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Book:   Dojo: The Definitive Guide
Subject:   Simply Excellent
Date:   2008-07-14 12:26:41
From:   Mike A
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

Matthew Russell has written a truly excellent book on Dojo. In this particular space the landscape is rapidly transforming and Dojo is one of the best tools available to build beautiful, rich web applications. Russell's coverage of the toolkit couldn't be better and the rythymn of the book makes it easy and interesting to read. Russell tells you what your are about to learn, teaches you, peppers you with clear functional examples (and the tools to execute them), then double-checks to make sure you learned what you were supposed to, then you move on and start all over again on the next topic. Every once in awhile you think "wait, I missed something", and then you read "Don't worry about that just yet, full coverage is coming up in Chapter 12" and so you put your mind at ease until the full coverage of the topic, and you are set. This is one of the few tech books I sat down and read cover to cover in a few days time, I couldn't get enough.


I have been doing Java Development for almost 10 years and Web Development for most of those 10. In the past few years my focus has been on RIA and it has been pretty heavy Dojo-related in the last year. I think the material is covered with a real expert / insider's knowledge of the toolkit. I think that although having some web development experience will make this an easier read, it is probably fine for someone fairly junior. In fact it is so well written I bet I could get my mom using dojo.query() in less than a week.

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