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A significant update to a bestselling JavaScript book

As the key scripting language for the web, JavaScript is supported by every modern web browser and allows developers to create client-side scripts that take advantage of features such as animating the canvas tag and enabling client-side storage and application caches. After an in-depth introduction to the JavaScript language, this updated edition of a bestseller progresses to break down how JavaScript is applied for web development using the latest web development technologies. Veteran author and JavaScript guru Nicholas Zakas shows how JavaScript works with the new HTML5 as well as other significant advances in web development as it relates to JavaScript.

• Begins with an introduction to JavaScript basics and then moves on to more advanced topics regarding JavaScript and advances in web development technologies
• Describes how JavaScript is implemented into HTML5
• Covers browser/feature detection in scripts, event-driven JavaScript development, error reporting and debugging, offline application and data storage, and more

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 3rd Edition is an authoritative JavaScript resource that every web developers should have.

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Get up to date on the latest ways to use JavaScript in web development

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Includes source files plus over 6 hours of screencasts!

JavaScript has become one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. This book will get acquainted with what JavaScript; what it is, where it came from, and most importantly – how to code it!

Ever wanted to liven up a web design with Javascript but not known where to start? In Getting Good with JavaScript author Andrew Burgess breaks down programming in JavaScript into easy, straight-fowrad terms and exercizes.

It’s hard to find a place where JavaScript won’t run, and though the overwhelming majority of JavaScript—especially the JavaScript you’ll be writing in this book—will be in web pages, JavaScript is used not only in web browsers, but also desktop apps, mobile phone apps, and now even on the server, so you definitely won’t be wasting your time Getting Good with JavaScript! to run in the browser.After getting started in Chapter 1, we’ll cover the basics in Chapters 2 and 3. You’ll learn all about the core syntax: what to actually type. Chapter 4 will cover many best practices and important concepts for writing JavaScript. Then, in Chapter 5, I’ll introduce you to the basics of writing JavaScript that interacts with web pages.

This book will introduce you to important programming concepts, show you how to write your first scripts, and make you comfortable with JavaScript code. You’ll learn:

• The basics of types, variables, and operators
• Best practices for efficient coding Download Now »

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Teaching your students has never been easier than with Adobe Dreamweaver CS5: Illustrated. This reader-friendly book presents each skill on two facing pages, providing detailed instructions on the left-hand page and large, full-color screenshots on the right page. The visual format helps students intuitively grasp the concepts in the book and apply them to the classroom and workplace environment.

• Easy-to-follow and easy-to-absorb two-page spread lessons appeal to a wide variety of learning styles.
• Coverage of the newest Dreamweaver CS5 design functions helps students get the most from the software.
• Trouble? and Quick Tips boxes within the step-by-step directions helps users avoid typical errors and pitfalls.
• End of unit Independent Challenges and Visual Workshops make concepts relevant and gives students extra practice with the skills covered in the unit.

Table of Contents
Unit A: Getting Started with Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.
Unit B: Creating a Web Site.
Unit C: Developing a Web Page.
Unit D: Formatting a Text with CSS Styles.
Unit E: Inserting and Managing Images.
Unit F: Creating Links and Menu Bars.
Unit G: Using CSS for Page Layout. Download Now »

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS5: Comprehensive follows the Shelly Cashman Series® proven step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach to teaching the Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 software. The pedagogy of this text has been enhanced to reflect the learning styles of today’s students. Readers will easily follow along with the chapters in the text to gain valuable and comprehensive software skills to build their own exciting and dynamic Web sites and develop Internet applications.

• Teaches students to build a Web site as a continuing case project throughout the book that they can use as a Web portfolio.
• Offers project-specific cases to give students an understanding of the objectives taught in each chapter.
• Reinforces skills and concepts with extensive end-of-chapter exercises including Extend Your Knowledge, Make It Right, and Make It Personal.
• A step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach allows students to successfully learn and retain information to be used in their personal and professional lives.

Table of Contents
Introduction: Web Site Development and Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.
1. Creating a Dreamweaver Web Page and Local Site.
2. Adding Web Pages, Links, and Images.
3. Tables and Page Layout.
4. Templates and Style Sheets. Download Now »

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“Thorough and comprehensive coverage from one of the foremost experts in browser security.”
—Tavis Ormandy, Google Inc.

Modern web applications are built on a tangle of technologies that have been developed over time and then haphazardly pieced together. Every piece of the web application stack, from HTTP requests to browser-side scripts, comes with important yet subtle security consequences. To keep users safe, it is essential for developers to confidently navigate this landscape.

In The Tangled Web, Michal Zalewski, one of the world’s top browser security experts, offers a compelling narrative that explains exactly how browsers work and why they’re fundamentally insecure. Rather than dispense simplistic advice on vulnerabilities, Zalewski examines the entire browser security model, revealing weak points and providing crucial information for shoring up web application security. You’ll learn how to:

• Perform common but surprisingly complex tasks such as URL parsing and HTML sanitization
• Use modern security features like Strict Transport Security, Content Security Policy, and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
• Leverage many variants of the same-origin policy to safely compartmentalize complex web applications and protect user credentials in case of XSS bugs
• Build mashups and embed gadgets without getting stung by the tricky frame navigation policy
• Embed or host user-supplied content without running into the trap of content sniffing

For quick reference, “Security Engineering Cheat Sheets” Download Now »

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With a user base of nearly 800 million people, Facebook is the number one social networking platform. Applications can be created to interact with this huge user base in various ways both inside and outside Facebook. These applications, if developed effectively and efficiently, offer a free medium for promotion and publicity of a product or an organization.

Facebook Application Development with Graph API Cookbook covers both the concepts and implementations necessary to develop Facebook applications and provides ready to use code for common scenarios faced by a developer while creating these applications. It incorporates the newly launched Facebook Graph API and also presents the reader with some intuitive ready to use applications.

This book guides the reader step by step, from start to finish, through various stages of Facebook application development. It begins by exploring the Facebook application registration and discussing the verification and authentication technique. It then takes you through the various ways in which you can use Facebook Graph API for interacting with users such as posting on a user’s wall, tagging a user in a picture, etc. Accessing complex Facebook user data by formulating a series of queries, doing client side scripting and incorporating Facebook Dialog interface are some other features that have been incorporated in this book. Integration of various Facebook Social Plugins such as the like box in your web page has also been discussed. Further you will get to know the concept of virtual currency and how to programmatically derive Facebook analytics data. As the book progresses, you will learn to use and integrate many more advanced features in Facebook application development. The book contains ready to use code that can be deployed instantly. Download Now »