The Problem with Native JavaScript APIs
by Nicholas C. Zakas
Many features inspired by popular JavaScript libraries are now available as native JavaScript APIs in today's powerful browsers. While that may seem convenient given all of the JavaScript you need to write, relying on these APIs will only make code maintenance more difficult in the long run.In this report, Nicholas Zakas-consultant and former front-end tech leader at Yahoo! - provides a case study to s...
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
Developing Large Web Applications 
by Kyle Loudon
How do you create a mission-critical site that provides exceptional performance while remaining flexible, adaptable, and reliable 24/7? Written by the manager of a UI group at Yahoo!, this book offers practical steps for building rock-solid applications that remain effective even as you add features, functions, and users. You'll learn how to develop large web applications with the extreme precision req...
Price: $26.15 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2010
by John Allspaw, Jesse Robbins
Learn what it takes to build and maintain high-traffic websites with Web Operations. Featuring essays from today's top web veterans, this insightful book shows you how to run your web ops as reliably and effectively as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo run theirs. Even if your site never gets that big, you'll profit from the experience and knowledge of the people who created sites for these and other i...
Price: $8.62 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2010
by Christian Crumlish, Erin Malone
From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone share hard-won insights into what works, what doesn't, and why. You'll learn how to balance opp...
Price: $3.65 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Bill Scott, Theresa Neil
If you want to learn how to create great user experiences on the Web, this practical book offers more than 75 design patterns for building interfaces that provide rich interaction. Distilled by two longtime professionals after years of experience at Sabre, Yahoo, and Netflix, these design patterns and best practices are neatly organized according to six key principles that help you take advantage of current...
Price: $3.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Steve Souders
Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today's web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site's performance.Souders' previous book, the bestsell...
Price: $4.65 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Jason Venner
You've heard the hype about Hadoop: it runs petabyte - scale data mining tasks insanely fast, it runs gigantic tasks on clouds for absurdly cheap, it's been heavily committed to by tech giants like IBM, Yahoo!, and the Apache Project, and it's completely open-source. But what exactly is it, and more importantly, how do you even get a Hadoop cluster up and running?From Apress, the name you...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2009
by Alaric Cole
How soon can you learn Adobe Flex 3? With this book's unique hands-on approach, you will be able to tinker with examples right away, and create your own Rich Internet Applications with Flex within the first few chapters. As you progress, you learn how to build a layout, add interactivity, work with data, and deploy your applications to either the Web or the desktop.Learning Flex 3 offers step-by-step i...
Price: $2.41 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2008
by Jerri L. Ledford
This in-depth Bible delivers the holy grail of online marketing: how to influence search engine results to drive online shoppers to specific Web sites; the process is called search engine optimization (SEO) and it is a hot topic. One-stop resource offers readers what they need to plan and implement a successful SEO program, including useful tips on finding the shortest routes to success, strategy suggestion...
Price: $4.63 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2007