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AJAX Books

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Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, or its acronym, Ajax (Pronounced A-jax), is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. Ajax has helped usher in a new breed of user-frienldy Websites and helps make Web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change. Ajax is great because it helps increase a Website's interactivity, speed, and usability.

Ajax: The Definitive Guide

by Anthony T. Holdener III ratingAvailability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $49.99 Price: $31.49
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Microsoft® ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications (PRO-Developer)

by Dino Esposito Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $39.99 Price: $26.39
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Head First Ajax

by Rebecca Riordan ratingAvailability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $44.99 Price: $29.69
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CSS Books

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Where would we be without Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)? It's hard to imagine the Web without them! Using a stylesheet language to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language is paramount in designing great Websites. While the most common application of CSS is to style Websites written in HTML and XHTML, they also can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL. The Web is currently someplace between CSS 1 and CSS 2, while CSS 3 is coming soon.

Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns

by Michael Bowers ratingAvailability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $44.99 Price: $29.69
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Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design (Voices That Matter)

by Andy Clarke, Molly E. Holzschlag ratingAvailability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $49.99 Price: $31.49
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CSS Web Site Design Hands on Training (Hands-On Training)

by Eric Meyer ratingAvailability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $49.99 Price: $31.49
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PHP and MySQL Books

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PHP, short for the recursive acronym "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", is an open source and very popular scripted programming language used to build Websites and complex Web applications. MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL Database Management System (DBMS) with a huge (and growing) installation base. It, too, is available for free thanks to its makers, MySQL AB, and their willingness to make it available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). PHP and MySQL are a natural fit for eachother, and when combined with the Linux operating system running Apache Web server software, make up the most popular environment on the Web (referred to as "LAMP").

PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition) (Developer's Library)

by Luke Welling, Laura Thomson ratingAvailability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $49.99 Price: $31.49
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PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide

by Larry Ullman ratingAvailability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $44.99 Price: $29.69
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Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition (Beginning from Novice to Professional)

by W. Jason Gilmore ratingAvailability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $46.99 Price: $31.01
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ASP.NET Books

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ASP.NET is a set of Web development technologies marketed by Microsoft. Programmers can use it to build dynamic Websites, Web applications and XML Web services. It is part of Microsoft's .NET platform and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. Programmers can write ASP.NET code using any of the different programming languages supported by the .NET Framework, usually (proprietary) Visual Basic.NET, JScript .NET, or (standardized) C#, but also including open-source languages such as Perl and Python.

Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework

by Steven Sanderson ratingAvailability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $54.99 Price: $34.64
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Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition (Beginning from Novice to Professional)

by Matthew MacDonald ratingAvailability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $49.99 Price: $31.49
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ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed

by Stephen Walther ratingAvailability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $64.99 Price: $37.04
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Ruby on Rails Books

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Somewhat new to the game, Ruby on Rails, often called RoR or just Rails, is an open source Web application framework written in the Ruby programming language that closely follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. It strives for simplicity and allowing Web applications to be developed more easily than other frameworks and without much configuration. It's a hot topic these days and has quite a few interesting applications on the Web.

Ruby on Rails: Up and Running

by Bruce Tate, Curt Hibbs ratingAvailability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $29.99 Price: $19.79
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Beginning Ruby on Rails (Wrox Beginning Guides)

by Steve Holzner Ph.D. ratingAvailability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $34.99 Price: $23.09
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Head First Rails: A learner's companion to Ruby on Rails

by David Griffiths ratingAvailability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $49.99 Price: $31.49
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