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Building Applications with JavaScript and PHP using new AJAX book

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By jasminet - Posted on 21 December 2009

Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Web 2.0 Applications ,that helps users build user friendly Web 2.0 Applications with JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and jQuery . Written by Audra Hendrix, Bogdan Brinzarea and Cristian Darie, AJAX and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications 2nd Edition is a friendly tutorial, enhancing the user experience of a PHP website using AJAX, thereby creating faster and better web applications.

Ajax is a group of interrelated web development techniques, used on the client-side to create interactive web applications that retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. PHP is a scripting language designed for web development and to produce dynamic web pages. AJAX enables interactive interfaces that can replace traditional user interfaces and enhance the user experience of PHP websites.

Readers will learn how to write unobtrusive AJAX code and also to debug them using modern tools through this book. This book provides a complete case study of AJAX Form Validation, AJAX Online Chat and AJAX Editable DataGrid with jQuery, thereby combining client-side and server-side functionality to enhance the user experience of the site using AJAX. Advanced AJAX and PHP patterns and techniques such as predictive fetching, progress indicator, graceful degradation, and cross-domain calls are thoroughly discussed in this book.

Project management: Designer versus Programmer

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By Pegboard CMS - Posted on 18 November 2009

It’s ShowTime again, the project manager looks grim, the programmer struts in “I’m gonna break ya” … the designer stares him down, the bell rings… smackdown, and its only morning tea break!

If your design studio resembles a scene from wrestlemania, take heart, you’re not alone!  There is mortal combat out there between two creative forces butting heads over the creation of an online masterpiece. The Project manager aka “the Ref” is breaking into a sweat over burgeoning budgets, wasted time and a design project that looks light-years from delivery.

The two parties that pay for the showdown, the client and the design studio owner, are stuck in the audience looking on wringing hands, the anxiety levels are rising. The problem is that once the cycle gets going it’s hard to stop, the lateness of delivery looks bad to the client, upcoming projects get pushed back to a later starting date. Clients complain and do your business untold damage as your reputation wavers.  Stress levels peak at all levels of your business, even the work experience kid is having a crap time, productivity and staff moral are non-existent, and the boss is sweaty palmed and manic. Profits dry up, no movie night this month for the staff, hey that’s cool, they hate each other anyway.

So why the opposition?

New book for customizing Joomla! websites

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By swatii - Posted on 27 October 2009

Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5x Customization: Make Your Site Adapt to Your Needs, a new book, which will help users create and customize a unique, professional Joomla! website to suit their business requirements. Written by Daniel Chapman, this book is a step-by-step guide that will show readers how to build a unique website with Joomla! using the same techniques as professionals. It will help them understand and customize modules, plugins, components, and templates.

Joomla! is the world’s hottest open source, award-winning content management system written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system to store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available.

Joomla! 1.5x Customization: Make Your Site Adapt to Your Needs will make it easy for developers to build a successful, professional website that will adapt to all their business needs. It will help them separate their site from the crowd of other Joomla! sites and will guide them through the customization of the different parts and aspects of their site. It will also guide them to identify and use the right tools to speed up their site development.