Ramsay C. - Ext JS Application Development Blueprints

Colin Ramsay is a software developer and writer with 15 years of coding experience. From .NET to Ruby, JavaScript, and CSS, he has worked with a range of technologies and local and international clients. His company, Go Tripod Ltd., is based in Cornwall, UK. This company works with multinational clients to implement exciting JavaScript products and ideas. He has coauthored Learning Ext JS and Learning Ext JS 3.2 , both by Packt Publishing. Colin also writes on various topics on his personal blog at http://colinramsay.co.uk/.

His main hobby is to make mischief.

I'd like to thank all the people who listened to the ideas, updates, and complaints while I was writing this book; you have the patience of saints and I love you for it.

Govinda Sambamurthy is a software development manager in the Oracle Fusion Applications team at Bangalore. He is responsible for building highly available and highly scalable enterprise products. Govinda has more than 13 years of experience in the IT industry and has played the roles of a developer, consultant, technical lead, and manager. He has extensive experience in software development for banking, financial, retail, and telecom verticals as well as product development and in building enterprise solutions that are deployed in high-availability architectures. He was part of various development teams in Oracle, including Enterprise Manager, Enterprise Content Management, WebCenter, and Fusion Applications. His areas of interest include data modeling, middleware diagnostics, cloud computing, the Semantic Web, analytics, and next generation UI.

He is the coauthor of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 11g R1: Business Service Management , Packt Publishing .

I would like to thank the author and Packt Publishing for giving me this opportunity to be a reviewer. I would also like to thank my mother, Padma, my wife, Nithya, and my toddler, Anirudh, for letting me spend precious family time in the review process. I would also like to thank my managers, Huan Tran and Reza Bfar, at Oracle for approving my request to be a formal reviewer of this book.

Vincent Stanislaus is an ICT professional with more than 18 years of industry experience; since the past 10 years, he has been working with a global wealth management investment banking firm; his other areas of Industry expertise include Superannuation, Banking, Insurance, Student Management, and Government Divisions (Education/Housing).

Vincent's current areas of focus is Information Security, Technology Risk, and Change/Release Management. He currently manages releases for core applications that are designed using various technologies, such as Sencha GXT, GWT, Oracle Fusion Middleware (Forms/Reports), Oracle WebLogic, and Apache/Tomcat.

Prior to this, his focus was on enforcing standards for the development team and ensuring they were adhered to by developers. He loves reviewing code prepared by developers, highlights any issues, and prevents them from being released to production in order to mitigate outages.

He has reviewed the book Oracle Application Express 4.0 with Ext JS and the e-video Oracle APEX Techniques , both by Packt Publishing.

He resides in Melbourne, Australia with his wife, Robina, and two lovely children, Jonathan and Marilyn.

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Preface

In times gone by, JavaScript was used to provide minor enhancements to the Web in order to decorate pages with amusing effects or to validate user input. Slowly but surely, as browsers implemented faster JavaScript engines and new features and as developers and engineers came up with new techniques and ideas, JavaScript became near-ubiquitous in providing the functionality that end users have come to expect. With Ext JS, you have a toolset that allows you to build advanced JavaScript applications, but with great power comes great responsibility.

An application architect is the guiding hand of a project. They help to ensure that client expectations are met, timescales are achieved, and costs are contained. While juggling these requirements, the architect must provide the foundations for a technically successful project consisting of high quality, understandable code.