Comments on: Professional JavaScript Frameworks is a real book! http://decafbad.com/blog/2009/08/20/professional-javascript-frameworks-is-a-real-book It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:23:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha By: Davinder http://decafbad.com/blog/2009/08/20/professional-javascript-frameworks-is-a-real-book/comment-page-1#comment-420689 Davinder Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:15:14 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/?p=1813#comment-420689 <p>Hey Les,</p> <p>Congrats on getting the book out! I remember when you started writing that back in the Delicious days. </p> <p>Can't wait to read it!</p> <p>Davinder</p> Hey Les,

Congrats on getting the book out! I remember when you started writing that back in the Delicious days.

Can’t wait to read it!

Davinder

]]> By: l.m.orchard http://decafbad.com/blog/2009/08/20/professional-javascript-frameworks-is-a-real-book/comment-page-1#comment-416963 l.m.orchard Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:12:07 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/?p=1813#comment-416963 <p>@Joe: jQuery was in the original outline, but unfortunately it was a casualty of one of those shufflings of the author roster. </p> <p>Eventually I think it was a matter of getting the book out while the rest of the material was still relatively timely, versus finding another author to get the work done. I had hoped to cover it myself, but the need came right when I was in the middle of changing jobs and finishing our big move back from CA to MI. Ugh.</p> <p>Ironically, jQuery is the framework I spend most of my time with now since I started at Mozilla.</p> <p>But... another way to look at it is there are plenty of jQuery books out there, but only this one covers the rest of the big hitters in one volume. So, buy one of those other ones, and grab this one as your backup for most other occasions. :)</p> @Joe: jQuery was in the original outline, but unfortunately it was a casualty of one of those shufflings of the author roster.

Eventually I think it was a matter of getting the book out while the rest of the material was still relatively timely, versus finding another author to get the work done. I had hoped to cover it myself, but the need came right when I was in the middle of changing jobs and finishing our big move back from CA to MI. Ugh.

Ironically, jQuery is the framework I spend most of my time with now since I started at Mozilla.

But… another way to look at it is there are plenty of jQuery books out there, but only this one covers the rest of the big hitters in one volume. So, buy one of those other ones, and grab this one as your backup for most other occasions. :)

]]> By: Joe Grossberg http://decafbad.com/blog/2009/08/20/professional-javascript-frameworks-is-a-real-book/comment-page-1#comment-416895 Joe Grossberg Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:45:37 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/?p=1813#comment-416895 <p>Congrats. This also will be great for all the people who have to deal with legacy codebases, where you can't pick and choose what JS framework the code's written in.</p> <p>P.S. Why 5 of the big 6, i.e. no jQuery?</p> Congrats. This also will be great for all the people who have to deal with legacy codebases, where you can’t pick and choose what JS framework the code’s written in.

P.S. Why 5 of the big 6, i.e. no jQuery?

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