eBooks

Advanced Ajax - Architecture and Best Practices
27 November 2007, admin @ 5:55 pm

Shawn M. Lauriat, “Advanced Ajax: Architecture and Best Practices”
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR | Pages: 384 | 2007-10-15 | ISBN: 0131350641 | PDF | 4 MB
“I very much enjoyed how this book covers the full Ajax application lifecycle and not only coding techniques. Anyone who is looking to become a professional front-end developer will appreciate the architectural insight and best practices delivered by this book.” — Andi Gutmans, Co-Founder & Co-Chief Technology Officer of Zend Technologies

Mission-Critical Ajax: Maximizing Scalability, Performance, Security, Reliability, and Maintainability

Advanced Ajax: Architecture and Best Practices is the definitive guide to building business-critical, production-quality Web applications with Ajax. Shawn M. Lauriat systematically addresses the design, architecture, and development issues associated with Ajax, offering proven patterns and robust code examples available in no other book. You’ll find best practices for addressing the full spectrum of issues enterprise Ajax developers face: scalability, performance, security, reliability, flexibility, maintainability, and reusability.

Writing for experienced Web developers, Lauriat delivers fresh ideas and elegant solutions: meaty technical content, presented with exceptional clarity. Among the many topics he covers in unprecedented depth: cleanly implementing JavaScript custom events to reduce coupling and to enhance flexibility; overcoming Ajax’s traditional accessibility limitations; reducing network latency through compression and other techniques; and much more. Coverage includes

* Planning Ajax interfaces for simplicity, clarity, and intuitiveness
* Creating scalable, maintainable architectures for client-side JavaScript
* Using the latest tools to profile, validate, and debug client-side code
* Architecting the server side for security and functionality, while restricting loaded data, objects, and actions to current requests
* Protecting against the most widespread and significant Ajax security risks
* Optimizing every component of an Ajax application, from server-side scripts to database interactions
* Introducing cutting-edge Ajax: game development, Ajax with canvas, and Ajax for enterprise applications

About the Web Site

This book’s companion Web site (http://advancedajax.frozen-o.com) doesn’t just provide all the code: It shows code examples in action, as building blocks of a real Web application interface.
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WordPress Complete by Hasin Hayder
26 October 2007, admin @ 1:47 am

A comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and market your blog using WordPress.

Book Details

Language English
Paperback 272 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date November 2006
ISBN 1904811892
ISBN 13 978-1-904811-89-3
Author(s) Hasin Hayder
Topics and Technologies Content Management, PHP/MySQL, Open Source

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Adobe PDF eBook
WordPress Complete [eBook]
File size: 7.7 MB
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Packt eBook User Guide

WordPress is a simple and powerful way to start blogging. If you’re not an IT expert but want to use a state-of-the-art blogging system to give your blog the best chance of success, while giving you the time to focus on content and your readers, WordPress is the right system for you, and this book is the right place to start. It will give you a rapid and straightforward introduction to the rich and powerful features of WordPress and get you up and running with a state-of-the-art blog as quickly and painlessly as possible.

In Detail

WordPress is an open-source blog engine released under the GNU general public license. It allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing blogs and though it is chiefly used for blogging, it can also be used as a complete CMS with very little effort. Its versality and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.

If you want to create powerful, fully-featured blogs in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore WordPress showing you what it offers and how to go about building your blog with the system.

You will be introduced to the main aspects of a blog – users, communities, posts, comments, news feeds – and learn how to manage them using WordPress. You will develop the skills and confidence to manage all types of content, be it text or images, on your blog, and also understand how users interact with the blog. In working through the book you’ll be inspired as well as informed, and have the capability and the ideas to make your blog cutting edge and exciting to maximize its impact.

What you will learn from this book

• Installing and configuring WordPress on a local development machine or a web hosting service
• Managing posts and comments
• Working with Image galleries, calendars, etc.
• Organizing users and Communities
• Creating and Installing themes to control the page layout
• Linking to the outside world – Feeds, Syndication, and Podcasting
• Customizing Widgets and Plug-ins
• Using WordPress as a regular CMS

Approach

Written in a clear, easy-to-read style, the book takes you through the essential tasks required to create a feature-rich blog as quickly as possible. From initial setup to customizing modules, each task is explained in a clear, practical way using an example blog developed through the book.

Who this book is written for

This book is a beginner’s guide to WordPress, for people who are new to blogging and want to create their own blogs in a simple and straightforward manner. It does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and any IT-confident user will be able to use the book to produce an impressive blog.

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Author(s) Hasin Hayder
Hasin Hayder graduated in Civil Engineering from the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) in Bangladesh. He is a Zend-certified Engineer and an expert in localization. Hasin is currently working in one of the leading Ajax startpage company Pageflakes Ltd (http://www.pageflakes.com) as a Development Engineer. He is also working in Somewhere In (http://www.somewherein.net) as a Web Application Developer. Hasin is an expert WordPress user and has developed several themes and plug-ins for the community. He also maintains the WordPress4SQLite project, which is an unofficial port of WordPress to be used with SQLite. You can reach Hasin at hasin@somewherein.net as well as at hasin@pageflakes.com. You can also visit Hasin’s personal blog at http://hasin.wordpress.com when you are free.