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jQuery Cookbook
Edited by Cody Lindley
November 2009
$34.99 USD
Getting started with the jQuery library is easy, but it can take years to fully realize its breadth and depth; jQuery Cookbook shortens the learning curve considerably. You'll learn patterns… Read more.
RESTful Java with JAX-RS
By Bill Burke
November 2009
$39.99 USD
Learn how to design and develop distributed web services in Java using RESTful architectural principals and the JAX-RS specification in Java EE 6. With this hands-on reference, you'll focus on… Read more.
SEO Warrior
By John I. Jerkovic
November 2009
$44.99 USD
How can you make it easier for people to find your website? And how can you convert casual visitors into active users? SEO Warrior shows you how it's done through… Read more.
Fancy Form Design
By Jina Bolton, Tim Connell, Derek Featherstone
October 2009
$29.95 USD
Forms' - is there any other word that strikes as much fear into the hearts of web designers? Not any more ... Fancy Form Design is a practical hands-on, full… Read more.
Designing Social Interfaces
By Christian Crumlish, Erin Malone
September 2009
$49.99 USD
From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the… Read more.
The Douglas Crockford Javascript Master Class
By Douglas Crockford
September 2009
$99.99 USD
In this Master Class video, JavaScript expert Douglas Crockford will scrape away the language's bad features to reveal all the good ideas that make JavaScript an outstanding object-oriented programming language… Read more.
Mobile Design and Development
By Brian Fling
August 2009
$34.99 USD
Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide, yet little information is available for designing and developing mobile applications. Mobile Design and Development fills that void with… Read more.
The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks
, Third Edition
By Rachel Andrew
July 2009
$39.95 USD
The most complete question and answer book on CSS presents 101 fully tested, cross-browser compatible solutions to the most common questions and problems. Read more.
Up and Running with Joomla
, Second Edition
By R. Allen Wyke, Skip Matheny
July 2009
$9.99 USD
Need to launch a feature-rich website quickly where you have one or more people authoring the content? Want to use a powerful, robust, and scalable Content Management System (CMS) you… Read more.
Programming the Semantic Web
By Toby Segaran, Colin Evans, Jamie Taylor
July 2009
$39.99 USD
With this book, the promise of the semantic web -- in which machines can find, share, and combine data on the Web -- is not just a technical possibility, but… Read more.
Complete Web Monitoring
By Alistair Croll, Sean Power
June 2009
$49.99 USD
Complete Web Monitoring demonstrates how to measure every aspect of your web presence -- including analytics, backend performance, usability, communities, customer feedback, and competitive analysis -- whether you're running an… Read more.
Even Faster Web Sites
By Steve Souders
June 2009
$34.99 USD
Performance is critical to the success of any web site. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help… Read more.
Android Application Development
By Rick Rogers, John Lombardo, Zigurd Mednieks, Blake Meike
May 2009
$39.99 USD
This practical book provides the concepts and code you need to develop software with Android, the open-source platform for cell phones and mobile devices that's generating enthusiasm across the industry.… Read more.
Web 2.0 Architectures
By James Governor, Dion Hinchcliffe, Duane Nickull
May 2009
$34.99 USD
This illuminating book puts substance behind Web 2.0. Using several high-profile Web 2.0 companies as examples, authors Duane Nickull, Dion Hinchcliffe, and James Governor have distilled the core design patterns… Read more.
Agile Web Development with Rails
, Third Edition
By Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson
March 2009
$43.95 USD
Rails 2.2 brings hundreds of improvements, including greatly expanded support for RESTful applications, new generator options, and so on. This Third Edition of the Jolt Award-winning book shows you a… Read more.
Colin Moock's Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend Course 2
By Colin Moock
Directed by Kirk Walter
March 2009
$129.99 USD
Pack your bags for the Lost ActionScript Weekend. In Course 2 of this unique two-part DVD training series, you'll learn intermediate to advanced ActionScript 3.0 programming concepts. World-renowned ActionScript guru… Read more.
Colin Moock's Lost ActionScript 3.0 Weekend Course 1
By Colin Moock
Directed by Kirk Walter
March 2009
$129.99 USD
Pack your bags for the Lost ActionScript Weekend. In Course 1 of this unique two-part DVD training series, you'll learn how to program in ActionScript 3.0, starting with the basics… Read more.
The Art of Lean Software Development
By Curt Hibbs, Steve Jewett, Mike Sullivan
January 2009
$34.99 USD
This succinct book explains how to you can apply the practices of Lean software development to dramatically increase productivity and quality. Lean principles are being applied successfully to product design,… Read more.
Enterprise Development with Flex: Rough Cuts Version
By Yakov Fain, Anatole Tartakovsky, Victor Rasputnis
Rough Cuts Release: January 2009
Print Book Release: March 2010
$54.99 USD
Learn what's required to build production-quality Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) for the enterprise. Enterprise Development with Flex goes well beyond Flex tutorials and product documentation to suggest best practices, compare… Read more.
Head First Web Design
By Ethan Watrall, Jeff Siarto
December 2008
$49.99 USD
Want to know how to make your web pages look beautiful, communicate your message effectively, and guide visitors through your website with ease? Whether you're building a personal blog or… Read more.
Head First PHP & MySQL
By Lynn Beighley, Michael Morrison
December 2008
$44.99 USD
If you're ready to create web pages more complex than what you can build with HTML and CSS, Head First PHP & MySQL is the ultimate learning guide to building… Read more.
The Principles of Successful Freelancing
By Miles Burke
December 2008
$34.95 USD
An inspirational and instructional guide to setting up business as a freelancer. Readers will gain the confidence, and the knowledge, that they will need to succeed. Read more.
Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 2nd Edition
By Ian Lloyd
November 2008
$29.95 USD
Want to learn web design from scratch? This book introduces you to HTML and CSS as you follow along with the author, step-by-step, to create a fully functional web site.… Read more.
Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails
By Maik Schmidt
November 2008
$38.95 USD
Every web site project is really an enterprise integration project in disguise. Ruby on Rails makes it easier than ever to create complex and good-looking web sites, but there's plenty… Read more.
Stripes
By Frederic Daoud
October 2008
$36.95 USD
Tired of complicated Java web frameworks that just get in your way? Stripes is a lightweight, practical framework that lets you write lean and mean code without a bunch of… Read more.
Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong!
By Rachel Andrew, Kevin Yank
October 2008
$29.95 USD
Internet Explorer 8 changes the Web for the better. This essential guide will teach web developers to adapt their code. Read more.
Web Security Testing Cookbook
By Paco Hope, Ben Walther
October 2008
$39.99 USD
Among the tests you perform on web applications, security testing is perhaps the most important, yet it's often the most neglected. The recipes in the Web Security Testing Cookbook demonstrate… Read more.
Desktop GIS
By Gary E. Sherman
October 2008
$34.95 USD
Interested in Open Source GIS mapping software but don't know how to get started? Desktop GIS provides answers to these and other questions for both the novice and experienced GIS… Read more.
Apache 2 Pocket Reference
By Andrew Ford
October 2008
$14.99 USD
Apache Pocket Reference offers essential information to help you configure and maintain the Apache web server quickly, with brief explanations that get directly to the point. The second edition covers… Read more.
Build Your Own ASP.NET 3.5 Website Using C# & VB
, Third Edition
By Zak Ruvalcaba, Cristian Darie
September 2008
$44.95 USD
Third edition covers ASP.NET 3.5 . The only beginner's book on the market that allows readers to choose between two languages with which to develop their applications with: C# & VB… Read more.
FBML Essentials.
By Jesse Stay
July 2008
$29.99 USD
Do you have an idea for a Facebook application? With FBML Essentials, you'll learn how to build it quickly using the Facebook Markup Language (FBML) and other easy-to-use tools in… Read more.
JavaScript: The Missing Manual
By David Sawyer McFarland
July 2008
$39.99 USD
This book from bestselling author David McFarland teaches you how to use JavaScript in sophisticated ways -- even if you have little or no programming experience. Once you the master… Read more.
The Productive Programmer
By Neal Ford
July 2008
$39.99 USD
Anyone who develops software for a living needs a proven way to produce it better, faster, and cheaper. The Productive Programmer offers critical timesaving and productivity tools that you can… Read more.
The Search Engine Marketing Kit, 2E
By Dan Thies, Dave Davies
May 2008
$197.00 USD
Flex 3 Cookbook
By Joshua Noble, Todd Anderson
May 2008
$44.99 USD
This highly practical book contains more than 300 proven recipes for developing interactive Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 sites. You'll find everything from Flex basics and working with menus… Read more.
JavaScript: The Good Parts
By Douglas Crockford
May 2008
$29.99 USD
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… Read more.
Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date
By Christian Wenz
April 2008
$34.99 USD
Design rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web using Silverlight 2, Microsoft's hot runtime application. Available only as an ebook, this concise, easy-to-understand introduction provides complete step-by-step instructions for using… Read more.
Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide
By Amy Shuen
April 2008
$24.99 USD
Web 2.0 makes headlines, but how does it make money? This concise guide explains what's different about Web 2.0 and how those differences can improve the bottom line. Whether you're… Read more.
Programming Amazon Web Services
By James Murty
March 2008
$49.99 USD
With this book, you'll learn how companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to "rent" computing power, data storage and bandwidth on Amazon's vast network infrastructure. Programming Amazon… Read more.
Ajax: The Definitive Guide
By Anthony T. Holdener III
January 2008
$49.99 USD
Ajax builds on older technologies and techniques but reaches a tipping point where the results are new. This book gives you a boost to this next stage of web application… Read more.
Enterprise Application Development with Flex
By EffectiveUI Inc., Tony Hillerson
January 2008
$19.99 USD
This Short Cut takes a look at a set of tools and technologies that work together to allow developers to build Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) quickly and easily on top… Read more.
Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5
By Omar Al Zabir
December 2007
$44.99 USD
In this exciting era of Web 2.0 development, Dojo pushes the boundaries of the possible with snazzy user interfaces that can be quickly implemented and easily maintained. This comprehensive overview to creating object-oriented widgets with Dojo… Read more.
The Art & Science of JavaScript
By Michael Mahemoff, Cameron Adams, James Edwards, Dan Webb, Simon Willison, Ara Pehlivanian, Christian Heilmann
December 2007
$39.95 USD
A compilation of seven spectacular and inspiration JavaScript projects, presented in full color and written by a renowned group of industry leaders. Read more.
Advanced Rails
By Brad Ediger
December 2007
$34.99 USD
This is the book for experienced Rails developers who want to go to the next level with this web development framework, with an in-depth look at techniques for dealing with… Read more.
Apache Cookbook
, Second Edition
By Rich Bowen, Ken Coar
December 2007
$34.99 USD
The new edition of the Apache Cookbook offers you updated solutions to the problems you're likely to encounter with Apache. Thoroughly updated for Apache versions 2.0 and 2.2, this book… Read more.
Head First JavaScript
By Michael Morrison
December 2007
$39.99 USD
Want to make the leap from writing HTML and CSS web pages and create dynamic web applications? Want to take your web skills to the next level? It sounds like… Read more.
Visualizing Data
By Ben Fry
December 2007
$39.99 USD
How you can take advantage of data that you might otherwise never use? With the help of a downloadable programming environment, this book helps you represent data accurately on the… Read more.
Tomcat: The Definitive Guide
, Second Edition
By Jason Brittain, Ian F. Darwin
October 2007
$39.99 USD
It takes a book as versatile as its subject to cover Apache Tomcat. This book is a valuable reference for administrators and webmasters, a useful guide for programmers who want… Read more.
CSS Pocket Reference
, Third Edition
By Eric A. Meyer
October 2007
$9.99 USD
The third edition of the CSS Pocket Reference has been completely revised and updated to reflect the latest Cascading Style Sheet specifications in CSS 2.1. This indispensable little reference covers… Read more.
Getting Started with Pyparsing
By Paul McGuire
October 2007
$9.99 USD
Need to extract data from a text file or a web page? Or do you want to make your application more flexible with user-defined commands or search strings? Do regular expressions and lex/yacc make your… Read more.
Introducing Silverlight 1.1
By Todd Anglin
October 2007
$9.99 USD
In this Short Cut, we'll take a close look at Silverlight 1.1 and bring clarity to this bleeding-edge technology. First we'll take a broad look at the new concept of Rich Internet Applications and… Read more.
Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX
By Jesse Liberty, Dan Hurwitz, Brian MacDonald
September 2007
$44.99 USD
This book teaches web developers how to quickly build engaging and interactive web sites and applications of professional quality using Microsoft's latest web development tools. You'll not only learn to… Read more.
Flex 3 Early Evaluation: Assessing Flex and Your Project Needs
By EffectiveUI Inc., Anthony Franco
September 2007
$9.99 USD
Evaluating any new technology can be a challenge. This Short Cut is designed to help web application developers (and their team managers) understand if Flex is the right technology for… Read more.
High Performance Web Sites
By Steve Souders
September 2007
$29.99 USD
Want to speed up your web site? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 20% to 25% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders,… Read more.
Google Analytics
By Justin Cutroni
August 2007
$9.99 USD
Web analytics is the process of measuring your web site, analyzing the data, and making changes based on the analysis. Many businesses are just starting to learn how they can… Read more.
JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook
, Second Edition
By Danny Goodman
August 2007
$44.99 USD
In today's Web 2.0 world, JavaScript and Dynamic HTML are at the center of the hot new approach to designing highly interactive pages on the client side. With this environment… Read more.
Learning Flash Media Server 2
By William Sanders
July 2007
$19.99 USD
This unique PDF-only book is the ideal primer for web developers just getting started with Flash Media Server 2 (FMS2) and Adobe's Real-Time Messaging Protocol for streaming media, as well… Read more.
Securing Ajax Applications
By Christopher Wells
July 2007
$49.99 USD
Ajax applications should be open yet secure. Far too often security is added as an afterthought. Potential flaws need to be identified and addressed right away. This book explores Ajax… Read more.
Implementing BEA Portal 92
By Mark Kolb
July 2007
$9.99 USD
Portals have come into their own in the last several years. Over this time, I have seen portal technology become the latest expression of businesses trying to organize the torrent… Read more.
Essential ActionScript 3.0
By Colin Moock
June 2007
$54.99 USD
More than two years in the making, ActionScript 3.0 presents perhaps the most substantial upgrade to Flash's programming language ever. The enhancements to ActionScript's performance, feature set, ease of use,… Read more.
Simply JavaScript
By Kevin Yank, Cameron Adams
June 2007
$39.95 USD
Are you ready to step beyond HTML? Perfect for first-time JavaScript coders, the authors Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams will teach you JavaScript basics from the ground up in this… Read more.
Adding Ajax
By Shelley Powers
June 2007
$34.99 USD
Ajax can bring many advantages to an existing web application without forcing you to redo the whole thing. This book explains how you can add Ajax to enhance, rather than… Read more.
An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium
By C. Titus Brown, Gheorghe Gheorghiu, Jason Huggins
June 2007
$9.99 USD
This Short Cut is an introduction to building automated web tests using two tools, twill and Selenium. twill is a simple web scripting language that can be used to automate web tests, while Selenium… Read more.
Flex Early Evaluation: Assessing Flex and Your Project Needs
By EffectiveUI Inc.
May 2007
$9.99 USD
Evaluating any new technology can be a challenge. This Short Cut is designed to help web application developers (and their team managers) understand if Flex is the right technology for their company or client. Although… Read more.
Rails on Windows
By Curt Hibbs, Brian Hogan
May 2007
$9.99 USD
It's no secret that the entire Ruby on Rails core team uses OS X as their preferred development environment. Because of this, it is very easy to find authoritative information on the web about using… Read more.
RESTful Web Services
By Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby
May 2007
$39.99 USD
You've built web sites that can be used by humans. But can you also build web sites that are usable by machines? That's where the future lies, and that's what… Read more.
Programming Firefox
By Kenneth C. Feldt
April 2007
$59.99 USD
This is your guide to building Internet applications and user interfaces with the Mozilla component framework, which is best known for the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client. Programming… Read more.
Programming Flex 2
By Chafic Kazoun, Joey Lott
April 2007
$54.99 USD
Programming Flex 2 discusses the Flex framework in context. The authors introduce features with practical and useful examples that tell the reader not only how, but also the reasons why… Read more.
Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)
By Phlip Plumlee
April 2007
$9.99 USD
The World Wide Web has come a long way from static HTML pages. Today's developers enforce and enjoy standards, and we have built the web's primitive tools into advanced libraries,… Read more.
No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology
Compiled by Neal Ford
April 2007
$32.95 USD
The No Fluff, Just Stuff Symposium Series is a traveling conference series for software developers visiting 27 cities a year. No Fluff has put on over 75 symposia throughout the… Read more.
Release It!
By Michael T. Nygard
March 2007
$34.95 USD
Everything changes after Release 1.0. The consultants leave; key developers get reassigned to new projects, and the wild and free environment of development gets replaced by change review boards and… Read more.
Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers
By Michael Schrenk
March 2007
$39.95 USD
The internet is bigger and better than what a mere brower allows. Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers is for developers and business managers looking to unlock the competitive advantages of… Read more.
The Art and Science of CSS
By Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton, David Johnson, Steve Smith, Jonathan Snook
March 2007
$39.95 USD
CSS-based design doesn't need to be boring. The Art & Science of CSS, brings together a talented collection of designers who will show you how to take the building blocks… Read more.
Introduction to Flex 2
By Roger Braunstein
February 2007
$9.99 USD
This Short Cut is all about getting up and running with Adobe Flex 2; a perfect title would be "(Almost) Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know about Flex 2 But… Read more.
Ajax on Java
By Steven Douglas Olson
February 2007
$29.99 USD
This practical guide shows you how to make your Java web applications more responsive and dynamic by incorporating new Ajaxian features: suggestion lists, drag-and-drop, and more. Java developers can choose… Read more.
Rails for Java Developers
By Stuart Halloway, Justin Gehtland
February 2007
$34.95 USD
If you are a Java programmer, you shouldn't have to start at the very beginning! You already have deep experience with the design issues that inspired Rails, and can use… Read more.
Lead Generation on the Web
By Thomas Myer
February 2007
$27.99 USD
Are you a small-business owner, consultant, or marketing manager for a big company selling an intangible service or hard-to-understand product? Does it take a while to gain your customer's trust… Read more.
What's New in Apache Web Server 2.2?
By Rich Bowen
February 2007
$9.99 USD
What's New in Apache Web Server 2.2? shows you all the new features you'll know to set up and administer the Apache 2.2 web server. Learn how to take advantage… Read more.
ActionScript 3.0 Programming: Overview, Getting Started, and Examples of New Concepts
By William Sanders
January 2007
$9.99 USD
This document employs reusable code examples to demonstrate the basic functionality of ActionScript 3.0 in the following topic areas: Packages and Classes; Display Programming; Movie Clips and Buttons; and Basic… Read more.
Rails Cookbook
By Rob Orsini
January 2007
$39.99 USD
This book is packed with the solutions you need to be a proficient developer with Rails, the leading framework for building the new generation of Web 2.0 applications. Recipes range… Read more.
Ajax on Rails
By Scott Raymond
January 2007
$39.99 USD
Learn to build dynamic, interactive web applications using the two most important approaches to web development today: Ajax and the phenomenally efficient Ruby on Rails platform. This book teaches you… Read more.
Google Web Toolkit for Ajax
By Bruce W. Perry
January 2007
$9.99 USD
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a nifty framework that Java programmers can use to create Ajax applications. The GWT allows you to create an Ajax application in your favorite… Read more.
Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
, Third Edition
By Danny Goodman
December 2006
$59.99 USD
Packed with information on the latest web specifications and browser features, this new edition is your ultimate one-stop resource for HTML, XHTML, CSS, Document Object Model (DOM), and JavaScript development.… Read more.
The Book of JavaScript
, Second Edition
By thau!
December 2006
$39.95 USD
The Book of JavaScript teaches readers how to add interactivity, animation, and other tricks to their web sites with JavaScript. Rather than provide a series of cut-and-paste scripts, thau! takes… Read more.
Capistrano and the Rails Application Lifecycle
By Tom Mornini, Marc Loy
December 2006
$9.99 USD
Learn how to make your Rails deployments pain-free with Capistrano! This Short Cut shows you how to use Capistrano to automate the deployment of your Rails applications. It teaches you… Read more.
Releasing CSS
By Christopher Schmitt
November 2006
$9.99 USD
In an industry that communicates with terms such as "Browser Hell" and "browser wars," a web designer can be excused for having some anxiety over Microsoft's recent upgrade of Internet… Read more.
Prototype and Scriptaculous: Taking the Pain out of JavaScript
By Chris Angus
November 2006
$9.99 USD
This Short Cut demonstrates how to use Prototype for a wide range of tasks, including event handling, DOM processing, string and form process, and Ajax communications. It explores Scriptaculous' visual… Read more.
Prototype Quick Reference
By Scott Raymond
November 2006
$9.99 USD
This short cut provides a complete quick reference to the Prototype JavaScript framework. Prototype is an open-source library that is particularly useful to developers of dynamic Ajax applications, and to… Read more.
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
, Third Edition
By Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld
November 2006
$39.99 USD
In this post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups, well-planned information architecture has never been more essential. This classic primer shows information architects, designers, and web site developers… Read more.
Mongrel
By Angel Dobbs-Sciortino
November 2006
$9.99 USD
This shortcut teaches you how to use Mongrel, the new high-performance web application container for Rails. It starts with basic setup and installation, but goes well beyond the basics, showing… Read more.
CSS: The Definitive Guide
, Third Edition
By Eric A. Meyer
November 2006
$44.99 USD
CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition, provides you with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of all aspects of CSS 2.1. Updated to cover Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's… Read more.
How to Build an RSS 2.0 Feed
By Mark Woodman
November 2006
$7.99 USD
The little orange feed icons are everywhere on the web. From search engines to shopping sites to blogs, Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0) has become one of the hottest web… Read more.
Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB
, Second Edition
By Cristian Darie, Zak Ruvalcaba
October 2006
$44.95 USD
Learn how to build impressive ASP.NET 2.0 web sites in both C# and VB from scratch. Using a practical step-by-step approach, the authors introduce the ASP.NET framework, teach you about… Read more.
Getting Acquainted with OPML
By Amy Bellinger
October 2006
$7.99 USD
You've put off figuring out what Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) is all about and what it can do, right? We'll bring you into the picture quickly with 14 wide-ranging uses… Read more.
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide
, Sixth Edition
By Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy
October 2006
$49.99 USD
Put everthing you need to know about HTML and XHTML at your fingertips. For nearly a decade, hundreds of thousands of web developers have turned to HTML & XHTML: The… Read more.
CSS Cookbook
, Second Edition
By Christopher Schmitt
October 2006
$44.99 USD
For those all-too-common dilemmas that crop up with each project, CSS Cookbook provides hundreds of practical examples with CSS code recipes that you can use immediately to format your web… Read more.
ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
By Joey Lott, Darron Schall, Keith Peters
October 2006
$39.99 USD
Well before Ajax and Windows Presentation Foundation, Macromedia Flash provided the first method for building "rich" web pages. Now, Adobe is making Flash a full-fledged development environment, and learning ActionScript… Read more.
ASP.NET 2.0 Black Book
By Belmaks Solutions Content Team, Dreamtech Software Development Team
October 2006
$49.99 USD
The ASP.Net 2.0 Black Book will help readers greatly harness the power of Microsoft's powerful and flexible ASP .Net 2.0 to develop and maintain Web-Based applications and solutions. The book… Read more.
Programming Atlas
By Christian Wenz
September 2006
$34.99 USD
Programming Atlas is not just another "drag and drop" ASP.NET book, but one that teaches you the fundamental Ajax technologies that make Atlas work. You'll begin with a tour of… Read more.
Using Microformats
By Brian Suda
September 2006
$9.99 USD
Microformats let you share structured information in HTML web pages. Although the information is visible to human readers--as it should be--software can also extract structured information. This Short Cut is… Read more.
Dynamic Apache with Ajax and JSON
By Tracy Brown
September 2006
$9.99 USD
Want to make your Ajax apps more dynamic? This Short Cut shows you how. It covers: Using the Apache 2.2.x framework to build MVC applications incorporating design patterns Building custom Apache… Read more.
Scripting InDesign with JavaScript
By Peter Kahrel
August 2006
$9.99 USD
InDesign provides a powerful set of tools for producing beautiful documents. While you can certainly do all your work by hand through InDesign's graphical interface, there are many times when… Read more.
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
, Fifth Edition
By David Flanagan
August 2006
$49.99 USD
The indispensable reference for JavaScript programmers since 1996, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition is completely revised and expanded to cover JavaScript as it is used in today's Web 2.0 applications. Read more.
Deliver First Class Web Sites
By Shirley Kaiser
July 2006
$39.95 USD
Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists is the only organized and easy-to-use compilation of guidelines, checklists and tips for building modern, best-practice Websites. Drawing on dozens of books,… Read more.
FileMaker 8.5: Integrating the Web
By Susan Prosser
July 2006
$7.99 USD
FileMaker Pro, famed for power and ease of use, has added a suite of new features that can seriously boost your database productivity. This tutorial helps you take full advantage… Read more.
Ajax Design Patterns
By Michael Mahemoff
June 2006
$44.99 USD
This handy reference reveals how Ajax patterns can vastly improve your web development projects. It does so by investigating how others have successfully dealt with conflicting design principles, and then… Read more.
Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications
By Matthew Eernisse
June 2006
$39.95 USD
Build Your Own Ajax Web Applications is a practical, step-by-step guide to bringing next-generation interactivity to your web sites today. This book will help you build responsive, professional, robust Ajax… Read more.
RJS Templates for Rails
By Cody Fauser
June 2006
$9.99 USD
RJS templates are an exciting and powerful new type of template added to Rails 1.1. Unlike conventional Rails templates that generate HTML or XML, RJS templates generate JavaScript code that… Read more.
Take Control of iWeb
By Steve Sande
June 2006
$10.00 USD
Learn how to make useful, attractive Web sites with iWeb! Apple's iWeb aims to help you build a Web site quickly and easily, but if you've found yourself stuck on the… Read more.
Your Life in Web Apps
By Giles Turnbull
June 2006
$5.99 USD
Have you dreamed of a simpler life where web apps and a browser meet all of your computing needs? All you need is a network connection. In this PDF Giles… Read more.
ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel Control
By Matt Gibbs, Bertrand Le Roy
May 2006
$9.99 USD
This newly revised Short Cut teaches you how to build richer and more interactive Ajax-style web pages using ASP.NET AJAX, Microsoft's Ajax framework for ASP.NET 2.0. The ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel… Read more.
Search Engine Optimization
By Harold Davis
May 2006
$9.99 USD
SEO--short for Search Engine Optimization--is the art, craft, and science of driving web traffic to web sites.Web traffic is food, drink, and oxygen--in short, life itself--to any web-based business. Whether… Read more.
Building Scalable Web Sites
By Cal Henderson
May 2006
$39.99 USD
This comprehensive guide covers the design of software and hardware systems for web applications. Using scores of examples and leading-edge tips, it details proven methods for scaling web applications to… Read more.
HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference
, Third Edition
By Jennifer Niederst Robbins
May 2006
$12.99 USD
You're ready to make the move to much cleaner standards-compliant web design, but how do you keep all those HTML tags and CSS values straight? This handy pocket guide offers… Read more.
HTML Utopia
, Second Edition
By Rachel Andrew
April 2006
$39.95 USD
HTML Utopia is for anyone who wants to use Cascading Style Sheets for layout, which allow for faster webpage downloads, easier site maintenance, and faster redesigns. The second edition of… Read more.
Flash 8 Cookbook
By Joey Lott
April 2006
$44.99 USD
This practical, nuts-and-bolts toolkit puts theory into practice with ready-made answers to common Flash development questions. It's the perfect resource for Flash developers, as well as designers who are ready… Read more.
Ajax Hacks
By Bruce W. Perry
March 2006
$29.99 USD
Want to build next-generation web applications today? This book can show you how. A smart collection of 80 insider tips and tricks, Ajax Hacks covers the finer points of Asynchronous… Read more.
The JavaScript Anthology
By Cameron Adams, James Edwards
March 2006
$39.95 USD
The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a compilation of customizable solutions to the most common JavaScript questions and problems, including solutions using Ajax. All the code… Read more.
Web Site Cookbook
By Doug Addison
February 2006
$39.99 USD
This handy guide provides a wide range of solutions to real-life problems that come up regularly when creating and growing a website. With recipes that teach both routine and advanced… Read more.
ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook
, Second Edition
By Michael A. Kittel, Geoffrey T. LeBlond
December 2005
$54.95 USD
Completely revised for ASP.NET 2.0, this new edition of the best-selling ASP.NET Cookbook has everything you need to go from beginning to advanced Windows-based web site development using Microsoft's popular… Read more.
Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
By Elisabeth Robson, Eric Freeman
December 2005
$39.99 USD
Tired of reading HTML books that only make sense after you're an expert? Then it's about time you picked up Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML and really learn… Read more.
What Are Syndication Feeds
By Shelley Powers
December 2005
$7.95 USD
Syndication feeds have become a standard tool on the Web. But when you enter the world of syndicated content, you're often faced with the question of what is the "proper"… Read more.
Designing Interfaces
By Jenifer Tidwell
November 2005
$49.95 USD
This convenient resource offers advice on creating user-friendly interface designs--whether they're delivered on the Web, a CD, or a "smart" devices like a cell phone. Solutions to common UI design… Read more.
Greasemonkey Hacks
By Mark Pilgrim
November 2005
$24.95 USD
Greasemonkey--the new Firefox extension that allows you to write scripts that alter the web pages you visit--allows you to alter site appearance, fix bugs, or even combine data from different… Read more.
Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website Using Dreamweaver 8
By Rachel Andrew
September 2005
$39.95 USD
Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website with Dreamweaver is written for any user of Dreamweaver MX who wants to create standards compliant and fully accessible websites. Web standards are the… Read more.
Ambient Findability
By Peter Morville
September 2005
$29.95 USD
A thought-provoking book that describes the future of information and connectivity, examining how the melding of innovations like GIS and the Internet will impact the global marketplace and society at… Read more.
Web Site Measurement Hacks
By Eric T. Peterson
August 2005
$24.95 USD
This convenient guidebook helps organizations and individual operators alike make the most of their Web investment by providing tools, techniques, and strategies for measuring their site's overall effectiveness. You'll learn… Read more.
No Nonsense XML Web Development With PHP
By Thomas Myer
July 2005
$39.95 USD
A practical and concise book that teaches XML from the ground up. This tutorial style presents various XML methodologies and techniques in an easy to understand way, whilst building a… Read more.
ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook
By Wei-Meng Lee
June 2005
$29.95 USD
To bring you up to speed with ASP.NET 2.0, this practical book offers nearly 50 hands-on projects. Each one explores a new feature of the language, with emphasis on changes… Read more.
DHTML Utopia
By Stuart Langridge
June 2005
$39.95 USD
DHTML Utopia is a unique book about using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS together to create extremely usable, standards-compliant, and modern websites as well as updating your current designs to enhance… Read more.
Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom
By Ben Hammersley
April 2005
$39.95 USD
This step-by-step guide offers bloggers, web developers, and programmers an understanding of content syndication and the technologies that make it possible. It highlights all the new features of RSS 2.0,… Read more.
Firefox Hacks
By Nigel McFarlane
March 2005
$24.95 USD
Firefox Hacks is ideal for power users who want to maximize the effectiveness of Firefox, the next-generation web browser that is quickly gaining in popularity. This highly-focused book offers all… Read more.
Small Web Sites, Great Results
By Doug Addison
November 2004
$29.99 USD
You will learn to construct a holistic Web presence that garners real results with techniques to get the hits from search engines, using powerful design processes. In addition, a simple… Read more.
The CSS Anthology
By Rachel Andrew
November 2004
$39.95 USD
Make your site easier to maintain and faster to load with Cascading Style Sheets. This book answers the 101 most common CSS questions about everything from styling text to using… Read more.
Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP and MySQL
, Third Edition
By Kevin Yank
October 2004
$39.95 USD
A practical guide for first-time users of PHP & MySQL that teaches readers by creating a fully working Content Management System, Shopping Cart and other real-world applications. This bestseller has… Read more.
The Web Programmer's Desk Reference
By Lázaro Issi Cohen, Joseph Issi Cohen
September 2004
$59.95 USD
The Web Programmer's Desk Reference is an all-in-one reference to the core web programming languages: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Following a short DHTML primer, the heart of the book is… Read more.
PDF Hacks
By Sid Steward
August 2004
$24.95 USD
PDF Hacks is ideal for anyone who works with PDFs on a regular basis. Learn how to create PDF documents that are far more powerful than simple representations of paper… Read more.
JavaScript Pocket Reference
By David Flanagan
June 2004
$4.99 USD
Build Your Own ASP.NET Website Using C# and VB.NET
By Zak Ruvalcaba
April 2004
$44.95 USD
A tutorial style book for absolute beginners that draws on practical examples, straightforward explanations and ready-to-use code samples in both C# and VB.NET. This book will help you get a… Read more.
Squid: The Definitive Guide
By Duane Wessels
January 2004
$44.95 USD
Squid is the most popular Web caching software in use today, and it works on a variety of platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. Written by Duane Wessels, the creator… Read more.
ASP.NET in a Nutshell
, Second Edition
By G. Andrew Duthie, Matthew MacDonald
August 2003
$59.99 USD
Updated for Visual Studio .NET 2003, the 2nd edition of this book includes fresh information on application and web service development, custom controls, data access, security, deployment, and error handling,… Read more.
Webmaster in a Nutshell
, Third Edition
By Stephen Spainhour, Robert Eckstein
December 2002
$34.95 USD
Webmaster in a Nutshell is a concise and portable quick reference guide that distills an immense amount of information on several languages and technologies into one compact book. It puts… Read more.
JavaScript Pocket Reference
, Second Edition
By David Flanagan
October 2002
$9.95 USD
The JavaScript Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition, provides a complete overview of the core JavaScript language and client-side scripting environment, as well as quick-reference material on core and client-side objects, methods,… Read more.
Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason
By Dave Rolsky, Ken Williams
October 2002
$34.95 USD
This book shows you how to create large, complex, dynamically driven web sites that look good and are a snap to maintain. You'll learn how to visualize multiple Mason-based solutions… Read more.
HTTP: The Definitive Guide
By David Gourley, Brian Totty
With Marjorie Sayer, Sailu Reddy, Anshu Aggarwal
September 2002
$44.95 USD
Web technology has become the foundation for all sorts of critical networked applications and far-reaching methods of data exchange, and beneath it all is a fundamental protocol: HyperText Transfer Protocol,… Read more.
Creating Applications with Mozilla
By David Boswell, Brian King, Ian Oeschger, Pete Collins, Eric Murphy
September 2002
$39.95 USD
Mozilla is not just a browser. Mozilla is also a framework that allows developers to create cross-platform applications. Creating Applications with Mozilla provides step-by-step information about how you can create… Read more.
Essential Blogging
By Cory Doctorow, Rael Dornfest, J. Scott Johnson, Shelley Powers, Benjamin Trott, Mena G. Trott
August 2002
$39.99 USD
With weblogs or "blogs" exploding all over the Web, the only thing lacking for power users and developers is detailed advice on how choose, install, and run blogging software. Written… Read more.
Web Performance Tuning
, Second Edition
By Patrick Killelea
March 2002
$44.95 USD
Web Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition is about getting the best possible performance from the Web. This second edition has been significantly expanded, including new chapters on Web site architecture, security,… Read more.
Running Weblogs with Slash
By chromatic , Brian Aker, David Krieger
January 2002
$39.99 USD
Slash is the open-source software system that drives the hugely popular Slashdot web site and many others. Slash implements the kind of web site that has come to be called… Read more.
Designing with JavaScript
, Second Edition
By Nick Heinle, Bill Pena
January 2002
$34.95 USD
The second edition of Designing with JavaScript shows you how to create dynamic, interactive web pages, using image rollovers, pop-up windows, auto-scrolling frames, intelligent forms, and sophisticated Dynamic HTML effects.… Read more.
Perl for Web Site Management
By John Callender
October 2001
$34.95 USD
Learn to do everyday tasks on your web site using Perl--even if you have no programming background. Perl for Web Site Management shows how to write CGI scripts, incorporate search… Read more.
Web Caching
By Duane Wessels
June 2001
$39.95 USD
A properly designed web cache, by reducing network traffic and improving access times to popular web sites, is a boon to network administrators and web users alike. This book hands… Read more.
Developing ASP Components
, Second Edition
By Shelley Powers
March 2001
$49.95 USD
Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) continue to grow in popularity with web developers--especially as web applications replace web pages. However, the techniques and pitfalls of developing ASP components are not… Read more.
Designing Active Server Pages
By Scott Mitchell
September 2000
$34.99 USD
Designing Active Server Pages is written for those who have already mastered the basics of ASP application development and are ready to move to the next level--such as creating reusable… Read more.
XHTML Black Book
By Steve Holzner
September 2000
$59.99 USD
Covers XHTML programming thoroughly-from the essentials up through the issues of security, from XML to extending XHTML by creating your own tags. Reveals every XHTML element and attribute in detail… Read more.
ASP in a Nutshell
, Second Edition
By A. Keyton Weissinger
July 2000
$39.99 USD
ASP in a Nutshell provides the high-quality reference documentation that web application developers really need to create effective Active Server Pages. It focuses on how features are used in a… Read more.
HTTP Pocket Reference
By Clinton Wong
June 2000
$9.95 USD
All web programmers, administrators, and application developers need to be familiar with HTTP in order to work effectively. The HTTP Pocket Reference provides a solid conceptual foundation of HTTP, and… Read more.
HTML Black Book
By Steve Holzner
May 2000
$59.99 USD
Covers HTML essentials, then expands into text, images, rules, links, lists, tables, frames, and adding multimedia to Web pages. It discusses XML, dynamic HTML, JavaScript, Java, and Perl CGI programming… Read more.
JavaScript Application Cookbook
By Jerry Bradenbaugh
October 1999
$54.99 USD
JavaScript Application Cookbook literally hands the Webmaster a set of ready-to-go, client-side JavaScript applications with thorough documentation to help them understand and extend the applications. By providing such a set… Read more.
Learning VBScript
By Paul Lomax
July 1997
$39.95 USD
This definitive guide shows web developers how to take full advantage of client-side scripting with the VBScript language. In addition to basic language features, it covers the Internet Explorer object… Read more.
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The Hardware Revolution
Issue 6 of Release 2.0 — In this new issue of Release 2.0, we consider the state of the open source hardware products and business models that are emerging. It's the future of manufacturing — and early signs of it are here now. Learn more.
Radar Web 2.0 Report
Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices — What does Web 2.0 mean for your company? Get the latest on the why, what, who, and how of Web 2.0 in this O'Reilly Radar Report. Read more.
A Perfect 10 of 10!
Slashdot reviewer Ben Munat gives Brad Ediger's Advanced Rails a perfect 10 out of 10 score and calls it an "extensive reference for advanced topics in Ruby in Rails development." Read the complete review and then get your copy today.
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Paul Bausch, Author of Google Hacks, Tips & Tools for Finding and Using the World's Information, now in its 3rd Edition, shares his secrets with Let's Talk Computers about customizing Google for your needs. Listen to the interview.
