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Head First Design Patterns

by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freeman

You're not alone. At any given moment, somewhere in the world someone struggles with the same software design problems you have. You know you don't want to reinvent the wheel (or worse, a flat tire), so you look to Design Patterns--the lessons learned by those who've faced the same... (learn more about this book)

JavaScript

by David Flanagan

This Fifth Edition is completely revised and expanded to cover JavaScript as it is used in today's Web 2.0 applications. This book is both an example-driven programmer's guide and a keep-on-your-desk reference, with new chapters that explain everything you need to know to get the most out of... (learn more about this book)

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville

The post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well-planned information architecture even more essential. How do you present large volumes of information to people who need to find what they're looking for quickly? This classic primer shows information architects,... (learn more about this book)

Programming Ruby

by David Thomas, Chad Fowler, Andrew Hunt

Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the definitive... (learn more about this book)

Programming Perl

by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Randal Schwartz

Perl is a powerful interpreted programming language that has matured steadily since it first appeared in 1988. The first edition of this book, Programming Perl, hit the shelves in 1990, and was quickly adopted as the undisputed Bible of the language. Since then, Perl has grown with the... (learn more about this book)

CSS Mastery

by Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Cameron Moll

Over the past couple of years, web designers and developers have begun taking more care in designing and building web sites. Less readily do they turn to old-fashioned techniques such as GIF spacers, tables for layout, and deprecated HTML elements, which can cause accessibility/usability... (learn more about this book)

JavaScript

by Douglas Crockford

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,... (learn more about this book)

Designing with Web Standards

by Jeffrey Zeldman

Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has revisited his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. Substantially revised in collaboration with co-author Ethan Marcotte, this third edition covers improvements and challenges in the changing environment of... (learn more about this book)

Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML

by Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman

Tired of reading HTML books that only make sense after you're an expert? Then it's about time you picked up Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML and really learned HTML. You want to learn HTML so you can finally create those web pages you've always wanted, so you can communicate more... (learn more about this book)

The Zen of CSS Design

by Molly E. Holzschlag, Dave Shea

Proving once and for all that standards-compliant design does not equal dull design, this inspiring tome uses examples from the landmark CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create beautiful, progressive CSS-based Web sites. By using the Zen Garden sites as examples... (learn more about this book)