Tag: web development

‘Meteor in Action’: A good how-to guide for learning a popular JavaScript framework – #programming #bookreview

by Sagecreek Productions LLC

  Meteor in Action Stephan Hochhaus and Manuel Schoebel Manning – paperback I have worked with several JavaScript frameworks, and Meteor has become a favorite, mainly because it is closely related to the MEAN stack family and plays well with MongoDB and Node.js. As the Meteor in Action authors note: “Meteor runs on top of … Continue reading ‘Meteor in Action’: A good how-to guide for learning a popular JavaScript framework – #programming #bookreview

D3.js in Action: A good book packed with data visualization how-to info – #javascript #programming

by Sagecreek Productions LLC

D3.js in Action Elijah Meeks Manning – paperback   The D3.js library is very powerful, and it is full of useful choices and possibilities. But, you should not try to tackle Elijah Meeks’s new book if you are a JavaScript newcomer and not also comfortable with HTML, CSS and JSON. It likewise helps to understand … Continue reading D3.js in Action: A good book packed with data visualization how-to info – #javascript #programming

jQUERY UI IN ACTION: A smooth guide to getting, learning and using plugins supported by the jQuery Foundation – #bookreview

by Sagecreek Productions LLC

jQuery UI in Action TJ VanToll  (Manning – paperback)   TJ VanToll had two straightforward goals in mind when he decided to write this nicely prepared book: “I wanted to write about how to use the jQuery UI components in real-world usage scenarios and applications. I also wanted to tackle the tough questions for jQuery UI users. … Continue reading jQUERY UI IN ACTION: A smooth guide to getting, learning and using plugins supported by the jQuery Foundation – #bookreview

Grails in Action, 2nd Edition – A (mostly) winning how-to guide to use with a winning web app framework – #programming #bookreview

by Sagecreek Productions LLC

  Grails in Action, Second Edition Glen Smith and Peter Ledbrook (Manning – paperback) Grails finishes at or very near the top in almost any smackdown of full-stack web application frameworks that run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). And this recently updated Grails in Action how-to book is mostly a clear winner, too. According to the … Continue reading Grails in Action, 2nd Edition – A (mostly) winning how-to guide to use with a winning web app framework – #programming #bookreview

Ember.js in Action – An ambitious overview, with glitches – #programming #bookreview

by Sagecreek Productions LLC

Ember.js in Action Joachim Haagen Skeie (Manning – paperback)   The Ember.js JavaScript framework has “a steep learning curve,” Joachim Haagen Skeie cautions readers repeatedly in his new book. Indeed, Ember does. I’ve watched that learning curve confuse and frustrate several experienced JavaScript and Ruby on Rails developers. And I’ve banged my own (thick) skull … Continue reading Ember.js in Action – An ambitious overview, with glitches – #programming #bookreview

Learning Dart – A solid guide to basic development using Google’s Dart #programming language – #bookreview

by Sagecreek Productions LLC

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

Play for Java – Good intro to the Play 2 Java web framework – #programming #bookreview

by Sagecreek Productions LLC

Play for Java Nicolas Leroux and Sietse de Kaper (Manning, paperback)   “There are,” co-author Nicolas Leroux writes, ” many Java web frameworks, but most of them have a key flaw: they try to hide the web behind an abstraction layer, rather than embracing it. That is the most important difference between Play and most other Java … Continue reading Play for Java – Good intro to the Play 2 Java web framework – #programming #bookreview

Adobe Edge Animate – Rocky Nook’s elegant new software how-to guide – #webdesign #bookreview

by Sagecreek Productions LLC

Adobe Edge Animate Using Web Standards to Create Interactive Websites Simon Widjaja (Rocky Nook – paperback, Kindle) Simon Widjaja’s new book is both elegant and practical. It is elegantly structured and illustrated, and it is practical in its approach to showing how to use Adobe Edge Animate. That software package, Widjaja says, “is a multimedia … Continue reading Adobe Edge Animate – Rocky Nook’s elegant new software how-to guide – #webdesign #bookreview

Instant Handlebars.js – A short but effective how-to guide – #programming #bookreview

by Sagecreek Productions LLC

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

The Modern Web: Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript – #bookreview

by Sagecreek Productions LLC

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