{"id":96,"date":"2006-06-25T20:49:28","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T01:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2006-06-26T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T12:21:09","slug":"book-review-ajax-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/book-review-ajax-hacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review:  AJAX Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of AJAX hacks (recipes) coupled with intelligent discussions. A good book to buy for anyone interested in AJAX and modern web application development.<\/p>\n<p>The book begins with a great introduction to AJAX and then provides a useful grab-bag of commonly needed AJAX applications.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Processing Web forms.<\/li>\n<li>Validations: credit card numbers, email addresses etc &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=wwwmontrealma-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0596101694&#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><strong>What are AJAX &#8216;hacks&#8217;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AJAX &#8216;hacks&#8217; are concise code samples that can be used as &#8216;components (if you will,) that you can plug into your own work.  <\/p>\n<p>Besides the usefulness of having a reusable collection like this, you can learn a lot from the &#8216;hacks&#8217;, since each one is coupled with a good discussion. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Some highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ruby on Rails and AJAX discussions<\/li>\n<li>Examination of the open source AJAX libraries like Scriptaculous and Rico.<\/li>\n<li>The concise and clear coverage of AJAX basics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As with all O&#8217;reilly books, the writing is clear and concise and well presented. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>this is not a beginners tutorial &#8230; you will need to be able to work with and understand JavaScript. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of AJAX hacks (recipes) coupled with intelligent discussions. A good book to buy for anyone interested in AJAX and modern web application development. The book begins with a great introduction to AJAX and then provides a useful grab-bag of commonly needed AJAX applications. For example: Processing Web forms. Validations: credit card numbers, email &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}