Building Web Apps for Google TV

EBook Description: By integrating the Web with traditional TV, Google TV offers developers an important new channel for content. But creating apps for Google TV requires learning some new skills�in fact, what you may already know about mobile or desktop web apps isn�t entirely applicable. Building Web Apps for Google TV will help you make the transition to Google TV as you learn the tools and techniques necessary to build sophisticated web apps for this platform. This book shows you how Google TV works, how it fits into the web ecosystem, and what the opportunities are for delivering rich content to millions of households. * Discover the elements of a compelling TV web app, and what comprises TV-friendly navigation * Learn the fundamentals for designing the 10-foot user experience * Work with the Google Chrome browser on a TV display, and migrate an existing site * Use examples for developing a TV web app, including the UI, controls, and scrolling * Understand how to optimize, deliver, and protect video content for Google TV * Help users discover your content by optimizing your site for Search�especially videos

Want to launch a Web site but don't know where to begin? Information on Web design, page building software, using HTML, site planning, and everything else you need to know can be found easily in Building Web Sites All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition. So you can easily find what you're looking for, this plain-English guide is divided into nine minibooks:

Mining Google Web Services: Building Applications with the Google API

Virtually everyone sees Google as, hands down, the best online search tool. Now you can use and improve on Google technology in your own applications.
Mining Google Web Services teaches you dozens of techniques for tapping the power of the Google API. Google already gives you fine-grained control over your search criteria, and this book shows you how to exert the same control in your own focused search and analysis applications. With just a little knowledge of JavaScript, VBA, Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio .NET, PHP, or Java, you will get better (and more relevant) search results�faster and more easily. Here�s a little of what you�ll find covered inside:

* Improving the speed and accuracy of searches
* Performing data mining across the Internet
* Using Google Web Services to search a single website
* Building search applications for mobile devices
* Using caching techniques to improve application performance and reliability
* Analyzing Google data
* Creating searches for users with special needs
* Discovering new uses for Google
* Obtaining historical data using cached pages
* Performing spelling checks on any text
* Reducing the number of false search hits



Whether your goal is to improve your own searches or share specialized search capabilities with others, this is the one resource that will see you through the job from start to finish.

AJAX and PHP Building Responsive Web Applications

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- Build a solid foundation for your next generation of web applications
- Use better javascript code to enable powerful web features
- Leverage the power of PHP and MySQL to create powerful back-end functionality and make it work in harmony with the smart AJAX client
- Go through numerous case studies that demonstrate how to implement AJAX-enabled features in your site such as: real-time form validation, online chat, suggest & autocomplete, whiteboard, SVG realtime charting, whiteboard, web data grid, RSS reader, drag & drop

Building a Web Site For Dummies

If you're just getting your feet wet in Web site construction, the first big hurdle is figuring out where to start. Building a Web Site for Dummies lightens things up with humor and makes the challenge of building a site far less daunting.This book doesn't zoom you right into coding HTML, although it covers the markup language quite well. Instead, it offers a much higher-level look at site design by examining the general questions of navigation principles, affiliation possibilities, building communications with your users, and other wide-ranging topics. For this reason, the book covers a lot of ground and offers a broad perspective on site design that transcends simple page coding....

Building a Web Site For Dummies 4th Edition (2010)

The bestselling guide to building a knockout Web site, newly updated. An effective Web site is the key to success for every venture from class reunions to major corporations. And since Web technology changes rapidly, Building a Web Site For Dummies, 4th Edition is fully updated for the cutting-edge tools and trends. If you need to build and maintain a Web site, even if your experience is severely limited, this book makes it easy and fun. You'll learn to plan, design, create, launch, and maintain your site using the most up-to-date tools.

Building Web Sites All-in-One For Dummies

Want to launch a Web site but don't know where to begin? Information on Web design, page building software, using HTML, site planning, and everything else you need to know can be found easily in Building Web Sites All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition. So you can easily find what you're looking for, this plain-English guide is divided into nine minibooks.

Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications

BUILD RELIABLE, SCALABLE, ENTERPRISE CLASS WEB APPLICATIONS WITH AJAX
Writing for enterprise developers, architects, and user interface specialists, the authors explain why AJAX offers such great promise in large scale development.
Next, they systematically introduce todays key AJAX techniques and components.

You will walk through developing frameworks for building AJAX applications that combine data tables, Web forms, charts, search, and filtering: the very systems businesses depend on in CRM, ERP, BI, and beyond. Then, building on this strong foundation, the authors identify proven AJAX architectural patterns, and present case studies drawn from actual .NET and JavaAJAX applications. Coverge includes

Using AJAX to implement Model View Controller (MVC) in the browser
Encapsulating user interface functionality to facilitate code reuse and reduce cross browser development problems
Overcoming the unique security challenges associated with AJAX Web applications
Optimizing AJAX usability: the back button, caching, bookmarking, offline usage, and beyond
From security to scalability to project risk, this is the only book to cover all the issues facing AJAX developers in the enterprise. Whether youre migrating legacy HTML interfaces or building new applications from scratch, youll find it absolutely indispensable.

Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5

If you think youre well versed in ASP.NET, think again. This exceptional guide gives you a master class in site building with ASP.NET 3.5 and other cutting edge Microsoft technologies.
You learn how to develop rock solid web portal applications that can withstand millions of hits every day while surviving scalability and security pressures not just for mass consumer homepages, but also for dashboards that deliver powerful content aggregation for enterprises. Written by Omar AL Zabir, co founder and CTO of Pageflakes, Building a Web 2.0 Portalwith ASP.NET 3.5 demonstrates how to develop portals similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Pageflakes using ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow Foundation, LINQ and .NET 3.5. Through the course of the book, AL Zabir builds an open source Ajax enabled portal prototype (available online at http://www.dropthings.com), and walks you though the design and architectural challenges, advanced Ajax concepts, performance optimization techniques, and server side scalability problems involved. You learn how to: Implement a highly decoupled architecture following the popular n tier, widget based application model Provide drag and drop functionality, and use ASP.NET 3.5 to build theserver side part of the web layer Use LINQ to build the data access layer, and Windows Workflow Foundation to build the business layer as a collection of workflows Build client side widgets using javascript for faster performance and better caching Get maximum performance out of the ASP.NET AJAX Framework for faster, more dynamic, and scalable sites Build a custom web service call handler to overcome shortcomings in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 for asynchronous, transactional, cache friendly web services Overcome javascript performance problems, and help the user interface load faster and be more responsive Solve scalability andsecurity problems as your site grows from hundreds to millions of users Deploy and run a high volume production site while solving software, hardware, hosting, and Internet infrastructure problems Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 also presents real world ASP.NET challenges that the author has solved in building educational and enterprise portals, plus thirteen production disasters common to web applications serving millions of users. If youre ready to build state of the art, high volume web applications, this book has exactly what you need.

Building Web Applications with ADO.NET and XML Web Services

Learn how to build a data intensive Web application with XML Web services and ADO.NET!

Richard Hundhausen, Steven Borg, Cole Francis, and Kenneth Wilcox have combined their years of expertise in this invaluable resource to teach you how a typical wired business can leverage Web services in B2B commerce.
Using a case study, the authors walk you step by step through how to take advantage of new technologies in .NET, such as ADO, ASP, and SOAP, to create XML Web services. They start with a discussion of a Web services provider case study, including the analysis, design, construction, registration, and deployment of the Web service. Youll then learn about the conceptual design of a system and receive an introduction to Object Role Modeling (ORM). Packed with useful information,

Practical PHP and MySQL Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications

Practical PHP and MySQL reflects Jonos commitment to the spirit of making open source subjects accessible to everyone. The book carefully walks you through the code for eight useful, dynamic Web applications. Projects are presented in a playful way, like the forum project that touts horror movies that make you hide behind the couch.
From the Foreword by Christopher Negus, Series Editor, Negus Live Linux Series
Build Dynamic Web Sites Fast, with PHP and MySQL
Learn from Eight Ready to Run Applications!

Suddenly, its easy to build commercial quality Web applications using free and open source software. With this book, youll learn from eight ready to run, real world applications&151;all backed by clear diagrams and screenshots, well documented code, and simple, practical explanations.

Leading open source author Jono Bacon teaches the core skills youll need to build virtually any application. Youll discover how to connect with databases, upload content, perform cascading deletes, edit records, validate registrations, specify user security, create reusable components, use PEAR extensions, and even build Ajax applications.

Working from complete examples on the CD ROM, you will create

Generic dynamic Web sites
Blogs
Discussion forums
Shopping carts
Auction sites
Calendars
FAQ systems
Reusable components
Content management systems
News sites
JONO BACON is Ubuntu community manager for Canonical, Ubuntus sponsor. He is an established speaker, author, and contributor to the open source community. Bacon co authored Linux Desktop Hacks and The Official Ubuntu Book; has served as a columnist for Linux Format, Linux User & Developer, and PC Plus; and is an OReilly Networkweblog author. He is a lead developer onthe Jokosher (www.jokosher.org) project,and co founder of LUGRadio a podcastwith more than 15,000 listeners, andan annual event that attracts visitorsfrom around the world.

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