jQuery in Action, Second Edition

jQuery in Action, Second Edition Review

A really good web development framework anticipates your needs. jQuery does more-it practically reads your mind. Developers fall in love with this JavaScript library the moment they see 20 lines of code reduced to three. jQuery is concise and readable.

jQuery in Action, Second Edition is a fast-paced introduction and guide. It shows you how to traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax to your web pages. The book's unique "lab pages" anchor the explanation of each new concept in a practical example. You'll learn how jQuery interacts with other tools and frameworks and how to build jQuery plugins.

This revised and expanded second edition includes even more lab pages than before, along with numerous examples that show the latest best practices developed by the jQuery community. It provides full coverage of jQuery 1.4, along with a deeper look at the ever-expanding world of jQuery plug-ins.

This book requires some knowledge of JavaScript and Ajax but no previous experience with jQuery.

Passion to Action

Passion to Action Review

One family makes a daring decision, discovers the power of purpose, and encounters a God-sized passion for living. Something kept pulling at Jay and Beth Loecken, telling them there s more to life than the pursuit of a large home, nice cars, and all the trinkets and trappings for a suburban family of six. They felt something stirring, a feeling that God had a different purpose for them, and they knew they had to do something something big to get started. Passion to Action is one ordinary family s tale of pursuing an extraordinary dream. It s a story about asking big questions, seeking answers every day, and along the way discovering a big faith. What happens if you make a dramatic change? How does God sustain you in your new life? What will the people around you say? Find out for yourself what happens while listening to the journey of Jay and Beth Loecken. See just how far God takes them in their desire simply to serve - as a family - in soup kitchens, community projects, and churches across America. In this audio you ll hear about Beth s personal struggle with a troubling past, Jay s battles with ambition, and the amazing solution they discover as they inspire others to take ten real steps to finding meaning and purpose. Through the story of the Loeckens, see how God leads us to places we d never imagine, be inspired to better live from your life s passion, and find the courage to turn it to action.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action

Comprehension and Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action Review

"This book is about small-group projects that work. It's about combining what we know about the research process, about thinking, and about people working together to create a structure that consistently supports kids to build knowledge that matters in their lives."
-Stephanie Harvey and Harvey "Smokey" Daniels

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Comprehension and Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action occurs at the intersection of comprehension, collaboration, and inquiry and serves as a guide for teachers who want to realize the benefits of well-structured, student-led, cross-curricular projects. Stephanie Harvey (Strategies That Work and The Comprehension Toolkit series) and Harvey "Smokey" Daniels (Literature Circles and Mini-Lessons for Literature Circles):

- lay the foundation for inquiry circles by chronicling the current research and practices behind comprehension instruction and classroom collaboration

- explain nine fundamental classroom conditions needed for active, small-group learning

- provide 26 practical lessons in comprehension, collaboration, and research

- offer how-to instructions for four types of inquiry circles-mini-research projects; curricular inquiries; extensions of literature circles; and open inquiry projects

- address characteristic management concerns, such as how to use the Internet for research and how to assess and monitor student achievement.

Throughout, chapters offer a mix of materials for you to grab and go as well as some big ideas to think through as you customize inquiry circles for your students. It is time for another stronger, more intentional era of education. Comprehension and Collaboration:Inquiry Circles in Action will serve as your companion and provide a guiding light on this important endeavor.

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Signal-Close Action! (The Bolitho Novels) (Volume 12)

Signal-Close Action! (The Bolitho Novels) (Volume 12) Review

The year is 1798. Napoleon's naval forces are amassing in the Mediterranean, preparing to annex Egypt, and it is there the newly-promoted Commodore Richard Bolitho is sent with a small squadron of ships under his command.

Spring in Action

Spring in Action Review

Summary

Totally revised for Spring 3.0, this book is a hands-on guide to the Spring Framework. It covers the latest features, tools, and practices including Spring MVC, REST, Security, Web Flow, and more. Following short code snippets and an ongoing example developed throughout the book, you'll learn how to build simple and efficient J2EE applications.

About the Technology

Spring Framework is required knowledge for Java developers, and Spring 3.0 introduces powerful new features like SpEL, the Spring Expression Language, new annotations for the IoC container, and much-needed support for REST. Whether you're just discovering Spring or you want to absorb the new 3.0 features, there's no better way to master Spring than this book.

About the Book

Spring in Action, Third Edition continues the practical, hands-on style of the previous bestselling editions. Author Craig Walls has a special knack for crisp and entertaining examples that zoom in on the features and techniques you really need. This edition highlights the most important aspects of Spring 3.0 including REST, remote services, messaging, Security, MVC, Web Flow, and more.

What's Inside

• Using annotations to reduce configuration
• Working with RESTful resources
• Spring Expression Language (SpEL)
• Security, Web Flow, and more

Who Should Read This Book

Nearly 100,000 developers have used this book to learn Spring!

Table of Contents

PART 1 CORE SPRING

1. Springing into action
2. Wiring beans
3. Minimizing XML configuration in Spring
4. Aspect-oriented Spring

PART 2 SPRING APPLICATION ESSENTIALS

5. Hitting the database
6. Managing transactions
7. Building web applications with Spring MVC
8. Working with Spring Web Flow
9. Securing Spring

PART 3 INTEGRATING SPRING

10. Working with remote services
11. Giving Spring some REST
12. Messaging in Spring
13. Managing Spring beans with JMX
14. Odds and ends

Formative Assessment Strategies for Every Classroom: An ASCD Action Tool

Formative Assessment Strategies for Every Classroom: An ASCD Action Tool Review

The formative assessment process helps teachers and students focus on learning goals, take stock of current work in relation to these goals, and move closer to reaching them. As students focus on their work, see and monitor their progress, and understand both what they are learning and how they learn, they become true learners.

But what specific skills and strategies do students need to learn in order to assess themselves in the classroom, and how can you present those strategies in the context of subject-area material? The updated second edition of this best-selling resource from assessment expert Susan M. Brookhart answers those questions and gives you more than 60 tools to use with students in every grade level and subject.

Formative assessment advice and a series of teacher tools will help you create high-quality classroom assignments, use appropriate intervention strategies, give students useful feedback, and design your own formative assessment tools. The easy-to-use student tools will help you teach formative assessment strategies that students can use after receiving an assignment, during direct instruction, while completing group or individual work, and before or after a summative assessment. All tools include clear instructions for use, suggestions for variations, and guidance on next steps.

With this informative resource, teachers at all grade and experience levels will learn easy and effective ways to improve their assessment practices, leading to more targeted instruction and meaningful learning for all students.

NOTE: This updated second edition includes five new tools, new Next Steps instructions for each tool, and a new introductory section on creating formative assessment tools. It is in the new paperback action tool format and includes access to a downloadable PDF of the tools in the book.

Press'd Into Action (The Preston Andrews Mysteries)

Press'd Into Action (The Preston Andrews Mysteries) Review

The main characters from the first of the series, "Hard Press'd", Preston Andrews--Press to his friends, Rachel Wilding--FBI Special Agent and hot babe, and Trace Evans--Press's new, young partner are back.

Press is "volunteered" by FBI Director, Malcolm Probst, to help the Bureau solve a serial killer's deadly habit. This guy takes a victim one year, then returns it the next--in slightly altered condition. Press hates Probst, but he hates what this killer is doing, more!

With next to nothing to go on, the Senior Homicide Detective for the Virginia Beach Police Department is brought in to save the day--and save the Bureau's reputation while he's at it.

This one is action packed--whether on the trail of the killer or back at home where Press and Rachel get a few surprises of their own.