The Rough Outline

There is a lot to cover in this topic, if I were to include everything we would end up with a long list that would mean that nothing was covered to any real depth.

Strangely enough, that's exactly what I think should happen, but not in the conventional sequential approach.


Normally in a book there would be a section on bringing the reader up to speed on certain base technologies, in this case in this case it would be HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.  Then there would be a section on using the hosting layer, then the presentation, authentication, UX layers and so on.  Publishers like this approach as it means that the audience is wider as readers who know a section well can skip it without devaluing the remainder of the book.

So what is planned?

I'm going to mix everything up, get a working application as early as possible and then build up on that.  This means that each section will be more about adding more detail to what came before which makes it harder for the reader to jump about and just pick out the bit they need.  But not impossible as a chapter could be adding the long polling to the application and so that could be the appropriate place for the reader; it's just that all of the examples and code would be built on the previous chapters.

Lets see how that will work.