Programming 3D Applications with HTML5 and WebGL
by Tony Parisi
Create high-performance, visually stunning 3D applications for the Web, using HTML5 and related technologies such as CSS3 and WebGL - the emerging web graphics standard. With this book, you'll learn how to use the tools, frameworks, and libraries for building 3D models and animations, mind-blowing visual effects, and advanced user interaction in both desktop and mobile browsers.In two parts - Foundatio...
Price: $29.90 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Building Web Apps with WordPress
by Brian Messenlehner, Jason Coleman
WordPress is much more than a blogging platform. As this practical guide clearly demonstrates, you can use WordPress to build web apps of any type - not mere content sites, but full-blown apps for specific tasks. If you have PHP experience with a smattering of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you'll learn how to use WordPress plugins and themes to develop fast, scalable, and secure web apps, native mobile ap...
Price: $23.94 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Test-Driven Development with Python
by Harry J.W. Percival
By taking you through the development of a real web application from beginning to end, this hands-on guide demonstrates the practical advantages of test-driven development (TDD) with Python. You'll learn how to write and run tests before building each part of your app, and then develop the minimum amount of code required to pass those tests. The result? Clean code that works.In the process, you'll...
Price: $3.02 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Neal Ford
If you want to take advantage of functional programming features in Java and other languages, this in-depth guide takes you beyond syntax and demonstrates how you need to think in a new way. Software architect Neal Ford shows intermediate to advanced developers how functional coding allows you to step back a level of abstraction so you can see your programming problem with greater clarity.Each chapter shows...
Price: $21.89 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Lee Boonstra
Get hands-on experience building speedy mobile web apps with Sencha Touch 2.3, the user interface JavaScript framework built specifically for the mobile Web. With this book, you'll learn how to build a complete touch application, called Find a Cab, that has the look and feel of a native app on Android, iOS, Windows, and BlackBerry devices.In the process, you'll work with Sencha's model-view-c...
Price: $6.06 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Joshua Backfield
If you have an imperative (and probably object-oriented) programming background, this hands-on book will guide you through the alien world of functional programming. Author Joshua Backfield begins slowly by showing you how to apply the most useful implementation concepts before taking you further into functional-style concepts and practices.In each chapter, you'll learn a functional concept and then us...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Brandon Satrom
Add custom features to browsers old and new by writing polyfill libraries, JavaScript plugins that take browsers beyond their native capabilities. In this practical fieldbook, author Brandon Satrom introduces principles and guidelines for polyfill development, and then walks you through the steps for building a complex, real-world HTML5 polyfill.You'll also explore the future of polyfilling - or prolly...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Real-Time Communication with WebRTC
by Salvatore Loreto, Simon Pietro Romano
Deliver rich audio and video real-time communication and peer-to-peer data exchange right in the browser, without the need for proprietary plug-ins. This concise hands-on guide shows you how to use the emerging Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) technology to build a browser-to-browser application, piece by piece.The authors' learn-by-example approach is perfect for web programmers looking to underst...
Price: $21.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Darren Cook
Make sure your website or web application users get content updates right now with minimal latency. This concise guide shows you how to push new data from the server to clients with HTML5 Server-Sent Events (SSE), an exceptional technology that doesn't require constant polling or user interaction. You'll learn how to build a real-world SSE application from start to finish that solves a demanding d...
Price: $23.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Tom Igoe, Don Coleman, Brian Jepson
Jump into the world of Near Field Communications (NFC), the fast-growing technology that lets devices in close proximity exchange data, using radio signals. With lots of examples, sample code, exercises, and step-by-step projects, this hands-on guide shows you how to build NFC applications for Android, the Arduino microcontroller, and embedded Linux devices.You'll learn how to write apps using the NFC ...
Price: $25.12 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014