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Marcos Placona on May 17, 2013

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes No catches here, all you need to do to get a free e-copy of my new book jQuery Drag-and-Drop Grids How-to (UK , US) Is read the book, and then write a review of it on your blog. And I’m not asking you to write a good (or biased) [...]

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Marcos Placona on April 10, 2013

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes A few months ago I was contacted by Packt Publishing about a new project they had in mind and thought I’d be a good fit for. The challenge was to write a book about one single topic that would enable readers to learn and become proficient on that topic [...]

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Marcos Placona on November 28, 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 3, 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 April 25, 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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