Programming Books
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Power AOL
Published 18 years ago includes sample chapter
by Kirk Lafler, Apress
Power AOL: A Survival Guide is designed to provide AOL users everywhere with the largest and most comprehensive collection of tips and techniques ever offered. Kirk Lafler is an Internet and software consultant with 25 years of experience providing clients around the world with comprehensive technical solutions and training. Lafler presents tips on using some of the latest features and offerings available with Version 7.
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Design Concepts with Code: An Approach for Developers
Published 17 years ago includes sample chapter
by Stanko Blatnik, Kelly Carey, Apress
This book is all about getting developers to realize good, solid interface design for their products by considering a reasonable set of design axioms. Design Concepts with Code: An Approach for Developers shows how you can create design through code by using technologies such as SVG, XHTML, XML, XSLT, and XSL-FO. It explores how, by using some simple scripting, you don?t even need to touch applications like Adobe Photoshop.
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Writing Cross-Browser Dynamic HTML
Published 20 years ago includes sample chapter
by Heather Williamson, Apress
Both Netscape and Microsoft have created their own versions of Dynamic HTML (DHTML). Incompatibilities between their browsers make it very difficult for web designers to use DHTML to add advanced user interface features to their sites. This is the first book that answers the question webmasters are asking more and more frequently: How can DHTML be used effectively, given the issue of incompatible browsers among users?
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A Programmer's Introduction to Windows DNA
Published 20 years ago includes sample chapter
by Christian Gross, Apress
Windows DNA (Distributed Internet Architecture) forms the cornerstone for building scalable, robust web applications using Microsoft technologies. Windows DNA technologies include both client and server sides. Thus, Microsoft's "client-server architecture" addresses the full spectrum of enterprise application development, for the Internet era. You will learn to combine a wide variety of Windows DNA technologies, to crank out effective solutions for your own enterprise application requirements.
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Software Development on a Leash
Published 18 years ago includes sample chapter
by David Birmingham, Valerie Haynes Perry, Apress
Suitable for any project manager or VB software professional willing to think outside the proverbial box, Software Development on a Leash presents some innovative ideas for building more flexible software based on patterns, and "best practices" for reusable component design illustrated in Visual Basic.This book's most salient feature is the authors' no-holds-barred attack on "traditional" ways of designing software.
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David McCarter's VB Tips and Techniques
Published 20 years ago includes sample chapter
by David McCarter, Apress
In his new book, veteran Visual Basic programmer David McCarter provides VB professionals with a vareity of important new tips and techniques designed to maximize day-to-day productivity. Those who enjoyed David's first book, VB Tips and Tricks, will find the author's familiar style paired with content of special interest to intermediate and advanced developers.
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Wireless Web Development
Published 20 years ago includes sample chapter
by Ray Rischpater, Apress
As developers move into the still largely untapped market of the wireless Web, they must learn to create solutions that take new considerations, such as small screens and sluggish transfer speeds, into account. Wireless Web Development is an excellent introduction to the field and provides a well-rounded education of the issues of network technology and content development.
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Tuning and Customizing a Linux System
Published 18 years ago includes sample chapter
by Daniel L. Morrill, Apress
Linux-based operating systems are extremely powerful and flexible, but unlocking that power and flexibility requires knowledge and understanding of how the systems work. Tuning and Customizing a Linux System goes beyond the mere basics of using and administrating Linux systems&emdash;it covers how the systems are designed.
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Linux in Small Business: A Practical User's Guide
Published 19 years ago includes sample chapter
by John P. Lathrop, Apress
Employing a practical, hands-on approach, Linux in Small Business: A Practical User's Guide author John Lathrop guides the reader through a multitude of scenarios commonplace in a real-world corporate environment. Eschewing evangelism, Lathrop instead presents real Linux solutions that reduce software purchases, enhance stability, and lower the costs of maintenance and hardware upgrades.
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Mobile .NET
Published 19 years ago includes sample chapter
by Derek Ferguson, Apress
Mobile .NET begins by examining a wide variety of different wireless Internet devices. These devices are divided into two main divisions: those that are directly supported by .NET (Pocket PCs, i-Mode phones, and WAP devices) and those that are not (Palm OS and J2ME-powered devices). By the end of this book, you'll be able to make .NET work equally well with all of the devices. In the middle section of the book, the advantages of .NET as a development platform are first introduced.