O Reilly Media: 1789 books
PC Hardware in a Nutshell
A Desktop Quick Reference
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2003
PC Hardware in a Nutshell is the practical guide to buying, building, upgrading, and repairing Intel-based PCs. A longtime favorite among PC users, the third edition of the book now contains useful information for people running either Windows or Linux operating systems. Written for novices and seasoned...
Learning Visual Basic .NET
Introducing the Language, .NET Programming & Object Oriented Software Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2002
Most Visual Basic .NET books are written for experienced object-oriented programmers, but many programmers jumping on the .NET bandwagon are coming from non-object-oriented languages, such as Visual Basic 6.0 or from script programming, such as JavaScript. These programmers, and those who are adopting...
XML in a Nutshell
A Desktop Quick Reference
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
If you're a developer working with XML, you know there's a lot to know about XML, and the XML space is evolving almost moment by moment. But you don't need to commit every XML syntax, API, or XSLT transformation to memory; you only need to know where to find it. And if it's a detail that has to do...
C# 3.0 Cookbook
More Than 250 solutions for C# 3.0 Programmers
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Completely updated for C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 platform, the new edition of this bestseller offers more than 250 code recipes to common and not-so-common problems that C# programmers face every day. Every recipe in the book has been reconsidered with more than a third of them rewritten to take advantage...
by Robert J. Glushko
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Note about this ebook: This ebook exploits many advanced capabilities with images, hypertext, and interactivity and is optimized for EPUB3-compliant book readers, especially Apple's iBooks and browser plugins. These features may not work on all ebook readers.We organize things. We organize...
Selectors, Specificity, and the Cascade
Applying CSS3 to Documents
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Exactly how does the "cascade" in Cascading Style Sheets work? This concise guide demonstrates the power and simplicity of CSS selectors for applying style rules to different web page elements. You’ll learn how your page’s presentation depends on a multitude of style rules and the complex...
CSS Text
Styling Your Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
As a web designer, you probably spend more time working with text than any other element. With this concise guide, you’ll learn CSS3 properties for changing the appearance of text without altering the font face—including horizontal and vertical alignment, text transformation, word and letter spacing,...
Values, Units, and Colors
Foundational CSS3 Components
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
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...
CSS Pocket Reference
Visual Presentation for the Web
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
When you’re working with CSS and need an answer now, this concise yet comprehensive quick reference provides the essential information you need. Revised and updated for CSS3, this fifth edition is ideal for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers.
You’ll find a short introduction...
CSS Fonts
Web Typography Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
From custom fonts to ad-hoc font families you assemble out of a variety of individual faces, CSS 3 gives you more typographic options than ever before. This concise guide shows you how to use CSS properties to gain a fine-grained and wide-ranging influence over how you display fonts on the Web.
Short...
Basic Visual Formatting in CSS
Layout Fundamentals in CSS
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Some aspects of the CSS formatting model may seem counterintuitive at first, but as you’ll learn in this practical guide, the more you work with these features, the more they make sense. Author Eric Meyer gives you a good grounding in CSS visual rendering, from element box rules and concepts to...
CSS Floating
Floats and Float Shapes
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
While flowing text around images is certainly nothing new, with CSS you can float any element, from images to paragraphs to lists. In this practical guide, author Eric Meyer reveals some interesting—and surprising—ways to use CSS floats in your web design, including the latest capability to flow...
Table Layout in CSS
CSS Table Rendering in Detail
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Isn’t table layout something web designers want to avoid? Yes, but rather than use tables for layout, this book is about the ways that tables themselves are laid out by CSS, a process more complicated than it appears. This concise guide takes you on a deep dive into the concepts necessary for understanding...
Padding, Borders, Outlines, and Margins in CSS
CSS Box Model Details
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
The ability to apply margins, borders, and padding to any web page element is one of the things that sets CSS so far above traditional markup. With this practical guide, you will not only learn how to use these properties to lay out your document, but also how to change and control the appearance...