The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects and Practical ActionScript

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The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects and Practical ActionScript
455 pages | SitePoint Pty Ltd 2004 | English | ISBN: 095792187X | PDF | 3.5 MB

A practical and fun Flash book that shows readers over 60 practical techniques, solutions and cool effects to instantly use on their Website or project. The Flash Anthology makes an excellent task reference or it can be used for inspiration for future projects. The book tackles the majority of the most common building blocks for real world Flash applications-as one reviewer described "it covers everything that Flash does best". Topics covered include working with external data, debugging, animation, sound and video effects, flash forms and getting indexed by search engines. All the solutions are based on ActionScript, are completely customizable and come with suggested modifications. Examples are compatible with ActionScript 2 and Flash MX 2004

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Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications [ILLUSTRATED]

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Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications [ILLUSTRATED]
352 pages | SitePoint (June 14, 2006) | English | ISBN: 0975841947 | PDF | 2.1 MB

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a new approach for developing web applications. It essentially permits users to interact with a Webpage without forcing a slow & tedious reload of the entire page after every action. This means web applications become more responsive, easier to use, and more intuitive. Build Your Own Ajax Web Applications uses a step-by-step tutorial format that's so easy to follow, you'll be able to build sophisticated and intuitive Ajax web interfaces in no time!

# Read this book, and you'll: Get an overview of the basic technologies you'll need to use to build Ajax applications.
# Understand the XMLHttpRequest object, the core of Ajax applications.
# Build a cross-browser XMLHttpRequest wrapper that you can use in all of your Ajax projects.
# Build an Ajax application monitor that works in real time.
# Learn how to use Ajax without breaking older browsers or causing accessibility issues.
# Get your Ajax application working with screen readers.
# Use dynamic animations to improve usability.
# Build edit-in-place functionality.
# Create an Ajax search application that pulls data from Amazon, del.icio.us, and Google.
# Fix the "Back button" problem.
# Use JSON, YAML, and XML to communicate with the server.
# Build an Ajax drag 'n' drop chess game.
# And a whole lot more!

Throughout the text, the author stresses usability, accessibility, and graceful degradation for older, less-capable web browsers.
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Math You Can Really Use - Every Day

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Math You Can Really Use - Every Day
True PDF | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0470054026 | Publisher: Cliffs Notes (2007-05-07) | 1.8MB

One of the most practical math books ever The National Assessment of Adult Literacy reports that 22 percent of U.S. adults have a below-basic understanding of rudimentary math, and 33 percent have only a basic understanding. This practical guide uses everyday examples to teach the math that people need to know in order to balance their checkbooks, do credit card calculations, compare loan rates, compute their gas mileage, and more. Complete with tear-out reference guides such as a tipping card, this book helps adults get up to speed on the math they really need-every day.

Math You Can Really Use—Every Day skips mind-numbing theory and tiresome drills and gets right down to basic math that helps you do real-world stuff like figuring how much to tip, getting the best deals shopping, computing your gas mileage, and more. This is not your typical, dry math textbook. With a comfortable, easygoing approach, it:

-Covers math you'll need for balancing your checkbook, choosing or managing credit cards, comparing options for mortgages, insurance, and investments, and more

-Includes the basics on fractions, decimals, percentages, measurements, and geometric math

-Clues you in on simple shortcuts

-Includes examples plus pop quizzes with answers to help you solidify your understanding

-Features tear-out guides you can take with you for tipping and converting measurements

Want to know how much 20% off is in dollars and cents? Want to figure out how much gas is going to cost for your road trip? This is the math book you'll really use!

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The JavaScript Anthology 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks

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The JavaScript Anthology 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks
Sitepoint | ISBN 0975240269 | 2006 | PDF | 2,98 MB | 592 pages

Using a cookbook approach, The JavaScript Anthology will show you how to apply JavaScript to solve over 101 common Web Development challenges. You'll discover how-to:

Optimize your code so that it runs faster
Create Ajax applications with the XmlHttpRequest object
Validate web forms to improve usability
Take control of your web pages with the DOM
Ensure that your JavaScript code is accessible
Create slick drop-down menu systems
Included in this book is extensive coverage of DHTML and Ajax, including how-to create and customize advanced effects such as draggable elements, dynamically sorting data in a Web Browser, advanced menu systems, retrieving data from a Web Server using XMLHttpRequest and more.

The JavaScript Anthology also includes extensive coverage of object oriented coding, efficient script design, accessibility, and cross-browser issues. Best of all, you'll get download access to all the code used in the book, so you can put the scripts to use instantly.

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Bring your website to live with AJAX and DHTML [FULL VERSION]

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Bring your website to live with AJAX and DHTML
DMX ZONE| ISBN n/a | 2006 | PDF | 31,9 MB | 168 pages

Ajax enables you to write interactive applications while reducing the amount of data interchanged between the web browser and web server. This results in shorter processing times so you can give your user the ultimate web experience.

DHTML allows you to create amazing effects and allows you to enhance the interactivity of your webpage without using any Plug-ins. DHTML files are also smaller then HTML files thus speeding up your website even further.

Content

Introduction
About Tom Dell’Aringa
Bring your website to live with AJAX and DHTML

Getting started with DHTML
DHTML: Introduction to scripting the DOM
DHTML: Dynamic Client Side Table Sorting
DHTML: Dynamic Class Switching
Introduction to Regular Expressions
Dynamic "Hide and Show" Content using the DOM

Real-world DHTML
Popup Windows: Doing Them Right
A Simple DHTML Flyout Menu
Formatting User Form Data
More controlling form fields
"Alertless" Client Side Error Messages
The new and improved Date Picker!
Spicing up Data Tables with Highlighting Rows
An Abstract “Add Row” Class for Dynamic Table Rows (like Yahoo!)

Take control with AJAX
Introduction to AJAX
The Ajax Filmstrip
Ajax: Ready States, PHP and Arrays
Google Maps and AJAX: Web 2.0 on Your Web Site

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