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Takes a unique angle on Ajax, providing patterns for application development and best practices for integrating Ajax and REST into rich applications

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High demand for Ajax knowledge. Leading technology companies like Google and Yahoo are looking for developers with intimate knowledge of Ajax

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Christian Gross is a consultant with vast experience in the client/server world. He has consulted for Microsoft on DNA solutions, and he has held consulting positions with Daimler Benz, Microsoft, NatWest, and other major corporations. Gross was a contributor to Professional Active Server Pages, Professional SQL Server 6.5 Administration, Professional NT Internet Information Server Administration, and Programming Microsoft Windows 2000 Unleashed. He is the author of A Programmer's Introduction to Windows DNA.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 1st ed. edition (February 16, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 438 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781590596166
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590596166
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.64 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.95 x 11 inches

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What to say? How about "I get a kick out of Dilbert and more often than not can relate to Dilbert." Does that make me a tech nerd? Sure, but I also like to do other things like visual arts and paint pictures in a surrealist style. As much of a tech nut I am I like my art done in a traditional manner.

With respect to tech, my education is Mechanical Engineering specializing in robotics, parallel computing, and industrial automation. There actually was a time when I could calculate the trajectory of a five axis robot, sigh! I have always been fond of writing software and in grade 10 wrote my first major program that was to become an ISAM database using Waterloo Basic on a Commodore Pet! My main computing interests lie in Software Engineering and the Internet.

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Douggy Fresh

Excellent book - pity about APRESS.COM

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2006

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This is a excellent book and deals with constructive foundation patterns for AJAX. Talks about when and when NOT to use it.

APRESS.COM on the other hand - do not have any source code online for these books and support is 'indifferent'!

An additional book of note is "Pro Ajax and the .NET 2.0 Platform" ISBN: 1-59059-670-6 which is a simpler entry into AJAX.

Also checkout [...] about pragmatic ajax toolkit - this is a whole set of the foundation patterns hardened and ready to use.

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dropbrian

Great info, POOR presentation...

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2006

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...which is ironic, because the author himself mentions that the reason Ajax is becoming so popular is that people demand better fit and finish in their presentation.

This man DESPERATELY needs an editor (or a new/better one). Sentances run on and on, without ever getting directly to the point. Here's a great example of what's wrong with the book: in the first two chapters, he describes Ajax in painstaking (almost insulting) detail, but never really nails down WHAT "REST" is. Even after reading a section in the begining of Chapter 2, "Understanding REST Theory," I had to go to the Wikipedia page to learn just EXACTLY what it is.

This is a good resource for learning Ajax, but there are other good reasources out there, too -- ones that are better written and won't leave you fighting to understand what's going on through every page.

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M. R. Lauer

Excellent 2nd or 3rd book on Ajax

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2006

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Buy whatever Ajax primer you want, work with it, get excited about it, but before you use it in a real application, buy and read this book. Never expect to learn about a subject from a patterns book, just expect to leapfrog some painful learning experiences. This book helps you jump from experienced beginner to reasonable competence status without having to build a lot of bad applications first.

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David Clarke

Dreadful

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2006

I read a lot of technical books in relation to my work as a software developer and also out of my interest in particular topics. I was highly motivated to read this book having a great deal of interest in the material. Frankly this is one of the worst technical books I have ever read. Actually I can only admit to getting to page 86 before giving up. Technically the material is good and the example code is well presented. Unfortunately the rambling text made the whole experience painful and ultimately I just gave up.

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Decent content, awful writing style

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2006

While this book does present useful topics that are particularly relevant to AJAX applications, my main problem with it is the poorly edited and structured way it is written.

The book is full of paragraphs like this one (found at the very beginning of the "Applicability section" of the "Decoupled Navigation Pattern"):

"The Decoupled Navigation pattern is used when content is navigated. The statement is obtuse and does not really say anything because HTML content is always navigated. However, because of the way Dynamic HTML is used, content navigation is sometimes used to generate an effect. When links are used to generate effects, the Decoupled Navigation pattern does not apply."

That's the whole paragraph beginning to end -- what the heck is this trying to say? Apparently aware of how non-sensical this is, the author starts the next paragraph with "To clarify this explanation..." and then goes on to present an example of a website in Swiss German (I think), with no translation given. Two pages of more examples and a summary rules-of-thumb later, and the only implied take-away is that the Pattern applies when decision-making and data processing are required, and the contents of the page change but not completely.

A few sections like this could be forgiven (and you could quibble as to why he had to write this example this way), but stuff like this prevails throughout every chapter. More often than not, ideas which with some thought could have been condensed into a few sentences, result in half a page of digressions and logical dead-ends.

Here's another one:

"The need to separate the resource from the representation has not been adequately explained, and some developers may wonder why it is necessary at all. After all, may websites work well and nobody has complained too loudly. The reason why many websites work well is because they have probably implemented the separation of resource from representation. And those that have not done so have received complaints."

Upon reading this, I feel some irreplaceable portion of my lifespan has just been wasted.

At least one good thing this book does is that it only focuses on Patterns that are particular to an AJAX environment (e.g. Persistent Communications, Decouple Navigation, etc.), without wasting time on stuff that is applicable to other more general software design settings (which plenty of other books already cover of course).

While the ideas in this book are interesting and potentially useful to somebody beginning to design an AJAX application, the writing style makes reading it a true chore. Surely there is better written stuff out there on AJAX software design.

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A very good treatment but has some gremlins

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2006

I am currently part way into the book, however I can already say that it makes an excelent reference for Ajax development. The design pattern approach is a very approprite one, as is the focuse on REST.

One of the books stregths is that it does discuss AJAX in general (from first priciples as it where) rather than how to do Ajax with framework X.

that said there are a couple of points which have annoyed me enough to drop a star

1) The InnerHTML attribute is used in scripts which claim to be cross browser, however this is an IE ownly atribut and does not

work in Mozilla based browsers.

2) While the decision not to use an exsting Framework is good

the justification for why not is rather contrived.

Early on Gross states that he does not belive in cross browser frameworks as javaacript is cross browser and hence the framework is reduendent. he then spends the rest of the book gradully building a light weight Ajax framework. Staring with an Asyncronus request object which hides the different browser

specific aproaches to getting a Request Object. The fact is that

javascript is not fully defined, every implementation is slighly

different and (has the occational bug.

In real development I fully intend to use an Ajax library However it is good to have an understading of hot only what

the framework is doing but why and how it could be done differently.

Another reviwer mentioned the lack of source code for the book.

At the time os this review, source code is available, and it

now contains both .Net and Java Servlet implementations of most

patterns.

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