Practical Javascript, DOM Scripting, and Ajax Projects

Practical Javascript, DOM Scripting, and Ajax Projects picks up where Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax left off.

Frank Zammetti’s practical guide to real-world JavaScript and Ajax will have you developing actual client-side apps in no time. As more of a hacker than a theoretician, this kind of guide appeals to me. Usually when I start developing my own apps, some of the code used previously (in building sample apps) will be adapted and tweaked for my own purposes.

Some of the projects you’ll learn how to build in Practical Javascript:
* JSDigester - a library that simplifies (takes away the pain) of parsing XML on the client side
* Mashing up a list of hotels + a Yahoo Map for a user-entered zipcode
* Client-side persistence techniques
* A JavaScript validation framework
* Building widgets and working with UI widget frameworks
* Building a JavaScript mini-game (cool!)
* An Ajax-based client-server chat pplication

You can pick up a copy of Practical Javascript, DOM Scripting, and Ajax Projects at Amazon.com (avg. review score is 4.5 stars).

eBusiness App’s EBA Grid v3.1 Screencast

eBusiness Applications Ltd. has launched EBA Grid v3.1. It’s a cross-browser Ajax data grid component capable of displaying and editing tabular data in a webpage.

They also have a nice screencast demoing some of the functionality, including:

• Copy & Paste to Excel
• Selection API
• Keyboard navigation & selection
• Live scrolling

Adobe releases Spry

After Flex framework adobe launches new AJAX framework, Spry

The first release of the Spry framework is a preview of the data capabilities that enable designers to incorporate XML data into their HTML documents using HTML, CSS, and a minimal amount of JavaScript, without the need for refreshing the entire page. The Spry framework is HTML-centric, and easy to implement for users with basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The framework was designed such that the markup is simple and the JavaScript is minimal. The Spry framework can be used by anyone who is authoring for the web in their tool of choice

Zephyr - MVC Framework for PHP5 Developers

zephyr is an ajax based framework for php5 developers. you can easily develop business applications using this robust framework. this is extremely easy to learn and very simple to implement. you can deliver a full fledged ajax application with strong business layer in backend within some minutes. installation and deployment of packages that you develop for zephyr is hassle free. moreover you will get all the features of most popular templating engine “smarty” and powerfull data access layer “adoDB”. lets go through the documentation process to discover how easy is to develop an ajax application using zephyr framework.

Ajax Patterns and Best Practices — Free Chapter Preview

I’ve been meaning to write about this Ajax book (Ajax Patterns and Best Practices - by Christian Gross) for a while now. It’s gotten some really great reviews at Amazon.com, including this one by Jason A. Salas:

I very much enjoyed reading this book and got a lot out of it. To date, I’ve read about four of the major Ajax titles from various publishers, and this is the best of them so far. Christian Gross uses a very friendly voice and makes tacking the technical concepts behind modern-day web programming with Ajax - often a difficult task to simplify by the writing community - very easy to grasp.

Here’s a little more about Ajax Patterns and Best Practices from the publisher (Apress Inc.):

This book addresses the server side with the REST protocol. REST and Ajax blend elegantly together, but REST can also be used alone, with just a computer-to-computer solution. Like Ajax, REST can be used with today’s existing technologies. Millions of client computers are now Ajax-ready, and millions of servers are REST-ready.

This is an ideal book whether or not you have already created an Ajax application. Because the book outlines various patterns and best practices, you can quickly check and verify that you’re building an efficient Ajax application.

You can download a Free Chapter Preview (Ch. 03 - Content Chunking Pattern) from the publisher’s site. (PDF format)

The author has also made available the source code used throughout the book. (probably more useful when you own the book, though )

More Links

Buy Ajax Patterns and Best Practices from Amazon.com.

More about the book from the publisher.

BloggerJacks: the Author’s Weblog (Christian Gross)

Rails 1.1 and RJS Templates for Easily Ajaxifying your Webapp

Well, as you probably know, Ruby on Rails 1.1 has been released.

One of the major new features of 1.1 is the RJS templating language. (hint: it’s really just Ruby!)

RJS is a templating language that allows you to write JavaScript in a native Ruby style.

Some Good RJS Links

Cody Fauser’s Intro to Rails’ RJS
More on RJS and some of its advanced features
Rails JavaScript Generator Methods

Now, here’s an absolute Must-Have RJS Debugging Snippet to drop into your rhtml page when you’re playing around with this stuff:
[ruby]

[/ruby]

(via techno-weenie)

Cross-blogged at sablog.com.

Rail Adds Ajax

Version 1.1 of application development framework Rails went live earlier this week, with more than 500 fixes and additions, including simplified Ajax programming. (See Information Week for more.)

“It makes Web application programming a lot more like desktop GUI [graphical user interface] programming,” said Jeremy Voorhis, lead architect at Planet Argon, a Portland, Ore., services firm that specializes in Ruby on Rails development. Planet Argon has already used RJS on several client projects. Because Rails is an open source project, developers can start working with new features before they make their way into a formal release.

Rails is a two-year-old open source development application used by sites such as Calendar Hub. For more information, visit the Rails Website.

Professional Ajax : Review

Ajax, as you all know is something that is used in most of the new and exciting application released on the web nowdays, Web 2.0 to be precise. Professional Ajax, lights up most the area needed for a web developer to get started with AJAX. The book does a good job academically of showing how Ajax has evolved and how it is used in Web 2.0 applications. The book effectively cites examples in PHP, .NET, and JavaServer Pages. Practically, the authors exhibit a proper mix of (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Dynamic HTML and XmlHttpRequests, showing how the technologies are blended for developing next-gen UIs. The first few chapters have enough information to get a novice started with AJAX.

Title : Professional Ajax
Authors : Nicholas C. Zakas, Jermy McPeak, Joe Fawcett.
Paperback : 432 pages
Publisher : Wrox
ISBN : 0471777781

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Ajax Framework Roundup for ASP.Net / C#

If you’re an ASP.Net / C# coder, Daniel Z. has rounded up a nice summary and spreadsheet comparing the various Ajax frmaeworks for ASP.Net, including:

• ComfortASP.NET V0.45 (beta)
• MagicAJAX.NET V0.2.2
• ZumiPage V2.02
• ATLAS CTP December 2005
• …and more.

Link: ASP.Net Ajax Framework Comparison

Ajaxed - Google Homepage

Yet another wonderful creation from Google, Google’s new personalized homepage feature is an ajax based framework for all types of content and information. Supporting RSS and Atom feeds, bookmarks, weather top stories … you name it ! and ofcourse the sweet “drag and drop menu” feature.
It’s about same as Microsoft’s live.com, but I had a referer to my website’s feeds from ig before live.com was officially released.

In my Opinion the only difference between Live and Google’s Page is the layout design.

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