Year: 2012

Title: PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
By: Brett McLaughlin
Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Pogue Press
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: November 2012
Ebook: November 2012
Pages: 546
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-2557-2| ISBN 10:1-4493-2557-2
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-5553-1| ISBN 10:1-4493-5553-6

If you can build websites with CSS and JavaScript, this book takes you to the next level—creating dynamic, database-driven websites with PHP and MySQL. Learn how to build a database, manage your content, and interact with users. With step-by-step tutorials, this completely revised edition gets you started with expanded coverage of the basics and takes you deeper into the world of server-side programming.

The important stuff you need to know:

• Get up to speed quickly. Learn how to install PHP and MySQL, and get them running on both your computer and a remote server.
• Gain new techniques. Take advantage of the all-new chapter on integrating PHP with HTML web pages.
• Manage your content. Use the file system to access user data, including images and other binary files.
• Make it dynamic. Create pages that change with each new viewing.
• Build a good database. Use MySQL to store user information and other data.
• Keep your site working. Master the tools for fixing things that go wrong.
• Control operations. Create an administrative interface to oversee your site.

Brett McLaughlin

Brett McLaughlin is a bestselling and award-winning non-fiction author. His books on computer programming, home theater, and analysis and design have sold in excess of 100,000 copies. He has been writing, editing, and producing technical books for nearly a decade, and is as comfortable in front of a word processor as he is behind a guitar, chasing his two sons and his daughter around the house, or laughing at reruns of Arrested Development with his wife.

Brett spends most of his time these days on cognitive theory, codifying and expanding on the learning principles that shaped the Head First series into a bestselling phenomenon. He’s curious about how humans best learn, why Star Wars was so formulaic and still so successful, and is adamant that a good video game is the most effective learning paradigm we have.

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Title: iPad: The Missing Manual, 5th Edition
By: J.D. Biersdorfer
Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Pogue Press
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: December 2012 (est.)
Ebook: November 2012
Pages: 400 (est.)
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-2556-5| ISBN 10:1-4493-2556-4
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-6180-8| ISBN 10:1-4493-6180-3

Apple’s wildly popular iPad and new iPad Mini come jam-packed with features, like access to your media library from the Web, Siri voice control, and seamless Facebook and Twitter integration. But to tap your iPad’s potential, you need a trustworthy owner’s manual. This bestelling book shows you how to import, create, and play back media; sync and shop wirelessly; keep in touch over the Internet; and even take care of business.

The important stuff you need to know:

• Take your media with you. Fill your iPad with music, photos, movies, TV shows, games, ebooks, and podcasts.
• Tap new features in email. Create VIP and Flagged mailboxes, and insert photos or videos into messages on the fly.
• Get online. Surf at warp speed with the streamlined Safari browser and the iPad’s new ultrafast WiFi connection or 4G LTE network.
• Post to Facebook and Twitter. Update your status right from the iPad’s Camera, Photos, Maps, and Game Center apps.
• Make photos public. Share selected photos over iCloud.
• Find your way with Maps. Get turn-by-turn directions, soar over cityscapes in 3D, and read embedded Yelp reviews.
• Dictate email. Speak email messages and notes and have your iPad type them up.
• Stream with Airplay. Take stunning photos and HD video, and wirelessly beam the results to your big-screen TV.

J.D. Biersdorfer

J.D. Biersdorfer is the best-selling author of iPad: The Missing Manual, Best iPhone Apps (Second Edition), Netbooks: The Missing Maunal, and The iPod Shuffle Fan Book. She is the co-author of iPod: The Missing Manual, Google: The Missing Manual (Second Edition), iPhoto ’09: The Missing Manual, and The Internet: The Missing Manual. She has authored the weekly technology column “Q&A” for the New York Times since 1998 and often writes about art, books, and design for other sections of The Times. J.D. also co-hosts the independent Pop Tech Jam audio podcast, which explores current events in the world of technology and geek culture.

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Title: HTML5 Hacks
By: Jesse Cravens, Jeff Burtoft
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: November 2012
Ebook: November 2012
Pages: 500
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-3499-4| ISBN 10:1-4493-3499-7
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-3507-6| ISBN 10:1-4493-3507-1

With 90 detailed hacks, expert web developers Jesse Cravens and Jeff Burtoft demonstrate intriguing uses of HTML5-related technologies. Each recipe provides a clear explanation, screenshots, and complete code examples for specifications that include Canvas, SVG, CSS3, multimedia, data storage, web workers, WebSockets, and geolocation.

You’ll also find hacks for HTML5 markup elements and attributes that will give you a solid foundation for creative recipes that follow. The last chapter walks you through everything you need to know to get your HTML5 app off the ground, from Node.js to deploying your server to the cloud.

Here are just a few of the hacks you’ll find in this book:

• Make iOS-style card flips with CSS transforms and transitions
• Replace the background of your video with the Canvas tag
• Use Canvas to create high-res Retina Display-ready media
• Make elements on your page user-customizable with editable content
• Cache media resources locally with the filesystem API
• Reverse-geocode the location of your web app user
• Process image data with pixel manipulation in a dedicated web worker
• Push notifications to the browser with Server-Sent Events

Jesse Cravens

Jesse is a Sr. Engineer at frog where he works with the world’s leading companies, helping them to design, engineer, and bring to market meaningful products and services. With 12 years of experience in web application development, Jesse is currently focusing on single page web applications, the mobile web, and HTML5.

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Jeff Burtoft

Jeff Burtoft, HTML5 Evangelist for Microsoft Corporation, has built a reputation of pushing the boundaries of HTML5 and JavaScript. He has over 10 years experience in web development and has filled a variety of roles in the industry, from “web master” of a start-up to Lead front end developer for a fortune 500 company. Jeff also develops mobile apps and is a blogger at HTML5Hacks.com

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Title: Windows® 8 Inside Out
By: Tony Northrup
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: November 2012
Ebook: November 2012
Pages: 752
Print ISBN: 978-0-7356-6381-7| ISBN 10:0-7356-6381-5
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7356-7053-2| ISBN 10:0-7356-7053-6

You’re beyond the basics—so dive right into Windows 8 and really put your PC to work! This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It’s all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts tackle Windows 8—and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery!

Topics include:

• Installing and personalizing Windows 8
• Mastering the new UI and features
• Using pen, touch, and voice input
• Implementing security essentials
• Managing files, disks, and drives
• Sharing and synching digital media
• Setting up and troubleshooting a home or mobile network
• Monitoring and tuning performance

Tony Northrup

Tony Northrup, MCITP, MCPD, MCSE, CISSP, has written more than 20 books covering Windows system administration and development, including several Microsoft Press® Training Kits, and is coauthor of Windows 7 Resource Kit and Windows Server 2008 Networking and Network Access Protection (NAP)

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Title: Start Here!™ Learn HTML5
By: Faithe Wempen
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: November 2012
Ebook: November 2012
Pages: 360
Print ISBN: 978-0-7356-6982-6| ISBN 10:0-7356-6982-1
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7356-6981-9| ISBN 10:0-7356-6981-3

Ready to learn HTML5 programming? Start Here!

Learn the fundamentals of programming with HTML5—and begin building your first standards-based web pages from the ground up. If you have absolutely no previous experience, no problem—simply start here! This book introduces must-know concepts and getting-started techniques through easy-to-follow explanations, examples, and exercises.

Here’s where you start learning HTML5

• Create a web site using HTML5 tags in a simple text editor
• Use semantic tags to make your pages easier to layout and find
• Draw in HTML5 using the canvas element
• Embed audio and video in your web pages
• Get HTML5 to work in older browsers
• Develop your future skills in web design

Faithe Wempen

Faithe Wempen, M.A., is an adjunct instructor of Computer Technology. She develops web sites and writes and teaches online computer training.

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