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Ajax in Action helps you implement that thinking--it explains how to distribute the application between the client and the server (hint: use a "nested MVC" design) while retaining the integrity of the system. You will learn how to ensure your app is flexible and maintainable, and how good,... More

Ajax exploded onto the scene in the Spring of 2005 when a Web site defined the term. Then, Google released Google Maps and GMail, powerful examples of what Ajax can do. This book explains the big picture and how to unlearn many old coding habits. It explains the design patterns and best practices to... More

One of the most basic laws of a web application is that the client, not the server, must initiate any communication between the two. There are a number of common-use cases where, ideally, the server would like to talk to the client--dashboards and monitoring apps, chat rooms and other collaborations... More

Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action is a comprehensive, practical guide that walks you feature-by-feature through the two libraries. First, you’ll use Scriptaculous to make easy but powerful UI improvements. Then you’ll dig into Prototype’s elegant and sparse syntax. See how a few characters... More

Ajax in Practice tackles Ajax head-on, providing countless hands-on techniques and tons of reusable code to address the specific issues developers face when building Ajax-driven solutions. After a brief overview of Ajax, this book takes the reader through dozens of working examples, presented in an ... More

"Tall Tales of the Wild West" is the first major collection of ?cowboy poetry? for kids Cowboy poet Eric Ode has written a humorous collection of entertaining shorts about the legendary cowboys and cowgirls who had a home where the buffalo roamed. Ode is an award-winning singer/songwriter who is on... More

Chip Connolly was a conscripted grunt in trouble: stuck behind enemy lines with a bunch of cyber-uplifted rats and bats. Rats with human speech, but with rat priorities: sex, food and strong drink. And the bats were revolutionaries planning to throw off the human yoke -- with high explosive. Then th... More

A team of mentally uplifted rats and bats, and their vat-born human leader must convince the military bureaucracy that invading aliens are really under the control of alien enemies who the naive humans think are their allies.The intrepid team of mentally uplifted rats and bats, and their vat-born hu... More

'Venus Isle' by Eric Johnson is a matching guitar folio featuring note-for-note transcriptions from that recording. This folio is from the Recorded Versions for Guitar series from Hal Leonard and is the latest by Eric Johnson.... More

In this sequel to "Pyramid Scheme," a V.I.P. who knows too many state secrets has been left behind in the world of Greek mythology. Survivors of the first excursion into the pyramids worlds must either bring back the V.I.P. or terminate him."The Pyramid is baacckk " Well, actually, it never went awa... More