| HLSL and Pixel Shaders for XAML Developers [by Walt Ritscher] |
 Graphic Shaders are used throughout the game and movie industry to improve onscreen graphics. They are versatile, doing important tasks like making computer rendered aliens look realistic, providing the ripples on a background lake or growing fur on the latest Pixar monster. In the PC world, programmers are often delighted to find that shaders are nothing more than a miniature program that is optimized to run on the computers GPU. This happiness fades when they start exploring the strange programming model underlying shaders however. Because shaders are strung together in an unusual fashion and run on a massive parallel processer developers shouldn’t use their traditional OO or procedural approach to writing code. Writing effective shaders requires a mind shift re |
Ebook Size: Downloads:2 Rating: Updated:May 19,2012 |
| Node: Up and Running: Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript [by Tom Hughes-Croucher and Mike Wilson ] |
 This book introduces you to Node, the new web development framework written in JavaScript. You ll learn hands-on how Node makes life easier for experienced JavaScript developers: not only can you work on the front end and back end in the same language, you ll also have more flexibility in choosing how to divide application logic between client and server.
Written by a core contributor to the framework, Node: Up and Running shows you how Node scales up to support large numbers of simultaneous connections across multiple servers, and scales down to let you create quick one-off applications with minimal infrastructure. Built on the V8 JavaScript engine that runs Google Chrome, Node is already winning the hearts and minds of many companies, including Google and Y |
Ebook Size: Downloads:2 Rating: Updated:May 19,2012 |
| Programming the Mobile Web [by Maximiliano Firtman ] |
 Today s market for mobile apps goes beyond the iPhone to include BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows Phone, and smartphones powered by Android, webOS, and other platforms. If you re an experienced web developer, this book shows you how to build a standard app core that you can extend to work with specific devices. You ll learn the particulars and pitfalls of building mobile apps with HTML, CSS, and other standard web tools.
You ll also explore platform variations, finicky mobile browsers, Ajax design patterns for mobile, and much more. Before you know it, you ll be able to create mashups using Web 2.0 APIs in apps for the App Store, App World, Ovi Store, Android Market, and other online retailers.
Learn how to use your existing web skills to m |
| Ebook Size: Downloads:6 Rating: Updated:May 12,2012 |
| Head First JavaScript [by Michael Morrison] |
 So you re ready to make the leap from writing HTML and CSS web pages to creating dynamic web applications. You want to take your web skills to the next level. And you re finally ready to add "programmer" to the resume. It sounds like you re ready to learn the Web s hottest programming language: JavaScript. Head First JavaScript is your ticket to going beyond copying and pasting the code from someone else s web site, and writing your own interactive web pages.
With Head First JavaScript, you learn:
The basics of programming, from variables to types to looping
How the web browser runs your code, and how you can talk to the browser with your code
Why you ll never have to worry about casting, overloading, or polymorphism when you re w |
| Ebook Size: Downloads:23 Rating: Updated:Apr 28,2012 |
| Technical Blogging: Turn Your Expertise into a Remarkable Online Presence [by Antonio Cangiano] |
 Technical Blogging is the first book to specifically teach programmers, technical people, and technically-oriented entrepreneurs how to become successful bloggers. There is no magic to successful blogging; with this book you ll learn the techniques to attract and keep a large audience of loyal, regular readers and leverage this popularity to achieve your goals.
Become more influential and earn extra money by blogging. Whether you want to create a popular technical blog from scratch or take your blog to the next level, this book shows you how.
Technical blogging expert Antonio Cangiano shares his extensive expertise with you, sparing no details and laying out a complete step by step road map to help you plan, create, market, monetize, and grow your own popular blog.
A |
| Ebook Size: Downloads:14 Rating: Updated:Apr 21,2012 |
| The Art of SEO [by Stephan Spencer, Eric Enge, Rand Fishkin and Jessie Stricchiola] |
 Four acknowledged experts in search engine optimization share guidelines and innovative techniques that will help you plan and execute a comprehensive SEO strategy. This second edition brings you up to date on recent changes in search engine behavior—such as new ranking methods involving user engagement and social media—with an array of effective tactics, from basic to advanced.
Comprehend SEO’s many intricacies and complexities
Explore the underlying theory and inner workings of search engines
Understand the role of social media, user data, and links
Discover tools to track results and measure success
Recognize how changes to your site can confuse search engines
Learn to build a competent SEO team with defined roles
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| Ebook Size: Downloads:19 Rating: Updated:Apr 07,2012 |
| Dreamweaver 8 For Dummies [by Janine C. Warner] |
 Ever visited a knockout Web site and wondered, “How did they do that?” Wonder no more. Odds are, they did it with Dreamweaver. Completely updated to give you the scoop on all the cool new tools in the latest version, Dreamweaver 8 For Dummies will have you designing dynamite Web sites in no time. In fact, by Chapter 2 you’ll dive right into setting up your Web site, creating your first Web page, and adding text images and links. This guide starts with basic Web page design features and progresses to the more advanced options for DHTML and database-driven sites, with step-by-step instructions for every function plus lots of screen shots. It walks you though:
A tour of the desktop, covering the toolbars, menu options, the Insert bar, |
| Ebook Size: Downloads:16 Rating: Updated:Mar 24,2012 |
| JavaScript For Dummies [by Emily A. VanderVeer ] |
 JavaScript For Dummies, 3rd edition:
Explains JavaScript and how it differs from java, HTML, and other Web programming tools
Describes what users can do with JavaScript that they can t do with HTML
Outlines how JavaScript, the platform-independent scripting language, works with the latest versions of Netscape Navigator 5 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Includes an important overview of Object-Oriented Concepts and the JavaScript language
Shows users how to "team up" JavaScript with Java, C++, OpenDoc, and Common Gateway Interface (CGI) to create powerful multimedia applications
Describes how to build a quickie Web page using HTML tags
Shows users how to create a Java applet and run the applet from the Web page
Covers JavaScript s forms so users can |
| Ebook Size: Downloads:35 Rating: Updated:Mar 17,2012 |
| XML For Dummies 4th Edition [by Ed Tittel and Lucinda Dykes] |
 See how XML works for business needs and RSS feeds
Create consistency on the Web, or tag your data for different purposes
Tag -- XML is it! XML tags let you share your format as well as your data, and this handy guide will show you how. You ll soon be using this markup language to create everything from Web sites to business forms, discovering schemas and DOCTYPES, wandering the Xpath, teaming up XML with Office 2003, and more.
Discover how to
* Make information portable
* Use XML with Word 2003
* Store different types of data
* Convert HTML documents to XHTML
* Add CSS to XML
* Understand and use DTDs |
| Ebook Size: Downloads:15 Rating: Updated:Mar 17,2012 |
| CSS Web Design For Dummies [by Richard Mansfield] |
 A step-by-step guide for stepping up from plain HTML
Create Web sites that grab attention, remain consistent, and are easy to update
Attention Web designers! CSS can be your secret weapon, and this book shows you how to use it. CSS helps you create dynamic visual effects, unify the look of your site, and deliver your site s content in a professional way that gets noticed. It even makes updates and changes a breeze. Here s what you need to get up to speed!
Discover how to
Create practical style sheets
Format pages that are visually pleasing
Manage details such as colors and backgrounds
Handle lists and tables
Render complex documents
About the Author
Richard Mansfield was the editor of COMPUTE! Magazine from 1981 to 1987. During that time, he wrote hundreds of |
| Ebook Size: Downloads:25 Rating: Updated:Mar 10,2012 |
| Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide: Business thinking and strategies behind successful Web 2.0 implementations [by Amy Shuen] |
 Web 2.0 makes headlines, but how does it make money? This concise guide explains what s different about Web 2.0 and how those differences can improve your company s bottom line. Whether you re an executive plotting the next move, a small business owner looking to expand, or an entrepreneur planning a startup, Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide illustrates through real-life examples how businesses, large and small, are creating new opportunities on today s Web.
This book is about strategy. Rather than focus on the technology, the examples concentrate on its effect. You will learn that creating a Web 2.0 business, or integrating Web 2.0 strategies with your existing business, means creating places online where people like to come together to share what they think, see |
| Ebook Size: Downloads:23 Rating: Updated:Feb 26,2012 |
| Google Script: Enterprise Application Essentials: Adding Functionality to Your Google Apps [by James Ferreira] |
 How can you extend Google Apps to fit your organization’s needs? This concise guide shows you how to use Google Scripts, the JavaScript-based language that provides a complete web-based development platform—with no downloads, configuration, or compiling required. You’ll learn how to add functionality to Gmail, spreadsheets, and other Google services, or build data-driven apps that run from a spreadsheet, in a browser window, or within a Google Site.
If you have some Java experience, getting started with Google Scripts is easy. Through code examples and step-by-step instructions, you’ll learn how to build applications that authenticate users, display custom data from a spreadsheet, send emails, and many more tasks.
Learn Google Script&rsqu |
| Ebook Size: Downloads:24 Rating: Updated:Feb 26,2012 |
| Head First PHP & MySQL [by Lynn Beighley and Michael Morrison] |
 If you re ready to create web pages more complex than those you can build with HTML and CSS, Head First PHP & MySQL is the ultimate learning guide to building dynamic, database-driven websites using PHP and MySQL. Packed with real-world examples, this book teaches you all the essentials of server-side programming, from the fundamentals of PHP and MySQL coding to advanced topics such as form validation, session IDs, cookies, database queries and joins, file I/O operations, content management, and more.
Head First PHP & MySQL offers the same visually rich format that s turned every title in the Head First series into a bestseller, with plenty of exercises, quizzes, puzzles, and other interactive features to help you retain what you ve learned.
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| Ebook Size: Downloads:78 Rating: Updated:Jan 29,2012 |
| PHP and MySQL 24-Hour Trainer [by Andrea Tarr] |
 Step-by-step lessons for using PHP and MySQL in a unique book-and-video combination
Assuming no previous experience with PHP or MySQL, this book-and-video package is ideal reading for anyone who wants to go beyond HTML/CSS in order to provide clients with the most dynamic web sites possible. The approachable tone breaks down the basics of programming and PHP and MySQL in individual lessons starting with the installation of the programs necessary to run PHP. You begin with a static web site and then watch and learn as PHP functionality is added as you work through the lessons.
When working with databases, the MySQL database is introduced with demonstrations that show how to interact with it. The accompanying videos enhance your learning experience, as each lesson in th |
| Ebook Size: Downloads:68 Rating: Updated:Jan 29,2012 |
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