Top 5 books to learn AJAX in 2009
I personally think that AJAX is a great think that most developers should know or at least get general knowledge about it. The WEB2.0 requires a lot of AJAX knowledge in order you can get the most out of the present generation of the Internet. In this article I will show the top 5 books that I recommend for this 2009 in order you can become a master in PHP. The following books should be used as a guide to help you to be more productive and get the level of qualification you need to compete is this market as an IT professional or web developer. AJAX is very important today because is able to get the best of the available technologies and combine them in a unique structure or paradigm.
1. HP Advanced Ajax Architecture and Best Practices (Shawn M. Lauriat – Prencite Hall):
This book is a wonderful material which contains all the elements you need to implement the best practices in building business-critical solutions. Also, this book will be very useful in planning AJAX interfaces that can be scalable in the future.
2. Head First Ajax (O’Reilly Media, Inc):
This book embraces a wide range of topics that are very different from the first book. For instance, here you can learn how manage JavaScript events, how to make asynchronous application models, how to make XHTML forms, POST requests, XML Syntax and much more. Head First Ajax is a wonderful guide for those who aren’t experts and are trying to learn AJAX more in-depth.
3. AJAX: Creating Web Pages with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Edmond Woychowsky – Prentice Hall):
It is another wonderful book which contains many interesting topics for your journey in learning AJAX. AJAX is so powerful and this book shows you how to get the most out of the power of AJAX. This book is focused in teach you how build sophisticated web applications that can have a high level of usability. Also in this book you will learn how make web applications using open source tools based on AJAX.
4. AJAX: A Beginner’s Guide (Steven Holzner – McGraw-Hill Osborne Media):
Whether you are a newbie in the AJAX or web developing realm it is a wonderful book for you. With this material you will be able to have a deep knowledge related to AJAX and all the things you can do performing this techniques in your personal or business projects.
5. Ajax Bible (Steve, Ph.D. Holzne – Wiley):
This book is a useful guide which contains 695 pages full of relevant information about how build powerful, fast and reliable web pages with AJAX. The AJAX bible is your companion throughout your web developing process and is an instructional tool you can use to study and take good decisions. Also, this book teaches you the best way to build high quality applications in less time. On the other hand, you could develop web applications very similar to desktop applications following the instructions of this book.
