Let's make movies! Interactive movies, totally integrated into your Flash interface! With Macromedia Flash MX you have the power to import digital video and sound, and manipulate them just like any other media object. That's a whole world of design possibilities. This book hopes to take you through all you'll need to know about producing such wonderful sites. The first section will give you a thorough grounding in how best to import your video and sound into Flash and the many different ways that you can manipulate it once it's in there. Then, in the second section, we'll go through a complete real-world case study from pre-production on the video to final output on the web and CD-ROM. Finally, we'll see how you can apply use some advanced ActionScripting with video, and create a fully object-orientated sound and video playing Flash component that you'll be able to use time and time again. The inclusion of video support is the most noticeable and exciting feature in Flash MX - viewers who have the tiny Flash plug-in installed can now see video material that would otherwise necessitate the lengthy downloads and clunky interfaces of other web video plug-ins. This book is the guide you need for this exciting new universe, offering inspiration and technical guidance in equal measures. This book assumes no knowledge beyond an ability to work with Flash MX's interface, and is not intended for those with substantial digital video experience. As such, this book does not assume that the reader has access to expensive video-editing software. All you need for this book is access to Flash MX, and some imagination.

Macromedia Flash MX Video

Computers & Technology

Besley, Kristian

Marks, Todd

Monnone, Brian

Gifford, Hoss

Web Development & Design

Peer Information

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 will be a significant new revision of the fastest rising player in the RDBMS marketplace. Microsoft is actively encouraging a growing number of users onto the SQL platform, by making it cheaply available. The new release, SQL 2000, is tightly integrated with Windows 2000, offering more support for XML and much improved OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) services. 
 SQL Server is very strong in the market place, supporting both small and large Internet sites. Large users include Merryl Lynch, DELL Computer and HarperCollins Publishers. Commercial applications running on SQL Server range in size from small databases such as Sales Logix, to large ERP systems such as SAP, where it is now the SAP "preferred" database for NT based installations. SQL Server is now first choice for the developer wanting a powerful, reliable and sophisticated database.

Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming

Rob Vieira

Programming

The ADO 2.6 Programmer's Reference provides a concise and comprehensive guide to the ways in which ADO 2.6 can be used in all kinds of applications. It demonstrates the use of ADO both in Web applications written using ASP, and in compiled applications written using Visual Basic and other languages. It also includes a reference section for fast access to detailed lists of the properties, methods and events available in ADO.

ADO 2.6 Programmer's Reference

David Sussman

Reference

For a web site to offer its users an experience that improves on that of newspapers or textbooks, it needs a way to change the information it contains dynamically - and that means it needs access to a data source. Through the combination of ASP.NET and ADO.NET, Microsoft provides everything necessary to access, read from, and write to a database, and then allow web users to view and manipulate that data from a web browser. In this book, we'll show you how it's done. 
Packed with clear explanations and hands-on examples, Beginning ASP.NET Databases contains everything you'll need on your journey to becoming a confident, successful programmer of data-driven web sites. In particular, we'll look at: 
* Connecting to common data sources, including SQL Server and MS Access 
* Reading data with data reader and dataset objects 
* Creating and deleting records, and editing data 
* Displaying data with ASP.NET's web server controls 
* Writing and using stored procedures from VB.NET code 
* Placing your data access code in reusable class libraries 
The book closes with a real-world case study that consolidates the tutorials throughout the book into a practical result.

Beginning ASP.NET Databases using VB.NET

John Kauffman

This comprehensive compendium provides a broad and thorough investigation of all aspects of programming with ASP.NET. Entirely revised and updated for the Golden Release of .NET, this book will give you the information you need to master ASP.NET and build dynamic, successful, enterprise Web applications. 
 With this Special Edition, you can access this book free for one year on Wroxbase - Wrox's new online library of books. 
 Those who have purchased the previous edition of this book will be able to access this book at Wroxbase at a specially reduced rate. To find out more about Wroxbase, visit wroxbase.com. 
 In this book, we: 
 Explain what ASP.NET is, and how it makes building applications even easier Show how easy it is to work with ASP.NET pages and server-side controls Access data of all kinds in our ASP.NET pages, and introduce ADO.NET Examine how XML is an integral part of data manipulation Use Web Services to provide asynchronous background services to applications Discuss and demonstrate the ASP.NET application framework Show how easy it is to build and deploy custom ASP.NET controls Combine the concepts discussed in the book into an ASP.NET application Discuss how it is possible to migrate from ASP to ASP.NET

Professional ASP.NET 1.0 (2002 Edition)

Alex Homer

C# is Microsoft's new programming language for its new platform, the .NET Framework. The .NET Framework consists of a runtime environment for managing the execution of code, and a whole host of class libraries for performing almost any programming task you can think of. Although .NET code can be written in many languages, C# is the only language designed specifically for the .NET Framework, and as such is set to become the language of choice for writing .NET applications for years to come. This book will be an indispensable guide as you learn to write C# programs, gradually explaining the key concepts of C# and .NET as your skills develop. After a thorough explanation of the basics of the C# language, we take an in-depth look at object-oriented programming in C#, before moving on to see how we write Windows applications in C#, work with databases and handle files. We also show how you can create dynamic web pages in C#. 
 Note that the book requires you to have access to either Visual Studio .NET or Visual C# .NET Standard Edition. 
 What does this book cover?: 
 * The C# language * .NET Programming with C# * Object-oriented programming * Writing Windows applications * Creating user controls, using dialogs, and printing * Accessing databases * Handling Files * Writing web pages in C#

Beginning Visual C#

Eric White

Christian Nagel

Wrox Author Team

Post Internet era has seen developments in web middleware. Application Servers quickly started Filling the gap. Tomcat is an application server built around the Java technology. It is a JSP and servlet container that can be attached to other popular web servers like Apache and IIS. It can act as a stand-alone web server as well. 
The JSP technology allows web developers to create dynamic web pages using XML-type tags or embedded Java. Servlets are components written in Java that can be invoked by servers. 
This book will provide the readers a complete discussion about Tomcat, its installation, configuration, use, and methods for securing it. This book goes a step further by providing discussion on issues like load balancing, shared hosting, load testing, and a lot more. In addition, readers will find a coverage on database connectivity using Tomcat. Tomcat is an open source web server that processes JavaServer Pages and Java Servlets. It can run as a stand-alone server or be integrated with Apache. Like Apache, the core Tomcat program is relatively simple, but there are many enhancements that can be added that make it much more complex. 
You will learn how to integrate Tomcat with the Apache HTTP server (and the situations when you should and you shouldn't), how to set up database connectivity through JDBC, and how to ensure your web applications are secure. 
It will also cover some of the tools that can be integrated with Tomcat, such as Ant (for automatically building web applications) and Log4J (for advanced logging). 
What does this book cover? 
- Tomcat 3.x, Tomcat 4.0.x, and Tomcat 4.1.x 
- The Tomcat architecture 
- Tomcat installation and configuration 
- Apache and Tomcat integration using the AJP and WARP connectors 
- Tomcat security with SSL, realms, and the Java Security Manager 
- Shared Tomcat hosting, server load testing, and load balancing 
- Managing and administering web applications 
- JDBC with Tomcat 
- Ant and Log4j 
This book will provide you, the server administrator, with the necessary knowledge to install and configure Tomcat, as well as many of the most popular enhancements to the Tomcat package. It will help you plan the installation and possible growth options of your site.

Professional Apache Tomcat

Sing Li

Chanoch Wiggers

Ben Galbraith

Vivek Chopra

Debashish Bhattacharjee

Amit Bakore

Romin I

The results of using J2EE in practice are often disappointing: applications are often slow, unduly complex, and take too long to develop. Rod Johnson believes that the problem lies not in J2EE itself, but in that it is often used badly. Many J2EE publications advocate approaches that, while fine in theory, often fail in reality, or deliver no real business value. 
 Expert One-on-One: J2EE Design and Development aims to demystify J2EE development. Using a practical focus, it shows how to use J2EE technologies to reduce, rather than increase, complexity. Rod draws on his experience of designing successful high-volume J2EE applications and salvaging failing projects, as well as intimate knowledge of the J2EE specifications, to offer a real-world, how-to guide on how you too can make J2EE work in practice. 
 It will help you to solve common problems with J2EE and avoid the expensive mistakes often made in J2EE projects. It will guide you through the complexity of the J2EE services and APIs to enable you to build the simplest possible solution, on time and on budget. Rod takes a practical, pragmatic approach, questioning J2EE orthodoxy where it has failed to deliver results in practice and instead suggesting effective, proven approaches. 
 This book is of value to most enterprise developers. Although some of the discussion (for example, on performance and scalability) will be most relevant to architects and lead developers, the practical focus makes it useful to anyone with some familiarity with J2EE. Because of the complete design-deployment coverage, a less advanced developer could work through the book along with a more introductory text, and successfully build and understand the sample application. This comprehensive coverage would also be useful to developers in smaller organisations, who might be called upon to fill several normally distinct roles. 
 Over the course of the book, you will learn: 
 When to use a distributed architecture When and how to use EJB How to develop an efficient data access strategy How to design a clean and maintainable web interface How to design J2EE applications for performance

Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development

Rod Johnson

Presents Visual Basic programming to those with no prior experience or knowledge of programming. Provides the background knowledge on what programming is , &amp; guides you through the steps that professional programmers take when they're tackling a programming job from start to finish. Paper.

Learn to Program with Visual Basic 6

John Smiley

37.8% of all Usability Pundits are wrong. That's about as accurate as any other sweeping generalisation made by any other web usability guru. This book features case-studies in usability and information architecture from the makers of eBay, the BBC news on-line site, The Economist web site, SynFonts (a flash-driven font foundry e-commerce site), evolt (fully cross-browser compatible) and metafilter. Know your audience, design for your audience, test for usability, and solicit feedback from your audience. There are no hard-and-fast rules for usability on the Web, which is why this book steers away from the rigid rules of gurus. Instead, this book looks at six very different, but highly usable sites. The web professionals behind these sites discuss the design of each site from inception to today, how they solicited and responded to feedback, how they identified and dealt with problems, and how they meet the audience's needs and expectations. This book is edited by Molly E. Holzschlag, a member of Web Standards Project and author of a dozen books on web technologies, and Bruce Lawson, the brand manager of glasshaus. - Max Gadney of the BBC talks about the trials of moving from the TV medium to the Web, and the differences in usability requirements between the main news site, and the sports and children's sites - David Wertheimer talks of how The Economist's web site involved careful design work to ensure the branding mirrored the print magazine, and looks at implementing easily distinguished free content and subscription only sections - eBay: Kelly Braun and Tom Walter look at the work involved in designing an e-commerce site that makes a profit each quarter, while meeting the needs of 42 million users - Don Synstelein of SynFonts shows how he assembled a usable Flash-driven e-commerce site, which enhances his users' experience and protects his copyright. He shows that that, when used properly, Flash can be 100% ok - Adrian Roselli, an IA guy from evolt, writes on how they needed to be on the vanguard of usability and accessibility, compatible with every browser known to man – and yet maintain branding look and feel - Matt Haughey writes of his adventures in constructing Metafilter, a great community site, on no budget. This includes usability testing, usable advertising, and community management

Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself

Kelly Braun

Max Gadney

Matthew Haughey

Adrian Roselli

Don Synstelien

Tom Walter

David Wertheim

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