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I just finished “Ajax bible” by Stephen Holzner. If you used ajax/php/css at least once in your projects, there’s not much you can learn from that book and you’ll probably skim through 600+ pages in less than an hour. “Ajax” covers basics of html/css/javascript/ajax/php but does not go deep into details. If it wasn’t the fact that I didn’t pay for the book — won  (ok, domelu did, but we did a trade) it on 2008 edition of Jesien Linuksowa conference organized by PLUG, I’d regret 87 PLNs you need to pay for it.

Now i’m going through Michael Mahemoff’s “Ajax Designing Patterns” – I bought this one if I recall correctly. This book is tottally different than “Ajax bible” — worth to read if you’re into AJAX. It takes more theoretical approach and assumes you already know a bit about web technologies.

Just the other day I read this quote on one of the polish bash-alike sites:

<tompaw69> djangonowy python generujacy jsony sluzace do ajaxowej generacji dom’a skinowanego przez css
<tompaw69> kurwa. a kiedys sie pisalo index.html.

which more or less translates to:

<tompaw69> django generating jsons used to ajax-ized dom generation skinned with css
<tompaw69> damn, and you just wrote index.html once.

One might think the process gets too complicated, but on the other hand,  “Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?“ and people stopped expanding EMACS at somewhere around Eighty. Ram is cheap, so are disks and RAD tools are nowhere near dying. You’re expected to deploy the damn project fast, not necessary uber-optimized.

And know off to get some sleep.