Web application programmers will want to read this timely and important book. 250 pages. Contents:

• Security in the world of Web applications
• Part I: Anatomy of the Web
• It starts with a URL
• Hypertext transfer protocol
• Hypertext markup language
• Cascading style sheets
• Browser-side scripts
• Non-HTML document types
• Content rendering with browser plug-ins
• Part II: Browser security features
• Content isolation logic
• Origin inheritance
• Life outside same-origin rules
• Other security boundaries
• Content recognition mechanisms
• Dealing with rogue scripts
• Extrinsic site privileges
• Part III: A glimpse of things to come
• New and upcoming security features
• Other browser mechanisms of note
• Common Web vulnerabilities.

Programmers will want to read this book. It is the first and best Javascript reference book. This 6th edition is updated to cover HTML5. The 4th edition is also useful, and has a shorter queue of holds. 1000 pages.

Written by a Stanford professor, this very readable book explains epidemics. Hardcover, 250 pages.

Programmers will like this book.

• installing, customizing and getting the most out of the web’s most versatile content management system
• the inner mechanics of WordPress
• plugins, themes and APIs to add extra functionality
• Multisite capabilities to host and manage your own centralized network of WordPress websites
• localization techniques and marketing tips

O’Reilly, 400 pages.

• Store session data in the browser with local storage objects
• Save trips to the server: store larger amounts of data with IndexedDB
• Give browsers limited access to a user’s system to read and upload files
• Take your app offline—and speed up page loading when it’s online
• Use Web Workers to create multithreaded applications
• Transfer data between browser and server more efficiently with Web Sockets
• HTML5 tags for forms, multimedia, graphics, and geolocation

Legendary O’Reilly quality, 300 pages.

Programmers will like this book. Legendary O’Reilly quality, 350 pages.

Python programmers will like this practical book. Note: the authors have changed since the second edition.

• working with dictionaries
• list comprehensions
• monitoring a network
• building a templating system

Topics:

• Manipulating text
• Searching and sorting
• Working with files and the filesystem
• Object-oriented programming
• Dealing with threads and processes
• System administration
• Interacting with databases
• Network and web programming
• Processing XML
• Distributed programming
• Debugging and testing

Legendary O’Reilly quality, 800 pages.

A collection of articles that first appeared in the Guardian, Wired, and the New York Times. Foreword by Tim O’Reilly. 200 pages.

Programmers will want to read this book. 250 pages.

• The Power and Perils of Concurrency
• Strategies for Concurrency
  • Division of Labor excerpt
  • Design Approaches
• Modern Java/JDK Concurrency
  • Scalability and Thread Safety
  • Taming Shared Mutability excerpt
• Software Transactional Memory
  • Introduction to Software Transactional Memory
  • STM in Clojure, Groovy, Java, JRuby, and Scala
• Actor-Based Concurrency
  • Favoring Isolated Mutability excerpt
  • Actors in Groovy, Java, JRuby, and Scala
• Epilogue
  • Zen of Programming Concurrency
• Clojure Agents

Web security professionals will want to read this book. Metasploit is a toolkit containing the newest tools for pen testing. The example code is in Python, so programmers may want to read it too. 300 pages.