A comprehensive guide to AngularJS, Google's open-source client-side framework for app development. Most of the existing guides to AngularJS struggle to provide simple and understandable explanations for more advanced concepts. As a result, some developers who understand all the basic concepts of AngularJS struggle when it comes to building more complex real-world applications. "Professional AngularJS" provides a thorough understanding of AngularJS, covering everything from basic concepts, such as directives and data binding, to more advanced concepts like transclusion, build systems, and automated integration testing. In addition to explaining the features of AngularJS, this book distills real-world experience on how these features fit together to enable teams to work together more effectively in building extraordinary apps.Offers a more thorough and comprehensive approach to AngularJS than other guides to the subjectIncludes pointers to other advanced topics and further reading for those who want to take their skills even furtherLets readers build a simple application from scratch, explaining basic building blocks along way for quick hands-on learning

In this practical guide, CSS expert Lea Verou provides 47 undocumented techniques and tips to help intermediate-to advanced CSS developers devise elegant solutions to a wide range of everyday web design problems. Rather than focus on design, CSS Secrets shows you how to solve problems with code. You'll learn how to apply Lea's analytical approach to practically every CSS problem you face to attain DRY, maintainable, flexible, lightweight, and standards-compliant results. Inspired by her popular talks at over 60 international web development conferences, Lea Verou provides a wealth of information for topics including: Backgrounds and Borders Shapes Visual Effects Typography User Experience Structure and Layout Transitions and Animations

Intrigued by the possibilities of developing web applications in the cloud? With this concise book, you get a quick hands-on introduction to OpenShift, the open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering from Red Hat. You'll learn the steps necessary to build, deploy, and host a complete real-world application on OpenShift, without having to read long, detailed explanations of the technologies involved.

Though the book uses Python, application examples in other languages are available on GitHub. If you can build web applications, use a command line, and program in Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, or Perl, you're ready to get started.Dive in and create your first example application with OpenShiftModify the example with your own code and hot-deploy the changesAdd components such as a database, task scheduling, and monitoringUse external libraries and dependencies in your applicationDelve into networking, persistent storage, and backup optionsExplore ways to adapt your team processes to use OpenShiftLearn OpenShift terms, technologies, and commandsGet a list of resources to learn more about OpenShift and PaaS

Forget those funky robot toys that were all the rage in the '80s, XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Transformations) is the ultimate transformer. This powerful language is expert at transforming XML documents into PDF files, HTML documents, JPEG files--virtually anything your heart desires. As useful as XSLT is, though, most people have a difficult time learning its many peculiarities. And now Version 2.0, while elegant and powerful, has only added to the confusion.

"XSLT Cookbook, Second Edition" wants to set the record straight. It helps you sharpen your programming skills and overall understanding of XSLT through a collection of detailed recipes. Each recipe breaks down a specific problem into manageable chunks, giving you an easy-to-grasp roadmap for integrating XSLT with your data and applications. No other XSLT book around employs this practical problem-solution-discussion format.

In addition to offering code recipes for solving everyday problems with XSLT 1.0, this new edition shows you how to leverage the improvements found in XSLT 2.0, such as how to simplify the string manipulation and date/time conversion processes. The book also covers XPath 2.0, a critical companion standard, as well as topics ranging from basic transformations to complex sorting and linking. It even explores extension functions on a variety of different XSLT processors and shows ways to combine multiple documents using XSLT. Code examples add a real-world dimension to each technique.

Whether you're just starting out in XSLT or looking for advanced techniques, you'll find the level of information you need in "XSLT Cookbook, Second Edition,"

Is your eCommerce solution ready for the cloud? This practical guide shows experienced and aspiring web architects alike how to adopt cloud computing incrementally, using public Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service. You will learn how to marshal as much capacity as you need to handle peak holiday or special-event traffic. Written by eCommerce expert Kelly Goetsch, this book helps architects leverage recent technological advances that have made it possible to run an entire enterprise-level eCommerce platform from a cloud. Explore cloud service models: Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-Service Learn about public, hybrid, and private cloud deployment models Understand the impact of omnichannel retailing on platform and deployment architectures Build an auto-scaling solution that can quickly add or subtract hardware in response to real-time traffic Re-apply what you already know about security to the cloud Run a single eCommerce platform from multiple data centers, including several forms of multi-master Build a hybrid solution or deploy your entire platform to the cloud Learn application and deployment architecture for "cloud native" through legacy eCommerce platforms Use Software-as-a-Service for eCommerce, including Content Delivery Networks and Global Site Load Balancing services

Although the number of commercial Java games is still small compared to those written in C or C++, the market is expanding rapidly. Recent updates to Java make it faster and easier to create powerful gaming applications-particularly Java 3D-is fueling an explosive growth in Java games. Java games like Puzzle Pirates, Chrome, Star Wars Galaxies, Runescape, Alien Flux, Kingdom of Wars, Law and Order II, Roboforge, Tom Clancy's Politika, and scores of others have earned awards and become bestsellers.

Java developers new to graphics and game programming, as well as game developers new to Java 3D, will find "Killer Game Programming in Java" invaluable. This new book is a practical introduction to the latest Java graphics and game programming technologies and techniques. It is the first book to thoroughly cover Java's 3D capabilities for all types of graphics and game development projects.

"Killer Game Programming in Java" is a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know to program cool, testosterone-drenched Java games. It will give you reusable techniques to create everything from fast, full-screen action games to multiplayer 3D games. In addition to the most thorough coverage of Java 3D available, "Killer Game Programming in Java" also clearly details the older, better-known 2D APIs, 3D sprites, animated 3D sprites, first-person shooter programming, sound, fractals, and networked games. "Killer Game Programming in Java" is a must-have for anyone who wants to create adrenaline-fueled games in Java.

Create beautiful, interactive images on the Web with RaphaelJS, the JavaScript library that lets you draw Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) right in the browser. With this concise guide, you'll quickly learn how to paint the screen with shapes and colors that you can turn into lively, animated graphics and visualizations. Author Chris Wilson (Time.com) shows you how to create Raphael objects and manipulate them with animation, transformations, and other techniques, using just a few lines of code. Packed with working examples, sample code, and cool hands-on projects, RaphaelJS is ideal for new and experienced JavaScript programmers alike. Create images that work on browsers new and old, as well as mobile devices Start with the basics - shapes, colors, transformations, sets, and text Learn how to build custom curves and shapes with paths Code animations that move through space, follow paths, or change direction Make your artwork come alive through user interaction Bind a dataset to a collection of visual objects - the basis of data visualization Learn techniques to make your detailed visuals stand out on screens of any size

A step by step guide for beginners to create interactive and dynamic websites from scratch. Key Features A fun-filled book with incrementing projects that would help you learn and adapt the fundamentals of web development Bring your web design to life with the help of HTML, CSS, JQuery, and learn to kick-start your future projects with Bootstrap Explore popular web development techniques such as responsive, adaptive, and material design and initiate yourself with Vue.js Book DescriptionWeb design is the process of creating websites. It encompasses several different aspects, including webpage layout, content production, and graphic design. This book offers you everything you need to know to build your websites. The book starts off by explaining the importance of web design and the basic design components used in website development. It'll show you insider tips to work quickly and efficiently with web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, concluding with a project on creating a static site with good layout. Once you've got that locked down, we'll get our hands dirty by diving straight into learning JavaScript and JQuery, ending with a project on creating dynamic content for your website. After getting our basic website up and running with the dynamic functionalities you'll move on to building your own responsive websites using more advanced techniques such as Bootstrap. Later you will learn smart ways to add dynamic content, and modern UI techniques such as Adaptive UI and Material Design. This will help you understand important concepts such as server-side rendering and UI components. Finally we take a look at various developer tools to ease your web development process. What you will learn Understand the importance of web design and the basic design components Learn HTML5 and CSS3 Difference between adaptive and responsive web design Learn how to create your first website Add interaction and dynamic content to your website with JavaScript and JQuery Implement Bootstrap Framework in your project Get familiar with server-side rendering Who this book is forThis book is for anyone who wants to learn about web development regardless of previous experience. It's perfect for complete beginners with zero experience; it's also great for anyone who does have some experience in a few technologies (such as HTML and CSS) but not all of them.

Use JSON for building web applications with technologies like HTML, JavaScript, Angular, Node.js, Hapi.js, Kafka, socket.io, MongoDB, Gulp.js, and handlebar.js, and others formats like GEOJSON, JSON-LD, MessagePack, and BSON. Key Features Use JSON with trending technologies like Angular, Hapi.js, MongoDB, Kafka, and Socket.io Debug, validate, and format JSON using developer toolkits, JSONLint, and JSON Editor Online Explore other JSON formats like GeoJSON, JSON-LD, BSON, and MessagePack Book DescriptionJSON is an established and standard format used to exchange data. This book shows how JSON plays different roles in full web development through examples. By the end of this book, you'll have a new perspective on providing solutions for your applications and handling their complexities. After establishing a strong basic foundation with JSON, you'll learn to build frontend apps by creating a carousel. Next, you'll learn to implement JSON with Angular 5, Node.js, template embedding, and composer.json in PHP. This book will also help you implement Hapi.js (known for its JSON-configurable architecture) for server-side scripting. You'll learn to implement JSON for real-time apps using Kafka, as well as how to implement JSON for a task runner, and for MongoDB BSON storage. The book ends with some case studies on JSON formats to help you sharpen your creativity by exploring futuristic JSON implementations. By the end of the book, you'll be up and running with all the essential features of JSON and JavaScript and able to build fast, scalable, and efficient web applications. What you will learn Use JSON to store metadata for dependency managers, package managers, configuration managers, and metadata stores Handle asynchronous behavior in applications using callbacks, promises, generators, and async-await functions Use JSON for Angular 5, Node.js, Gulp.js, and Hapi.js Implement JSON as BSON in MongoDB Make use of JSON in developing automation scripts Implement JSON for realtime using socket.io and distributed systems using Kafka Who this book is forIf you're a web developer with a basic understanding of JavaScript and want to write JSON data, integrate it with RESTful APIs to create faster and scalable applications, this book is for you.

Leverage this step-by-step guide to build a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable Cloud environment Key Features Learn how to leverage various Amazon Web Services (AWS) components and services to build a secure, reliable, and robust environment to host your applications on. Delve into core AWS service offerings with hands-on tutorials, real-world use case scenarios, and best practices. A self-paced, systematic, and step-by-step guide to learning and implementing AWS in your own environment. Book DescriptionMany businesses are moving from traditional data centers to AWS because of its reliability, vast service offerings, lower costs, and high rate of innovation. AWS can be used to accomplish a variety of both simple and tedious tasks. Whether you are a seasoned system admin or a rookie, this book will help you to learn all the skills you need to work with the AWS cloud. This book guides you through some of the most popular AWS services, such as EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, CloudTrail, Redshift, EMR, Data Pipeline, and IoT using a simple, real-world, application-hosting example. This book will also enhance your application delivery skills with the latest AWS services, such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline, to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. Each chapter is designed to provide you with maximal information about each AWS service, coupled with easy to follow, hands-on steps, best practices, tips, and recommendations. By the end of the book, you will be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on. What you will learn Take an in-depth look at what's new with AWS, along with how to effectively manage and automate your EC2 infrastructure with AWS Systems Manager Deploy and scale your applications with ease using AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon Elastic File System Secure and govern your environments using AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, and AWS Shield Learn the DevOps way using a combination of AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline Run big data analytics and workloads using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift Learn to back up and safeguard your data using AWS Data Pipeline Get started with the Internet of Things using AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass Who this book is forThis book is for those who want to learn and leverage the rich plethora of services provided by AWS. Although no prior experience with AWS is required, it is recommended that you have some hands-on experience of Linux, Web Services, and basic networking.

Get up to speed on the principal technologies in the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7, and learn how the latest version embraces HTML5, focuses on higher productivity, and provides functionality to meet enterprise demands. Written by Arun Gupta, a key member of the Java EE team, this book provides a chapter-by-chapter survey of several Java EE 7 specifications, including WebSockets, Batch Processing, RESTful Web Services, and Java Message Service. You'll also get self-paced instructions for building an end-to-end application with many of the technologies described in the book, which will help you understand the design patterns vital to Java EE development. Understand the key components of the Java EE platform, with easy-to-understand explanations and extensive code samples Examine all the new components that have been added to Java EE 7 platform, such as WebSockets, JSON, Batch, and Concurrency Learn about RESTful Web Services, SOAP XML-based messaging protocol, and Java Message Service Explore Enterprise JavaBeans, Contexts and Dependency Injection, and the Java Persistence API Discover how different components were updated from Java EE 6 to Java EE 7

Take Razor for a test drive and discover first hand how this scripting syntax simplifies the way you create dynamic, data-driven websites. With this concise guide, you'll work with Razor syntax by building example websites with Microsoft WebMatrix and ASP.NET MVC. You'll quickly learn how Razor lets you combine code and content in a fluid and expressive manner on Windows-based servers.

"Programming Razor" also explores components of the Razor API, and shows you how Razor templates are turned into rendered HTML. By the end of this book, you'll be able to create Razor-based websites with custom extensions that meet the specific needs of your projects. Use Razor with Microsoft WebMatrix to build a working blog, complete with data Organize and manage your web application, using Razor features for layouts, sections, and partial views Create clean and effective ASP.NET MVC views with the Razor View Engine Learn how the Razor API interprets Razor templates and turns them into executable .NET code Implement advanced techniques for exposing reusable code and sharing ASP.NET MVC views across projects

jQuery: Novice to Ninja, 2nd Edition is the perfect book to jump-start your journey into jQuery. You'll learn all the basics, so you'll be able to truly appreciate the power of this JavaScript framework. Then you'll move on to more advanced techniques, such as plugin development and the creation of almost every conceivable UI widget. * A practical, hands-on guide to using jQuery * Ready-to-use best practice solutions * Includes complete working code * Fully updated for jQuery 1.6

Like all good web ventures, the Social Web has risen in prominence ahead of any reliable standards that would ensure a consistent user experience. But that's finally beginning to change. With this book, you'll learn about a rich set of open source technologies for building compelling-and secure-social applications and websites. You'll discover what it takes to engage users on a personal level, and learn ways to monetize your venture. Programming Social Applications introduces you to the open source tools used on many major social platforms, and explains how technologies such as OpenSocial, Apache Shindig, OAuth, OpenID, Caja, and others work together to help you solve practical issues. You'll also examine successful proprietary platforms to help you gain a comprehensive understanding of the Social Web's foundations. * Learn how to build viral applications with social data * Implement social web technologies using real-world examples * Work with OpenSocial to standardize social graphs-individual nodes and their relationships * Build a scalable OpenSocial application container with Apache Shindig * Develop comprehensive user authentication and authorization systems using OAuth and OpenID * Learn how Caja, and ADsafe provide user security on social websites * Deal with bugs and other problems when implementing these technologies * Build distributed web frameworks that extend social graphs to include any social footprints users leave on the Web

This book focuses on the nontechnical user who is responsible for building, maintaining, and managing Drupal web sites. The book covers why you should consider using Drupal when building a new web site, what Drupal is, installing and configuring Drupal, creating and managing content, managing users, adding functionality to your web site through Drupal modules, and more advanced topics on using themes, panels, and views. By reading this book, you will: Understand why you should use Drupal and the power of the platform. Quickly build confidence in your ability to use Drupal. Gain the knowledge necessary to build, deploy, and manage web sites of moderate complexity on Drupal 7. What you'll learn What Drupal is and why you should use it How to install a basic Drupal web site from scratch How to create content in your new Drupal web site How to manage users on your new Drupal web site How to change the look and feel of your new Drupal web site through themes How to install and configure modules Who this book is for

This book is for nontechnical users who need to use Drupal to manage content, as well as PHP developers who are new to Drupal. Table of Contents Introduction to Drupal Creating and Managing Content Creating and Managing Users Taxonomy Creating Menus Installing Themes Drupal Blocks Drupal Modules Enabling Interactive Capabilities Content Types Views Panels Theming Administering Your Drupal Site Putting It All Together Case Study

Expert techniques for building fast servers and scalable, real-time network applications with minimal effort; rewritten for Node.js 8 and Node.js 9 About This Book * Packed with practical examples and explanations, Mastering Node.js contains everything you need to take your applications to the next level. * Unleash the full potential of Node.js 9 to build real-time and scalable applications. * Gain in-depth knowledge of asynchronous programming, event loops, and parallel data processing. * Explore Node's innovative event-non-blocking design, and build professional applications with the help of detailed examples. Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at JavaScript developers who want to take an in-depth look at the latest Node.js framework to create faster, scalable, real-time backend applications. Basic JavaScript programming knowledge-and also some previous Node.js development experience-are mandatory to get the best out of this book What You Will Learn * Build an Electron desktop app using Node that manages a filesystem * Explore Streams and understand how they apply to building networked services * Develop and deploy an SMS-driven customer service application * Use WebSockets for rapid bi-directional communication * Construct serverless applications with Amazon Lambda * Test and debug with headless browsers, CPU profiling, Mocha, Sinon, and more * Scale applications vertically and horizontally across multiple cores and web services In Detail Node.js, a modern development environment that enables developers to write server- and client-side code with JavaScript, thus becoming a popular choice among developers. This book covers the features of Node that are especially helpful to developers creating highly concurrent real-time applications. It takes you on a tour of Node's innovative event non-blocking design, showing you how to build professional applications. This edition has been updated to cover the latest features of Node 9 and ES6. All code examples and demo applications have been completely rewritten using the latest techniques, introducing Promises, functional programming, async/await, and other cutting-edge patterns for writing JavaScript code. Learn how to use microservices to simplify the design and composition of distributed systems. From building serverless cloud functions to native C++ plugins, from chatbots to massively scalable SMS-driven applications, you'll be prepared for building the next generation of distributed software. By the end of this book, you'll be building better Node applications more quickly, with less code and more power, and know how to run them at scale in production environments. Style and approach Mastering Node.js contains all of the examples and explanations you'll need to build applications in a short amount of time and at a low cost, running rapidly and at scale.

Leverage the power of Typescript 2.0 using real-world examples About This Book * Begin with the fundamentals of TypeScript and learn how to write better JavaScript code * Build three amazing applications throughout the book * Leverage the power of tools such as Angular 2 and NativeScript to build for the web as well as for mobile Who This Book Is For Web developers who would like to learn how to use TypeScript to build amazing applications will benefit from this book. What You Will Learn * Design your first project in Visual Studio * Learn about the different data types in TypeScript * Create web applications in an object-oriented fashion using TypeScript * Build a Trello application using TypeScript's complex features. * Explore the tools available in a web application ecosystem to write unit test cases * Deploy web applications to cloud and assign resources to the application In Detail The TypeScript language, compiler, and open source development toolset brings JavaScript development up to the enterprise level. It allows you to use ES5, ES6, and ES7 JavaScript language features today, including classes, interfaces, generics, modules, and more. Its simple typing syntax enables building large, robust applications using object-oriented techniques and industry-standard design principles. This book aims at teaching you how to get up and running with TypeScript development in the most practical way possible. Taking you through two exciting projects built from scratch, you will learn the basics of TypeScript, before progressing to functions, generics, promises, and callbacks. Then, you'll get to implement object-oriented programming as well as optimize your applications with effective memory management. You'll also learn to test and secure your applications, before deploying them. Starting with a basic SPA built using Angular, you will progress on to building, maybe, a Chat application or a cool application. You'll also learn how to use NativeScript to build a cool mobile application. Each of these applications with be explained in detail, allowing you to grasp the concepts fast. By the end of this book, you will have not only built two amazing projects but you will also have the skills necessary to take your development to the next level. Style and approach Example-based approach to get you quickly started with Typescript

This concise introduction to Sphinx shows you how to use this free software to index an enormous number of documents and provide fast results to both simple and complex searches. Written by the creator of Sphinx, this authoritative book is short and to the point. * Understand the particular way Sphinx conducts searches * Install and configure Sphinx, and run a few basic tests * Issue basic queries to Sphinx at the application level * Learn the syntax of search text and the effects of various search options * Get strategies for dealing with large data sets, such as multi-index searching * Apply relevance and ranking guidelines for presenting best results to the user