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Developing Ajax Web 2.0 Applications: Hands-On

Enhancing the Web User Experience
 
Course: 986   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Develop Ajax-powered interactive and dynamic Web sites
  • Design accessible interfaces for cross-browser compatibility
  • Integrate frameworks for data exchange on multiple server environments
  • Leverage toolkits to rapidly create rich user-friendly interfaces
  • Optimize and strengthen code to build stable applications
  • Protect vital information from interception

Course Benefits

Ajax is a powerful Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications that respond in the same familiar way as desktop applications. Enhancing your organization's current Web site with Ajax increases usability and customer satisfaction while maintaining a competitive edge. In this course, you gain the practical skills required to effectively design, create and implement Ajax-enabled Web sites.

Who Should Attend

Web developers, designers, programmers, system architects, analysts and those involved in developing and managing Web applications. Experience with JavaScript at the level of Course 489, "JavaScript for Web Development," is required.

Hands-On Training

You are immersed in an evolving case study creating an Ajax-enabled Web site. Exercises include:
  • Enhancing the security of Ajax data transmissions
  • Organizing the user interface with sortable lists and drag-and-drop
  • Integrating popular toolkits and frameworks with server- and client-side technologies
  • Creating intuitive interfaces
  • Developing seamless and updatable application content
  • Plotting and mapping using third-party geolocation APIs
  • Expanding your site search with autosuggest

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Upcoming Dates

Dec 16 - 19, 2008
 Boston (Waltham)
Dec 16 - 19, 2008
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Jan 13 - 16, 2009
 New York
Jan 27 - 30, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Jan 27 - 30, 2009
 N. New Jersey
Jan 27 - 30, 2009
 Ottawa
Feb 3 - 6, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Feb 17 - 20, 2009
 Irvine, CA
Feb 24 - 27, 2009
 Toronto
Feb 24 - 27, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Mar 10 - 13, 2009
 Annapolis, MD
Mar 17 - 20, 2009
 Dallas
Mar 17 - 20, 2009
 New York
Mar 24 - 27, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Mar 31 - Apr 3, 2009
 Philadelphia

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Developing Ajax Web 2.0 Applications: Hands-On

Enhancing the Web User Experience
 
Course: 986   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course 986 Content
 

Ajax Fundamentals

Identifying core Ajax/Web 2.0 components

  • XHTML
  • XML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • DOM
  • Exchanging information using the XMLHttpRequest object

Building single page Web applications

  • Measuring the business benefits of Ajax
  • Improving data exchange efficiency
  • Streamlining data entry and presentation

Enhancing the User Experience

Designing interfaces

  • Assessing presentation requirements
  • Converting appropriate site functionality to Ajax

Providing interactive updates

  • Indicating the freshness of data
  • Incorporating effective form validation
  • Notifying users of system events and changes

Meeting accessibility standards

  • Architecting for progressive enhancement and graceful degradation
  • Complying with W3C and specific government guidelines

Cross-browser tips and techniques

  • Resolving "back button" limitations
  • Adding bookmarking capabilities
  • Addressing browser-specific issues

Integrating Data Sources

Benefits of Ajax frameworks

  • Facilitating interaction with client-side code
  • Decreasing time-to-market

Exporting and syndication

  • Integrate a dynamic RSS reader
  • Monitoring and responding to data changes through automated messaging

Maximizing Toolkits for Rich User Interfaces

Leveraging code libraries

  • Enabling drag-and-drop
  • Marrying data and presentation through in-line editing
  • Exploiting special effects for the "wow factor"

Developing a rich user interface

  • Populating forms with dynamical requests
  • Assisting the user with autosuggest
  • Supercharging data forms with rich text editors

Enhancing JavaScript functionality

  • Accessing page elements
  • Modifying page content
  • Extending standard JavaScript objects

Strengthening and Optimizing Performance

Designing for performance

  • Avoiding memory leaks
  • Compressing for optimal download speed
  • Choosing efficient data structures

Managing and protecting code

  • Safeguarding existing code with exception handling
  • Structuring and refactoring for reuse and maintenance
  • Debugging and testing techniques
  • Guarding against malicious JavaScript code

Securing Data Exchange

Investigating security issues

  • Avoiding cross-browser pitfalls
  • Intercepting remote services communication
  • Stopping invalid cookie usage

Protecting sensitive data

  • Sniffing data packets
  • Designing applications with security in mind
  • Encrypting JavaScript with security algorithms

Emerging Technologies

Exploiting third-party Ajax APIs

  • Plotting and annotating live mapping data
  • Utilizing geodata to improve business processes
  • Circumventing browser security limitations with On Demand JavaScript
  • Injecting dynamic JavaScript into a Web Page

Debugging techniques

  • Monitoring communications
  • Handling server errors
  • Utilizing browser tools
 
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Developing Ajax Web 2.0 Applications: Hands-On Tuition

Enhancing the Web User Experience
 
Course: 986   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,790 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,800 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,700 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,515 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,484 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

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