Posts Tagged ‘GUI’

Enhancing a Dreamweaver CS3 web site with Flash Video

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Enhancing a Dreamweaver CS3 web site with Flash Video / by David Karlins, Peachpit, 2008

Just 100 pages showing pictures of GUIs and telling where to click. You can add a video to your site without understanding how it works!

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Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3 / Stephanie Sullivan and Greg Rewis,
New Riders, 2008

Just 350 pages and nicely designed, this book might be the quickest way to get good with Dreamweaver.

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The essential guide to Dreamweaver

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

The essential guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP / David Powers, Friends of ED, 2007

Here is a good introduction to web app programming using Dreamweaver. 720 pages, mostly well written text, with a few pictures of dialogs. Not many code examples. Recommended.

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Master visually Dreamweaver CS3 and Flash CS3

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Master visually Dreamweaver CS3 and Flash CS3 professional / by Sherry Kinkoph Gunter, Wiley , 2008

This book shows pictures of Dreamweaver GUI windows, and tells you where to click. Likewise with Flash. It might be the quickest way to start with these GUI’s for some people.

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Programming Microsoft Composite UI

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Programming Microsoft Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory / David S. Platt.  Microsoft Press, 2008

For programmers of rich client apps using Microsoft’s CAB and SCSF and WPF frameworks. Concepts are explained. There are some code examples, but no ‘Hello World’. It reminds me of Eclipse RCP without the portability or clarity.

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Designing Web navigation

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

book coverDesigning Web navigation / James Kalbach. O’Reilly, 2007.

A book about design for web sites. Finishing with a section on navigation for web applications. Years ago, before the web, we would have called this GUI design. We have come a long way!

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C++ GUI programming with Qt 4

Monday, August 18th, 2008

book cover C++ GUI programming with Qt 4 / Jasmin Blanchette, Mark Summerfield. Prentice Hall c2008.

Qt is one of the best GUI toolkits for cross platform C++ development. I like this book. Hardcover, 700 pages, a very practical approach, up to date, lots of example code.

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The definitive guide to SWT and JFace

Monday, June 16th, 2008

book cover
The definitive guide to SWT and JFace / Rob Warner with Robert Harris. Apress Springer Verlag, c2004.

Here is a good introduction to Eclipse GUI programming. Though somewhat dated, it is still worth reading. It will help if you are doing a Rich Client (RCP) or extending Eclipse with a new plugin. SWT is way better than Swing, but there seem to be fewer books on it. There is a lot to learn, and too many sources on the net, so use this book to get started.

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