Review of new "Understanding Ajax" book.

[Tony Lawrence]

Probably a lot of you here are already old hands at Ajax, but I haven't
started doing this yet. Part of the reason was that I really didn't
understand where Ajax would be useful to my own site, and also that my
experiences with early Javascript put me off on that a bit.

"Understanding Ajax" by Joshua Eichorn helped me with both of those
impediments. Complete review at
http://aplawrence.com/Books/understanding_ajax.html

 

[Richard Cornford]

Probably a lot of you here are already old hands at Ajax,
but I haven't started doing this yet. Part of the reason
was that I really didn't understand where Ajax would be
useful to my own site, and also that my experiences with
early Javascript put me off on that a bit.

"Understanding Ajax" by Joshua Eichorn helped me with both
of those impediments. Complete review at
http://aplawrence.com/Books/understanding_ajax.html

That review (actually pretty superficial rather than "complete") states
that it was written from a draft manuscript and the book itself will be
released in late August 2006. It also has a link to Amazon; who state
that the book has not been released and offer to ship it once it becomes
available. As it is now early August, and the evidence is that the book
in question has not yet been made available I have to wonder how it was
possible that it "helped me with both of those impediments" (except
perhaps in that regular employment with the book's publishers may have
enabled the OP to hire someone else to do the work).

The obvious chronological discrepancy suggests that this post was a
marketing exercise (implying a book that could not be sold on its own
merits).

Richard.