Ajax Construction Kit Building Plug and Play Ajax Applications Jul 2007 eBook BB

Supercharge Your Sites with Ajax Right Now...No Scripting Expertise

Needed!

Youve heard how great Ajax is--how it can help make your Web sites more

usable, more interactive, more responsive, more successful. Ajax

Construction Kit lets you put Ajax to work right now, even if youve

never written a script! Just learn a few essentials, check out a few

examples, then run the live CD and discover all the plug-and-play code

you need to hit the ground running. Ajax Construction Kits built-in

applications work right out of the box. And with easy guidance from

Michael Morrison, youll gradually deepen your understanding--learn how

to customize, extend, and reuse these applications---and even build

skills for creating new ones. Walk away an expert.

Use Ajax Construction Kits ten complete applications to

- Dynamically load Web data

- Dynamically populate lists

- Tap into RSS news feeds

- Use AutoComplete to reduce input errors

- Create more responsive GUIs with real-time validation

- Build a killer interface for viewing images

- Present information or advertising with slick pop-ups

- Provide an up-to-the-minute weather forecast

- Build an e-commerce product shipping calculator

- Add ratings tools to your site

And more...

CD-ROM Includes

- Your complete Ajax projects: Run the Ajax projects (HTML,

JavaScript, and PHP source code) that are included on the CD from your

Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux system.

- Your complete Ajax environment: Boot the CD as an Ubuntu Linux live

CD to immediately begin working with the Ajax projects (no setup

required).

- Ready-to-run tools on the CD include the XAMPP Web server, Firefox

Web browser, and Bluefish HTML editor.

System Requirements:

- Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac (OS X or higher)

- Processor: Intel-based processor (Pentium or higher)

- Memory: 128 MB RAM or more

- Disk space: None required; USB thumb drive optional to store data

- Optical drive: CD reader

Negus Live Linux Series

Your Practical, Hands-On Guides to Getting Real Results with Free

Software

Add the free software and examples from the books CD to your Windows,

Mac OS X, or Linux system to follow along with the projects described in

the book. Or boot the CD directly to use a complete, prepackaged set of

free software tools to play, display, and modify those projects. Start

as a novice, by trying out examples...and finish with professional

Ajax-enabled Web content!

SERIES EDITOR CHRISTOPHER NEGUS is the bestselling author of the Red Hat

Linux Bible series, Linux Toys series, and this series?flagship title,

Linux Live CDs.

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