Professional Apollo

Wrox's Professional Apollo will be the core guide for building Apollo applications. The authors for this book have been carefully selected to represent each key aspect of existing web development and translate those languages, architectures and frameworks into successful strategies for desktop application development with Apollo.Lead author Charles Freedman is fresh off his first book, Yahoo! Maps Mashups. Covering both a Flash-centric and Ajax approach, Yahoo! Maps Mashups unified what are considered differing and often rival technologies allowing the reader to learn and explore both in a similar context. The same challenge exists for Apollo, as developers from all circles have a choice from a wide array of web development technologies to build desktop applications.Clint Modien and Ben Lucyk are building some of the web's richest Internet applications. Building both desktop and web applications for years they offer a critical perspective, as many readers are like them in re-discovering their existing skill sets and applying them to desktop application development.In addition, many web designers possess several web application skills but have never approached the challenge of building a desktop application. Ryan Manning represents the skilled HTML and JavaScript/Ajax developer and, among many tasks, shows how Apollo's presentation APIs will add control to desktop application appearance.Each chapter is positioned to build the reader's knowledge base of Apollo's core languages and APIs. Professional developers familiar with a specific language have a reference to applying their existing skills to Apollo.The book builds progressively to more advanced topics. While contextual code is used in most chapters as simple execution examples, the final chapters are dedicated to real world applications that put the skills of the entire book to work.