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Book Description

jQuery is awesome for designers – it builds easily on the CSS and HTML you already know and allows you to create impressive effects with just a few lines of code. However, without a background in programming, JavaScript – on which jQuery is built – can feel intimidating and impossible to grasp. This book will show you how simple it can be to learn the basics and then extend your capabilities by taking advantage of jQuery plugins.

jQuery for Designers offers approachable lessons for designers with little or no background in JavaScript. The book begins by introducing the jQuery library and a small and simple introduction to JavaScript. Then you’ll step through a few simple tasks to get your feet wet before diving into using plugins to quickly and simply add complex effects with just a few lines of code.

You’ll be surprised at how far you can get with JavaScript when you start with the power of the jQuery library and this book will show you how. We’ll cover common interface widgets and effects such as tabbed interfaces, custom tooltips, and custom scrollbars. You’ll learn how to create an animated navigation menu and how to add simple AJAX effects to enhance your site visitors’ experience. Then we’ll wrap up with interactive data grids which make sorting and searching data easy.

What you will learn from this book

• Download and include the jQuery library on your website Download Now »

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With this digital Early Release edition of Learning JavaScript Design Patterns, you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form – the author’s raw and unedited content – so you can take advantage of this content long before the book’s official release. You’ll also receive updates when significant changes are made, as well as the final ebook version.

If you want to write beautiful, structured, and maintainable JavaScript code, this guide shows you how to apply both classical and modern design patterns to the language. The patterns in this book provide reusable code solutions to common problems in software design, and give you a shared vocabulary for describing solutions to others.

You’ll explore several popular design patterns in plain JavaScript as well as jQuery and other abstracted libraries. If you’re familiar with concepts such as closures and prototypal inheritance, you’ll be able to determine why some patterns may be more suitable for your projects than others.

• Learn the structure of design patterns and how they’re written
• Examine basic pattern categories: creational, structural, behavioral, and anti-patterns
• Get the basics of 15 JavaScript implementations of classical and modern design patterns
• Dive into several popular JavaScript patterns in greater detail—including some less frequently used
• Discover what design patterns look like when implemented with jQuery
• Explore three formats for writing modular JavaScript: AMD, CommonJS, and Harmony Download Now »

Book Description

With this digital Early Release edition of Developing Backbone.js Applications, you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form – the author’s raw and unedited content – so you can take advantage of this content long before the book’s official release. You’ll also receive updates when significant changes are made, as well as the final ebook version.

Get a complete run-down of the popular Backbone.js framework for structuring JavaScript applications. This practical guide takes you through Model–view–controller (MVC) theory, and shows you how to build applications using Backbone’s models, views, collections and routers. You’ll also learn advanced topics such as modular development with Backbone.js and RequireJS.

This detailed book provides an authoritative and centralized repository of information to help you develop real-world apps with Backbone.

• Build applications using modern tech stacks, including Node and Express
• Solve the routing problems with Backbone and jQuery Mobile
• Get tips about scaffolding tools

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Basics Download Now »

Book Description

This book is for every SharePoint developer who wants to build state-of-the-art solutions with Silverlight—within the enterprise, for consulting clients, or for commercial sale.

Developers increasingly want to build rich applications that run in the SharePoint 2010 browser user interface while offering a far more compelling and engaging experience than conventional web pages. One proven technology gives them all the tools and resources they need to achieve these goals: Silverlight®. Using Silverlight and SharePoint together, developers can create state-of-the-art applications that utilize Silverlight’s outstanding user experience, and fully leverage the vast collections of business data already stored in corporate SharePoint deployments. In SharePoint 2010 Development with Silverlight, two SharePoint gurus collaborate to teach all the concepts and techniques needed to create robust Silverlight solutions for delivery through SharePoint 2010, and present fully documented code that demonstrates superior design and programming.

Bob German and Paul Stubbs draw on their extensive experience developing custom SharePoint business solutions with Silverlight and presenting on these technologies at leading Microsoft developer events. Writing for both experienced and new SharePoint developers, they quickly review the fundamentals of both SharePoint and Silverlight development, and then demonstrate how to use both platforms together to build uniquely powerful solutions. These include:

• Simple and connected Silverlight Web Parts (Chapter 5) Download Now »

Book Description

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build rich, robust mobile apps that run on smartphones, tablets, and other devices and interact with users in powerful new ways. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master leading-edge practical skills you can use whether you’re developing for the iPad/iPhone or Android. Discover how to quickly build new mobile apps and upgrade older apps, provide cutting-edge media content, leverage advanced features ranging from geolocation to the semantic web, and even simplify complex back-end development. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common HTML5 mobile development tasks.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

Did you Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

Learn how to… 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 »