{"id":82,"date":"2006-05-06T07:13:59","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T12:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2006-05-09T12:55:59","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T17:55:59","slug":"book-review-professional-ajax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/book-review-professional-ajax\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Professional Ajax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very good book for experienced web application developers who want to jump into this new way of creating a rich user experience with the web browser.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=wwwmontrealma-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0471777781&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=ffffff&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The writing is clear and straight forward. Each chapter begins with a concise (but informative) theoritical introduction, which is then followed with a practical example that is substantive enough to learn the programming behind the theory, yet not too long that you&#8217;ll get bored.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly targetting the enterprise developer, this book covers how AJAX works with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>XML, XPath and XSLT<\/li>\n<li>Web Services<\/li>\n<li>JSON: a Javascript data format that is a lighweight alternative to XML<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read rest of the topics covered in the book&#8217;s TOC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A HIGHLIGHT OF THE BOOK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I especially liked  a section in chapter two (AJAX Basics) that covers the 3 methods used to create AJAX-like experience:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The hidden frame technique &#8211; what we used to do, to fake it in the late 90&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>The hidden iframe technique.<\/li>\n<li>Using the XMLHttpRequest object &#8211; true AJAX (IMHO)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was interesting to see working side-by-side comparisons of the methods available to web developers &#8230; and it makes you realize how useful the XMLHttpRequest object is!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s even more interesting is how the authors have actually combined these three methods in certain applications to create a more flexible AJAX implementation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONCLUSION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are an experienced web developer who wants to learn AJAX, get this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very good book for experienced web application developers who want to jump into this new way of creating a rich user experience with the web browser. The writing is clear and straight forward. Each chapter begins with a concise (but informative) theoritical introduction, which is then followed with a practical example that is substantive &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}