by Thomas Myer
Are you a web developer eager to move into the mobile space, but don't have the time to learn a new language? Then PhoneGap is what you've been waiting for. PhoneGap is a free and open source framework that allows you to create cross-platform applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Beginning PhoneGap shows you how to make it happen. After a brief review on installing and configuring PhoneGap...
Price: $7.72 | Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2011
by Mark Murphy
The vibrant and rich Android development platform, created by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, continues to be a platform in its truest sense, encompassing hundreds of classes beyond the traditional Java classes and open source components that ship with the software development kit. Android's continued growth includes support for Flash and Flash gaming apps, Wi-Fi tethering, improved performance, ...
Price: $5.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2011
Building ASP.NET Web Pages with Microsoft WebMatrix 
by Steve Lydford
WebMatrix is the latest addition to the hugely popular Microsoft ASP.NET web platform. This exciting new technology aims to simplify the process of developing websites by combining the new and powerful Razor syntax with a fully extensible set of data and HTML helpers for performing common web tasks.The WebMatrix installation includes all the tools the developer requires to quickly create fully-functional, d...
Price: $25.77 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2011
JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Example
by Carl Dea
JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Example provides a quick start to programming the JavaFX 2.0 platform. JavaFX 2.0 provides a rich set of APIs for use in creating graphically exciting client applications written solely in Java. You get a large set of customizable components that can be skinned using CSS techniques that you already know from doing web development. The platform even includes a web rendering engine...
Price: $34.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2011
by Lyza Danger Gardner, Jason Grigsby
Mobile web usage is exploding. Soon, more web browsing will take place on phones and tablets than PCs. Your business needs a mobile strategy, but where do you start? Head First Mobile Web shows how to use the web tech- nology you're already familiar with to make sites and apps that work on any device of any size. Put your JavaScript, CSS media query, and HTML5 skills to work, and then optimize your sit...
Price: $10.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Jeremy Leipzig, Xiao-Yi Li
How do you use R to import, manage, visualize, and analyze real-world data? With this short, hands-on tutorial, you learn how to collect online data, massage it into a reasonable form, and work with it using R facilities to interact with web servers, parse HTML and XML, and more. Rather than use canned sample data, you'll plot and analyze current home foreclosure auctions in Philadelphia.This practical...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node
by Mike Amundsen
With this concise book, you'll learn the art of building hypermedia APIs that don't simply run on the Web, but that actually exist in the Web. You'll start with the general principles and technologies behind this architectural approach, and then dive hands-on into three fully-functional API examples.Too many APIs rely on concepts rooted in desktop and local area network patterns that don'...
Price: $4.98 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Jon Reid
Native apps have distinct advantages, but the future belongs to mobile web apps that function on a broad range of smartphones and tablets. Get started with jQuery Mobile, the touch-optimized framework for creating apps that look and behave consistently across many devices. This concise book provides HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript code examples, screen shots, and step-by-step guidance to help you build a comple...
Price: $7.40 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Jess Chadwick
Take Razor for a test drive and discover first hand how this scripting syntax simplifies the way you create dynamic, data-driven websites. With this concise guide, you'll work with Razor syntax by building example websites with Microsoft WebMatrix and ASP.NET MVC. You'll quickly learn how Razor lets you combine code and content in a fluid and expressive manner on Windows-based servers.Programming ...
Price: $8.86 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Getting Started with GEO, CouchDB, and Node.js
by Mick Thompson
Today's mobile devices have GPS and standard APIs to give you access to coordinates - but what can you do with that data? With this concise book, application developers learn how to work with location data quickly and easily, using Node.js, CouchDB, and other open source tools and libraries.Node.js makes it simple to run event code on the Web, and the CouchDB document-oriented database lets you store l...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011