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Professional Web 2.0 Programming
By: Eric van der Vlist , Danny AyerseBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Wrox
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Web 2.0 architecture opens up an incredible number of options for flexible web design, creative reuse, and easier updates. Along with covering the key languages and techniques of Web 2.0, this unique book introduces you to all of the technologies that make up Web 2.0 at a professional level. Throughout the chapters, you'll find code for several example applications built with popular frameworks that you'll be able to utilize.
You'll first explore the technologies that are used to create Web 2.0 applications. This includes an in-depth look at XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, and Ajax. Next, you'll gain a better understanding of the protocols and formats that enable the exchange of information between web clients and servers. Ultimately, you'll discover exactly what you need to know about server-side programming in order to implement new ideas and develop your own robust applications.
What you will learn from this book How Web 2.0 applications are developed New ways to get the major client-side technologies to work together The new class of emerging tools All about HTTP and URIs, XML, syndication, microformats, and Web Services Techniques for implementing and maintaining your URI space How to serve XML over HTTP Steps for building mashups to aggregate information from multiple sources Methods for enhancing security in your applications
Who this book is for
This book is for professional developers who have a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XML.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
This book is also available as part of the 4-book JavaScript and Ajax Wrox Box (ISBN: 0470227818). This 4-book set includes: Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (ISBN: 0764579088) Professional Ajax 2nd edition (ISBN: 0470109491) Professional Web 2.0 Programming (ISBN: 0470087889) Professional Rich Internet Applications: Ajax and Beyond (ISBN: 0470082801)
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Professional Web 2.0 Programming
Chapter One
Hello Web 2.0 World
When you visit a new country, a good way of getting started is to begin with a tour that gives you a first idea of what the country looks like and the key sites that you'll want to visit in more detail. This chapter is the tour that will give you the first idea of what a Web 2.0 application looks like from the inside and help you to get the big picture.
The Web 2.0 world is wide and rich, and the typical "Hello World" application wouldn't be enough to give you a good overview of a Web 2.0 application. BuzzWatch, the sample Web 2.0 application that you'll visit in this chapter, is thus more than the typical "Hello World" programming example. This chapter introduces most of the techniques that you will learn throughout the book, and you might find it difficult to grasp all the details the first time you read it. You can see it as the picture that is on the box of a jigsaw puzzle and use it as a guide to position the different pieces that you'll find in each chapter of the book. You can glance through it rapidly at first without installing the application, and revisit each point after you've seen the details in the corresponding chapter.
Introducing BuzzWatch
The application that you'll explore in this chapter is a program that aggregates information from multiple sources to give a different perspective. This kind of application is called a mashup and you'll see how to create mashups in more details in Chapter 15. This program is for executives who want to see, side by side, financial information about a company together with the vis
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