HTML5 for iOS and Android: A Beginner’s Guide

Author: Robin Nixon
ISBN: 9780071756334 / 0071756337
©2011 | 1st Edition | 480 pages | Paperback
Pub Date: AUG-11
Price: US$40.00
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A step-by-step tutorial to HTML5 mobile application development

HTML5 for iOS and Android: A Beginners Guideleads you from the first steps of creating a Web page, through styling it with CSS, and then giving it dynamic interactivity with JavaScript. You’ll learn how to create real-world websites and apps for both the Apple iPhone/iPad and Google Android platforms. Advice on how to handle platforms such as Nokia, Palm Pre, and others is included. The book serves as a one-stop guide and reference, providing all the information required to develop useable mobile apps and websites from scratch. Features covered include offline support, Canvas, video, advanced forms, and the Geolocation API.

HTML5 for iOS and Android: A Beginners Guide

• Provides an all-in-one guide for mobile developers—everything needed to go from beginner status to pro developer is included
• Explains both basic HTML and HTML5
• Covers Apple iPhone/iPad and Google Android platforms
• Shows how to create websites, web apps, and self-contained (native) apps
• Contains a full JavaScript tutorial, with particular reference to using it on mobile and touch devices
• Includes a guide to using CSS in a mobile environment
• Features detailed graphics for every step of each process
• Offers the examples from the book for download

About the Author

Robin Nixon (Folkestone, Kent (UK) is a developer and freelance technical writer who has published more than 500 articles in UK magazines such as PC Plus, PCW, Web User, .net, PC Advisor, and PC Answers. He is the author of several computer books, including Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript by O’Reilly, as well as McGraw-Hill’s Plug-In PHP: 100 Power Solutions. Robin’s most recent book is Ubuntu: Up and Running by O’Reilly, and he has recently completed Plug-in JavaScript: 100 Power Solutions for McGraw-Hill. Robin is currently developing a JavaScript cross-browser and cross-platform eBook creator and reader for building dynamic web and mobile eBook applications, which will be released under a Creative Commons license. He has practical, real world experience in porting to (and developing applications for) Apple and Android devices.

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3. 9780071611435     HTML A Beginner’s Guide 
4. 9780071632959     JavaScript, A Beginner’s Guide
5. 9780071703284    Objective-C for iPhone Developers, A Beginner’s Guide

Table of contents

Part I: The Core Technologies
Chapter 1 Introduction to HTML
Chapter 2 What’s New in HTML 5
Chapter 3 Introduction to CSS
Chapter 4 The CSS3 Enhancements
Chapter 5 Introduction to JavaScript
Chapter 6 Using JavaScript with HTML5
Chapter 7 Introduction to PHP
Chapter 8 Introduction to MySQL

Part II: Developing for Mobile Devices
Chapter 9 Developing Mobile Friendly Websites
Chapter 10 Using the eML eBook Platform
Chapter 11 Developing Web Application
Part III: Creating Self-Contained Applications
Chapter 12 Setting Up the Apple SDK
Chapter 13 Creating iOS Standalone Apps
Chapter 14 Setting Up the Android SDK
Chapter 15 Creating Android Standalone Apps

JavaFX A Beginners Guide

Author: J.F. DiMarzio
ISBN: 9780071742412 / 0071742417
©2011 | 1st Edition | 320 pages | Paperback
Pub Date: FEB-11
Price: US$ 40.00
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This practical introductory guide teaches you how to build rich interactive content with JavaFX.

JavaFX: A Beginner’s Guide shows you how to get started creating rich, interactive content using this cross-platform content delivery system. The book walks you through the basics to more challenging concepts, so you’ll quickly understand and begin using JavaFX. This practical guide also covers the JavaFX Production Suite–a powerful plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator that allows users to create content specifically for JavaFX.

Discover how to take advantage of cross-platform capabilities–JavaFX is fully integrated with the Java Runtime and thus JavaFX content can run on any platform capable of running Java. You’ll learn, step by step, how to build desktop, browser, and mobile applications.

Designed for Easy Learning:

• Key Skills & Concepts–Chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter
• Ask the Expert–Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips
• Try This–Hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills
• Notes–Extra information related to the topic being covered
• Tips–Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
• Annotated Syntax–Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated

About the Author

J. F. DiMarzio (Tampa, FL) has been a professional Java developer for more than nine years and a professional web developer for more than 15. He now actively works with Java and JavaFx to create stunning user experiences for his clients. DiMarzio has written seven books, including Android: A Programmer’s Guide and runs Technical Difficulties, a Java, JavaFx, JQuery, and Android blog at jfdimarzio.com.

Related Titles

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2. 9780071590433    Microsoft Silverlight 3: A Beginner’s Guide

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to JavaFX
Chapter 2. Setting the Scene
Chapter 3. Hello World
Chapter 4. Creating Shapes
Chapter 5. Using Colors and Gradients
Chapter 6. Using Images
Chapter 7. Applying Effects and Transformations
Chapter 8. Basic Animation
Chapter 9. Using Events
Chapter 10. Give it Some Swing
Chapter 11. Custom Nodes and Overriding
Chapter 12. Imbedded Video and Music
Chapter 13. Using JavaFX Layouts
Chapter 14. Style Your JavaFX with CSS

Appendix A. Deploying JavaFX
Appendix B. Node Property Reference
Appendix C. JavaFX Command-Line Arguments
Appendix D. Answers to Self Tests

Index

Zend Framework, A Beginner’s Guide

Authors: Vaswani, Vikram
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-163939-2
ISBN-10: 007163939X
©2010 | 1st Edition | 464 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: August 2010
Price: US$ 39.99
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A Zend Technologies columnist and bestselling PHP author provides practical information on today’s most popular PHP framework—with more than 7 million downloads.

Aimed squarely at real-world PHP developers working against aggressive deadlines, Zend Framework: A Beginner’s Guide teaches developers how to work smarter, by using the most popular open-source framework for PHP. Feature-rich, robust and mature, Zend Framework can simplify and shorten the application development cycle, reduce testing time, improve quality, and provide the developer with the extensibility, scalability and flexibility needed in today’s competitive, rapidly-changing environment. This book shows how to maximize all the features of Zend Framework.

Zend Framework is to PHP what JavaServer Faces is to Java. Just as Java Server Faces: The Complete Reference is popular and useful for Java developers, Zend Framework: A Beginner’s Guide will be the best guide for open source developers looking to develop web applications using PHP and the new Zend Framework.

Key Selling Features

• Author is has been a well-known featured columnist with Zend Technologies since 2006. His columns are among the most popular on the Zend Technology community site.
• Covers the most important components of the Zend Framework
• Introduces MVC concepts and theory, and then demonstrates real-world implementation of the theory
• Provides numerous projects and code examples
• Companion website includes all of the code in the book

About the Author

Vikram Vaswani (Bombay, India) is the founder and CEO of Melonfire (http://www.melonfire.com/), a company specializing in software consultancy and content creation and syndication services. He is also the author of PHP Programming Solutions, How to do Everything with PHP and MySQL, and MySQL: The Complete Reference (all McGraw-Hill/Osborne titles) and XML and PHP (New Riders Publishing) He is also the author of numerous well-received articles on open-source technologies (including Perl, Python, XML and the very popular PHP 101 series), all written with the goal of making complex technologies accessible and understandable to novice users.

He has been developing software since 1995, was first introduced to PHP in 1998, and hasn’t looked back since. He is regular columnist with Zend Technologies (creators of PHP), as well as with IBM DeveloperWorks, CNET Builder.com, DevX.com and other OSS sites

Articles by Vikram Vaswani

Article 01: Zend Developer Zone on April 21, 2010
Build an Enterprise – Grade PHP Stack with Zend Server
5.0 and Oracle 11g
To read, please click HERE

Article 02: IBM on May 11, 2010
Implement SOAP services with the Zend Framework
To read, please click HERE

Titles by the Vikram Vaswani:

9780071549011      PHP: A Beginner’s Guide

9780071487450      PHP Programming Solutions

9780072257953      How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL

9780072224771      MySQL: The Complete Reference

9780071605496      MySQL Database Usage & Administration 

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introducing the Zend Framework
Chapter 2 Working with Models, Views, Controllers and Routes
Chapter 3 Working with Forms
Chapter 4 Working with Models
Chapter 5 Handling CRUD Operations
Chapter 6 Indexing, Searching and Formatting Data
Chapter 7 Paging, Sorting and Uploading Data
Chapter 8 Logging and Debugging Exceptions
Chapter 9 Understanding Application Localization
Chapter 10 Working with News Feeds and Web Services
Chapter 11 Working with User Interface Elements
Chapter 12 Optimizing Performance
Appendix Installing and Configuring Required Software

Robin Nixon has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). During this time he has written in excess of 500 articles for many of the U.K.’s top computer magazines.

Robin started his computing career in the Cheshire homes for disabled people, where he was responsible for setting up computer rooms in a number of residential homes, and for evaluating and tailoring hardware and software so that disabled people could use the new technology – sometimes by means of only a single switch operated by mouth or finger.

After writing articles for computer magazines about his work with disabled people, he eventually worked full time for one of the country’s main IT magazine publishers, where he held several roles including editorial, promotions, and cover disc editing.

With the dawn of the Internet in the 1990s, Robin branched out into developing websites. One of these presented the world’s first radio station licensed by the music copyright holders, and was featured in several news reports on TV and radio networks in the United Kingdom. In order to enable people to continue to surf while listening, Robin also developed the first known pop-up windows.

Robin lives on the southeast coast of England with his wife Julie, a trained nurse, and five children, where he also finds time to foster three disabled children, as well as working full time from home as a technical author.

Robin has contributed an article to “The Daily Tip” section on “IT World,” and Plug-In PHP is one of the featured books on the company’s web site. For a look at the article, please click HERE.

Books by Robin Nixon

ISBN-13: 978-0-07-166659-6
ISBN-10: 0071666591
©2010 | 1st Edition | 384 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: February 2010 
Price: US$ 39.99
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Plug-In JavaScript 100 Power Solutions

ISBN-13: 978-0-07-173861-3
ISBN-10: 0071738614
©2011 | 1st Edition | 400 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: May 2010
Price: US$ 39.99
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Filled with ready-to-use JavaScript solutions for creating dynamic web content, this practical guide is will save hundreds of hours of programming time!

Plug-in JavaScript is aimed at people who have learned basic HTML (and perhaps a little CSS) but are interested in doing more. For example, they may wish to create more dynamic menu systems, provide mouse hover effects, and support Ajax functionality. This practical guide shows readers how to do all of these things and much more using very simple JavaScript.

Readers are taken through each example step by step. All explanations are included so there is no need to look up anything elsewhere. Every solution is complete and applicable immediately. The book can be dipped into as required with each chapter being self-contained.

Features

• 100 ready-to-use JavaScript solutions—saves over 500 hours of programming time
• Author based in the UK and writes for several UK-based computing magazines
• Each chapter solves a single problem or set of problems, is self-contained, and features the entire solution in JavaScript code
• Companion website includes all the book’s ready-to-run examples available for download
• While not a programming tutorial, the book fully explains all solutions should readers want to know how they work

A Beginner’s Guide series, written for absolute beginners is designed for Easy Learning with Key Skills & Concepts with chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter , Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips, hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills, Extra information related to the topic being covered and Helpful reminders to help you prepare for the exam and alternative ways of doing things.

This series has reveived several praises from SciTech Book News, which is published by Book News, Inc. Book News prepares concise, descriptive reviews of new books in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities for librarians and other buyers of serious books; SciTech Book News is unique in its coverage of high-level books in technology, engineering, computer, medicine, agriculture, and the physical & biological sciences.

AppleScript: A Beginner’s Guide

Authors: Hart-Davis, Guy
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-163954-5
ISBN-10: 0071639543
©2010 | 1st Edition | 448 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: December 2009
Price: US$ 39.99
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Reviewed in the March 2010 issue of SciTech Book News

“Written for absolute beginners, this tutorial shows how to program in AppleScript, the scripting language built into Mac OS X, in order to automatically generate documents, spreadsheets, and e-mails. Sections cover getting started, essential AppleScript programming techniques, and automating major applications with AppleScript. Debugging and error handling are also covered. Learning features include Q&A sections, hands-on exercises, tips, cautions, and example code with annotations. A companion web site offers ready-to-use code. Hart-Davis has written other computer books.”

HTML A Beginner’s Guide

Authors: Willard, Wendy
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-161143-5
ISBN-10: 0071611436
©2009 | 4th Edition | 538 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: June 2009
Price: US$ 29.99
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Reviewed in the September 2009 issue of SciTech Book News

“The fourth edition of this beginner’s guide to programming in the HTML language describes the basic steps of structuring pages, placing images, formatting text, creating links, adding color, using forms and working with multimedia. Willard, a freelance web designer and consultant, uses hands-on exercises, self tests and Q&A sections so that novices can learn advanced applications such as dynamic web content, CSS and JavaScript. A new chapter has been added in this version that covers the use of HTML for email so that target audiences can be reached through online communications.”  

iPhone SDK Programming: A Beginner’s Guide

Authors: Brannan, James
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-162649-1
ISBN-10: 0071626492
©2009 | 1st Edition | 480 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: August 2009
Price: US$ 39.99
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An excerpt from this book has been published in the Winter issue of iPhone Life Magazine. To view the excerpt, please use the following link (article located on pages 80-81 of the electronic issue), please click Here.

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