Practical Ext JS Projects with Gears

1. Front Matter

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2. The Preliminaries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introducing Web Development with Ext JS

      Pages 3-56

   3. Widgets and Advanced Ext JS

      Pages 57-127

3. The Projects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Ext JS for a Busy Lifestyle: OrganizerExt

      Pages 131-193

   3. Making Project Management Cool: TimekeeperExt

      Pages 195-258

   4. A Place for Your Stuff: Code Cabinet Ext

      Pages 259-308

   5. When the Yellow Pages Just Isn’t Cool Enough: Local Business Search

      Pages 309-370

   6. Your Dad Had a Workbench, Now So Do You: SQL Workbench

      Pages 371-435

   7. All Work and No Play: Dueling Cards

      Pages 437-495

   8. Managing Your Finances: Finance Master

      Pages 497-557

4. Back Matter

   Pages 559-573

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Discover Ext JS, one of today’s most powerful and highly regarded JavaScript frameworks, with perhaps the best set of GUI widgets around, and a whole host of components that make developing client–side applications a breeze. Using a pragmatic approach, you’ll dissect seven full–fledged applications, covering

• How Ext JS allows you to create these applications with a slick user interface with a minimum of effort
• How the other parts of Ext JS aside from the GUI widgets provide many of the capabilities modern applications need, such as Ajax and data mechanisms
• How other technologies such as Gears can be brought in to make the applications more powerful

• Ajax
• Ext JS
• JavaScript
• framework
• management
• technology
• web development

Frank W. Zammetti is a web architect 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 information technology field, and over 12 more of "amateur" experience. He began his nearly life-long love of computers at age 7, when he became one of four students chosen to take part in his school district's pilot computer program. A year later, he was the only participant 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 primarily developed web-based applications for about 8 years. Before that, 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 fully functioning Commodore 64 emulator for PocketPC devices (PocketHobbit).Frank has authored various articles on topics that range from integrating DataVision into web apps, to using Ajax in Struts-based applications. He is working on a new application framework specifically geared to creating next-generation web applications.

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