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Jan 1, 2012 | No Comments
If you know HTML, this guide will have you building interactive websites quickly. You’ll learn how to create responsive, data-driven websites with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript, regardless of whether you already know how to program. Discover how the powerful combination of PHP and MySQL provides an easy way to build modern websites complete with dynamic data and user interaction. You’ll also learn how to add JavaScript to create rich Internet applications and websites. Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript explains each technology separately, shows you how to combine them, and introduces valuable web programming concepts, including objects, XHTML, cookies, and session management. You’ll practice what you’ve learned with review questions in each chapter, and find a sample social networking platform built with the elements introduced in this book. This book will help you: Understand PHP essentials and the basics of object-oriented programming Master MySQL, from database structure to complex queries Create web pages with PHP and MySQL by integrating forms and other HTML features Learn about JavaScript, from functions and event handling to accessing the Document Object Model Use libraries and packages, including the Smarty web template system, PEAR program repository, and the Yahoo! User Interface Library Make Ajax calls and turn your website into a highly dynamic environment Upload and manipulate files and images, validate user input, and secure your applications Download ebook: Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Dec 29, 2011 | No Comments
HTML has been on a wild ride. Sure, HTML started as a mere markup language, but more recently HTML’s put on some major muscle. Now we’ve got a language tuned for building web applications with Web storage, 2D drawing, offline support, sockets and threads, and more. And to speak this language you’ve got to go beyond HTML5 markup and into the world of the DOM, events, and JavaScript APIs. Now you probably already know all about HTML markup (otherwise known as structure) and you know all aboutCSS style (presentation), but what you’ve been missing is JavaScript (behavior). If all you know about are structure and presentation, you can create some great looking pages, but they’re still just pages. When you add behavior with JavaScript, you can create an interactive experience; even better, you can create full blown web applications. Head First HTML5 Programming is your ultimate tour guide to creating web applications with HTML5 and JavaScript, and we give you everything you need to know to build them, including: how to add interactivity to your pages, how to communicate with the world of Web services, and how to use the great new APIs being developed for HTML5. Here are just some of the things you’ll learn in Head First HTML5 Programing : Learn how to make your pages truly interactive by using the power of the DOM. Finally understand how JavaScript works and take yourself from novice to well-informed in just a few chapters. Learn how JavaScript APIs fit into the HTML5 ecosystem, and how to use any API in your web pages. Use the Geolocation API to know where your users are. Bring out your inner artist with Canvas, HTML5’s new 2D drawing surface. Go beyond just plugging a video into your pages, and create custom video experiences. Learn the secret to grabbing five megabytes of storage in every user’s browser. Improve your page’s responsiveness and performance with Web workers. Download ebook: Head First HTML5 Programming: Building Web Apps with JavaScript If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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Oct 28, 2011 | No Comments
Move beyond simple site creation and build web applications with HTML5 that can compete with desktop apps and run on mobile devices. This practical guide shows you how HTML5’s JavaScript APIs give you the power to take web development into many fields that used to require platform-specific development—particularly mobile deployment. You’ll not only discover how to take advantage of local storage, geolocation, multithreaded processing, and flexible network connectivity with HTML5, you’ll also learn many ways to make application development with JavaScript more powerful. Learn how HTML5 will bring about a radical change in web browser applications Get details about powerful toolkits that will help you program in JavaScript more efficiently Discover powerful aspects of JavaScript that you may not be aware of, such as closures, lambda, and functional programming Learn how HTML5 lets your applications store data in the browser so that you’re not bound to the server Take your app offline, and explore how an offline application cache can speed up page loading when the app is online Use HTML5 Web Workers to create multithreaded applications with JavaScript Make your application mobile through geolocation and other HTML5 elements Learn a new way to communicate between the browser and a server with web sockets Download ebook: Programming HTML5 Applications: Building Powerful Cross-Platform Environments in Javascript If you liked this post, buy me a beer. (Suggested: $3 a beer or $7.5 for a pitcher)
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