Professional Web 2.0 programming / Eric van der Vlist, Wiley, c2007
Here is a readable, current book about the web applications stack. It also looks at new projects which are likely to be part of the toolkit in the future.
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Professional iPhone and iPod touch programming : building applications for Mobile Safari / Richard Wagner. Wiley, c2008
Here’s how to develop apps for the iPhone. They run in the context of the Safari browser, so you are using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX. If you are targeting other smart phones, lots of this info will apply.
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Ajax in action / Dave Crane, Eric Pascarello; Manning, c2006.
This is the best book on AJAX programming that I have seen. It used to be that Javascript was for small and crufty hacks, but now full apps run in the browser environment. The code needs to be structured to be maintainable. This well written and engaging book looks at web app design from all angles.
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Professional Python frameworks : Web 2.0 programming with Django and TurboGears / Dana Moore, Raymond Budd, William Wright.
If you are developing web applications using Python you will want to use a framework so you are not re-implementing all the ‘glue’ that is common to all web apps and so you have a clear project structure to work around. This book is an excellent introduction to two frameworks, TurboGears and Django.
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