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The new advanced series for experienced Web professionals!
Ready to make the most of your tools—and your time? We've got the books for you! Written by top Web pros, these hands-on, example-driven guides help you master only the most powerful, most important techniques—fast!
Developing SVG-based Web Applications, by Web development authority Ellen Pearlman and graphic artist/Web designer Lorien House, uses classroom-proven examples and techniques to teach SVG programming to intermediate and advanced Web developers. Based on XML, SVG offers low-bandwidth vector graphical content that's perfectly scalable, and offers animation, interactivity, and database-driven content updatable in real time. Go to the Companion Website.
Master the breakthrough features of Macromedia Flash MX hands on, as you build sophisticated Web applications, e-commerce front ends, and games—one step at a time. Through dozens of professional-quality examples, Advanced Macromedia Flash MX: ActionScript in Action, Second Edition illuminates Flash MX components, digital video support, XML integration, security, debugging—everything you need to build fast, robust, usable applications with ActionScript. Go to the Companion Website.
Take your PHP programming skills to the next level, with this hands-on, example-rich tutorial! In Advanced PHP for Web Professionals, best-selling PHP author Christopher Cosentino brings together dozens of powerful new techniques for building serious Web applications. Learn how to manage sessions more effectively, create better forms, develop custom error handlers, build database-independent Web applications with PEAR::DB, parse XML files, authenticate users via database query, build cross-platform client apps with PHP-GTK, and much more! Go to the Companion Website.
Advanced JavaScript, Insights and Innovative Techniques provides over 100 powerful solutions to your most difficult Web development challenges. Expert Web developer Dan Livingston dissects the code created by top JavaScript programmers and reveals emerging cutting-edge JavaScript techniques. Coverage includes hierarchical menus, advanced navigation and mouse-overs, tree views, XML and Macromedia Flash integration, regular expressions, validation, dynamic table configuration, cookies, and much more. Go to the Companion Website.
Master SOAP fast! Concise, practical, and code-rich, Advanced SOAP for Web Development teaches SOAP through real-world projects focused on the features you'll use most. Learn how to configure SOAP servers and clients; use SOAP with WSDL and UDDI; work with SOAP data types, encoding, and XML schema; troubleshoot SOAP errors and faultcodes; even use XML-RPC, SOAP's "smaller, faster brother"! Go to the Companion Website.
Discover just how spectacular your Flash movies can be! In this hands-on tutorial, Dan Livingston shows how to make the most of Flash interactivity using ActionScript, Flash's powerhouse scripting language. Master ActionScript through dozens of professional-quality examples—all available on the CD-ROM and on the book's companion Web site. From scripting fundamentals to debugging, controlling the Flash Player to using XML, ActionScript is easier than you think—and more powerful than you ever imagined! Go to the Companion Website.
BEA WebLogic Server Administration Kit is the definitive guide to administering BEA WebLogic Server 7TM! Scott Hawkins starts where the documentation leaves off, illuminating crucial concepts and offering practical techniques for maximizing the performance, reliability, and efficiency of any WebLogic Server system. Entirely focused on administration, this book covers installation, architecture, domains, HTTP services, clusters, JDBC, JMS, monitoring, performance tuning, and much more. Read more.