How do you create a mission-critical site that provides exceptional
performance while remaining flexible, adaptable, and reliable 24/7?
Written by the manager of a UI group at Yahoo!, Developing Large Web
Applications offers practical steps for building rock-solid
applications that remain effective even as you add features, functions,
and users. You'll learn how to develop large web applications with the
extreme precision required for other types of software.
- Avoid common coding and maintenance headaches as small websites add
more pages, more code, and more programmers
- Get comprehensive solutions for refining HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP,
and Ajax for large-scale web applications
- Make changes in one place that ripple through all affected page
elements
- Embrace the virtues of modularity, encapsulation, abstraction, and
loosely coupled components
- Use tried-and-true techniques for managing data exchange, including
working with forms and cookies
- Learn often-overlooked best practices in code management and software
engineering
- Prepare your code to make performance enhancements and testing easier