RIA & Web Books
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Practical Mono (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
Published 15 years ago includes sample chapter
by Mark Mamone, Apress
Practical Mono offers you a detailed portrait of Mono and its many facets. You'll learn about building GUI-based applications with Gtk#, database interaction with ADO.NET, and powerful applications with XML and web services. By embracing this implementation, you can take advantage of the powerful development paradigm, building Internet-enabled cross-platform applications based on open source technologies. This book includes a primer on C#, so even if you're a novice
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Pro Apache Ant (Expert's Voice in Java)
Published 15 years ago includes sample chapter
by Matthew Moodie, Apress
Pro Apache Ant is ideal for Java developers who need to use the leading open source build tool out there for development and project management. It is organized around chronological tasks instead of alphabetical functions, using a sample application throughout the set-up, from calling database scripts to unit testing. Practical examples are used at every stage and each task includes a concrete example. The configuration files are XML based, so there's no need for you to write shell commands
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Pro SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
Published 15 years ago includes sample chapter
by Walter J. Voytek II, Rodney Landrum, Apress
SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 is the latest version of the reporting technology from Microsoft, providing the means to design, author, render, and deploy business reports to users, customers, and employees via the Web or the company intranet. The reporting engine is built into the SQL Server 2005 database (and provided as a free add-on with SQL Server 2000), and the report manager is integrated with Visual Studio 2003, offering an effective and familiar environment for SQL Server and
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Foundations of Ajax (Books for Professionals by Professionals)
Published 15 years ago includes sample chapter
by Nathaniel T. Schutta, Ryan Asleson, Apress
Foundations of Ajax presents a concise, down-to-earth explanation of the Ajax technology. Cutting through the hyperbole, this book focuses on what the Ajax technology means, how you start using it, and why it can make a difference to your products. The authors begin with a clear explanation of how the Ajax techniques work, presenting the "XMLHttpRequest" object, and outlining how requests to the server are handled.
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Pro Perl Parsing
Published 15 years ago includes sample chapter
by Christopher M. Frenz, Apress
I thoroughly enjoyed this...I write and maintain a fair amount of Perl, and matching and parsing patterns is often the largest part of the work. — A.P. Lawrence, Information and Resources for Unix and Linux Systems Perl, one of the world's most diffuse programming languages, was born out of the need to resolve the creator's dissatisfaction with what were at the time standard data-parsing solutions. Indeed, since the 1.
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Essential PHP Tools: Modules, Extensions, and Accelerators
Published 17 years ago includes sample chapter
by David Sklar, Apress
Apress has been profuse in both its quantity and quality of releases&emdash;and (this book is) surely worth adding to your technical reading budget for skills development. I stayed up clear past my 'bedtime' several nights while implementing the covered modules in my program, unable to pull myself away. From Pear packages to parsing XML files, this book is a huge time-saver to developing your own solutions. — Richard Testani, Apple-Sauce.
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Beginning JSP 2: From Novice to Professional
Published 17 years ago includes sample chapter
by Krishnaraj Perrumal, Vikram Goyal, Apress
After reading this book, you'll be able to do a whole lot more. — Dirk Schreckmann, JavaRanch Sheriff and Journal Editor Let Beginning JSP 2 be your guide as you begin using JSP. This comprehensive guide starts by steering you through your first JSP application. It reviews HTML, and provides you with a useful overview of JSP. You'll then be ready to start learning one of the core techniques in JSP: pulling data from a database and working with that data.
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Google, Amazon, and Beyond: Creating and Consuming Web Services
Published 17 years ago includes sample chapter
by Alexander Nakhimovsky, Tom Myers, Apress
readable, accessible and eminently practical... ...quite a good book about writing software to consume and provide web services. — Slashdot While many books are focused on the underlying technologies of web services and others are dedicated to providing web services, few books show how to consume web services.
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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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Building ASP.NET Server Controls
Published 17 years ago includes sample chapter
by Dale Michalk, Rob Cameron, Apress
The authors start out with very basic 'write' statements, but they progress into a sophisticated control -- one that includes templates, CSS styling and data binding. — Paul Schaeflein, schaeflein. This book is great for learning how pages and controls work in ASP.NET. — Aaron Weiker Weblog This tutorial and reference will benefit you, the dedicated ASP.NET developer. If you understand the gains of object-oriented development, and want to apply those principles to ASP.