I have liked the works of Jacob Gube of Six Revisions and Garrick Cheung of the MooTools Community Team, so when Packt Publishing wanted me to review their book, I accepted.
The book basically takes you, step-by-step, through downloading the MooTools library parts and building simple examples with HTML, CSS, and, of course, MooTools. It seems to touch on many of major parts of MooTools: Core, DOM selection, Events, Ajax, and Fx. Finally, it introduces you to MooTools More and how to write your own MooTools plugins. it approaches everything with very simple, very “hands-on” examples. There are some deviations (like pop quizzes), but they are few.
Peter-Paul Koch explains how to create beautiful JavaScript and shows you how to combine it with proper HTML and CSS for the best web experience in ppk on JavaScript. Here is my review.
The structure of this book
ppk begins with a brief history of JavaScript and explains the “fat and thin” JavaScript cycle. I would agree with him on that we are in a fattening state right now, but I think the tides will turn soon (my guess is before 2010).
Then ppk gives a basic overview of accessibility (which he adds to later) before introducing us to the 8 real world scripts used as examples in this book:
A life hack reprograms your personal workflow to save you time and effort.
Gina Trapani’s Lifehackerbook centers around this philosophy. Life is too precious to waste time doing some monotonous computing task. You must find ways to make your computer do more for you. This book outlines 10 main principles of being a lifehacker, organized into 88 life-hacks that range from taking great notes to accessing your personal wiki on your home computer from work:
I have liked the works of Jacob Gube of Six Revisions and Garrick Cheung of the MooTools Community Team, so when Packt Publishing wanted me to review their book, I accepted. 