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Developing Large Web Applications: Producing Code That Can Grow and Thrive

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I have quite a bit of programming experience, but am just getting started with web applications. Having already done some with HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, and SQL, this book provided just what I needed by showing how all of the technologies can be used together effectively to develop a modular, scalable web application. I found it well written, to the point, and logically organized. The author has posted his example code on his website, which I am now using as a perfect lightweight framework for my application. The content was much easier to learn and understand than all of the frameworks I have been experimenting with, and gives me full control over my implementation. There are just as many ways to build a web application as there are to skin a cat, but the method described in this book is the best I've found to date.

A good book, it focuses on how many of big web sites are organized and how they work. It is a read-in-order the chapters, because there is always a back reference to previous chapters, like in the last chapter, where it comes other good points takes all reference to previous chapters.

It covers data architecture, consistency, modularity, and other things based on PHP, Javascript, CSS, Html. In my opinion, it overuse a little the OOPc programming, but is IMHO.

One of the good points is that uses examples about what is talking about, examplify them, and mention other tools and external sources. Applies too the concepts of the "Even faster websites" book and explaining why the code is that way.
The bad point is that soon or later returns to YUI (Yahoo! Interface Library) maybe because he was the depeloper leader; but in some chapter is overuse of it, in others the way it is applied is not exclusive of the library. It needs more 'equilibrium' on it, les recurrent.

Sometimes it looks like a "how i implement the solution at Yahoo!", but give good clues to make our own choices

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Un buen libro, se enfoca en como los grandes sitios web funcionan. Es un libro cuyos capítulos deben ser leidos en orden, ya que siempre hay referencia a los capítulos previos; como es el caso del último capítulo, donde agrupa todo lo generado en los capítulos anteriores.

Se enfoca en temas como arquitectura, consistencia, modularidad, y otros elementos basados en php, js, css y html. En mi opinión, hace un sobre uso de OOPc, pero es meramente mi opinión.

Uno de los puntos de interés, es que usa ejemplos acerca de lo que trata, ejemplificando su uso y mencionando otras herramientas provenientes de terceros. Aplica igualmente algunos de los conceptos mencionados en el libro "Even faster websites" indicando como son llevados.
El punto negativo, es que tarde o temprano siempre regresa a YUI (Yahoo! Interface Library) tal vez porque era el líder de desarrollo, pero en uno de los capítulos hace un sobreuso de ello, mientras que en otro lo menciona código como si fuese exclusivo de la librería, siendo que no es así. Se requiere equilibrar esos puntos.

Algunas veces parece un "Como implementé la solución en Yahoo!", pero ofrece algunas pistas interesantes para uno tomar sus propias decisiones.

I am a student of Web Development yet having taken classes related to the content of this book, this book appears to offer a lot of good knowledge and advice that I have no doubt I will utilize in time with practice.

The book essentially covers how to code up a large application without a framework. In reality if you are working with a large application (or not) you should use an existing framework to manage PHP, HTML templates, and JavaScript. For example CodeIgniter, (I haven't found a PHP HTML templating system I like yet), and Dojo.

tl;dr - has some stuff you should know, but better to let a framework(s) do it for you.