Tag: Web

Getting Started with Mule Cloud Connect – To help sort out the chaos of Internet services – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Getting Started with Mule Cloud Connect Ryan Carter (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) In a digital world increasingly cluttered with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms, Open APIs, and social networks, complexity quickly can get out of hand. “It all starts,” Ryan Carter writes in his new book, “with a simple API that publishes somebody’s status to Facebook, sends a Tweet, or updates a … Continue reading Getting Started with Mule Cloud Connect – To help sort out the chaos of Internet services – #bookreview

Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual – #bookreview #html5 #animation

by Si Dunn

Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual Chris Grover (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Chris Glover’s well-written new book shows you how to build animated HTML 5 graphics for the iPhone, the iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe features. By the sixth page of the first chapter, you are using the software to create … Continue reading Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual – #bookreview #html5 #animation

Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers, 2nd Ed. – Bots can be tools for good, efficiency, profit – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers: A Guide to Developing Internet Agents with PHP/CURL, 2nd Edition By Michael Schrenk (No Starch Press, paperback, list price $39.95; Kindle edition, list price $31.95) Bots have a bad reputation on the Web, but when used properly and for honest purposes, they can be tools for good, for better business … Continue reading Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers, 2nd Ed. – Bots can be tools for good, efficiency, profit – #programming #bookreview

Web Development Recipes – To make life easier for you & your users – #programming #bookreview #in

by Si Dunn

Web Development Recipes By Brian P. Hogan, Chris Warren, Mike Weber, Chris Johnson, and Aaron Godin (Pragmatic Bookshelf, paperback, list price $35.00) “It’s no longer enough,” this book’s authors state, “to know how to wrangle HTML, CSS, and a bit of JavaScript. Today’s web developer needs to know how to write testable code, build interactive … Continue reading Web Development Recipes – To make life easier for you & your users – #programming #bookreview #in

The New Rules of Marketing & PR – More how-to from David Meerman Scott – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

The New Rules of Marketing & PR (3rd Edition) How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases & Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly By David Meerman Scott (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., paperback, list price $19.95; Kindle edition, list price $19.95) More than a quarter million copies of this book … Continue reading The New Rules of Marketing & PR – More how-to from David Meerman Scott – #bookreview

The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications By Michal Zalewski (No Starch Press, paperback, list price $49.95 ; Kindle edition, list price $31.95) When Michal Zalewski writes, people listen. And many software programmers pay — or should pay — very close attention to what he recommends. Zalewski is an internationally respected information … Continue reading The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications – #programming #bookreview

Head First HTML5 Programming – #javascript #html5 #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Head First HTML5 Programming: Building Web Apps with JavaScript By Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson (O’Reilly, list price $49.99, paperback) This is not your father’s turgid programming textbook. Indeed, even if you are not interested whatsoever in messing around with JavaScript and learning how to be an HTML5 programmer, you may still enjoy reading this book and studying … Continue reading Head First HTML5 Programming – #javascript #html5 #programming #bookreview

Here’s the book scaring me this Halloween: America the Vulnerable – #bookreview #data #security

by Si Dunn

Subtitled “Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare,” America the Vulnerable is written by Joel Brenner, former inspector general at the National Security Agency. Brenner has recent experience at the highest levels in national intelligence, counterintelligence and data security. And he has studied firsthand many of the threats and attacks against our national, corporate and personal … Continue reading Here’s the book scaring me this Halloween: America the Vulnerable – #bookreview #data #security

Configuring Microsoft SharePoint 2010 – Self-Study Guide for MCTS exam 70-667 – #microsoft #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Configuring Microsoft SharePoint 2010 By Dan Holme and Alistair Matthews (Microsoft Press, list price $69.99, paperback) If one of your goals in life is to deploy and manage Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 farms, here’s your book. You definitely need it if you are already involved in configuring, customizing and supporting SharePoint and want to take … Continue reading Configuring Microsoft SharePoint 2010 – Self-Study Guide for MCTS exam 70-667 – #microsoft #bookreview

Two New Microsoft Books for Visual Basic & Visual Studio – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

The two new books are Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Developer’s Handbook by Klaus Löffelmann and Sarika Calla Purohoit ($59.99, paperback;  $47.99, Kindle ), and Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio by Zain Naboulsi and Sara Ford (list price $39.95, paperback;  list price $31.99, Kindle) . If you don’t yet have some background in object-oriented programming, you … Continue reading Two New Microsoft Books for Visual Basic & Visual Studio – #programming #bookreview