Beginning Building Mobile Application Development in the Cloud

Beginning Building Mobile Application Development in the Cloud

Learn to build mobile apps on the major cloud platforms Serving as a practical guide for building mobile apps and cloud services, this book is essential reading for web developers eager to create cross-platform applications for mobile devices that are supported by the power of cloud-based services such as Amazon Web Services. Author Richard Rodger [...]

HTML5: Your visual blueprint for designing rich Web pages and applications

HTML5: Your visual blueprint for designing rich Web pages and applications

HTML5 is the latest iteration of the standard markup language for creating Web pages. It boasts extensive updates from its predecessor and allows you to incorporate rich media content into a site without any dependence on extra software such as Flash. Packed with hundreds of screen shots, this visual guide introduces you to the many [...]

What Is HTML5? A New Way to Look at the Web

What Is HTML5?

HTML5: Everyone’s using it, nobody knows what it is. I realize that sounds more like a line out of an existential movie — maybe Waiting for Godot or a screenplay by Sartre — than a statement about HTML5. But it’s really the truth: most of the people using HTML5 are treating it as HTML4+, or [...]

Head First HTML5 Programming: Building Web Apps with JavaScript

Head First HTML5 Programming: Building Web Apps with JavaScript

HTML has been on a wild ride. Sure, HTML started as a mere markup language, but more recently HTML’s put on some major muscle. Now we’ve got a language tuned for building web applications with Web storage, 2D drawing, offline support, sockets and threads, and more. And to speak this language you’ve got to go [...]