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This fast-moving guide introduces web application development with Haskell and Yesod, a potent language/framework combination that supports high-performing applications that are modular, type-safe, and concise. You’ll work with several samples to explore the way Yesod handles widgets, forms, persistence, and RESTful content. You also get an introduction to various Haskell tools to supplement your basic knowledge of the language.

By the time you finish this book, you’ll create a production-quality web application with Yesod’s ready-to-use scaffolding. You’ll also examine several real-world examples, including a blog, a wiki, a JSON web service, and a Sphinx search server.

• Build a simple application to learn Yesod’s foundation datatype and Web Application Interface (WAI)
• Use Shakespearean template languages for HTML, CSS, and Javascript output
• Produce cleaner, more modular code by learning how Yesod monads interact
• Implement the yesod-form declarative API to build forms on top of widgets
• Learn how Yesod and Haskell store session data and handle persistence
• Use techniques to serve an HTML page and a machine-friendly JSON page from the same URL
• Create reusable components for several applications with Yesod subsites

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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

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1. Introduction
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Jump in and build working Android apps with the help of more than 200 tested recipes. With this cookbook, you’ll find solutions for working with the user interfaces, multitouch gestures, location awareness, web services, and device features such as the phone, camera, and accelerometer. You also get useful steps on packaging your app for the Android Market.

Ideal for developers familiar with Java, Android basics, and the Java SE API, this book features recipes contributed by more than three dozen developers from the Android community. Each recipe provides a clear solution and sample code you can use in your project right away. Among numerous topics, this cookbook helps you:

• Use guidelines for designing a successful Android app
• Work with UI controls, effective layouts, and graphical elements
• Learn how to take advantage of Android’s rich features in your app
• Save and retrieve application data in files, SD cards, and embedded databases
• Access RESTful web services, RSS/Atom feeds, and information from websites
• Create location-aware services to find locations and landmarks, and situate them on Google Maps and OpenStreetMap
• Test and troubleshoot individual components and your entire application

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Spring Web Services is a product of the Spring community focused on creating document-driven Web services.

Spring Web Services aims to facilitate contract-first SOAP service development, allowing for the creation of flexible web services using one of the many ways to manipulate XML payloads.

This comprehensive guide — which provides professional expertise on a variety of technical topics right from setting-up a contract-first Web-Service, creating client of a Web-Service to serialization, monitoring, testing and security using Spring-WS — helps you enhance your skills in Spring Web Services.

Spring Web Services 2 Cookbook includes a wide variety of recipes that covers most important topics used in real-world applications. It is a well-rounded guide covering a lot of ground in the Spring Web Services domain using systematic arranged chapters and focused recipes.

The book begins with setting up a contract first Web Service over various protocols such as JMS, XMPP, and Email. The next chapter targets creating clients for SOAP Web Services. We then learn how to test and monitor the Web Service using tools like soapUI and TCPMon. Building on, logging, tracing and exception handling are detailed in the subsequent chapter. The book then covers marshalling and unmarshalling using different technologies like JAXB2, XMLBeans, JibX, XStream, MooseXML etc. Securing WebServices through authentication, authorization, encryption and decryption and digital signature using Spring-WS features based on XWSS and WSS4J Libraries is outlined in the next chapter two chapters. Download Now »

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Walk through the basics of Tornado, the high-performance web server known for its speed, simplicity, and scalability on projects large and small. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how to use Tornado’s acclaimed features by working with several example applications. You also get best practices for using Tornado in the real world.

Are you interested in creating a scalable social application, real-time analytics engine, or RESTful API—all with the power and simplicity of Python? This book shows you why Tornado is fantastic choice for writing powerful applications that are simple to create, extend, and deploy.

• Learn how to use Tornado’s lightweight and flexible templating language
• Extend templates to repurpose headers, footers, layout grids, and other content
• Use persistent storage like MongoDB to store, serve, and edit dynamic content
• Explore Tornado’s ability to make asynchronous web requests
• Secure your application against cookie and request vulnerabilities
• Authenticate with external services, using Tornado’s auth module
• Adopt deployment strategies that help harden your application and increase request throughput

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Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Forms and Templates Download Now »

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With this digital Early Release edition of Programming Android, 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.

What does it take to build well-engineered Android applications? Explore Android’s core building blocks and APIs in depth with this authoritative guide (updated to cover the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android), and learn how to create compelling apps that work on a full range of Android devices. You’ll work with proven approaches to app design and implementation—including application frameworks that you can use as a starting point for your own projects.

Delve into sensors, native development, 3D graphics, and many other topics, and discover how to build apps on the platform of your choice. If you’re an intermediate to advanced programmer, you’ll learn how to make great Android apps.

• Learn how to use the Android SDK with the Eclipse IDE
• Apply advanced Java concepts regardless of your experience with the language
• Create an Android user interface that’s captivating and easy to navigate
• Use the Fragment API for tablet user interfaces
• Make your application compatible with Honeycomb and earlier versions Download Now »