Two Down, N Minus Two to Go

Just finished “Head Rush Ajax.” It didn’t feel as polished as the HTML book. The final example in the Ajax book doesn’t work, but the helpful forums did have the answer. As I mentioned, some of the coding examples are really painful, although I don’t yet know if that is because the authors don’t want to teach JavaScript or because JavaScript is the suck.”Learning JavaScript”is next, so I’ll let you know then. Question for readers out there: should I do LAMP next — that is to say, run through”Learning MySQL and PHP” — or jump straight to Rails? My instinct is to blast through the LAMP book — despite the reviews that indicate a lot of errata — since I’d like to understand the server side concepts before hitting all the Rails shortcuts.