{"id":140,"date":"2013-09-03T22:13:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T22:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurelio.audero.it\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2022-08-16T23:04:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T23:04:52","slug":"instant-jquery-selectors-my-first-book-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audero.it\/blog\/2013\/09\/03\/instant-jquery-selectors-my-first-book-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant jQuery Selectors: My first book is out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m really pleased to announce that few days ago my first book, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.packtpub.com\/product\/instant-jquery-selectors\/9781783282210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><cite>Instant jQuery Selectors<\/cite><\/a>, was published by the Packt Publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Publishing a book has always been one of my goals since I started my developer career, and now that I realized it I can&#8217;t explain how I&#8217;m happy. I really hope anyone who has the same dream will realize it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSaid that, it&#8217;s time to be more concrete and write something about the book.<\/p>\n<p><strong><cite>Instant jQuery Selectors<\/cite><\/strong> is a practical guide that will teach you how to use jQuery&#8217;s selectors efficiently in order to easily select the elements of your pages to operate upon with jQuery&#8217;s methods. You will go through the most common problems that you could face while developing your project and will learn how to solve them with the help of focused examples that <cite>Instant jQuery Selectors<\/cite> has to offer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"784\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.audero.it\/blog\/2013\/10\/15\/codemotion-madrid-2013-giveaway-win-a-free-copy-of-instant-jquery-selectors\/instant-jquery-selectors-cover-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.audero.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/instant-jquery-selectors-cover.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,617\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.audero.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/instant-jquery-selectors-cover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audero.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/instant-jquery-selectors-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Instant jQuery selectors cover\" width=\"500\" height=\"617\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.audero.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/instant-jquery-selectors-cover.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.audero.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/instant-jquery-selectors-cover-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><cite>Instant jQuery Selectors<\/cite> is for web developers who want to delve into jQuery from its very starting point: selectors. Even if you&#8217;re already familiar with the framework and its selectors, you could find several tips and tricks that you aren&#8217;t aware of, especially about performance and how jQuery acts behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>If you want other information about the book or want to buy it, you can choose on of the following stores:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.packtpub.com\/product\/instant-jquery-selectors\/9781783282210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><cite>Instant jQuery Selectors<\/cite> on Packt Publishing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Instant-jQuery-Selectors-ebook\/dp\/B00ESX17MU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><cite>Instant jQuery Selectors<\/cite> on Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m really pleased to announce that few days ago my first book, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.packtpub.com\/product\/instant-jquery-selectors\/9781783282210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><cite>Instant jQuery Selectors<\/cite><\/a>, was published by the Packt Publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Publishing a book has always been one of my goals since I started my developer career, and now that I realized it I can&#8217;t explain how I&#8217;m happy. I really hope anyone who has the same dream will realize it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[22,46,8,20,11],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-book","tag-javascript","tag-jquery","tag-jquery-selectors","tag-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.audero.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/instant-jquery-selectors-cover.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Or4e-2g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":203,"url":"https:\/\/www.audero.it\/blog\/2013\/10\/15\/codemotion-madrid-2013-giveaway-win-a-free-copy-of-instant-jquery-selectors\/","url_meta":{"origin":140,"position":0},"title":"Codemotion Madrid 2013 Giveaway: Win a Free Copy of Instant jQuery Selectors","author":"Aurelio De Rosa","date":"October 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As some of you may be already aware, on Saturday October 19th 2013 I'll speak at Codemotion Madrid with a talk titled People don't give a f**k of JavaScript. 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