Author: Alex Mackey Publisher: Apress, 2010 Pages: 400 ISBN: 978-1430224556 Aimed at: Developers wanting to know what is new in .NET 4.0 Rating: 3 Pros: Overview of .NET 4 Cons: An uncritical approach; lacks depth Reviewed by: Ian Elliot
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Covers all aspects of web page design, from typography and color to layout, to help discover which pieces of HTML and CSS deserve focus, and which can be abandoned. You'll discover how the two technologies mesh, understand how the Web 2.0 era has changed the way we use HTML and CSS and recognize the bad and downright awful parts of HTML and CSS to understand why warning labels are sometimes necessary.
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Beginning Mac Programming (Pragamatic Bookshelf) 17 Mar
Tim Isted takes you through concrete, working examples to give you the core concepts and principles of development in context. Introduces you to Objective-C and the Cocoa framework in clear, easy-to-understand lessons, and demonstrates how you can use them together to write for the Mac, as well as the iPhone and iPod. <ASIN:1934356514>
Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Apress) 16 Mar
Demonstrates how Microsoft's Workflow Foundation (WF) technology can be used in a wide variety of applications using sample projects. Practical "how-to" information is tndexed by feature so specific questions are easily answered. Takes you step by step through many of the useful applications of workflow technology. <ASIN:1430224851>
jQuery: Novice to Ninja (Sitepoint) 15 Mar
A compilation of best-practice jQuery solutions to meet the most challenging JavaScript problems. jQuery simplifies the process of building complex JavaScript solutions and is used by both hobbyists and professional developers around the globe. This cookbook is presented in question-and-answer fomat and code for the read-to-go solutions is available for download.
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RESTful Web Services Cookbook (O'Reilly) 12 Mar
includes more than 100 recipes to help you take advantage of REST, HTTP, and the infrastructure of the Web. You'll learn ways to design RESTful web services for client and server applications that meet performance, scalability, reliability, and security goals, no matter what programming language and development framework you use.
Silverlight is an exciting technology but it isn't true that you can just assume that it's .NET in a browser. While many of the technologies will be familiar, you need help finding out how to do things in a Silverlight way. Matthew MacDonald has written a book that tells you what you need to know with the minimum of fuss and this is why it's our book of the month.
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