Beginning Ajax

Chris Ullman is a freelance Web developer and technical author who has spent many years working with ASP/ASP.NET. Coming from a computer science background, he started initially as a UNIX/Linux guru, who gravitated toward Microsoft technologies during the summer of ASP (1997). He cut his teeth on Wrox Press ASP guides, and since then he has written and contributed to more than 25 books, mostnotably as lead author for Wrox's bestselling Beginning ASP/ASP.NET 1.x series. He has contributed chapters to books on PHP, ColdFusion, JavaScript, Web Services, C#, XML, and other Internet-related technologies. After he left Wrox as a full-time employee in August 2001, he branched out into VB.NET/C# programming and ASP.NET development, and he started his own business, CUASP Consulting Ltd, in April 2003. He maintains a variety of Web sites from http://www.cuasp.co.co.uk (his "work" site) to http://www.atomicwise.com (a selection of his writings on music and art). He now divides his time between his family and composing electronic sounds for his music project, Open E. Lucinda Dykes is a freelance Web developer, teacher, and technical author who has been writing code and developing Web sites since 1994. She started her career in a high-tech area of medicine but left medicine to pursue her interests in technology and the Web. She has been involved in client-side development with JavaScript for many years through her company, Zero G Web, and teaches JavaScript courses online for an international group of students at eclasses.org. She has also authored numerous technical books about XML, XHTML, and Web application development with Dreamweaver.

Introduction. Chapter 1: Introducing Ajax. Chapter 2: JavaScript Refresher. Chapter 3: Ajax and Server-Side Technologies. Chapter 4: Ajax Techniques. Chapter 5: Working with XML. Chapter 6: Debugging and Error Handling. Chapter 7: Web Services, APIs, and Mashups. Chapter 8: XSLT and XPath. Chapter 9: Patterns. Chapter 10: Working with External Data. Chapter 11: JSON. Chapter 12: In-Depth Example: Sortable List. Appendix A: Exercise Solutions. Appendix B: Ajax Resources: Frameworks and Libraries. Appendix C: JavaScript Resources. Appendix D: JavaScript Language Reference. Index.