Darren Jones: 18 books

There's no doubt that the JavaScript ecosystem changes fast. Not only are new tools and frameworks introduced and developed at a rapid rate, the language itself has undergone big changes with the introduction of ES2015 (aka ES6). Understandably, many articles have been written complaining about how...

Learn JavaScript from scratch! Packed with numerous examples, JavaScript: Novice to Ninja is a fun, step-by-step and comprehensive introduction to development in JavaScript. Discover how to use JavaScript to solve real-world problems, build smarter forms, track user events, and design...

There's no doubt that the JavaScript ecosystem changes fast. Not only are new tools and frameworks introduced and developed at a rapid rate, the language itself has undergone big changes with the introduction of ES2015 (aka ES6) and further revisions. Understandably, many articles have been written...

JavaScript is a must-have skill for all web developers. JavaScript: Novice to Ninja is a fun, practical, and comprehensive guide to the modern usage of this deceptively powerful language. Comprehensively updated to cover ECMAScript 6 and modern JavaScript development, the second edition of this step-by-step...

This short SitePoint book provides readers with a fun and yet practical introduction to Sinatra, a framework that makes web development with Ruby extremely simple. It's not intended to be a completely comprehensive guide to the framework or an in-depth Ruby tutorial, but will quickly get you up to...

Sherlock and Watson: Behind Closed Doors is a short play by Darren Stewart-Jones featuring characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The play imagines Holmes and Watson as more than just friends. After his nuptials, Watson returns to visit Holmes at Baker Street and realizes an intervention is what's in order. Sherlock hopes to rekindle their relationship.

Before Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, there was Miss Judy Garland. The Judy Monologues is a one-act play, based entirely upon rare voice tapes recorded by Garland in the years leading up to her death at age 47 from an accidental overdose. The original production featured film footage of Garland from her Hollywood heyday. The script features some great monologues for auditions.

Leading historians of the media arts define a new materialist media art history, discussing temporality, geography, ephemerality, and the future. In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of “new media” and at the same time write the histories...

Ramblings of a Middle Aged Drag Queen is a short play about an over-the-hill drag queen who is interviewed by a young reporter in a Toronto gay bar in the 1990s. Running time is approximately 12 minutes.

Misfit is a short play based entirely on a letter written by Marilyn Monroe after her stay at Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. The original production also featured vintage film clips of Monroe. The piece features great monologues for female actors.

Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...

If you are currently looking for a job or are likely to be in the future, this is the book for you.  It covers all the essentials you should be aware of and hopefully comes up with some ideas that you may not have considered yourself and will improve your chances of securing the job that you are really looking for.

A practical text covering the theory and the practice of clinical reasoning skills for all physical therapists. Provides readers with activities to improve their own clinical reasoning within their own clinical setting. With a range of very high-caliber international contributors in the field of physiotherapy...

Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...