Book Review: jQuery Pocket Reference

After possessing all the basic information that you need to know about designing webpage in the internet about HTML, CSS and JavaScript, the next big thing that helps you make your website more dynamic, more elegant, and adding the WOW effect is jQuery + jQueryUi.











A quick explanation on what is actually jQuery:-

jQuery is the "write less, do more" JavaScript library. Its powerful features and ease of use have made it the most popular client-side JavaScript framework for the Web. This book is jQuery's trusty companion: the definitive "read less, learn more" guide to the library.
jQuery Pocket Reference explains everything you need to know about jQuery, completely and comprehensively. You'll learn how to:

• Select and manipulate document elements
• Alter document structure
• Handle and trigger events
• Create visual effects and animations
• Script HTTP with Ajax utilities
• Use jQuery's selectors and selection methods, utilities, plugins and more

The 25-page quick reference summarizes the library, listing all jQuery methods and functions, with signatures and descriptions.

This isn't a book that goes into the deep and detail points of the subject.
As the book name stated, it is just a pocket reference.

Even though as the name stated, it is still a very good book that managed to explain the basic, the fundamentals, and all the need-to-know subjects, and pack it in a very nice and non-boring way within 150+some pages.

For those programmers that are already used to reading and fiddling thru programming documentations, the official  jQuery + jQueryUi website's documentation is already very well and perfectly.... ermmm ..... documented.

With this book, it just add the punch, and get your engine moving is at smoother and faster pace.

Definitely a book which is worth the 2-weeks reading time.

Book review: Beginning HTML, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Previously, I have been flirting aroung the html and css world a bit for the past few years without much seriousness.

After bumping into this book and picking up a few chapters, i now have a better understanding of not only about html and css, but also the difference between HTML n XHTML, in depth understanding of CSS, and also some badic javascript and some useful famous plugins widely used in today's internet.

This book is a very good book for beginners, like what stated in the title.

It is a very good introduction to making dynamic websites. Totally suitable for even zero internet knowledge fellas.

The sections on HTML and CSS is considered quite in depth, but not so with JavaScript. But that shouldnt be a reason to put you of from reading this book.

The introduction in JavaScript is more than enough to get us started in building a good website. Apart from that, it also introduced a few useful plugins and does point us to the correct direction for doing our own further research if we need to improve our JavaScript skills.

My personal experience, i spent almost a month flipping thru the entire book, and spent the rest of the time of my web programming time asking google. This book is good enough to give u all the knowledge needed in order for you to ask google if u need further reference.

All in all, this book is highly recommanded for those new / semi new to html/css/javascript programming.






Useful Links

• http://code.google.com/edu/submissions/html-css-javascript/

Stock Market Updates - Week 41

Lets take a look at the $SPY.

Price broke above it's 50MA resistance early last week (yellow highlight), and is currently bumping right into the horizontal resistance like at $122.

The overall sentiment has been looking pretty bullish lately, with the market gaining 15% within the past 2 weeks, from $108 - $122.

Another bullish signal shown was the negative divergence of price against the RSI/MACD indicators(shown in green lines)

Despite all these bullishness, the market has really some tough challenges ahead before it can really come out from the woods.

1st, it will have to prove itself trustworthy by breaking out the current $122 horizontal resistance.
2nd, it will have to stay put well above that $122 line and confirm the breakout.
3rd, the next 200MA hurdle is waiting for it at $126.

With all the unknown out there, I personally have no clear direction as to where the market will be heading in the near few weeks. The best thing to do is to sit tight on cash, and wait for the next clear direction.





$GOLD looks like forming a Bear Flag right there.

Look at the extreme volume that occurs on those big bearish days (yellow highlight).

Despite the appreciation in price in the past 2 weeks, the volume was meager compared to the down days. And seems like the steam is slowly dissipating, which is shows in the volume.

This might be a good chance to buy the PUT option, or short the etf ($GLD). Will be watching closely on this one.






Now let's take a look at Crude Oil ($WTIC).
The chart tells an almost similar story to the $SPY.

We see the same double dip action, with a negative divergence on the RSI/MACD indicators.

Despite all the bullishness, the overhead resistance is at the $90 and $95, which coincides with the 200MA.

A lot of work ahead if crude oil were to get out of the woods.







As for the US Dollar's update, check out my recent post on how $USD displayed a good long trade opportunity.

$USD Displayed A Good Long Trade Opportunity.

USD displayed a very good long trade opportunity in the past month.

From the early beginning of September, we saw price broke out forcefully from the $76 resistance, and also it's 200MA.

This was a very critical resistance, and the confirmation came in a week later when price pulled back to that area, and the bulls successfully defended it. See how price bounced back up from $76.

This was a good place to initiate a LONG trade (highlighted in yellow circle).

Riding up the short-term bullish trend, and waiting for a timing to get out is another story.

From the RSI below, we can see that, the price made 3 peaks, and when the 3 peaks occured, the RSI printed overbought readings too.

Whena 3 push pattern occurs, it is a sign that the existing trend is about to loose out steam. And that happens for the $USD.

The time when the 3rd peak happens, or the RSI hits the overbought reading for the 3rd time, is the best time to take profit.

This is a classic textbook example trade of Riding The Trend :)

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Since my blog over at lionel.textmalaysia.com is gonna be down until further notice, this is gonna be the place for me to get my quick fix for my blogging itch.