AJAX: fast mastery for experienced Web developers!
Already an experienced Web developer? Apply your skills in todayกฏs  fastest-growing area of Web development: AJAX! 
Building on what you already know, this fast-paced guide will show you  exactly how to create rich, usable Internet applications. 
Joshua Eichorn teaches through sophisticated code examples, including  extensive server-side PHP code. 
You wonกฏt just learn how to code AJAX applications: Eichorn covers the  entire development lifecycle, from use cases and design through  debugging. 
He also presents detailed application case studies, including a  start-to-finish update of a non-AJAX application that addresses  everything from feature improvements to changing usage patterns. 
Coverage includes:
* How AJAX changes the conventional Web development cycle
* Problems created by the AJAX paradigm -- and how to avoid them
* Adding AJAX to existing Web applications: key considerations
* Using core AJAX technologies, including the XMLHttpRequest object
* Consuming data returned to an AJAX application using both XSLT and  JSON
* Building more usable AJAX applications: guidelines and downloadable  resources
* Use cases: solving real-world problems in the AJAX environment
* Libraries and toolkits for simplifying AJAX development, including  Sarissa, scriptaculous, and HTML_AJAX
* A complete guide to AJAX debugging
* Supporting browsers without XMLHttpRequest by using IFrames or cookies
* JSON data encoding debugging guide, which covers tools for Firefox and  Internet Explorer
* A list of libraries, which includes PHP, .NET, Java, and other  libraries that can be used with any server language
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