RIA & Web Books
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Practical Ruby Gems
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by David Berube, Apress
Practical Ruby Gems is a comprehensive guide to utilizing and creating Ruby Gemsready-made Ruby code modules that can be easily added to Ruby and Rails projects. This book is ideal for Ruby programmers as well as web developers who use Rails and wish to extend the functionality of their projects. Youll get a prime selection of 34 of the best and most useful Gems, which makes up the core of this book.
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Pro Silverlight for the Enterprise
Published 11 years ago includes sample chapter
by Ashish Ghoda, Apress
Microsoft Silverlight 2 is a new development platform designed to make the development of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) far easier than has previously been possible. Pro Silverlight for the Enterprise addresses the question of how you can bring Silverlight 2 to your company to provide rich Internet experiences that will interface cleanly with your existing application architecture.
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Real-World .NET Applications
Published 17 years ago includes sample chapter
by Budi Kurniawan, Apress
Real World .NET Applications consists of six significant .NET applications, each representing one of the major application types: a custom Windows control, an XML document editor, a Pac-Man?style game, a drawing application, an FTP client application, and an ASP.NET online store. Each application or component is thoroughly documented, starting from coverage of the underlying principles through the architecture and design, and finally the actual implementation of the application.
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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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The Definitive Guide to Berkeley DB XML
Published 14 years ago includes sample chapter
by Danny Brian, Apress
The Definitive Guide to Berkeley DB XML covers Sleepycat's Berkeley DB XML, an open source embedded XML database. Berkeley DB XML runs on all major operating systems and has support for the most popular programming languages. The book includes tutorials and complete language references for C++, Java, Perl, Python, and PHP. Berkeley DB XML has the potential to dramatically simplify the development of your application's data tier.
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The Definitive Guide to JasperReports
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Teodor Danciu, Lucian Chirita, Apress
JasperForge.org is the open source development portal for the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, the JasperSoft Business Intelligence solution that delivers comprehensive tools for data access, data integration, analysis, and reporting, including JasperReports.
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Web Matrix Developer's Guide
Published 18 years ago includes sample chapter
by John Paul Mueller, Apress
Web Matrix Developer's Guide provides a complete view of what you can accomplish with Web Matrix (Microsoft's free website creation program)&emdash;everything from generating simple web pages to developing Web service applications to building mobile applications. Expert author John Mueller covers all the major features of Web Matrix, including the ASP.NET page designer, SQL and MSDE database management, data-bound UI generation, XML Web services, and FTP workspaces.
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Beginning Silverlight 2: From Novice to Professional
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Robert Lair, Apress
With the need for a richer user experience ever more in focus when creating web applications, Microsoft has released Silverlight, the new cross–browser, cross–platform plug–in that allows developers to create rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight poses exciting new opportunities for creating visually impressive web applications, offering unparalleled response times and minimal bandwidth requirements.
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Pro Apache XML
Published 14 years ago includes sample chapter
by Poornachandra Sarang, Apress
Pro Apache XML thoroughly introduces several subprojects found under the Web Services–driven API umbrella. The book begins with a concise introduction to XML and Web Services. Subsequent chapters devote themselves to specific subprojectscovering their purposes, APIs, implementation, and practical uses through appropriate code examples.
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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.
