Padding, Borders, Outlines, and Margins in CSS 
by Eric A. Meyer
The ability to apply margins, borders, and padding to any web page element is one of the things that sets CSS so far above traditional markup. With this practical guide, you will not only learn how to use these properties to lay out your document, but also how to change and control the appearance of any element on the page.Short and sweet, this short book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of CS...
Price: $7.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
Basic Visual Formatting in CSS
by Eric A. Meyer
Some aspects of the CSS formatting model may seem counterintuitive at first, but as you'll learn in this practical guide, the more you work with these features, the more they make sense. Author Eric Meyer gives you a good grounding in CSS visual rendering, from element box rules and concepts to the specifics of managing tricky layouts for block-level and inline elements.Short and sweet, this book is an...
Price: $9.90 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
FREE EBOOK - Graph Databases, 2nd Edition
by Ian Robinson, Jim Webber, Emil Eifrem
Discover how graph databases can help you manage and query highly connected data. With this practical book, you'll learn how to design and implement a graph database that brings the power of graphs to bear on a broad range of problem domains. Whether you want to speed up your response to user queries or build a database that can adapt as your business evolves, this book shows you how to apply the schem...
Price: $32.77 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman
In the course of their 20+-year engineering careers, authors Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman have picked up a treasure trove of wisdom and anecdotes about how successful teams work together. Their conclusion? Even among people who have spent decades learning the technical side of their jobs, most haven't really focused on the human component. Learning to collaborate is just as important to su...
Price: $14.95 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
SVG Colors, Patterns & Gradients
by Amelia Bellamy-Royds, Kurt Cagle
As a vector graphics format, SVG uses precisely-defined geometric shapes to build an image. But that doesn't mean that SVG graphics have to look like technical drawings. SVG graphics can be shaded, textured, built from partially-transparent overlapping layers, or even filled with photographic images.SVG Colors, Patterns, and Gradients takes an in-depth look at the different ways SVG text and shapes can...
Price: $27.53 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by J. David Eisenberg
A short composition that provides practice material for a particular musical skill is called an etude. In this hands-on book, you'll find more than 30 etudes to help you practice ClojureScript skills for specific programming areas, ranging from functions and variables to asynchronous processing. Each of these small projects includes a description of a program that you will compose (write) in ClojureScr...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Raymond Camden
One of the most useful features of today's modern browsers is the ability to store data right on the user's computer or mobile device. Even as more people move toward the cloud, client-side storage can still save web developers a lot of time and money, if you do it right. This hands-on guide demonstrates several storage APIs in action. You'll learn how and when to use them, their plusses and ...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Mike Barlow
Until recently, many people thought big data was a passing fad. "Data science" was an enigmatic term. Today, big data is taken seriously, and data science is considered downright sexy. With this anthology of reports from award-winning journalist Mike Barlow, you'll appreciate how data science is fundamentally altering our world, for better and for worse.Barlow paints a picture of the ...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
iOS 9 Swift Programming Cookbook
by Vandad Nahavandipoor
Ready to build stunning apps for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch? This cookbook - completely rewritten with all-new material - provides 90 proven solutions for tackling the latest features in iOS 9 and watchOS 2.0. Written exclusively in Apple's Swift language, these code-rich recipes show you how to use dynamic user interfaces, interactive maps, multitasking functionality, Apple's new UI Testing fr...
Price: $14.54 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
iOS 9 Programming Fundamentals with Swift
by Matt Neuburg
Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode IDE, the Cocoa Touch framework, and Swift 2.0 - the latest version of Apple's acclaimed programming language. With this thoroughly updated guide, you'll learn Swift's object-oriented concepts, understand how to use Apple's development tools, and discover how Cocoa provides the underlying functional...
Price: $4.25 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015