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AUTHOR : Michael Mahemoff PUBLISHER : O'Reilly Media ISBN : 0596101805 EDITION : 1st PUB DATE : June 01, 2006 LANGUAGE : English FORMAT : CHM SIZE : 7,17 MBAjax, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, exploded onto the scene in the spring of 2005 and remains the hottest story among web developers. With its rich combination of technologies, Ajax provides a strong foundation for creating interactive web applications with XML or JSON-based web services by using JavaScript in the browser to process the web server. Ajax Design Patterns shows you best practices that can dramatically improve your web development projects. It investigates how others have successfully dealt with conflicting design principles in the past and he patterns outlined in the book fall into four categories
- Foundational technology: Examines the raw technologies required for
- Programming: Exposes techniques that developers have discovered to
- Functionality and usability: Describes the types of user interfaces
you'll come across in Ajax applications, as well as the new types of
- Development: Explains the process being used to monitor and debug.:-->
Ajax Design Patterns will also get you up to speed with core Ajax technologies, such as XMLHttpRequest, the DOM, and JSON. Technical
discussions are followed by code examples so you can see for yourself
just what is-and isn't-possible with Ajax. This handy reference will help
you to produce high-quality Ajax architectures, streamline web
Michael Mahemoff holds a PhD in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Melbourne, where his thesis was "Design Reuse in Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction." He lives in London and consults on software development issues in banking, health care, and

"Michael Mahemoff's Ajax Design Patterns is a truly comprehensive
compendium of web application design expertise, centred around but not
limited to Ajax techniques. Polished nuggets of design wisdom are
supported by tutorials and real-world code examples resulting in a book
that serves not only as an intermediate to expert handbook but also as an
extensive reference for building rich interactive web applications."
--Brent Ashley, remote scripting pioneer

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