Expert advice to help you work smarter and increase your productivity with Visual Studio. Take a detailed look into Visual Studio—and learn practical techniques to help you work more efficiently. This fully revised and expanded version of Visual Studio Tips: 251 Ways to Improve Your Productivity includes a comprehensive collection of tips and shortcuts for working with the code editor, visual designers, searches, debugger, and other features in Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010. You'll gain...
If you're a PHP developer, you too can take advantage of the incredible capabilities of Node.js. This book provides several practical recipes for porting your existing PHP code to Node, and what you can achieve with this open source framework once you're done. By comparing specific PHP features with their Node counterparts, author Daniel Howard demonstrates how the concept behind PHP has evolved in Node. In the process, Howard details experience porting his own SourceForge project from PHP to No...
Your step by step guide with easy to follow instructions for navigating Drupal 8Key FeaturesBuild a great Drupal website easilyHow to structure, create and maintain different types of contentDesign roles for secure editing of your siteBook DescriptionDrupal is a powerful content management platform, flexible enough to accommodate almost any content requirements. This flexibility comes with a cost: complexity. Drupal 8 Quick Start Guide will clear your path from installation to a building usable si...
Flex 4 Cookbook is the ideal problem-solving guide for developing interactive Rich Internet Applications for the Adobe Flash Platform. Through hands-on tested recipes, you'll learn how to solve dozens of common problems when using Adobe Flex, Flex 4 Framework, or Flash Builder, Adobe's GUI-based development tool. You can browse recipes for everything from Flex basics to solutions for working with visual components and data access, as well as tips on application development, unit testing, and Ado...
The Web is increasingly happening in realtime. With sites such as Facebook and FriendFeed leading the way, users are coming to expect that all websites should serve content to them as it occurs. With this book, you'll learn how to add several realtime features to your site - everything from chat and messaging services to streaming content feeds - without making significant changes to your existing infrastructure. Moving towards a realtime model doesn't mean just updating content in your web brow...
PHP Master – Write Cutting Edge Code
by Davey Shafik, Lorna Mitchell, and Matthew Turland
PHP Master is tailor-made for the PHP developer who's serious about taking their server-side applications to the next level and who wants to really keep ahead of the game by adhering to best practice, employing the most effective object-oriented programming techniques, wrapping projects in layers of security and ensuring their code is doing its job perfectly. * Create professional, dynamic applications according to an object-oriented programming blueprint * Learn advanced performance evaluation...
PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja is a practical hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles and techniques needed to build a fully-functional database-driven web site using PHP & MySQL. This book covers everything from installing PHP & MySQL under Windows, Linux, and Mac through to building a live web-based content management system. While this is essentially a beginner's book, it also covers more advanced topics such as the storage of binary data in MySQL, and cookies and sessions in PHP....
Web Programming for Business: PHP Object-Oriented Programming with Oracle focuses on fundamental PHP coding, giving students practical, enduring skills to solve data and technical problems in business. Using Oracle as the backend database, the book is version-neutral, teaching students code that will still work even with changes to PHP and Oracle. The code is clean, clearly explained and solutions-oriented, allowing students to understand how technologies such as XML, RSS or AJAX can be levera...
Design Patterns In PHP And Laravel Using Real-World Examples And Plenty Of Humor
by Toby Ibarra
Learn how to customize websites with XOOPS, the open source CMS that helps non-developers build dynamic community websites, intranets, and other applications. This concise book shows you how to use XOOPS themes and modules to design everything from simple blogs to large database-driven CMS portals. Web designers and current XOOPS users will learn how to create a site theme with CSS and jQuery libraries, including techniques for making additional modules conform to the site's look and feel. Altho...
A creative look at the fundamentals of PHP programming, this manual shows practical but atypical examples of PHP code. Theories, considerations, and varying options—such as binary protocols, sharing data, extending PHP with Java, and scaling PHP applications with messaging—are presented as new approaches to solving problems. Taking into consideration operating system level options, this programming reference goes beyond the basics to offer more advanced and innovative options for building PHP ap...
Harness the power of Magento 2 – The most recent version of the world's favourite e-Commerce platform for your online store About This Book • Set up, configure, and power up your Magento environment from development to production • Master the use of Web API to communicate with the Magento system and create custom services • Create custom modules from scratch to extend the core functionality of the Magento system Who This Book Is For This book is intended primarily for intermediate to prof...
Learn the art of PHP programming through this example-rich book filled to the brim with tutorials every PHP developer needs to know About This Book • Set up the PHP environment and get started with web programming • Leverage the potential of PHP for server-side programming, memory management, and object-oriented programming (OOP) • This book is packed with real-life examples to help you implement the concepts as you learn Who This Book Is For If you are a web developer or programmer who want...
Leverage the power of Reactive Programming in PHP About This Book • Develop an interesting multiplayer browser game written in RxJS and re-implement it using RxPHP • Enhance existing reactive applications by building a CLI tool combining Symfony Console • Implement Gearman and Rabbit MQ for asynchronous communication Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at people with a solid knowledge of PHP and programming languages in general. We also assume they have at least a little experience with...
Laravel Application Development Blueprints
by Arda Kilicdagi and Halil Ibrahim Yilmaz
Follow along as we work together to build 10 different applications using Laravel 4. Since each chapter is devoted to the design of a different application, there is no need to read the book in any particular order. Instead, you can pick and choose the blueprints that are of most interest to you and dive right in.This book is for intermediate to advanced level PHP programmers who want to master Laravel. It's assumed that you will have some experience with PHP already. This book is also for those...
This book is written in a practical, cookbook style with numerous examples and recipes. This style allows you to go both directly to your topic of interest or follow topics throughout a chapter to gain an in-depth knowledge of certain areas. 'Zend Framework 2 Cookbook" is for PHP developers who are fairly advanced in programming in PHP. It will also be useful for developers who have a keen interest in expanding their knowledge outside the boundaries of simply scripting pages together. As unit te...
When a website slows to a crawl or worse, the server shuts down, it’s imperative to get things working again - fast. IIS is the fundamental communication gateway for many Microsoft servers as well as the primary technology for publishing web sites. Knowing how to manage IIS effectively can mean the difference between a successful business solution and a vacant parking lot. Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches is an innovative tutorial designed for busy administrators. Just by setting asid...
Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.3.x for Effective MySQL Management
by Marc Delisle
This is a step-by-step instructional guide to get you started easily with phpMyAdmin and teach you to manage and perform database functions on your database. You will first be introduced to the interface and then build basic tables and perform both simple and advanced functions on the created database. The book progresses gradually and you will follow it best by reading it sequentially. If you are a developer or system administrator or web designer who wants to manage MySQL databases and tables...
Yii Rapid Application Development Hotshot
by Lauren O'Meara and James Hamilton
Practical, real world example projects. Start with the topics that grab your attention or work through each project in sequence. This book is for intermediate to advanced level PHP programmers who want to master Yii.