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  1. Programming PHP

    by Kevin Tatroe, Peter MacIntyre, Rasmus Lerdorf

    "Programming PHP," 2nd Edition, is the authoritative guide to PHP 5 and is filled with the unique knowledge of the creator of PHP (Rasmus Lerdorf) and other PHP experts. When it comes to creating websites, the PHP scripting language is truly a red-hot property. In fact, PHP is currently used... (learn more about this book)

  2. Ambient Findability

    by Peter Morville

    How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be... (learn more about this book)

  3. Learning PHP 5

    by David Sklar

    PHP has gained a following among non-technical web designers who need to add interactive aspects to their sites. Offering a gentle learning curve, PHP is an accessible yet powerful language for creating dynamic web pages. As its popularity has grown, PHP's basic feature set has become... (learn more about this book)

  4. High Performance MySQL

    by Jeremy D. Zawodny, Arjen Lentz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko, Derek J. Balling, Baron Schwartz

    High Performance MySQL is the definitive guide to building fast, reliable systems with MySQL. Written by noted experts with years of real-world experience building very large systems, this book covers every aspect of MySQL performance in detail, and focuses on robustness, security, and data... (learn more about this book)

  5. Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

    by W. J. Gilmore

    Book Description Essentially three books in one, provides thorough introductions to the PHP language, MySQL database, and shows you how these two technologies can be effectively integrated to build powerful websites. Provides over 500 code examples, including real-world... (learn more about this book)

  6. Ruby Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))

    by Leonard Richardson, Lucas Carlson

    Do you want to push Ruby to its limits? The Ruby Cookbook is the most comprehensive problem-solving guide to today's hottest programming language. It gives you hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and thousands of lines of code you can use in your own... (learn more about this book)

  7. Visualizing Data

    by Ben Fry

    Enormous quantities of data go unused or underused today, simply because people can't visualize the quantities and relationships in it. Using a downloadable programming environment developed by the author, Visualizing Data demonstrates methods for representing data accurately on the Web and... (learn more about this book)

  8. Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition

    by Hugh E. Williams, David Lane

    There are many reasons for serving up dynamic content from a web site:to offer an online shopping site, create customized information pages for users, or just manage a large volume of content through a database. Anyone with a modest knowledge of HTML and web site management can learn to ... (learn more about this book)

  9. Purely Functional Data Structures

    by Chris Okasaki

    Most books on data structures assume an imperative language such as C or C++. However, data structures for these languages do not always translate well to functional languages such as Standard ML, Haskell, or Scheme. This book describes data structures from the point of view of functional... (learn more about this book)

  10. The Data Warehouse Toolkit

    by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross

    Single most authoritative guide from the inventor of the technique. * Presents unique modeling techniques for e-commerce, and shows strategies for optimizing performance. * Companion Web site provides updates on dimensional modeling techniques, links related to sites, and source code... (learn more about this book)

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