O Reilly Media: 1789 books
Programming Firefox
Building Rich Internet Applications with XUL
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2007
This is your guide to building Internet applications and user interfaces with the Mozilla component framework, which is best known for the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client. Programming Firefox demonstrates how to use the XML User Interface Language (XUL) with open source tools in the...
PayPal APIs: Up and Running
Monetizing Your Application with Payment Flows
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
If your web application’s success depends on how quickly and easily users can make transactions, PayPal APIs provide effective solutions you can’t afford to overlook. This concise book takes you hands-on through several options to help you determine the best choice for your situation, whether...
Virtualization: A Manager's Guide
Big Picture of the Who, What, and Where of Virtualization
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
What exactly is virtualization? As this concise book explains, virtualization is a smorgasbord of technologies that offer organizations many advantages, whether you're managing extremely large stores of rapidly changing data, scaling out an application, or harnessing huge amounts of computational...
Access Data Analysis Cookbook
Slicing and Dicing to Find the Results You Need
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2007
If you have large quantities of data in a Microsoft Access database, and need to study that data in depth, this book is a data cruncher's dream. Access Data Analysis Cookbook offers practical recipes to solve a variety of common problems that users have with extracting Access data and performing calculations...
JavaScript for PHP Developers
A Concise Guide to Mastering JavaScript
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
If you want to significantly expand your web development skills beyond PHP, this practical, hands-on book teaches you ECMAScript—the core JavaScript language—from the ground up. You’ll discover some similarities between JavaScript and PHP, such as conditions and loops, but the primary focus...
Releasing HTML5 Games for Windows 8
From the Web to Windows 8 with Ease
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Windows 8 presents an incredible opportunity for distributing and monetizing HTML5 games, and this guide shows how you can profit from it. You’ll learn everything you need to know about porting your original web-based JavaScript game to the new "touch-first" version of Windows, as well...
Programming the iPhone User Experience
Developing and Designing Cocoa Touch Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch not only feature the world's most powerful mobile operating system, they also usher in a new standard of human-computer interaction through gestural interfaces and multi-touch navigation. This book provides you with a hands-on, example-driven tour of UIKit, Apple's user...
20 Recipes for Programming PhoneGap
Cross-Platform Mobile Development for Android and iPhone
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Gain hands-on experience with the amazing PhoneGap library, using the practical recipes in this handy guide. With these solutions, you can enable your mobile web apps to interact with device-specific features such as the accelerometer, GPS, camera, and address book. Learn how to use your knowledge...
High Performance Web Sites
Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the...
SVG Animations
From Common UX Implementations to Complex Responsive Animation
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
SVG is extremely powerful, with its reduced HTTP requests and crispness on any display. It becomes increasingly more interesting as you explore its capabilities for responsive animation and performance boons. When you animate SVG, you must be aware of normal image traits like composition, color, implementation,...
Think DSP
Digital Signal Processing in Python
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
If you understand basic mathematics and know how to program with Python, you’re ready to dive into signal processing. While most resources start with theory to teach this complex subject, this practical book introduces techniques by showing you how they’re applied in the real world. In the first...
by Kyle Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
No matter how much experience you have with JavaScript, odds are you don’t fully understand the language. This concise, in-depth guide takes you inside JavaScript’s this structure and object prototypes. You’ll learn how they work and why they’re integral to behavior delegation—a design pattern...
SharePoint Office Pocket Guide
Document Collaboration in Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2005
SharePoint Office Pocket Guide is the quick path to sharing documents and building lists. Written specifically for users of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook, it covers the ins and outs of SharePoint clearly and concisely. Within minutes, you'll understand how to:
Create team sites, document...
SQL in a Nutshell
A Desktop Quick Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2008
For programmers, analysts, and database administrators, SQL in a Nutshell is the essential reference for the SQL language used in today's most popular database products. This new edition clearly documents every SQL command according to the latest ANSI standard, and details how those commands are implemented...