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by Dave Crane & Eric Pascarello
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Ajax in Action helps you implement that thinking--it explains how to distribute the application between the client and the server (hint: use a "nested MVC" design) while retaining the integrity of the system. You will learn how to ensure your app is flexible and maintainable, and how good, structured design can help avoid problems like browser incompatibilities. Along the way it helps you unlearn many old coding habits. Above all, it opens your mind to the many advantages gained by placing much of the processing in the browser. If you are a web developer who has prior experience with web technologies, this book is for you. more » |
What's Inside:
» Ajax principles
» Why Ajax design patterns matter
» How to avoid Ajax pitfalls
» Examples of Ajax in action: type-ahead suggest.
» Examples using Ajax frameworks: Prototype
» Ajax usability, security, and performance
Sample Chapter (Available from TheServerSide):
This chapter is about structuring Ajax applications. It provides examples of how the well-established Model-View-Controller pattern can be used to provide that structure. This first installment of Chapter 4 covers the display aspects of the application, and shows how normal JavaScript code can be refactored into a robust view component. Download Chapter 4 »
Biographies:
Dave Crane holds degrees in Chemistry, Parallel Computing, and Ecological Economics from Edinburgh University in Scotland. He has worked with Internet technologies for the last ten years, primarily with Java technologies such as J2EE, Jini and Jython. He has pushed the boundaries of DHTML, and latterly Ajax, since 1997, in web site design, on early Digital TV set-top boxes and in home automation systems. Most recently, he has been senior developer for Smartstream Tchnologies Ltd., developing highly-interactive Ajax-based application frameworks that are currently in use in many tier-1 banks and financial institutions worldwide. Dave lives in Gloucestershire, UK.
Eric Pascarello graduated from Penn State University in 2002 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Since then Eric has been employed as a Senior Developer working with enterprise level applications in ASP.NET. Eric has also written "JavaScript: Your visual blueprint for dynamic Web pages (2nd ed)". Eric volunteers his free time as a moderator of the HTML and JavaScript forum at www.JavaRanch.com, a friendly online community dedicated to helping people learn Java and other web technologies. He lives in Laurel, MD.
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