by Eric A. Meyer
The Grid Layout spec will soon change your approach to website design, but there will still be plenty of uses for CSS positioning tricks. Whether you want to create sidebars that remain in the viewport (browser window), add sticky section headings to lists or long articles, or overlap one element with another, this concise ebook will expertly guide you through all the main CSS positioning types.Short and de...
Price: $7.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Eric A. Meyer
Isn't table layout something web designers want to avoid? Yes, but rather than use tables for layout, this book is about the ways that tables themselves are laid out by CSS, a process more complicated than it appears. This concise guide takes you on a deep dive into the concepts necessary for understanding CSS and tables in your web layout, including table formatting, cell alignment, and table width.Sh...
Price: $7.10 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Stoyan Stefanov
Hit the ground running with React, the open-source technology from Facebook for building rich web applications fast. With this practical guide, Yahoo! web developer Stoyan Stefanov teaches you how to build components - React's basic building blocks - and organize them into maintainable, large-scale apps. If you're familiar with basic JavaScript syntax, you're ready to get started.Once you und...
Price: $34.08 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Lorna Jane Mitchell
Whether you're sharing data between two internal systems or building an API so that users can access their data, this practical guide has everything you need to build APIs with PHP. Author Lorna Jane Mitchell provides lots of hands-on code samples, real-world examples, and advice based on her extensive experience to guide you through the process - from the underlying theory to methods for making your s...
Price: $18.59 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Benjamin Evans, James Gough, Chris Newland
Currently, no books exist that focus on the practicalities of Java application performance tuning, as opposed to the theory and internals of Java virtual machines. This practical guide is the "missing link" that aims to move Java performance tuning from the realm of guesswork and folklore to an experimental science.Learn how to approach performance problems in an consistent and systematic way; Res...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Chris Dawson, Ben Straub
For your next project on GitHub, take advantage of the service's powerful API to meet your unique development requirements. This practical guide shows you how to build your own software tools for customizing the GitHub workflow. Each hands-on chapter is a compelling story that walks you through the tradeoffs and considerations for building applications on top of various GitHub technologies.If you'...
Price: $14.97 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by David Sklar
If you want to get started with PHP, this book is essential. Author David Sklar (PHP Cookbook) guides you through aspects of the language you need to build dynamic server-side websites. By exploring features of PHP 5.x and the exciting enhancements in the latest release, PHP 7, you'll learn how to work with web servers, browsers, databases, and web services. End-of-chapter exercises help you make the l...
Price: $16.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition 
by Eben Hewitt, Jeff Carpenter
Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This expanded second edition - updated for Cassandra 3.0 - provides the technical details and practical examples you need to put this database to work in a ...
Price: $28.24 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Michael Nash, Wade Waldron
When it comes to big data processing, we can no longer ignore concurrency or try to add it in after the fact. Fortunately, the solution is not a new paradigm of development, but rather an old one. With this hands-on guide, Java and Scala developers will learn how to embrace concurrent and distributed applications with the open source Akka toolkit. You'll learn how to put the actor model and its associa...
Price: $19.07 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
XenServer Administration Handbook
by Tim Mackey, J.K. Benedict
Packed with practical advice, this hands-on guide provides valuable information you need to most effectively optimize and manage the XenServer open source virtualization platform. Whether you run a modest installation of a few blades or multiple global enterprise datacenters, this book focuses on the most critical issues you're likely to encounter when designing a XenServer deployment and helps you han...
Price: $25.62 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016