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The ActionScript™ 3.0 Migration Guide: Making the Move from ActionScript 2.0
Author Kris Hadlock
When Flash Player 9 released in June 2006, it introduced the new scripting language, ActionScript 3, which has already taken hold in the Adobe Flex application development community. ActionScript 3 provides not only a significant enhancement in performance, but also....
Release Date 2008/07 -
Author Thomas Myer
If you're a PHP developer, you can build Rails-like applications without learning a new language by following the hands-on tutorials in Professional CodeIgniter. In this book, find an overview of MVC and agile technologies, model and schema for products, helpers an....
Release Date 2008/07 -
Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ HTML and CSS
Author Linda Wooldridge , Mike Wooldridge
Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something - and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 175 t....
Release Date 2008/07 -
Author Andrew B. King
Remember when an optimized website was one that merely didn't take all day to appear? Times have changed. Today, website optimization can spell the difference between enterprise success and failure, and it takes a lot more know-how to achieve success.This book is a....
Release Date 2008/07 -
JavaScript: The Missing Manual
Author David Sawyer McFarland
JavaScript is an essential language for creating modern, interactive websites, but its complex rules challenge even the most experienced web designers. With JavaScript: The Missing Manual, you'll quickly learn how to use JavaScript in sophisticated ways -- without ....
Release Date 2008/07 -
Sams Teach Yourself Ajax, JavaScript and PHP All in One
Author Michael Moncur , Phil Ballard
In just a short time, you can learn how to use Ajax, JavaScript, and PHP to create interactive interfaces to your web applications by combining these powerful technologies.No previous Ajax programming experience is required. Using a straightforward, step-by-step app....
Release Date 2008/07 -
Beginning CakePHP: From Novice to Professional
Author David Golding
CakePHP is a leading PHP-based web app development framework. When asking a question on forums or chat rooms, many CakePHP beginners get little help from the experts. Simple questions can get a response like, "Well, just read the online manual and API." Unfortunatel....
Release Date 2008/07 -
Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript
Author Meitar Moscovitz , Jonathan Lane , Joseph R. Lewis
Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript covers the entire process of building a website. This process involves much more than just technical knowledge, and this book provides you with all the information you'll need to understand the concepts be....
Release Date 2008/07 -
Author Chris Haseman
Android Essentials is a no—frills, no—nonsense, code—centric run through the guts of application development on Google's Mobile OS. This book uses the development of a sample application to work through topics, focusing on giving developers the essential tools and ....
Release Date 2008/07 -
Author Stoyan Stefanov
Once listed in the "nice to have" sections of job postings, these days the knowledge of JavaScript is a deciding factor when it comes to hiring web developers. And rightly so. Where in the past we used to have the occasional few lines of JavaScript embedded in a web....
Release Date 2008/07 -
Scratch™ Programming for Teens
Author Jerry Lee Ford
Welcome to Scratch Programming for Teens! Scratch is a programming language intended to make programming easier to learn for novice programmers. It can be used to create computer games, interactive stories, graphic artwork and computer animation, and all sorts of ot....
Release Date 2008/06 -
Dojo: Using the Dojo JavaScript Library to Build Ajax Applications
Author James E. Harmon
Dojo offers Web developers and designers a powerful JavaScript toolkit for rapidly developing robust Ajax applications. Now, for the first time, there’s a complete, example-rich developer’s guide to Dojo and its growing library of prepackaged widgets. Reviewed and e....
Release Date 2008/06 -
Author Jeremy Moskowitz
Learn how to secure and manage every desktop in your network with Creating the Secure Managed Desktop: Using Group Policy, SoftGrid, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, and Other Management Tools. Understand the tools and technologies you will need to create a more secure....
Release Date 2008/06 -
Author Matthew A. Russell
Of all the Ajax-specific frameworks that have popped up in recent years, one clearly stands out as the industrial strength solution. Dojo is not just another JavaScript toolkit—it's the JavaScript toolkit—and Dojo: The Definitive Guide demonstrates how to tame Dojo....
Release Date 2008/06 -
Author Alaric Cole
How soon can you learn Adobe Flex 3? With this book's unique hands-on approach, you will be able to tinker with examples right away, and create your own Rich Internet Applications with Flex within the first few chapters. As you progress, you learn how to build a la....
Release Date 2008/06 -
Author Emily Kim , Jack D. Herrington
Discover how easy RIA development can be with this one-of-a-kind handbook from the Adobe Developer Library. Several clear, step-by-step mini-tutorials teach you about web services, event handling, designing user interfaces with reusable components, and more. After f....
Release Date 2008/06 -
Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL
Author Julie C. Meloni
Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL® and Apache All in OneFourth EditionJulie C. MeloniStarter KitCD-ROM includes a complete starter kit for Windows®, Linux®, and Mac® OS XIn just a short time, you can learn how to use PHP, MySQL, and Apache together to create dynamic, i....
Release Date 2008/06 -
High Performance with High Integrity
Author Ben W. Heineman Jr.
Our free-market capitalist system is the world's greatest driver of prosperity, but it has a dark side. Under intense pressure to make the numbers, executives and employees face temptation to cut corners, fudge accounts, or worse. And in today's unforgiving enviro....
Release Date 2008/06 -
Author Jaroslav Tulach
You might think more than enough design books exist in the programming world already. In fact, there are so many that it makes sense to ask why you would read yet another. Is there really a need for yet another design book? In fact, there is a greater need than eve....
Release Date 2008/06 -
Author Joel Spolsky
Joel, Apress, Blogs, and Blooks...I was learning the hard way about how to be a publisher and probably spending way too much time looking at web sites and programming than I should have in response to that. Anyway, one day I came across this web site called , which ....
Release Date 2008/06 -
A World of Wealth: How Capitalism Turns Profits into Progress
Author Thomas G. Donlan
“Thomas Donlan’s defense of free market capitalism is especially timely today given all the pressures to regulate and stifle it. The anti-globalization movement wants more trade protectionism and less immigration. The global credit crisis is putting pressure on gov....
Release Date 2008/05 -
Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) with Ajax: Visual QuickPro Guide
Author Larry Ullman
AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is Adobe’s open-source technology that lets Web developers and programmers create Rich Internet Applications that run outside of any Web browser. This Visual QuickPro Guide teaches everything you need to know to begin creating applicat....
Release Date 2008/05 -
Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, Second Edition
Author Mark Trammell , Dunstan Orchard , Ethan Marcotte , Cindy Li , Todd Dominey , Christop
Updated and revised to reflect changes to cascading style sheets (CSS) development procedures since the first edition was published, Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 2nd Edition offers a hands-on look at designing standards-based, large-scale....
Release Date 2008/05 -
PHP and MySQL®: Create-Modify-Reuse
Author Martin E. Psinas , Tim Boronczyk
Learn everything about the dynamic power of PHP and MySQL in real-world applications with the practical information and step-by-step instructions in PHP and MySQL: Create - Modify - Reuse. The authors, experts in tune with common web development tasks, will guide yo....
Release Date 2008/05 -
Google Apps: The Missing Manual
Author Nancy Conner
Among its many amazing applications, Google now has web-based alternatives to many of the applications in Microsoft Office. This comprehensive and easy-to-follow new book enables you to explore Google's new office applications in detail. Once you do, you'll be in ....
Release Date 2008/05 -
Author Douglas Crockford
Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScr....
Release Date 2008/05 -
Author Joshua Noble , Todd Anderson
The best way to showcase a powerful new technology is to demonstrate its real-world results, and that's exactly what this new Cookbook does with Adobe Flex 3. Wide ranging and highly practical, Flex 3 Cookbook contains more than 300 proven recipes for developing in....
Release Date 2008/05 -
Author Rajesh Lal
A one-stop resource for each aspect of designing and developing Sidebar gadgets, perfect for anyone who wants to create killer gadgetsExplores one of the super cool features new to Windows Vista -- the SidebarIt is a one-stop resource for each aspect of designing an....
Release Date 2008/05 -
Author Charles Collins , Robert Cooper
If you're a web developer, you know that you can use Ajax to add rich, user-friendly, dynamic features to your applications. With the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), a new Ajax tool from Google that automatically converts Java to JavaScript, you can build Ajax applicati....
Release Date 2008/05 -
Just Enough Web Programming with XHTML™, PHP®, and MySQL®
Author Guy W. Lecky-Thompson
Just Enough Web Programming with XHTML, PHP, and MySQL provides a layperson's guide to web programming for the casual web designer, student, or serious professional. The book explains how to build powerful interactive sites, whether you're designing a bulletin boa....
Release Date 2008/04