Advanced Ajax: Architecture and Best Practices [Paperback]

Shawn M. Lauriat (Author)

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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (Oct 25 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0131350641
ISBN-13: 978-0131350649
Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 18 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 739 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #558,199 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #22 in Books > Computers & Internet > Networking > Networks, Protocols & APIs > ISDN
- #31 in Books > Professional & Technical > Engineering > Telecommunications > Digital
- #34 in Books > Engineering > Telecommunications > Digital

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“I very much enjoyed how this book covers the full Ajax application lifecycle and not only coding techniques. Anyone who is looking to become a professional front-end developer will appreciate the architectural insight and best practices delivered by this book.” — Andi Gutmans, Co-Founder & Co-Chief Technology Officer of Zend Technologies

Mission-Critical Ajax: Maximizing Scalability, Performance, Security, Reliability, and Maintainability

Advanced Ajax: Architecture and Best Practices is the definitive guide to building business-critical, production-quality Web applications with Ajax. Shawn M. Lauriat systematically addresses the design, architecture, and development issues associated with Ajax, offering proven patterns and robust code examples available in no other book. You’ll find best practices for addressing the full spectrum of issues enterprise Ajax developers face: scalability, performance, security, reliability, flexibility, maintainability, and reusability.

Writing for experienced Web developers, Lauriat delivers fresh ideas and elegant solutions: meaty technical content, presented with exceptional clarity. Among the many topics he covers in unprecedented depth: cleanly implementing JavaScript custom events to reduce coupling and to enhance flexibility; overcoming Ajax’s traditional accessibility limitations; reducing network latency through compression and other techniques; and much more. Coverage includes

Planning Ajax interfaces for simplicity, clarity, and intuitiveness
Creating scalable, maintainable architectures for client-side JavaScript
Using the latest tools to profile, validate, and debug client-side code
Architecting the server side for security and functionality, while restricting loaded data, objects, and actions to current requests
Protecting against the most widespread and significant Ajax security risks
Optimizing every component of an Ajax application, from server-side scripts to database interactions
Introducing cutting-edge Ajax: game development, Ajax with canvas, and Ajax for enterprise applications

About the Web Site

This book’s companion Web site (http://advancedajax.frozen-o.com) doesn’t just provide all the code: It shows code examples in action, as building blocks of a real Web application interface.

About the Author

Shawn M. Lauriat is owner and lead developer of Frozen O Productions. He recently joined IBM as a senior PHP engineer for IBM Rational BuildForge when his employer, BuildForge, was acquired by IBM. Lauriat is a Zend Certified Engineer.

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Amazon.com: 4.3 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars "advanced ajax for PHP developers", Jan 6 2008

By Jeanne Boyarsky - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Advanced Ajax: Architecture and Best Practices (Paperback)

"Advanced AJAX" is targeted towards AJAX application architects. Note that readers should be comfortable learning by reading code. For example, chapter 1 has two pages of code for a GUI widget. This seems heavy for a conceptual book. Elsewhere, the main idea got lost in six pages of view code.

I liked the non-technology specific sections. Browser tools included Safari and Opera plugins. All the "hot" security topics were covered (SQL injection, XSS, CSRF.) Tradeoffs were listed for different alternatives. Performance included CPU, memory and bandwidth. Trying out examples on the companion website was nice.

Many server side techniques were PHP specific, such as SQL injection. While six pages of code is good for PHP developers, I was surprised. The code was readable without being fluent in PHP, but unnecessarily narrows the audience. The 15 pages of screenshots/description on the PHP documentation tool could have been used for another topic. Wouldn't a PHP developer already know how to use PHP?

While I liked the presence of an accessibility chapter, I found it confusing. WCAG and Section 508 were introduced clearly early in the chapter. For the rest of the chapter, I wasn't clear on what pertained to WCAG, what was 508 complaint and what was coming in the future.

If you are a hands on PHP AJAX developer interested in architecture, this is an excellent book. Non-PHP developers or people who want to focus on architecture (rather than code) are better off with a different book.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly useful--worth reading a couple times through, Dec 11 2007

By .NET Code Monkey - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Advanced Ajax: Architecture and Best Practices (Paperback)

This book is a rarity--a sort of architectural cookbook. The author takes a very careful, calculated approach to a topic that has become a buzzword--lending itself to gross overuse just for the sake of doing so.

The running thoughts throughout this book are to keep AJAX design unobtrusive, accessible (has a very good Section 508 introduction), segmented/modular, and easily maintainable. It even has a single chapter dedicated to security that was more useful than an entire book I read on the subject.

I highly recommend this for any developer working with JavaScript, AJAX, or Silverlight. Even with its PHP/MySQL flavor, the philosophies and practices the author shares are applicable to any platform, and they are dead on--simply the right way to design and implement AJAX solutions.

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A vast range of customization resources., Feb 6 2008

By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Advanced Ajax: Architecture and Best Practices (Paperback)

College-level and advanced computer holdings catering to Ajax developers and web programmers will find here an excellent guide to building business-quality web sites, covering the design and development issues associated with Ajax and offering patterns and code examples unavailable elsewhere. From planning Ajax interfaces for clear and smooth functions to using the best tools to debug code and achieve maximum security, ADVANCED AJAX covers many topics beginning books won't, and provides web programmers with a vast range of customization resources.

Diane C. Donovan
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