Web Development
The Search Engine Marketing Kit, 2E
By Dan Thies, Dave Davies
May 2008
$197.00 USD
If you've always considered Search Engine Marketing an unknowable black art, it's time to think again. The Search Engine Marketing Kit will teach you best-practice strategies to maximize both organized… Read more.
JavaScript: The Good Parts
By Douglas Crockford
May 2008
$29.99 USD
Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be… Read more.
Flex 3 Cookbook
By Joshua Noble, Todd Anderson
May 2008
$44.99 USD
This highly practical book contains more than 300 proven recipes for developing interactive Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 sites. You'll find everything from Flex basics and working with menus… Read more.
Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date
By Christian Wenz
April 2008
$34.99 USD
Design rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web using Silverlight 2, the latest version of Microsoft's hot new runtime application -- without waiting for the official release. With this unique… Read more.
Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide
By Amy Shuen
April 2008
$24.99 USD
Web 2.0 makes headlines, but how does it make money? This concise guide explains what's different about Web 2.0 and how those differences can improve the bottom line. Whether you're… Read more.
Programming Amazon Web Services
By James Murty
March 2008
$49.99 USD
With this book, you'll learn how companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to "rent" computing power, data storage and bandwidth on Amazon's vast network infrastructure. Programming Amazon… Read more.
Ajax: The Definitive Guide
By Anthony T. Holdener III
January 2008
$49.99 USD
Ajax builds on older technologies and techniques but reaches a tipping point where the results are new. This book gives you a boost to this next stage of web application… Read more.
Enterprise Application Development with Flex
January 2008
$19.99 USD
This Short Cut takes a look at a set of tools and technologies that work together to allow developers to build Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) quickly and easily on top of proven enterprise technologies that… Read more.
Advanced Rails
By Brad Ediger
December 2007
$34.99 USD
This is the book for experienced Rails developers who want to go to the next level with this web development framework, with an in-depth look at techniques for dealing with… Read more.
The Art & Science of JavaScript
By Michael Mahemoff, Cameron Adams, James Edwards, Dan Webb, Simon Willison, Ara Pehlivanian, Christian Heilmann
December 2007
$39.95 USD
Seven of the greatest minds in modern JavaScript come together to teach you the most inspirational techniques you'll ever use. This book will change the way you approach JavaScript forever! Read more.
Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5
By Omar Al Zabir
December 2007
$44.99 USD
If you think you're well versed in ASP.NET, think again. This exceptional guide gives you a master class in site building with this framework. You learn how to develop rock-solid… Read more.
Apache Cookbook
, Second Edition
By Rich Bowen, Ken Coar
December 2007
$34.99 USD
The new edition of the Apache Cookbook offers you updated solutions to the problems you're likely to encounter with Apache. Thoroughly updated for Apache versions 2.0 and 2.2, this book… Read more.
Head First JavaScript
By Michael Morrison
December 2007
$39.99 USD
Want to make the leap from writing HTML and CSS web pages and create dynamic web applications? Want to take your web skills to the next level? It sounds like… Read more.
Visualizing Data
By Ben Fry
December 2007
$39.99 USD
How you can take advantage of data that you might otherwise never use? With the help of a downloadable programming environment, this book helps you represent data accurately on the… Read more.
Tomcat: The Definitive Guide
, Second Edition
By Jason Brittain, Ian F. Darwin
October 2007
$39.99 USD
It takes a book as versatile as its subject to cover Apache Tomcat. This book is a valuable reference for administrators and webmasters, a useful guide for programmers who want… Read more.
Getting Started with Pyparsing
By Paul McGuire
October 2007
$9.99 USD
Need to extract data from a text file or a web page? Or do you want to make your application more flexible with user-defined commands or search strings? Do regular expressions and lex/yacc make your… Read more.
CSS Pocket Reference
, Third Edition
By Eric A. Meyer
October 2007
$9.99 USD
The third edition of the CSS Pocket Reference has been completely revised and updated to reflect the latest Cascading Style Sheet specifications in CSS 2.1. This indispensable little reference covers… Read more.
Introducing Silverlight 1.1
By Todd Anglin
October 2007
$9.99 USD
In this Short Cut, we'll take a close look at Silverlight 1.1 and bring clarity to this bleeding-edge technology. First we'll take a broad look at the new concept of Rich Internet Applications and… Read more.
Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX
By Jesse Liberty, Dan Hurwitz, Brian MacDonald
September 2007
$44.99 USD
This book teaches web developers how to quickly build engaging and interactive web sites and applications of professional quality using Microsoft's latest web development tools. You'll not only learn to… Read more.
Flex 3 Early Evaluation: Assessing Flex and Your Project Needs
By EffectiveUI Inc.
September 2007
$9.99 USD
Evaluating any new technology can be a challenge. This Short Cut is designed to help web application developers (and their team managers) understand if Flex is the right technology for their company or client. Although… Read more.
High Performance Web Sites
By Steve Souders
September 2007
$29.99 USD
Want to speed up your web site? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 20% to 25% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders,… Read more.
Google Analytics PDF
By Justin Cutroni
August 2007
$9.99 USD
Web analytics is the process of measuring your web site, analyzing the data, and making changes based on the analysis. Many businesses are just starting to learn how they can… Read more.
Learning PHP & MySQL
, Second Edition
By Michele E. Davis, Jon A. Phillips
August 2007
$29.99 USD
PHP and MySQL are quickly becoming the de facto standard for rapid development of dynamic, database-driven web sites. With concepts explained in plain English, the new edition starts with the… Read more.
JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook
, Second Edition
By Danny Goodman
August 2007
$44.99 USD
In today's Web 2.0 world, JavaScript and Dynamic HTML are at the center of the hot new approach to designing highly interactive pages on the client side. With this environment… Read more.
Learning Flash Media Server 2
By William B. Sanders
July 2007
$19.99 USD
This unique PDF-only book is the ideal primer for web developers just getting started with Flash Media Server 2 (FMS2) and Adobe's Real-Time Messaging Protocol for streaming media, as well… Read more.
Securing Ajax Applications
By Christopher Wells
July 2007
$49.99 USD
Ajax applications should be open yet secure. Far too often security is added as an afterthought. Potential flaws need to be identified and addressed right away. This book explores Ajax… Read more.
Implementing BEA Portal 92
By Mark Kolb
July 2007
$9.99 USD
Portals have come into their own in the last several years. Over this time, I have seen portal technology become the latest expression of businesses trying to organize the torrent… Read more.
Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide
By Mike Chambers, Daniel Dura, Kevin Hoyt
July 2007
$14.99 USD
This book explains how you can use AIR to build and deploy HTML and JavaScript-based web applications to the desktop, using all of the tools and technologies with which you… Read more.
Essential ActionScript 3.0
By Colin Moock
June 2007
$54.99 USD
More than two years in the making, ActionScript 3.0 presents perhaps the most substantial upgrade to Flash's programming language ever. The enhancements to ActionScript's performance, feature set, ease of use,… Read more.
Simply JavaScript
By Kevin Yank, Cameron Adams
June 2007
$39.95 USD
Are you ready to step beyond HTML? Perfect for first-time JavaScript coders, the authors Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams will teach you JavaScript basics from the ground up in this… Read more.
Adding Ajax
By Shelley Powers
June 2007
$34.99 USD
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… Read more.
An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium
By C. Titus Brown, Gheorghe Gheorghiu, Jason Huggins
June 2007
$9.99 USD
This Short Cut is an introduction to building automated web tests using two tools, twill and Selenium. twill is a simple web scripting language that can be used to automate web tests, while Selenium… Read more.
Flex Early Evaluation: Assessing Flex and Your Project Needs
By EffectiveUI Inc.
May 2007
$9.99 USD
Evaluating any new technology can be a challenge. This Short Cut is designed to help web application developers (and their team managers) understand if Flex is the right technology for their company or client. Although… Read more.
Rails on Windows
By Curt Hibbs, Brian Hogan
May 2007
$9.99 USD
It's no secret that the entire Ruby on Rails core team uses OS X as their preferred development environment. Because of this, it is very easy to find authoritative information on the web about using… Read more.
RESTful Web Services
By Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby
May 2007
$39.99 USD
You've built web sites that can be used by humans. But can you also build web sites that are usable by machines? That's where the future lies, and that's what… Read more.
Programming Firefox
By Kenneth C. Feldt
April 2007
$59.99 USD
This is your guide to building Internet applications and user interfaces with the Mozilla component framework, which is best known for the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client. Programming… Read more.
Programming Flex 2
By Chafic Kazoun, Joey Lott
April 2007
$54.99 USD
Programming Flex 2 discusses the Flex framework in context. The authors introduce features with practical and useful examples that tell the reader not only how, but also the reasons why… Read more.
Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)
By Philip C. Plumlee
April 2007
$9.99 USD
The World Wide Web has come a long way from static HTML pages. Today's developers enforce and enjoy standards, and we have built the web's primitive tools into advanced libraries,… Read more.
No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology
April 2007
$32.95 USD
The No Fluff, Just Stuff Symposium Series is a traveling conference series for software developers visiting 27 cities a year. No Fluff has put on over 75 symposia throughout the… Read more.
Release It!
By Michael T. Nygard
March 2007
$34.95 USD
Everything changes after Release 1.0. The consultants leave; key developers get reassigned to new projects, and the wild and free environment of development gets replaced by change review boards and… Read more.
Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers
By Michael Schrenk
March 2007
$39.95 USD
The internet is bigger and better than what a mere brower allows. Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers is for developers and business managers looking to unlock the competitive advantages of… Read more.
The Art and Science of CSS
By Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton, David Johnson, Steve Smith, Jonathan Snook
March 2007
$39.95 USD
CSS-based design doesn't need to be boring. The Art & Science of CSS, brings together a talented collection of designers who will show you how to take the building blocks… Read more.
Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide
By Mike Chambers, Rob Dixon, Jeff Swartz
March 2007
$14.99 USD
Now you can build and deploy Flash-based Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop using Adobe's Flex framework. Written by members of the Apollo product team, this is the official… Read more.
Introduction to Flex 2
By Roger Braunstein
February 2007
$9.99 USD
This Short Cut is all about getting up and running with Adobe Flex 2; a perfect title would be "(Almost) Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know about Flex 2 But… Read more.
Ajax on Java
By Steven Douglas Olson
February 2007
$29.99 USD
This practical guide shows you how to make your Java web applications more responsive and dynamic by incorporating new Ajaxian features: suggestion lists, drag-and-drop, and more. Java developers can choose… Read more.
Rails for Java Developers
By Stuart Halloway, Justin Gehtland
February 2007
$34.95 USD
If you are a Java programmer, you shouldn't have to start at the very beginning! You already have deep experience with the design issues that inspired Rails, and can use… Read more.
Lead Generation on the Web
By Thomas Myer
February 2007
$27.99 USD
Are you a small-business owner, consultant, or marketing manager for a big company selling an intangible service or hard-to-understand product? Does it take a while to gain your customer's trust… Read more.
What's New in Apache Web Server 2.2?
By Rich Bowen
February 2007
$9.99 USD
What's New in Apache Web Server 2.2? shows you all the new features you'll know to set up and administer the Apache 2.2 web server. Learn how to take advantage… Read more.
Software Testing Foundations
, Second Edition
By Tilo Linz, Hans Schaefer, Andreas Spillner
January 2007
$44.95 USD
This book covers the entry level, the "Foundations Level" and teaches the most important methods of software testing. It is designed for self-study and provides the necessary knowledge to pass… Read more.
ActionScript 3.0 Programming: Overview, Getting Started, and Examples of New Concepts
By William B. Sanders
January 2007
$9.99 USD
This document employs reusable code examples to demonstrate the basic functionality of ActionScript 3.0 in the following topic areas: Packages and Classes; Display Programming; Movie Clips and Buttons; and Basic… Read more.
Rails Cookbook
By Rob Orsini
January 2007
$39.99 USD
This book is packed with the solutions you need to be a proficient developer with Rails, the leading framework for building the new generation of Web 2.0 applications. Recipes range… Read more.
Ajax on Rails
By Scott Raymond
January 2007
$39.99 USD
Learn to build dynamic, interactive web applications using the two most important approaches to web development today: Ajax and the phenomenally efficient Ruby on Rails platform. This book teaches you… Read more.
Google Web Toolkit for Ajax
By Bruce W. Perry
January 2007
$9.99 USD
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a nifty framework that Java programmers can use to create Ajax applications. The GWT allows you to create an Ajax application in your favorite… Read more.
Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
, Third Edition
By Danny Goodman
December 2006
$59.99 USD
Packed with information on the latest web specifications and browser features, this new edition is your ultimate one-stop resource for HTML, XHTML, CSS, Document Object Model (DOM), and JavaScript development.… Read more.
Agile Web Development with Rails
, Second Edition
By Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson
December 2006
$39.95 USD
Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework that enables you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications with a twist...you can create a full Rails application using less code than the… Read more.
The Book of JavaScript
, Second Edition
By thau!
December 2006
$39.95 USD
The Book of JavaScript teaches readers how to add interactivity, animation, and other tricks to their web sites with JavaScript. Rather than provide a series of cut-and-paste scripts, thau! takes… Read more.
Capistrano and the Rails Application Lifecycle
By Tom Mornini, Marc Loy
December 2006
$9.99 USD
Learn how to make your Rails deployments pain-free with Capistrano! This Short Cut shows you how to use Capistrano to automate the deployment of your Rails applications. It teaches you… Read more.
Releasing CSS
By Christopher Schmitt
November 2006
$9.99 USD
In an industry that communicates with terms such as "Browser Hell" and "browser wars," a web designer can be excused for having some anxiety over Microsoft's recent upgrade of Internet… Read more.
Prototype and Scriptaculous: Taking the Pain out of JavaScript
By Chris Angus
November 2006
$9.99 USD
This Short Cut demonstrates how to use Prototype for a wide range of tasks, including event handling, DOM processing, string and form process, and Ajax communications. It explores Scriptaculous' visual… Read more.
Prototype Quick Reference
By Scott Raymond
November 2006
$9.99 USD
This short cut provides a complete quick reference to the Prototype JavaScript framework. Prototype is an open-source library that is particularly useful to developers of dynamic Ajax applications, and to… Read more.
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
, Third Edition
By Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld
November 2006
$39.99 USD
In this post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups, well-planned information architecture has never been more essential. This classic primer shows information architects, designers, and web site developers… Read more.
Mongrel
By Angel Dobbs-Sciortino
November 2006
$9.99 USD
This shortcut teaches you how to use Mongrel, the new high-performance web application container for Rails. It starts with basic setup and installation, but goes well beyond the basics, showing… Read more.
CSS: The Definitive Guide
, Third Edition
By Eric A. Meyer
November 2006
$44.99 USD
CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition, provides you with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of all aspects of CSS 2.1. Updated to cover Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's… Read more.
How to Build an RSS 2.0 Feed
By Mark Woodman
November 2006
$7.99 USD
The little orange feed icons are everywhere on the web. From search engines to shopping sites to blogs, Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0) has become one of the hottest web… Read more.
Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB
, Second Edition
By Cristian Darie, Zak Ruvalcaba
October 2006
$44.95 USD
Learn how to build impressive ASP.NET 2.0 web sites in both C# and VB from scratch. Using a practical step-by-step approach, the authors introduce the ASP.NET framework, teach you about… Read more.
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide
, Sixth Edition
By Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy
October 2006
$49.99 USD
Put everthing you need to know about HTML and XHTML at your fingertips. For nearly a decade, hundreds of thousands of web developers have turned to HTML & XHTML: The… Read more.
CSS Cookbook
, Second Edition
By Christopher Schmitt
October 2006
$44.99 USD
For those all-too-common dilemmas that crop up with each project, CSS Cookbook provides hundreds of practical examples with CSS code recipes that you can use immediately to format your web… Read more.
Learning JavaScript
By Shelley Powers
October 2006
$29.99 USD
Using the latest examples from modern browser development practices, Learning JavaScript teaches you how to integrate the language with the browser environment, and how to practice proper coding techniques for… Read more.
Getting Acquainted with OPML
By Amy Bellinger
October 2006
$7.99 USD
You've put off figuring out what Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) is all about and what it can do, right? We'll bring you into the picture quickly with 14 wide-ranging uses… Read more.
ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
By Joey Lott, Darron Schall, Keith Peters
October 2006
$39.99 USD
Well before Ajax and Windows Presentation Foundation, Macromedia Flash provided the first method for building "rich" web pages. Now, Adobe is making Flash a full-fledged development environment, and learning ActionScript… Read more.
ASP.NET 2.0 Black Book
By Belmaks Solutions Content Team, Dreamtech Software Development Team
October 2006
$49.99 USD
The ASP.Net 2.0 Black Book will help readers greatly harness the power of Microsoft's powerful and flexible ASP .Net 2.0 to develop and maintain Web-Based applications and solutions. The book… Read more.
Programming Atlas
By Christian Wenz
September 2006
$34.99 USD
Programming Atlas is not just another "drag and drop" ASP.NET book, but one that teaches you the fundamental Ajax technologies that make Atlas work. You'll begin with a tour of… Read more.
Using Microformats
By Brian Suda
September 2006
$9.99 USD
Microformats let you share structured information in HTML web pages. Although the information is visible to human readers--as it should be--software can also extract structured information. This Short Cut is… Read more.
Dynamic Apache with Ajax and JSON
By Tracy Brown
September 2006
$9.99 USD
Want to make your Ajax apps more dynamic? This Short Cut shows you how. It covers: Using the Apache 2.2.x framework to build MVC applications incorporating design patterns Building custom Apache… Read more.
Scripting InDesign with JavaScript
By Peter Kahrel
August 2006
$9.99 USD
InDesign provides a powerful set of tools for producing beautiful documents. While you can certainly do all your work by hand through InDesign's graphical interface, there are many times when… Read more.
CSS: The Missing Manual
By David Sawyer McFarland
August 2006
$34.99 USD
Cascading Style Sheets are now a reliable method for handling all kinds of Web page presentations -- from fonts and colors to page layout. But due to CSS's complexity most… Read more.
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
, Fifth Edition
By David Flanagan
August 2006
$49.99 USD
The indispensable reference for JavaScript programmers since 1996, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition is completely revised and expanded to cover JavaScript as it is used in today's Web 2.0 applications. Read more.
Deliver First Class Web Sites
By Shirley Kaiser
July 2006
$39.95 USD
Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists is the only organized and easy-to-use compilation of guidelines, checklists and tips for building modern, best-practice Websites. Drawing on dozens of books,… Read more.
FileMaker 8.5: Integrating the Web
By Susan Prosser
July 2006
$7.99 USD
FileMaker Pro, famed for power and ease of use, has added a suite of new features that can seriously boost your database productivity. This tutorial helps you take full advantage… Read more.
Ajax Design Patterns
June 2006
$44.99 USD
This handy reference reveals how Ajax patterns can vastly improve your web development projects. It does so by investigating how others have successfully dealt with conflicting design principles, and then… Read more.
Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications
By Matthew Eernisse
June 2006
$39.95 USD
Build Your Own Ajax Web Applications is a practical, step-by-step guide to bringing next-generation interactivity to your web sites today. This book will help you build responsive, professional, robust Ajax… Read more.
RJS Templates for Rails
By Cody Fauser
June 2006
$9.99 USD
RJS templates are an exciting and powerful new type of template added to Rails 1.1. Unlike conventional Rails templates that generate HTML or XML, RJS templates generate JavaScript code that… Read more.
Take Control of iWeb
By Steve Sande
June 2006
$10.00 USD
Learn how to make useful, attractive Web sites with iWeb! Apple's iWeb aims to help you build a Web site quickly and easily, but if you've found yourself stuck on the… Read more.
Your Life in Web Apps
By Giles Turnbull
June 2006
$5.99 USD
Have you dreamed of a simpler life where web apps and a browser meet all of your computing needs? All you need is a network connection. In this PDF Giles… Read more.
ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel Control
By Matt Gibbs, Bertrand Le Roy
May 2006
$9.99 USD
This newly revised Short Cut teaches you how to build richer and more interactive Ajax-style web pages using ASP.NET AJAX, Microsoft's Ajax framework for ASP.NET 2.0. The ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel… Read more.
Search Engine Optimization
By Harold Davis
May 2006
$9.99 USD
SEO--short for Search Engine Optimization--is the art, craft, and science of driving web traffic to web sites.Web traffic is food, drink, and oxygen--in short, life itself--to any web-based business. Whether… Read more.
Building Scalable Web Sites
By Cal Henderson
May 2006
$39.99 USD
This comprehensive guide covers the design of software and hardware systems for web applications. Using scores of examples and leading-edge tips, it details proven methods for scaling web applications to… Read more.
HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference
, Third Edition
By Jennifer Niederst Robbins
May 2006
$12.99 USD
You're ready to make the move to much cleaner standards-compliant web design, but how do you keep all those HTML tags and CSS values straight? This handy pocket guide offers… Read more.
Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS
By Ian Lloyd
May 2006
$29.95 USD
Want to learn web design from scratch? This book introduces you to HTML and CSS as you follow along with the author, step-by-step, to create a fully functional web site.… Read more.
HTML Utopia
, Second Edition
By Rachel Andrew
April 2006
$39.95 USD
HTML Utopia is for anyone who wants to use Cascading Style Sheets for layout, which allow for faster webpage downloads, easier site maintenance, and faster redesigns. The second edition of… Read more.
Flash 8 Cookbook
By Joey Lott
April 2006
$44.99 USD
This practical, nuts-and-bolts toolkit puts theory into practice with ready-made answers to common Flash development questions. It's the perfect resource for Flash developers, as well as designers who are ready… Read more.
Head Rush Ajax
By Brett McLaughlin
March 2006
$39.99 USD
Asynchronous programming lets you turn your own web sites into smooth, slick, responsive applications that make your users feel like they're back on the information superhighway, not stuck on a… Read more.
Ajax Hacks
By Bruce W. Perry
March 2006
$29.99 USD
Want to build next-generation web applications today? This book can show you how. A smart collection of 80 insider tips and tricks, Ajax Hacks covers the finer points of Asynchronous… Read more.
The JavaScript Anthology
By Cameron Adams, James Edwards
March 2006
$39.95 USD
The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a compilation of customizable solutions to the most common JavaScript questions and problems, including solutions using Ajax. All the code… Read more.
Web Site Cookbook
By Doug Addison
February 2006
$39.99 USD
This handy guide provides a wide range of solutions to real-life problems that come up regularly when creating and growing a website. With recipes that teach both routine and advanced… Read more.