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1. |  Building Social Web Applications, 1st Edition By: Gavin Bell Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 24-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 16-SEP-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Building Social Web Applications, 1st Edition
Building a web application that attracts and retains regular
visitors is tricky enough, but creating a social application that
encourages visitors to interact with one another requires careful
planning. This book provides practical solutions to the tough
questions you'll face when building an effective community site --
one that makes visitors feel like they've found a new home on the
Web.
If your company is ready to take part in the social web, this book
will help you get started. Whether you're creating a new site from
scratch or reworking an existing site, Building Social...
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2. |  By: Tim O'Reilly; Sarah Milstein Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 13-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 30-APR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Twitter Book
"Media organizations should take note of Twitter's power to quickly
reach their target consumers." --Tim O'Reilly (@timoreilly), in a
Los Angeles Times interview, March 2009
This practical guide will teach you everything you need to know
to quickly become a Twitter power user. It includes information on
the latest third party applications, strategies and tactics for
using Twitter's 140-character messages as a serious--and
effective--way to boost your business, as well as how to turn
Twitter into your personal newspaper, tracking breaking news and
learning what matters to you and your...
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3. |  Designing Social Interfaces, 1st Edition By: Christian Crumlish; Erin Malone Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 02-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 15-APR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Designing Social Interfaces, 1st Edition
From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing
Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns,
principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many
of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social
website. Designing sites that foster user interaction and
community-building is a valuable skill for web developers and
designers today, but it's not that easy to understand the nuances
of the social web. Now you have help.
Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone share hard-won insights into
what works, what doesn't, and why. You'll learn how to...
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4. |  By: Mark Bell Publisher: Que Publication Date: 23-JAN-2009 Insert Date: 12-NOV-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Build a Website for Free This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
Build a Website for Free
Build yourself a state-of-the-art
website.It’s incredibly easy... and it won’t cost you a
dime! You need a website. But you don’t need the hassles that
usually go with building one, or the expense of hiring someone else
to do it. Here’s your solution: Build a Website for
Free! You’ll learn how you can use new Web 2.0
technologies to create a site that’s impressive and
effective. And here’s the best part: You’ll do it all
with software and tools that won’t cost you a dime!
• Plan, organize,
and design...
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5. |  Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition By: W. Jason Gilmore Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-MAR-2008 Insert Date: 22-OCT-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition
Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition offers a comprehensive introduction to two of the most prominent open source technologies on the planet: the PHP scripting language and the MySQL database server. Updated to introduce the features found in MySQLs most significant release to date, readers learn how to take advantage of the latest features of both technologies to build powerful, manageable, and stable web applications.
Essentially three books in one, readers not only profit from extensive introductions to the core features of each technology, but also...
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6. |  PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy By: David Powers Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-NOV-2006 Insert Date: 16-OCT-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy
You want to make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, creating a private area where members can upload images that are automatically resized, or perhaps storing all your content in a database. The problem is, you're not a programmer and the thought of writing code sends a chill up your spine. Or maybe you've dabbled a bit in PHP and MySQL, but you can't get past baby steps. If this describes you, then you've just found the right book.
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7. |  The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right By: Adrian Holovaty; Jacob Kaplan-Moss Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-DEC-2007 Insert Date: 14-OCT-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right
Django, the Python-based equivalent to the Ruby on Rails web development framework, is presently one of the hottest topics in web development today. In The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, Adrian Holovaty, one of Django's creators, and Django lead developer Jacob Kaplan-Moss show you how they use this framework to create award-winning web sites. Over the course of three parts, they guide you through the creation of a web application reminiscent of chicagocrime.org.
The first part of the book introduces Django fundamentals like installation and configuration. You'll...
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8. |  Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 By: John Allsopp Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-MAR-2007 Insert Date: 14-OCT-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0
Bonus Material!–We've made two of the book's appendices available so as to give you a handy means of reference to both microformat specifications, and microformat design patterns, and as an additional means to glimpse inside the book.
Microformats burst onto the scene a couple of years ago and are fast becoming an essential tool for all professional web designers and developers. Imagine being able to integrate all of your web-based contact details, tagged articles, and geographical information seamlessly in web and desktop applications, without having to add anything extra to your...
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9. |  Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition By: John K. VanDyk Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 13-OCT-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition
Bestselling Pro Drupal Development has been completely updated for Drupal 6 in this latest edition, and there are even more tricks of the trade to help you further yourself as a professional Drupal developer. Assuming you already know how to install and bring a standard installation online, John K. VanDyk gives you everything else you need to customize your Drupal installation however you see fit. Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition delves deep into Drupal internals, showing you how to take full advantage of its powerful architecture.
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10. |  Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 14-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 07-OCT-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: MediaWiki, 1st Edition
"A good book! It's a nice overview of wiki editing and
administration, with pointers to handy extensions and further
online documentation." -Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer,
Wikimedia Foundation
"This book is filled with practical knowledge based on experience.
It's not just spouting some party line." -Rob Church, a developer
of MediaWiki
MediaWiki is the world's most popular wiki platform, the software
that runs Wikipedia and thousands of other websites. Though it
appears simple to use at first glance, MediaWiki has
extraordinarily powerful and deep capabilities for managing...
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