Marcos Placona on November 28th, 2010

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes I know it must be pretty old news by now that Matt Gifford has written a book called Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion. I’ve been approached by the folks at Packt last week and asked to read it and write a review about the book. I’m still waiting for it [...]

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Marcos Placona on October 3rd, 2010

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt | Author: John Farrar The book starts with a very brief introduction to ColdFusion, and what the basic language capabilities are. On chapter 1 – Web Pages – Static to Dynamic The author begins by explaining what variables are for, and then [...]

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Marcos Placona on August 6th, 2010

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes I’m delighted to say John Farrar has released his new ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial book, and it’s now available from all the major retailers around the world. I’ve already ordered mine, and am expecting to get it at some time next week. In the meantime, I’ll start reading the [...]

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Marcos Placona on April 25th, 2009

Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt. Author(s): Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg

This book is aimed to jQuery beginners, or for those with more experience who need an extra help on that difficult situations.

You probably read my review of Learning jQuery back in 2008 where I described every single feature on each of the chapters.

This time, I’m not going to describe every single chapter, as I think it would be pretty much a repetition of the previous review, but adding a few things. I still think this book is a must if you want to learn jQuery, or even if you are familiar with the library.

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Marcos Placona on March 11th, 2009

Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt. Author(s): Dan Wellman


This is another of my reviews about a jQuery book. I keep getting more
and more excited at every new release, and the more I read about it,
the more I think this is really a great library.

As you might have noticed,
on the past few months I’ve been actively using jQuery on all of my
projects, and recently at work, we even replaced most of our Spry stuff with jQuery. I think Spry is a great library, but jQuery is simply easier to use, and a lot lighter.

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