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Published inJan 2015
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ISBN-139781783287451
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Joe Kuan
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Joe Kuan was born in Hong Kong and continued his education in the UK from secondary school to university. He studied computer science at the University of Southampton for his BSc and PhD. After finishing his education, he worked with different technologies and industries in the UK. Currently, he is working for iTrinegy—a company specializing in network emulation, profiling, and performance monitoring. He enjoys working on a variety of projects and applying different programming languages. Part of his role is to develop frontend data and present complex network data in stylish and interactive charts. He has adopted Highcharts in his company products since the early version 2. Since then, he has been contributing blogs (joekuan.wordpress.com) and software (joekuan.org) on Highcharts, Highstocks, and Highmaps. In December 2012, he published his first book, Learning Highcharts, Packt Publishing, which is a comprehensive book on Highcharts covering tutorials, examples, tricks, and tips.
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A short introduction to Sencha Ext JS


Sencha's Ext JS is one of the most comprehensive Rich Internet Application (RIA) frameworks on the market. An RIA framework can produce a web frontend that behaves like a desktop application. Ext JS supports many features such as proxy storage, charting, managing SVG, tabs, toolbars, a myriad of different form inputs, and many, many others. There are other popular RIA frameworks, such as the Java-based Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and Python-based Dojo. Both frameworks can be integrated with Highcharts via third-party contributed software.

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See http://www.highcharts.com/download under the section Third Party Implementation for the full list of software contributed by other developers.

The Highcharts extension was originally written by Daniel Kloosterman for Ext JS 2+ as an adapter, as it didn't support any charts. In Ext JS 3, it started adopting the YUI charting library as the charting solution. However, the charts lacked features and style, and the main...

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Published in: Jan 2015Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781783287451

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Joe Kuan

Joe Kuan was born in Hong Kong and continued his education in the UK from secondary school to university. He studied computer science at the University of Southampton for his BSc and PhD. After finishing his education, he worked with different technologies and industries in the UK. Currently, he is working for iTrinegy—a company specializing in network emulation, profiling, and performance monitoring. He enjoys working on a variety of projects and applying different programming languages. Part of his role is to develop frontend data and present complex network data in stylish and interactive charts. He has adopted Highcharts in his company products since the early version 2. Since then, he has been contributing blogs (joekuan.wordpress.com) and software (joekuan.org) on Highcharts, Highstocks, and Highmaps. In December 2012, he published his first book, Learning Highcharts, Packt Publishing, which is a comprehensive book on Highcharts covering tutorials, examples, tricks, and tips.
Read more about Joe Kuan