RIA & Web Books
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Murach's PHP and MySQL (Murach: Training & Reference)
Published 10 years ago
by Joel Murach, Ray Harris, Mike Murach & Associates
This book was developed by the same team that authored Murach's JavaScript and DOM Scripting, and it has the same strong content organization that lets you focus on what you need to know, when you need to know it.So it's a great first book in web programming if you're just starting out: *It shows you how to get an Apache web server environment set up, so you can test the apps on your computer
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Smashing CSS: Professional Techniques for Modern Layout
Published 10 years ago
by Eric Meyer, Wiley
True to the Smashing Magazine's promise, Smashing CSS smashes readers with the CSS information they need to make their life easier. Really. Inside, CSS expert and best-selling author Eric A. Meyer shares 100 professional techniques for using Cascading Style Sheets to build modern web sites.Techniques include: *Using the right tools - Firebug, Dragonfly, XRAY and more *Throwing elements offscreen/hiding them *body/html backgrounds in XHTML *Serving CSS via HTTP headers
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The Essential Guide to HTML5: Using Games to learn HTML5 and JavaScript (Essential Guide To.
Published 10 years ago
by Jeanine Meyer, Apress
HTML5 opens up a plethora of new avenues for application and game development on the web. Games can now be created and interacted with directly within HTML with no need for users to download extra plugins, or for developers to learn new languages. Important new features such as the Canvas tag enable drawing directly onto the web page, the Audio tag allows sounds to be triggered and played from within your HTML code, the web sockets API brings the facility for real-time communication, and the loc
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Silverlight 4 Unleashed
Published 10 years ago
by Laurent Bugnion, Sams Publishing
Printed entirely in color, with helpful figures and syntax coloring to make code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio and Expression Blend!Using Silverlight 4, you can build richer and more powerful applications than ever before, and deploy them seamlessly in browsers, on desktop computers, and even on Windows Phone 7. In Silverlight 4 Unleashed, Microsoft Silverlight MVP Laurent Bugnion covers everything you need to do all this, and much more.
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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 4 in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself -- Hours)
Published 10 years ago
by Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Sams Publishing
Build standards-based Web sites with Expression Web: a step-by-step tutorial that helps you do it right the first time*The easy-to-read, hands-on introduction to Microsoft's new Expression Web 4*Establish work processes for building standards-based web code faster and with much less work*Covers all the new features in version 4, including HTML5*A complete tutorial: step-by-step instructions, examples, Q and As, quizzes, exercises, tips, shortcuts, and more
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Learning ActionScript 3.0
Published 10 years ago
by Rich Shupe, Zevan Rosser, O'Reilly Media
If you're new to ActionScript 3.0, or want to enhance your skill set, this bestselling book is the ideal guide. Designers, developers, and programmers alike will find Learning ActionScript 3.0 invaluable for navigating ActionScript 3.0's learning curve. You'll learn the language by getting a clear look at essential topics such as logic, event handling, displaying content, classes, and much more.
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Microsoft Expression Web 4 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft
Published 10 years ago
by Chris Leeds, Microsoft Press
Teach yourself how to use Expression Web 4, the professional design tool for creating compliant standards-based Web sites faster and easier. With STEP BY STEP, you set the pace -- building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!Learn how to use the state-of-the-art design surface in Expression Web to generate clean CSS and make design decisions on the fly, knowing that you're seeing a faithful representation of the final browser-rendered page.
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NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook
Published 10 years ago
by Dentler Jason, Packt Publishing
This book contains quick-paced self-explanatory recipes organized in progressive skill levels and functional areas. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions about everything necessary to execute a particular task. The book is designed so that you can read it from start to end or just open up any chapter and start following the recipes. In short this book is meant to be the ultimate "how-to" reference for NHibernate 3.0, covering every major feature of NHibernate for all experience levels.
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CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide (5th Edition)
Published 10 years ago
by Jason Cranford Teague, Peachpit Press
With CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start with a tour of the stylesheet language, or skip ahead to any chapter of the book to look up specific tasks covering just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions, and plenty of screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users CSS. Best-selling author Jason Cranford Teague takes readers through today's CSS essentials and provides extensive coverage of CSS3 and CSS 2.1 techniques.
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Silverlight 4 in Action
Published 10 years ago
by Pete Brown, Manning Publications
Silverlight 3 in Action is a fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial that guides the reader from creating "Hello World" to coding production-quality, data-driven rich internet applications with graphics, audio, and video content. Written for a developer who already knows how to code in C#, this fluff-free book covers the basics quickly and dives into the heart of Silverlight development using XAML (a language for creating user interface elements), Visual Studio 2008/2010, and the Expression design su
