Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

AJAX in Print

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Jan 10, 20072 mins

My so-called office is getting smaller and smaller, because my books no longer fit on the shelves, and I don't really have room for more shelves. I'm making some progress clearing out old stuff, but it's hard because I still use some books from 20 and even 30 years ago. It's actually easier for me to discard old computers and software than old books. This was to my benefit a couple of years ago when I

My so-called office is getting smaller and smaller, because my books no longer fit on the shelves, and I don’t really have room for more shelves. I’m making some progress clearing out old stuff, but it’s hard because I still use some books from 20 and even 30 years ago. It’s actually easier for me to discard old computers and software than old books. This was to my benefit a couple of years ago when I was working on an intellectual property case that hinged on computer technology from the 1980s, but that’s another story entirely.

Anyway, the newer books are in piles on the floor; the tallest pile is about 4 feet high. One of the shortest piles contains half a dozen books about AJAX:

  • AJAX: Creating Web Pages with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, Edmond Woychowsky, Prentice-Hall, 2006, $44.99, ISBN 0-13-227267-9
  • Ajax Design Patterns: Creating Web 2.0 Sites with Programming and Usability Patterns, Michael Mahemoff, O’Reilly, 2006, $44.99, ISBN 0-596-10180-5
  • Ajax Hacks: Tips & Tools for Creating Responsive Web Sites, Bruce W. Perry, O’Reilly, 2006, $29.99, ISBN 0-596-10169-4
  • Build Your Own Ajax Web Applications, Matthew Eernisse, SitePoint, 2006, $39.95, ISBN 0-9758419-4-7
  • Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer, Justin Gehtland, Ben Galbraith, and Dion Almaer, Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006, $29.95, ISBN 0-9766940-8-5
  • Understanding AJAX: Using JavaScript to Create Rich Internet Applications, Joshua Eichorn, Prentice-Hall, 2006, $39.99, ISBN 0-13-221635-3

Do you need any or all of these books? I’m not sure. I can only tell you what each book is about, once I’ve read them myself. Stay tuned.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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