Understanding AJAX: Using JavaScript to Create Rich Internet Applications

Already an experienced Web developer? Apply your skills in today’s fastest-growing area of Web development: AJAX!

 

Building on what you already know, this fast-paced guide will show you exactly how to create rich, usable Internet applications. Joshua Eichorn teaches through sophisticated code examples, including extensive server-side PHP code.

Professional Rich Internet Applications: AJAX and Beyond

Through the use of hands-on examples and case studies to explain complex technologies, this comprehensive book takes AJAX, Ruby on Rails, and Flash to the next level by combining them into a framework for developing rich Internet applications
Walks readers through using all aspects of each application, looking at the overall architecture and then breaking down the client-side and server-side technologies, while still maintaining a focus on the desired functionality of an application
Also includes coverage of such various technologies as DHTML, JavaScript, XSLT, Java, Python, PHP, and more.

Web Development Solutions: Ajax, APIs, Libraries, and Hosted Services Made Easy

As a web user, you’ll no doubt have noticed some of the breathtaking applications available in today’s modern web, such as Google Maps and Flickrdesktop applications than the old style web sites you are used to. You’ve probably also wished that you could create such things, and then thought “nahhh, I’d need to know a lot of complicated code to be able to even start creating sites like these.” Well, think again. There is a lot of complicated code involved in cutting edge “Ajax style” web applications, but a lot of the hard work is already done for you, and available on the Web. JavaScript libraries exist to provide most of that Ajax/DOM Scripting functionality out of the box. Application programming interfaces (APIs) exist to allow you to transplant complicated applications such as Google Maps and Flickr right into your own web sites. And hosting services such as Flickr and YouTube provide all you need to store and retrieve your media (be it images, video, or whatever) at your leisure, without having to worry about bandwidth issues and file naming nightmares.

Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0

Microformats burst onto the scene a couple of years ago and are fast becoming an essential tool for all professional web designers and developers. Imagine being able to integrate all of your web-based contact details, tagged articles, and geographical information seamlessly in web and desktop applications, without having to add anything extra to your websites except a little specialized HTML markup. Microformats provide a more formalized technology for adding commonly used semantics (such as contact details, location, and reviews) to today’s Web. Unlike XML or the semantic Web, microformats use ubiquitous technologies like HTML and XHTML, existing developer skills, and current web tools, and, perhaps most important, they work in all of today’s web browsers. This book is a comprehensive guide to microformats. It explores why, in Bill Gates’s words, “We need microformats”; how microformats work; and the kinds of problems microformats help solve. the book covers every current microformat, with complete details of the syntax, semantics, and uses of each, along with real-world examples and a comprehensive survey of the tools available for working with them. the book also features case studies detailing how major web content publishers such as yahoo put microformats to work in their web applications.

Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components

Pro JSF and Ajax shows you how to leverage the full potential of JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Ajax. This is not an entry-level tutorial, but a book about building Ajax-enabled JSF components for sophisticated, enterprise-level Rich Internet Applications. Written by JSF experts and verified by established community figuresincluding Adam Winer (member of the JSF Expert Group, Java Champion), Kito D. Mann (JSFCentral.com and JSF in Action), and Matthias Weßendorf (MyFaces)this JSF 1.2-compatible book provides reliable and groundbreaking JSF components to help you exploit the power of JSF in your Java web applications.

Foundations of Ajax

Ajax burst onto the Web development scene by offering highly interactive, desktop-like Web applications that can be deployed through any modern Web browser without the need for special plug-ins. Ajax is built on existing Web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and it is used in conjunction with your favorite server-side language. Foundations of Ajax explains how to combine these technologies effectively to implement Ajax into your new or existing Web applications. Like you, we are developers who are “in the trenches,” tasked with building Web-enabled applications that provide real value to our customers. As the Web continues to grow, the demand for more expressive and engaging interfaces will continue to increase.

JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Sixth Edition

Need to learn JavaScript fast? This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with JavaScript in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to JavaScript, leading Web and computing experts Tom Negrino and Dori Smith use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today’s JavaScript essentials. Along the way, you’ll find extensive coverage of Ajax and XML techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), and more.

Visual QuickStart Guide–the quick and easy way to learn!

The Definitive Guide to Grails

The Definitive Guide to Grails, by Grails lead Graeme Rocher, is for anyone
looking for a more agile approach to web development with a dynamic
scripting language such as Groovy. It will show you the new direction web
frameworks are taking and specifically how a dynamic scripting language
like Groovy can be harnessed on the JavaTM platform for productive Grails
development.
This book takes you through the Grails development life cycle, including
its project infrastructure, screen generation, full automatic object
mapping to relational database systems, and a flexible, easy-to-use web
layer.

The Definitive Guide to Grails

The Definitive Guide to Grails, by Grails lead Graeme Rocher, is for anyone
looking for a more agile approach to web development with a dynamic
scripting language such as Groovy. It will show you the new direction web
frameworks are taking and specifically how a dynamic scripting language
like Groovy can be harnessed on the JavaTM platform for productive Grails
development.
This book takes you through the Grails development life cycle, including
its project infrastructure, screen generation, full automatic object
mapping to relational database systems, and a flexible, easy-to-use web
layer.

Ajax and REST Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Ajax and REST Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach will serve all of your Ajax needs, by providing adaptable solutions for common tasks you’ll want to implement on web sites using the next generation of Ajax and REST techniques. As a JavaScript developer, your time is precious, so you’ll want to solve problems that present themselves in your work as quickly as possible. You can pick up the code provided in this book, adapt it, or plug it straight into your own applications.

The book mainly focuses on illustrating and explaining how to build applications that use JavaScript, Ajax, and REST Web Services, along with some user interface issues.