- Converting a Java Program into an Android App
- Sep 25, 2013
- Bintu Harwani helps Java programmers understand the basic differences between Java and Android applications and the steps required to convert or re-create a Java program as an Android app.
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- Architecting a SharePoint 2013 Deployment
- Sep 23, 2013
- This chapter covers SharePoint 2013 design and architecture. The structural components of SharePoint are explained and compared. Server roles, database design decisions, and application server placement are discussed. This chapter focuses specifically on physical SharePoint infrastructure and design.
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- My Life in Tech: Q&A with User Experience Student Reecha Bharali
- Sep 18, 2013
- Editorial intern Ryan McConnell interviews user experience intern Reecha Bharali about her summer as a member of the Pearson Education Internship Program.
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- How I Learned to Code, Quit My Job, and Changed the World
- Sep 16, 2013
- Rails Girl and world traveler Bettina Shzu-Juraschek discusses how learning to code helped her gain the confidence to travel extensively and create digital products to change the world.
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- Creational Design Patterns in Python
- Sep 13, 2013
- In this chapter from Python in Practice: Create Better Programs Using Concurrency, Libraries, and Patterns, Mark Summerfield discusses creational design patterns in Python, including the Abstract Factory, Builder, Factory Method, Prototype, and Singleton Patterns.
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- The Value of Learning Programming from a Community of Women
- Sep 12, 2013
- Thursday Bram recounts her own experiences as a programmer, which have shown her that there's a difference in a woman's ability to learn a technical topic when she is learning it from a group of other women, especially when she's used to being one of the only women in the room.
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- CoffeeScript in a Nutshell, Part 1: An Introduction to CoffeeScript
- Sep 11, 2013
- Jeff Friesen introduces you to CoffeeScript and shows you how to obtain and use the CoffeeScript compiler.
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- CoffeeScript in a Nutshell, Part 2: CoffeeScript Language Basics
- Sep 11, 2013
- Jeff Friesen introduces the basic language features of CoffeeScript that you must understand before diving into advanced language features.
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- CoffeeScript in a Nutshell, Part 3: CoffeeScript Functions and Classes
- Sep 11, 2013
- One of CoffeeScript's key strengths is that almost everything is an expression. In addition to learning about this concept in Part 3 of Jeff Friesen's four-part series on CoffeeScript, you explore CoffeeScript's new and improved operators, destructuring assignments, decisions, and loops (including 'for' comprehensions).
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- CoffeeScript in a Nutshell, Part 4: Developing Applications
- Sep 11, 2013
- This final installment of Jeff Friesen's CoffeeScript series introduces you to classes and several additional language features: function binding, block regular expressions, closures, and embedded JavaScript.
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- New Features in Visual Studio 2013 for LightSwitch
- Sep 6, 2013
- Alessandro Del Sole, author of Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed, explains new features in the Visual Studio 2013 development environment specific for LightSwitch that target both the desktop client and the new HTML client.
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- Working at Big Nerd Ranch: An Interview with Aaron Hillegass
- Sep 3, 2013
- InformIT sits down with Aaron Hillegass to discuss his job at Big Nerd Ranch and why he loves working there.
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- Brython: Python for the Browser
- Aug 13, 2013
- JavaScript is the undisputed leader when it comes to web applications. Being the leader doesn't mean that you have few competitors for your throne. Quite the opposite. James L. Williams, author of Learning HTML5 Game Programming: A Hands-on Guide to Building Online Games Using Canvas, SVG, and WebGL, introduces you to Brython, a browser-based implementation of Python that compiles to JavaScript and seeks to be the language of the web, allowing you to enjoy the elegance of Python leaving the nastiness of JavaScript behind.
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- Styling Web Pages with CSS 3
- Aug 7, 2013
- Jeff Friesen introduces you to CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3's boxes with multiple backgrounds, borders consisting of images, borders with rounded corners, drop shadows, and box decoration breaks features.
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- An Introduction to Python for the Experienced Programmer, Part 1
- Jul 22, 2013
- Programming expert Jesse Smith shows you how to start with Python programming the easy way by associating Python concepts to those of other languages.
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- An Introduction to Python for the Experienced Programmer, Part 2
- Jul 22, 2013
- In the second of his three-part series on learning Python, Jesse Smith looks at how statements and lists work in Python.
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- An Introduction to Python for the Experienced Programmer, Part 3
- Jul 22, 2013
- In the third and final installment of his series on learning Python programming, Jesse Smith looks at how dictionaries, custom functions, and import modules work in Python.
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- My Life in Tech: Q&A with Software Architect Sandi Metz
- Jun 5, 2013
- Sandi Metz, author of Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer, talks about where she learned to program, why she considers herself a reluctant author, and advice for those just getting started in programming
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- Drupal Themes Explained
- Mar 21, 2013
- In this chapter, learn how to change your Drupal theme and change your siteβs design and layout. You'll also learn how to distinguish between the administrative theme and the site theme, install a theme from Drupal.org, turn on and setup a theme, and configure a theme that utilizes modules to provide features.
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- Using CSS to Replace JavaScript for Your HTML Table Functionality: Increasing More Effective Maintainability and User Experience
- Mar 11, 2013
- Jesse Smith shows you how to replace those long, cumbersome, and hard-to-maintain JavaScripts with CSS to improve maintainability across arguably the most common user interface for the Web: the HTML table.
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