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Why A Free Book?

There’s some really fantastic literature available out there on design patterns in JavaScript (Stoyan Stefanov’s excellent ‘JavaScript patterns’ book comes to mind) but a lot of the JS-centric material requires purchased literature.

These books are definitely worth buying, but I personally feel that until a developer is interested enough in learning about patterns to make the leap to invest in these, the majority of material they have accessible online doesn’t focus enough on how to apply design patterns to JavaScript or jQuery. That’s where having a free book of this nature comes in useful.

http://addyosmani.com/blog/essentialjsdesignpatterns/

Tuesday Nov 16th

• jquery
• free stuff

Check this out, really informative and just about stays on the funny side of funny.

http://www.slideshare.net/paul.irish/perfcompression

Thursday Nov 11th

• jquery
• performance

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The new data linking plugin, developed in conjunction with Microsoft and released yesterday, supports binding between DOM objects and elements.

http://ajaxian.com/archives/jquery-data-binding-templates-and-mobile-john-resig-at-fowa?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ajaxian+%28Ajaxian+Blog%29&utm_content=Netvibes

Wednesday Oct 6th

• jquery
• Microsoft

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Fairly old, but this was brought up in the recent .net 4 developer seminar in London.

Scott’s blog post… http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/09/15/announcing-the-microsoft-ajax-cdn.aspx

The CDN list http://www.asp.net/ajax/cdn

Apparently, these are often retrieved faster than the Google CDN.

Tuesday Aug 24th

• jquery
• microsoft cdn

Those (excuse the American big up) ‘guys’ deserve it.

http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home/nominate-best-open-source-javascript-library

Thursday Aug 19th

• jquery

2 notes