Web development
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Wix: Create a Free website, Flash website builder & Flash MySpace Layouts
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"WOW! If you want to create a free flash website or widget without being bogged down by learning the ins and outs of flash (or buying flash), this is for you! Free allows you to do it all, you just have to put up with the logo. Otherwise, pay and have the logo disappear (paying includes hosting). Just play for a minute and you'll be hooked."
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
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"I'm a practical software developer who usually focuses on rapid development, so a book with a title like this normally puts me off. However, I've been thumbing through a copy at the local bookstore and am really impressed with the practical advice it offers to application developers. It's not specific to the web or database backed applications, but most of the patterns covered are directly app..."
JavaScript: The Good Parts, by Douglas Crockford
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"This short book explains Javascript well, and treats it as a serious programming language instead of just a toy to move things around a web page. Javascript has significant differences from more traditional OO languages, but it can be used to write great software. Now that web browsers (esp. Firefox 3 and Google Chrome) are able to run javascript much more quickly than before, books like this ..."
Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition)
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"This book was a turning point in the way I create web sites. I had always been bored by topics like "accessibility" and "web standards." But this book was a fun read."
Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications
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"Written by Flickr.com's lead developer, this book has a nice collection of techniques and recipes to help build scalable websites. The book has real-life examples of scalability problems and solutions that can be applied in any web application environment. Oh, and it mentions 'Samy is my hero' incident. 'Sup Samy."
High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More
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"All the product and user information you see on ThisNext is stored in MySQL database. This book has a collection of great tips that will help your MySQL database be fast, efficient, and reliable. And that will translate into happy website users."
Embedding Perl in HTML With Mason
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"Mason can act both as a View and Controller component in your Perl-based web application. This book is an essential guide if you want to learn Mason. Why would you want to learn Mason? Well, we use it here at ThisNext, so you gotta learn it if you want to join our Tech Team."
High Performance Web Sites (Front End)
2 recommendations
"Lots of good tips on improving web site performance, from a guy who heads up those efforts for Yahoo. Much of this information is also available online (search for YSlow)."
Macromedia - Studio 8
3 recommendations
"I have just ordered Studio 8 and I could not be more excited. It is the must-have suite for start-to-finish design, development and maintenance of websites, applications, games, interactive presentations, and mobile content."
PHP and MySQL Web Development: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
1 recommendation
"This book is a great source for knowledge on PHP and MySQL, the most widely used programming and database management systems on the internet today. Authors Luke Welling and Laura Thomson demonstrate techniques and give many tips on these exciting web tools."
Whitespark
2 recommendations
"Whitespark is an Edmonton web design and web development company specializing in e-commerce and content management systems."
GeneXus X Integration
1 recommendation
"The new GeneXus version enables you to easily create, design and maintain web 2.0 type applications, without requiring knowledge of programming languages like Java or .NET. GeneXus uses the programmer’s knowledge and generates the code. GeneXus has a development environment that is very intuitive to use and learn."
O'Reilly Media -- Bookstore: Practical mod_perl
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"Mod_perl, Stas Bekman, & Eric Cholet are all about practicality."
Sliding DIV left sidebar. More room for advertisers without subtracting usability!
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"Great article on sidebars and web site usability. Explains why and how it should be done and also includes some added benefits for potential advertising options."







