jQuery Cookbook

Firstly – it’s an ermine.

Secondly, this book is a hands-down essential part of your collection if you are at all interested in / develop with the jQuery library. Authored by no less than 19 “jQuery Community Experts” including heavy hitters like Cory Lindley, Remy Sharp, and Mike Hostetler, The jQuery Cookbook compliments nicely other jQuery staples, such as Learning jQuery 1.3 and jQuery in Action.

If you are a front-end developer and have yet to use jQuery at all, it’s well worth trying out – it’s powerful, intuitive, extremely stable and, as this book so skillfully helps to demonstrate, very useful.

“…you’ll learn patterns and practices from a dozen of the leading developers who use jQuery for everything from integrating simple components into websites and applications to developing complex, high performance user interfaces.” – back cover, jQuery Cookbook.