Ebooks Review

Getting Started with Roo /by Josh Long and Steve Mayzak. Spring Roo goes a step beyond the Spring Framework by bringing true Rapid Application Development to Java—just as Grails has done with Groovy. This concise introduction shows you how to build applications with Roo, using the framework's shell ... Read more »

Making Isometric Social Real-Time Games with HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript /by Mario Andres Pagella. Walk through the process of designing and implementing from scratch an isometric real time game such as some of the most succesful Facebook Games. Applying HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, this piece shows how ... Read more »

Ultra-Fast ASP.NET: Build Ultra-Fast and Ultra-Scalable web sites using ASP.NET and SQL Server /by Rick Kiessig. Ultra-fast ASP.NET provides a practical guide to building extremely fast and scalable websites using ASP.NET and SQL Server. Written by a highly-experienced consultant it provides straigh ... Read more »

Pro PHP Programming /By Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala. If you are a web programmer, you need to know modern PHP. This book presents with many new areas in which PHP plays a large role. If you want to write a mobile application using geo-location data, Pro PHP Programming will ... Read more »

HTML5 Solutions: Essential Techniques for HTML5 Developers /by Marco Casario, Peter Elst, Charles Brown and Nathalie Wormser. HTML5 brings the biggest changes that HTML has seen in years. Web designers and developers now have a whole host of new techniques up their sleeves, from displaying vide ... Read more »

Applied jQuery: Develop and Design /By Jay Blanchard. Applied jQuery teaches readers how to quickly start writing application interfaces. The beautifully designed book offers practical techniques and provides lots of real-world advice and guidance. The Author, Jay Blanchard, has practical ex ... Read more »

New Perspectives on HTML, XHTML, and Dynamic HTML: Comprehensive /by Patrick Carey. Part of the New Perspectives Series, this thorough, engaging includes everything readers need to learn to create simple to complex Web sites using HTML, XHTML, and DHTML. ... Read more »

If you are building your own Web pages and need HTML solutions fast, then this book is for you–whether you’re new to Web site authoring or you need a quick refresher on how to create a table. Open the book and you’ll discover clear, easy-to-follow instructions for more than 250 key HTML Web tasks, ... Read more »

Python Web Development with Django /by Jeff Forcier, Paul Bissex and Wesley Chun. Using the simple, robust, Python-based Django framework, you can build powerful Web solutions with remarkably few lines of code. In Python Web Development with Django®, three experienced Django and ... Read more »

Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building Websites /by Cynthia McCourt. Drupal allows you to quickly and easily build a wide variety of web sites, from very simple blog sites to extremely complex sites that integrate with other systems. In order to maximize what Drupal can do for you, you need to pla ... Read more »

Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Rich Internet Application Developers /by David Tucker, Marco Casario, Koen De Weggheleire and Rich Tretola. Thoroughly vetted by Adobe's AIR development team, Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook addresses fundamentals, best practices, and topics that web develo ... Read more »

The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 /by Benjamin Melancon, Jacine Luisi, Karoly Negyesi and Bojhan Somers. Written by active community members and contributors (some of the "brightest and most innovative minds in the Drupal community," to quote Angela Byron, Drupal 7 maintainer), the Definitive Guide ... Read more »

Apache Solr 3.1 Cookbook /by Rafal Ku. This book is part of Packt's Cookbook series; each chapter looks at a different aspect of working with Apache Solr. The recipes deal with common problems of working with Solr by using easy-to-understand, real-life examples. The book is not in any way a complete ... Read more »

Beginning Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Development /by István Novák. As Microsoft's newest offering for simplifying application development, LightSwitch opens the development door to creating applications without writing code. This introductory, full-color book shows you how to quick ... Read more »

Creating Database Web Applications with PHP and ASP /by Jeanine Meyer. If you want to add more power and functionality to your Web sites, add some database applications like a powerful shopping cart or a fun quiz game. Such applications make your site more dynamic, allow you to gather informa ... Read more »