Pro ASP.NET Web API shows you how to build flexible, extensible web services that run seamlessly on a range of operating systems and devices, from desktops to tablets to smart phones--even the ones we don't know today. ASP.NET Web API is a new framework designed to simplify web service architecture. So if you're tired of interoperability issues between inflexible web services and clients tied to specific platforms or programming languages, or if you've ever struggled with WCF, this book is for you. In Part I, you'll get up to speed on Web API's modern HTTP programming model, REST and your hosting options. Part II takes you through building a real application so you can see straight away how to put this new technology into practice. The second half of the book features dedicated chapters on topics like routing, controllers, validation and tracing, and the authors close with discussions on performance, security and an all-important look at unit testing to help you prepare your application for the real world. ASP.NET Web API makes HTTP a first-class citizen of .NET. With Pro ASP.NET Web API, you can build HTTP-based web services for your company or business, expose your data to the world across different formats and devices and gain the best possible global reach for your application. What you'll learn * The basics of HTTP web services * How to build HTTP-based web services on the .NET platform * In-depth knowledge of ASP.NET Web API and its processing architecture * How to Unit Test an ASP.NET Web API application * Asynchronous programming with ASP.NET Web API * Consuming HTTP-based web services across several different clients Who this book is for Whether you've previously worked with WCF or are an ASP.NET developer diving into web services for the first time, Pro ASP.NET Web API will show you a clean, modern approach to building HTTP web services.

This practical guide shows intermediate and advanced web and mobile app developers how to build highly scalable Python applications in the cloud with Google App Engine. The flagship of Google's Cloud Platform, App Engine hosts your app on infrastructure that grows automatically with your traffic, minimizing up-front costs and accommodating unexpected visitors. You'll learn hands-on how to perform common development tasks with App Engine services and development tools, including deployment and maintenance. App Engine's Python support includes a fast Python 2.7 interpreter, the standard library, and a WSGI-based runtime environment. Choose from many popular web application frameworks, including Django and Flask. Get a hands-on introduction to App Engine's tools and features, using an example application Simulate App Engine on your development machine with tools from Google Cloud SDK Structure your app into individually addressable modules, each with its own scaling configuration Exploit the power of the scalable Cloud Datastore, using queries, transactions, and data modeling with the ndb library Use Cloud SQL for standard relational databases with App Engine applications Learn how to deploy, manage, and inspect your application on Google infrastructure

The ASP.NET Web API is a framework that lets you build sophisticated cross-platform HTTP services using a simple unified toolset. ASP.NET Web API applications can be consumed by the widest possible range of devices from tablets and smartphones to desktops. If a device operates over HTTP then the Web API can interface with it. Built on top of ASP.NET MVC it automatically seperates out and handles service-layer agreements allowing you to focus on the form and function of your code without needing to worry about low-level interoperability concerns. So long as your code is correctly crafted Web API will do the rest. Practical ASP.NET Web API provides you with a hands-on and code-focused demonstration of the Web API in action. From the very beginning, you'll be writing working code in order to see best practices and concepts in action. As the book progresses, the concepts and code will become more sophisticated. Beginning with an overview of the web service model in general and Web API in particular, you'll progress quickly to a detailed exploration of the request binding and response formatting that lie at the heart of Web API.You'll investigate various scenarios and see how they can be manipulated to achieve the results you need. Later in the book more sophisticated themes will be introduced that will set your applications apart from the crowd. You'll learn how you can validate the request messages on arrival, how you can create loosely coupled controllers, extend the pipeline processing to comparmentalize your code for security and unit testing before being put onto a live hosting server. What you'll learn * What ASP.NET Web API is and how it can be used effectively * Ways to optimize your code for readability and performance * How to add Web API to both new and existing code solutions * What controller dependencies are and why they matter * How to maintain robust security across your projects * Reliable best-practices for using Web API in a professional context Who this book is for The book is ideal for any .NET developer who wants to learn how the ASP.NET Web API framework works in a realistic setting. A good working knowledge of C# and the .NET framework and a familiarity with Visual Studio are the only pre-requisites to benefit from this book

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

Learning Wireless Java is for Java developers who want to create applications for the Micro Edition audience using the Connected, Limited Device Configuration and the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP). These APIs specifically for devices such as mobile phones and pagers, allowing programmers to create MIDlet applications. This book offers a solid introduction to J2ME and MIDP, including the javax.microedition classes, as well as classes surrounding the features of the various platforms that the J2ME supports.

By now you'll have heard of ASP.NET MVC. This excitingnew approach to developing ASP.NET web applications has taken thedevelopment world by storm over the last few years. Now a mature technology suitable for mainstream use, its adoption has exploded in recent times. Until recently, ASP.NET MVC was regarded as an advanced technology only suitable for experienced developers with a strong knowledge of classic ASP.NET and C# coding behind them. This book overturns that prejudice and shows that the beautiful simplicity of ASP.NET MVC is just as suitable for novice developers venturing into real-world application design for the first time. With the aid of a fully worked demo application this bookexplains and demonstrates for you the three pillars of MVC in action. You'll see howthe Model, View and Controller patterns work together in a compliementarymanner to provide MVC's powerful results. There's never been a better time to learn how to use ASP.NETMVC 4. The technology will speed your development times, reduce theverbosity of your code and simplify your application designs all at once. Takethe first step towards ASP.NET MVC mastery with Beginning ASP.NET MVC 4.What you'll learn * How to get started with ASP.NET MVC. What tools and components you'll need and how to download and set up the demo application on your system. * Understand the details of the MVC pattern with deep-dives into each of the Model, View and Controller elements supported by working code showing them in action. * How to apply and extend the MVC patterns to real world solutions: adding AJAX and jQuery, validation and securing user data, testing and deploying the finished application. All of these are discussed and demonstrated. Who this book is for This book is written for readers with basic ASP.NET expertise, such as you might gain from reading Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 in C#. You should be familiar with the underlying structure of ASP.NET applications and comfortable following examples that are underpinned with straight-forward C# code. If you've just found your feet with ASP.NET and are looking to take the next step on the road to mastery then this is the book for you.

WordPress for Web Developers is a complete guide for web designers and developers who want to begin building and administeringsites with WordPress. This book is an update of Beginning WordPress 3, freshened and clarified forweb developers who want to make the most of WordPress.You'll start by learning WordPress basics, including how to publish content, add media, and manage users.

Then you'll dig deeper into your WordPress server administration, including domain mapping, security, and importing and migrating. The book then steps up a gear with an introduction to developing for WordPress, perfect for developers and designers with some PHP experience, who want to learn to create custom themes and plugins.

WordPress is the most popular open source blogging and content management system in the world. Its flexible, user-friendly system can be extended with thousands of freely available themes and plugins. This book will teach you how to make the most of WordPress's built-in features, how to find the right themes and plugins for your projects, and how to build your own custom features. You'll learn to:

What you'll learn How to install WordPress and configure its settings How to create, organize, and display content and multimedia files How to find themes and plugins or create your own with PHP How to maintain and secure your WordPress sites How to set up a network of sites and manage them in a single interface Who this book is for

This book is for professional web designers and developers, with some working knowledge of PHP, who want to learn to administer andbuild sites with WordPress using advanced topics such as themes and plugins. Table of Contents

Part 1: Installing and Using WordPress 1.Introduction 2.Installation 3.Settings 4.Working with Content 5.Working with Themes 6.Working with Plugins 7.Working with Users Part 2: WordPress and Your Server 8.Setting up the Network 9.Maintenance and Security 10.Importing and Migrating Part 3: Beginning WordPress Development 11.Development Concepts for Themes and Plugins 12.Creating a Custom Theme 13.Creating Plugins 14.Custom Content Types, Taxonomies, and Fields Appendix A. Recommended Plugins

JavaScript is the programming language of the Internet, the secret sauce that makes the Web awesome, your favorite sites interactive, and online games fun! JavaScript for Kids is a lighthearted introduction that teaches programming essentials through patient, step-by-step examples paired with funny illustrations. You ll begin with the basics, like working with strings, arrays, and loops, and then move on to more advanced topics, like building interactivity with jQuery and drawing graphics with Canvas. Along the way, you ll write games such as Find the Buried Treasure, Hangman, and Snake. You ll also learn how to: Create functions to organize and reuse your code Write and modify HTML to create dynamic web pages Use the DOM and jQuery to make your web pages react to user input Use the Canvas element to draw and animate graphics Program real user-controlled games with collision detection and score keeping With visual examples like bouncing balls, animated bees, and racing cars, you

While many Web 2.0-inspired approaches to semantic content authoring do acknowledge motivation and incentives as the main drivers of user involvement, the amount of useful human contributions actually available will always remain a scarce resource. Complementarily, there are aspects of semantic content authoring in which automatic techniques have proven to perform reliably, and the added value of human (and collective) intelligence is often a question of cost and timing. The challenge that this book attempts to tackle is how these two approaches (machine- and human-driven computation) could be combined in order to improve the cost-performance ratio of creating, managing, and meaningfully using semantic content. To do so, we need to first understand how theories and practices from social sciences and economics about user behavior and incentives could be applied to semantic content authoring. We will introduce a methodology to help software designers to embed incentives-minded functionalities into semantic applications, as well as best practices and guidelines. We will present several examples of such applications, addressing tasks such as ontology management, media annotation, and information extraction, which have been built with these considerations in mind. These examples illustrate key design issues of incentivized Semantic Web applications that might have a significant effect on the success and sustainable development of the applications: the suitability of the task and knowledge domain to the intended audience, and the mechanisms set up to ensure high-quality contributions, and extensive user involvement. Table of Contents: Semantic Data Management: A Human-driven Process / Fundamentals of Motivation and Incentives / Case Study: Motivating Employees to Annotate Content / Case Study: Building a Community of Practice Around Web Service Management and Annotation / Case Study: Games with a Purpose for Semantic Content Creation / Conclusions

The ASP.NET MVC 4 Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft's ASP.NET web platform. It provides ahigh-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC 4 contains a number of significant advances over previous versions. New mobile and desktop templates (employing adaptive rendering) are included together with support for jQuery Mobile for the first time. New display modes allow your application to select views based on the browser that's making the request while Code Generation Recipes for Visual Studio help you auto-generate project-specific code for a wide variety of situtations including NuGet support. In this fourth edition, the core model-view-controller (MVC) architectural concepts are not simply explained or discussed in isolation, but are demonstrated in action. You'll work through an extended tutorial to create a working e-commerce web application that combines ASP.NET MVC with the latest C# language features and unit-testing best practices. By gaining this invaluable, practical experience, you'll discover MVC's strengths and weaknesses for yourselfand put your best-learned theory into practice. The book's authors, Steve Sanderson and Adam Freeman, have both watched the growth of ASP.NET MVC since its first release. Steve is a well-known blogger on the MVC Framework and a member of the Microsoft Web Platform and Tools team. Adam started designing and building web applications 15 years ago and has been responsible for some of the world's largest and most ambitious projects. You can be sure you are in safe hands. What you'll learn Gain a solid architectural understanding of ASP.NET MVC 4, including basic MVC Explore the entire ASP.NET MVC Framework Learn what's new in version 4 and how how best to apply these new features See how MVC and test-driven development work in action Capitalize on your existing knowledge quickly and easily through comparison of features in classic ASP.NET to those in ASP.NET MVC Who this book is for

This book is for web developers with a basic knowledge of ASP.NET and C# who want (or need) to start using the new ASP.NET MVC 4 Framework. Table of Contents 1. What's The Big Idea 2. Your first MVC Application 3. The MVC Pattern 4. Essential Language Features 5. Working with Razor 6. Essential Tools for MVC 7. Sports Store: A Real Application 8. Sports Store: Navigation 9. Sports Store: Cart 10. Sports Store: Admin 11. Sports Store: Security and Finishing Touches 12. Overview of MVC Projects 13. URL Routing 14. Advanced Routing Features 15. Controllers and Actions 16. Filters 17. Controller Extensbility 18. Views 19. Helper Methods 20. Templated Helper Methods 21. URL and Ajax Helper Methods 22. Model Binding 23. Model Validation 24. Bundles and Display Modes 25. Web API 26. Deployment

ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes is a practical guide for developers creating modern web applications, cutting through the complexities of ASP.NET, jQuery, Knockout.js and HTML 5 to provide straightforward solutions to common web development problems using proven methods based on best practices. The problem-solution approach gets you in, out, and back to work quickly while deepening your understanding of the underlying platform and how to develop with it. Author John Ciliberti guides you through the framework and development tools, presenting typical challenges, along with code solutions and clear, concise explanations, to accelerate application development. Inside you will find recipes dealing with streamlined syntax, full control over HTML, a simple API for creating RESTful web services, writing support for test driven development, and more. Solve problems immediately by pasting in code from the recipes, or put multiple recipe solutions together to overcome challenging development obstacles. Dive head first into ASP.NET MVC web development with ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes.What you'll learnInside find recipes that cover: * automating testing and deployment of your application using Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server * designing and developing your application for Internet scale * deploying to the cloud, working with Big Data and adding resiliency to your application's components * migrating a project from ASP.NET web forms to the MVC 4 including recipes for converting DataGrids, Forms, Web Parts, Master Pages and navigation controls * Client side data binding and templating techniques using Web API, Knockout.js and jQuery * using the Web API to design web services that can be consumed by mobile devices and tablets running Android, iOS, and Windows 8 Who this book is for This book is a problem-solution guide for web developers looking for a better way to build a modern web application on the Microsoft platform. There are several types of developers that would find this material useful: * veteran ASP.NET Web Forms developers who wish to update their skillset to include ASP.NET MVC * Project teams who wish to modernize an existing application to allow it to take advantage of MVC 4, .NET 4.5, and Windows Azure * Novice web developers who are looking to expand their skill set by learning the Microsoft web development stack

HTML5 is one of the fundamental building blocks of websites for the future. Brings the exciting new features of HTML5 to web developers for the first time. Introduces the new HTML5 and CSS3 features to web developers of all levels. Shows how HTML5 and CSS3 can work together to create the next gen web sites. Written in an easy to follow, accessible tutorial style ideal for all web developers and designers. Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 is the first book to introduce developers to the new features of HTML5 and how it can work with CSS3 features to create the next generation of web sites. Using the core Apress Beginning tutorial technique, every web developer will be interested in finding out more about these fundamental building blocks behind websites for the future. Cutting-edge techniques and new technology features are introduced and allow every web developer to step into their future career projects on the web. For amateur web developers, the new HMT5 features - especially audio, video and animation - will bring a new level of sophistication to their websites. Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 brings the future of web development to all web developers right now.

The world of scholarship is changing rapidly. Increasing demands on scholars, the growing size and complexity of questions and problems to be addressed, and advances in sophistication of data collection, analysis, and presentation require new approaches to scholarship. A ubiquitous, open information infrastructure for scholarship, consisting of linked open data, open-source software tools, and a community committed to sustainability are emerging to meet the needs of scholars today. This book provides an introduction to VIVO, http://vivoweb.org/, a tool for representing information about research and researchers -- their scholarly works, research interests, and organizational relationships. VIVO provides an expressive ontology, tools for managing the ontology, and a platform for using the ontology to create and manage linked open data for scholarship and discovery. Begun as a project at Cornell and further developed by an NIH funded consortium, VIVO is now being established as an open-source project with community participation from around the world. By the end of 2012, over 20 countries and 50 organizations will provide information in VIVO format on more than one million researchers and research staff, including publications, research resources, events, funding, courses taught, and other scholarly activity. The rapid growth of VIVO and of VIVO-compatible data sources speaks to the fundamental need to transform scholarship for the 21st century. Table of Contents: Scholarly Networking Needs and Desires / The VIVO Ontology / Implementing VIVO and Filling It with Life / Case Study: University of Colorado at Boulder / Case Study: Weill Cornell Medical College / Extending VIVO / Analyzing and Visualizing VIVO Data / The Future of VIVO: Growing the Community

If you want to get into developing web sites, the most important thing you'll need is a solid understanding of Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML--the most common language used to write web site content. The most recent version of the language is HTML5, and it contains a whole host of new features to give you more power when creating websites. Foundation HTML5 with CSS3: A Modern Guide and Reference incorporates practical examples to show how to structure data correctly using HTML5, along with styling and layout basics using the latest release of Cascading Style Sheets, CSS3. This book is forward-thinking because all the featured code and techniques are standards-compliant, and it demonstrate best practices--you won't waste your time on outdated, bad techniques. Your web pages will work properly in most web browsers and be accessible to web users with disabilities, easily located using popular search engines, and compact in file size. Even if you already know HTML5 and CSS3 basics, this book will still be useful to you. It features comprehensive reference tables, so you can look up troublesome attributes, codes, and properties quickly and easily.What you'll learn * Standards-compliant HTML5, not outdated techniques * Styling and layout basics using CSS3 Who this book is for Web designers and developers who want to bring themselves up to speed in the correct usage of HTML5 and CSS3, or those starting out in modern web development.

This book is the most comprehensive and up to date introduction to ASP.NET ever written. Focusing solely on Visual Basic, with no code samples duplicated in other languages, award winning author Matthew MacDonald introduces you to the very latest thinking and best practices for the ASP.NET 4.5 technology. Assuming no prior coding experience, you'll be taught everything you need to know from the ground up. Starting from first principals, you'll learn the skills you need to be an effective ASP.NET developer who is ready to progress to more sophisticated projects and professional work. You'll be taught how to use object orientation and code-behind techniques to lay out your code clearly in a way other developers can easily understand. You'll learn how to query databases from within you web pages, spice up your layouts using ASP.NET AJAX and deploy your finished websites to production servers. You'll also learn how to debug your code when things go wrong and the performance and scalability issues that can affect your web projects as they grow. What you'll learn Learn everything you need to know to build ASP.NET 4.5 applications with confidence. Dive into the deepest, broadest, introductory ASP.NET coverage available. Be guided by an award winning author who will steadily progress your knowledge from first principals to advanced techniques over the course of the book. Who this book is for

This book is ideal for anyone new to .NET development who wants to learn how ASP.NET 4.5 works. No prior programming knowledge is assumed and all concepts are explained from first principals. Table of Contents Part 1: Introducing .NET 1. The .NET Framework 2. The C# Language 3. Types, Objects, and Namespace Part 2: Developing ASP.NET Applications 4. Visual Studio 5. Web Form Fundamentals 6. Web Controls 7. Error Handling, Logging, and Tracing 8. State Management Part 3: Building Better Web Forms 9. Validation 10.Rich Controls 11.User Controls and Graphics 12.Styles, Themes, and Master Pages 13.Website Navigation Part 4: Working with Data 14.ADO.NET Fundamentals 15.Data Binding 16.The Data Controls 17.Files and Streams 18.XML Part 5: Website Security 19.Security Fundamentals 20.Membership 21.Profiles Part 6: Advanced ASP.NET 22.Advanced ASP.NET Components 23.Caching 24.LINQ and the Entity Framework 25.ASP.NET AJAX 26.Deploying ASP.NET Applications

Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 is written to help ASP .NET developers make the leap to the inevitable and exciting world of HTML5. The growing HTML5 specifications promises to revolutionize the way web sites are developed with an impressive set of built-in client-side features. The use of HTML5 as a preferred development language in Windows 8, along with growing support from the major browser vendors, is likely to make HTML5 the de-facto standard for all future web development. The number of HTML5-capable phones alone is estimated to top 1 billion by 2013. Many professional web developers who are firmly rooted in the Microsoft toolset such as Visual Studio, Active Server Pages, and .NET are trying to understand how HTML5 fits into their world. With this book, you'll quickly master the new HTML elements, the improved CSS features, and advanced content including audio, video, and graphic processing. You will also learn how your enterprise applications can benefit from some brand-new technology such as local storage and web sockets. Using practical hands-on demonstrations you will learn all of the really cool features that you can start using now, within your existing ASP .NET applications. Discover the future of web development with Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012. * Illustrates how to integrate the new HTML5 features in an ASP .NET application. * Explains how to add active content including video and graphics. * Demonstrates the new scripting features such as application cache and local storage. What you'll learn * Take advantage of the new browser capabilities from within your ASP applications. * Use local storage and other infrastructure improvements. * Use the new CSS3 features to create dramatic web sites. * Integrate the new HTML5 features with the MVC4 framework. * Create mobile friendly web sites. * Use canvas and SVG to build some amazing web pages. Who this book is for Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 is for the professional web developer who is familiar with traditional ASP.NET web forms or the relatively new Model View Controller (MVC) framework. It is designed for the web builders who want to take advantage of the new design features or the infrastructure improvement of HTML5. It is geared toward individuals who want the practical, real-world demonstrations and not just a lot of theory.

Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for Android teaches the essential HTML5 and JavaScript skills you need to make great apps for the Android platform and browser. This book guides you through the creation of a mobile web app. You'll put the HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript skills you learn into practice, giving you invaluable first-hand experience that will serve you well as you go on to develop your own web apps for Android smartphones and tablets. Throughout this book, you will learn new skills and bring these altogether to create a web app that runs on the Android platform as well as other mobile platforms. What you'll learn Android 4.0 compliant, this book shows you how to: How to build a HTML5 and JavaScript-based mobile Web app that runs on Android devices and browsers What is HTML5 and how to best use it for your presentation tier in your Web app What is CSS3 and how to best employ it for a richer presentation tier in your Web app What is JavaScript and how to best use for any needed logic in your web app How to make use of some of the HTML API's such as Canvas, Video and Audio for mobile to create a richer experience for users How to build a Web app, case by case, tier by tier, for your Android devices and for your prospective audience Who this book is for

This book is for Android and web developers needing to learn the mobile web skills needed to build reactive, dynamic and fun HTML5 and JavaScript-based Web Apps that run on Android devices and its browsers. Table of Contents 1. Introduction and Shopping list 2. Learn Your First Web App for Android 3. Learn HTML5 4. Create using HTML5 Workshop (Web app case study part I) 5. Learn CSS3 6. Create and Refine using CSS3 (Web app case study part II) 7. Learn JavaScript 8. Create using JavaScript (Web app case study part III) 9. Testing and Deploying Your First Web App

This book is the most comprehensive and up to date introduction to ASP.NET ever written. Focussing solely on C#, with no code samples duplicated in other languages, award winning author Matthew MacDonald introduces you to the very latest thinking and best practices for the ASP.NET 4.5 technology. Assuming no prior coding experience, you'll be taught everything you need to know from the ground up. Starting from first principals, you'll learn the skills you need to be an effective ASP.NET developer who is ready to progress to more sophisticated projects and professional work. You'll be taught how to use object orientation and code-behind techniques to lay out your code clearly in a way other developers can easily understand. You'll learn how to query databases from within you web pages, spice up your layouts using ASP.NET AJAX and deploy your finished websites to production servers. You'll also learn how to debug your code when things go wrong and the performance and scalability issues that can affect your web projects as they grow. What you'll learn Learn everything you need to know to build ASP.NET 4.5 applications with confidence. Dive into the deepest, broadest, introductory ASP.NET coverage available. Be guided by an award winning author who will steadily progress your knowledge from first principles to advanced techniques over the course of the book. Who this book is for

This book is ideal for anyone new to .NET development who wants to learn how ASP.NET 4.5 works. No prior programming knowledge is assumed and all concepts are explained from first principals. Table of Contents 1. The .NET Framework 2. The C# Language 3. Types, Objects, and Namespaces 4. Visual Studio 5. Web Form Fundamentals 6. Web Controls 7. Error Handling, Logging, and Tracing 8. State Management 9. Validation 10.Rich Controls 11.User Controls and Graphics 12.Styles, Themes, and Master Pages 13.Website Navigation 14.ADO.NET Fundamentals 15.Data Binding 16.The Data Controls 17.Files and Streams 18.XML 19.Security Fundamentals 20.Membership 21.Profiles 22.Advanced ASP.NET Components 23.Caching 24.LINQ and the Entity Framework 25.ASP.NET AJAX 26.Deploying ASP.NET Applications

Nearly everything you do with CSS involves units for determining the look and formatting of your web page elements. With this concise guide, you'll learn how to work with an array of units--including measurements and keywords--that help you define color, text, distance between elements, location of external files, and other values. This book contains chapters from the upcoming fourth edition of "CSS: The Definitive Guide." When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of "Values, Units, and Colors," you'll receive a significant discount on the entire Definitive Guide when it's released. Why wait when you can learn how to use units and other key CSS3 features right away?Use RGB or HSL values to mix your own colors, and designate the degree of opacity Learn how to apply global keywords introduced in CSS3 Use string values to wrap a sequence of text characters in quotes Describe margins, letter spacing, and other properties, with either fixed or relative length units Understand how number, integer, and percentage values differ Explore CSS3 unit types for describing display resolution Use time values for transitions and animations

Grails is a full stack framework which aims to greatly simplify the task of building serious web applications for the JVM. The concepts within Grails, like interceptors, tag libs, and Groovy Server Pages (GSP), make those in the Java community feel right at home. Grails' foundation is on solid open source technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, and SiteMesh, which gives it even more potential in the Java space: Spring provides powerful inversion of control and MVC, Hibernate brings a stable, mature object relational mapping technology with the ability to integrate with legacy systems, and SiteMesh handles flexible layout control and page decoration. Grails complements these with additional features that take advantage of the coding-by-convention paradigm such as dynamic tag libraries, Grails object relational mapping, Groovy Server Pages, and scaffolding. Graeme Rocher, Grails lead and founder, and Jeff Brown bring you completely up-to-date with their authoritative and fully comprehensive guide to the Grails 2 framework. You'll get to know all the core features, services, and Grails extensions via plug-ins, and understand the roles that Groovy and Grails are playing in the changing Web.

Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript shows the entire process of building a website. This process involves much more than just technical knowledge, and this book provides all the information you'll need to understand the concepts behind designing and developing for the Web, as well as the best means to deliver professional results based on best practices. Of course, there is far more to building a successful website than knowing a little Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The process starts long before any coding takes place, and this book introduces you to the agile development process, explaining why this method makes so much sense for web projects and how best to implement it. We also make sure you're up to date by using the latest HTML5 features. Planning is vital, so you'll also learn to use techniques such as brainstorming, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to get your project off to the best possible start and help ensure smooth progress as it develops.An understanding of correct, semantic markup is essential for any web professional; this book explains how HTML5 should be used to structure content so that the markup adheres to current web standards. You'll learn about the wide range of HTML5 elements available to you, and you'll learn how and when to use them through building example web pages. Without creative use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), websites would all look largely the same. CSS enables you to set your website apart from the rest, while maintaining the integrity of your markup. We'll showcase the new features of CSS3 and how you can use them. You'll learn how CSS3 works and how to apply styles to your pages, allowing you to realize your design ideas in the browser. JavaScript can be used to make your website easier and more interesting to use. This book provides information on appropriate uses of this technology and introduces the concepts of JavaScript programming. You'll also see how JavaScript works as part of the much-hyped technique Ajax, and in turn, where Ajax fits into the wider Web 2.0 picture.While a website is being built, it needs to be tested across multiple browsers and platforms to ensure that the site works for all users, regardless of ability or disability, and this book explains how best to accomplish these tasks. Then, it discusses the process of launching and maintaining the site so that it will continue to work for all its users throughout its life cycle. Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript concludes by covering server-side technologies, acting as a guide to the different options available. With insights from renowned experts such as Jason Fried of 37signals, Daniel Burka of Digg and Pownce, and Chris Messina of Citizen Agency, Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript provides invaluable information applicable to every web project--regardless of size, scope, or budget.What you'll learn * See how the Web has developed and the role of web standards * Learn how to plan and manage the building of a website * Learn how to separate content from presentation with HTML5 and CSS3 * See how JavaScript can be used to enhance your website * Learn how best to test, launch, and maintain a website Who this book is for Web developers and designers starting out in HTML5 and CSS3.

Is Responsive Web Design (RWD) slowing your site down? It doesn't have to. With this concise book, you'll learn practical techniques for improving performance with RWD, including a default set of guidelines you can use as an easy starting point. Web performance researcher and evangelist Guy Podjarny walks you through several existing solutions for dealing with RWD performance problems, and offers advice for choosing optimizations that will be most useful for your needs. RWD performance problems stem from excessive downloads of resources, including images, JavaScript and CSS, and HTML--downloads designed to let your web application adapt to different screen sizes. Podjarny presents a series of increasingly larger-scope solutions to each issue, including client-side techniques and RESS (Responsive + Server Side Components). Address performance issues by starting with Podjarny's default guidelines Use a JavaScript image loader and an image transcoding service to create Responsive Images Reduce JavaScript and CSS downloads with asynchronous scripts, conditional loading, and multi-viewport CSS Prioritize resources to avoid excess content in RWD and defer the load of any content that's not critical Explore server-side Adaptive Delivery and RESS solutions as an alternative to "pure" RWD Guy Podjarny, or Guypo for short, is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Akamai's Web Experience business unit.

How can you take advantage of the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) and the Hack programming language, two new technologies that Facebook developed to run their web servers? With this practical guide, Owen Yamauchi-a member of Facebook's core Hack and HHVM teams-shows you how to get started with these battle-tested open-source tools. You'll explore static typechecking and several other features that separate Hack from its PHP origins, and learn how to set up, configure, deploy, and monitor HHVM. Ideal for developers with basic PHP knowledge or experience with other languages, this book also demonstrates how these tools can be used with existing PHP codebases and new projects alike. Learn how Hack provides static typechecking while retaining PHP's flexible, rapid development capability Write typesafe code with Hack's generics feature Explore HHVM, a just-in-time compilation runtime engine with full PHP compatibility Dive into Hack collections, asynchronous functions, and the XHP extension for PHP Understand Hack's design rationale, including why it omits some PHP features Use Hack for multitasking, and for generating HTML securely Learn tools for working with Hack code, including PHP-to-Hack migration

Today, jQuery is used by over half of the 10,000 most-visited web sites, and jQuery is one of the technologies that every web developer should master. The trouble is that jQuery is difficult to learn, especially for programming novices. Now, this new book makes it easier than ever to learn jQuery, jQuery UI (User Interface), and jQuery Mobile. In essence, sections 2 and 3 of this book present all of the jQuery and jQuery UI skills that you need for developing professional jQuery applications. With those skills, you will be able to add all of the popular jQuery applications to your web pages: image swaps, image rollovers, collapsible panels, slide shows, accordions, tabs, carousels, and more. Beyond that, though, you will have all the skills that you need for developing unique jQuery applications of your own. But that's just two of the five sections in the book. Because you need to know JavaScript in order to use jQuery, section 1 presents the least you need to know about JavaScript to get the most from jQuery. This is essential for programming novices, but this is also valuable for experienced programmers who may not remember how a specific JavaScript statement or method works. In short, this section makes this book a complete reference for jQuery programmers. In contrast, section 4 takes jQuery to a new level by showing you how to use Ajax and JSON to get data from a web server and add it to a web page without reloading the page. It also shows how to use Ajax and JSON with the APIs for popular web sites like Blogger, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, and Google Maps. These are powerful skills for enhancing a web site. To complete this package, section 5 presents a complete course in jQuery Mobile, which offers an exciting, new way to develop web sites for mobile devices. Today, the best web sites are available in both full and mobile versions, so this section also shows how to use a JavaScript plugin to redirect a mobile device from the full version of a web site to its mobile version.