Android Essentials
Author: Chris Haseman
This book covers the essential information required to build an Android application. It will help any developer, amateur, professional, or dabbler who is interested in developing for Android.
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Practical Web 2. 0 Applications with PHP
Author: Quentin Zervaas
and thought I would post a quick review here. In this book the author takes us through creating a web application from concept to deployment. The ?Web 2.0? application used here is a blogging application supporting images, tagging, microformats and geographical data. To speed development existing libraries and frameworks are used including Zend framework, PEAR and Smarty on the server side and prototype and script.aculo.us on the client side. Chapter five is entirely dedicated to introducing the javascript libraries. Through the rest of the book the application is slowly built up. With a book like this it is easy to criticise the decisions taken. There are almost as many different ways to create a functioning web application as there are people developing them. This book can only ever present one approach to application development and it does this well. The book is dominated by code, as would be expected, but the supporting text is informative and easy to follow. Overall it is a solid introduction to putting together a complete web application with some real gems. The chapters on google maps and deployment I found to be particularly good. If you?re considering purchasing this book be sure to check out the publishers site as they have a sample chapter freely available for download.
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