O Reilly: 1860 books
The Internet: The Missing Manual
The Missing Manual
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2006
The Internet is almost synonymous with change--that's one of its charms, and one of its headaches. You may think you know the Internet, but are you really up to speed on internet telephones, movie and TV downloading, blogging, gaming, online banking, dating, and photosharing?
This utterly current...
Designing Delivery
Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Now that we’re moving from a product economy to a digital service economy, software is becoming critical for navigating our everyday lives. The quality of your service depends on how well it helps customers accomplish goals and satisfy needs. Service quality is not about designing capabilities,...
Programming Firefox
Building Rich Internet Applications with XUL
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2007
This is your guide to building Internet applications and user interfaces with the Mozilla component framework, which is best known for the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client. Programming Firefox demonstrates how to use the XML User Interface Language (XUL) with open source tools in the...
Mastering Search Analytics
Measuring SEO, SEM and Site Search
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Many companies still approach Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and paid search as separate initiatives. This in-depth guide shows you how to use these programs as part of a comprehensive strategy—not just to improve your site’s search rankings, but to attract the right people and increase your...
The Information Diet
A Case for Conscious Comsumption
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
This is a softcover version of the title released in 2011; there is no new material.
The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens and speakers we hold dear. Just...
by Matthew MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
You can easily create a professional-looking website with nothing more than an ordinary computer and some raw ambition. Want to build a blog, sell products, create forums, or promote an event? No problem! This friendly, jargon-free book gives you the techniques, tools, and advice you need to build...
PayPal APIs: Up and Running
Monetizing Your Application with Payment Flows
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
If your web application’s success depends on how quickly and easily users can make transactions, PayPal APIs provide effective solutions you can’t afford to overlook. This concise book takes you hands-on through several options to help you determine the best choice for your situation, whether...
Virtualization: A Manager's Guide
Big Picture of the Who, What, and Where of Virtualization
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
What exactly is virtualization? As this concise book explains, virtualization is a smorgasbord of technologies that offer organizations many advantages, whether you're managing extremely large stores of rapidly changing data, scaling out an application, or harnessing huge amounts of computational...
Access Data Analysis Cookbook
Slicing and Dicing to Find the Results You Need
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2007
If you have large quantities of data in a Microsoft Access database, and need to study that data in depth, this book is a data cruncher's dream. Access Data Analysis Cookbook offers practical recipes to solve a variety of common problems that users have with extracting Access data and performing calculations...
JavaScript for PHP Developers
A Concise Guide to Mastering JavaScript
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
If you want to significantly expand your web development skills beyond PHP, this practical, hands-on book teaches you ECMAScript—the core JavaScript language—from the ground up. You’ll discover some similarities between JavaScript and PHP, such as conditions and loops, but the primary focus...
Releasing HTML5 Games for Windows 8
From the Web to Windows 8 with Ease
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Windows 8 presents an incredible opportunity for distributing and monetizing HTML5 games, and this guide shows how you can profit from it. You’ll learn everything you need to know about porting your original web-based JavaScript game to the new "touch-first" version of Windows, as well...
Programming the iPhone User Experience
Developing and Designing Cocoa Touch Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch not only feature the world's most powerful mobile operating system, they also usher in a new standard of human-computer interaction through gestural interfaces and multi-touch navigation. This book provides you with a hands-on, example-driven tour of UIKit, Apple's user...
20 Recipes for Programming PhoneGap
Cross-Platform Mobile Development for Android and iPhone
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Gain hands-on experience with the amazing PhoneGap library, using the practical recipes in this handy guide. With these solutions, you can enable your mobile web apps to interact with device-specific features such as the accelerometer, GPS, camera, and address book. Learn how to use your knowledge...
High Performance Web Sites
Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the...