Building Responsive Web Applications with Ajax and Php or Total Digital Photography

Building Responsive Web Applications with Ajax and Php

Author: Cristian Dari

Building Responsive Web Applications with AJAX and PHP is the most practical and efficient resource a reader can get to enter the exciting world of AJAX. This book will teach you how to create faster, lighter, better web applications by using the AJAX ingredients technologies to their full potential.

Assuming a basic knowledge of PHP, XML, JavaScript and MySQL, this book will help you understand how the heart of AJAX beats and how the constituent technologies work together. After teaching the foundations, the book will walk you through eight real-world case studies covering tasks you’ll be likely to need for your own applications:
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AJAX enabled form-validation page
- Online chat room
- Customized type-ahead text entry solution, that helps users find the help page for the PHP functions
- A simple cards game that supports multiple simultaneous sessions
- Whiteboard where online users can draw online
- Database-enabled, editable and customizable data grid
- RSS aggregator application
- Use the script.aculo.us JavaScript toolkit to build a drag&drop enabled sortable list

The appendixes guide you through installing your working environment, using powerful tools that enable debugging, improving, and profiling your code, working with XSLT and XPath, and working with existing AJAX frameworks.

Interesting textbook: Python Cookbook or Dojo

Total Digital Photography: Everything You Need to Know from Beginner to Pro

Author: Chris Georg

This comprehensive 320-page book covers over 150 topics in depth-and includes over 1000 drawings and full-color photographs to illustrate step-by-step instructions. The text covers everything from choosing the right digital camera, to photo composition, to how to correct and improve digital images, to advanced imaging techniques such as professional retouching, montage, and special effects. It also features detailed advice on how to print digital images successfully, and how to output them to other devices and applications. With the range of topics covered, the book is a great gift for both the newcomer to digital photography and the experienced photographer looking to master the craft.