by Tom Barker
Performance is a hugely important area of web development. If your site runs slowly, users are going to leave, and the problem only grows as your site gets more popular. Pro JavaScript Performance gives you the tools you need to keep your sites smooth and responsive no matter how many users you have.Best practices are changing or becoming redefined continually because of changes and optimizations at the int...
Price: $34.98 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
Windows 8 Apps Revealed Using HTML5 and JavaScript 
by Adam Freeman
Windows 8 contains Microsoft's revolutionary new application framework for building dynamic and responsive touch-enabled applications that target both desktops and mobile devices.Experienced author Adam Freeman invites you to take a crash course in Windows 8 development. Using the open standards of HTML5 and JavaScript, he ensures you understand the changes that are being made to Windows development pr...
Price: $3.42 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
Building Mobile Applications with Java
by Joshua Marinacci
Do you want to develop mobile apps with Java - and have them work on a variety of devices powered by iOS and Android? You've come to the right place.This project-driven book shows you how to build portable apps with two amazing open source frameworks, Google Web Tools (GWT) and PhoneGap. With these tools, you'll use learn how to write Java code that compiles into cross-platform Javascript and HTML...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Programming Android, 2nd Edition
by Zigurd Mednieks, Laird Dornin, G. Blake Meike, Masumi Nakamura
Get thoroughly up to speed on Android programming, and learn how to create up-to-date user experiences for both handsets and tablets. With this book's extensively revised second edition, you'll focus on Android tools and programming essentials, including best practices for using Android 4 APIs. If you're experienced with Java or Objective-C, you'll gain the knowledge necessary for buildi...
Price: $15.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
JavaScript Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition
by David Flanagan
JavaScript is the ubiquitous programming language of the Web, and for more than 15 years, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide has been the bible of JavaScript programmers around the world. This book is an all-new excerpt of The Definitive Guide, collecting the essential parts of that hefty volume into this slim yet dense pocket reference.The first 9 chapters document the latest version (ECMAScript 5) of the co...
Price: $8.36 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Garann Means
If you know how to use JavaScript in the browser, you already have the skills you need to put JavaScript to work on back-end servers with Node. This hands-on book shows you how to use this popular JavaScript platform to create simple server applications, communicate with the client, build dynamic pages, work with data, and tackle other tasks.Although Node has a complete library of developer-contributed modu...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
The Little Book on CoffeeScript
by Alex MacCaw
This little book shows JavaScript developers how to build superb web applications with CoffeeScript, the remarkable little language that's gaining considerable interest. Through example code, this guide demonstrates how CoffeeScript abstracts JavaScript, providing syntactical sugar and preventing many common errors. You'll learn CoffeeScript's syntax and idioms step by step, from basic variab...
Price: $7.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Ido Green
Web apps would run much better if heavy calculations could be performed in the background, rather than compete with the user interface. With this book, you'll learn how to use Web Workers to run computationally intensive JavaScript code in a thread parallel to the UI. Yes, multi-threaded programing is complicated, but Web Workers provide a simple API that helps you be productive without the complex alg...
Price: $7.71 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Mark Pollack, Oliver Gierke, Thomas Risberg, Jon Brisbin, Michael Hunger
You can choose several data access frameworks when building Java enterprise applications that work with relational databases. But what about big data? This hands-on introduction shows you how Spring Data makes it relatively easy to build applications across a wide range of new data access technologies such as NoSQL and Hadoop.Through several sample projects, you'll learn how Spring Data provides a cons...
Price: $24.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Nicholas C. Zakas
You may have definite ideas about writing code when working alone, but team development requires that everyone use the same approach. With the JavaScript practices in this book - including code style, programming tips, and automation - you'll learn how to write maintainable code that other team members can easily understand, adapt, and extend.Author Nicholas Zakas assembled this collection of best prac...
Price: $5.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012