RIA & Web Books
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Beginning VB 2008 Databases: From Novice to Professional
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Vidya Vrat Agarwal, James Huddleston, Apress
Beginning VB 2008 Databases teaches you everything you need to know about relational databases, SQL, and ADO.NET 2.0, giving you a sound start in developing console and Windows database applications. The book also includes chapters on the new SQL Server XML data type and the forthcoming LINQ enhancements to the next version of Visual Basic.
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Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Laurence Moroney, Apress
Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional aims to give you the skills you need to start building web applications with Microsoft’s next–generation technology as quickly as possible. Whether you’re interested in ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, or the technologies that support them (WPF, WCF, WF, etc.), this book is the starting point that you need.
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Pro Excel 2007 VBA (Expert's Voice in Excel VBA)
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Jim DeMarco, Apress
Pro Excel 2007 VBA is the complete guide to creating Excel VBA applications, including covering all the new features in Excel 2007. Covering object–oriented programming techniques, debugging, and error handling methodologies, this book quickly turns novice into expert as it explores COM and .NET components and the advantages of compiled code. The book also covers XML for Excel web development.
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Practical DWR 2 Projects
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Frank Zammetti, Apress
The Ajax craze is sweeping the world, and there is no shortage of libraries from which to choose to make it all easier to develop. One of those libraries has risen near the top in the Java space, and that library is DWR. DWR, or Direct Web Remoting, allows you to treat your Java classes running on the server as if they were local objects running in the browser, bringing the full power of your server–side business logic to the client without the usual problems that entails.
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Foundations of Popfly: Rapid Mashup Development
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Eric Griffin, Apress
Mashups are big; everybody and their dog are creating new and interesting ways of combining information on the Web. But if all the talk of APIs and complex code leaves you cold, you’ll be pleased to meet Microsoft Popfly. Popfly was created as a tool for designers to build mashups in a visual manner, rapidly, without needing to know any code.
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Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Quentin Zervaas, Apress
Want to assert yourself as a cutting-edge PHP web developer? Take a practical approach, learning by example from author Quentin Zervaas, and discover how to bring together the many technologies needed to create a successful, modern web application. In Practical Web 2.
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Pro JavaScript Design Patterns
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Ross Harmes, Dustin Diaz, Apress
As a web developer, you’ll already know that JavaScript is a powerful language, allowing you to add an impressive array of dynamic functionality to otherwise static web sites. But there is more power waiting to be unlockedâ??JavaScript is capable of full object–oriented capabilities, and by applying OOP principles, best practices, and design patterns to your code, you can make it more powerful, more efficient, and easier to work with alone or as part of a team.
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Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Aaron Gustafson, Jonathan Snook, Dan Webb, Stuart Langridge, Apress
If you're a web developer with previous JavaScript and DOM scripting experience, Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries is perfect for you to take your knowledge up to the next level. This book is about JavaScript and using the document object model—the conduit to the HTML document. This book is not about learning how to program JavaScript from scratch.
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The Definitive Guide to JasperReports
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Teodor Danciu, Lucian Chirita, Apress
JasperForge.org is the open source development portal for the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, the JasperSoft Business Intelligence solution that delivers comprehensive tools for data access, data integration, analysis, and reporting, including JasperReports.
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Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Craig Cook, David Schultz, Apress
If you want to get into developing web sites, the most important thing you need is a solid understanding of Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML—the language that the majority of web site content is written in. Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference incorporates practical examples that will show you how to structure your data correctly using (X)HTML, along with styling and layout basics using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS