This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of Current Trends in Web Engineering, ICWE Workshops 2015 which was held in June 2015 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The 16 revised full papers were selected form 23 submissions and cover topics on natural language processing for informal text, pervasive Web technologies, trends and challenges, and mining in the social Web.

Programming skills are indispensable in today's world, not just for computer science students, but also for anyone in any scientific or technical discipline. An Introduction to Programming in Java, Second Edition, by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne is an accessible, interdisciplinary treatment that emphasizes important and engaging applications, not toy problems. The authors supply the tools needed for students and professionals to learn that programming is a natural, satisfying, and creative experience, and to become conversant with one of the world's most widely used languages. This example-driven guide focuses on Java's most useful features and brings programming to life for every student in the sciences, engineering, and computer science. Coverage includes Basic elements of programming: variables, assignment statements, built-in data types, conditionals, loops, arrays, and I/O, including graphics and sound Functions, modules, and libraries: organizing programs into components that can be independently debugged, maintained, and reused Algorithms and data structures: sort/search algorithms, stacks, queues, and symbol tables Applications from applied math, physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science Drawing on their extensive classroom experience, the authors provide Q&As, exercises, and opportunities for creative engagement with the material throughout. Together with the companion materials, this book empowers people pursue a modern approach to teaching and learning programming. Companion web site contains Chapter summaries Supplementary exercises, some with solutions Detailed instructions for installing a Java programming environment Program code and test data suitable for easy download Detailed creative exercises, projects, and other supplementary mat And companion studio-produced online videos provide students and professionals with the opportunity to engage with the material at their own pace and instructors the opportunity to spend their time with students helping them to succeed on assignments and exams.

Build on your basic knowledge of HTML5 and JavaScript to create substantial HTML5 applications. Through the many interesting projects you can create in this book, you'll develop HTML5 skills for future projects, and extend the core skills you may have learned with its companion book, The Essential Guide to HTML5. HTML5 and JavaScript Projects is fully updated as a second edition and covers important programming techniques and HTML, CSS, and JavaScript features to help you build projects with images, animation, video, audio and line drawings. You'll learn how to build games, quizzes and other interactive projects; incorporate the use of the Google Maps API and localStorage; and address the challenges of Responsive Design and Accessibility. Each project starts out with a description of the example's operation, often with full-color illustrations. You'll then review the HTML5 and JavaScript concepts that relate to the project followed by a step-by-step explanation of the programming used. Tables are used to show the relationship of functions and provide comments for each line of code so that you can easily apply the techniques to your own HTML5 projects. What You'll Learn Enhance your HTML5 and JavaScript programming skills. Poduce applications combining Canvas drawings, photos, and videos Incorporate Google Maps and geolocation into your projects Build applications requiring persistent data, storing the information locally or on a database on the server Who This Book Is ForDevelopers who have some knowledge of programming and want to build more substantial applications by combining basic features and combining JavaScript with other technologies.

Like it or not, JavaScript is everywhere these days--from browser to server to mobile--and now you, too, need to learn the language or dive deeper than you have. This concise book guides you into and through JavaScript, written by a veteran programmer who once found himself in the same position.

"Speaking JavaScript" helps you approach the language with four standalone sections. First, a quick-start guide teaches you just enough of the language to help you be productive right away. More experienced JavaScript programmers will find a complete and easy-to-read reference that covers each language feature in depth. Complete contents include: JavaScript quick start: Familiar with object-oriented programming? This part helps you learn JavaScript quickly and properly.JavaScript in depth: Learn details of ECMAScript 5, from syntax, variables, functions, and object-oriented programming to regular expressions and JSON with lots of examples. Pick a topic and jump in.Background: Understand JavaScript's history and its relationship with other programming languages.Tips, tools, and libraries: Survey existing style guides, best practices, advanced techniques, module systems, package managers, build tools, and learning resources.

This concise book shows you how to create PHP command line interface (CLI) scripts, including user interaction and scripts to automate and assist your workflow. Learn to quickly create useful and effective command line software and scripts using the world's most popular web scripting language, PHP. Enjoy the benefits of writing CLI scripts in PHP: save money by redeploying existing skills, not learning new ones. Save time and increase productivity by using a high-level language. Make money by providing your clients with a full-stack service. What You'll Learn Learn about the PHP CLI SAPI Find out how to use it to run PHP scripts off-line Easily deal with user input and console output Work with helper libraries and software Find out the differences between programming for the web and for the CLI Who This Book Is For Experienced PHP programmers and web developers.

Author Rob Richards is a major contributor to the PHP XML codebase and is considered a leading expert on the topic in the PHP community Covers the most leading-edge branch of PHP-currently 5.1 Practical, real-world examples with the Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, and Google web services APIs

On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders is an absorbing chronicle of the inventive, individualistic, and often cantankerous individuals who set the Internet free. Michael A. Banks describes how the online population created a new culture and turned a new frontier into their vision of the future. This book will introduce you to the innovators who laid the foundation for the Internet and the World Wide Web, the man who invented online chat, and the people who invented the products all of us use online every day. Learn where, when, how and why the Internet came into being, and exactly what hundreds of thousands of people were doing online before the Web. See who was behind it all, and what inspired them.

Optimize the performance of your mobile websites and webapps to the extreme. With this hands-on book, veteran mobile and web developer Maximiliano Firtman demonstrates which aspects of your site or app slow down the user's experience, and what you can do to achieve lightning-fast performance. There's much at stake: if you want to boost your app's conversion rate, then tackling performance issues is the best way to start. Learn tools and techniques for working with responsive web design, images, the network layer, and many other ingredients-plus the metrics to check your progress. Ideal for web developers and web designers with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and HTTP experience, this is your guide to superior mobile web performance. You'll dive into: Emulators, simulators, and other tools for measuring performance Basic web performance concepts, including metrics, charts, and goals How to get real data from mobile browsers on your real networks APIs and specs for measuring, tracking and improving web performance Insights and tricks for optimizing the first view experience Ways to optimize post-loading experiences and future visits Responsive web design and its performance challenges Tips for extreme performance to achieve best conversion rates How to work with web views inside native apps

Use this easy-to-digest brief introduction to leverage search engine optimization (SEO) - an imperative methodology used to improve the visibility of websites using different strategies and techniques. Using a calculative and practical approach, this book teaches you the techniques, practical implementations, and concepts of SEO that will enable you to get to grips with the fundamental aspects of search engine optimization. Introducing SEO jumpstarts your knowledge using an easy-to-follow approach - add it to your library today. What You'll Learn Incorporate effective SEO into your workflow Use keywords, link building, and online social media marketing Implement SEO-specific plans and strategies Employ strategies that will result in better website visibility Who This Book Is For Beginners who want a quick, no-nonsense introduction to SEO. No prior experience or knowledge of SEO is required to understand the concepts in this book.

* This is the only up-to-date book on the market that covers Flash mobile application development. * Evidence of demand - large companies such as Nokia and Samsung are Flash-enabling their phones. * The book will support the new FlashLite version available with the next version of Flash, released later on this year.

Learn the essentials of Scalable Vector Graphics, the mark-up language used by most vector drawing programs and interactive web graphics tools. SVG Essentials takes you through SVG's capabilities, beginning with simple line drawings and moving through complicated features such as filters, transformations, gradients, and patterns. This thoroughly updated edition includes expanded coverage of animation, interactive graphics, and scripting SVG. Interactive examples online make it easy for you to experiment with SVG features in your web browser. Geared toward experienced designers, this book also includes appendices that explain basic concepts such as XML markup and CSS styling, so even if you have no web design experience, you can start learning SVG.Create and style graphics to match your web design in a way that looks great when printed or displayed on high-resolution screens Make your charts and decorative headings accessible to search engines and assistive technologies Add artistic effects to your graphics, text, and photographs using SVG masks, filters, and transformations Animate graphics with SVG markup, or add interactivity with CSS and JavaScript Create SVG from existing vector data or XML data, using programming languages and XSLT

Learn PHP development best practices, such as version control, development environment virtualization, and coding standards. You'll also discover the most useful PHP web frameworks, including the new Laravel, symfony2, and micro-frameworks. As you do so, you'll learn how to use them to write the most productive PHP code possible. PHP Development Tool Essentials complements Jason Gilmore's best-selling Beginning PHP and MySQL. This book will further expose you to the many different methodologies, tools, and concepts that professional web developers are using more and more each day. What You'll Learn Use version control with PHP Set up virtualized development environments Maintain PHP coding standards Manage dependencies Leverage the best PHP frameworks Who This Book Is For Intermediate to advanced PHP developers looking to advance their skills with new tools, concepts, and approaches.

CSS3 Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions is your indispensable guide to cutting-edge CSS3 development--all you need to work your way up to becoming a CSS3 professional. While CSS3 is a relatively simple technology to learn, it is a difficult one to master. When you first start developing sites using CSS3, you will come across all kinds of infuriating browser bugs and inconsistencies. It sometimes feels like there are a million and one different techniques to master, spread across a bewildering array of websites. The range of possibilities seems endless and makes for a steep and daunting learning curve. By bringing all of the latest tips, tricks, and techniques together in one handy reference, this book demystifies the secrets of CSS3 and makes the journey to CSS3 mastery as simple and painless as possible. While most books concentrate on basic skills, this one is different, assuming that you already know the basics and why you should be using CSS3 in your work, and concentrating mainly on advanced techniques.This new edition covers all of the CSS3 fundamentals such as the importance of meaningful markup, how to structure and maintain your code, and how the CSS3 layout model really works. With the basics out of the way, the book dives into the more advanced aspects of CSS-based design, such as responsive design, modular CSS, and CSS typography. Through a series of easy-to-follow tutorials, you will learn practical CSS techniques you can immediately start using in your daily work. This new edition contains: * New examples and updated browser support information * Full coverage of modular CSS and responsive design * Essential information on CSS typography and layout control What you'll learn * The best practice concepts in CSS design. * The most important (and tricky) parts of CSS * Identify and fix the most common CSS problems * How to deal with the most common bugs * Completely up to date browser support information * The latest information on CSS3 features and support. Who this book is for CSS3 Mastery is aimed at intermediate and advanced web designers and developers.It offers a quick recap of the main points of CSS, while dispelling some common myths, but then moves forward to delve into the higher-level aspects of CSS. It contains fully up-to-date information throughout, and acts as a one-stop-shop for current CSS best practices.

In their early days, Twitter, Flickr, Etsy, and many other companies experienced sudden spikes in activity that took their web services down in minutes. Today, determining how much capacity you need for handling traffic surges is still a common frustration of operations engineers and software developers. This hands-on guide provides the knowledge and tools you need to measure, deploy, and manage your web application infrastructure before you experience explosive growth. In this thoroughly updated edition, authors Arun Kejariwal (MZ) and John Allspaw provide a systematic, robust, and practical approach to capacity planning-rather than theoretical models-based on their own experiences and those of many colleagues in the industry. They address the vast sea change in web operations, especially cloud computing. Understand issues that arise on heavily trafficked websites or mobile apps Explore how capacity fits into web/mobile app availability and performance Use tools for measuring and monitoring computer performance and usage Turn measurement data into robust forecasts and learn how trending fits into the planning process Examine related deployment concepts: installation, configuration, and management automation Learn how cloud autoscaling enables you to scale your app's capacity up or down

The Top-Selling, De Facto Guide to SOA--Now Updated with New Content and Coverage of Microservices! For more than a decade, Thomas Erl's best-selling Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design has been the definitive end-to-end tutorial on SOA, service-orientation, and service technologies. Now, Erl has thoroughly updated the industry's de facto guide to SOA to reflect new practices, technologies, and strategies that have emerged through hard-won experience and creative innovation. This Second Edition officially introduces microservices and micro task abstraction as part of service-oriented architecture and its associated service layers. Updated case study examples and illustrations further explain and position the microservice model alongside and in relation to more traditional types of services. Coverage includes: * Easy-to-understand, plain English explanations of SOA and service-orientation fundamentals (as compiled from series titles) * Microservices, micro task abstraction, and containerization * Service delivery lifecycle and associated phases * Analysis and conceptualization of services and microservices * Service API design with REST services, web services, and microservices * Modern service API and contract versioning techniques for web services and REST services * Up-to-date appendices with service-orientation principles, REST constraints, and SOA patterns (including three new patterns) Service-Oriented Architecture: Analysis and Design for Services and Microservices, Second Edition, will be indispensable to application architects, enterprise architects, software developers, and any IT professionals interested in learning about or responsible for designing or implementing modern-day, service-oriented solutions. Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Case Study Backgrounds Part I: Fundamentals Chapter 3: Understanding Service-Orientation Chapter 4: Understanding SOA Chapter 5: Understanding Layers with Services and Microservices Part II: Service-Oriented Analysis and Design Chapter 6: Analysis and Modeling with Web Services and Microservices Chapter 7: Analysis and Modeling with REST Services and Microservices Chapter 8: Service API and Contract Design with Web Services Chapter 9: Service API and Contract Design with REST Services and Microservices Chapter 10: Service API and Contract Versioning with Web Services and REST Services Part III: Appendices Appendix A: Service-Orientation Principles Reference Appendix B: REST Constraints Reference Appendix C: SOA Design Patterns Reference Appendix D: The Annotated SOA Manifesto

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, AFRICOMM 2014, held in Kampala, Uganda, November 24-25, 2014. The 31 revised full papers were carefully selected from 57 submissions and cover topics such as communication infrastructure, health, IoT, cloud computing and TVWS, ICT4D applications, access to information, and ICT4D miscellaneous.

Gain instant solutions, including countless pieces of useful code that you can copy and paste into your own applications, giving you answers fast and saving you hours of coding time. You can also use this book as a reference to the most important aspects of the latest PHP scripting language, including the vital functions you know and love from previous versions of PHP, as well as the functions introduced in PHP 7. PHP and MySQL Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach supplies you with complete code for all of the common coding problems you are likely to face when using PHP and MySQL together in your day-to-day web application development. This invaluable guide includes over 200 recipes and covers numerous topics. What you hold in your hands is the answer to all your PHP 7 needs. Furthermore, this book explains the PHP functionality in detail, including the vastly improved object-oriented capabilities and the new MySQL database extension. PHP and MySQL Recipes will be a useful and welcome companion throughout your career as a web developer, keeping you on the cutting edge of PHP development, ahead of the competition, and giving you all the answers you need, when you need them. What You'll Learn Work with arrays, dates and times, strings, files and directories, and dynamic imaging Write regular expressions in PHP Use the variables and functions found in PHP Who This Book Is For Experienced PHP and MySQL programmers and web developers who have at least some PHP and MySQL programming experience.

Transform your existing web applications into Google Chrome browser extensions and create brand new extensions that improve your own browsing experience and that of your users. This book shows you how Google Chrome browser extensions are extremely useful tools for enhancing the functionality of the Google Chrome web browser. For example, you can create extensions to summarize the current page you are reading, or to save all of the images in the page you are browsing. They have access to almost all of the features provided by the Google Chrome browser, and they can encapsulate such features in the form of a bundled application providing targeted functionality to users. Extensions also run in a sandboxed environment, making them secure - which is a huge plus in the modern web! The APIs provided by the Chrome Extensions framework help you empower web applications by coupling them with amazing features provided by the Google Chrome web browser, such as bookmarks, history, tabs, actions, storage, notifications, search, and a lot more - facilitating increased productivity on the Google Chrome web browser. What You Will Learn: Transform your web application ideas into Google Chrome Extensions. Choose the recommended components for creating your kind of extension. Leverage the power of a Google Chrome browser by making use of the extensions API. Showcase your existing web-development skills in a modern way by creating useful extensions. Who This Book is For Existing web developers, experienced in creating simple web pages (using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript), to help them create browser extensions for Google Chrome. After understanding the examples and lessons in this book, you will be able to transform your existing web applications into Google Chrome browser extensions, as well as create brand new extensions.

It takes a book as versatile as its subject to cover Apache Tomcat, the popular open source Servlet and JSP container and high performance web server. Tomcat: The Definitive Guide is a valuable reference for administrators and webmasters, a useful guide for programmers who want to use Tomcat as their web application server during development or in production, and an excellent introduction for anyone interested in Tomcat. Updated for the latest version of Tomcat, this new edition offers a complete guide to installing, configuring, maintaining and securing this servlet container. In fact, with such a wealth of new information, this is essentially a new book rather than a simple revision. You will find details for using Tomcat on all major platforms, including Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, and FreeBSD, along with specifics on Tomcat configuration files, and step-by-step advice for deploying and running web applications. This book offers complete information for: * Installation and startup procedures * Configuring Tomcat-including realms, roles, users, servlet sessions, and JNDI resources including JDBC DataSources * Deploying web applications-individual servlets and JSP pages, and web application archive files * Tuning Tomcat to measure and improve performance * Integrating Tomcat with Apache Web Server * Securing Tomcat to keep online thugs at bay * Tomcat configuration files-server.xml and web.xml, and more * Debugging and Troubleshooting-diagnosing problems with Tomcat or a web application * Compiling your own Tomcat, rather than using the pre-built release * Running two or more Tomcat servlet containers in parallel This book also offers an overview of the Tomcat open source project's community resources, including docs, mailing lists, and more. Community interest fueled a strong demand for a Tomcat guide from O'Reilly. The result clearly exceeds expectations.

If you intend to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for remote computing and storage, Python is an ideal programming language for developing applications and controlling your cloud-based infrastructure. This cookbook gets you started with more than two dozen recipes for using Python with AWS, based on the author's boto library.

You'll find detailed recipes for working with the S3 storage service as well as EC2, the service that lets you design and build cloud applications. Each recipe includes a code solution you can use immediately, along with a discussion of why and how the recipe works. You also get detailed advice for using boto with AWS and other cloud services.

This book's recipes include methods to help you: Launch instances on EC2, and keep track of them with tagsAssociate an Elastic IP address with an instanceRestore a failed Elastic Block Store volume from a snapshotStore and monitor your own custom metrics in CloudWatchCreate a bucket in S3 to contain your data objectsReduce the cost of storing noncritical dataPrevent accidental deletion of data in S3

Take advantage of the improved performance and reduced memory requirements of PHP version 7, and learn to utilize the new built-in PHP functions and features such as typed variable enforcement with declare(strict_types=1) and the new available data types, scalar type declarations for function arguments and return statements, constant arrays using define(), argument unpacking with the ... operator, integer division with intdiv(), the null coalesce operator, the spaceship operator, new exception types, and improvements to existing features. Pro PHP and jQuery, Second Edition is for intermediate level programmers interested in building web applications using jQuery and PHP. Updated for PHP version 7 and the latest version of jQuery, this book teaches some advanced PHP techniques and it shows you how to take your dynamic applications to the next level by adding a JavaScript layer using the jQuery framework and APIs. After reading and using this book, you'll come away having built a fully functional PHP and jQuery web application that you can reapply as a template for your own particular web application. Pro PHP and jQuery, Second Edition is for intermediate level programmers interested in building web applications using jQuery and PHP. Updated for PHP version 7 and the latest version of jQuery, this book teaches some advanced PHP techniques and it shows you how to take your dynamic applications to the next level by adding a JavaScript layer using the jQuery framework and APIs, considered the most popular JavaScript libraries. After reading and using this book, you'll come away understanding a fully functional PHP using jQuery web application case study that you can reapply as a template for your own particular web application. Moreover, from PHP 7, you'll get uniform variable syntax, the AST-based compilation process, the added Closure::call(), bitwise shift consistency across platforms, the (null coalesce) operator, Unicode codepoint escape syntax, return type declarations, and new and easier extensions development with support for redis, MongoDB and much more.

Gain an in-depth understanding of PHP 7 arrays. After a quick overview of PHP 7, each chapter concentrates on single, multi-dimensional, associative, and object arrays. PHP Arrays is a first of its kind book using PHP 7 that demonstrates inserting, appending, updating, and deleting array data. This book also covers validation methods to insure that the data provided by a user is good before the data is entered into an array. You'll see how PHP 7 try/catch modules are used to capture exceptions and errors that may be caused by invalid data. The code examples demonstrate common real-world scenarios. Moreover, examples of every PHP 7 array function (over 75) are demonstrated. The appendix provides a two-dimensional array case study on the logical design of a checkers game. PHP Arrays answers the following questions: Why do we need arrays? When do we need to use arrays? Are arrays efficient? Can arrays reduce coding time? When do you use multi-dimensional and associative arrays? What is an object array? What You'll Learn Handle array data from an HTML form Manage array data from a text file Deal with array data from a MySQL database Who This Book Is For Experienced PHP programmers or web developers using PHP.

Der Mangel an qualifizierten Softwareentwicklern im deutschsprachigen Raum verscharft sich. Die effektive Zusammenarbeit in weltweit verteilten Teams ist daher ein entscheidender Wettbewerbsfaktor und Offshoring wird immer relevanter. Der Autor moechte das Thema auch kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen naher bringen und die Eintrittsbarrieren fur kostengunstige Offshore-Softwareentwicklungen reduzieren. Er zeigt, wie Unternehmen erfolgreich Offshore-Projekte umsetzen koennen: praxisnah, mit konkreten Fallstudien und Hinweisen zur Projektabwicklung. Dem Leser werden Werkzeuge vermittelt, mit denen er die Risiken in der Abwicklung von Offshore-Projekten reduzieren kann, ohne dass Kostenvorteile verloren gehen.