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Head Rush Ajax (Head First) [Paperback]

Brett McLaughlin (Author)
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Book Description

Publication Date: 4 April 2006 | ISBN-10: 0596102259 | ISBN-13: 978-0596102258 | Edition: 1

Sick of creating web sites that reload every time a user moves the mouse? Tired of servers that wait around to respond to users' requests for movie tickets? It sounds like you need a little (or maybe a lot of) Ajax in your life. Asynchronous programming lets you turn your own web sites into smooth, slick, responsive applications that make your users feel like they're back on the information superhighway, not stuck on a dial-up backroad.

But who wants to take on next-generation web programming with the last generation's instruction book? You need a learning experience that's as compelling and cutting-edge as the sites you want to design. That's where we come in. With Head Rush Ajax, in no time you'll be writing JavaScript code that fires off asynchronous requests to web servers...and having fun doing it. By the time you've taken your dynamic HTML, XML, JSON, and DOM skills up a few notches, you'll have solved tons of puzzles, figured out how well snowboards sell in Vail, and even watched a boxing match. Sound interesting? Then what are you waiting for? Pick up Head Rush Ajax and learn Ajax and asynchronous programming the right way--the way that sticks.

If you've ever read a Head First book, you know what to expect: a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works. Head Rush ramps up the intensity with an even faster look and feel. Have your first working app before you finish Chapter 1, meet up with the nefarious PROJECT: CHAOS stealth team, and even settle the question of the Top 5 Blues CDs of all time. Leave boring, clunky web sites behind with 8-tracks and hot pants--and get going with next-generation web programming.

"If you thought Ajax was rocket science, this book is for you. Head Rush Ajax puts dynamic, compelling experiences within reach for every web developer." -- Jesse James Garrett, Adaptive Path

"A 'technology-meets-reality' book for web pioneers on the cutting edge." -- Valentin Crettaz, CTO, Condris Technologies

Product details

  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (4 April 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596102259
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596102258
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 20.3 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 487,622 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Asynchronous programming lets you turn you own websites into smooth, slick, responsive applications that make your users feel like they're back on the information superhighway, not stuck on a dial-up backroad. With Head Rush Ajax, in no time you'll be writing JavaScript code that fires off asynchronous requests to web servers...and having fun doing it. Head Rush Ajax takes you beyond basic web development with DHTML and JavaScript and explains how asynchronous data requests and more powerful event models can be used in the Ajax methodology.

About the Author

Brett McLaughlin has become one of the most well-known authors and programmers in the Java and XML communities. He's worked for Nextel Communications, implementing complex enterprise systems, at Lutris Technologies, actually writing application servers, and most recently at O'Reilly Media, Inc., where he continues to write and edit books that matter. His most recent book, "Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook", was the first book available on the newest version of Java, and his classic Java and XML remains one of the definitive works on using XML technologies in Java.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Slightly disappointed 30 May 2006
By Juliette
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I've read a couple of the Head First books and really loved them, but was a bit disappointed with this book.

It repeats itself slightly too much, and I found myself skipping sections because it was just going through yet again what I had just read.

I also knew about some stuff like the DOM already and it would have been good to have a 'if you know the following you can skip this chapter' section.

I don't want a reference book but it would be really useful to have the complete code for each of the projects described in one place somewhere. When I tried to write my app after reading the book, it didn't work and it took me ages to work out what exactly I'd missed out. Some pointers on common mistakes would also have been good.

It's still quite a good book, but I guess after the Head First books I'd come to expect more. I wish it had been slightly more ambitious and tried to cover a bit more.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Another cracker from the HF stable 12 Dec 2006
By Thing with a hook
Format:Paperback
You may, like me, be wondering what the 'Head Rush' appelation is all about compared to the 'Head First' series. This is a slimmer book than the 'Head First' series, coming in at 400 pages (compared to 700-800 for the HF series). Also, it's focussed on a smaller topic. Apart from that, though, it's exactly the same format as the HF books, with some old HF characters popping up. HF stalwarts may be surprised to find that Frowning Woman In Denim is absent from this book, though.

As a prerequisite, you need to know HTML and CSS. You should also know a bit of Javascript. Nothing too fancy, just enough syntax to follow variable definitions, loops, conditionals and subroutines. If you don't know JS at all, I think you'll have trouble keeping up. The server side code is all in PHP. I don't know PHP, but it was close enough to Perl that I had no difficulty following it.

You also probably don't want to know too much about Ajax already. In fact, if you've done a lot of Javascript before, you may find the chapter on DOM a bit slow going. You'll find the pace just right if you're someone who's taking their first step in scripting on the browser side.

Brett McLaughlin proves he can do the HF style in this book. No worries there at all. In the first chapter, you could perhaps argue that some of the diagrams are over-annotated and have just too many arrows in them. In previous HF books, it was normally obvious what the flow of the diagrams were. Not so here, in a few places. However, from chapter 2 onwards, things are fine. In fact, the whole thing is a delight, as usual.

HR Ajax covers the basics very well and entertainingly so: what makes Ajax different from standard HTML requests, asynchrony, manipulating the DOM, and using XML versus JSON. Plus it mentions some browser-specific gotchas (including Opera and Safari), and provides very brief introductions to JS libraries like Rico and Prototype. Hardcore JS GUI-masters, this is not the book for you. Newcomers to Ajax, start here. You'll be glad you did.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Very easy to follow 10 Oct 2006
By Justin Taylor
Format:Paperback
This was the first Head Rush book I've read and found it an interesting format. Head Rush books don't have the typical layout and feature hand drawn illustrations and notes you probably do yourself when studying. This Ajax introduction is very much for beginners with an emphasis on maintaining enthusiasm and memory recall while learning. If you are more experienced in programming JavaScript or any other language for that matter, you would be better suited to one of the "Professional Ajax" titles.
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