O Reilly Media: 1789 books
JavaServer Faces
Building Web-based User Interfaces
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2004
JavaServer Faces, or JSF, brings a component-based model to web application development that's similar to the model that's been used in standalone GUI applications for years. The technology builds on the experience gained from Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages, and numerous commercial and open source...
HTML5 Pocket Reference
Quick, Comprehensive, Indispensable
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Need help finding the right HTML5 element or attribute for your web page or application? HTML5 Pocket Reference is the classic reference that web designers and developers have been keeping close at hand for more than thirteen years.
This fifth edition has been updated to reflect the current...
by Jennifer Niederst Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
After years of using spacer GIFs, layers of nested tables, and other improvised solutions for building your web sites, getting used to the more stringent "standards-compliant" design that is de rigueur among professionals today can be intimidating.
With standards-driven design, keeping...
by Christopher Schmitt
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
As the industry standard method for enriching the presentation of HTML-based web pages, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allow you to give web pages more structure and a more sophisticated look. But first, you have to get past CSS theory and resolve real-world problems. For those all-too-common...
Adding Ajax
Making Existing Sites More Interactive
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Ajax can bring many advantages to an existing web application without forcing you to redo the whole thing. This book explains how you can add Ajax to enhance, rather than replace, the way your application works. For instance, if you have a traditional web application based on submitting a form to...
Designing for XOOPS
A Designer's Quickstart Guide to Content Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Learn how to customize websites with XOOPS, the open source CMS that helps non-developers build dynamic community websites, intranets, and other applications. This concise book shows you how to use XOOPS themes and modules to design everything from simple blogs to large database-driven CMS portals.
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by Estelle Weyl
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Layout designers rejoice: CSS finally has an update that will make your lives easier. Flexible box layout, often called Flexbox, frees you from the challenges of creating layouts with floats and padding? and lets you specify containers and their contents instead. The new model means you can specify...
Greasemonkey Hacks
Tips & Tools for Remixing the Web with Firefox
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Greasemonkey Hacks is an invaluable compendium 100 ingenious hacks for power users who want to master Greasemonkey, the hot new Firefox extension that allows you to write scripts that alter the web pages you visit. With Greasemonkey, you can create scripts that make a web site more usable, fix rendering...
CSS Pocket Reference
Visual Presentation for the Web
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
They say that good things come in small packages, and it's certainly true for this edition of CSS Pocket Reference. Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest Cascading Style Sheet specifications in CSS 2.1, this indispensable little book covers the most essential information that web designers...
JavaScript Web Applications
jQuery Developers' Guide to Moving State to the Client
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Building rich JavaScript applications that bring a desktop experience to the Web requires moving state from the server to the client side—not a simple task. This hands-on book takes proficient JavaScript developers through all the steps necessary to create state-of-the-art applications, including...
The Art of Concurrency
A Thread Monkey's Guide to Writing Parallel Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
If you're looking to take full advantage of multi-core processors with concurrent programming, this practical book provides the knowledge and hands-on experience you need. The Art of Concurrency is one of the few resources to focus on implementing algorithms in the shared-memory model of multi-core...
Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++
Recipes for Cryptography, Authentication, Input Validation & More
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2003
Password sniffing, spoofing, buffer overflows, and denial of service: these are only a few of the attacks on today's computer systems and networks. At the root of this epidemic is poorly written, poorly tested, and insecure code that puts everyone at risk. Clearly, today's developers need help figuring...
XML Schema
The W3C's Object-Oriented Descriptions for XML
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
If you need to create or use formal descriptions of XML vocabularies, the W3C's XML Schema offers a powerful set of tools for defining acceptable document structures and content. An alternative to DTDs as the way to describe and validate data in an XML environment, XML Schema enables developers to...
Getting Started with Couchbase Server
Extreme Scalability at Your Fingertips
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Do you know what to do if your web application goes viral and usage suddenly explodes? This concise guide introduces you to Couchbase Server, an extremely fast NoSQL database that automatically distributes data across a cluster of commodity servers or virtual machines. You’ll learn hands-on how...