develop practical examples of using jQuery with external functionality such as node-webkit, before finishing with a session on optimizing your version of the library for maximum efficiency and exploring best practices for using QUnit.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering jQuery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Islam AlZatary is passionate about new technology in the web industry. He is an entrepreneur and loves to work with smart teams on good ideas. He has a bachelor's degree in computer information system. He has worked for 2 years as a PHP web developer and then he was appointed as a Sr. frontend engineer in 2010.

He deals with jQuery, jQuery UI, HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, the Bootstrap framework, the Mailer template, JavaScript frameworks (RequireJS and AngularJS), and all design approaches. He also likes the mobile-first approach, Magento, e-commerce solutions, and creating his own CSS framework called Lego.

He has reviewed jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery, Packt Publishing.

He can be found at http://www.islamzatary.com. On Twitter, he can be found at https://twitter.com/islamzatary. You can also find him on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Ilija Bojchovikj is a talented senior manager of user experience design and development with the proven know-how to combine creative and usability viewpoints resulting in world-class web and mobile applications and systems. He has more than 4 years of experience in partnering with internal and external stakeholders to discover, build, improve, and expand the user experience and create and develop outstanding user interfaces.

He has a proven history of creating cutting edge interface designs and information architectures for websites and mobile applications through a user-centered design process by constructing screen flows, prototypes, and wireframes.

He believes in the power of the Web and those who make it what it is by making and sharing for the sake of betterment; by creating amazing, passionate, and empathetic communities; and by improving the human condition through it all. High five, people of the Web!

You can see what Ilija's up to at http://Bojchovikj.com or on Twitter at @il_337.

Arun P Johny is a dynamic and competent professional of Web application development with a bachelor's degree in computer application from Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore. He has been involved in software development for more than 8 years. He is one of the main contributors in Stack Overflow for JavaScript/jQuery questions.

For more than 8 years, he has been associated with Greytip Software Pvt Ltd where he is currently spearheading efforts as the tech lead in charge of developing Greytip Online—the leading online payroll and HR software in India. He focuses on developing a highly scalable and available web application using technologies that are as varied as Java, Spring, and memcache to JavaScript.

Arun has experience in all aspects of software engineering, which include software design, systems architecture, application programming, and testing. He has a vast product development experience in Java, jQuery, Spring, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, and many other enterprise technologies. Arun is skilled in other techniques such as Twitter Bootstrap, AngularJS, ExtJS, FreeMarker, Maven, Spring Security, Git, Activiti, Quartz Scheduler, Eclipse BIRT, and Agile methodology.

Arun loves problem solving and really enjoys brainstorming unique solutions. He can be reached at . You can also get in touch with him at https://in.linkedin.com/in/arunpjohny.

Lucas Miller, Internet Plumber, works as a programmer, designer, and cofounder for the jack-of-all-trades media design group RUST LTD (http://rustltd.com/). He likes long walks on the beach, piña coladas, and getting caught in long conversations about the nuances of typeface decisions in popular media. When he isn't developing websites or making games, he can be found teaching, wolf-wrangling, or pursuing whichever new and exciting opportunity presents itself to him that day.

You can find him at http://lucas.rustltd.com/.