RIA & Web Books
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HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition (Visual Quickstart Guide)
Published 14 years ago
by Elizabeth Castro, Peachpit Press
It's important for anyone who creates Web sites--even those who rely on powerful editors like Dreamweaver or GoLive--to know HTML. The World Wide Web Consortium rewrote HTML as a subset of XML (dubbing it "XHTML 1.0") and the allowable code will eventually be stricter.
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Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
Published 15 years ago
by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freeman, O'Reilly Media
Today, serious Web pages use HTML and XHTML to structure their content and CSS for style and presentation. You need a book that understands how to incorporate everything correctly. Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML explains the fundamentals of HTML, XHTML, topics like web color, and CSS properties. In this book, pictures and step-by-step instructions explain how to build great-looking, standards-compliant web sites.
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HTML5 and CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow's Standards Today (Pragmatic Programmers)
Published 10 years ago
by Brian P. Hogan, Pragmatic Bookshelf
HTML5 and CSS3 are the future of web development, but you don't have to wait to start using them. Even though the specification is still in development, many modern browsers and mobile devices already support HTML5 and CSS3. This book gets you up to speed on the new HTML5 elements and CSS3 features you can use right now, and backwards compatible solutions ensure that you don't leave users of older browsers behind.
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Regular Expressions Cookbook
Published 11 years ago
by Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan, O'Reilly Media
This cookbook provides more than 100 recipes to help you crunch data and manipulate text with regular expressions. Every programmer can find uses for regular expressions, but their power doesn't come worry-free. Even seasoned users often suffer from poor performance, false positives, false negatives, or perplexing bugs.
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WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008
Published 12 years ago
by arlen feldman, maxx daymon, Manning Publications
Now more than ever, Windows applications have to work well and look good. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Microsoft's new user interface framework, gives you the ability to create stunning graphics, rich interactions, and highly-usable Windows applications. WPF is the API beneath Windows Vista interfaces, and it's also available for older versions of Windows.
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Flex 3 in Action
Published 12 years ago
by tariq ahmed, jon hirschi, faisal abid, Manning Publications
New Web applications require engaging user-friendly interfaces-and the cooler, the better. With Flex 3, Web developers at any skill level can create high-quality, effective, and interactive Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) quickly and easily. Flex removes the complexity barrier from RIA development by offering sophisticated tools and a straightforward programming language so you can focus on what you want to do instead of how to do it.
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Head First Rails: A learner's companion to Ruby on Rails
Published 12 years ago
by david griffiths, O'Reilly Media
Ready to transport your web applications into the Web 2.0 era? Head First Rails takes your programming -- and productivity -- to the max. You'll learn everything from the fundamentals of Rails scaffolding to building customized interactive web apps using Rails' rich set of tools and the MVC framework. By the time you're finished, you'll have learned more than just another web framework.
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Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Edition: In C# and VB
Published 11 years ago
by Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, Devin Rader, Wrox
Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 In C# and VB ASP.NET 3.5 brings the power of Visual Studio® 2008 along with the multitude of language improvements in C# 2008 and Visual Basic® 2008 as well as powerful new technology called LINQ, together with the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework you already know and love. Packed with valuable coverage of ASP.NET 3.5 SP1, this essential resource offers both C# and VB examples throughout the book, and shares new and updated content on the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Dynam
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Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS4 (Voices That Matter)
Published 12 years ago
by stephanie sullivan, greg rewis, New Riders Press
Millions of Web designers use Dreamweaver and most of them think creating CSS-based, standards-compliant sites is a challenge. In Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS4, authors Stephanie Sullivan and Greg Rewis bridge the gaps between the worlds of CSS design and Dreamweaver by demonstrating how to use Dreamweaver CS4 and CSS together to create individualized, standards-based layouts.
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Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS
Published 12 years ago
by zoe mickley gillenwater, New Riders Press
Liquid or fluid layouts change width based on the user's unique device viewing size. These types of layouts have always been possible with tables but offer new design challenges as well as opportunities when built with CSS. This book, for experienced Web designers with some CSS experience, outlines how to do this successfully.Designers will learn the benefits of flexible layouts and when to choose a liquid, elastic, or hybrid design.