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 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.

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 serversand 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 websites 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

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Ajax burst onto the Web development scene by offering highly interactive, desktop-like Web applications that can be deployed through any modern Web browser without the need for special plug-ins. Ajax is built on existing Web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and it is used in conjunction with your favorite server-side language. Foundations of Ajax explains how to combine these technologies effectively to implement Ajax into your new or existing Web applications. Like you, we are developers who are "in the trenches," tasked with building Web-enabled applications that provide real value to our customers. As the Web continues to grow, the demand for more expressive and engaging interfaces will continue to increase.

Much of the early hype surrounding Ajax centered on its use by Internet powerhouses such as Google and Amazon. However, just because the initial forays into Ajax were pioneered by leading software development firms doesn't mean your application wouldn't also benefit from these techniques. You already know how to develop Web applications, so this book uses specific, focused examples to teach the Ajax tools and techniques you'll need to bring your applications to life. Armed with this book and your existing development expertise, you too will be able to apply Ajax techniques to your application to enrich the end user's experience.

When we first saw the potential of Ajax, we knew we had to start leveraging it for our own applications. Along the way we've learned some hard-earned knowledge that we thought needed to be shared with the rest of the development community. With this book you'll be able to easily extend your own applications with Ajax and have fun while doing it. We hope that someday we'll be reading about your great Ajax-enabled application!

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This practical hands-on guide for first-time AJAX users will walk you through building multiple AJAX applications, with each application highlighting a different strength and use of AJAX.

Applications include a chess game, an app for refining searches on Amazon/Google/eBay without reloading an entire page and a blog system that uses drag-n-drop features. Throughout the text, the author stresses usability, accessibility, and graceful degradation for older, less-capable web browsers.

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In fact, unlike most real site authors, Marco was able to take all the time he needed to implement an impressive list of features and fix all the bugs he bumped into. And unlike most sample application authors, he never took a shortcut and never ignored the problems that developers have to solve every day in the real world. For sure, the overall quality exceeds what you might expect from a mere “book sample” and, as of this writing, it’s the best demonstration of ASP.NET 2.0’s new features, including Microsoft’s own starter kits.

From a teaching perspective, the great value of this book is the rationale underlying all the design and implementation decisions taken in the development phase. Marco does more than just describing what he did: he lists the pros and cons of all the alternatives he tried out and explains how he found the perfect solution (or the best compromise) to each problem. It’s like having an expert sitting besides you, able to read your mind, and ready to fix your mistakes before you have a chance to make them. Can you ask for more? -- Francesco Balena, author of widely popular microsoft Press books.

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ASP.NET 2.0 Programming: Problem Design Solution is aimed at describing, designing, and implementing a site much like the ones you’re probably working on or will be soon, while taking the opportunity to introduce and explain many of the new features that the new great ASP.NET 2.0 framework offers. Difficult problems are addressed head-on so you'll be ready for most of the problems you’ll typically face when writing a modern website, and have one or more solutions ready for them.

Unlike many other ASP.NET books that show examples for individual pages or features, the example in this book is an integrated end-to-end site (written in C#). The entire book and site has been written specifically for ASP.NET 2.0, to use the ASP.NET 2.0 features wherever they make sense.

The end-result is a website which features a layout with user-selectable themes, a membership system, a content management system for publishing and syndicating articles and photos, polls, mailing lists, forums, an e-commerce store with support for real-time credit card processing, homepage personalization, and localization. The book leads the reader through development of a site with:

• Account registration, personalization and theming
• News and events, organized into categories
• Opinion polls
• Newsletter
• Forums
• E-commerce store with shopping cart and order management
• Localization

• Full online back-end administrative section, to manage practically all data from an intuitive user interface
• Site deployment

• Master pages
• Theming
• Personalization & Web parts
• Membership & Profile modules
• Personalization
• The new server-side UI controls such as GridView, DetailsView, FormView, Wizard, MultiView, the new xxxDataSource and navigation controls, among others.
• The new compilation mode and deployment modes
• The new framework for instrumenting the site, as well as handling & logging exceptions
• The new ADO.NET 2.0 features (e.g. caching with database dependency)
• The new classes for easy distributed transactions management

Ajax is taking us into the next generation of web applications. Ajax has broken the client-server barrier by decoupling the client from the server, but an Ajax application still needs a server to extract content from. The most effective use of Ajax and the server requires an understanding of REST, an architectural style used to define Web services.

Ajax Patterns and Best Practices explores dynamic web applications that combine Ajax and REST as a single solution. A major advantage of REST is that like Ajax, it can be used with today's existing technologies.

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.

Inside the book, the patterns will answer the following questions:

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	Christian Gross		Ajax Patterns and Best Practices (Expert's Voice) Posts
	Sent the following posts to customers who purchased Ajax Patterns and Best Practices (Expert's Voice) Christian Gross' author profile page RSS feed for this blog		Until Amazon Updates the Editorial Originally posted 12:25 AM PDT, April 21, 2006, updated at 12:27 AM PDT, April 21, 2006 Following is an updated description of my book. I am posting this until Amazon updates the description. Ajax is taking us into the next generation of web applications. Ajax has broken the client-server barrier by decoupling the client from the server, but an Ajax application still needs a server to extract content from. The most effective use of Ajax and the server requires an understanding of REST, an architectural style used to define Web services. Ajax Patterns and Best Practices explores dynamic web applications that combine Ajax and REST as a single solution. A major advantage of REST is that like Ajax, it can be used with today's existing technologies. 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.   Inside the book the patterns will cover the following topics: What is Ajax, and REST and why do you even care? And if I should care what are some examples of websites that make effective use of Ajax and REST? What are the absolute basics of Ajax and REST and what parts of those basics should I use? What should I do when I have large amounts of data to process? Should I cache the data? Should I get the data piece fed to me? (Patterns: Cache Controller, and Infinite Data) People keep telling me that sessions and cookies are bad? Are they bad? What should I do? And while I think about how about generating content for other devices? (Permutations pattern) I want to fix the back-button problem of the HTML browser. (State Navigation pattern) What is the best way to create a mashup? (REST Based Model View Controller pattern) My page has so many links managed by JavaScript, and I am loosing control, help me make this more organized! (Decoupled Navigation pattern) I understand that HTTP means I send data to the server, how about the server sending me some data without asking for it? (Persistent Communications pattern) My server side code looks like a mess with tags and code pieces everywhere how can I organize and make my HTML page behave like a SOA client and use REST based web services? (Content chunking pattern).     Comment Jaxson and the Permutations Pattern are Coming Together 3:01 PM PST, March 29, 2006 I am working on Jaxson and tonight I implemented the Permutations pattern completely with all extensions. What that means is the ability to pick and choose your input and output formats. For example, let's say that I have a calculator application that can add two numbers. In a traditional web service you would create the service at the URL. /services/calculator At that URL there would be a Web Service like SOAP to pick up the request and process the data. But what if you could "remember" your operations. Then you would use a URL like /services/calculator/12353534543 The numbers at the end reference a temporary URL that is a history of the calls you made. This means you can make a bunch of requests and then using the URL's get the old data. Compare this to a traditional calculator where to keep a memory you need to explicitly create the functionality. With Jaxson you would get that for free. Where I thought things became pretty cool is the fact that Jaxson can dynamically read data in one format and spit it out in another format. For example traditionally, if I make a Web Service request in SOAP the server sends SOAP. But what if you could send the data in SOAP, but want to receive an image? Jaxson lets you do that. The client can pick and choose the format that they want to send and receive. The server will dynamically adjust and process the data. For those that want to play around the sources are in the Jaxson.Java sources, but be warned its pretty alpha right now. Comment Release Announcement: Jaxson v0.5 1:32 PM PST, March 22, 2006 I am happy to announce that the patterns for the book Ajax Patterns and Best Practices have a name, and it is Jaxson. Jaxson was proposed by Ron Szumski and a signed copy of my book is on the way. I know I wanted to create a poll, but when I saw the name I thought fantastic. The sources for Jaxson are available in subversion database at the URL http://www.devspace.com/repos/ajax/jaxson/trunk . Currently only the Java patterns have been converted to a framework with the exception being the State Navigation pattern. For the .NET implementation the Permutations, Infinite Data, and Representation Morphing have been converted. Additionally the new URL for the pattern implementation websites are http://ajaxpatterns.devspace.com. I want to thank Stefan Deusch for pointing out how to create a more friendly URL using Apache's reverse proxy. And the last announcement is that a Ruby port is on the way and is being managed by Pat Eyler (Thanks Pat!). I also want to say a big thank-you to David Naas for helping me make the Infinite Data pattern robust. The updated pattern implementation is available in the Jaxson source code. Remember if there are any requests, or questions just email me at christianhgross at yahoo.ca. In the future release announcements for Jaxson will only be distributed on my blog at http://www.devspace.com. Exceptions being if there are major Jaxson announcements. Comment › of Christian Gross' posts

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