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Sams Teach Yourself AJAX in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself)
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by Phil Ballard
Sales Rank: 251509
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Discount: 32 %
$2.91
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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Sams; 1 edition May 8, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672328682
ISBN-13: 978-0672328688
Product Dimensions:
8.1 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
Book Description
Sams Teach Yourself Ajax in 10 Minutes is a concise introduction to the basics of building Ajax applications and the architecture and operation of these applications. You will learn the techniques employed in using Ajax, introducing Ajax and explaining how it may be used to solve realistic user interface problems. You will be able to immediately begin building web applications, and will have platform from which to explore more advanced aspects of Ajax.
About The Author
Phil Ballard is a professional web consultant specializing in website and intranet design, search engine optimization, server-side scripting, client-side design and programming and hosting. Phil has written a number of online tutorials, including the most popular of late, on AJAX.
Customer Reviews & Comments
In a perfect world, you could pick up any new technology in 10 minute chunks. But the world isn't perfect, and some technologies don't even come close to this 10 minute standard. This could be a case in point... Teach Yourself AJAX in 10 Minutes by Phil Ballard. Contents: Part 1 - A Refresher on Web Technologies: Anatomy of a Website; Writing Web Pages in HTML; Sending Requests Using HTTP; Client-Side Coding Using JavaScript; Server-Side Programming in PHP; A Brief Introduction to XML Part 2 - Introducing Ajax: Anatomy of an Ajax Application; The XMLHTTPRequest Object; Talking with the Server; Using the Returned Data; Our First Ajax Application Part 3 - More Complex Ajax Technologies: Returning Data as Text; AHAH - Asynchronous HTML and HTTP; Returning Data as XML; Web Services and the REST Protocol; Web Services Using SOAP; A JavaScript Library for Ajax; Ajax "Gotchas" Part 4 - Commercial and Open Source Ajax Resources: the prototype.js Toolkit; Using Rico; Using XOAD Index I don't think that this is a bad book... It's just that it tries to cover a whole lot of material in a short format, and as such ends up with a muddled target audience. Ajax is a combination of technologies, so you just can't cover a single subject and be done with it. The first part of the book attempts to be a refresher for HTML, JavaScript, and numerous other subjects that can be large books unto themselves. But if you need this refresher, it's likely that you're not at a point where you could effectively use Ajax anyway. Part 2 is solid information, albeit constrained by the 10 minute format. Parts 3 and 4 build on the Part 2 information, so if you didn't get grounded there, you could be in trouble. I imagine that the target audience (web developers without a significant programming background) would end up confused in the coding sections, and the designers with coding experience would be looking for more in-depth information... I found the book most helpful if I viewed each chapter on its own merits based on my interest level. For instance, the "gotchas" chapter is good if you're trying to avoid common issues that Ajax applications encounter. But I'm not sure if there's enough "single chapter" material here to make it an attractive recommendation to someone who already is dabbling in Ajax and has other reference material. And I definitely wouldn't recommend it as a first exposure to Ajax for a newbie...
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