PHP programmers will want to read this practical little book, which seems to have been self-published. 150 pages.

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.

• 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.

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.

Written by the author of the excellent 2005 book `Silence on the wire`.

Ruby programmers will learn how to interface with legacy systems, develop web services, and move into the cloud. 250 pages.

Programmers will learn how to write Ruby on Rails web applications that run on app servers like Tomcat. You will use Java’s JDBC or Hibernate to connect Ruby to databases. You will test your Java program using Ruby’s Cucumber and RSpec frameworks. Create your user interfaces with frameworks like Limelight and Monkeybars. This excellent book is from the Pragmatic Bookshelf folks. 300 pages.

Web application developers who use PHP will like this tiny self-published book. 150 pages.