[EXPIRED] We Have Two Copies of jQuery Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide Book to Giveaway

January 16, 2011 - 132 CommentsWritten by
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Today we have two copies of the fantastic ebook jQuery Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide to give away to two lucky readers. All you will have to do for a chance of winning one of these ebooks is leave a comment below telling us why you would like to win this book.

This competition has now ended, here are the winners:

Winner Name: Wendy Muller
Comment: So I can kick my boyfriends butt at computers…. no fair at the moment, he’s a bit clever at that kind of thing and I want to be WAY BETTER!

Winner Name: Johnny Rivera
Comment: Would really enjoy this book. I been getting into jQuery for the past year, tinkering and writing small snippets of code, would really be nice to start learning some plugin development, and bring my skills to another level. Thanks for the opportunity!

jQuery Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide

jQuery Plugin Development Beginners GuideWith this exhaustive guide in hand, you can start building your own plugins in a matter of minutes! This book takes you beyond the basics of jQuery and enables you to take full advantage of jQuery’s powerful plugin architecture to deliver highly interactive content to your website viewers.

This book contains all the information you need to successfully author your very own jQuery plugin with a particular focus on the practical aspect of design and development.

This book will also cover some details of real life plugins and explain their functioning to gain a better understanding of the overall concept of plugin development and jQuery plugin architecture.

You can also download a sample chapter, by clicking here: Chapter No.9 – User Interface Plugins: Tooltip Plugins.

How to win these books

This competition will run for the next 7 days, and all you have to do for a chance to win is leave a comment below telling us why you would like to win. Winners will be selected at random and will be informed directly after the competition ends via email. Good luck to everyone :)

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Comments and Reactions

  • http://www.twitter.com/sturobson Stuart Robson

    I’m just getting into jQuery as the next language to learn. I reckon I’ve got some fresh ideas so making plugins would be great so winning this book would be excellant!

  • http://72lions.com Thodoris

    I love jQuery!

  • http://www.goncalorodrigues.com Gonçalo Rodrigues

    I would like to win because i LOVE jQuery.

  • http://twitter.com/pinoystartup Simplicio Gamboa III

    cause im still awake and hitting the keyboard :D
    not to mention, may be first to read ur competition description. haha

  • http://www.smseleem.com Sumon Seleem

    Cool giveaway. I’m a newbie. Just started learning JavaScript and jQuery.

    So the book will be a great resource for me.

    Thanks for the contest.

  • http://www.alqorae.com Abdelhadi Touil

    I awlays love jQuery and I’d like to learn it to be able to use it easily in my projects and as plugins to help others, that’s why I want to win :)
    Thanks.

  • http://www.twitter.com/erichoffman Eric

    Great competition, as always!

    I’d like to win the book so I can finally start developing plugins instead of only using them –> Start giving back to the community…

    Eric

  • http://www.flozzdesign.nl Fleur

    I would Like 2 win THE book , ’cause It Will make me and my portfolio website more jquery!!

  • Ben

    go go jQuery!

  • Deborah

    I’d like to win so I cam further my skills.

  • http://www.pancrasgomez.com Jeyaraj Gomez Pancras Gomez

    I would love to make my website interactive and fluid. This book would be ideal for me to do that.

  • http://www.brit-indian-curries.com Mike Smith

    I have recently had a moment of clarity and after working with many different systems I now only develop in Codeigniter and JQuery so this book would be a great help to me.

    Keep up the good work Speckyboy

  • zj

    please?.

  • Flo

    I’d like to win a book to learn more about jQuery, so I’ll be able to make some great Plug-Ins for the jQuery community :)

  • http://Tesgo.co.uk Tes

    I’m to the world of WordPress and programming, but it’s something I want to get into and this book looks like a good place to start.

  • http://www.freeflowbikes.com Stuart

    Just launched our new onkine shop but need to bring it to life and what better way than to use jquery……….. Only thing us I don’t know how to user it!

  • Oliver

    ohh yes,I would really like to get my hands on this book

  • http://www.eemachine.net @eooes

    want to do some jquery

  • Amaiko

    I need to win because I tried many times to learn JQuery Plugin Development and till now I did not find the suitable resource for me.

  • Niall O’Doherty

    I have been using jQuery for a while and have recently been looking over more advanced Javascript techniques such as closures etc. so I have a solid understanding of what I’m developing and to start writing plugins of my own so it goes without saying that this book would be a great help!

    Thanks in advance!

  • http://www.eyekonicdesign.com Gareth

    would love to get my hands on a copy of this, for free as well!

    hopefully it will give me a chance to use a lot more jquery in future projects, its sooo smoooth

  • http://www.dyecasting.com Eric Dye

    Will you send it International?

    (Please)

    :-)

  • Jess

    I’m new to jQuery and this would help a lot! I modified a script that I bought last week and my hair is now significantly grayer…

  • Martin

    I think I should win it cus I’m broke! and I want one.

  • Myke

    I NEED to win this because I am broke!
    Word.

  • Ben Barber

    I should have this book so I can write a killer jQuery plugin that will take over the world!!!!!! Lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/vidit.kothari Vidit Kothari

    I’m on the learning curve and I really want to read a book than articles on web. I’m more comfortable with books.

  • Alberto

    Love jQuery! I hope to win since I’m still a beginner…

  • http://pablolarah.cl/ Pablo Lara H

    Great! I want to improve my abilities with Jquery, because it is a great and unavoidable tool in websites these days.

  • http://www.jireck.com Jireck

    I love Jquery and i want make plugin for my CMS

  • Alastair

    I still have a lot of (j) ‘querys’ about jquery and this book would help to iron those out!

  • http://badegg.pl rad

    need it to learn properly :)

  • http://www.abagofpixels.com Lee McDonald

    I have had a small go at making some jQuery plugins in the past and have recently bought the “Javascript Application Cookbook” so I think this book would be the icing on the cake :).

  • http://paulwreid.com Paul Reid

    I’ve been developing websites for awhile and decided to focus on design rather than development, but this is one commonly requested skill that employers are requesting from designers.

    I hope you can ship to Syria when you send me the book. :)

  • http://think.dj/ thinkdj

    I’d like to win it because right now I know about jQ plugin development as much as Paul Andrew knows nuclear science.

  • http://www.elquefaltaba.es/qborreda.html qborreda

    I’d love to have a copy of that book. Being able to deeply understand how jQuery plugins work takes you up to a different level in development.

    Good luck everyone!

  • http://codys-customs.com Cody Hadsall

    I’m a small business owner and I have to be extremely frugal with every penny I spend. I got into web design just simply for the fact that I didn’t have the budget to have it done for me. I would be able to make great use of a free book.

  • http://taboyce.com Tony Boyce

    I would like to step into jQuery instead of just copy and pasting other developers stuff.

  • Alfredo

    I’d like to win and start to learn this language!
    Thanks for the opportunity:)

  • Ana M.

    After successfully learning jQuery I’d like to get my hands dirty with plugins development. Would be a great win for me!

  • http://unselfish-designs.com Wendy Muller

    So I can kick my boyfriends butt at computers…. no fair at the moment, he’s a bit clever at that kind of thing and I want to be WAY BETTER!

    please help me to get some hard core coding girl power. You know it’s the right thing to do.

  • http://mobilethemesworld.net/ TheShadow

    I like to win because i like to learn new things every day

  • lieberkai

    that’s what i need rightnow!

  • http://wilwaldon.com William Waldon

    I’ve been using jQuery for some time now and have been piggy backing on other developers amazing plugins.

    I feel it is my time to give back to the community, develop my own plugins and help other developers out.

    Thank you for the opportunity, have fun and keep doing what you’re doing because you’re doing it well!

  • Joe

    I would to win the book because I am interested in learning to develop a specific type of plug in that can help non for profits raise money on their web sites.

  • Joe

    I would like to learn how to develop a plug in for non for profits to raise money on their web sites. I would design the plug in around the needs of these three web sites;

    St Judes Childrens Hospital

    Nat’l Center for Missing & Exploited Children

    The plug in will allow them to accept money in the footer of every page, the NFP can also have a link that light boxes to a video overlay that explains why one should donate.

  • Brian Jones

    Great idea! Good luck to the 2 winners. Hopefully 1 may be me..an aspiring web and graphic designer still in his self taught studies :)

  • http://www.mirana.net(currentlybeingre-vamped) Wilfred Meier

    This book would be a god-send in learnign more about jQuery.

    As a 63yr old, unemployed and partially disabled. I got tired of being judged biologically and physically when applying for employment…NO too old.

    I then said, ‘enough is enough’ and in the process of setting up a small business to develop web sites.

    As I live in a foreign country, English books are at a premium to purchase.

    This book would be an asset in learning more on the on the topic jQuery in the development of web sites.

  • http://Www.manikrathee.com Manik

    I have been using premade scripts in my websites for quite some time and would really love to write EVERY line of code for my projects myself.

    It may take some time but the book would certainly help me along

  • http://www.mccran.co.uk Shaun

    JQuery is awesome, and every day I find out something even cooler about it, but I feel that I’m only scratching the surface.

    With this book I could really dig into it, and write plugins for the whole world to use, rather than just downloading other peoples all the time!

  • http://www.zipbox.co.uk Hannah Hurst

    I would love to win this jQuery book because I have just taken on a job to build several jQuery plugins and I have no idea what I’m doing!!!

  • http://www.leanneborrowman.co.uk Leannekera

    I would like to win so I will be able to learn JQuery and write my own scripts – instead of just lifting the code from guides and not fully understanding it. :)

  • Ren

    I am an aspiring web design/developer trying to gather as much knowledge as I can. This book would be excellent for referencing and it would be a great tool in my development bag.

  • iRolf

    ’cause i’ve to face different plugins to optimize, so why don’t do it from bottom up…

  • Dina

    I´d like to win cause for sure is a great book and would be really useful for me to estart and online bussiness

  • http://rynobot.com Ryan O

    While most of the plugins available are powerful tools, many lack essential features. I’ve been slowly picking up jQuery as a way to create custom plugins for my own projects.
    Winning this guide could be the boost I need to take these projects to the next level!

  • amped

    I want to write a tutorial and share.

  • http://fearlessflyer.com Michael Soriano

    i want to learn plugin development the right way.

  • http://donnachastain.com Donna

    I’d like to win the jQuery Beginner’s Guide because I want to see if it’s possible to love speckyboy even more than I do now!

  • George

    i want to learn more about jQuery

  • http://www.techpotchie.blogspot.com/ Yuni Ardita Sari Dewi

    Great Giveaway. I’m a newbie and enthusiast to learn JQUERY. I love JQuery.JQuery is awesome.
    Hope for the best.Thanks.

  • http://goodwebdesign.co Erwin

    love to win to create some wicked plugins and share them with the community.. Cheers Erwin

  • Angelo Ferreira

    Because if I win I’ll name my first son jQuery :P

  • http://lab1521.com Marco

    please make me a jquery conqueror!

  • Sassyx

    Would like to win this book because I’m unemployed and can’t afford to purchase it.

  • Stoffel

    JQuery is amazing but I don’t know a thing about it. I’ve used already plenty of plugins, but making them yourself is a lot more fun.

  • http://www.unimc.it Fabrizio Patrizi

    jQuery leave me enthusiastic !

    I hope to have enough time (in future) to create useful plug-in.

  • http://lazaac.com/blog lazaac

    i want to learn more about jQuery as far now i’m just using Mootools and Dojo not even jQuery… hope to win this…

  • Xavier

    <3 jquery…

  • http://www.lookseedesign.com.au retta

    I want to learn how to use jquery properly and better my work.

  • Jonathan Papageorge

    I would love to win because I am 14, I have just saved up for a canon T2i/550D and I would love to use these together…

  • Chau

    I’m using jQuery for all my website. I love jQuery.

  • Jonathan Papageorge

    I would love to win because I am a 14 year old boy currently at high school and am an avid photographer and would make great use out of these plugins, and don’t you worry-I’ll share!

  • http://twitter.com/aquiandres Andy

    I want to win the book to be a super duper ninja jquery .. I want to have it on my mini library (be the third). If I have it in my hands, I’d be more than happy .. spekyboy, want it please! I like to read more on paper than on the monitor.

    (sorry, I don’t write correct English but I understand.. lol)

  • http://www.webconstile.it paolo

    Cause these two flowers on the cover are my mom and dad…maybe…is this the right answer? Vote resig!

  • http://snipto.dk søren schrøder

    I’ve seriously just bought a similar book about jquery, because I want to learn it. Imaging how good I’ll get with TWO books!

  • http://www.espreson.net Sarbartha

    To sharpen knowledge more on wordpress!

  • Venkat Baggu

    Just started to learn Jquery, It will be more helpful

  • Ramana Kumar

    let me check my luck!

  • Kuei-Ti

    I would like to win because I would like to learn jQuery Plugin Development.

  • Andrew

    If I win this book promise to bring about world peace and end childhood hunger.

  • Ulysse

    Because jQuery is awesome ;) and I want to learn more about it

  • http://www.infektia.net Malin

    I just started studying web development and I’m aiming for the university degree in two years! I would love to win the book since being a student is hard when you need to buy so many expensive books!

  • Marta

    Well… learning jQuery in depth, once and for all, was one of my top 5 “things to do” this year. I’m working on it already, and I think this book could be a great help for me to achieve my dreamed JQuery-ninja status. So :)

  • Matt

    jQuerty is a gift to power website … but first Id’have to learn it…what a cool idea to switch from my widescreen to rest my eyes in a book.

  • Ben

    I think i should win because i since i am also a student but it not the fact books are expensive it is the fact all the books in the library are about VB or ASP and off about 1989

  • http://bytecreek.blogspot.com Sabina Benjamin

    I started learning jquery last week, winning this book would be awesome!

  • JF

    I use JQuery in almost every project, would like to begin custumizing it. With JQuery 1.5 out by the end of the month, that would be a great tool.

  • Kaaviar

    My customers would love me ;)

  • http://motm.be pieter

    i’ve just learned jQuery and the next step should be… drumrolls… plugins! so gimme gimme gimme:)

  • DPidee

    ’cause I need that book!

  • http://www.elementvine.com Anthony

    I built my first plugin last week. I think it’s good, but I also think I missed a lot. I am trying to build my own jQueryUI, for the sake of practice and for my 9-5 web app being developed. This book would be a great reference as I dig deeper and deeper into more involved javascript. Closures, namespacing, etc…

  • http://www.kevindiazz.com Kevin Diaz

    I fell in love with Jquery a few years back and have been using it ever since. I’ve been using mainly pre-developed Jquery plug-ins and would really like to start developing plug-ins of my own.

  • http://readywater.ca Andrew

    I’d love them. I use jquery as my prototyping tool of choice, but my skills in it are still limited. Switching focus from a “get it out” to a plugin focused method of developing prototypes would allow me to both re-use and share my code.

    Get me one of those books, and you’ll be seeing some jquery up here before too long: https://github.com/readywater

  • http://home.comcast.net/~cbird1057 cbird1057

    I would like to win this book because I have a perfect spot for it on my bookshelf since I removed “HTML for Dummies”

  • http://johnbollwitt.com John Bollwitt

    Looking to broaden my knowledge on jquery.

  • JA McRae

    I want to better understand the plugins and templates I see and download.
    Thanks

  • Rob

    It helps to learn as much as possible.

  • Johnny Fish

    I’ve got some great jquery ideas but I need help to implement them.

  • Rob

    Always willing to learn more.

  • http://twitter.com/smkarthick S.M.Karthick

    I have been learning jquery for a while and got better skills in jquery.So my next goal is to play with Jquery plugins development.

    Thanks for the giveaway.

  • http://www.jamiereddish.com Jamie

    I’ve been sloppily using jquery functions by copying and pasting from tutorials. I would love an actual breakdown so I knew what I was doing and knew I was doing it right! This books seems like the right place to start.

  • George Elias

    Just starting out and this couldn’t have come at a better time. :)

  • Carlos

    Hard to find spanish books like this!… I don’t care if it is written in english… I want to learn, I want “jQuery Plugin Development Beginner’s Guide”! :)

  • http://www.pctips3000.com KodrutZ

    I would really like to win because one of my best friends is a programming guru and would surely enjoy this book a lot. Hey, even I could get back to writing some code here and then thanks to this book, who knows? I’ll surely know when I’ll see it! ;)

  • David

    I love jQuery and tinker around with it a lot on projects – works well, but more out of luck than design for me, so would like to get stuck into a decent book about it so that I can learn about what I’m using and hopefully improve my results!

  • http://ahermosilla.com Andres Hermosilla

    I should win so when I go back in time I can take this book to John Resig when he was a Freshman at MIT and alter the history of jQuery as we know it which would then in turn change the contents of the book since history was altered . . . !

  • Ashia

    Me too! I need to learn jQuery. It’s on my list of next things to learn.

  • Charles

    Always on the lookout for great jQuery resources and what better than one that is cost free??

  • Rafael

    I’m a beginner!

  • stefano

    I want to develop my own jquery plugin ;)

  • Abe

    I am developing a grocery list web app that works with Facebook and I would love to develop my own plugins to handle the interactivity. thanks!

  • http://twentyhudson.com Johnny Rivera

    Would really enjoy this book. I been getting into jQuery for the past year, tinkering and writing small snippets of code, would really be nice to start learning some plugin development, and bring my skills to another level. Thanks for the opportunity!

  • http://twentyhudson.com Johnny Rivera

    I would really enjoy this book, been tinkering with jquery for about a year writing some code, and snippets and would love to bring my skills to another level, hopefully create some neat plugins for everyone to enjoy.

  • Jessica

    I’m a designer, but I want be a little more a coder, too ;) So, I hope i’ll win this nice book!

  • Dustin

    I am a college student getting a bachelors degree in Web Design and interactive media, and with the cost of tuition and books, it’s hard for me to get good information put side of the schools curriculum. This would be a great asset in expanding my education and becoming a kick-ass web developer!

  • Dylan

    Because I have been meaning to make jQuery Plugins from my code for a while, but this might be the nudge I need to actually follow through.

  • http://www.allcrystalclear.com Jayde

    I’d love to win the book so I can push my skills further. I can use plugins and I can write bits of jQuery but I’d love to be able to write my own plugins so I don’t end up with so much duplicate code!

  • Joe Banks

    I want to become a jQuery mastah. I’m currently a jQuery noob.

  • Edison Leon

    I’m here and I want the book!

  • Mike

    Hey I need something to swat the mosquitoes with in the summer ..this sounds perfect … hey but seriously an easy accessible book for my Jquery needs would be perfect … fingers crossed

  • Sean

    jQuery is pretty cool. Even though I’ve been using it off and on for the last 18 months I’m still very much a newbie and would love to have one of these books to help me become a better jQuery developer.

  • http://looksharpdesigns.com William

    I’m somewhat of a neophyte when it comes to Javascript and JQuery. This book would help me strengthen my skills in those areas tremendously!

  • http://www.jasonvucic.com Jason

    I could really use this…. I need to make my Web designs more interesting and professional looking. Please and Thank you.

  • http://chang2034.wordpress.com Javier

    beco
    because…because….
    i like it!, i need it!… i love it!
    Thanks.

  • http://www.briancalifano.com brianCalifano

    I would like to win because Jquery is the most intuitive and efficient way of expressing creativity/productivity through animation and styling that is compatible across most modern browsers. I love jquery like I love the Adobe Creative Suite.

    Please….

  • http://2helixtech.com Matthias

    Sweet. Thanks for the offering. Need some more schooling on JQuery, and always prefer books.

  • http://localhost Por Por

    As for me, if I win , that is very great!. But, Before i know anything for winners, i can feel their feeling why they want to win, Well, that is very lovely!If And I am very satisfied with so many users who are interested in jQuery , who come to visit these site. By seeing that, we can share more and more each others, I believe that we can get unmentionable feeling, valuable ideas sharing through these people and so many thing, if we take an more active part in this jQuery discssion. Do you think this winning is better than our more active discussion as I mentioned before? As for me, I say “NO”. I just like sharing !

  • webtrickster

    i’m living with jquery i need this book plz to hook up my jquery skill

  • pablo

    I want those books beacuse i need them to change the world.

  • Mason

    I’d like a copy of this book because I’m sure it’ll put the J intoJQuery…..

    Now if thats not cryptic I’m not sure what is…

  • Lesa

    pretty please!