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This fourth edition of Ben Frain’s Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS continues an information flow that has now spanned a decade and helped numerous new and experienced web designers. The book is well written and well illustrated with plenty of code examples to support key topics and instructions. The major principles of responsive … Continue reading Responsive Web Design with HTML5 & CSS, Fourth Edition – #bookreview
The Responsive Web Matthew Carver (Manning – paperback) While devices for viewing websites keep getting smaller–web-enabled watches are a recent example–the challenges get bigger and tougher for website designers and developers. How do you create websites that effectively adjust to the size of the devices where they are being viewed, while also delivering essential information … Continue reading THE RESPONSIVE WEB: A ‘mobile-first’ guide to creating websites effective for all devices – #bookreview
Learning Dart Learn how to program applications with Dart 1.0, a language specifically designed to produce better-structured, high performance applications Ivo Balbaert and Dzenan Ridjanovic (Packt – Kindle, paperback) The programming language Dart was introduced in late 2011 by Google as a potential replacement for aging JavaScript. But JavaScript, of course, has continued to … Continue reading Learning Dart – A solid guide to basic development using Google’s Dart #programming language – #bookreview
Instant Handlebars.js Learn how to create and implement HTML templates into your projects using the Handlebars library Gabriel Manricks (Packt Publishing – e-book, paperback) “Short, fast, and focused.” These are the three promises offered for Gabriel Manricks’ new book, Instant Handlebars.js, from Packt Publishing. And, at just 62 pages in print format, it lives up … Continue reading Instant Handlebars.js – A short but effective how-to guide – #programming #bookreview
Functional JavaScript Introducing Functional Programming with Underscore.js Michael Fogus (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) When I first started tinkering with JavaScript, object-oriented programming (OOP) was the rage, and JavaScript frequently was touted as one of the key object-oriented languages. After all, according to many online descriptions, almost everything within JavaScript “is OO.” Now, in this enjoyable … Continue reading Functional JavaScript – Applying functional techniques and Underscore.js – #programming #bookreview
Arduino Workshop A Hands-On Introduction with 65 Projects John Boxall (No Starch Press – paperback, Kindle) If you’ve been wanting to tinker with a tiny Arduino computer, this excellent book can show you how to do much more than simply get started. Indeed, John Boxall’s Arduino Workshop can keep you busy, challenged and intrigued for … Continue reading Arduino Workshop – An excellent hands-on guide with 65 DIY projects – #arduino #bookreview
The Modern Web Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript Peter Gasston (No Starch Press – Kindle, paperback) After a quick first glance, you might look right past this book. You might assume its title, “The Modern Web,” simply introduces some kind of heavily footnoted, academic study of the Internet. Not so, Web breath. … Continue reading The Modern Web: Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript – #bookreview
Kindle Fire HD: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition Peter Meyers (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) O’Reilly recently has brought out the second edition of Peter Meyers’ popular how-to guide for using the Kindle Fire HD multi-purpose tablet. The new edition covers the 7-inch and 8.9-inch Kindle Fire models, but does not cover the original, first-generation Kindle … Continue reading Kindle Fire HD: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition – Covers new features, how-tos for 7-inch / 8.9-inch tablets – #bookreview
In the world of Big Data, Hadoop has become the hard-charging elephant in the room. Its big-name users now span the alphabet and include such notables as Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Google, the New York Times, and Yahoo. Not bad for software named after a child’s toy elephant. Computer systems that run Hadoop can store, process, … Continue reading Hadoop is hot! Three new how-to books for riding the Big Data elephant – #programming #bookreview
Building Web, Cloud, & Mobile Solutions with F# Daniel Mohl (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) F# (pronounced “F-sharp”) is a relatively new functional, open-source programming language developed by Microsoft and the F# Software Foundation. F# can be used to create scalable applications with ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Azure, HTML5, Web Sockets, … Continue reading Building Web, Cloud, & Mobile Solutions with F# – #programming #bookreview
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