Professional WordPress is the only WordPress book targeted to developers, with advanced content that exploits the full functionality of the most popular CMS in the world. Fully updated to align with WordPress...

• Create your own dynamic web application using wireframes, databases, and language files
• Develop unique applications to perform simple tasks, such as authorizing users, sharing...

• Build highly efficient applications with the Eloquent ORM using an expressive syntax
• Get to grips with the power of relationships and how Eloquent handles them
• Go beyond simple...

• Configure Nginx for best performance, with configuration examples and explanations
• Step–by-step tutorials for performance testing using open source software
• Tune the TCP stack to make the...

• Create spectacular mobile applications using jQuery Mobile to its fullest potential
• Build a complete and customizable professional, standard theme using...

• Learn how to use Yii even more efficiently
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Beginning JavaScript Charts shows how to convert your data into eye-catching, innovative, animated, and highly interactive browser-based charts. This book is suitable for developers of all experience levels and needs: for those who love fast and effective solutions, you can use the jqPlot library to generate charts with...

The miniature web applications known as gadgets (or widgets) are a key component of the distributed web and an ideal way to publish your content far beyond the reach of your own web site. Packaging web content and functionality into a gadget enables it to be seen anywhere from iGoogle to the iPhone—wherever the user may be, on or off...

In Pro Drupal as an Enterprise Development Platform authors Jamie Kurtz and Thomas Besluau explain how developers can save themselves time and money, and build their applications faster with fewer bugs by using the Drupal CMS as a foundation for their projects. The days when custom client applications were built entirely from scratch...

This book provides the richest and most solid introduction to the exciting world of Flash applications, which are becoming increasingly popular as ways of presenting visually rich interfaces to useful data and services. Foundation Flash MX Applications supplies you with the knowledge, techniques, and skills that you need to help you...