Teaches you how to leverage JavaScript's grace and precision to write real browser-based applications. Begins with the fundamentals of programming—variables, control structures, functions, and data structures—then moves on to more complex topics, like object-oriented programming, regular expressions, and browser events. See our review

Using detailed code examples, systematically covers Rails 3 key capabilities and subsystems. Presents advanced Rails programming techniques and offers important insights into behavior-driven development and production considerations such as scalability. Discover why Rails is designed the way it is—and how to make it do what you want it to do.

With an emphasis on hands-on learning, provides a complete introduction to this web framework/content management system, including the latest update Joomla 1.6. Newcomers will find a thorough introduction to the framework, and experienced Joomla developers will learn best practices for building sophisticated websites.

This fourth edition is a major update and has complete coverage of PHP 5.3 features, including namespacing, an update of AMP stack installation and configuration, updates to Zend Framework and coverage of MySQL Workbench. Learn how to effectively integrate core features of PHP, MySQL and related tool to build robust data-driven applications.

Discover how to take advantage of the many facets ofLinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals. Don't just read about it. See it and hear it with the step-by-step video tutorials and audio sidebars that are an integral part of every title in Que's Using series.

Subtitled "A Project-Based Guide to the Latest in CSS", each chapter walks you through standalone exercises that you can integrate into projects you're working on, or use as inspiration. Covers all of the most popular, useful, and well-supported CSS3 techniques and how to ensure usability, accessibility, and efficiency.

Puts all Canvas features into one convenient place along with a brief tutorial. Shows how to draw lines, polygons, and curves, apply colors, patterns, gradients, and patterns and work with text in a graphic environment. Also reveals how to  query game graphics to determine which component is where.

Goes through building a complete game-ready physics engine from scratch. The Cyclone game engine was written specifically for this book and has been utilized in iPhone application development and Adobe Flash projects. This 2nd edition includes new/revised material on collision detection, 2D physics and casual game physics for Flash games.