Ebooks Review

Flex 4 Fun /by Chet Haase. With this book you'll have fun exploring the graphical and animation side of the Flex 4 SDK. There are other books out there on Flex, on Flex 4, and on RIA technologies in general, but they generally don't cover the techniques that help you write cooler applications. This book is specifically abou ... Read more »

Pro CSS for High Traffic Websites /By Antony Kennedy, Inayaili de Leon. Although web standards-based websites can scale effectively—and basic CSS will give you basic results—there are considerations and obstacles that high traffic websites must face to keep your development and hosting costs to a minimum. There are man ... Read more »

Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design /by Dan Cederholm and Ethan Marcotte. There’s a real connection between craftsmanship and Web design. That’s the theme running through Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, by bestselling author Dan Cederholm, with a chapter contributed by renowned We ... Read more »

Doing Business on Facebook: The Mini Missing Manual /By E. A. Vander Veer.Facebook isn't just for college kids anymore. Thousands of companies use the site for everything from project collaboration and advertising to filling--and finding--jobs. This Mini Missing Manual is aimed at professionals who want to use Facebook ... Read more »

HTML5 Canvas /by Steve Fulton and Jeff Fulton. HTML5 is revolutionizing the way web applications are developed, and this practical, hands-on book puts you right in the middle of the action. You'll learn how to build interactive multimedia applications with HTML5's Canvas, using this new element to draw, animate, compos ... Read more »

Murach's HTML, XHTML, and CSS /by Anne Boehm. Whether you're just starting out in web development or you'd like to update your existing skills, this book gets you off to a fast start! In fact, in just the first 6 chapters, you'll learn more about web development than you can from most full books. By the ... Read more »

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition /By David Flanagan. Since the earliest days of Internet scripting, Web developers have considered JavaScript: The Definitive Guide an essential resource. David Flanagan's approach, which combines tutorials and examples with easy-to-use syntax guides and object referenc ... Read more »

Joomla! 1.6 Beginner's Guide /by Hagen Graf. "Jumla" is the Swahili word for "all together" and was the inspiration for the name Joomla!. The Joomla! project is one of the biggest content management systems worldwide,backed by a global community. It lets you create unique websites in your own language.
Even if you ... Read more »

The Complete Idiot's Guide to WordPress /by Susan M. Gunelius. With more than 22 million users worldwide, WordPress is the #1 blog WordPress publishing application in the world. This guide provides users of both its hosted blogging service (WorldPress.com) and its self-hosted application (WordPress.org) with everything they nee ... Read more »

Using Google Apps /by Michael Miller. Do amazing things with Google Apps: Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Calendar, Gmail, Talk, Chrome, Dashboard, and more!
With the Que USING series of books, you don’t just read about it: you see it, hear it, with step-by-step video tutorials and valuable audi ... Read more »

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines /by Health and Human Services Dept. Although recent findings show the public increasingly interacting with government Web sites, a common problem is that people can’t find what they’re looking for. In other words, the sites lack usability. The R ... Read more »

Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website /by Daniel Domscheit-Berg. In an eye-opening account, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former spokesman of WikiLeaks, reveals never-disclosed details about the inner workings of the increasingly controversial organization that has struck fear in ... Read more »

Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers /by Brian Travis. Drupal 7 opens the door for you as a Windows developer to build Drupal sites - including custom modules - all without leaving Visual Studio! Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers gives you everything you need to know to achieve this, whilst drilling down into the advanc ... Read more »

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems /by Steve Krug. It's been known for years that usability testing can dramatically improve products. But with a typical price tag of $5,000 to $10,000 for a usability consultant to conduct each round of tests, it rarely happens. ... Read more »

Cancel Cable: How Internet Pirates Get Free Stuff /by Chris Fehily. What internet pirates don't pay for: Movies. Music. TV shows. Academic textbooks. Solutions manuals. Adult videos. Operating systems. Word processors. Office software suites. Creative software suites. Language instruction. Educational software. Computer b ... Read more »