FREE EBOOK - RESTful Web Services 
by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby
"Every developer working with the Web needs to read this book." - David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Rails framework"RESTful Web Services finally provides a practical roadmap for constructing services that embrace the Web, instead of trying to route around it." - Adam Trachtenberg, PHP author and EBay Web Services EvangelistYou've built web sites that can be us...
Price: $4.07 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2007
by Brian Marick
Are you a tester who spends more time manually creating complex test data than using it? A business analyst who seemingly went to college all those years so you can spend your days copying data from reports into spreadsheets? A programmer who can't finish each day's task without having to scan through version control system output, looking for the file you want?If so, you're wasting that comp...
Price: $3.84 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2007
by Michael T. Nygard
Whether it's in Java, .NET, or Ruby on Rails, getting your application ready to ship is only half the battle. Did you design your system to survive a sudden rush of visitors from Digg or Slashdot? Or an influx of real world customers from 100 different countries? Are you ready for a world filled with flakey networks, tangled databases, and impatient users?If you are a developer and don't want to b...
Price: $8.87 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2007
CodeIgniter for Rapid PHP Application Development
by David Upton
CodeIgniter (CI) is a powerful open-source PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. CodeIgniter is an MVC framework, similar in some ways to the Rails framework for Ruby, and is designed to enable, not overwhelm.This book explains how to work with CodeIgniter in a clear logical way. It is not a detailed gu...
Price: $20.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2007
by Christophe Porteneuve
Tired of getting swamped in the nitty-gritty of cross-browser, Web 2.0-grade JavaScript? Get back in the game with Prototype and script.aculo.us, two extremely popular JavaScript libraries, that make it a walk in the park. Be it AJAX, drag and drop, auto-completion, advanced visual effects, or many other great features, all you need is to write one or two lines of script that look so good they could almost ...
Price: $7.13 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2007
by Bruce Tate
You want your development team to be productive. You want to write flexible, maintainable web applications. You want to use Ruby and Rails. But can you justify the move away from established platforms such as J2EE? Bruce Tate's From Java to Ruby has the answers, and it expresses them in a language that'll help persuade managers and executives who've seen it all. See when and where the switch ...
Price: $4.14 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2006
by Lucas Carlson, Leonard Richardson
From data structures and algorithms, to integration with cutting-edge technologies, the Ruby Cookbook has something for every programmer. When you need to solve a problem, don't reinvent the wheel: look it up in the Cookbook....
Price: $4.71 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2006
Enterprise Integration with Ruby
by Maik Schmidt
Learn how the power and elegance of Ruby can make it easier to get enterprise-level applications to work together. See how Ruby can be used as the glue to combine applications in new ways, extending their lives and increasing their (and your) value to your company....
Price: $3.88 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2006
by James Edward Gray II
Sharpen your Ruby programming skills with twenty-five challenging problems from Ruby Quiz. Read the problems, work out a solution, and compare your solution with others. This book is a collection of highlights from the first year of Ruby Quiz challenges. Inside, you will find expanded content, all new solutions, and more in depth discussions of Ruby Quiz problems and solutions. This is the book for anyone w...
Price: $4.16 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2006
Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl
Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data. They are now standard features in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language using the .NET Framework), PHP, and MySQL.If you don't use regular expressions yet, you will discover in this book a whole new world of mastery over your data. If you already ...
Price: $13.84 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2006