O'Reilly Media (3-2010) | PDF | 688 pages | 059615416X | 9.9Mb

Enterprise Development with Flex: Best Practices for RIA Developers /by Yakov Fain (Author), Victor Rasputnis (Author), Anatole Tartakovsky (Author) .If you want to use Adobe Flex to build production-quality Rich Internet Applications for the enterprise, this groundbreaking book shows you exactly what's required.

You'll learn efficient techniques and best practices, and compare several frameworks and tools available for RIA development -- well beyond anything you'll find in Flex tutorials and product documentation. Through many practical examples, the authors impart their considerable experience to help you overcome challenges during your project's life cycle. Enterprise Development with Flex also suggests proper tools and methodologies, guidelines for determining the skill sets required for the project, and much more.
* Choose among several frameworks to build Flex applications, including Cairngorm, PureMVC, Mate, and Clear Toolkit
* Apply selected design patterns with Flex
* Learn how to extend the Flex framework and build your own component library
* Develop a sample AIR application that automatically synchronizes local and remote databases to support your sales force
* Get solutions for leveraging AMF protocol and synchronizing Flex client data modifications with BlazeDS-based servers
* Determine the actual performance of your application and improve its efficiency

Yahoo Press (3-2010) | PDF | 240 pages | 059680279X | 3.84Mb

High Performance JavaScript /by Nicholas C. Zakas (Author).If you're like most developers, you rely heavily on JavaScript to build interactive and quick-responding web applications. The problem is that all of those lines of JavaScript code can slow down your apps. This book reveals techniques and strategies to help you eliminate performance bottlenecks during development.You'll learn how to improve execution time, downloading, interaction with the DOM, page life cycle, and more.
Yahoo! frontend engineer Nicholas C. Zakas and five other JavaScript experts -- Ross Harmes, Julien Lecomte, Steven Levithan, Stoyan Stefanov, and Matt Sweeney -- demonstrate optimal ways to load code onto a page, and offer programming tips to help your JavaScript run as efficiently and quickly as possible. You'll learn the best practices to build and deploy your files to a production environment, and tools that can help you find problems once your site goes live.
* Identify problem code and use faster alternatives to accomplish the same task
* Improve scripts by learning how JavaScript stores and accesses data
* Implement JavaScript code so that it doesn't slow down interaction with the DOM
* Use optimization techniques to improve runtime performance
* Learn ways to ensure the UI is responsive at all times
* Achieve faster client-server communication
* Use a build system to minify files, and HTTP compression to deliver them to the browser

Packt (3-2010) | PDF | 356 pages | 1847196047 | 6.91Mb

MediaWiki 1.1: Beginner's Guide /by Jeff Orloff (Author) .MediaWiki is the free, open-source wiki engine software that powers Wikipedia and many of the other popular wikis across the Web. Written in PHP, it possesses many features that make it the engine of choice for large collaborative wikis: flexible markup, comprehensive user management, multimedia handling, and more. Whether you are creating a public wiki for open contributions, a private wiki for collaborating within your work team or group of friends, or even a wiki for personal use, this book will provide you with all the essential steps you require to achieve this.
This book covers how to administer users, back up and restore content safely, migrate your installation to another server or database, and even make hacks to the code. From the installation process to customizing the pages, you will learn what it takes to run a well designed, secure MediaWiki site.

Packt (3-2010) | PDF | 284 pages | 1847198503 | 5.01Mb

WordPress 2.8 E-Commerce /by Brian Bondari (Author) .WordPress is easily one of the hottest platforms for building blogs and general web sites. With the addition of the WP e-Commerce plug-in, it's also a competent platform for easily creating and running an online store, capable of selling physical items as well as services and digital downloads. WordPress with e-Commerce offers every feature that a seller and a customer may need.

You can build an online store that makes it easier for the customers to find and buy products.
WordPress 2.8 e-Commerce focuses on the integration of WordPress with the WordPress e-Commerce plug-in, covering all aspects of building and developing an online store from scratch.
This book provides a simple, step-by-step approach to developing an effective online store. It guides you through your initial planning and first steps, plug-in installation and configuration, building your catalog of products to sell, accepting payments for your orders, and dealing with taxes and shipping.

64 pages | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (December 8, 2008) | ISBN: N/A | PDF | 2 MB