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Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Publisher: O’Reilly
Author: Christian Wenz
ISBN: 0596519982
Release Date: 15 April 2008

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Rails for PHP Developers (Pragmatic Programmers)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Publisher: Pragmatic
Author: Array
ISBN: 1934356042
Release Date: 11 February 2008

eBook Description
As a PHP developer, you have some great tools for developing web applications. Ruby on Rails is another key tool to add to your web development toolbox. Rails is a high-level web development framework that emphasizes high productivity and clean code. However, the Ruby language and Rails framework take a different approach from the way many PHP developers write applications.

Ruby lies at the foundation of Rails, and we’ll teach you the Ruby language from the beginning by building on your existing foundation of PHP. We’ll explore Ruby through parallel code examples that illustrate the differences between the languages, and help you understand the Ruby idioms and how they differ from popular PHP code and style.

You’ll then learn the Rails framework by iteratively building a complete application, starting from the home page through to a finished product. Along the way, you’ll build your skills as a Rails developer by learning the Rails fundamentals such as MVC structure, domain modeling, and testing.

In addition to serving as a guide to learning both Ruby and Rails from a PHP developer’s perspective, this book includes two extensive reference chapters. They map the most common PHP tasks to their equivalents in the Ruby and Rails world, giving you at-a-glance information that you’ll refer to often.

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ZK Developer’s Guide

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Publisher: Packt Publishing
Author: Array
ISBN: 1847192009
Release Date: 10 December 2007

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ZK is an open-source web development framework that enables web applications to have the rich user experiences and low development costs that desktop applications have had for years. ZK includes an Ajax-based event-driven engine, rich sets of XML User Interface Language (XUL) and XHTML components, and a markup language.

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Building Dynamic Web 2.0 Websites with Ruby on Rails

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Publisher: Packt Publishing
Author: A P Rajshekhar
ISBN: 1847193412
Release Date: 12 April 2008

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Building Dynamic Web 2.0 Websites with Ruby on Rails

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FXRuby: Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Publisher: Pragmatic
Author: Lyle Johnson
ISBN: 1934356077
Release Date: 04 April 2008

eBook Description
FXRuby is a highly object-oriented toolkit for building lean, mean, cross-platform graphical user interfaces in Ruby. Since its initial release in 2001, FXRuby has become one of the most popular GUI choices for Ruby developers. This book is your best resource for rapidly learning how to develop powerful, sophisticated GUIs in your favorite programming language.

If you’re a newcomer to GUI programming, this book will introduce you to the basics of FXRuby programming by leading you through building a GUI application with FXRuby from start to finish. If you’re an experienced software developer who just needs to get up to speed on FXRuby and what it can do for you, this book will help you put FXRuby to work in your Ruby-based applications. Along the way, you’ll learn how to leverage FXRuby’s vast collection of user interface elements to build visually rich user interfaces. You’ll see how FXRuby uses the concept of sending messages between objects to implement event-driven applications, and how you can most effectively use layout managers to construct flexible user interfaces.

Go beyond the basics with proven, practical knowledge and techniques for developing real-world GUI programs in Ruby.

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The Cult of Mac (Paperback edition)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Publisher: No Starch Press
Author: Leander Kahney
ISBN: 1593271220
Release Date: 18 November 2006

eBook Description
No product on the planet enjoys the devotion of a Macintosh computer. Famously dedicated to their machines, many Mac fans eat, sleep and breathe Macintosh. In The Cult of Mac, Wired News managing editor Leander Kahney takes an in-depth look at Mac users and their unique, creative, and often very funny culture. From people who get Mac tattoos and haircuts, to those who furnish their apartments out of empty Mac boxes, the book details Mac fandom in all of its forms. This paperback edition includes an all-new chapter about the iPod, updates throughout, and new photos that reflect current Apple technology.

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