Free eBook: A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control
Free eBook “A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control: Authentication and Authorizationfor Services and the Web” from Microsoft. This book gives you enough information to evaluate claims-based identity as a possible option when you’re planning a new application or making changes to an existing one. It is intended for any architect, developer, or information technology (IT) professional who designs, builds, or operates Web applications and services that require identity information about their users.
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Free Online Book: Dive Into HTML5
This free online book “Dive Into HTML5″ is the draft version of the upcoming book “HTML5: Up and Running” from O’Reilly Media. The author of the book Pilgrim Mark has published the drafts of the book. The latest version of this markup language is going to significantly change the way you develop web applications, and this book provides your first real look at HTML5’s new elements and attributes.
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Free Online Book: The Definitive Guide to Django Second Edition
Free online book “The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right Second Edition”. This book is about Django, a Web development framework that saves you time and makes Web development a joy. Using Django, you can build and maintain high-quality Web applications with minimal fuss.
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Web Style Guide, 3rd edition: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites
Free online book “Web Style Guide, 3rd edition: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites”. Consistently praised in earlier editions as the best volume on classic elements of web site design, Web Style Guide, now in its Third Edition, continues its tradition of emphasis on fundamentals. Focusing on the needs of web site designers in corporations, government, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions, the book explains established design principles and how they apply in web design projects in which information design, interface design, and efficient search and navigation are of primary concern.
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Free Online Book: Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Read “Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa” by Jonathan Starkonline for free via an experimental offering from O’Reilly Labs. Now web designers and developers can join the iPhone app party without having to learn Cocoa’s Objective-C programming language. It’s true: You can write iPhone apps quickly and efficiently using your existing skills with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This book shows you how with lots of detailed examples, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on exercises.
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Free SitePoint eBook: Build Your Own Firefox Extension
Free eBook “Build Your Own Firefox Extension” from SitePoint. One of the main reasons for the explosive and continued popularity of Firefox is its framework for custom extensions. What many web developers don’t realise is that they’re so easy to create and implement — anyone with a minimal understanding of JavaScript and XML can build a Firefox extension. After reading Build Your Own Firefox Extension, you’ll be able create simple Firefox extensions with extremely powerful functionality.
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Free eBook: Mobile Web Developer’s Guide
The Web has revolutionized how we interact with and publish information, but up to now it has only been accessible to people with desktop devices. Web-enabled mobile phones now extend the expected global reach of the Web to three times that of today, touching one-third of the population1 of the planet. The goal of this guide is to provide developers and site owners with enough knowledge to get started with the creation of Web content for mobile users. It covers the benefits of publishing for mobile users, how mobile delivery differs from desktop delivery and how to design for the mobile context.
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Dynamic Web Development with Seaside
Free online book “Dynamic Web Development with Seaside”. Seaside is an excellent framework for easily developing advanced and dynamic web applications. Seaside lets you create reusable components that you can freely compose using Smalltalk — a simple and pure object-oriented language.
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Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services
Apress book “Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services” by Raymond Yee is available free of charge under a Creative Commons (by-nc-sa-2.5) license. Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services teaches you everything you need to create useful, dynamic real–world applications using APIs, web services, Ajax, web standards, and server–side languages. All you need to make full use of this book is basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and at least one server–side language (such as PHP or ASP.NET).
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Free eBook: Exploring Lift
“Exploring Lift”, the free pdf version of the “The Definitive Guide to Lift: A Scala-based Web Framework” published by Apress. This book will educate you about Lift, a great framework for building compelling web applications. Lift is designed to make powerful techniques easily accessible, while keeping the overall framework simple and flexible. Lift makes it fun to develop because it lets you focus on the interesting parts of coding.
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