Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects: Bringing Ruby on Rails to Java

• Paperback: 330 pages
• Publisher: Apress (September 24, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590598814

Discover how JRuby on Rails can be used to create web applications faster and more efficiently while still taking advantage of the vast power of the Java platform.

Ruby on Rails is proving itself to be one of the most efficient and powerful agile web development application frameworks available and has had a profound influence on the Java community. The JRuby project offers Java developers the best of two worlds: the flexibility of Ruby on Rails coupled with the enterprise-level power and maturity of the Java platform.

JRuby core developer Ola Bini covers everything you need to know to take full advantage of what JRuby has to offer, including

• Full coverage on how to use JRuby to create web applications faster and more efficiently, while continuing to take advantage of the vast power of the Java platform
• Several real-world projects that illustrate the crucial specifics you need to know about the interaction of Java and Ruby
• Helpful, practical instruction and discussion on how web applications can be deployed using a variety of popular servers such as Apache and Mongrel

What youll learn

• Create a Rails application that uses JDBC to talk to legacy databases.
• Use Java Management Extensions (JMX) to more effectively manage your application.
• Deploy a Rails application within a Java Enterprise web container (Tomcat).
• Create interoperable applications involving EJBs and Rails-driven web services.
• Securely integrate XML processing into your Ruby applications.
• Build cutting-edge Web 2.0 web sites using Rails, Prototype, and script.aculo.us to provide a pleasing user experience.
• Build four important projects: Store, CMS, Admin tool, and a web library project.

Who is this book for?

Youll get the most from this book if you have medium-to-advanced skills in Java web development, with a little Ruby experience, and are interested in taking Web development to the next level, both in terms of speed and features and in interoperability with existing infrastructure.

About the Apress Practical Series

The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project-motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real-world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to go on your IT career empowerment path.

Related Titles from Apress

• Beginning POJOs: Lightweight Java Web Development Using Plain Old Java Objects in Spring, Hibernate, and Tapestry
• Beginning Ruby on Rails: From Novice to Professional
• The Definitive Guide to Grails

About the Author
Ola Bini is a longtime developer from Sweden who started at an age of 9 years with Basic, on an Apple IIc; from there on he learned C, C++, Assembler, Lisp, Java, Ruby, and various other languages. He has no formal education except for a few Sun Java certifications. He has worked with system development at Karolinska Institutet since 2001 and runs his own consulting company (OLogix Consulting) in his spare time. He has contributed to various open source projects and is one of the three core developers of the JRuby project.

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Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX: A Practical Hands-on Guide

• Paperback: 520 pages
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. (September 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596513976

With this book, web developers can build engaging and interactive sites and applications using Microsoft’s latest web development tools — ASP.NET 2.0 and the new ASP.NET AJAX framework. You learn to create applications that have all the great tricks you see on popular commercial web sites, such as order forms and the ability to interact with a database. And you can build pages that display information interactively without a page refresh. This straightforward tutorial explains how. Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX helps you master the concepts and techniques of Microsoft’s tools with plenty of annotated examples, review quizzes, web construction exercises and chapter summaries, so you can practice new skills and test your understanding as you go. With it, you’ll learn to: Master the fundamental skills of ASP.NET 2.0 to build professional quality web applications Integrate new Ajax tools and CSS with ASP.NET 2.0 for flashier and more interactive sites Build applications with minimal coding using Visual Studio or its free counterpart, Visual Web Developer Connect your site with a database so that users can retrieve, interact and save data Debug your application, deal with unexpected problems, and protect your site from malicious users Use the community-maintained ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit to extend the controls that come with ASP.NET AJAX Use personalization tools to give your site a customized look for each user Ideal for beginning web developers, or those who are new to ASP.NET, this book gets you involved with your own learning through hands-on lessons that are clear and to the point. You get the chance to try out new techniques on the spot. Want to join the world of modern webdevelopment? This book will get you started.

About the Author
Jesse Liberty, Microsoft .NET MVP, is the best-selling author of O’Reilly Media’s “Programming ASP.NET”, “Programming C#”, “Programming Visual Basic 2005″ and over a dozen other books on web and object-oriented programming. He is president of Liberty Associates, Inc. where he provides contract programming, consulting and on-site training in .NET. Jesse is a frequent contributor to O’Reilly Network web sites as well as many industry publications and has spoken at numerous industry events. He is a former Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T and Vice President for technology development at CitiBank. Dan Hurwitz is the president of Sterling Solutions, Inc., where for nearly two decades he has been providing contract programming and database development to a wide variety of clients. He has co-authored three editions of “Programming ASP.NET.” Brian MacDonald is an editor of programming and networking books. He has edited books for several major publishers on topics ranging from securing Windows servers to PHP web programming to running an eBay business. His work for O’Reilly includes Programming WCF Services and Programming ASP.NET. He also co-authored Learning C# 2005 with Jesse Liberty. He lives in southeastern Pennsylvania with his wife and son.

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Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional

• Paperback: 427 pages
• Publisher: Apress (February 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599594

Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional aims to give you the skills you need to start building web applications with Microsoft’s next–generation technology as quickly as possible. Whether you’re interested in ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, or the technologies that support them (WPF, WCF, WF, etc.), this book is the starting point that you need.

It adopts a “zero to hero” approach that concentrates on achieving practical results you can use in real projects rather than presenting a deep academic treatment that can’t be immediately applied.

The aim is to give you, the reader, the knowledge you need to achieve the results you want with the minimum of fuss. When you’ve read this book, you’ll have a solid understand of all the techniques that are available, when to use them, and their relative strengths and weaknesses.

What you’ll learn

• Create next–generation web applications quickly and easily!
• Manipulate data, display information, and communicate with other services using the latest ASP.NET techniques and best practices.
• Discover how the .NET 3.0 extensions (WPF, WCF, and WF) can make your web applications faster, more efficient, and easier to code than ever.
• Understand how ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight can be integrated into your ASP.NET websites in order to provide a cutting–edge user interface for your applications and the implications that such interfaces can have.

Who is this book for?

This book is for anyone with an interest in using Microsoft’s latest web development technologies.

A basic familiarity with the .NET platform is useful, but anyone with an understanding of a web development language will benefit from the book, as all the key topics are presented from first principals.

About the Apress Beginning Series

The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry–level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know—but without needless theory and filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real–world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there—it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!

Related Titles

• Foundations of Popfly: Rapid Mashup Development
• Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services
• Beginning Silverlight 2: From Novice to Professional
• Foundations of ASP.NET AJAX
• Foundations of Microsoft Expression Web: The Basics and Beyond

About the Author
Laurence Moroney is the Director of Technology Evangelism at Mainsoft, the cross-platform development company. He has over 10 years in software development and architecture, specializing in interoperability, security and performance in such diverse environments as Casinos, Jails, the Border Patrol, Airports, Professional Soccer and Financial Services. He has written several books on computing, including some on Web Services Security, ASP.NET and Java/.NET interoperability, as well as dozens of articles on various technology issues.
He lives in Sammamish, Washington with wife Rebecca and children Claudia and Christopher. His blog is at www.philotic.com, where you can find lots of Atlas and other development resources.

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Pro PHP XML and Web Services

• Hardcover: 936 pages
• Publisher: Apress (March 27, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590596331

I would highly recommend this as a resource for any developers who want to really dig in and solidify their working knowledge of PHP and web services, or just want to explore the nuances and complexities of XML DTDs and namespaces.

— Nathan Smith, Godbit Project

Pro PHP XML and Web Services is the authoritative guide to using the XML features of PHP 5 and PHP 6. No other book covers XML and Web Services in PHP as deeply as this title. The first four chapters introduce the core concepts of XML required for proficiency, and will bring you up to speed on the terminology and key concepts you need to proceed with the rest of the book. Next, the book explores utilizing XML and Web Services with PHP5. Topics include DOM, SimpleXML, SAX, xmlReader, XSLT, RDF, RSS, WDDX, XML-RPC, REST, SOAP, and UDDI.

Author Robert Richards, a major contributor to the PHP XML codebase, is a leading expert in the PHP community. In this book, Richards covers all topics in depth, blending theory with practical examples. Youll find case studies for the most popular web services like Amazon, Google, eBay, and Yahoo. The book also covers XML capabilities, demonstrated through informative examples, in the PEAR libraries.

About the Author
Robert Richards, currently an independent contractor, has worked in various fields including Medical Information, Telecommunications, Media and E-Learning. Having been exposed to XML since its inception and used for various projects during his career, his most extensive work with the technology was within the E-Learning space. He helped created a proprietary XML based application server which used XML for data publishing, defining application business logic as well as data querying. He was also the lead engineer for the company’s involvement in SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model), used for Web based learning, established by the Department of Defense through its Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative.
After becoming the latest casualty of the “dot-com” implosion in 2001, Rob had his first taste of PHP and began contributing code to the domxml extension in 2002. Since then he became one of the authors of the DOM extension for PHP 5, contributes to the other XML based extensions and has authored the xmlReader, for PHP 5, and xmlwriter, for PHP 4.3+, extensions. Also on occasion, he contributes bug fixes to the libxml2 project found during the development of these extensions.

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Ajax Construction Kit: Building Plug-and-Play Ajax Applications

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1 Pap/Cdr edition (July 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132350084

Supercharge Your Sites with Ajax Right Now…No Scripting Expertise Needed!

You’ve heard how great Ajax is–how it can help make your Web sites more usable, more interactive, more responsive, more successful. Ajax Construction Kit lets you put Ajax to work right now, even if you’ve never written a script! Just learn a few essentials, check out a few examples, then run the live CD and discover all the plug-and-play code you need to hit the ground running. Ajax Construction Kit’s built-in applications work right out of the box. And with easy guidance from Michael Morrison, you’ll gradually deepen your understanding–learn how to customize, extend, and reuse these applications—and even build skills for creating new ones. Walk away an expert.

Use Ajax Construction Kit’s ten complete applications to

• Dynamically load Web data
• Dynamically populate lists
• Tap into RSS news feeds
• Use AutoComplete to reduce input errors
• Create more responsive GUIs with real-time validation
• Build a killer interface for viewing images
• Present information or advertising with slick pop-ups
• Provide an up-to-the-minute weather forecast
• Build an e-commerce product shipping calculator
• Add ratings tools to your site

And more…

CD-ROM Includes

• Your complete Ajax projects: Run the Ajax projects (HTML, JavaScript, and PHP source code) that are included on the CD from your Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux system.
• Your complete Ajax environment: Boot the CD as an Ubuntu Linux live CD to immediately begin working with the Ajax projects (no setup required).
• Ready-to-run tools on the CD include the XAMPP Web server, Firefox Web browser, and Bluefish HTML editor.

System Requirements:

• Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac (OS X or higher)
• Processor: Intel-based processor (Pentium or higher)
• Memory: 128 MB RAM or more
• Disk space: None required; USB thumb drive optional to store data
• Optical drive: CD reader

Negus Live Linux Series

Your Practical, Hands-On Guides to Getting Real Results with Free Software

Add the free software and examples from the book’s CD to your Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux system to follow along with the projects described in the book. Or boot the CD directly to use a complete, prepackaged set of free software tools to play, display, and modify those projects. Start as a novice, by trying out examples…and finish with professional Ajax-enabled Web content!

SERIES EDITOR CHRISTOPHER NEGUS is the bestselling author of the Red Hat Linux Bible series, Linux Toys series, and this series’ flagship title, Linux Live CDs.

About the Author

Michael Morrison is a writer, developer, toy inventor, and author of a variety of books covering topics such as Java, Web scripting, game development, and mobile devices. Some of Michael’s notable writing projects include JavaScript Bible, 6^th Edition (Wiley, 2006), Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours, 7th Edition (Sams Publishing, 2005), Beginning Mobile Phone Game Programming (Sams Publishing, 2004), and Java Unleashed (Sams Publishing, 1997). Michael is the instructor of several Web-based courses, including DigitalThink’s Introduction to Java 2 series, JavaBeans for Programmers series, and Win32 Programming series (www.digitalthink.com). In addition to his primary profession as a writer and technical consultant, Michael is the founder of Stalefish Labs (www.stalefishlabs.com), an entertainment company specializing in games, toys, and interactive media. When not glued to his computer, skateboarding, playing hockey, or watching movies with his wife, Masheed, Michael enjoys hanging out by his koi pond.

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AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, and Web Development for Programmers

• Paperback: 1040 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1 edition (February 8, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131587382

The practicing programmer’s DEITEL® guide to AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, and web-application development

This book applies the Deitel signature live-code approach to teaching Web 2.0 application development. The book presents concepts in the context of more than 180 fully tested programs (18,000+ lines of code), complete with syntax shading, detailed descriptions, and sample outputs. It features hundreds of tips that will help you build robust applications.

Start with a concise introduction to XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript before rapidly moving on to more advanced client-side development with DOM, XML, AJAX, JSON, and other RIA technologies. Then proceed to server-side development with web servers, databases, PHP, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, JavaServer Faces, and web services. When you’re finished, you’ll have everything you need to build Web 2.0 applications.

The DEITEL Developer Series is designed for practicing programmers. The series presents focused treatments of emerging technologies, including .NET, Java^TM, web services, Internet and web development, and more.

Practical, example-rich coverage of:

• Web 2.0
• XHTML, CSS, JavaScript
• DOM, XML, RSS
• AJAX-Enabled Rich Internet Applications
• JSON, Dojo, Script.aculo.us
• Adobe® Flash CS3 and Flex
• Web Servers (IIS and Apache)
• Database (SQL, MySQL, ADO.NET and Java DB)
• PHP, Ruby on Rails
• ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX
• JavaServer Faces (JSF)
• SOAP-Based Web Services in Java
• REST-Based Web Services in ASP.NET
• Mashups
• And more…

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• Download code examples
• Check out the growing list of programming, Web 2.0, and software-related Resource Centers
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• Contact deitel@deitel.com for information on corporate training courses delivered on-site worldwide

About the Author

Paul J. Deitel and Dr. Harvey M. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized programming languages content-creation, corporate-training and Internet business development organization. The Deitels have written many international best-selling programming languages textbooks that millions of people worldwide have used to master C, C++, Java^™, C#, XML, Visual Basic^®, Perl, Python, and Internet and web programming.

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Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference

• Paperback: 427 pages
• Publisher: Apress (June 25, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590597478

If you want to get into developing web sites, the most important thing you need is a solid understanding of Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML—the language that the majority of web site content is written in.

Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference incorporates practical examples that will show you how to structure your data correctly using (X)HTML, along with styling and layout basics using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Youll also learn how to add dynamic behavior to your data using the JavaScript™ language.

This book is forward-thinking because all the featured code and techniques are standards compliant and demonstrate best practices—so you wont waste time on outdated, bad techniques. Your web pages will work properly in most web browsers and be accessible to web users with disabilities, easily locatable with popular search engines, and compact in file size.

Even if you already know HTML and CSS basics, this book will still be useful to you. It features comprehensive reference tables at the back, so you can look up all of the troublesome attributes, codes, and properties quickly and easily.

Pick up a copy of this book because it:

• Teaches standards-compliant HTMLnot outdated techniques
• Includes reference sections for you to easily look up syntax
• Doesnt require previous programming experience for comprehension

Bruce Lawson and Gez Lemon acted as technical reviewers of Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML. Bruce and Gez are active members of the Web Standards Project’s Accessibility Task Force, and have helped ensure that the book follows current guidelines and best practice.

About the Author
David Schultz is an IT professional with more than 14 years of successful experience implementing systems, including web-based applications. He has an in-depth knowledge and experience with online web-based decision support systems and desktop applications. He’s previously authored several books and articles, and has tech reviewed dozens of books.

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PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy

• Paperback: 488 pages
• Publisher: friends of ED (November 20, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590597311

You want to make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, creating a private area where members can upload images that are automatically resized, or perhaps storing all your content in a database. The problem is, you’re not a programmer and the thought of writing code sends a chill up your spine. Or maybe you’ve dabbled a bit in PHP and MySQL, but you can’t get past baby steps. If this describes you, then you’ve just found the right book.

PHP and the MySQL database are deservedly the most popular combination for creating dynamic websites. They’re free, easy to use, and provided by many web hosting companies in their standard packages. Unfortunately, most PHP books either expect you to be an expert already or force you to go through endless exercises of little practical value. In contrast, this book gives you real value right away through a series of practical examples that you can incorporate directly into your sites, optimizing performance and adding functionality such as file uploading, email feedback forms, image galleries, content management systems, and much more. Each solution is created with not only functionality in mind, but also visual design.

But this book doesn’t just provide a collection of ready-made scripts: each PHP Solution builds on what’s gone before, teaching you the basics of PHP and database design quickly and painlessly. By the end of the book, you’ll have the confidence to start writing your own scripts or&8212;if you prefer to leave that task to others–to adapt existing scripts to your own requirements.

Right from the start, you’re shown how easy it is to protect your sites by adopting secure coding practices. The book has been written with an eye on forward and backward compatibility–recommending the latest PHP 5 techniques, but providing alternative solutions for servers still running PHP 4.3. All database examples demonstrate how to use the original MySQL extension, MySQL Improved, or the PHP Data Objects (PDO) introduced in PHP 5.1, letting you choose the most suitable option for your setup.

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