JavaScript Books
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HTML5 Games: Creating Fun with HTML5, CSS3 and WebGL
Published 9 years ago
by Jacob Seidelin, Wiley
Discover new opportunities for building 2D and 3D games with HTML5The newest iteration of HTML, HTML5 can be used with JavaScript, CSS3, and WebGL to create beautiful, unique, engaging games that can be played on the web or mobile devices like the iPad or Android phones.
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PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual
Published 9 years ago
by Brett McLaughlin, Pogue Press
If you can build websites with CSS and JavaScript, this book takes you to the next level—creating dynamic, database-driven websites with PHP and MySQL. Learn how to build a database, manage your content, and interact with users through queries and web forms. With step-by-step tutorials, real-world examples, and jargon-free explanations, you’ll soon discover the power of server-side programming.The important stuff you need to know: *Get a running start.
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Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server
Published 9 years ago
by David Smiley, Eric Pugh, Packt Publishing
Enhance your search with faceted navigation, result highlighting, relevancy ranked sorting, and more *Comprehensive information on Apache Solr 3 with examples and tips so you can focus on the important parts *Integration examples with databases, web-crawlers, XSLT, Java & embedded-Solr, PHP & Drupal, JavaScript, Ruby frameworks *Advice on data modeling, deployment considerations to include security, logging, and monitoring, and advice on scaling Solr and measuring performance
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JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual
Published 9 years ago
by David Sawyer McFarland, Pogue Press
You don't need programming experience to add interactive and visual effects to your web pages with JavaScript. This Missing Manual shows you how the jQuery library makes JavaScript programming fun, easy, and accessible to web designers at every level of experience. You'll quickly learn how to use jQuery to help your site run smoothly and look great across multiple web browsers.
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Introducing HTML5 (2nd Edition)
Published 9 years ago
by Bruce Lawson, Remy Sharp, New Riders Press
Suddenly, everyone’s talking about HTML5, and ready or not, you need to get acquainted with this powerful new development in web and application design. Some of its new features are already being implemented by existing browsers, and much more is around the corner.Written by developers who have been using the new language for the past two years in their work, this book shows you how to start adapting the language now to realize its benefits on today’s browsers.
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JavaScript: Visual QuickStart Guide (8th Edition)
Published 9 years ago
by Tom Negrino, Dori Smith, Peachpit Press
This task-based, visual-reference guide has been fully revised and uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to give beginning and intermediate scripters what they need to know to keep their skills up-to-date. Readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know.
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Node: Up and Running: Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript
Published 9 years ago
by Tom Hughes-Croucher, O'Reilly Media
This book introduces you to Node, the new web development framework written in JavaScript. You'll learn hands-on how Node makes life easier for experienced JavaScript developers: not only can you work on the front end and back end in the same language, you'll also have more flexibility in choosing how to divide application logic between client and server.
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Redis: The Definitive Guide: Data modeling, caching, and messaging
Published 9 years ago
by Salvatore Sanfilippo, Pieter Noordhuis, O'Reilly Media
Written by the Redis dream team—including its creator, key developers, and the community itself—this book provides the details you need to implement this advanced key-value data store quickly and discerningly. Database administrators, architects, and programmers will learn how to work with different data structures in Redis, how to handle memory, replication, and the cache itself, and how to implement messaging, using just the shell or programming APIs in Ruby, Python, and JavaScript.
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Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices: Develop Websites and Apps for Smart Devices
Published 9 years ago
by Earle Castledine, Myles Eftos, Max Wheeler, SitePoint
Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices is a practical guide for front-end web designers and developers. You’ll discover a fun and fresh approach to mobile web design and development, with enormous scope for opportunity.Mobile web development is changing rapidly, with a greater emphasis on modern touch-screen smartphones. By following the advice in this book, you can be sure you’re learning the skills you need to make the most of this new technology.You’ll learn how to
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Unity 3 Blueprints - A Practical Guide to Indie Games Development
Published 9 years ago
by Craig Stevenson, Simon Quig, Deep Pixel Publishing
Unity3 is an amazing game development tool being used around the world by professional, indie and bedroom game developers. This hands-on blueprints book is designed to get to the heart of Unity 3 development by showing you how to create 4 classic games with a Unity twist. All the code and the high quality game art assets are available from the Deep Pixel website so you can build the games yourself or customize your own projects!