Computers / Programming / JavaScript

Computer Science & Perl Programming: Best of The Perl Journal

by Jon Orwant

In its first five years of existence, The Perl Journal ran 247 articles by over 120 authors. Every serious Perl programmer subscribed to it, and every notable Perl guru jumped at the opportunity to write for...

Developing Backbone.js Applications

by Addy Osmani

If you want to build your site’s frontend with the single-page application (SPA) model, this hands-on book shows you how to get the job done with Backbone.js. You’ll learn how to create structured JavaScript...

JavaScript for PHP Developers

by Stoyan Stefanov

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...

Head First Ajax

by Rebecca M. Riordan

Ajax is no longer an experimental approach to website development, but the key to building browser-based applications that form the cornerstone of Web 2.0. Head First Ajax gives you an up-to-date perspective...

JavaScript Testing with Jasmine: JavaScript Behavior-Driven Development

by Evan Hahn

Get a concise introduction to Jasmine, the popular behavior-driven testing framework for JavaScript. This practical guide shows you how to write unit tests with Jasmine that automatically check for bugs in your...

Training Guide: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3

by Glenn Johnson

Designed to help experienced programmers develop real-world, job-role-specific skills—this Training Guide focuses on creating applications with HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. Build hands-on expertise through...

Appcelerator Titanium: Up and Running

by John Anderson

Build native apps for iOS, Android, and Blackberry from a single JavaScript codebase with Appcelerator Titanium. This guide gets you quickly up to speed on this amazing framework and shows you how to generate...

Perl and XML

by Erik T. Ray & Jason McIntosh

XML is a text-based markup language that has taken the programming world by storm. More powerful than HTML yet less demanding than SGML, XML has proven itself to be flexible and resilient. XML is the perfect...

Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules

by Randal L. Schwartz & Tom Phoenix

Perl is a versatile, powerful programming language used in a variety of disciplines, ranging from system administration to web programming to database manipulation. One slogan of Perl is that it makes easy things...

PThreads Programming: A POSIX Standard for Better Multiprocessing

by Dick Buttlar, Jacqueline Farrell & Bradford Nichols

Computers are just as busy as the rest of us nowadays. They have lots of tasks to do at once, and need some cleverness to get them all done at the same time.

That's why threads are seen more and more often as...

JavaScript Enlightenment

by Cody Lindley

If you’re an advanced beginner or intermediate JavaScript developer, JavaScript Enlightenment will solidify your understanding of the language—especially if you use a JavaScript library. In this concise...

Node.js for PHP Developers: Porting PHP to Node.js

by Daniel Howard

If you’re an experienced PHP developer, you already have a head start on learning how to write Node.js code. In this book, author Daniel Howard demonstrates the remarkable similarities between the two languages,...

ClojureScript: Up and Running

by Stuart Sierra & Luke VanderHart

Learn how to build complete client-side applications with ClojureScript, the Clojure language variant that compiles to optimized JavaScript. This hands-on introduction shows you how ClojureScript not only has...

Perl Graphics Programming: Creating SVG, SWF (Flash), JPEG and PNG files with Perl

by Shawn Wallace

Graphics programmers aren't the only ones who need to be proficient with graphics. Web and applications programmers know that a dull web page can be quickly transformed into one that's interesting and lively...

VBScript Pocket Reference

by Paul Lomax, Matt Childs & Ron Petrusha

Microsoft's Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), a subset of Visual Basic for Applications, is a powerful language for Internet application development, where it can serve as a scripting language for server-side,...

Learning Node

by Shelley Powers

Take your web development skills from browser to server with Node—and learn how to write fast, highly scalable network applications on this JavaScript-based platform. With this hands-on guide, you’ll quickly...

Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

by Addy Osmani

With Learning JavaScript Design Patterns, you’ll learn how to write beautiful, structured, and maintainable JavaScript by applying classical and modern design patterns to the language. If you want to keep...

Mobile JavaScript Application Development: Bringing Web Programming to Mobile Devices

by Adrian Kosmaczewski

When developing apps for the latest smartphones, you’re faced with several vexing questions. How many platforms do you need to accommodate? What level of support do mobile browsers provide? To help you address...

YUI 3 Cookbook

by Evan Goer

Solve a wide range of problems in your web application quickly and efficiently with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). With this definitive, getting-started guide to version 3 of the popular open source...

Web Workers: Multithreaded Programs in JavaScript

by Ido Green

Web apps would run much better if heavy calculations could be performed in the background, rather than compete with the user interface. With this book, you’ll learn how to use Web Workers to run computationally...