Greg Winton

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications. Users as Testers In a traditional software development environment, there's a clear separation between developers, testers, and users. Programmers create the application, then throw it over the wall to the testers. Testers exercise the application according to a more or less detailed test plan, reporting issues to the developers who may or may not fix them. Once all the bugs that are to be fixed are fixed, the testers declare the product ready for release and it's... (more)

Real-World AJAX Book Preview: Leading-Edge Best Practices

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications. Leading-Edge Best Practices The dream is always the same. The "Big Idea" comes to me as a bolt out of the blue. I sit down at my computer, install Ruby on Rails, and in a few h... (more)