I am very honored to have the opportunity to write the foreword for a Dan Wellman book. I've been a fan of Dan's since I first read his jQuery UI book. Then I got the opportunity to meet him in Oxford, England in February of 2012. Needless to say when he asked me to write the foreword for his latest book I didn't even think about how I wouldn't have the time to fit it in until the very last minute, but I immediately said yes.

Unlike other traditional jQuery books that dwell on how a jQuery statement is structured and functions, Dan assumes that you are already familiar with jQuery. What he is going to teach you is how to use jQuery for fun. He will walk you through a series of fun projects. Most of these projects will be very useful in your personal and professional websites. The projects include building a jQuery Mobile application, interactive Google Maps, Chrome Extensions, and Infinite Scrolling to name a few.

jQuery has been making web development easier since January 2006 when John Resig debuted jQuery at a New York City Barcamp with two other projects that day. Seven years later it's great to see that you can still learn to accomplish fun things with a library as simple yet as vast as jQuery.

I look forward to reading Dan's next book as I am sure this won't be his last.

At least I hope not.

Ralph Whitbeck

Modern Web Advocate at appendTo

jQuery Board Member