CouchDB The Definitive Guide /by J. Chris Anderson (Author) .Three of CouchDB's creators show you how to use this document-oriented database as a standalone application framework or with high-volume, distributed applications. With its simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data, CouchDB is ideal for web applications that handle huge amounts of loosely structured data. That alone would stretch the limits of a relational database, yet CouchDB offers an open source solution that's reliable, scales easily, and responds quickly.
CouchDB works with self-contained data that has loose or ad-hoc connections. It's a model that fits many real-world items, such as contacts, invoices, and receipts, but you'll discover that this database can easily handle data of any kind. With this book, you'll learn how to work with CouchDB through its RESTful web interface, and become familiar with key features such as simple document CRUD (create, read, update, delete), advanced MapReduce, deployment tuning, and more.
* Understand the basics of document-oriented storage and manipulation
* Interact with CouchDB entirely though HTTP using its RESTful interface
* Model data as self-contained JSON documents
* Handle evolving data schemas naturally
* Query and aggregate data in CouchDB using MapReduce views
* Replicate data between nodes
* Tune CouchDB for increased performance and reliability

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa /by Jonathan Stark (Author) .It's a fact: if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this book, you'll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch on the platform of your choice-without using Objective-C or Cocoa.
Device-agnostic mobile apps are the wave of the future, and this book shows you how to create one product for several platforms. You'll find guidelines for converting your product into a native iPhone app using the free PhoneGap framework. And you'll learn why releasing your product as a web app first helps you find, fix, and test bugs much faster than if you went straight to the App Store with a product built with Apple's tools.
* Build iPhone apps with tools you already know how to use
* Learn how to make an existing website look and behave like an iPhone app
* Add native-looking animations to your web app using jQTouch
* Take advantage of client-side data storage with apps that run even when the iPhone is offline
* Hook into advanced iPhone features -- including the accelerometer, geolocation, and vibration -- with JavaScript
* Submit your applications to the App Store with Xcode

Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications /by Dino Esposito (Author) .Rethink the way you plan, design, and build Web applications—with expert guidance from Web development luminary Dino Esposito. Whether giving legacy sites a much-needed tune-up—or architecting rich Internet applications from the ground up—you’ll learn pragmatic approaches to AJAX development that you can employ today.
Discover how to:
* Delve into the mechanics and design goals of partial rendering—such as improving page-refresh speed
* Use AJAX-enabled server controls to bring desktop-like functionality to Web solutions
* Apply design patterns to common Web development issues, including client-side data binding
* Manipulate JavaScript more easily using the jQuery and Microsoft AJAX libraries
* Examine the interoperability and security models in Microsoft Silverlight
* Weigh the tradeoffs when architecting Web applications for richness (Silverlight) vs. reach (AJAX)—and deliver the right solution for your audience

Advanced Web Sites Made Easy : The Simple Way to Build Web Databases and Other Applications with HTML/OS /by D. M. Silverberg (Author) .This book is the first book on an exciting new product known as HTML/OS. `HTML/OS is exciting because it single-handedly eliminates the complexities of building advanced sites. HTML/OS includes a built-in database engine and simple Basic-like tags you type into HTML documents. Web pages that once took months to write without HTML/OS can now be written in hours. This book makes the development of advanced Web sites easier than ever. This book is written for Web designers and developers, programmers, commercial product developers, and anyone who wants an advanced Web site. If you know some HTML and a bit of scripting you can use this book. Advanced Web Sites Made Easy guides you through the ins and outs of HTML/OS. It includes a thorough discussion of how HTML/OS works, over 100 examples of advanced Web pages (such as shopping carts, database search pages, e-mail merge programs, and login pages) and a 30-day free trial of HTML/OS pre-installed on the Web for every buyer of this book.

The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite /by Rich Bowen (Author) .Organizing websites is highly dynamic and often chaotic. Thus, it is crucial that host web servers manipulate URLs in order to cope with temporarily or permanently relocated resources, prevent attacks by automated worms, and control resource access.
The Apache mod_rewrite module has long inspired fits of joy because it offers an unparalleled toolset for manipulating URLs. The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite guides you through configuration and use of the module for a variety of purposes, including basic and conditional rewrites, access control, virtual host maintenance, and proxies.
This book was authored by Rich Bowen, noted Apache expert and Apache Software Foundation member, and draws on his years of experience administering, and regular speaking and writing about, the Apache server.