Practical Ext JS Projects with Gears [Paperback]

Discover Ext JS, one of todays 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 clientside applications a breeze. Using a pragmatic approach, youll dissect seven fullfledged 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

The Preliminaries.- Introducing Web Development with Ext JS.- Widgets and Advanced Ext JS.- The Projects.- Ext JS for a Busy Lifestyle: OrganizerExt.- Making Project Management Cool: TimekeeperExt.- A Place for Your Stuff: Code Cabinet Ext.- When the Yellow Pages Just Isnt Cool Enough: Local Business Search.- Your Dad Had a Workbench, Now So Do You: SQL Workbench.- All Work and No Play: Dueling Cards.- Managing Your Finances: Finance Master.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 mló7