Jumat, 19 April 2013

Wow! eBook: Programming the Mobile Web, 2nd Edition - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Programming the Mobile Web, 2nd Edition - 5 new eBooks

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Programming the Mobile Web, 2nd Edition

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 10:33 AM PDT

Book Description

With the second edition of this popular book, you'll learn how to build HTML5 and CSS3-based apps that access geolocation, accelerometer, multi-touch screens, offline storage, and other features in today's smartphones, tablets, and feature phones. The market for mobile apps continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, and this book is the most complete reference available for the mobile web.

Author and mobile development expert Maximiliano Firtman shows you how to develop a standard app core that you can extend to work with specific devices. This updated edition covers many recent advances in mobile development, including responsive web design techniques, offline storage, mobile design patterns, and new mobile browsers, platforms, and hardware APIs.

  • Learn the particulars and pitfalls of building mobile websites and apps with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and responsive techniques
  • Create effective user interfaces for touch devices and different resolution displays
  • Understand variations among iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Firefox OS, and other mobile platforms
  • Bypass the browser to create native web apps, ebooks, and PhoneGap applications
  • Build apps for browsers and online retailers such as the App Store, Google Play Store, Windows Store, and App World

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Mobile Jungle
Chapter 2. Understanding the Mobile Web
Chapter 3. Browsers and Web Platforms
Chapter 4. Tools for Mobile Web Development
Chapter 5. Architecture and Design
Chapter 6. Markups and Standards
Chapter 7. Basics of Mobile HTML5
Chapter 8. HTML5 Forms
Chapter 9. Feature and Device Detection
Chapter 10. Images and Media
Chapter 11. CSS for Mobile Browsers
Chapter 12. JavaScript Mobile
Chapter 13. Offline Apps, Storage, and Networks
Chapter 14. Geolocation and Maps
Chapter 15. Device Interaction
Chapter 16. Native and Installed Web Apps
Chapter 17. Content Delivery
Chapter 18. Debugging and Performance
Chapter 19. Distribution and Social Web 2.0
Appendix A. MIME Types for Mobile Content

Book Details

  • Paperback: 774 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 2nd Edition (March 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449334970
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449334970
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User-Centered Design

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 10:29 AM PDT

Book Description

How do you design engaging applications that people love to use? This book demonstrates several ways to include valuable input from potential clients and customers throughout the process. With practical guidelines and insights from his own experience, author Travis Lowdermilk shows you how usability and user-centered design will dramatically change the way people interact with your application.

Learn valuable strategies for conducting each stage of the design process—from interviewing likely users and discovering your application's purpose to creating a rich user experience with sound design principles. User-Centered Design is invaluable no matter what platform you use or audience you target.

  • Explore usability and how it relates to user-centered design
  • Learn how to deal with users and their unique personalities
  • Clarify your application's purpose, using a simple narrative to describe its use
  • Plan your project's development with a software development life cycle
  • Be creative within the context of your user experience goals
  • Use visibility, consistency, and other design principles to enhance user experience
  • Collect valuable user feedback on your prototype with surveys, interviews, and usability studies

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Our World Has Changed
Chapter 2. What Is User-Centered Design?
Chapter 3. Working with Users
Chapter 4. Having a Plan
Chapter 5. Creating a Personal Manifesto
Chapter 6. Creativity and User Experience
Chapter 7. Design Principles
Chapter 8. Gathering Feedback
Chapter 9. Usability Studies
Chapter 10. You're Never Finished
Chapter 11. Other Resources

Appendix A. Sample Project Template
Appendix B. References

Book Details

  • Paperback: 154 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (March 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449359809
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449359805
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Ethernet Switches

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 10:23 AM PDT

Book Description

If you're ready to build a large network system, this handy excerpt from Ethernet: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition gets you up to speed on a basic building block: Ethernet switches. Whether you're working on an enterprise or campus network, data center, or Internet service provider network, you'll learn how Ethernet switches function and how they're used in network designs.

This brief tutorial also provides an overview of the most important features found in switches, from the basics to more advanced features found in higher-cost and specialized switches.

  • Get an overview of basic switch operation, the spanning tree protocol, and switch performance issues
  • Learn about switch management and some of the most widely used switch features
  • Discover how a hierarchical design can help maintain stable network operations
  • Delve into special-purpose switches, such as multi-layer, access, stacking, and wireless access-point switches
  • Learn about advanced switch features designed for specific networking environments
  • Dive deeper into switches, with a list of protocol and package documentation

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Basic Switch Operation
Chapter 2. Basic Switch Features
Chapter 3. Network Design with Ethernet Switches
Chapter 4. Special-Purpose Switches
Chapter 5. Advanced Switch Features
Appendix A. Resources

Book Details

  • Paperback: 80 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (March 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449367305
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449367305
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JavaScript Testing with Jasmine

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 10:21 AM PDT

Book Description

Get a concise introduction to Jasmine, the popular behavior-driven testing framework for JavaScript. This practical guide shows you how to write unit tests with Jasmine that automatically check for bugs in your application. Learn how to write specifications for individual components, and then use those specs to test the code you write.

Throughout the book, author Evan Hahn focuses primarily on methods for testing browser-based JavaScript applications, but you'll also discover how to use Jasmine with CoffeeScript, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, and Ruby without Rails. You won't find a more in-depth source for Jasmine anywhere.

  • Get an overview of both test-driven and behavior-driven development
  • Write useful specs by determining what you need to test—and what you don't
  • Test the behavior of new and existing code against the specs you create
  • Apply Jasmine matchers and discover how to build your own
  • Organize code suites into groups and subgroups as your code becomes more complex
  • Use a Jasmine spy in place of a function or an object—and learn why it's valuable

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Intro to Testing
Chapter 2. Jasmine
Chapter 3. Writing Good Tests
Chapter 4. Matchers in Depth
Chapter 5. More Jasmine Features
Chapter 6. Spies
Chapter 7. Using Jasmine with Other Tools
Chapter 8. Reference

Book Details

  • Paperback: 52 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (March 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449356370
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449356378
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Études for Erlang

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 10:18 AM PDT

Book Description

In this book, you will find descriptions of programs that you can write in Erlang. The programs will usually be short, and each one has been designed to provide practice material for a particular Erlang programming concept. These programs have not been designed to be of considerable difficulty, though they may ask you to stretch a bit beyond the immediate material and examples that you find in the book Introducing Erlang.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Getting Comfortable with Erlang
Chapter 2. Functions and Modules
Chapter 4. Logic and Recursion
Chapter 5. Strings
Chapter 6. Lists
Chapter 7. Higher Order Functions and List Comprehensions
Chapter 8. Processes
Chapter 9. Handling Errors
Chapter 10. Storing Structured Data
Chapter 11. Getting Started with OTP
Appendix A. Solutions to Études

Book Details

  • Paperback: 190 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (March 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449366457
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449366452
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