<b>First up:</b>

<a href="http://www.thecrumb.com">Jim Priest</a> does an excellent job of reviewing the first couple of chapter&apos;s of Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer&apos;s newly released <a href="http://jquery.com/">jQuery</a> book,


<a href="http://www.packtpub.com/jQuery/book/mid/100407j4kh3d">Learning jQuery : Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques</a>

My favorite quote from his review is:

<q>Glancing at the Table of Contents - I&apos;m happy to note there are no basic introductory &apos;HTML/Javascript&apos; chapters (no fluff!) you dive right into a simple jQuery script where you manipulate some CSS.</q>

That&apos;s what I would expect from a book written by Karl; good content and no fluff.

Be sure to checkout the review here:


<a href="http://www.thecrumb.com/2007/07/13/5-minute-jquery-book-review/">http://www.thecrumb.com/2007/07/13/5-minute-jquery-book-review/</a>

and support Karl&apos;s hard work by ordering the book here:

<a href="http://www.packtpub.com/jQuery/book/mid/100407j4kh3d">http://www.packtpub.com/jQuery/book/mid/100407j4kh3d</a>

<b>Next:</b>

If you&apos;ve been in development for awhile and are serious about coding, then you have to have heard of and/or read <a href="http://www.ddj.com">Dr. Dobb&apos;s Journal</a> magazine. Dr. Dobb&apos;s magazine is truly the best publication for hardcore developers that want to learn new techniques for improving their development skills. It tackles a variety of programming languages and really gets to the juicy stuff without boring you with mundane commentary.

Well, you can now add <a href="http://jquery.com/">jQuery</a> to the list of frameworks reviewed by DDJ. That&apos;s right, DDJ published a 4 page online article about jQuery titled <a href="http://www.ddj.com/dept/java/201000935">Getting Started with jQuery</a>.

It runs you through the basic steps of getting up to speed with the jQuery library and they do a good job of explaining the basics. Its definitely a good read for those starting out with jQuery.

Having a well-known magazine such as DDJ publish this article is a big step for the jQuery project and we appreciate DDJ taking the time to put up such a great writeup.


<b>Last but not least:</b>

Developer extraordinaire <a href="http://remysharp.com/">Remy Sharp</a>, posted on the <a href="http://jquery.com/">jQuery</a> list about a fun app he developed called <a href="http://leftlogic.com/lounge/articles/speech-bubbles/">Speech Bubbles</a>. Using bookmarklets, it would allow you to attach speech bubbles to specific parts of web pages. It was REALLY cool and Remy got a lot of kudos from the jQuery community.

Well, it looks like others have also fallen in love with this app as <a href="http://ajaxian.com/">Ajaxian</a> has now picked up on this and made a post about Remy&apos;s work. Go check it out here:


<a href="http://ajaxian.com/archives/friday-fun-with-speech-bubbles">http://ajaxian.com/archives/friday-fun-with-speech-bubbles</a>

and show your support for Remy.