Pro PHP Application Performance will help you understand all the technologies and components which play a role in how well your applications run. When seconds can mean the difference between retaining a user and losing a user, it's important for all of us to have optimization as part of our project roadmap. But what components within your...
HTML5 and CSS3 are the future of web development, but you don't have to wait to start using them. Even though the specification is still in development, many modern browsers and mobile devices already support HTML5 and CSS3. This book gets you up to speed on the new HTML5 elements and CSS3 features you can use right now, and...
The finest schools and best programming books in the world offer a plethora of information
about how to string bits of code together into elegant applications and
programs. They discuss grand theories of operation, talk about design patterns on a
conceptual and enterprise-level field, and teach us the syntax, idiosyncrasies and, in...
This book is for every SharePoint developer who wants to build state-of-the-art solutions with Silverlight—within the enterprise, for consulting clients, or for commercial sale.
Developers increasingly want to build rich applications that run in the...
Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and line of business applications for the web and desktop.
Microsoft Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform.
Once every decade or so, a technology comes along that is so revolutionary that it
fundamentally alters the way we approach everything we do. The world itself has
changed. As I think back to 1995 when I first started developing Internet applications,
our data needs were relatively simple. For the next 10 years,...
iPhone Location Aware Apps Beginner's Guide is probably the first book from any technical publisher that teaches you to build real world applications (five of them). That's a bold step from PacktPub - by undertaking more lively practical examples, rather than 400 pages of text! The book lays emphasis on location services, due to the...
A single hype is not enough to change the world. But multiple hypes together can
change it as long as they are part of a bigger trend.
This book discusses more than one hyped technology: cloud computing, NoSQL, and
HTML5. The technologies in this book combine well with other hyped technologies:
functional...
Magento is the fastest growing PHP-based eCommerce solution based on the Zend
Framework. This robust CMS helps developers to enrich their store with more useful
functionalities with custom modules. Developing a Magento store to get the desired look and
feel is not as easy as you might believe, and may take hours due to the wealth of...
Inside the Machine is an introduction to computers that
is intended to fill the gap that exists between classic
but more challenging introductions to computer
architecture, like John L. Hennessy’s and David A.
Patterson’s popular textbooks, and the growing mass
of works that are simply too basic...
The Windows Azure Platform is Microsoft's Platform-as-a-Service environment for hosting services and data in the cloud. It provides developers with on-demand compute, storage, and service connectivity capabilities that facilitate the hosting of highly-scalable services in Windows Azure datacenters across the globe.