Ajax and REST Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach [Repost]

Ajax and REST Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach will serve all of your Ajax needs, by providing adaptable solutions for all of the common tasks you'll want to implement on web sites using Ajax, DOM scripting, and REST techniques. As a JavaScript developer, your time is precious, so you'll want to solve problems that present themselves in your work as quickly as possible. You can pick up the code provide in this book, adapt it, or plug it straight into your own applications. The book features many solutions: application widgets for form validation, drag-and-drop functionality, data sorting, visual data presentation techniques, application architecture, debugging, performance enhancements, server-side techniques for web services and data granularization, and more–from small pockets of functionality to larger applications. The book makes use of REST, and other design patterns, and many popular JavaScript libraries. It focuses heavily on efficiency, optimization, reusability, and fixing some of the problems inherent with Ajax-style coding. Some prior knowledge of JavaScript/DOM scripting, basic Ajax, and REST is assumed.