Ajax In Action - November 2005
If you have been following my blog lately, you should know that I have been working on Ajax In Action with Manning and a co-author Dave Crane.
I personally wrote all of the example projects in the book. The projects give you a step by step process of integrating AJAX into an application in order to create a Rich User Interface. For those of
you that are afraid of DHTML, do not worry! I explained the cross browser differences that cause people to bang their
heads against the wall for years. You should have no problem taking these examples and integrating them into your
applications so your Web applications start to look and feel like a client application.
Every project in the book looks at the flaws and benefits of the classical solution and the AJAX solution. I also talk
about AJAX implementations that are out there. I look at the benefits the application has and what mistakes people have
implemented. Too many calls to the server can easily drain your resources if you are not careful.
The release date for Ajax In Action is scheduled for November 2005 and you can read more about the book here.
"What makes this worthy of a book?"
I have
been asked this question almost 10 times a day by people. The people that ask it tend to think that AJAX is hype or
that there are plenty of examples out there. The fact is, there is not a lot of centralized data on the subject. You need
to go from blog to blog and Web site to Web site to get a grasp on the data. You can get bad examples and you can get
good examples. This book looks at AJAX from the concept to real world projects that investigates both the good and the bad.
A lot of developers have a hard time coding a single line
of JavaScript. I have seen this first hand in the industry. AJAX is based on JavaScript, so developers need something that
talks at AJAX at a high level and also explains the entire ClientSide code. Most of the blogs and Web sites do not
explain the core code and leaves developers scratching their head. AJAX in Action will allow a developer learn about AJAX
from the ground up. They will be able to take the examples from the book and apply it to their applications to increase
the performance of their users.
Eric Pascarello
Moderator of HTML/JavaScript at www.JavaRanch.com
Author of: JavaScript: Your Visual Blueprint for Dynamic Web Pages