Computers / Internet

Facebook: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual

von E. A. Vander Veer

Facebook's popularity is skyrocketing, drawing more than 400 million people to this combination online village green, personal website creator, and souped-up address book. But one thing you won't get when signing...

RESTful Web Services Cookbook

von Subbu Allamaraju

While the REST design philosophy has captured the imagination of web and enterprise developers alike, using this approach to develop real web services is no picnic. This cookbook includes more than 100 recipes...

iPod: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual

von J. D. Biersdorfer & David Pogue

Get the scoop on iTunes 9 and all of the newest iPods with this bestselling Missing Manual. Apple's gotten the world hooked on portable music, pictures, and videos with its amazing entertainment center, but...

HTML & CSS: The Good Parts

von Ben Henick

HTML and CSS are the workhorses of web design, and using them together to build consistent, reliable web pages requires both skill and knowledge. The task is more difficult if you're relying on outdated, confusing,...

High Performance JavaScript

von Nicholas C. Zakas

If you're like most developers, you rely heavily on JavaScript to build interactive and quick-responding web applications. The problem is that all of those lines of JavaScript code can slow down your apps. This...

Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software

von Jonathan Anderson, John McRee & Robb Wilson

People expect effortless, engaging interaction with desktop and web applications, but producing software that generates enjoyable user experiences is much harder than many companies anticipate. With Effective...

Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software

von Tim Riley & Adam Goucher

Successful software depends as much on scrupulous testing as it does on solid architecture or elegant code. But testing is not a routine process, it's a constant exploration of methods and an evolution of good...

Using Joomla: Building Powerful and Efficient Web Sites

von Ron Severdia & Kenneth Crowder

Why use Joomla? Because with Joomla you don't need to have any technical expertise or web design experience to create effective websites and web apps. Whether you're creating your first website or building a...

The Social Media Marketing Book

von Dan Zarrella

Are you looking to take advantage of social media for your business or organization? With easy-to-understand introductions to blogging, forums, opinion and review sites, and social networks such as Twitter,...

Programming Google App Engine

von Dan Sanderson

As one of today's cloud computing services, Google App Engine does more than provide access to a large system of servers. It also offers you a simple model for building applications that scale automatically...

Jquery Cookbook

von Cody Lindley

jQuery simplifies building rich, interactive web frontends. Getting started with this JavaScript library is easy, but it can take years to fully realize its breadth and depth; this cookbook shortens the learning...

CSS Cookbook

von Christopher Schmitt

What people are saying about CSS Cookbook

"Christopher's fantastic cookbook will give you solutions to pretty much all of the CSS problems you'll come up against in your day-to-day web design work, saving you...

CouchDB: The Definitive Guide

von J. Chris Anderson, Jan Lehnardt & Noah Slater

Three of CouchDB's creators show you how to use this document-oriented database as a standalone application framework or with high-volume, distributed applications. With its simple model for storing, processing,...

HTTP Pocket Reference: Hypertext Transfer Protocol

von Clinton Wong

The HyperText Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, is the backbone of the World Wide Web. HTTP is the language that each web browser (or other web client) uses to communicate with servers around the world. All web programmers,...

ASP in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference

von Keyton Weissinger

ASP in a Nutshell provides the high-quality reference documentation that web application developers really need to create effective Active Server Pages. It focuses on how features are used in a real application...

HTTP: The Definitive Guide

von David Gourley, Brian Totty & Marjorie Sayer

Behind every web transaction lies the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) --- the language of web browsers and servers, of portals and search engines, of e-commerce and web services. Understanding HTTP is essential...

Windows 7: Up and Running: A quick, hands-on introduction

von Wei-Meng Lee

This compact book offers the quickest path for Windows users to get started with Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system. You get the essential information you need to upgrade or install the system and configure...

CSS: The Missing Manual

von David Sawyer McFarland

Cascading Style Sheets can turn humdrum websites into highly-functional, professional-looking destinations, but many designers merely treat CSS as window-dressing to spruce up their site's appearance. You can...

FBML Essentials: Facebook Markup Language Fundamentals

von Jesse Stay

Do you have an idea for a Facebook application? With FBML Essentials, you'll learn how to build it quickly using the Facebook Markup Language (FBML) and other easy-to-use tools in the site's framework. If you...

Building Social Web Applications

von Gavin Bell

Building a web application that attracts and retains regular visitors is tricky enough, but creating a social application that encourages visitors to interact with one another requires careful planning. This...