Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a brand-new companion volume to Apress s highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. As the words at work suggest, Peter Seibel focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of programming, while revealing much more, like how they became great ...

Including step-by-step instructions, this guide to HTML introduces the reader to HTML and XHTML essentials. It helps you learn how to design, structure, and format your Web site; and create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms. It includes coverage of CSS techniques, browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), and more.

Walks you through developing a full featured application based on the Mac OS X Core Data APIs. This book helps to discover how Core Data contributes to Cocoa applications, as well as some of the pitfalls and issues surrounding the implementation.

To create a great video game, you must start with a solid game design: A well-designed game is easier to build, more entertaining, and has a better chance of succeeding in the marketplace. Here to teach you the essential skills of player-centric game design is one of the industry's leading authorities, Ernest Adams, who offers a first-hand look into the process, from initial concept to the final .

The book you are holding contains the keys to writing great Silverlight 3 applications. Use them well! --From the Foreword by Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president, Microsoft Developer Division Essential Silverlight 3 is not only filled with technical details, clear examples, and performance tips that will make any Silverlight application better, but Ashraf also includes insights that can ...

John K. Ousterhout's Definitive Introduction to Tcl/Tk--Now Fully Updated for Tcl/Tk 8.5 Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, Second Edition, is the fastest way for newcomers to master Tcl/Tk and is the most authoritative resource for experienced programmers seeking to gain from Tcl/Tk 8.5's powerful enhancements. Written by Tcl/Tk creator John K. Ousterhout and top Tcl/Tk trainer Ken Jones, this updated ...

Sams Teach Yourself Video Learning is the easiest way to learn a new technology. *Self-Paced--Learn on your own time, at your own pace *Visual--Video lessons clearly explain key concepts and show you exactly what to do*Learn By Doing--Interactive, hands-on learning labs so you can apply what you learn right away *Quick and Efficient--Each individual lesson is no longer than 10 minutes *Modular--Bi

Presenting an introduction to PHP 5.3, this book walks you through the major concepts of PHP in a way that's easy to follow, with code snippets illustrating each concept to aid learning. It helps to discover how to install and configure PHP 5.3, how to get started with simple programs, and the basic building blocks of PHP.

It hasn't taken Web developers long to discover that when it comes to creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites, MySQL and PHP provide a winning open source combination. Add this book to the mix, and there's no limit to the powerful, interactive Web sites that developers can create. With step-by-step instructions, complete scripts, and expert tips to guide readers, veteran author and database ..

A guide to creating Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using BlazeDS. It offers an introduction to BlazeDS, and explains the necessary features for integrating Java data sources and applications with Flex-based RIAs. It provides hands-on examples and addresses real-world concerns surrounding enterprise-based Java and Flex applications.

Helps experienced .NET developers create flexible, extensible enterprise application code. This book covers enterprise development methodologies. It also covers the tools you may use in addition to Visual Studio, including Spring.NET and nUnit, and applies to development with ASP.NET, C#, VB, Office (VBA), and database.

Covers Flash for the everyday developer. This book helps bridge the gap for coders who may be used to C++, Java, or C# and want to move over to Flash. It includes game design templates and pre-written scripts to automate tasks within Flash, and powerful debugging tools for games. It offers concrete, relatable approaches to Flash game development.

The best-selling introduction to Cocoa, once again updated to cover the latest Mac programming technologies, and still enthusiastically recommended by experienced Mac OS X developers. Aaron's book is the gold standard for Mac OS X programming books--beautifully written, and thoughtfully sculpted. The best book on Leopard development. --Scott Stevenson,

Covers the developments in Java and of core Java programming topics. This work includes fresh chapters/sections on XML Web Services, JDBC, and RSS.

Building a social web application that attracts and retains regular visitors isn't easy to do. This book helps you and your fellow web developers, designers, and project managers make difficult decisions, such as choosing the appropriate interaction tools for your audience, and building an infrastructure to help the community gel.

Helps you master the fundamentals of the core Python language. This book covers: Python's major built-in object types - numbers, lists, dictionaries, and more; the code you use to create and process objects in Python, along with Python's general syntax model; and, Python's basic procedural tool for structuring and reusing code.

Reveals the most common security coding errors and explains how to fix each one - or better yet, avoid them from the start. This book covers platforms, languages, and types of applications. It is suitable for software developers.

Knowing how to create a social website to foster user interaction and community building is becoming a core skill for developers and designers, but grasping the nuances of the social web is much harder than it appears. This book presents practical design solutions that you can use to create or improve a social website interface.

A highly interactive, multi-sensory learning experience that lets new programmers pick up the fundamentals of the Java language quickly. Through mind-stretching exercises, memorable analogies, humorous pictures, and casual language, it encourages readers to think like a Java programmer. This revised second edition focuses on Java 5.0.

Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Python 3 is a hands-on guide to Python 3 (the latest version of the Python language) and its differences from Python 2. As in the original book, Dive Into Python, each chapter starts with a real, complete code sample, proceeds to pick it apart and explain the pieces, and then puts it all back together in a summary at the end. This book includes: * Example programs ...