Head Rush Ajax: Get it in your Brain, Fast. Head Rush Ajax / Brett McLaughlin
Head Rush Ajax: Get it in your Brain, Fast. Head Rush Ajax / Brett McLaughlin
Table of Contents (summary)
Intro
1. Using Ajax: web applications for anew generation
2. Speaking the Language: making ajax requests Interlude
3. She Blinded Me with Asynchrony: asynchronous apps
4. Web Page Forestry: the document object model
4.5 A Second Helping: deoloping dam applications
5. Saying More with POST: post requests Interlude
6. More Than Words Can Say: xml requests and responses
7. A Fight to the Finish: json versus xml
Appendix 1: A Few Special Bonus Gifts: extras Appendix 2: ‘All I Want Is the Code": ajax and dom utilities Index
Table of Contents (the real thing)
Intro
Your
brain ОП Ajax. Here you are trying to learn something, and your brain
is doing you a favor by making sure the learning doesn't stick. Your
brain's thinking,"Better leave room for more important things, like
which wild animals to avoid and whether naked snowboarding is a bad
idea." So how do you trick your brain into thinking that your life
depends on knowing how to program asynchronously?
Who is this book for? xxii
We know what your brain is thinking xxiii
Metacognition xxv
Bend your brain into submission xxvii
Read Me xxviii
Technical reviewers xxx
Acknowledgments xxxi
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A caffeinated learning guide to the world of dynamic web pages.
Head Rush Ajax
Web Programming
"If
you thought Ajax was rocket science, this hook is for you. Head Rush
Ajax puts dynamic, compelling experiences within reach for every web
developer."
—-Jesse James Garrett, Adaptive Path
"This stuff is brain candy; I can’t get enough of it."
—Pauline McNamara, Center for New Technologies and Education, Fribourg University, Switzerland
"A ‘technology-meets-reality’ hook for web pioneers on the cutting edge."
—Valentin Crettaz, CTO, Condris Technologies
ISBN 0-596-10225-9
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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.
Brett
McLaughlin is a guitar player who is still struggling with the
realization that you can’t pay the bills if you’re into acoustic
fingerstyle blues andjazz. He’s just recently discovered, to his
delight, that writing books that help people become better programmers
does pay the bills.
In addition to his work on Head First and
Head Rush, Brett’s a bestselling author whose books include Java and
XML, Java 5.0: A Developer’s Notebook, and Home Theater Hacks.
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