Against all the odds, a-ha scored a huge hit in 1985 with 'Take on Me'. Seemingly overnight, the Norwegian band were topping charts all over the world; a success propelled in part by an innovative video that captured the imagination of an MTV-loving generation. In truth, however, their success had been the culmination of years of hard work and financial struggle; from their origins in bands such as Bridges and Souldier Blue, through to a period of relative squalor in London as they determi...

"Learn PHP in 4 Hours!" promises to give you complete introductory knowledge to PHP and MySQL. You will be able to get started on your journey to building awesome dynamic websites that help you achieve your dreams in no time.This book contains definitions that are straightforward, examples that are short and sweet and explanations that ensure mastery of the basics very quickly.You will be able to blast through this book while gaining deep knowledge that prepares you to tack...

A PHP guide for begginers or zero knowledge that who want to understand the language and basic code of programming.

This book was written and printed as an easy reference for Information Technology and Computer Science student who are currently in the midst of developing and designing their final year project in any Higher Learning Institution especially Polytechnic Malaysia. It consists of PHP and MySQL programming in which both are the core element in creating and developing the system.This book / e-book also can be used as a reference for subject FP512 – Web Programming 1, DFP3143 – Web Develo...

Welcome to SQL: Down and Dirty. This book, if you can call it one, is designed as a quick reference, goto book for the working SQL, or Network Administrator. If you are like me, you like to keep all of your reference material together and not in a hundred internet searches. This reference is intended for the working IT professional in real world scenarios without having to find what you are looking for within a sea of webpage advertising, or authors filler material. To tell you anymore wou...

What's the best approach for developing an application with JavaScript? This book helps you answer that question with numerous JavaScript coding patterns and best practices. If you're an experienced developer looking to solve problems related to objects, functions, inheritance, and other language-specific categories, the abstractions and code templates in this guide are ideal -- whether you're writing a client-side, server-side, or desktop application with JavaScript.Written by Jav...

Regular expressions are such a powerful tool for manipulating text and data that anyone who uses a computer can benefit from them. Composed of a mixture of symbols and text, regular expressions can be an outlet for creativity, for brilliant programming, and for the elegant solution. While a command of regular expressions is an invaluable skill, all there is to know about them fills a very large volume, and you don't always have time to thumb through hundreds of pages each time a question a...

What’s next for JavaScript? Its phenomenal rise from a simple client-side scripting tool to a versatile and flexible programming language exceeded everyone’s expectations. Now, hopes and expectations for JavaScript’s future are considerable.In this insightful report, Dr. Axel Rauschmayer explains how the combination of several technologies and opportunities in the past 15 years turned JavaScript’s fortunes. With that as a backdrop, he provides a detailed look at proposed new featur...

“It’s uncommon to have a programming language wonk who can speak in such comfortable and friendly language as David does. His walk through the syntax and semantics of JavaScript is both charming and hugely insightful; reminders of gotchas complement realistic use cases, paced at a comfortable curve. You’ll find when you finish the book that you’ve gained a strong and comprehensive sense of mastery.”—Paul Irish, developer advocate, Google Chrome“This is not a book for those ...

For people who create and modify text files, sed and awk are power tools for editing. sed, awk, and regular expressions allow programmers and system administrators to automate editing tasks that need to be performed on one or more files, to simplify the task of performing the same edits on multiple files, and to write conversion programs.The sed & awk Pocket Reference is a companion volume to sed & awk, Second Edition, Unix in a Nutshell, Third Edition, and Effective ...

sed & awk describes two text processing programs that are mainstays of the UNIX programmer's toolbox.sed is a "stream editor" for editing streams of text that might be too large to edit as a single file, or that might be generated on the fly as part of a larger data processing step. The most common operation done with sed is substitution, replacing one block of text with another.awk is a complete programming language. Unlike many conventi...

This little book shows JavaScript developers how to build superb web applications with CoffeeScript, the remarkable little language that’s gaining considerable interest. Through example code, this guide demonstrates how CoffeeScript abstracts JavaScript, providing syntactical sugar and preventing many common errors. You’ll learn CoffeeScript’s syntax and idioms step by step, from basic variables and functions to complex comprehensions and classes.Written by Alex MacCaw, author of J...