JavaScript and Ajax for the Web: Visual Quickstart Guide

Need to learn JavaScript fast? This best-selling, task-based, visual reference guide has been fully revised and updated for the seventh edition. It uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to give beginning and intermediate Web designers and Web developers what they need to know to learn JavaScript and Ajax in no time. Whether you start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what you need to know, leading Web and computing experts Tom Negrino and Dori Smith use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's JavaScript essentials. You'll find new information on modern coding techniques including designing Ajax-based sites. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of Ajax techniques, JavaScript frameworks (including jQuery and Yahoo's User Interface Library) and current browsers (IE, Safari, Firefox). The companion Web site at www.javascriptworld.com offers sample scripts, updates, and more!

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Javascript Bible

Make your Web pages stand out above the noise with JavaScript and the expert instruction in this much-anticipated update to the bestselling JavaScript Bible. With renowned JavaScript expert Danny Goodman at your side, you’ll get a thorough grounding in JavaScript basics, see how it fits with current Web browsers, and find all the soup-to-nuts detail you’ll need. Whether you’re a veteran programmer or just starting out, this is the JavaScript book Web developers turn to again and again.

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Flash CS4 Professional: for Windows and Macintosh

A guide to using the Flash authoring tool covers such topics as modifying graphics, working with symbols, frame-by-frame animations, building buttons for interactivity, and adding sound.

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A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux

The second edition of this guide to installing and configuring Ubuntu servers has been updated with new instructions for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) and 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), new JumpStarts for a variety of complex servers and additional examples and indexes to provide quicker solutions for troubleshooting common obstacles. Sobell is an independent consultant who specializes in UNIX/Linux training, and he employs hundreds of examples to show IT administrators how to set up Samba, Apache, Mail, FTP, NIS, OpenSSH and DNS servers. He also explains how to keep Ubuntu systems continually updated through the use of Aptitiude, Synaptic and the Software Sources window. An enclosed DVD-ROM contains the full version of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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