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Taking your iPhone to the Max
Jul 27th
At the start, this book does cover a lot of material that can be found in the iPhone’s manual. This means that the phone itself and each software application is given a pretty thorough coverage over the approximately 180 pages in the book. Apart from the software, the workings of the iPhone’s hardware features are also covered in some depth. As a manual supplement, the book does a good job, taking the reader right from unpacking, activation and to using the built-in applications.
However once your past that, Taking your iPhone to the Max has a lot of coverage of other software More >
The Definitive Guide to symfony
Apr 7th
I should state that I started investigating frameworks over a year ago and looked into symfony (around v0.6 at the time) , but now use the CakePHP framework for my current development projects. That said, I think symfony provides the most complete set of features of any PHP framework I’m familiar with- but at the same time, it has a bit of a steeper learning curve due to its flexibility and, some would say, wordy syntax. On balance though, what attracted me to symfony initially, was the excellent documentation, of which this book is part. Since learning a framework involves More >
Pro Javascript Techniques
Jan 20th
The first chapter gives a broad overview of the major topics the book will cover: object-orientated programming, testing, DOM scripting, event handling, CSS, Ajax and browser support. The second chapter starts right into object orientated programming, covering the major features of JavaScript in this area.
In Created Reusable code (chapter three) the book looks at way of simulating inheritance, namespaces and other features found in other OO-languages, but not found natively in JavaScript. They also introduces the Prototype, Dojo and Yahoo!’s YUI libraries. Finally the chapter covers compressing your code with JSMin and Packer, then ends off with JSAN (the JavaScript More >
Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax: From Novice to Professional
Nov 16th
The first chapter gives a brief history of GoogleMaps and its API as well as showing KML, a simple technique for creating maps that I wasn’t aware of ? in fact, it’s probably the quickest way (especially for a non-technical user) to add a map to a web page.
Chapter two covers most of how to add a map onto your web page, setting the area, what controls appear on the map and adding marker points. For many websites, this might be all you need. – then again you could also work this out on-line, but the book is just getting More >
