On Jul 23, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Karl Swedberg wrote:
(One complaint, where are the ColdFusion examples? You should have
that also. Not put off that you do PHP, but you are not going to
hit a market segment like you want if you don't spread out just a
bit.)
For that, you'll have to buy Rey Bango's upcoming book: jQuery and
ColdFusion, a Marriage Made in Heaven.
:-p
Hi John,
I realized after I sent this that it might have come across too
flippant. Sorry about that. The serious answer is that given the
constraints we had to work with, we weren't able to venture into
other server-side languages. Also, we had to strike a balance between
giving enough server-side code to have the (ajax) examples be useful
and not giving so much as to distract from the main focus of the
book. We chose PHP for two reasons, (1) it's a very popular server-
side language and (2) it's the sever-side language we ourselves are
most familiar with.
We also wrote 2 1/2 times more than we had originally contracted for,
so, if anything, we were trying to keep word count down.
That said, if the publisher ever wants us to write a second edition,
this might be the sort of thing we could add. Maybe an additional
ajax chapter showing how to achieve one task with jQuery + PHP,
jQuery + ColdFusion, jQuery + Python, etc. Other books have done that
sort of thing in later editions, so it's not out of the question, I
suppose.
Again, I'm really happy to hear that you like the book.
Cheers,
Karl
