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Cascading Style Sheets books
- Cascading Style Sheets
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By Håkon Lie and Bert Bos
The authors of the W3C CSS recommendations' comprehensive, readable guide to stylesheet syntax, selectors and declarations; what they mean, how to use them and their intended effect. Not so strong on the practical issues of browser support, but the principles are clearly laid out and the insight of the authors is valuable in its own right.
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- Cascading Style Sheets, The Definitive Guide
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By Eric Meyer
As well as the principled introduction to the subject one would expect, this book has plenty of practical detail on browser compatibility issues and how to work around the worst of them.
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- CSS Pocket Reference
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By Eric Meyer
This handy, boiled down version of The Definitive Guide includes the key properties reference with compatibility notes and an overview of selector syntax.
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Web site management books
- Webmaster In A Nutshell, A Desktop Quick Reference
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By Stephen Spainhour and Robert Eckstein
This is an excellent digest from across the board. Everything from HTML markup, image preparation and server management is covered in a remarkably concise format. The sections on the Apache Web server are a good value reference in this package.
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Web site design books
- Don't Make Me Think
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By Steve Krug
A richly illustrated book that gets straight to the point of Web design; users will not tolerate sites that make it difficult to get what they want. This is a book that will set you thinking, "that's what I thought!" throughout, but Krug shows rather than tells and the points are more successful for it.
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- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
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By Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville
This book wades into the nitty gritty issues of classification, organisation and labelling systems for Web content with a clear methodology that will help you think twice about how obvious your navigation schemes really are. The authors include many practical tips on research and planning for content acquisition and deployment throughout.
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- Taking Your Talent To The Web
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By Jeffrey Zeldman
The often outspoken advocate general of the Web Standards Project and leading light of A List Apart takes a refreshing, user friendly tour through the must have skills in Web development. Zeldman's no-nonsense approach to "What is anti-aliasing?" and the like is very engaging and enjoyable to read.
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- Web Redesign: Workflow That Works
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By Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler
This is a book that extends one's perspective on commercial design and development projects. There are no big surprises in the scope of the subject matter, but the authors deliver a well grounded, methodical guide to the delivery of large scale Web sites from which any reader will glean useful professional techniques.
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- Designing Web Usability: The Practice Of Simplicity
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by Jakob Nielsen
If one can look beyond the prescriptive, evangelistic zeal of the author, there are gems to be found in this book. For every well documented case there is an overstated conclusion to be drawn, however, so take Neilsen's advice with a measure of scepticism.
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Java books
- Java I/O
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By Elliotte Rusty Harold
A valuable reference to the Java input/output package with a step through introduction to each of its components. The book features the development and optimisation of a file reader application. Detailed examples of a range of other applications might have given broader insight to the package, but you are unlikely to find a book that captures a more seasoned knowledge of
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- The Elements of Java Style
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By Allan Vermeulen, Scott W. Ambler, Greg Bumgardner, Eldon Metz, Trevor Misfeldt, Jim Shur and Patrick Thompson
There are plenty of practical programming insights mixed in with these concise, well honed coding conventions.
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- Understanding Object-oriented Programming with Java
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By David Budd
Don't be put off by the cover illustration. This is a clear, practical introduction to object oriented programming methodology and techniques. It does not explore the Java language itself in detail.
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- Java Examples In A Nutshell
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By David Flanagan
Don't imagine you'll work through every example in this book. You will learn a lot in the attempt, though. A good cross section of illustrative code working up from the basics.
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- Java In A Nutshell
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By David Flanagan
A detailed bookshelf reference to the key Java packages with overviews of the main language features, syntax and usage. Not a tutorial or beginner's book.
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Java servlet books
- Core Servlets & Java Server Pages
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by Marty Hall
One of the two key tutorials on servlets and JSP. At first reading the chapters on HTTP status codes, request and response headers seem overly detailed, but these pages ultimately become an essential reference. Useful sample code and development tips throughout.
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- Java Servlet Programming
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By Jason Hunter and William Crawford
The other key reference and tutorial on Java servlets, with a ground-up introduction to the essentials including the servlet life cycle. Thoughtful examples throughout and clear explanations of core programming techniques including cache control.
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Java and XML books
- Java and XSLT: Embedding XML Processing Into Java Applications
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By Eric Burke
An excellent guide through the territory. One of this book's great strengths is its integrated coverage of JAXP throughout, not as an afterthought. Practical aspects of servlet implementation and deployment using Ant are delivered with a healthy balance of code samples, descriptive walk-throughs and useful development tools that demonstrate the design patterns all the more clearly.
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- XML And Java: Devolping Web Applications
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By Hiroshi Maruyama, Kent Tamura and Naohika Uramoto
The lead developers of IBM's XML for Java parser, the forerunner of Apache Xerces, give a practical introduction to the subject area. The principles are good even if some of the examples are dated, including pre-XSL transformation classes.
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XML books
- XML Pocket Reference
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By Robert Eckstein
The speed at which XML is evolving means that the most recent developments are never in print, but it pays to have a basic reference and this edition will be sufficient.
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Javascript books
- Javascript, The Definitive Guide
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By David Flanagan
This is an invaluable guide to what Flanagan calls "defensive coding" for the World Wide Web. The opening chapters introduce all the essentials and the 4th edition includes new chapters on the W3C DOMs, but the reference section is where the lasting value is, with usage notes, browser bugs and implementation details.
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- JavaScript Pocket Reference
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By David Flanagan
This condensed version of The Definitive Guide, retains the key parts of the language reference with a hard boiled overview of the language syntax and operators.
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HTML & XHTML books
- HTML & XHTML, The Definitive Guide
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By Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy
Another of those key reference works from O'Reilly, "the Koala book" is the foundation of countless Web developers' careers and an invaluable guide to the usage of all the HTML elements. Once read, the reference section comes into its own and though the book sometimes wanders off the W3C standards track, it will find a permanent place on your bookshelf.
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