Web Programming

In their early days, Twitter, Flickr, Etsy, and many other companies experienced sudden spikes in activity that took their web services down in min...

The popularity of REST in recent years has led to tremendous growth in almost-RESTful APIs that don't include many of the architecture's benefits. ...

This unique guidebook lays the foundations of contemporary mobile-first, responsive web design, offering writers, designers, and those who teach th...

Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open source technologies and web standards, even if you have only basic HTML...

Make beautiful apps with beautiful code: use the elegant and concise Ruby programming language with RubyMotion to write truly native iOS apps with ...

Build native apps for iOS, Android, and Blackberry from a single JavaScript codebase with Appcelerator Titanium. This guide gets you quickly up to ...

Discover how easy RIA development can be with this one-of-a-kind handbook from the Adobe Developer Library. Several clear, step-by-step mini-tutori...

Building rich JavaScript applications that bring the desktop experience to the Web is now possible, thanks to powerful JavaScript engines and the C...

Dive deep into the latest HTML5 features that really make the language shine-everything from markup semantics to Canvas, web forms, application pro...

Crystal is for Ruby programmers who want more performance, or for developers who enjoy working in a high-level scripting environment. Crystal combi...

Go is an increasingly popular language for programming everything from web applications to distributed network services. This practical guide provi...

There is a huge difference between writing code that compiles and runs and writing code that is robust, extensible, maintainable, readable, and jus...

It demonstrates how features such as animation and audio can be employed to ensure web sites are used to their full potential and therefore helps t...

Move over native apps. New progressive web apps have capabilities that will soon make you obsolete. With this hands-on guide, web developers and bu...

Isomorphic JavaScript, often described as the holy grail of web application development, refers to running JavaScript code on both the browser clie...

Learn how to use messaging technologies to build responsive and resilient applications for mobile devices and web browsers. With this hands-on guid...

George Landow's widely acclaimed Hypertext was the first book to bring together the worlds of literary theory and computer technology. Landow was ...

Although web components are still on the bleeding edge-barely supported in modern browsers-the technology is also moving extremely fast. This pract...

JavaScript lets you supercharge your HTML with animation, interactivity, and visual effects - but many web designers find the language hard to lear...

Learn how to build real-world applications with the ASP.NET MVC framework, using powerful architecture patterns, and modern web technologies such a...

The Rhetorical Nature of XML is the first volume to combine rhetoric, XML, and knowledge management in a substantive manner. It serves as a primer ...

Thanks to improved web browser support and the advent of HTML5, JavaScript now plays a major role in programming high-performance web graphics. Thi...

If you want to build your organization's next web application with HTML5, this practical book will help you sort through the various frameworks, li...

Cloud services are just as susceptible to network outages as any other platform. This concise book shows you how to prepare for potentially devasta...

Ready to learn Rails? Unlike most Rails books, Learning Rails is for web developers, and not for programmers. Rather than begin with the inner laye...

Node.js is the platform of choice for creating modern web services. This fast-paced book gets you up to speed on server-side programming with Node....

Move beyond simple site creation and build web applications with HTML5 that can compete with desktop apps and run on mobile devices. This practical...

Learn how to build key aspects of web, cloud, and mobile solutions with F#. This book shows you how to handle concurrency, asynchrony, big data, an...

The Rhetorical Nature of XML is the first volume to combine rhetoric, XML, and knowledge management in a substantive manner. It serves as a primer ...

Build websites and apps for touch devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry with the recently developed jQuery Mobile library. This int...

If you need help building web applications with the Lift framework, this cookbook provides scores of concise, ready-to-use code solutions. You'll f...

If you're a solo website designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, this hands-on book will give you the t...

Orchestrating asynchronous function calls in JavaScript often leads to callback hell, but there is a reliable way to avoid this painful state of af...

Tackle two aspects of JavaScript development, modularity and ECMAScript 6 (ES6). With this practical guide, frontend and backend Node.js developers...

Programming on the Web today can involve any of several technologies, but the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) has held its ground as the most mature...

With the recipes in this book, you'll take full advantage of the vast collection of community-contributed modules that make the Drupal web framewor...

Often, software engineers and architects work with large, complex code bases that they need to scale and maintain. With this cookbook, author Maxim...

There is a serious information gap for Webmasters learning client-side JavaScript skills and trying to solve common Web-related problems. Knowing t...

Java and databases make a powerful combination. Getting the two sides to work together, however, takes some effort--largely because Java deals in ...

Cryptography, the science of secret writing, is the biggest, baddest security tool in the application programmer's arsenal. Cryptography provides t...

One of the greatest strengths of the Perl programming language is its ability to manipulate large amounts of data. Database programming is theref...

Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell is an indispensable quick reference for Java programmers who are writing applications that use graphics or gr...

Distributed computing and Java go together naturally. As the first language designed from the bottom up with networking in mind, Java makes it very...