Yahoo Press imprint: 7 books
by Randy Farmer, Bryce Glass
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
What do Amazon's product reviews, eBay's feedback score system, Slashdot's Karma System, and Xbox Live's Achievements have in common? They're all examples of successful reputation systems that enable consumer websites to manage and present user contributions most effectively. This book shows you how...
Developing Large Web Applications
Producing Code That Can Grow and Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
How do you create a mission-critical site that provides exceptional performance while remaining flexible, adaptable, and reliable 24/7? Written by the manager of a UI group at Yahoo!, Developing Large Web Applications offers practical steps for building rock-solid applications that remain effective...
YUI 3 Cookbook
Writing Maintainable Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Solve a wide range of problems in your web application quickly and efficiently with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). With this definitive, getting-started guide to version 3 of the popular open source JavaScript library, you’ll learn how to address many of the most common and challenging...
High Performance JavaScript
Build Faster Web Application Interfaces
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
If you're like most developers, you rely heavily on JavaScript to build interactive and quick-responding web applications. The problem is that all of those lines of JavaScript code can slow down your apps. This book reveals techniques and strategies to help you eliminate performance bottlenecks during...
JavaScript: The Good Parts
The Good Parts
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable,...
RESTful Web Services Cookbook
Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
While the REST design philosophy has captured the imagination of web and enterprise developers alike, using this approach to develop real web services is no picnic. This cookbook includes more than 100 recipes to help you take advantage of REST, HTTP, and the infrastructure of the Web. You'll learn...
Programming Social Applications
Building Viral Experiences with OpenSocial, OAuth, OpenID, and Distributed Web Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Social networking has made one thing clear: websites and applications need to provide users with experiences tailored to their preferences. This in-depth guide shows you how to build rich social frameworks, using open source technologies and specifications. You'll learn how to create third-party applications...