by Douglas Crockford
Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole-a subset you can use to create truly extensible and effici...
Price: $4.37 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008
Intellectual Property and Open Source 
by Van Lindberg
If you work in information technology, intellectual property is central to your job - but dealing with the complexities of the legal system can be mind-boggling. This book is for anyone who wants to understand how the legal system deals with intellectual property rights for code and other content. You'll get a clear look at intellectual property issues from a developer's point of view, including p...
Price: $27.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008
by Tim Patrick
Ever since Visual Basic was merged into .NET, it's become the core language for creating business applications with Windows. The latest version, VB 2008, is even more useful -- and provides even more incentive for migrating from VB 6. All it lacks is a good book on how to harness its power. Programming Visual Basic 2008 fills the void.Written in a lively and engaging style by a developer who's gro...
Price: $18.81 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008
Learning ASP.NET 3.5, 2nd Edition
by Jesse Liberty, Dan Hurwitz, Brian MacDonald
With this book, you will learn how to create engaging and interactive web applications using the latest version of the world's most popular web development platform: ASP.NET with AJAX, built on the productivity-enhancing features of Visual Studio 2008.All you need to get started is a basic knowledge of HTML and a desire to produce professional quality websites.Learning ASP.NET 3.5 introduces new skills...
Price: $14.40 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008
by John Allspaw
Web-based companies live or die by the ability to scale their infrastructure to accommodate increasing demand. This book is a hands-on and practical guide to planning for such growth, with many techniques and considerations to help you plan, deploy, and manage web application infrastructure. Written by the manager of data operations for the world-famous photo-sharing site Flickr.com, the author offers advic...
Price: $6.43 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008
by Jesse Stay
Do you have an idea for a Facebook application? With FBML Essentials, you'll learn how to build it quickly using the Facebook Markup Language (FBML) and other easy-to-use tools in the site's framework. This book not only gets you started with this toolkit, you also get a complete reference on every FBML tag Facebook has ever written, with advice on the best ways to use these tags in your code....
Price: $3.73 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008
by Jon Flanders
RESTful .NET is the first book that teaches Windows developers to build RESTful web services using the latest Microsoft tools. Written by Windows Communication Foundation (WFC) expert Jon Flanders, this hands-on tutorial demonstrates how you can use WCF and other components of the .NET 3.5 Framework to build, deploy and use REST-based web services in a variety of application scenarios.RESTful architecture o...
Price: $31.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008
by Neal Ford
Anyone who develops software for a living needs a proven way to produce it better, faster, and cheaper. The Productive Programmer offers critical timesaving and productivity tools that you can adopt right away, no matter what platform you use. Master developer Neal Ford details ten valuable practices that will help you elude common traps, improve your code, and become more valuable to your team....
Price: $3.74 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008
by Justin Edelson, Henry Liu
If you're interested in JRuby, you probably don't need a turorial on Ruby, Rails, or Java - you just need to know how to get things done. This Cookbook offers practical solutions for using the Java implementation of the Ruby language, with targeted recipes for deploying Rails web applications on Java servers, integrating JRuby code with Java technologies, developing JRuby desktop applications with...
Price: $24.51 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008
by Ethan Watrall, Jeff Siarto
Want to know how to make your pages look beautiful, communicate your message effectively, guide visitors through your website with ease, and get everything approved by the accessibility and usability police at the same time? Head First Web Design is your ticket to mastering all of these complex topics, and understanding what's really going on in the world of web design.Whether you're building a pe...
Price: $19.11 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008