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Ajax in Action
by Dave Crane, Eric Pascarello, Darren James
from Manning Publications

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• Illustrated

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Extremely Comprehensive for Beginner Through Intermediate
  This book covers lots of ground coming in at 600 pages of real content. I almost gave this book 3 stars until I re-read it. It may seem verbose for the more experienced programmer, but I think would be a perfect read for the novice Javascript programmer. It really is packed full of great implementation ideas and good practices, such as the use of software patterns (MVC, singleton, adapter) and extensive code refactoring. There are tons of screen shots, images, diagrams, code examples and snippets, and... more info

• Good intro to Ajax principles and architecture
  Looking for the latest DHTML tricks and Javascript libraries? You came to the wrong place: this was published in 2005.
  But I really liked this book. All you need is competence with HTML, CSS and Javascript, and Ajax in Action will help you understand what makes Ajax different from the traditional client-server architecture of web apps. It also introduces some design patterns and other basic considerations, e.g. cross browser issues. The second half of the book has several examples that illustrate what... more info

• I agree, incorrectly named
  I've bought the portuguese version of this book (AJAX em Ação), and I agree that it was incorrectly named.
  I have a good experience with AJAX, and I was looking for an "AJAX bible", with hacks and something like this... but, like other people here, I am disappointed.
  The book is excellent as a guide for project patterns that can be applied not just to AJAX, but to any web project. But the title, "AJAX in Action", suggest another type of content.

• Very useful for Web developers
  i am very interested in AJAX learn and this book is essential for any person that work in the web, how web developer, web desginer and others. you can learn the structure and the metodology about AJAX and JavaScript too. It is great and interesting

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