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Pro Drupal Development

Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems in use today. With it, you can create a variety of community-driven sites, including blogs, forums, wiki-style sites, and much more. Pro Drupal Development was written to arm you with knowledge to customize your Drupal installation however you see fit. The book assumes that you already possess the knowledge to install and bring a standard installation online. Then authors John VanDyk and Matt Westgate delve into Drupal internals, showing you how to truly take advantage of its powerful architecture.

Youll learn how to create your own modules, develop your own themes, and produce your own filters. You’ll learn the inner workings of each key part of Drupal, including user management, sessions, the node system, caching, and the various APIs available to you. Of course, your Drupal-powered site isnt effective until you can efficiently serve pages to your visitors. As such, the authors have included the information you need to optimize your Drupal installation to perform well under high-load situations. Also featured is information on Drupal security and best practices, as well as integration of Ajax and the internationalization of your Drupal web site. Simply put, if you are working with Drupal at all, then you need this book.

* This book is written by Drupal core developers.
* Drupal architecture and behavior are mapped out visually.
* Common pitfalls are identified and addressed.
* Chapters provide regular discussion and reference to why things work they way they do, not just how.
* The front matter features a foreword by Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder.

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This e-book will teach you how to use DHTML and AJAX to create amazing new applications and interactive features for your website. Tom Dell’Aringa shows you how to create Popup Windows, Fly out menus, Filmstrips, advanced form features and much more!

Ajax enables you to write interactive applications while reducing the amount of data interchanged between the web browser and web server. This results in shorter processing times so you can give your user the ultimate web experience.

DHTML allows you to create amazing effects and allows you to enhance the interactivity of your webpage without using any Plug-ins. DHTML files are also smaller then HTML files thus speeding up your website even further.
What this book does, and who it’s for.

This book is for anyone with an interest in developing their DHTML and AJAX skills. The writer uses very clear examples that will enable you to master the programming languages. It’s also a useful reference for developers.

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Create Web applications that act like desktop ones

Brush up on JavaScript, use free Ajax frameworks, and make your sites rock

What if shoppers at your online store could fill their carts without waiting for multiple page refreshes? What if searches produced instant results on the same page? With this book you won’t have to wonder “what if” - you can use Ajax to make it happen! Get the scoop on all the technologies and start cranking out great applications.

Discover how to

* Use CSS with Ajax
* Connect to Ajax communities
* Handle browsers that don?t do JavaScript
* Tie Ajax into Google
* Work with XML DOM
* Connect Ajax to PHP and JSP

About the Author

Steve Holzner, PhD, has sold nearly two million computer books. He is a former faculty member at Cornell University and MIT, and a past contributing editor for PC Magazine.

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Writing for experienced Web developers, Lauriat delivers fresh ideas and elegant solutions: meaty technical content, presented with exceptional clarity. Among the many topics he covers in unprecedented depth: cleanly implementing JavaScript custom events to reduce coupling and to enhance flexibility; overcoming Ajax’s traditional accessibility limitations; reducing network latency through compression and other techniques; and much more. Coverage includes
Planning Ajax interfaces for simplicity, clarity, and intuitiveness
Creating scalable, maintainable architectures for client-side JavaScript
Using the latest tools to profile, validate, and debug client-side code
Architecting the server side for security and functionality, while restricting loaded data, objects, and actions to current requests
Protecting against the most widespread and significant Ajax security risks
Optimizing every component of an Ajax application, from server-side scripts to database interactions
Introducing cutting-edge Ajax: game development, Ajax with canvas, and Ajax for enterprise applications

About the Web Site

This book’s companion Web site (http://advancedajax.frozen-o.com) doesn’t just provide all the code: It shows code examples in action, as building blocks of a real Web application interface.

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The book mainly focuses on illustrating and explaining how to build applications that use JavaScript, Ajax, and REST Web Services, along with some user interface issues. Specifically, the following topics are covered: implementing JavaScript unit tests; explaining the intent of Dynamic Languages, Web Services and SOA; defining and implementing contracts using REST; understanding why JavaScript Functions have state; implementing JavaScript “Generics”, which are a mixture between real Generics and a replacement algorithm; using code blocks; using functions to make decisions; understanding the difference of JavaScript code that behaves like a value type or a reference type; implementing proxies, delegates, mixins, and overloaded functions; implementing a complete Ajax and Web Service architecture; defining a Web Service using REST; handling large or slow or real-time data sets; implementing shopping cart type architectures; and solving the back button problem using Ajax.

Having read this book you will learn how to modularize your web application by decoupling the client from the server. The decoupling allows a client developer to focus on writing the best JavaScript and Ajax code, and a server developer to write the best business and data objects.

About the Author
Christian Gross is a consultant with vast experience in the client/server world. He has consulted for Microsoft on DNA solutions, and he has held consulting positions with Daimler Benz, Microsoft, NatWest, and other major corporations. Gross was a contributor to Professional Active Server Pages, Professional SQL Server 6.5 Administration, Professional NT Internet Information Server Administration, and Programming Microsoft Windows 2000 Unleashed. He is the author of A Programmer’s Introduction to Windows DNA.

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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)

From the Back Cover
Now you can provide users with the same rich experience and functionality on the web that they’ve become accustomed to on the desktop computer. This book will show you how to take AJAX and Ruby on Rails to the next level by combining numerous cutting-edge technologies in order to develop full-fledged web applications. It explores a number of frameworks and in-browser APIs while providing code for your own implementations.

You’ll gain a thorough understanding of the underlying design principles behind professional Rich Internet Application (RIA) development and the various tools that are available to accomplish your design goals. You’ll break down an application into client-side and server-side technologies, and you’ll take advantage of key concepts such as mashups, auto-completion, and tagging for social sites.

What you will learn from this book

* How to develop RIAs in Java®, Ruby, and Python®
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Tips for enhancing your productivity and debugging your application
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Techniques for solving common issues in web applications when building a RIA
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All about the higher-level themes and development packages that build on top of RIA technologies
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How to develop, deploy, and control third-party access to your RIA

Who this book is for

This book is for software developers interested in practical solutions to real-world problems. You should have some familiarity with Python, Java, or Ruby on Rails.

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.
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From the Publisher
Key Book Benefits:

-Provides coverage of both client-side and server-side development

-Covers ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, as released in January 2007

-Features Online Product Extensions for updated code samples during the continuing development process
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