Welcome to another book about web design! Well, actually, this one’s different. This book will also
delve into the creative side of designing for theWeb, including a look at art history and some sources
of inspiration for the intrepid web designer. In the main, we’ll be discussing the phases of the design...
About 2 years ago, in the spring of 2010, Microsoft released Silverlight 4. Silverlight 4 proved
to be a platform ready for Line-of-Business application development. Numerous developers
learned how to build great apps with it, which can run both within the browser and as a
stand-alone application on the user's machine....
WELCOME TO Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++ 2012. With this book, you can become an effective C++ programmer using Microsoft’s latest application-development system, Visual Studio 2012. I aim to teach you the C++ programming language, and then how to apply C++ in the development of your own Windows applications. Along the way,...
European flair and French joie de vivre — you’ll definitely find these
elusive old-world qualities in Montréal and Québec City.
Visiting Montréal is like escaping into a little corner of Europe, except
that you don’t have to cross the Atlantic to get here. And Montréal
doesn’t...
XPages is a truly groundbreaking technology. Its initial release in 2009 revolutionized web application
development on Notes®/Domino® and brought new life and vibrancy to the developer community.
As a runtime framework built on top of standards-based technologies and open source
libraries, it greatly simplified the art of...
A few years ago, I wrote a book with a colleague about open source ESBs (Enterprise
Service Buses), Open Source ESBs in Action (Manning, 2008). In that book we wrote
about using open source tools to integrate applications and expose legacy systems as
services. In the years that followed, ESBs were seen as one of the...
In January 1999 I was preparing to teach an introductory programming class in Java. I had taught it three times and I was getting frustrated. The failure rate in the class was too high and, even for students who succeeded, the overall level of achievement was too low.
One of the problems I saw was the books. They were too...
When I decided to write a book about JavaScript, I wanted to create it in a way that felt natural to how I learned the language. I didn’t learn it from school or a book; my JavaScript knowledge comes from real-world application, trial and error, and self-motivation. I wanted to present the information in a unique way...
As a young man, this career shift wasn’t entirely motivated by a need to restore the right-left
hemisphere balance to my young brain; it may also have had something to do with the worry
that knowing a lot about Alan Turing and C++ was probably not the best way to get a girlfriend.
Congratulations! You are building your first web application for your iOS device (iPhone, iPad, or iPod
Touch) using HTML5 and JavaScript.
You might think that you can pick up one of your HTML or JavaScript books from years past and
then just scale it down to the size of your target device and you’ll be good to...
Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript shows the entire process of building a website. This process involves much more than just technical knowledge, and this book provides all the information you'll need to understand the concepts behind designing and developing for the Web, as well as the best means...