Experience the simplicity of jQuery Mobile for building cross-browser applications
Learn how Sencha Touch’s architecture, widgets, and blazing-fast rendering engine makes it a good choice for enterprise software
Use PhoneGap to package your web app into a native iOS, Android, or Windows Phone application
Discover the impact of various HTML5 features on mobile app development
Pick up JavaScript productivity tips as you delve into its object orientation, closures, and coding conventions
Test and debug your app with a collection of tips, tricks, and tools
When developing apps for the latest smartphones, you’re faced with several vexing questions. How many platforms do you need to accommodate? What level of support do mobile browsers provide? To help you address these and many other key issues, this guide provides a hands-on tour of the most powerful JavaScript frameworks available today.
You’ll build sample apps with jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, and PhoneGap to learn the unique advantages and disadvantages of each framework. From there, you can determine which one is best for your project. This book is ideal for web developers familiar with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Download eBook Free »
Web Performance Daybook Volume 2: Techniques and Tips for Optimizing Web Site Performance
Performance is critical to the success of any website, and help with using today’s new tools is key. In this remarkable guide, 32 leading web performance experts offer practical tips, techniques, and advice for optimizing your site’s user experience. Originally written for an online calendar, this collection of articles will inspire you to squeeze every ounce of performance from your site whether you’re a web developer, mobile developer, or web designer. Check the table of contents and you’ll be convinced.
Performance is critical to the success of any website, and help with using today’s new tools is key. In this remarkable guide, 32 leading web performance experts offer practical tips, techniques, and advice for optimizing your site’s user experience. Originally written for an online calendar, this collection of articles will inspire you to squeeze every ounce of performance from your site whether you’re a web developer, mobile developer, or web designer. Check the table of contents and you’ll be convinced.
Performance is critical to the success of any website, and help with using today’s new tools is key. In this remarkable guide, 32 leading web performance experts offer practical tips, techniques, and advice for optimizing your site’s user experience. Download eBook Free »
Move into the cloud with vCloud Director, and secure virtual datacenters with vSphere
Secure and monitor your virtual environment from the command line
Manage disk, SSD, and SAN storage implementation and configuration
Discover options for managing resources, such as clustering, shares, and hot add/hotplug support
Configure logical and physical networks, including virtual switches and software and hardware adapters
Make virtual machine replication easier by automating ESXi installations
Gain valuable tips for configuration and fine-tuning
VMware Cookbook: A Real-World Guide to Effective VMware Use, 2nd Edition
With scores of step-by-step solutions, this cookbook helps you work with VMware ESXi in a wide range of network environments. You’ll not only learn the basics how to pool resources from hardware servers, computer clusters, networks, and storage, and then distribute them among virtual machines but also how to overcome the stumbling blocks you’ll encounter when you monitor systems, troubleshoot problems, and deal with security.
This expanded second edition covers recent advances in vCloud Director and vShield cloud security. Ideal for system administrators of any level, VMware Cookbook, 2nd Edition also includes valuable information to help you determine your virtualization needs. Download eBook Free »
Get up to speed on C# language basics, including syntax, types, and variables
Explore advanced topics such as unsafe code and type variance
Dig deep into LINQ via three chapters dedicated to the topic
Learn about code contracts, dynamic programming, and parallel programming
Work with .NET features, including reflection, assemblies, memory management, security, I/O, XML, collections, networking, and native interoperability
C# 5.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference, 5th Edition
When you have a question about C# 5.0 or the .NET CLR, this bestselling guide has precisely the answers you need. Uniquely organized around concepts and use cases, this updated fifth edition features a reorganized section on concurrency, threading, and parallel programming including in-depth coverage of C# 5.0’s new asynchronous functions.
Shaped by more than 20 expert reviewers, including Microsoft’s Eric Lippert, Stephen Toub, Chris Burrows, and Jon Skeet, this book has all you need to stay on track with C# 5.0. It’s widely known as the definitive reference on the language. Download eBook Free »
Understand how to use Node and related components to build sites and applications efficiently
Manage Node modules with npm
Create pages easily with template systems
Apply client-side skills, tools, and techniques on the server
Maintain a connection between browser and server with web sockets
With this digital Early Release edition of Learning Node, you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form – the author’s raw and unedited content – so you can take advantage of this content long before the book’s official release. You’ll also receive updates when significant changes are made, as well as the final ebook version.
Take your web development skills from the browser to the web server with Node, the programming framework that enables you to write data-driven applications with a language you already know: JavaScript. This guide offers a friendly way to master Node fundamentals with clear and concise information you can use right away. Download eBook Free »
Understand Node’s event-loop architecture, non-blocking I/O, and event-driven programming
Discover how Node supports a variety of database and data storage tools
Learn best practices for writing easy-to-maintain code for Node
Get concrete examples of how to use the various Node APIs in practice
Take advantage of the book’s complete API reference
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 language, you’ll also have more flexibility in choosing how to divide application logic between client and server.
Written by a core contributor to the framework, Node: Up and Running: Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript shows you how Node scales up to support large numbers of simultaneous connections across multiple servers, and scales down to let you create quick one-off applications with minimal infrastructure. Built on the V8 JavaScript engine that runs Google Chrome, Node is already winning the hearts and minds of many companies, including Google and Yahoo! This book shows you why. Download eBook Free »
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