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Book Description

Today’s Facebook is emerging to become tomorrow’s operating system, according to some. Certainly, a WebOS. Web standards-based apps using HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3 and more are now possible on Facebook. Why not get started with developing and selling Facebook game apps on Facebook’s App Store?

Beginning Facebook Game Apps Development gets you started with building your first game apps that run on Facebook. Become your own “Zynga” and create your own “Civilization” or “Farmville” and more. Build rich Web-based apps that you can sell on Facebook’s App Store.

Because these apps are built on Web standards, you can build and run on many browsers and—more interestingly—more computers, tablets, smartphones and even other devices and appliances that are Web-connected or enabled.

What you’ll learn

• Build your first Facebook game apps!
• What HTML5 and JavaScript techniques, tools and frameworks have to offer to do this
• Enhance your first Facebook game app with social media, location-based services, etc.
• Obtain a basic framework for a Facebook game app that you can build upon and customize for your own specific app design and development needs
• Package, deploy and sell your first Facebook game app on Facebook’s new App Store Download Now »

Book Description

Pro SharePoint with jQuery is all about how to work seamlessly with the two popular technologies to create rich and interactive web parts, application pages, and more. In this book, author Phill Duffy provides complete, meaningful and realistic examples to really help you understand the key concepts and their integration points. Inside, you’ll find all the tools and resources you need to use jQuery to provide the next level of SharePoint functionality.

Learn what it takes to get ready to use jQuery, how to create rich, responsive, and highly functional user interfaces, how to call the SharePoint web services and work with HTML elements, and much more with Pro SharePoint with jQuery.

• Takes you through the different ways of integrating jQuery into your SharePoint environment
• Provides various levels of projects to show off the extensive capabilities of jQuery within SharePoint
• Teaches you how to provide rich, fluent and interactive jQuery-enabled user interfaces

What you’ll learn

• The basics of jQuery effects, including styling elements, generating HTML markup on the fly, and creating modal dialogs
• How to debug your jQuery
• How to create a task management application page that allows users to easily create, edit and move tasks across statuses Download Now »

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Pro HTML5 Accessibility helps designers come to grips with building exciting, accessible and usable web sites and applications with HTML5. The book covers how to use HTML5 in order to serve the needs of people with disabilities and older persons using assistive technology (AT). It aims to be a useful ‘go-to’ guide, providing practical advice. It takes several approaches, including a look at the new semantics of HTML5 and how to combine its use with authoring practices you know from using earlier versions of HTML. It also demonstrates how HTML5 content is currently supported (or not) by assistive technologies such as screen readers, and what this means practically for accessibility in your web projects.

The HTML5 specification is huge, with new APIs and patterns that can be difficult to understand. Accessibility can also seem complex and nuanced if you have no experience interacting with people with disabilities. This book walks you though the process of designing exciting user interfaces that can potentially be used by everyone, regardless of ability. Accessibility is really a quality design issue, and getting it right is often more a matter of approach than having sophisticated, cutting-edge tools at your disposal.

This book will be your companion in your journey to understand both HTML5 and accessibility, as the author has many years of experience as a designer and web developer working directly with people with all types of disabilities. He has been involved with the development of HTML5 from an accessibility perspective for many years, as a member of the W3C WAI Protocols and Formats working group Download Now »

Book Description

Whether you’re new to Arduino and Android development, or you’ve tinkered a bit with either one, this is the book for you. Android has always been a natural fit with Arduino projects, but now that Google has released the Android Open Accessory Development Kit (the Android ADK), combining Android with Arduino to create custom gadgets has become even easier.

Beginning Android ADK with Arduino shows how the ADK works and how it can be used with a variety of Arduino boards to create a variety of fun projects that showcase the abilities of the ADK.

Mario Böhmer will walk you through several projects, including making sounds, driving motors, and creating alarm systems, all while explaining how to use the ADK and how standard Arduino boards may differ from Google-branded Arduinos. You aren’t tied to specific hardware with this book; use what you have, and this book will show you how.

What you’ll learn

• How different boards work with the ADK
• How to create your first sketch and project
• How to work with light and sound
• How to work with servos and DC motors
• How to work with photoresistors and thermistors to sense the environment Download Now »

Book Description

Pro NuGet offers you a solid architectural understanding of how to manage software dependencies using NuGet, an open-source package management tool for the .NET Framework. Providing practical guidance through a multitude of examples and more advanced scenarios, this book shows you how to unleash all the power that NuGet offers. It will help you to streamline your day to day development and even make it more fun to write code.

Authors Maarten Balliauw and Xavier Decoster have been working with NuGet since it was first released, contributing many ideas and practical solutions to the community over that time. In this book they demonstrate both the core concepts and the more advanced thinking needed to use NuGet effectively.

What you’ll learn

• Interact with NuGet using both the graphical user interface and the command line.
• Set up your own NuGet repository and develop a basic NuGet server application.
• Explore different automation scenarios leveraging NuGet, including continuous integration and automated deployment.
• Quickly set up an enterprise-ready environment with MyGet, a NuGet-as-a-Service web application.
• Use NuGet to accomplish other goals, such as delivering plug-ins or modules to a web application.

Who this book is for Download Now »

Book Description

Agile Oracle Application Express shows how skilled, motivated, and self-organizing developers can realize extraordinary commercial benefits from Oracle Application Express. The secret is to couple Application Express with an agile software development approach. This book leads the way.

Oracle Application Express is well-suited to agile processes, with its support for rapid prototyping and team development. Application Express supports a gamut of enabling technologies such as SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and more that enable you to deliver any type of web application to meet your development needs. Agile Oracle Application Express helps you take the feature set of Application Express and marry it with the processes of agile development to iteratively design, create, and deliver quality applications on time and within budget.

What you’ll learn

• Discover how Application Express features compliment agile development
• Apply principles of agile software development to Application Express projects
• Deliver working code to your clients quickly
• Meet cost, schedule, and quality targets
• Increase productivity through team-based techniques
• Create the right amount and size of governance for any Application Express project

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