Select Advanced Ajax chapters released under Creative Commons

So with many thanks to my agent David Fugate and Debra Williams-Cauley at Prentice Hall, I have posted four chapters of Advanced Ajax to archive.org under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license!

• Chapter 2: Accessibility
• Chapter 3: Client-side Application Architecture
• Chapter 4: Debugging Client-side Code
• Chapter 8: Keeping a Web Application Secure

I picked these chapters to set free for two main reasons: 1) I think they can prove the most helpful to the largest number of web developers, and; 2) they could also use the most attention in getting updated to include developments since I first wrote them years ago.

In releasing these under a license that permits remixing/adapting, I also hope to adapt these chapters to use other technologies. One note that I have seen echoed across reviews: this book has a heavy PHP leaning. As such, I've made plans with a GWT enthusiast to start work immediately on a GWT version of Chapter 3: Client-side Application Architecture, which should also give people more of an idea of how I think these adaptations can work.

Random note: I recently received a few copies of my book translated into both Hungarian and Polish. While I want to hang onto one of each for the novelty of it, anyone in the Austin area who reads one of those languages please feel free to get in touch and I'll gladly give one to you in exchange for feedback on how well the translation works.