JavaScript Books
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Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services
Published 17 years ago includes sample chapter
by Alexander Nakhimovsky, Tom Myers, Apress
readable, accessible and eminently practical... ...quite a good book about writing software to consume and provide web services. — Slashdot While many books are focused on the underlying technologies of web services and others are dedicated to providing web services, few books show how to consume web services.
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Practical DWR 2 Projects
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Frank Zammetti, Apress
The Ajax craze is sweeping the world, and there is no shortage of libraries from which to choose to make it all easier to develop. One of those libraries has risen near the top in the Java space, and that library is DWR. DWR, or Direct Web Remoting, allows you to treat your Java classes running on the server as if they were local objects running in the browser, bringing the full power of your server–side business logic to the client without the usual problems that entails.
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Accelerated GWT: Building Enterprise Google Web Toolkit Applications
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Vipul Gupta, Apress
Ajax is a web development technique that takes advantage of JavaScript to display and interact dynamically with information embedded into a web page. Its emergence has made it possible to create web applications that closely resemble their desktop–based brethren.
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Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Aaron Gustafson, Jonathan Snook, Dan Webb, Stuart Langridge, Apress
If you're a web developer with previous JavaScript and DOM scripting experience, Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries is perfect for you to take your knowledge up to the next level. This book is about JavaScript and using the document object model—the conduit to the HTML document. This book is not about learning how to program JavaScript from scratch.
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Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional
Published 14 years ago includes sample chapter
by Lee Babin, Apress
Ajax breathes new life into web applications by transparently communicating and manipulating data in conjunction with a server-based technology. Of all the server-based technologies capable of working in conjunction with Ajax, perhaps none are more suitable than PHP, the world's most popular scripting language. Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional is the first book to introduce how these two popular technologies can work together to create next-generation applications.
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Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Jeff Dwyer, Apress
The main focus of Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT is a case study of a real Web 2.0 application called ToCollege.net. What you’ll learn: You’ll take a full tour of a modern Web 2.0 startup’s codebase. That’s 15,000 lines of source code that includes everything from Google Gears integration to Acegi OpenID, Lucene full–text search, and Google Maps, all of it integrated with GWT 1.5.
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Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Craig Cook, David Schultz, Apress
If you want to get into developing web sites, the most important thing you need is a solid understanding of Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML—the language that the majority of web site content is written in. Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference incorporates practical examples that will show you how to structure your data correctly using (X)HTML, along with styling and layout basics using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS
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Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Andrew Dupont, Apress
As a JavaScript developer, you will already be aware of some of the time saving, convenience, and functionality provided to you by JavaScript/Ajax libraries in general. Prototype (www.prototypejs.org) and its sister effects library, script.aculo.us (/), are among the most popular and best–supported JavaScript libraries, and now Prototype Core dev team member Andrew Dupont has written this book to provide you with an essential guide to getting the most out of using Prototype and script.
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Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: From Novice to Professional
Published 14 years ago includes sample chapter
by Christian Heilmann, Apress
JavaScript is one of the most important technologies on the web. It provides the means to add dynamic functionality to your web pages and serves as the backbone of Ajax-style web development. Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax is an essential guide for modern JavaScript programming; its practical but comprehensive. It covers everything you need to know to get up to speed with JavaScript development to add dynamic enhancements to web pages and program Ajax-style applications.
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Beginning Google Web Toolkit: From Novice to Professional
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Bram Smeets, Uri Boness, Roald Bankras, Apress
The open source, lightweight Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a framework that allows Java developers to build Rich Internet Applications (RIA), more recently called Ajax applications, in Java. Typically, writing these applications requires a lot of JavaScript development. However, Java and JavaScript are very distinctively different languages (although the name suggests otherwise), therefore requiring a different development process.