Tech Library

Building IPhone Apps With HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa ****
Jonathan Stark
What people are saying about *Building iPhone Apps w/ HTML, CSS, and JavaScript*"The future of mobile development is clearly web technologies like CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Jonathan Stark shows you how to leverage your existing web development skills...

Coding Faster: Getting More Productive With Microsoft Visual Studio: Covers Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 ****
Zain Naboulsi and Sara Ford
Expert advice to help you work smarter and increase your productivity with Visual Studio.Take a detailed look into Visual Studio—and learn practical techniques to help you work more efficiently. This fully revised and expanded version of Visual Studi...

Core HTML5 Canvas: Graphics, Animation, and Game Development *****
David Geary
One of HTML5's most exciting features, Canvas provides a powerful 2D graphics API that lets you implement everything from word processors to video games. In Core HTML5 Canvas, best-selling author David Geary presents a code-fueled, no-nonsense deep d...

Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build ****
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi and William Bartholomew
As software complexity increases, proper build practices become ever more important. This essential reference—fully updated for Visual Studio 2010—drills inside MSBuild and shows you how to maximize your control over the build and deployment process....

JQuery in Action ****
Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz
A good web development framework anticipates what you need to do and makes those tasks easier and more efficient; jQuery practically reads your mind. Developers of every stripe-hobbyists and professionals alike-fall in love with jQuery the minute the...

JQuery: Novice to Ninja ****
Earle Castledine and Craig Sharkie
jQuery: Novice to Ninja is a compilation of best-practice jQuery solutions to meet the most challenging JavaScript problems. In this question-and-answer book on jQuery, you'll find a cookbook of ready-to-go solutions to help breathe life into your we...

Map Scripting 101: An Example-Driven Guide to Building Interactive Maps With Bing, Yahoo!, and Google Maps ****
Adam DuVander
Websites like MapQuest and Google Maps have transformed the way we think about maps. But these services do more than offer driving directionsthey provide APIs that web developers can use to build highly customized map-based applications. In Map Scrip...

Node: Up and Running: Scalable Server-Side Code With JavaScript ***
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 languag...

OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner's Guide ****
Erik Hazzard
Web mapping is the process of designing, implementing, generating, and delivering maps on the World Wide Web and its products. OpenLayers is a powerful, community driven, open source, pure JavaScript web mapping library. With it, you can easily creat...

Programming ASP.NET MVC 4: Developing Real-World Web Applications With ASP.NET MVC **
Jess Chadwick and Todd Snyder and Hrusikesh Panda
Learn how to build real-world applications with the ASP.NET MVC framework, using powerful architecture patterns, and modern web technologies such as HTML 5 and jQuery. With this hands-on guide, you’ll gain a complete understanding of this framework w...

Programming in CoffeeScript *****
Mark Bates
Use CoffeeScript to Write Better JavaScript Code Than Ever Before!If you can do it in JavaScript, you can do it better in CoffeeScript. And, since CoffeeScript “compiles down” to JavaScript, your code will fit neatly into virtually any web environmen...

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide ****
David Thomas and Chad Fowler and Andrew Hunt
Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Program...

Web Workers: Multithreaded Programs in JavaScript ***
Ido Green
Web apps would run much better if heavy calculations could be performed in the background, rather than compete with the user interface. With this book, you’ll learn how to use Web Workers to run computationally intensive JavaScript code in a thread p...