- Power Up Your Large-Scale JavaScript Development with TypeScript
- Nov 5, 2014
- Bill Wagner, author of Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, Second Edition, explores the TypeScript language, walking through a detailed example that shows how TypeScript complements JavaScript. Learn how to build modern code that's more productive and easier to maintain.
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- Video: Paul Duvall on DevOps and AWS
- Oct 30, 2014
- Paul Duvall, author of DevOps in AWS LiveLessons Video Training, talks about why video is great for learning DevOps, continuous integration, the difference between continuous delivery and continuous deployment, and what's so exciting about The Cloud.
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- The Mobile Commerce Revolution and the Current State of Mobile
- Oct 20, 2014
- The statistics in this chapter from The Mobile Commerce Revolution: Business Success in a Wireless World underline what is truly powerful about mobile technology: It’s not about enabling things we couldn’t have imagined. Instead, today’s mobile technology enables exactly what the average consumer could have imagined, albeit in settings and situations that could not have been predicted.
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- Understanding JavaScript
- Oct 20, 2014
- This chapter from HTML, CSS and JavaScript All in One, Sams Teach Yourself: Covering HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery, 2nd Edition introduces the concept of web scripting and the JavaScript language. As the chapter moves ahead, you’ll learn how to include JavaScript commands directly in your HTML documents, and how your scripts will be executed when the page is viewed in a browser. You will work with a simple script, edit it, and test it in your browser, all the while learning the basic tasks involved in creating and using JavaScript scripts.
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- AngularJS Fundamental Concepts for Building Web Applications: Part 3
- Oct 15, 2014
- In Part 3 of a 4-part series, programming expert Jesse Smith shows you how to use web forms validation the easy way with AngularJS to validate and prepare data before posting to a database.
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- Accustoming Yourself to Ruby
- Oct 7, 2014
- In this excerpt from Effective Ruby: 48 Specific Ways to Write Better Ruby, Peter J. Jones examines Ruby's unique take on common programming ideas. That is, those that impact every part of your program, such as Treat All Objects as If They Could Be nil and Avoid Ruby’s Cryptic Perlisms.
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- Introduction to JavaFX
- Oct 6, 2014
- In this chapter from JavaFX Rich Client Programming on the NetBeans Platform, you’ll learn the basics of JavaFX, its structure, and the philosophy of how JavaFX constructs a GUI. You’ll learn about different coding styles and discover the styles that best suit you and your development team.
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- Retrofitting an Existing Site to a Responsive Mobile Design
- Sep 29, 2014
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It doesn’t matter whether you are working for yourself, as a freelancer, for a corporation, or even as part of a design studio—at some point, you will be asked to take an existing site and make it work on everything.
This might seem overwhelming but is by no means impossible. In this chapter from Responsive Mobile Design: Designing for Every Device, you learn about choosing the proper layout, working with site components, and keeping some important issues in mind when going mobile.
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- Hit the Ground Running with MongoDB and Python
- Sep 16, 2014
- Stephen B. Morris describes how to get started with MongoDB and Python. As usual with Python, you can get productive quickly, without worrying about complex IDEs. MongoDB has a simple data model and easy-to-understand semantics, giving you a handy on-ramp to this interesting technology.
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- An Introduction to Data Visualization in JavaScript: How to Use Data-Joins in D3
- Sep 12, 2014
- Data-joins are the bread and butter of D3. This chapter from Visual Storytelling with D3: An Introduction to Data Visualization in JavaScript covers how to use data-joins to add elements to a webpage and then manipulate them with data.
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- Learn Ruby the Hard Way: Comments and Pound Characters
- Sep 8, 2014
- Comments are very important in your programs. They are used to tell you what something does in English, and they are used to disable parts of your program if you need to remove them temporarily. Zed Shaw shows you how to use them in Ruby, in this excerpt from Learn Ruby the Hard Way: A Simple and Idiomatic Introduction To The Imaginative World Of Computational Thinking With Code, 3rd Edition.
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- AngularJS Fundamental Concepts for Building Web Applications: Part 2
- Aug 19, 2014
- In Part 2 of this series, programming expert Jesse Smith continues his discussion of AngularJS by exploring modules and services.
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- AngularJS Fundamental Concepts for Building Web Applications: Part 1
- Aug 12, 2014
- In Part 1 of a two-part series, Jesse Smith gives you a solid introduction to AngularJS and how the framework is used to create simple web applications.
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- Introducing Learning Labs: A New Way to Learn Programming
- Aug 9, 2014
- In this interview with Jennifer Kyrnin, Brad Dayley, and Phil Ballard, authors of HTML5 Mobile Application Development in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself (Learning Lab), jQuery and JavaScript in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself (Learning Lab), and JavaScript in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself (Learning Lab), respectively, answer some questions about this new format and what you can learn from it.
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- Introduction to Core HTML5 2D Game Programming
- Aug 5, 2014
- Learn how to implement a full-fledged HTML5 video game so that you can learn how to create one of your own. In this chapter, David Geary looks at the game Snail Bait from a high level to get a feel for its features and to understand some of the best practices it implements.
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- Joomla! Content Explained
- Aug 5, 2014
- This chapter from Joomla! 3 Explained: Your Step-by-Step Guide, 2nd Edition explains the easiest and fastest way to add content to a Joomla site. If you follow this workflow, it will make your Joomla life very easy.
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- Service-Orientation Principles with Java Web-Based Services
- Jul 29, 2014
- This chapter visits each of the eight service-orientation principles in depth to highlight considerations specific to design and development with Java.
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- Introduction to "SOA with Java"
- Jul 28, 2014
- Thomas Erl et al. describe the objectives and organization of their book, SOA with Java: Realizing Service-Orientation with Java Technologies, explain who the book is for, and what is not actually covered.
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- Database Development: Comparing Python and Java ORM Performance
- Jul 22, 2014
- Stephen B. Morris draws a comparison between two approaches to ORM-centric database development. One is based on the Python SQLAlchemy ORM tools, and the other uses standard Java JPA. Which is better? The result of comparing a simple use case for both languages is quite surprising.
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- Introducing the Node.js-to-AngularJS Stack
- Jul 21, 2014
- To get you off on the right foot, this chapter focuses on the fundamental components of the web development framework and then describes the components of the Node.js-to-AngularJS stack that is the basis for the rest of the book.
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