JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

Computers & Technology

Crockford, Douglas

Web Development & Design

Yahoo Press

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 balance opposing factions and grow healthy online communities by co-creating them with your users.
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<li>Understand the overarching principles you need to consider for every website you create</li>
<li>Learn basic design patterns for adding social components to an existing site</li>
<li>Rein in misbehaving users on an active community site</li>
<li>Build a social experience around a product or service and invite people to join</li>
<li>Develop a social utility without having to build an entirely new infrastructure</li>
<li>Enable users of your site's content to interact with one another</li>
<li>Offer your members the opportunity to connect in the real world</li>
<li>Learn to recognize and avoid antipatterns: emergent bad practices in the social network and social media space</li>
</ul>

Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience

Crumlish, Christian

Malone, Erin

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, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole-a subset you can use to create truly extensible and efficient code. Considered the JavaScript expert by many people in the development community, author Douglas Crockford identifies the abundance of good ideas that make JavaScript an outstanding object-oriented programming language-ideas such as functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal notation. Unfortunately, these good ideas are mixed in with bad and downright awful ideas, like a programming model based on global variables. When Java applets failed, JavaScript became the language of the Web by default, making its popularity almost completely independent of its qualities as a programming language. In JavaScript: The Good Parts, Crockford finally digs through the steaming pile of good intentions and blunders to give you a detailed look at all the genuinely elegant parts of JavaScript, including: Syntax Objects Functions Inheritance Arrays Regular expressions Methods Style Beautiful features The real beauty? As you move ahead with the subset of JavaScript that this book presents, you'll also sidestep the need to unlearn all the bad parts. Of course, if you want to find out more about the bad parts and how to use them badly, simply consult any other JavaScript book. With JavaScript: The Good Parts, you'll discover a beautiful, elegant, lightweight and highly expressive language that lets you create effective code, whether you're managing object libraries or just trying to get Ajax to run fast. If you develop sites or applications for the Web, this book is an absolute must.

If you're like most developers, you rely heavily on JavaScript to build interactive and quick-responding web applications. The problem is that all of those lines of JavaScript code can slow down your apps. This book reveals techniques and strategies to help you eliminate performance bottlenecks during development. You'll learn how to improve execution time, downloading, interaction with the DOM, page life cycle, and more.
Yahoo! frontend engineer Nicholas C. Zakas and five other JavaScript experts—Ross Harmes, Julien Lecomte, Steven Levithan, Stoyan Stefanov, and Matt Sweeney—demonstrate optimal ways to load code onto a page, and offer programming tips to help your JavaScript run as efficiently and quickly as possible. You'll learn the best practices to build and deploy your files to a production environment, and tools that can help you find problems once your site goes live.
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<li>Identify problem code and use faster alternatives to accomplish the same task</li>
<li>Improve scripts by learning how JavaScript stores and accesses data</li>
<li>Implement JavaScript code so that it doesn't slow down interaction with the DOM</li>
<li>Use optimization techniques to improve runtime performance</li>
<li>Learn ways to ensure the UI is responsive at all times</li>
<li>Achieve faster client-server communication</li>
<li>Use a build system to minify files, and HTTP compression to deliver them to the browser</li>
</ul>

High Performance JavaScript: Build Faster Web Application Interfaces

Zakas, Nicholas C.

How do you create a mission-critical site that provides exceptional performance while remaining flexible, adaptable, and reliable 24/7? Written by the manager of a UI group at Yahoo!, Developing Large Web Applications offers practical steps for building rock-solid applications that remain effective even as you add features, functions, and users. You'll learn how to develop large web applications with the extreme precision required for other types of software.
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<li>Avoid common coding and maintenance headaches as small websites add more pages, more code, and more programmers</li>
<li>Get comprehensive solutions for refining HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ajax for large-scale web applications</li>
<li>Make changes in one place that ripple through all affected page elements</li>
<li>Embrace the virtues of modularity, encapsulation, abstraction, and loosely coupled components</li>
<li>Use tried-and-true techniques for managing data exchange, including working with forms and cookies</li>
<li>Learn often-overlooked best practices in code management and software engineering</li>
<li>Prepare your code to make performance enhancements and testing easier</li>
</ul>

Developing Large Web Applications: Producing Code That Can Grow and Thrive

Loudon, Kyle

Solve a wide range of problems in your web application quickly and efficiently with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). With this definitive, getting-started guide to version 3 of the popular open source JavaScript library, you’ll learn how to address many of the most common and challenging problems that web development presents.
YUI 3 Cookbook introduces specific implementation patterns in the library, demonstrating granular solutions for everything from simple page effects to sophisticated web apps. Experienced users will learn how to create modules that load on demand; generate beautiful documentation; and write powerful and flexible Widgets, Models, and Views.
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<li>Build YUI applications anywhere, from desktop browsers to touch-enabled mobile phones and backend Node.js environments</li>
<li>Learn how YUI scales with your code base, keeping it modular and organized</li>
<li>Apply animations, drag-and-drop, and other fully cross-browser UI effects with just a few lines of code</li>
<li>Understand YUI-powered DOM scripting, event management, and data transport</li>
<li>Debug, profile, and unit test your JavaScript application</li>
<li>Get a technical introduction to YUI, including module architecture, sandboxing, and component loading</li>
<li>Build custom modules with YUI and publish them to the YUI Gallery</li>
</ul>
"I was surprised to find out how much I didn't know until reading this book. There really isn't a better resource for learning or updating your YUI skills." - Nicholas C. Zakas, Author and YUI Contributor

YUI 3 Cookbook: Writing Maintainable Applications

Goer, Evan

Ready to unlock the power of your data? With this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn how to build and maintain reliable, scalable, distributed systems with Apache Hadoop. This book is ideal for programmers looking to analyze datasets of any size, and for administrators who want to set up and run Hadoop clusters.
You’ll find illuminating case studies that demonstrate how Hadoop is used to solve specific problems. This third edition covers recent changes to Hadoop, including material on the new MapReduce API, as well as MapReduce 2 and its more flexible execution model (YARN).
<ul>
<li>Store large datasets with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)</li>
<li>Run distributed computations with MapReduce</li>
<li>Use Hadoop’s data and I/O building blocks for compression, data integrity, serialization (including Avro), and persistence</li>
<li>Discover common pitfalls and advanced features for writing real-world MapReduce programs</li>
<li>Design, build, and administer a dedicated Hadoop cluster—or run Hadoop in the cloud</li>
<li>Load data from relational databases into HDFS, using Sqoop</li>
<li>Perform large-scale data processing with the Pig query language</li>
<li>Analyze datasets with Hive, Hadoop’s data warehousing system</li>
<li>Take advantage of HBase for structured and semi-structured data, and ZooKeeper for building distributed systems</li>
</ul>

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

White, Tom

Programming

Programming Social Applications: Building Viral Experiences with OpenSocial, OAuth, OpenID, and Distributed Web Frameworks

Jonathan LeBlanc

Discover how Apache Hadoop can unleash the power of your data. This comprehensive resource shows you how to build and maintain reliable, scalable, distributed systems with the Hadoop framework -- an open source implementation of MapReduce, the algorithm on which Google built its empire. Programmers will find details for analyzing datasets of any size, and administrators will learn how to set up and run Hadoop clusters.
This revised edition covers recent changes to Hadoop, including new features such as Hive, Sqoop, and Avro. It also provides illuminating case studies that illustrate how Hadoop is used to solve specific problems. Looking to get the most out of your data? This is your book.
<ul>
<li>Use the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for storing large datasets, then run distributed computations over those datasets with MapReduce</li>
<li>Become familiar with Hadoop’s data and I/O building blocks for compression, data integrity, serialization, and persistence</li>
<li>Discover common pitfalls and advanced features for writing real-world MapReduce programs</li>
<li>Design, build, and administer a dedicated Hadoop cluster, or run Hadoop in the cloud</li>
<li>Use Pig, a high-level query language for large-scale data processing</li>
<li>Analyze datasets with Hive, Hadoop’s data warehousing system</li>
<li>Take advantage of HBase, Hadoop’s database for structured and semi-structured data</li>
<li>Learn ZooKeeper, a toolkit of coordination primitives for building distributed systems</li>
</ul>
"Now you have the opportunity to learn about Hadoop from a master -- not only of the technology, but also of common sense and plain talk." --Doug Cutting, Cloudera

Networking & Cloud Computing

Social networking has made one thing clear: websites and applications need to provide users with experiences tailored to their preferences. This in-depth guide shows you how to build rich social frameworks, using open source technologies and specifications. You'll learn how to create third-party applications for existing sites, build engaging social graphs, and develop products to host your own socialized experience.
Programming Social Apps focuses on the OpenSocial platform, along with Apache Shindig, OAuth, OpenID, and other tools, demonstrating how they work together to help you solve practical issues. Each chapter uncovers a new layer in the construction of highly viral social applications and platforms.
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<li>Learn how to build applications on top of social containers, and leverage existing user data</li>
<li>Map user relationships with a social graph, and extend social links between users</li>
<li>Customize your application with user profile information and encourage growth through friendships</li>
<li>Build a scalable social application container with OpenSocial and Shindig</li>
<li>Dive into advanced OpenSocial topics such as templating and data pipelining methods</li>
<li>Protect your container and its users against malicious code</li>
</ul>

LeBlanc, Jonathan

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JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience

JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

High Performance JavaScript: Build Faster Web Application Interfaces

Developing Large Web Applications: Producing Code That Can Grow and Thrive

YUI 3 Cookbook: Writing Maintainable Applications

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

Programming Social Applications: Building Viral Experiences with OpenSocial, OAuth, OpenID, and Distributed Web Frameworks

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

Programming Social Applications: Building Viral Experiences with OpenSocial, OAuth, OpenID, and Distributed Web Frameworks