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ISBN: 978-0-470-52593-7 Paperback 792 pages October 2009   Paul Wilton owns his own company, providing online booking systems to vacation property owners, which is largely developed using JavaScript.    Jeremy McPeak is a self-taught programmer who began his career by tinkering with web sites in 1998. He is the coauthor of Professional Ajax , 2nd Edition and several online articles covering topics such as XSLT, ASP.NET Web Forms, and C#. He is currently employed at an energy-based company building in-house conventional and web applications.

by Anne Boehm and Joel Murach 29 chapters, 1000 pages, 455 illustrations ISBN: 978-1-890774-48-6 If you can create Windows applications using C#, you're ready for this book. It will get you off to a fast start with web programming, no matter whether you're coming to ASP.NET 3.5 with a background in an earlier release of ASP.NET, classic ASP, or Java servlets/JSP...or with no web background at all. In fact, by the end of chapter 4, you'll know how to use Visual Studio 2008 to develop and test multi-page database applications for the web. No other ASP.NET book gets you started that fast. But this book is mo...

by Anne Boehm 23 chapters, 836 pages, 365 illustrations ISBN: 978-1-890774-60-8 If you know how to create Windows applications using Visual Basic, you're ready for this latest edition of our classic web programming book. It will get you off to a fast start with web programming, no matter whether you're coming to ASP.NET 4 with a background in an earlier release of ASP.NET, classic ASP, Java servlets/JSP, PHP...or with no web background at all. In fact, by the end of chapter 4, you'll know how to use Visual Studio 2010 to develop and test multi-page database applications for the web. But this book is much more than a beginning book. By the time you're done, you'll have the professiona...

by Joel Murach and Andrea Steelman    24 chapters, 729 pages, 329 illustrations ISBN-13: 978-1-890774-44-8 Ever since we published the first edition of this book back in 2003, we've been getting feedback like this from developers: "This book is excellent, excellent, excellent! The authors have a gift for developing the topic of JSP, Servlets, and building a Java-based ecommerce site in a methodical, easy-to-understand approach." Now, I'm delighted to tell you that you'll feel the same way about this new, 2nd edition. The content has been redone from start to finish, so you'll learn the best features, tools, and techniques for developing today's web applications (see what's NEW below).But our popular approach hasn't changed: This 2nd edition still presents Java web programming ...

by Ray Harris 20 chapters, 764 pages, 337 illustrations ISBN: 978-1-890774-55-4 Today, web users expect web sites to provide advanced features, dynamic user interfaces, and fast response times. To deliver that, you need to know the JavaScript language. Beyond that, though, you need to know how to use JavaScript to script the Document Object Model (or DOM). Now, at last, you can learn both JavaScript and DOM scripting in this one great book. In fact, by the end of chapter 3, you'll be able to develop and debug significant JavaScript applications. By the end of section 2, you'll know the complete JavaScript language and some elementary DOM scripting. And by end of section 3, you will have raised your DOM scripting skills to an expert level.

by Anne Boehm 15 chapters, 496 pages, 205 figures ISBN 978-1-890774-57-8  In just the first 6 chapters of this book, you'll learn more about web development than you can from most full books. It's true! In fact, by the end of the crash course in Section 1, you'll be developing web pages the way today's best professionals do. That means you'll be using HTML/XHTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in tandem: HTML/XHTML to provide and identify the various elements of content on the web page (headings, paragraphs, images, etc.) and CSS to format and lay out the elements. You'll be amazed at the sophisticated pages you'll be producing, including those that require the use of the CSS box model, floating, and positioning. But that's just the start. In Section 2, you'll see how to refin...

by Joel Murach and Ray Harris 24 chapters, 844 pages, 367 illustrations ISBN 978-1-890774-56-1 Anytime you're on the web, you're going to be landing on PHP pages. By most counts, over a million web sites have been written in PHP, including some of today's largest, most recognizable sites. And those sites often use MySQL as the database. That means there's a continuing demand for web developers who know how to use PHP and MySQL at the professional level. With this book, you can become one of them! What you'll learn in this book If you look at the table of contents , you'll see that this book teaches all the skills you need to develop almost any type of database-driven web site with PHP and MySQL. The chapters gradually move from the simple to the complex as they show you how to work with: the PHP language the MySQL database the SQL statements for MySQL the PD...