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qooxdoo Beginner's Guide

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qooxdoo Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Over the past few years, all the major internet or enterprise applications are developed or migrated to Rich Internet Application to support all the features that are provided in the desktop applications. This helps organizations keep the end users happy and also improves application deployment and maintenance. qooxdoo is a stable, open source RIA framework. If you are waiting and watching for the right time to migrate your application to qooxdoo, this is the right time!This book explains in detail about the rich user interface development in qooxdoo. It explains various concepts of qooxdoo framework in an easy to grasp and organized way, making it simple even for a novice in qooxdoo and also increases the competency level of the developer who is already working in qooxdoo.This book helps developers understand the qooxdoo framework, setup the environment, and start the development of RIA using qooxdoo. You will learn the core programming techniques in qooxdoo, user interface development in qooxdoo, testing & debugging qooxdoo applications, internationalization of qooxdoo applications to multiple languages, customizing the look and feel of qooxdoo applications using Themes, Performance management, etc.In the course of the book, we develop a complete application which will help the developer to understand the concepts better and to put things together to see the step-by-step progress to complete an application. By the end, this book will get the developer accustomed to the widgets and API available in the qooxdoo framework, and will enable him to design, develop, debug, and test the RIA in qooxdoo.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
qooxdoo
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References

About the Reviewers

Ehsun Behravesh is a 28 year old post-graduate student at Universiti Putra, Malaysia (http://www.upm.edu.my/). He is majoring in Distributed and Parallel Computing. He is holds a bachelor's degree from the London Metropolitan University (http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/). He started programming when he was in high school and he has developed software systems for almost 10 years. He is a fan of open source software and one of his open source projects, MyPasswords (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mypasswords7/), won a comparison competition on LinuxFormat, January 2011 magazine. He loves computer programming, music, and animals.

Liang Yuxian Eugene most recently completed an internship as a frontend engineer with Yahoo!, Taiwan after completing a double degree in Business Administration and Computer Science at National Cheng Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

He is also the author of JavaScript Testing Beginner's Guide, Packt Publishing.

Eugene enjoys solving difficult problems creatively in the form of building web applications using Python/Django/Tornado Web and JavaScript/jQuery. He is also passionate about social media, social network analysis, social computing, recommendation algorithms, link analysis, data visualization, data mining, information retrieval, business intelligence, and intelligent user interfaces.

Eugene seeks to solve business problems with Computer Science.

He can be reached at http://www.liangeugene.com.