The definitive, Jolt-award winning guide to learning and using Rails is now in its Second Edition. Rails is a new approach to web-based application development that enables developers to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications using less code and less effort. Now programmers can get the job done right and still leave work on time.
NEW IN THE SECOND EDITION: The book has been updated to take advantage of all the new Rails 1.2 features. The sample application uses migrations, Ajax, features a REST interface, and illustrates new Rails features. There are new chapters on migrations, active support, active record, and action controller (including the new resources-based routing). The Web 2.0 and Deployment chapters have been completely rewritten to reflect the latest thinking. Now you can learn which environments are best for your style application, and see how Capistrano makes managing your site simple. All the remaining chapters have been extensively updated. Finally, hundreds of comments from readers of the first edition have been incorporated, making this book simply the best available.
Rails is a full-stack, open source web framework that enables you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications with a twist...you can create a full Rails application using less code than the setup XML you'd need just to configure some other frameworks.
With this book, you'll learn how to use Rails Active Record to connect business objects and database tables. No more painful object-relational mapping. Just create your business objects and let Rails do the rest. You'll learn how to use the Action Pack framework to route incoming requests and render pages using easy-to-write templates and components. See how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, talk to web services, and interact dynamically with JavaScript applications running in the browser (the "Ajax" architecture).
You'll see how easy it is to deploy Rails. You'll be writing applications that work with your favorite database (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and more) in no time at all.

Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition

Computers & Technology

Dave Thomas

David Hansson

Leon Breedt

Mike Clark

James Duncan Davidson

Justin Gehtland

Andreas Schwarz

Web Development & Design

Pragmatic Bookshelf

Demonstrates programming techniques within the .NET framework, discussing namespaces and controls, aspects of ASP.NET, Web services, and ADO.NET and XML usage with .NET, and provides examples relating to the concepts presented.

ASP. Net Programmers Reference

Matt Gibbs

Andy Elmhorst

Jason Bell

Alex Homer

Matt Milner

Jan Narkiewicz

Adil Rehan

John Schenken

Bruce, Lee

Apress

Explores topics including how to create dynamic Web pages with Web forms and Web server controls, how to display data using ADO.NET, the importance of XML, and how to set up an efficient and secure Web server.

Beginning Web Programming using VB.NET and Visual Studio .NET

Neil Raybould

Chris Hart

Tobin Titus

Daniel Cazzulino

Craig Bowes

Please note this is a VB.NET version of our existing book Professional ASP.NET Web Services ISBN 1-86100-545-8 
This book will show you how to create high quality Web Services using ASP.NET. It describes the standards that are core to the Web Services architecture and examines how these standards are integrated into ASP.NET. The processes involved in building and consuming Web Services are discussed along with in-depth code examples. The book concludes with three case studies, each examining a different application of Web Services, and presenting a complete solution. 
XML-based Web Services are seen by many as the next big step in the progress of distributed computing. Promotion by a range of companies across the computing industry is creating a lot of interest in this emerging set of technologies and standards. Microsoft is one of the leading advocates, building support for Web Services into ASP.NET. 
This book covers: 
- Building and consuming Web Services in ASP.NET 
- Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 
- Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 
- Discovering Web Services with UDDI 
- Exposing data sources through Web Services 
- Performance techniques 
- Securing Web Services 
- Transactional Web Services 
- .NET My Services (Hailstorm)

Professional ASP.NET Web Services with VB.NET

Srinivasa Sivakumar

Christopher Miller

Russ Basiura

Matthew Reynolds

Andreas Eide

Brandon Bohling

Kevin Hoffman

Mike Batongbacal

Robert Eisenberg

Brian Loesgen

William Sempf

Adopting Web Services will affect many processes within any organization. To throw light on the most important issues, we have commissioned Experts in the Industry to share their insights. The resultant papers cover a broad spectrum from architecture to business strategies without diverting into deep technological fashions. Each study in the collection will answer specific business challenges thrown up by Web Service architectures. Before changing, commissioning, or evaluating a Web Service initiative, all IT Managers, System Architects, Lead Developers, and Business Visionaries should study and reference this book. 
Topics covered in this book include: 
- Return on Investment 
- EAI, business integration, and ebXML 
- Key Web Services architectures 
- Comparison of J2EE and .NET platforms 
- Security

Web Services Business Strategies and Architectures

Software

Expert

Addressing the storming controversy of EJB head-on, this guide discusses framework problems and common traps that can snare unwary developers. Advice is provided for choosing persistence strategies beyond EJB entity beans and a list of several entity bean antipatterns. Also offered are session bean and messaging antipatterns and a compelling discussion about how and when to use problematic stateful session beans. Solutions to difficult problems such as effective builds and performance tuning are furnished. Designed for EJB developers, architects, programmers, and project managers, this authoritative reference attacks basic Java programming problems to establish antipatterns as a serious field for Java developers in a well-known context.

Bitter EJB

Bruce Tate

Bob Lee

Patrick Linskey

Programming Languages

Manning

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