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Title: JavaScript Application Cookbook by Jerry Bradenbaugh ISBN: 1-56592-577-7 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.17 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good book if you're past the fundamentals
Comment: This book fills a very nice gap in the world of JavaScript books. Most of the books either are basic "how to" learning guides or exhaustive reference manuals. Both of those types of books are necessary for a good developer, but there comes a time when you want to cross over from the theoretical to the practical. As in, "how would I do a function like this in JavaScript?"
The "cookbook" approach is designed to take a common web site feature, like a search engine, and code a common JavaScript routine that would do that. You can then take the code in the book and use it with very little modification. In most cases, you would learn from the code as you are implementing it, and from there you can enhance the function to better suit your particular needs. You get the best of both worlds... You are quickly able to implement a function you are getting paid to build, and you are learning at the same time.
I liked the piece on context-sensitive help files. Nothing is really complex or visually impressive. But it's core functionality that you can implement quickly, it's useful for the end user, and you can build on that technique both in your current and future applications.
For Notes/Domino developers, you'll find a lot you can use here. Being that Domino functionality often translates to the web, you may find that a pure JavaScript implementation of a feature may not be the fastest or easiest way to build something for your application. You'll need to examine the functionality you need for your application and determine the best way to do it. But even if you choose to use Domino to accomplish some task, seeing the way to do it in JavaScript can help you expand your horizons and consider different approaches.
Conclusion
I would recommend this book as a practical supplement to a good "how to" and a good reference book. If you're just starting to learn JavaScript, you may want to leave this one alone for awhile.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pretty Damn Good
Comment: When I received my copy of the JavaScript Cookbook, I got exactly what I was looking for - a JAVASCRIPT resource. This is a solid piece of work that not only includes practical web ready applications & code, but also provides clear and concise explanations each step of the way. I found most of these explanations to hold considerable value beyond just the scope of the particular recipe; I had no problem using them to broaden my understanding in the bigger picture of JavaScript.
I found Bradenbaugh's book quite helpful and would highly recommend it to anyone interested in expanding their bag of JS tricks with immediate applicability. (I am currently using the client-side search engine application, and have dog-eared a handful of practical JS functions in Chapter 6). However, to all those reviewers below looking to learn Perl, you might want to first read this book's title before you pick it up.
Rating: 1
Summary: Virtually Useless Text
Comment: The text is focused on providing ready built constructs that can be applied to any website. In summary this book contains 11 application constructs. 3 are possibly applicable in todays world, albeit their relevancy is questioned, the other 9 topics such as text ciphers in JavaScript and Shopping Carts in JavaScript, etc. are completely unacceptable in today's world. Adding text cipher or Shopping cart logic in the browser completely exposes that logic to the hacking public leaving your site completely vulnerable to attack. Even in 1999, when this book was written, this would have been a ridiculous way of implementing these things. I must say I gathered no useful information from this text. And as for the author, anyone who had their site implemented by this person should hire a professional to correct the security holes he has most likely left behind.
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Title: JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook by Danny Goodman ISBN: 0596004672 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan ISBN: 0596000480 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference (2nd Edition) by Danny Goodman ISBN: 0596003161 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide by Eric A. Meyer ISBN: 1565926226 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Pure JavaScript (2nd Edition) by R. Allen Wyke, Charlton Ting, Jason D. Gilliam, Sean Michaels ISBN: 0672321416 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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