Good Books on - Good Books on your Topics

Escape Velocity: Free Your Company’s Future from the Pull of the Past

December 18th, 2011 | Posted by rohan in Business Books - (0 Comments)

Overall Rating:

Total Customer Reviews: (9)

List Price: $27.99

Sale Price: $12.56

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

From the world’s leading high-tech strategist comes the definitive road map to help established companies create next-generation growth. Geoffrey Moore’s now-classic Crossing the Chasm became a must-read book by presenting an innovative framework to address the make-or-break obstacle facing all high-tech companies: how to gain market share from early adopters and from mainstream consumers. Based on twenty years’ experience advising the top leaders of many of the world’s most successful enterprises, Moore’s Escape Velocity offers a pragmatic plan to engage the most critical challenge that established enterprises face in the twenty-first-century economy: how to move….

[Read More]

Joe Celko’s SQL for Smarties, Fourth Edition: Advanced SQL Programming (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

December 18th, 2011 | Posted by rohan in SQL - (0 Comments)

Overall Rating:

Total Customer Reviews: (60)

List Price: $64.95

Sale Price: $32.98

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

SQL for Smarties was hailed as the first book devoted explicitly to the advanced techniques needed to transform an experienced SQL programmer into an expert. Now, 15 years later and in its fourth edition, this classic reference still reigns supreme as the only book written by a SQL master that teaches programmers and practitioners to become SQL masters themselves! These are not just tips and techniques; also offered are the best solutions to old and new challenges. Joe Celko conveys the way you need to think in order to get the most out of SQL programming efforts for both correctness….

[Read More]

SQL Cookbook (Cookbooks (O’Reilly))

December 12th, 2011 | Posted by rohan in SQL - (0 Comments)

Overall Rating:

Total Customer Reviews: (56)

List Price: $39.95

Sale Price: $22.73

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

You know the rudiments of the SQL query language, yet you feel you aren’t taking full advantage of SQL’s expressive power. You’d like to learn how to do more work with SQL inside the database before pushing data across the network to your applications. You’d like to take your SQL skills to the next level. Let’s face it, SQL is a deceptively simple language to learn, and many database developers never go far beyond the simple statement: SELECT columns FROM table WHERE conditions. But there is so much more you can do with the language. In the SQL….

[Read More]

Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

December 12th, 2011 | Posted by rohan in Web Design - (0 Comments)

Overall Rating:

Total Customer Reviews: (45)

List Price: $44.99

Sale Price: $26.48

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Successful web design teams depend on clear communication between developers and their clients—and among members of the development team. Wireframes, site maps, flow charts, and other design diagrams establish a common language so designers and project teams can capture ideas, track progress, and keep their stakeholders informed. In this all new edition of Communicating Design, author and information architect Dan Brown defines and describes each deliverable, then offers practical advice for creating the documents and using them in the context of teamwork and presentations, independent of methodology. Whatever processes, tools, or approaches you use, this book will help….

[Read More]

Pro JavaScript Design Patterns (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Ap)

December 12th, 2011 | Posted by rohan in Javascript - (0 Comments)

Overall Rating:

Total Customer Reviews: (23)

List Price: $44.99

Sale Price: $29.84

Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Free Shipping Available

As a web developer, you’ll already know that JavaScript is a powerful language, allowing you to add an impressive array of dynamic functionality to otherwise static web sites. But there is more power waiting to be unlocked—JavaScript is capable of full object–oriented capabilities, and by applying object-oriented principles, best practices, and design patterns to your code, you can make it more powerful, more efficient, and easier to work with alone or as part of a team. With Pro JavaScript Design Patterns, you’ll start with the basics of object–oriented programming in JavaScript applicable to design patterns, including making JavaScript more expressive, inheritance,….

[Read More]

Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with HTML5 and CSS3 (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

December 12th, 2011 | Posted by rohan in Web Design - (0 Comments)

Overall Rating:

Total Customer Reviews: (3)

List Price: $44.99

Sale Price: $16.84

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

No matter how visually appealing or content packed a web site may be, if it doesn’t reach the widest possible audience, it isn’t truly successful. In Bulletproof Web Design, Third Edition, bestselling author and web designer Dan Cederholm outlines standards-based strategies for building designs that can accommodate the myriad ways users choose to view the content. Each chapter starts out with an example of an unbulletproof approach–one that employs traditional HTML-based techniques–which Dan deconstructs, pointing out its limitations. He then gives the example a makeover using HTML and CSS, so you can learn to replace bloated code with lean markup….

[Read More]

CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions

December 12th, 2011 | Posted by rohan in Web Design - (0 Comments)

Overall Rating:

Total Customer Reviews: (17)

List Price: $39.99

Sale Price: $19.99

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Building on what made the first edition a bestseller, CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions, Second Edition unites the disparate information on CSS-based design spread throughout the internet into one definitive, modern guide. Revised to cover CSS3, the book can be read from front to back, with each chapter building on the previous one. However, it can also be used as a reference book, dipping into each chapter or technique to help solve specific problems. In short, this is the one book on CSS that you need to have. This second edition contains: New examples….

[Read More]

Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition)

December 12th, 2011 | Posted by rohan in Web Design - (0 Comments)

Overall Rating:

Total Customer Reviews: (138)

List Price: $49.99

Sale Price: $24.98

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has revisited his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. Updated in collaboration with co-author Ethan Marcotte, this third edition covers improvements and challenges in the changing environment of standards-based design.Written in the same engaging and witty style, making even the most complex information easy to digest, Designing with Web Standards remains your essential guide to creating sites that load faster, reach more users, and cost less to design and maintain.Substantially revised—packed with new ideasHow will HTML5, CSS3, and web fonts change your work?Learn new strategies for selling standardsChange what “IE6 support” means“Occasionally (very occasionally)….

[Read More]

CSS: The Missing Manual

December 12th, 2011 | Posted by rohan in Web Design - (0 Comments)

Overall Rating:

Total Customer Reviews: (101)

List Price: $34.99

Sale Price: $16.99

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Cascading Style Sheets can turn humdrum websites into highly-functional, professional-looking destinations, but many designers merely treat CSS as window-dressing to spruce up their site’s appearance. You can tap into the real power of this tool with CSS: The Missing Manual. This second edition combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and dozens of step-by-step tutorials to show you how to design sites with CSS that work consistently across browsers. Witty and entertaining, this second edition gives you up-to-the-minute pro techniques. You’ll learn how to:Create HTML that’s simpler, uses less code, is search-engine friendly, and works well with CSS Style text by changing….

[Read More]

CSS: The Definitive Guide

December 12th, 2011 | Posted by rohan in Web Design - (0 Comments)

Overall Rating:

Total Customer Reviews: (39)

List Price: $44.99

Sale Price: $22.49

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition, provides you with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of all aspects of CSS 2.1. Updated to cover Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft’s vastly improved browser, this new edition includes content on positioning, lists and generated content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and more. Simply put, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a way to separate a document’s structure from its presentation. The benefits of this can be quite profound: CSS allows a much richer document appearance than HTML and also saves time–you can create or change the appearance of….

[Read More]

Meta