Free 298 page eBook “WordPress and Ajax: An in-depth guide on using Ajax with WordPress” by Ronald Huereca. The goal of this book is to provide you a rock-solid foundation for using Ajax with WordPress. After the foundation has been laid, you will be walked through several real-world examples.
Read “Dojo: The Definitive Guide: Powering Up Ajax Development Techniques” by Matthew A. Russell for free from O’Reilly Media’s Open Feedback Publishing System. The Dojo toolkit provides an end-to-end solution for development in the browser — everything from its standard JavaScript library and turnkey widgets to build tools and a testing framework.
Get a free copy of O’Reilly Short Cuts eBook “Unobtrusive Ajax” by Jesse Skinner from his blog. Unobtrusive Ajax is about making web applications that work for everyone all the time, even if you have JavaScript turned off, or you’re using a mobile phone or a screen reader, or however you happen to be using the Web.
This free pdf guide teaches you how to implement efficient client-server communications when heavy realtime communication is needed. This mini-book is an additional resource for AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web
Applications (Packt Publishing, 2006).Although it isn’t apparent, AJAX can draw as well, and in this case study we’ll see how.
This book is about an AJAX Framework and an AJAX Engine for JavaScript, XML, SOAP, WSDL und ASP.NET using standard Web Services on the server.
This is the online draft of the Oreilly Ajax Design Patterns book. These patterns are the building blocks of Ajax applications. They are more “reference patterns” than true “design patterns”, at least from the perspective of a modern Ajax developer, who will take these technologies as a given. The patterns are included to introduce the types of technologies that are used, provide a common vocabulary used throughout the language, and facilitate a discussion of pros and cons.
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