Marketplace books
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Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications
by Cal Henderson
Learn the tricks of the trade so you can build and architect applications that scale quickly--without all the high-priced headaches and service-level agreements associated with enterprise app servers and proprietary programming and database products. Culled from the experience of the Flickr.com lead developer, "Building Scalable Web Sites" offers techniques for creating fast sites that your visitors will find a pleasure to use.
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High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
by Steve Souders
Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized, such as Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Front Page, were able to benefit from these surprisingly simple performance guidelines.
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Apache Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Apache Administrators
by Rich Bowen, Ken Coar
There's plenty of documentation on installing and configuring the Apache web server, but where do you find help for the day-to-day stuff, like adding common modules or fine-tuning your activity logging? That's easy. The new edition of the Apache Cookbook offers you updated solutions to the problems you're likely to encounter with the new versions of Apache.Written by members of the Apache Software Foundation, and thoroughly revised for Apache versions 2.0 and 2.
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Google Web Toolkit Applications
by Ryan Dewsbury
“Ryan clearly understands the GWT value proposition and how GWT integrates into a diverse web technology stack–and not just in a theoretical way. With the popularity of gpokr.com and kdice.com, Ryan can speak with the authority of concrete success.”–Bruce Johnson, creator of Google Web Toolkit
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Beginning PHP5 (Programmer to Programmer)
by Dan Squier, David Mercer, Allan Kent, Steven Nowicki, Clark Morgan
What is this book about?Beginning PHP5 is a complete tutorial in PHP5's language features and functionality, beginning with the basics and building up to the design and construction of complex data-driven Web sites. Fully functioning applications are developed through the course of the book. Other features of the book include installation guide and troubleshooting tips, introduction to relational databases, practical working examples and applications, and a detailed language reference.
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Beginning PHP5, Apache, and MySQL Web Development (Programmer to Programmer)
by Elizabeth Naramore, Jason Gerner, Yann Le Scouarnec, Jeremy Stolz, Michael K. Glass
This update to a Wrox bestseller dives in and guides the reader through the entire process of creating dynamic, data-driven sites using the open source "AMP" model: Apache Web server, the MySQL database system, and the PHP scripting language. The team of expert authors covers PHP scripting, database management, security, integration, and e-commerce functions and comes complete with a useful syntax reference.
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Beginning JavaScript, 3rd Edition (Programmer to Programmer)
by Paul Wilton, Jeremy McPeak
JavaScript is a scripting language that enables you to enhance static web applications by providing dynamic, personalized, and interactive content. This improves the experience of visitors to your site and makes it more likely that they will visit again. You must have seen the flashy drop-down menus, moving text, and changing content that are now widespread on web sites—they are enabled through JavaScript. Supported by all the major browsers, JavaScript is the language of choice on the Web.
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Head First PHP & MySQL
by Lynn Beighley, Michael Morrison
If you're ready to create web pages more complex than those you can build with HTML and CSS, Head First PHP & MySQL is the ultimate learning guide to building dynamic, database-driven websites using PHP and MySQL. Packed with real-world examples, this book teaches you all the essentials of server-side programming, from the fundamentals of PHP and MySQL coding to advanced topics such as form validation, session IDs, cookies, database queries and joins, file I/O operations, content management, and
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Learning JavaScript, 2nd Edition
by Shelley Powers
If you're new to JavaScript, or an experienced web developer looking to improve your skills, Learning JavaScript provides you with complete, no-nonsense coverage of this quirky yet essential language for web development. You'll learn everything from primitive data types to complex features, including JavaScript elements involved with Ajax and dynamic page effects. By the end of the book, you'll be able to work with even the most sophisticated libraries and web applications.
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PHP Cookbook
by Adam Trachtenberg, David Sklar
When it comes to creating dynamic web sites, the open source PHP language is red-hot property: used on more than 20 million web sites today, PHP is now more popular than Microsoft's ASP.NET technology. With our Cookbook's unique format, you can learn how to build dynamic web applications that work on any web browser. This revised new edition makes it easy to find specific solutions for programming challenges.PHP Cookbook has a wealth of solutions for problems that you'll face regularly.
Events coming up
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Nov
13
Vodafone AppStar UK Developer day
London, United Kingdom
Come along to learn about how to reach a global audience with your widgets, monetisation and how to get started in Widget development.After a few short presentations the rest of the time will be open for coding! Experts in Widget development and UI/UX will be on hand to assist you.You will also have a chance to win a Netbook in a competition to discover the best mobile widget built at the event.In addition you will have a chance to play with the new Vodafone 360 handset.
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Nov
26
New York Web Development For the Non Technical November Meetup
New York, United States
The first MeetUp will determine which topics we would hit first based on vote so make sure you attend!