Ajax is one of the hottest new methodologies on the web, bit it requires a lot of coding, and there are some inherent problems with Ajax applications. This book offers more than 50 adaptable recipes for common tasks using Ajax, DOM Scripting, and REST techniques, saving hours of development time. These provide complete solutions for form validation, drag and drop functionality, data sorting, data presentation techniques, application architecture, debugging, performance enhancements, server-side techniques for web services, and much more. The book makes use of REST and other design patterns, and many popular JavaScript libraries, focusing is on efficiency, optimization and reusability.

This is the most up-to-date book on JavaScript available, covering current standards, techniques, and practices. It provides all you need to know to hit the ground running, without making you trawl through hundreds of pages of syntax. The book contains multiple chapters on Ajax and DOM Scripting, which are two of the hottest web development and design tools available today. Using a pragmatic and thorough approach, the book ensures that even the most novice JavaScript programmers will become familiar and comfortable using the tools presented.

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2013 2nd International Conference on Information Technology and Management Innovation (ICITMI 2013), July 23-24, 2013, Zhuhai, China

The agile, lightweight, open-source Spring Framework continues to be the de facto leading enterprise Java application development framework for today's Java programmers and developers. It works with other leading open-source, agile and lightweight Java technologies like Hibernate, Groovy, MyBatis, and more. Spring now also works with Java EE and JPA 2 as well. Pro Spring 3 updates the bestselling Pro Spring with the latest that the Spring Framework has to offer: version 3.1. At 1000 pages, this is by far the most comprehensive Spring book available, thoroughly exploring the power of Spring. With Pro Spring 3, you’ll learn Spring basics and core topics, and gain access to the authors’ insights and real–world experiences with remoting, Hibernate, and EJB. Beyond the basics, you'll learn how to leverage the Spring Framework to build various tiers or parts of an enterprise Java application like transactions, the web and presentations tiers, deployment, and much more. A full sample application allows you to apply many of the technologies and techniques covered in this book and see how they work together. After reading this definitive book, you'll be armed with the power of Spring to build complex Spring applications, top to bottom.

Beginning C# 3.0 has been written from scratch, specifically for the new 'Orcas' version, by a well-respected author to teach beginners how to use the new framework to their best advantage. They will learn everything they need to know to get to grips with this cutting-edge technology. This is one of the first books to be published dealing with the Orcas technology for the beginning audience. Comprehensive and thorough – the book is tailored to turn an interested amateur into a competent, well-grounded, programmer.

The VB 2008 language is your gateway to the powerful .NET platform. VB combined with Visual Studio gives you the freedom to create your applications faster and with a greater range of tools than any other coding environment. In this book, author Christian Gross will walk you through everything you need to know in order to feel at home in the VB 2008 coding environment. You’ll start creating real applications in the first few pages of Beginning VB 2008 and encounter good design and testing habits in every chapter. You’ll not only learn the language, but also appreciate the mindset of an accomplished developer as you progress through the book.

What is good code? This book provides specific guidelines for well-written code in the .NET context. The contents are based on award-winning material the author has presented at conferences throughout the US and Europe. There is debate about good code because there is not a single good piece of code, but many good pieces of code, each depending on the context that it is used. The author, an acknowledged expert on the subject of .NET coding style and techniques, explains that good code results from using patterns, but that not all good pieces of code are patterns.