Posts Tagged ‘web-apps’

C# 2008

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

C# 2008 for programmers / Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel, Prentice Hall, 2009

Here are 1000+ pages packed with good tutorial material on C#, ASP.NET, WCF, WPF, and Silverlight.

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Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web application construction kit

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web application construction kit / Ben Forta, Peachpit Press, 2008

If you are using ColdFusion, this looks like a useful book.

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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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Professional IIS 7 and ASP.NET

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Professional IIS 7 and ASP.NET integrated programming / Shahram Khosravi, Wiley 2008

If you are using a Microsoft server ..

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Beginning ASP.NET 3.5

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# and VB / Imar Spaanjaars, Wiley, 2008

If you are using a Microsoft server ..

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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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Professional Web 2.0 programming

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

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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JSP, JSF and Tomcat

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

book coverBeginning JSP, JSF and Tomcat web development : from novice to professional / Giulio Zambon, Apress 2007

For the Java programmer developing a web application, a framework such as JSF is recommended so you can reuse the work of many others. Here is a current intro.

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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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Beginning JBoss Seam

Monday, August 25th, 2008

book coverBeginning JBoss Seam : from novice to professional / Joseph Faisal Nusairat, Apress 2007

Here’s a good book for Java programmers. Agile and Enterprise in the same sentence! Seam is a framework that attempts to streamline the development of a web app.  I will read this book before I do my next web app.

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