Ruby Books
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Restful Web Services
Published 13 years ago
by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby, O'Reilly Media
"Every developer working with the Web needs to read this book." -- David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Rails framework"RESTful Web Services finally provides a practical roadmap for constructing services that embrace the Web, instead of trying to route around it." -- Adam Trachtenberg, PHP author and EBay Web Services EvangelistYou've built web sites that can be used by humans. But can you also build web sites that are usable by machines?
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Professional Ajax, 2nd Edition (Programmer to Programmer)
Published 14 years ago
by Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, Joe Fawcett, Wrox
Professional Ajax 2nd Edition provides a developer-level tutorial of Ajax techniques, patterns, and use cases. The book begins by exploring the roots of Ajax, covering how the evolution of the web and new technologies directly led to the development of Ajax techniques. A detailed discussion of how frames, JavaScript, cookies, XML, and XMLHttp requests (XHR) related to Ajax is included. After this introduction, the book moves on to cover the implementation of specific Ajax techniques.
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MySQL Cookbook
Published 14 years ago
by Paul DuBois, O'Reilly Media
Along with MySQL's popularity has come a flood of questions about solving specific problems, and that's where this Cookbook is essential. Designed as a handy resource when you need quick solutions or techniques, the book offers dozens of short, focused pieces of code and hundreds of worked-out examples for programmers of all levels who don't have the time (or expertise) to solve MySQL problems from scratch. The new edition covers MySQL 5.
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Mastering Regular Expressions
Published 14 years ago
by Jeffrey Friedl, O'Reilly Media
Regular expressions are a central element of UNIX utilities like egrep and programming languages such as Perl. But whether you're a UNIX user or not, you can benefit from a better understanding of regular expressions since they work with applications ranging from validating data-entry fields to manipulating information in multimegabyte text files.
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Ruby Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))
Published 14 years ago
by Lucas Carlson, Leonard Richardson, O'Reilly Media
Do you want to push Ruby to its limits? The Ruby Cookbook is the most comprehensive problem-solving guide to today's hottest programming language. It gives you hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and thousands of lines of code you can use in your own projects. From data structures and algorithms, to integration with cutting-edge technologies, the Ruby Cookbook has something for every programmer.
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Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers)
Published 14 years ago
by Chad Fowler, Pragmatic Bookshelf
Rails is large, powerful, and new. How do you use it effectively? How do you harness the power? And, most important, how do you get high quality, real-world applications written? From the latest Ajax effects to time-saving automation tips for your development process, Rails Recipes will show you how the experts have already solved the problems you have. Use generators to automate repetitive coding tasks. Create sophisticated role-based authentication schemes.