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Dojo: The Definitive Guide--New from O'Reilly: Powering Up Ajax Development Techniques

July 1, 2008

Sebastopol, CA—According to author (O'Reilly, US $39.99) shows readers how to tame Dojo's extensive library of utilities so that they can build rich and responsive web applications that users now demand. The book includes a foreword by Dojo cofounder and cofounder of the Dojo Toolkit) why he's comfortable repeatedly allocating a non-trivial amount of company resources into an open source project like Dojo," Russell continues. "He'll tell you something to the effect of it being an investment that pays for itself over and over again. Developing software can get really expensive really quickly, and like anything else, the right tools for the job can make a job a lot easier, cheaper, and more enjoyable."

Dojo: The Definitive Guide offers the most thorough overview of this toolkit available, covering everything from how to create complex layouts and form controls closely resembling those found in the most advanced desktop applications with stock widgets, to advanced JavaScript idioms to AJAX and advanced communication transports. The book includes:

  • A concise introduction to Dojo that's good for all 1.x versions
  • Well explained examples, with scores of tested code samples, that reveal Dojo in action
  • A comprehensive reference to Dojo's standard JavaScript library (including fundamental utilities in Base, Dojo's tiny but powerful kernel)
  • An extensive look at additional Core features, such as animations, drag-and-drop, back-button handling, animations like wipe and slide, and more
  • Exhaustive coverage of out-of-the-box Dijits (Dojo widgets) as well as definitive coverage on how to create them, either from scratch or building on existing ones
  • An itemized inventory of DojoX subprojects, the build tools, and the DOH, Dojo's unit-testing framework that you can use with Dojo—or anywhere else

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