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Because Spain won, jQuery: Novice to Ninja is free for 24 hours
- spuz 16y agoOn the one hand: this is pretty cheap marketing tactics; on the other hand: Yay, free book! :)
- tptacek 16y agoSmart. The book isn't bad, either; I saved my copy.
- aditya 16y agoJust make sure you use a throw-away email address... Sitepoint will spam you like crazy. No such thing as a free lunch :-)
- sjs 16y agoNo unsubscribe? I clicked before reading the comments here.
- decklin 16y agoTry: http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/manage http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/manage
- ElbertF 16y agohttp://10minutemail.com http://10minutemail.com
- modoc 16y agoFWIW: I built 10 Minute Mail and am happy to answer any questions about it.
- mhd 16y agoThought so myself, so I used mailinator. The book looks cute, though, despite my unfettered hatred for the Ninja term (don't get me wrong, I lurve ninjas, but programmers are neither Japanese assassins nor famous musicians). Rather generious formatting, though. Printed, this would be one of those books that could've been done with half the pages and still be as readable. (And for online reading, who needs margins and reference sections?)
- babyboy808 16y agoAs a Sitepoint subscriber for about 5 years now, no they don't.
- telemachos 16y agoI don't subscribe, but I've given them my email a handful of times to receive free samples of books. (They're extremely generous with this. In a couple of cases, they sent easily half a book as a free sample.) My experience has been that they're on the low-volume end of the "we have your email" spectrum. Not nothing, but not hideous.
- JenSheahan 16y agoGlad to hear you feel this way. Spam is not good. Thanks! Jen (sitepoint.com)
- jacksoncarter 16y agoI've subscribed to their forums with an email that I link to them, so I know for a fact that they spam. They also write articles that are really paid for ads, so the shady meter for sitepoint.com is over toward the orange side of the scale... but, you know... you gotta make money I guess.
- andrewtj 16y agoDo you have 'Receive Email from Administrators' enabled on your account? I do, which is I assume why they occasionally email offers and is also why I don't consider them spammers. I do agree with you that their content has slipped in recent years though.
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- lakeeffect 16y agoThats not as big of a problem, as if; the Adobe pdf they sent has security violations.
- baddox 16y agoBetter yet, just go to mailinator and check the "sitepoint" inbox. There's already 3 links sent there, thanks to the efforts of others!
- ImFatYoureFat 16y agoHaving looked at their bracket I kind of wish France or Germany had won.
- vinutheraj 16y agoFrance was gone after the group stages. I don't think they assigned any book to France ?!
- ImFatYoureFat 16y agoyou're right, I'm an idiot and was looking at the Netherlands flag.
- babyboy808 16y agoNot France! They hand balled us out
- sherl0ck 16y agonot to worry, france got their karma :), they were sucks this world cup
- mkramlich 16y agoI'm guessing there could be a lot of promotions today across the net where the format/justification is: "Because <whoever-doesn't-really-matter> won, then <something> is <free-or-on-sale>" not that that is a bad thing
- jurjenh 16y agoSo where do we find out if Amelia said yes? look in the dedications section, and you'll see what I mean...
- watchdogtimer 16y agoShe did. Check out the Sitepoint podcast where they interview the book's authors.
- gridspy 16y agoIt would suck to have that proposal in print if she said no. Talk about a constant reminder.
- chrislloyd 16y agoEarl was more worried that she wouldn't read it!
- cmz 16y agodl link http://s3.amazonaws.com/sitepoint-5for1-jquery1pdf/jquery1pdf.zip?AWSAccessKeyId=1VXE8MPZ14ENBK220TG2&Expires=1278891094&Signature=ep%2Bz%2B26xffKE4cp3tRXbI0kJ%2BR0%3D http://s3.amazonaws.com/sitepoint-5for1-jquery1pdf/jquery1pd...
- DrJokepu 16y agoInteresting book, I just wish it didn't use the .html() function that much, especially the .html(externalInput) pattern - it's a great way to open XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerabilities on your page unless you're very careful and the author apparently doesn't warn the reader to be careful.
- amistillbanned 16y agothat isn't how that works at all.
- sdesol 16y agoCould you elaborate on this or point me to a site that explains the security risks? For my product, I have a web app that does 100% of the rendering in Javascript so I use html() a lot. I adhere by the rule that I don't trust anything that comes from the client so I'm curious to learn what the security problem may be. Thanks.
- varaon 16y agoAll you need: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS http://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS
- sdesol 16y agoThanks for the link but I really don't see anywhere where it says using something like html() would be a greater risk. The rule of thumb is to sanitize information from untrusted sources. And as long as you adhere to this rule, I really don't see how using html() would pose a security threat. That is unless I'm missing something?
- tptacek 16y agoI think the suggestion is that programmatically creating specific DOM nodes is safer than handing the library a string containing user input and hoping that the browser doesn't interpret it in a way that corrupts the DOM.
- Sephr 16y agoThe email address you enter won't matter. Just put in any valid email address you want and then visit http://sale.sitepoint.com/claimpdf.php?email= http://sale.sitepoint.com/claimpdf.php?email= with the email address you entered appended to the end.
- jackowayed 16y agoIn that vein, http://sale.sitepoint.com/claimpdf.php?email=foo%40bar.com http://sale.sitepoint.com/claimpdf.php?email=foo%40bar.com is now a direct download link :)
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- NathanKP 16y agoTheir email address validator is broken anyway. It doesn't support host names with subdomains such as foobar@foo.bar.org At least it supports addresses such as foo.bar@foobar.org
- username3 16y agoAnd foo.bar+sitepoint@foobar.org.
- thinkbohemian 16y agoThanks for the info, just don't forget that you can always use a disposable email address!!! (ah-hem whyspam.me)
- roel_v 16y agoI guess I'm not making myself popular with saying this, but why is it that when somebody offers something for free you still find yourself compelled to subvert the one thing they ask from you? They give you something you (supposedly) value yet you still try to screw these people out of something that costs you very little. I guess you're going to whine about spam now, but come on, do you really think these people are trawling email addresses for viagra spam by giving away jquery ebooks? And if (I don't know if they will, just if) they ever send you an email, you click the unsubscribe link and off you go. I'd say that this is a small price to pay for (again) something that has at least some value to you. (This has become a pet peeve of mine since we started offering a free tool that is valuable to many people and for which the commercial alternatives cost thousands of dollars. We ask name and affiliation to get a feel for our user base, people who usually just download and are never heard from again. Most people just fill it in, but every now and then there's some smartass who feels it's necessary to fill in "asdfasdf". I don't do email address validation either, I know it's impossible to check anyway. Show a little respect for what others are GIVING you for FREE).
- baddox 16y agoI gave them my email with a plus sign in it, and I was surprised that the web form accepted it and I got the email. However, clicking on the link they emailed me, which had my email (and therefore the plus sign) in the url, broke their site and just sent me back to TFA. Nice bugs guys.
- BauerUK 16y agoDid you submit some feedback reporting this issue? http://www.sitepoint.com/contact http://www.sitepoint.com/contact
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- suninwinter 16y agoI bet it will work if you replace the + in the URL with %2B.
- lakeeffect 16y agoHas anyone read this, and would make the recommendation.
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- lecha 16y agoAmazon has nice reviews of this book. Thanks for doing this.
- dbrannan 16y agoI had already purchased this book, but it will still be nice to have a PDF version. Thanks SitePoint!
- JenSheahan 16y agoYou're welcome! Jen (sitepoint.com)
- kuahyeow 16y agoSkimming through the book, it is clearly written and starts with small steps for the JQuery beginner. I'm not sure how someone with no Javascript would fare. But for someone who has been using JQuery for a while it's worth about 5 minutes of skimming.
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- JenSheahan 16y agoHi - It's Jen from SitePoint, here. Glad to hear you guys are enjoying the free copy of jQuery:Novice to Ninja! As for marketing emails, we always include an "unsubscribe" link. SitePoint will never sell your email address or your information. Enjoy the freebie!
- jdeseno 16y agoA nice checkbox 'send me marketing upates' below the email entry box would be really nice. These days most people appreciate an opt-in experience to opt-out.
- _pius 16y agoI actually think that if you're getting a free book out of it, the publisher should be able to get at least one marketing e-mail to you before you decide not to see any more of their offers ...
- crystalis 16y agoIsn't marketing about getting your product in the customer's hands? Your product should be able to handle it from there.
- bhrgunatha 16y agoWell I thought hacker news was one place I could visit without World cup spoilers. How wrong I was. Well that's ruined my morning.
- argsv 16y agoit comes in pdf/kindle/[nook] formats. very very nice. thank you. Now who won? and what? just kidding. I've very happy Spain won.
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