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Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized, such as Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Front Page, were able to benefit from these surprisingly simple performance guidelines.

The rules in High Performance Web Sites explain how you can optimize the performance of the Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and images that you’ve already built into your site — adjustments that are critical for any rich web application. Other sources of information pay a lot of attention to tuning web servers, databases, and hardware, but the bulk of display time is taken up on the browser side and by the communication between server and browser. High Performance Web Sites covers every aspect of that process.

Each performance rule is supported by specific examples, and code snippets are available on the book’s companion web site. The rules include how to:

• Make Fewer HTTP Requests
• Use a Content Delivery Network
• Add an Expires Header
• Gzip Components Download Now »

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jQuery is a powerful, lightweight JavaScript library that simplifies various web development tasks. With the integration of jQuery with Visual Studio 2010, it has become increasingly popular for ASP.NET developers to use jQuery’s awesome power in their applications. Combining jQuery and ASP.NET creates applications that are anything but lightweight. Using this Cookbook you will become adept at using this library in your ASP.NET web applications.

This cookbook shares the most powerful, impressive, and just plain handy jQuery secrets for ASP.NET developers. From substitute server-side code to corresponding client script, it shows ASP.NET developers how to get the most from jQuery in a simple, effective, and easy manner.

The cookbook takes a pragmatic approach in applying the jQuery library to ASP.NET applications. It will help you to master the use of jQuery with ASP.NET by taking you step-by-step through hands-on, practical recipes. With its help, you can learn to manipulate various ASP.NET controls like TextBox, CheckBoxList, DropDownList, BulletedList, Hyperlink, Image, and GridView as well as custom user controls. The book teaches client validation techniques thus providing a substitute for the server-side Validation Control. It explores various graphic and animation effects that can be accomplished very easily with the library to give a better interactive experience to the end user. It explores AJAX in depth and describes the use of Firebug to view / troubleshoot the corresponding request / response dialog. You will also learn to develop rich content using client scripting.

A practical, hands-on guide for exploiting the power of jQuery in ASP.NET applications Download Now »

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Moodle is the best e-learning solution on the block and is revolutionizing courses on the Web. Using JavaScript in Moodle is very useful to administrators and dynamic developers as it uses built-in libraries to provide the modern and dynamic experience that is expected by web users today.

The Moodle JavaScript Cookbook will take you through the basics of combining Moodle with JavaScript and its various libraries and explain how JavaScript can be used along with Moodle. It will explain how to integrate Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) with Moodle. YUI will be the main focus of the book, and is the key to implementing modern, dynamic feature-rich interfaces to help your users get a more satisfying and productive Moodle experience. It will enable you to add effects, make forms more responsive, use AJAX and animation, all to create a richer user experience. You will be able to work through a range of YUI features, such as pulling in and displaying information from other websites, enhancing existing UI elements to make users’ lives easier, and even how to add animation to your pages for a nice finishing touch.

A Cookbook filled with step by step recipes to enhance Moodle with JavaScript and the Yahoo! UI Library

What you will learn from this book :

• Get started with the Yahoo! User Interface Library
• Add validation features to your Moodle forms Download Now »

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WordPress is one of the most popular platforms for building blogs and general websites. By learning how to develop and integrate your own plugins, you can add functionality and extend WordPress in any way imaginable. By tapping into the additional power and functionality that plugins provide, you can make your site easier to administer, add new features, or even alter the very nature of how WordPress works. Covering WordPress version 3, this book makes it super easy for you to build a variety of plugins.

WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials is a practical hands-on tutorial for learning how to create your own plugins for WordPress. Using best coding practices, this book will walk you through the design and creation of a variety of original plugins.

WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials focuses on teaching you all aspects of modern WordPress development. The book uses real and published WordPress plugins and follows their creation from the idea to the finishing touches in a series of easy-to-follow and informative steps. You will discover how to deconstruct an existing plugin, use the WordPress API in typical scenarios, hook into the database, version your code with SVN, and deploy your new plugin to the world.

Each new chapter introduces different features of WordPress and how to put them to good use, allowing you to gradually advance your knowledge. WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials is packed with information, tips, and examples that will help you gain comfort and confidence in your ability to harness and extend the power of WordPress via plugins. Download Now »

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Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that’s more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole-a subset you can use to create truly extensible and efficient code.

Considered the JavaScript expert by many people in the development community, author Douglas Crockford identifies the abundance of good ideas that make JavaScript an outstanding object-oriented programming language-ideas such as functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal notation. Unfortunately, these good ideas are mixed in with bad and downright awful ideas, like a programming model based on global variables.

When Java applets failed, JavaScript became the language of the Web by default, making its popularity almost completely independent of its qualities as a programming language. In JavaScript: The Good Parts, Crockford finally digs through the steaming pile of good intentions and blunders to give you a detailed look at all the genuinely elegant parts of JavaScript, including:

• Syntax
• Objects
• Functions Download Now »

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100 JavaScript power solutions in one handy guide

This practical resource contains 100 ready-to-run JavaScript plug-ins you can use to create dynamic Web content. The book begins by explaining JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and the Document Object Model (DOM). Then, each chapter in Plug-In JavaScript offers complete, working examples for specific end results you can achieve right away. Using these plug-ins, you’ll be able to build JavaScript projects quicker and easier than ever, as many complex tasks are reduced to a single function call.

Get ready-made JavaScript plug-ins for:

• Resizing and repositioning objects
• Fading between objects
• Movement and animation
• Chaining and interaction
• Menus and navigation
• Text effects
• Audio and visual effects
• Cookies, Ajax, and security Download Now »