reviews/java_app_cookbook.xml
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<p>Author: Jerry Bradenbaugh</p>
<p>ISBN: <isbn>1565925777</isbn></p>
<p>Publisher: O'Reilly</p>
<p>Reviewed by: Simon Wistow</p>
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<p>
To be honest, the idea of programming entire apps in Javascript filled
me with fear. Deep, pit of stomach fear. Sure I'd known somebody who
written a RecDescent parser in it but they were mad. Javascript was for
rollovers and that's pretty much it. Anything else is evil and wrong.
</p><p>
Surprisingly then, this book starts off with some good reasons
write apps in the language that dare not speak its name.
</p><p>
The book is split into 11 chapters, 10 of which contain complete
applications ranging from a Client Side Search Engine to an
Interactive Slideshow, Ciphers, Context Sensitive Help and an
entire Shopping Cart.
</p><p>
Each chapter is set up the same way - first the application
features and the Javascript techniques, then the application
itself and a thorough explanation of what each part is doing and
then, finally, potential extensions and modifications (although
doing those is left as an exercise to the reader).
</p><p>
The book also guides you through some of other aspects and
tricks of Javascript programming such as code organisation,
dealing with multiple platforms, graceful degradation and and
such.
</p><p>
There are also three appendices - a Javascript reference, links
to various resources and thirdly, and slightly bizarrely, a
Perl/CGI overview (which isn't very good, to be honest).
</p><p>
As the title implies, this book is a Cookbook and not a reference
or a tutorial however the amount of initial knowledge needed isn't
great and I found it useful as a learning tool.
</p><p>
All in all, two thumbs up, good, clean family fun.
</p>
</item>
</page>
reviews/java_app_cookbook.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page title="Javascript Application Cookbook" keywords="">
<item>
<p>Author: Jerry Bradenbaugh</p>
<p>ISBN: <isbn>1565925777</isbn></p>
<p>Publisher: O'Reilly</p>
<p>Reviewed by: Simon Wistow</p>
</item><item>
<p>
To be honest, the idea of programming entire apps in Javascript filled
me with fear. Deep, pit of stomach fear. Sure I'd known somebody who
written a RecDescent parser in it but they were mad. Javascript was for
rollovers and that's pretty much it. Anything else is evil and wrong.
</p><p>
Surprisingly then, this book starts off with some good reasons
write apps in the language that dare not speak its name.
</p><p>
The book is split into 11 chapters, 10 of which contain complete
applications ranging from a Client Side Search Engine to an
Interactive Slideshow, Ciphers, Context Sensitive Help and an
entire Shopping Cart.
</p><p>
Each chapter is set up the same way - first the application
features and the Javascript techniques, then the application
itself and a thorough explanation of what each part is doing and
then, finally, potential extensions and modifications (although
doing those is left as an exercise to the reader).
</p><p>
The book also guides you through some of other aspects and
tricks of Javascript programming such as code organisation,
dealing with multiple platforms, graceful degradation and and
such.
</p><p>
There are also three appendices - a Javascript reference, links
to various resources and thirdly, and slightly bizarrely, a
Perl/CGI overview (which isn't very good, to be honest).
</p><p>
As the title implies, this book is a Cookbook and not a reference
or a tutorial however the amount of initial knowledge needed isn't
great and I found it useful as a learning tool.
</p><p>
All in all, two thumbs up, good, clean family fun.
</p>
</item>
</page>