Part tutorial and part reference, this book helps you develop new JavaScript skills by building on your basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and the Web in general. It includes scripting Flash with JavaScript, HTTP and Ajax, DOM, SVG, XML, and web services and also serves as a detailed reference for the more experienced web developers.

'Java in a Nutshell', fifth edition, covers all the extensive changes implicit in 5.0, the latest and greatest version of Java yet. Among the improvements: more discussion on tools and frameworks, and new code examples to illustrate the working of APIs.

This handy guide offers a complete overview of the core Java language and client-side scripting environment, as well as quick-reference material on core and client-side objects, methods, and properties.

A guide to Ruby that provides coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It explains the language from the bottom up: from lexical and syntactic structure to datatypes to expressions and statements and on through methods, blocks, lambdas, closures, classes and modules.

This no-nonsense guide jumps right into Tiger. Using a task-oriented format there is complete practical coverage of generics, boxing and unboxing, varargs, enums, annotations, formatting the for/in loop, concurrency, and more.

David Flanagan has updated his learn-by-example guide with coverage of regular expressions (new to the core Java API), extended I/O coverage, new Java internationalization information, and extensive coverage of the new Java GUI features. He's also added a sneak peek at some new features in Java version 1.5, due to release late in 2004.

Provides an overview of the important pieces of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC), such as the Swing components and Java 2D. The book includes compact reference material on all the GUI- and graphics-related classes in the numerous java.awt packages. Covers Java 1.2.