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Head First JavaScript by Michael Morrison;

So you’re ready to make the leap from writing HTML and CSS web pages to creating dynamic web applications. You want to take your web skills to the next level. And you’re finally ready to add “programmer” to the resume. It sounds like you’re ready to learn the Web’s hottest programming language: JavaScript. Head First JavaScript is your ticket to going beyond copying and pasting the code from someone else’s web site, and writing your own interactive web pages.

The Ajax version is also coming in May. Now a good time to learn JavaScript.

Sortable Table JavaScript:

Ramon Eijkemans pointed me to a script written by Stuart Langridge. This unobtrusive table sorting script was awesome, offering sort mechanisms for text, numbers, dates and currencies, by simply adding an external script to a page and a class to a table!

However, it lacked a few things, most importantly: support for alternated row classes. Working on it more, I found there were a few bugs to it too. So I started adapting it. At first there were just a few changes. Now more and more e-mails with feature requests are coming in, and I have started versioning my table sorting script.

Cool JavaScript efftcts for sorting tables. Check out the example.

Update: My point is that this script is more than just an eyecandy; this is practical.