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Pro ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming shows you how to harness the ASP.NET technology to build websites that tackle real business needs. It provides ideas and practices that help reduce maintenance costs, decrease development time, and manage user perception. It discusses not only the technical implementation but the business reasoning behind the ideasusing real business situations, drawn directly from the authors extensive consulting experience. Business application development projects routinely begin with limited resources, tight budgets, and constrained timelines. Many developers respond to this by starting their coding immediately, with the hope of maximizing their time. But its already been proven that the best way to finish projects on time and ...

There are a few class libraries recently distributed that open the Ajax door to the .NET Framework 2.0. This book examines how the Ajax technology and the .NET Framework can work in tandem. It thoroughly covers the XMLHttpRequest processes and the .NET 2.0 class libraries, and shows you how to turn theory into practice and concepts into code, with samples that duplicate many new web technologies. With the knowledge you gain from this book, youll be ready to put this asynchronous technology to work. Thanks to the folks at Google, Ajax technology has become a force to be reckoned with. It is a technology that is here and now, just waiting for you to implement it with full impact. Google Maps, Google Suggest, and Flickr.com are just a few of the sites o...

Want to assert yourself as a cuttingedge PHP web developer? Take a practical approach, learning by example from author Quentin Zervaas, and discover how to bring together the many technologies needed to create a successful, modern web application. In Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP, PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript/Ajax development techniques are brought together to show you how to create the hottest PHP web applications, from planning and design up to final implementation, without going over unnecessary basics that will hold you back. This book includes musthave application features such as search functionality, maps, blogs, dynamic image galleries, and personalized user areas. The Zend Framework is used extensively to build the applic...

Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects is a guide to joining the burgeoning world of open web applications. It argues that opening up your application can provide significant benefits and involves you in the entire processfrom setting up your application, to creating clients for it, to handling success and all its attendant problems. This book is the essential resource for anyone who wants to make their web application a full participant in the new Internet This book is intended for intermediatetoadvanced Rails developerspeople who use Rails regularly for sites and applications more complicated than the prototypical rollyourown blog In particular, its targeted at Rails developers who want to be good Web 2.0 citizenssharing the functionality of their ap...

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 and its sister effects library, script.aculo.us, are among the most popular and bestsupported JavaScript libraries, and now Prototype Core 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.aculo.us. Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us will help you leverage the Prototype and script.aculo.us libraries to enhance your daytoday work, speeding up mundane tasks and providing advanceduser interfaceeffects in a way that is crossbrowser complianttaking many worries off your shoulders. Take...