New Book: Ajax In Ten Minutes

In the mail: Sams' Ajax In 10 Minutes by Phil Ballard. The red and blue 'X in 24 Hours' books are ubiquitous around here--I've got six myself--"Apache 2", "CSS", "Java 2", "JavaScript", "SQL", and "XML"--and I see "HTML and CSS" and "Programming With Java" next door in Brad Baymack's office. They're always reliable survey books, with a wide variety of examples, though you'll need a more complete reference pretty quickly once you've started working with a technology. But can the learning time be cut down even more?

"AJAX in 10 Minutes," despite it's smaller physical size than the '24 Hours' books, looks like it covers the equivalent amount of ground as it's bigger cousins, mostly by dispensing with many of the examples. Consisting of 21 ten minute lessons (call it "Ajax in 3 1/2 Hours") it covers topics such as the XMLHTTPrequest object, SOAP, REST, and Web services. I'm particularly intrigued by the opening six chapters, which, in a mere 65 pages, cover the basics of the Web, HTML, HTTP, JavaScript, PHP and XML. That's got to be worth an hour.

Posted by Joe Caponi at 02:10 PM, May 16, 2006

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