Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Internet - Web Programming

Would you like to integrate Google+ with an existing website, or build your own social application on the platform? Developing with Google+ takes you on a tour of the Google+ APIs, with lots of concrete examples and hands-on projects. You'll learn how to take advantage of Google+ social plug-ins, communicate programmatically with Google+ over REST APIs, and author real-time Hangout Apps.

Over the course of this book, you'll follow the progress of a fictional company, Baking Disasters, as it incorporates all the features of the Google+ platform.

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Get a quick introduction to WebGL, the new standard for 3D rendering on the Web and a member of HTML5 s family of technologies. With this hands-on guide, you ll learn essential WebGL development and production concepts, using the JavaScript 3D engine Three.js. At the end of the book, you ll put everything together and build a full 3D application with WebGL.

You don t have to be a game development wizard or have 3D graphics experience to get started. If you use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and have familiarity with JQuery and Ajax this book will help you gain a working knowledge of WebGL...

If your web application s success depends on how quickly and easily users can make transactions, PayPal APIs provide effective solutions you can t afford to overlook. This concise book takes you hands-on through several options to help you determine the best choice for your situation, whether you re collecting money via websites or mobile apps for products and services, donations, or anything else.

In each chapter, you ll work with a different PayPal API by integrating it into the book s sample application, using Python and the Google App Engine framework. This expanded edition...

One skill that s essential for any professional JavaScript developer is the ability to write testable code. This book shows you what writing and maintaining testable JavaScript for the client- or server-side actually entails, whether you re creating a new application or rewriting legacy code.

From methods to reduce code complexity to unit testing, code coverage, debugging, and automation, you ll learn a holistic approach for writing JavaScript code that you and your colleagues can easily fix and maintain going forward. Testing JavaScript code is complicated. This book helps...

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.

In order of appearance, Web Performance Daybook authors include:...

"Simple, concise, instructive and informative - Tim Heuer, Microsoft (Redmond, WA)" (On C# version of the Book ) "This is a great book for someone looking to get a broad view of the Silverlight 4 platform. It is very simple to read/understand for anyone wanting to get started. The book is very illustrative - literally - to provide good visuals about each of the core concepts. At the end of reading this book and following the examples, the reader should be able to quickly start building "real" applications using the basic concepts. ... Recommend."

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Discover how easy it is to design killer interfaces and responsive websites with the Bootstrap framework. This practical book gets you started building pages with Bootstrap's HTML/CSS-based tools and design templates right away. You'll also learn how to extend your app with interactive features, using its suite of jQuery plugins--often without writing a single line of code.

Developed by Twitter and available free from GitHub, Bootstrap supports responsive design by dynamically adjusting your web page layout. With just a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you can build apps...

Want to simplify web development? This hands-on book shows you how to write frontend and backend code simultaneously, using the Opa framework. Opa provides a complete stack for web application development, including a web server, database engine, distribution libraries, and a programming language that compiles to JavaScript.

You'll learn step-by-step how to use Opa by building two projects through the course of the book: a wiki application similar to Wikipedia, and a Twitter-like micro-blogging platform. Discover how easy it is to use Opa to develop applications with real-time...

Like to build websites in the wild with your MacBook? This concise hands-on guide introduces you to the ideal editor: Coda 2. Rather than clutter your screen with shell access, a separate CSS editor, and a version control app, you ll discover how Coda s "one-window web development" bundles everything into one neat application. Take Coda on a trial run, then learn step-by-step how to configure each feature to fit your working style. You ll find out firsthand how Coda will save you time and effort on your next project.

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How prepared are you to build fast and efficient web applications? This eloquent book provides what every web developer should know about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications--including HTTP 2.0 and XHR improvements, Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSocket, and WebRTC.

Author Ilya Grigorik, a web performance engineer at Google, demonstrates performance optimization best practices for TCP, UDP, and TLS protocols, and explains unique wireless and mobile network optimization requirements....

With DOM Enlightenment, you ll learn how to manipulate HTML more efficiently by scripting the Document Object Model (DOM) without a DOM library. Using code examples in cookbook style, author Cody Lindley (jQuery Cookbook) walks you through modern DOM concepts to demonstrate how various node objects work.

Over the past decade, developers have buried the DOM under frameworks that simplify its use. This book brings these tools back into focus, using concepts and code native to modern browsers. If you have JavaScript experience, you ll understand the role jQuery plays in...

Get a Jump Start on PHP today

PHP is a key server-side technology in web development, enabling you to quickly and simply develop interactive, usable and engaging websites and applications.

In just one weekend with this SitePoint book, you'll learn how to:

• Install all of the software you need to begin developing PHP applications
• Understand PHP functions and syntax
• Build a complete, working PHP application from scratch: a simple social networking app

The popularity of REST in recent years has led to tremendous growth in almost-RESTful APIs that don't include many of the architecture's benefits. With this practical guide, you'll learn what it takes to design usable REST APIs that evolve over time. By focusing on solutions that cross a variety of domains, this book shows you how to create powerful and secure applications, using the tools designed for the world's most successful distributed computing system: the World Wide Web.

You'll explore the concepts behind REST, learn different strategies for creating hypermedia-based APIs,...

Jump Start Rails provides you with a fun and yet practical introduction to Rails, an incredibly popular framework that makes it possible to quickly develop incredibly powerful web applications with Ruby. This short book covers Rails 4, the latest version of the framework, and while it's not intended to be a completely comprehensive Rails guide or an in-depth Ruby tutorial, it will quickly get you up to speed with Rails and give you the confidence to start experimenting on your own.

The book is built around a real-life example project: a personal portfolio site. It's a fun and...

This short SitePoint book provides readers with a fun and yet practical introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the language used to style and lay out all web pages. This book will quickly get you up to speed with the fundamentals of CSS and give you the confidence to start experimenting on your own.

It covers:

• Layout techniques
• Images, backgrounds, text
• Navigation
• Getting fancy with CSS3

The book is built around a real-life example project: a recipe website design. It's a fun and easily understandable project that is used to...