R. Blank, Chris Charlton, Omar Gonzalez, Hasan Otuome, “AdvancED Flex Application Development: Building Rich Media X”
FriendsofED | ISBN-10: 1-59059-896-2 | 10th December 2007 | 550 Pages | PDF | 8.8MB

Many Flex books cover the basics—this book does something different, and goes far further. The authors, leading Flash platform developers at Almer/Blank, working with Adobe User Group communities, are the creators of the Rich Media Exchange (RMX), a social media network for Adobe developers. In covering just how the RMX was built, this book contains all the knowledge you need to build similar large-scale Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex.

In this book you’ll learn how to
- Effectively plan, wireframe, specify, develop, and release large-scale Flex applications, and discover what other development tools you’ll want to start using immediately
- Make your Flex applications look less like Flex with advanced styling and skinning techniques
- Harness advanced Flex form features, including coding validators and building your custom form components
- Implement a robust advertising system for a Flex application using OpenAds
- Build powerful, custom multimedia players in Flex, including video players with the native VideoDisplay class and from scratch, and music players with advanced sound visualization

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Tim Jones, Barry Kelly, Allan Rosson, David Wolfe, “Foundation Flash Cartoon Animation”
FriendsofED | ISBN-10: 1-59059-912-8 | 19th November 2007 | 360 Pages | PDF | 8.8MB

Whether you are an experienced Flash designer or developer looking for a guide to doing animation in Flash, or a novice to Flash who is looking for an effective way to create and distribute animations, this book will prove invaluable to you.

Covering every aspect of Flash animation, the book is a fast-paced yet thorough review of the Flash animation process. Written by the Emmy-Award winning team at ANIMAX, this book not only reveals the step-by-step process followed by one of today’s leading Flash animation studios, it gives you valuable tips and tricks to take your Flash animation to the next level.

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Practical Web 2.0 Applications With PHP | 3.98 MB
By Quentin Zervaas
ISBN10: 1-59059-906-3
ISBN13: 978-1-59059-906-8
569 pp.
Published on Dec 2007
eBook Price: $22.50

Want to assert yourself as a cutting–edge PHP web developer? Take a practical approach, learning by example from author Quentin Zervaas, and discover how to bring together the many technologies needed to create a successful, modern web application.

In Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP, PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript/Ajax development techniques are brought together to show you how to create the hottest PHP web applications, from planning and design up to final implementation, without going over unnecessary basics that will hold you back. This book includes must–have application features such as search functionality, maps, blogs, dynamic image galleries, and personalized user areas. The Zend Framework is used extensively to build the application, allowing you to focus on developing the application rather than on reinventing the wheel.

Topics covered include application planning and design; setting up the application framework; using CSS for easier styling; adding dynamic effects the easy way using JavaScript libraries such as Prototype and script.aculo.us; and implementing several must–have web application features such as user login, blogs, dynamic image galleries, search functionality, mapping with Google Maps, and much more. Zervaas covers everything in a practical, tutorial style so you can start working on your own projects as quickly as possible.

* Create cutting–edge PHP/MySQL web applications.
* Implement must–have functionality such as blogs, maps, search functionality, and dynamic image galleries.
* Master styling with CSS and dynamic effects using Ajax/JavaScript libraries.

What you’ll learn

* How to set up the perfect PHP/MySQL application development environment
* How to implement basic user management functionality
* How to use many of the components from the Zend Framework
* How to effectively make use of the Prototype and script.aculo.us JavaScript libraries, including many examples of developing custom JavaScript classes
* How to create standards–compliant and accessible HTML code and effectively style it using CSS
* How to create a basic blog system and enhance it with Ajax
* How to add personalized user areas to your web application
* How to create a dynamic image gallery
* How to add search functionality to your application
* How to use the Google Maps API to add maps to your application
* How to implement popular Web 2.0 features, such as microformats, tags, and web feeds

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Dave Minter, “Beginning Spring 2: From Novice to Professional”
Apress | ISBN-10: 1590596854 | December 19, 2007 | 271 pages | PDF | 4.9MB

Spring has made a remarkable rise since its conception in 2002. Users find Spring the ideal framework to build their applications in J2EE environments. Beginning Spring 2 is the first and only Spring-authorized book that takes you through the first steps of using Spring, and requires no prior J2EE experience. It discusses relevant integrated technologies that you should be aware of, and illustrates how Spring makes using them easier.

The book teaches the correct usage of Spring in applications, and lowers the learning curve on J2EE standards. It covers useful features of Spring without delving too far into complicated features. The authors take advantage of less complex alternatives whenever possible, and shows how Spring can make you more productive in complicated environments where J2EE technologies need to be applied. The book covers the complete Spring web tools portfolio and deals with persistence and transaction management. It also introduces 3-tier application design and how to test these designs.

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W. Jason Gilmore, Bob Bryla, “Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional”
Apress | ISBN-10: 1590597702 | August 24, 2007 | 763 pages | PDF | 11.7MB

Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional offers comprehensive information on using the PHP scripting language in conjunction with Oracle’s database platform. PHP is one of the most prominent open source technologies in the area of web development, while Oracle is one of the most widely deployed and used database products.

You’ll learn to reap the benefits of these core technologies by using them in unison to create dynamic, data-driven web applications. The book is packed with practical examples based on the many years of real-world experience of authors W Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla. This book is an ideal read for web designers or programmers wanting to create applications with PHP in an Oracle environment.

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A Short Course in Digital Photography by Dennis P Curtin
Publisher: ShortCourses.com (June 24, 1999) | ISBN: 1928873049 | PDF | 2,7 Mb

“A Short Course in Digital Photography” is the generic edition of the camera-specific Short Course camera guides. It is the perfect book for serious digital photographers because it has spaces where you can write in notes or comments about how to do things with your own camera. It even tells you what to look for in your camera manual to find the steps you need to follow in any photographic situation.

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Michele Davis, Jon Phillips, “Learning PHP & MySQL: Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Database-Driven Web Sites, 2nd Edition”
O’Reilly Media, Inc. | ISBN-10: 0596514018 | August 21, 2007 | 428 pages | PDF | 4MB

PHP and MySQL are quickly becoming the de facto standard for rapid development of dynamic, database-driven web sites. This book is perfect for newcomers to programming as well as hobbyists who are intimidated by harder-to-follow books. With concepts explained in plain English, the new edition starts with the basics of the PHP language, and explains how to work with MySQL, the popular open source database. You then learn how to put the two together to generate dynamic content.

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