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Rails 3 in a Nutshell

rleir — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:52:27 +0000

Rails 3 in a Nutshell, Cody Fauser, O’Reilly, 2010

A concise introduction to Rails, an overview of commands and configurations, and a guide to the parts of Rails you’ll be using every day. Read the book-in-progress online here. Sorry, it’s not yet at OPL.

JavaServer Faces 2.0

rleir — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:02:35 +0000

JavaServer Faces 2.0 : the complete reference / Ed Burns, McGraw-Hill, 2010

A well written book by knowledgeable insiders. 700 pages.

Beginning JSF 2 APIs and JBoss Seam

rleir — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:44:50 +0000

Beginning JSF 2 APIs and JBoss Seam / Kent Ka lok Tong, Apress, 2009

This book introduces you to developing web apps using Java Server Faces and the Seam framework. 300 pages.

Library Mashups

rleir — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:30:44 +0000

Library Mashups : exploring new ways to deliver library data / edited by Nicole C. Engard, Information Today, 2009

This collection of articles conveys a new approach to library services and information architecture. 300 pages.

Beginning database-driven application development in Java EE Using GlassFish

rleir — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:09:32 +0000

Beginning database-driven application development in Java EE Using GlassFish / Using GlassFish Yuli Vasiliev, Apress, 2008

For enterprise web app developers. 400 pages.

Murach’s ADO.NET 3.5

rleir — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:11:25 +0000

Murach’s ADO.NET 3.5 : LINQ and the Entity Framework with C# 2008 / Anne Boehm, Murach, c2009.

This is for the programmer who is developing web apps on Microsoft servers. It starts with very simple steps. Large format, 650 pages.

Web Geek’s Guide to the Android

rleir — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:31:02 +0000

Web Geek’s Guide to the Android-enabled phone / Jerri Ledford, Que Pub., 2010

This is mostly a user guide, but it introduces programming in the last two chapters. 250 pages.

How to do everything : Facebook Applications

rleir — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:31:05 +0000

How to do everything : Facebook Applications / Jesse Feiler, McGraw-Hill, 2008

The first half of this book just introduces the Facebook platform. Then it gets into the coding of apps using PHP, CSS, SQL, and FBML (Facebook Markup Language). 300 pages.

Gray Hat Python

rleir — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:54:49 +0000

Gray Hat Python : Python programming for hackers and reverse engineers / by Justin Seitz, No Starch Press, 2009

If you can get over the not-quite-black-hat metaphor, this book is a good introduction to Python and web security. It contains just enough information to get you hooked, and then you will need other more complete books or some good web resources. 200 pages.

Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework

rleir — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:30:06 +0000

Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework / Steven Sanderson, Apress, 2009

This well written book for web developers starts slow but rapidly gets advanced.

Architectural background to ASP.NET MVC, including Model–View–Controller and REST concepts.
ASP.NET MVC framework with detailed coverage of all aspects of the framework and the official MVC development toolkit.
Test–driven development in action.
Translation and comparison of features in classic ASP.NET to those in ASP.NET MVC.
Security and deployment issues, including IIS 7.0.

550 pages.