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
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 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
Mobile JavaScript Application Development
by Adrian Kosmaczewski
When developing apps for the latest smartphones, you're faced with several vexing questions. How many platforms do you need to accommodate? What level of support do mobile browsers provide? To help you address these and many other key issues, this guide provides a hands-on tour of the most powerful JavaScript frameworks available today.You'll build sample apps with jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, and...
Price: $18.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Tom Hughes-Croucher, Mike Wilson
This book introduces you to Node, the new web development framework written in JavaScript. You'll learn hands-on how Node makes life easier for experienced JavaScript developers: not only can you work on the front end and back end in the same language, you'll also have more flexibility in choosing how to divide application logic between client and server.Written by a core contributor to the framew...
Price: $24.25 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Jim Jackson II, Ian Gilman
HTML5 for .NET Developers teaches you how to blend HTML5 with your current .NET tools and practices. You'll start with a quick overview of the new HTML5 features and the semantic markup model. Then, you'll systematically work through the JavaScript APIs as you learn to build single page web apps that look and work like desktop apps. Along the way, you'll get tips and learn techniques that wil...
Price: $24.79 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2012
by David Mark Clements
A hands on approach to learning Node to equip and guide you in the art of asynchronous server side JavaScript.Packed with practical recipes taking you from the basics to extending Node with your own modules. Create your own web server to see Node's features in action. Work with JSON, XML, web sockets, and make the most of asynchronous programming....
Price: $26.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2012