Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Category: Book Reviews, Performance
When I heard that the dynamic duo Thomas Fuchs and Amy Hoy were writing a book I wanted to check it out. They have released a beta version, which is pretty much code complete, with just some copy and illustration tweaks to come ($24). The book is actually a bit of a two in one, Read the rest…
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Category: Book Reviews, Books
Usability and design guru Luke Wroblewski knows that web forms suck. More importantly, he knows why – and how to make them suck less. For the past few years, the Yahoo! product design exec has been presenting his ongoing research into the humble HTML form at conferences and on his blog, Functioning Form. I attended Read the rest…
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Category: Book Reviews, Books
, JavaScript
I heart David Flanagan. I’m making my way through “The Ruby Programming Language” this summer. Its exhaustiveness really satisfies. But a decade ago, my programming Bible was Flanagan’s “JavaScript: The Definitive Guide”. As I transitioned from a career in content to a career in code, “the Rhino book” taught me everything I needed to know Read the rest…
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Category: Book Reviews, Books
Back in February, I reviewed the first half of Shawn M. Lauriat’s “Advanced Ajax: Architecture and Best Practices” (Prentice Hall, 2008, 360p). The first four chapters of Lauriat’s book, which focused almost exclusively on client-side technologies, impressed me considerably. But it’s taken me several weeks to get through the remainder of the book, and there’s Read the rest…
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Category: Book Reviews, Books
Because Ajax moves so much application logic from the server to the client, it forces many developers to master a wider range of web technologies than ever before. To work effectively on Ajax projects, front-end developers have to concern themselves with database performance, business logic and other server-side concerns. Back-end and middleware developers, meanwhile, have Read the rest…
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Category: Ajax, Book Reviews
, Security
Brian Dillard of Agile Ajax has a review of Billy Hoffman’s new book “Ajax Security“. If you’ve not picked this book up, you really need to. It’s received rave reviews and is quickly becoming the must-have security book for client-side development. As Brian can attest: The book itself, of course, documents dozens more specific security Read the rest…
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Category: Book Reviews, Books
Reviewers overuse the phrase “required reading,” but no other description fits the new book “Ajax Security” (2007, Addison Wesley, 470p). This exhaustive tome from Billy Hoffman and Bryan Sullivan places the specific security concerns of the Ajax programming model in historical perspective. It demonstrates not only new security threats that are unique to Ajax, but Read the rest…
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Category: Announcements, Book Reviews
, Books
, JavaScript
, Prototype
, Scriptaculous
This is a big day for Protoscript friends. The triple release. The big one. This post is a long one two as it discusses: Prototype 1.6 Released Script.aculo.us 1.8 Released “Prototype and script.aculo.us: You never knew JavaScript could do this!” book released, and we have a great review by Stu Halloway Prototype 1.6 They cleaned Read the rest…
Friday, August 10th, 2007
Category: Book Reviews, jQuery
My colleague Brian Dillard has written a review of Learning JQuery: Having spent most of the Ajax era at a large dot-com writing custom JavaScript backed by Prototype and some really solid internal libraries, I’m astounded by the staggering number of competing frameworks that have been quietly chugging along while I was busy elsewhere. It’s Read the rest…
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Category: Book Reviews, GWT
Any time a hot technology comes along — and GWT is certainly white-hot — publishers compete in a mad scramble to get the first books out the door. Often quality suffers. I am happy to report that GWT in Action is a strong effort that doesn’t seem to suffer from this quality problem. (That isn’t Read the rest…
Monday, April 30th, 2007
Category: Book Reviews, GWT
A mini book deserves a mini review, and so it is with the “Digital Shortcut” from January 2007 entitled Googleâ„¢ Web Toolkit Solutions (Digital Short Cut): Cool & Useful Stuff. The 112 page PDF goes further than any of the free tutorials out there in that it develops two non-trivial applications using GWT: a Yahoo! Read the rest…
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Category: Book Reviews
Despite its title, Beginning Javascript with DOM Scripting and Ajax by Christian Heilmann is not for those just starting out in web development. What it is, is a great resource for those that already have some experience coding dynamic web sites. The book explores the principals of DOM scripting (using the Document Object Model) to Read the rest…
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Category: Book Reviews
Jason Lee has posted a book review on Building Ajax JSF Components. The chapter begins by making the grandiose claim that “JSF and AJAX are a perfect match.†The authors then attempt to back up their claim by showing how JSF’s lifecycle phase management helps implement components that use AJAX very cleanly, especially from the Read the rest...
Monday, November 27th, 2006
Category: Book Reviews
This is a review of Pro Ajax and Java Frameworks by Nathaniel T. Schutta and Ryan Asleson. This book seeks to give the experienced developer of Java web applications the knowledge necessary to add Ajax to their webapps. This is another Ajax book that goes broad rather than deep. Instead of investigating one or two Read the rest...
Monday, November 6th, 2006
Category: Book Reviews
At a quiet time during my 40th birthday extravaganza, I finally had the chance to finish reading Practical Ajax Projects with Java Technology by Frank Zammetti from Apress. I've read enough good, hands-on Apress books by now to get a warm and fuzzy feeling anytime I see their distinctive bumble bee black and yellow covers, Read the rest...
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Category: Book Reviews
The latest edition of the venerable tome JavaScript: The Definitive Guide is a sorely needed update. I guess it took Ajax, Web 2.0, and an intervening five years to revive interest in in this quirky client-side language. The fourth edition, while still providing a good formal specification of the language, had fallen woefully out of Read the rest...
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
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