Practical JavaScript, DOM Scripting and Ajax Projects

Say Hello to My Little Friend: JavaScript!.- A Brief History of JavaScript.- The Seven Habits of Highly Successful JavaScript Developers.- The Projects.- Hodgepodge: Building an Extensible Javascript Library.- Calctron 3000: A Javascript Calculator.- Doing the Monster Mash: A Mashup.- Don't Just Live in the Moment: Client-Side Persistence.- JSDigester: Taking the Pain out of Client-Side XML.- Get It right, Bub: a JavaScript Validation Framework.- Widget Mania: Using a GUI Widget Framework.- Shopping in Style: A Drag-and-Drop Shopping Cart.- Time for a Break: A JavaScript Game.- Ajax: Where the Client and Server Collide.

Frank W. Zammetti is a Web Architecture Specialist for a leading worldwide financial company by day and a PocketPC and open-source developer by night. He is the Founder and Chief Software Architect of Omnytex Technologies, a PocketPC development house.

He has over 12 years of "professional" experience in the IT field, and over 12 more of "amateur" experience. He began his nearly life-long love of computers at age 7 when he became 1 of 4 students choosen to take part in his school district's pilot computer program. A year later, he was the only one left! The first computer Frank owned was a Timex Sinclair 1000 in 1982, on which he wrote a program to look up movie times for all of Long Island (and without the 16k expansion module!). After that he moved on to a Commodore 64 and spent about 4 years doing nothing but Assembly programming (games mostly). He finally got his first IBM-compatible PC in 1987, and began learning the finer points of programming (as they existed at that time!) Frank has been primarily developing web-based applications for about 8 years; previously he developed Windows-based client/server applications in a variety of languages. Frank holds numerous certifications including SCJP, MCSD, CNA, i-Net+, A+, CIW, MCP and numerous BrainBench certifications. He is a contributor to a number of open-source projects, including DataVision, Struts, PocketFrog and Jakarta Commons. In addition, Frank has started two projects: Java Web Parts and The Struts Web Services Enablement Project. He also was one of the founding members of a project that created the first truly working Commodore 64 emulator for PocketPC devices (PocketHobbit).

Frank is the author of various articles on topics ranging from integrating DataVision into webapps and using Ajax in Struts-based applications. He is currently working on a new application framework specifically geared to creating next-generation web applications.