Learning jQuery Deferreds: Taming Callback Hell with Deferreds and Promises
About this ebook
This book contains 18 examples that use deferreds to solve progressively challenging real-world programming problems, along with 75 stimulating puzzles (and their solutions) that will help you understand how and when to use deferreds. Experienced JavaScript programmers will learn new tricks in a fun way, and become immersed in the practice of event-based programming.
- Understand the logic behind creating deferreds and returning promises
- Get a structured explanation of jQuery’s deferred API
- Delve into the dynamics of using deferreds
- Explore a broad collection of useful deferred recipes developed by the authors
- Gain hands-on experience by solving challenges that accompany each recipe
- Go deeper into deferreds: encounter novel abstractions and mind-bending use cases
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About the author
Terry Jones is currently CTO of Fluidinfo, which he founded in 2007. He also works on virus discovery in the Zoology department at the University of Cambridge. Before founding Fluidinfo, he was a postdoc in Zoology at Cambridge (2004-07) where he spent time helping the WHO design part of the human influenza vaccine. He was a part-time professor in CS at the Universitat de Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (2005-06), CTO of Eatoni Ergonomics in New York (2000-04), a postdoc in Cognitive Science at UCSD (1998-99), CEO of Teclata in Barcelona (1996-98), Chief Knowledge Officer at Chiliad (1998), a postdoc and graduate fellow at the Santa Fe Institute (1992-96), and taught undergrad CS at Earlham College (1990-91). He has a Ph.D. in CS from the University of New Mexico, an M.Math from the University of Waterloo, and a B.Sc. in CS from Sydney University.
