Web Development

C# Coding Standards and Best Programming Practices

Introduction
Anybody can write code. With a few months of programming experience, you can write ‘working applications’. Making it work is easy, but doing it the right way requires more work, than just making it work.
Believe it, majority of the programmers write ‘working code’, but not ‘good code’. Writing ‘good code’ is an art and you must learn and practice it.  Everyone may have different definitions for the term ‘good code’. In my definition, the following are the characteristics of good code.
•    Reliable
•    Maintainable
•    Efficient
Most of the developers are inclined towards writing code for higher performance, compromising reliability and maintainability. But considering the long term ROI (Return On Investment), efficiency and performance comes below reliability and maintainability. If your code is not reliable and maintainable, you (and your company) will be spending lot of time to identify issues, trying to understand code etc throughout the life of your application.
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Beginning Silverlight 4 In C Sharp 3rd Edition (Free Ebook)

The growing popularity of Web 2.0 applications is increasing user expectations for high-quality web site design, presentation, and functionality. It is into this climate that Microsoft is releasing Silverlight 4, the third and latest iteration of its cross-browser web presentation technology. Beginning Sliverlight 4 brings you to the cutting-edge of Web 2.0 application design and includes plenty of practical guidance to get you started straightaway.

Silverlight design tools have important differences compared to those used to create Ajax and JavaScript functionality. Robert Lair takes you on a tour of all the tools, including:
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Appress Office And SharePoint 2010 Users Guide (Free Ebook)

Web sites, collaboration, document management, paperless  offices—we want it all in business today, but how do we achieve all of these goals? More importantly, if you work for one of the millions of small-to-medium-sized businesses, how do you find the time to build the expertise necessary to reach these goals? Even the most powerful tool will not allow you to succeed unless you can get the majority of your staff to use it efficiently and effectively. You need a guide that demonstrates a platform that small-to-medium-sized businesses can use to reach these goals.
Office and SharePoint 2010 User’s Guide demystifies the path that every Microsoft Office user can follow to benefit from the synergism of tools they are already familiar with. Together with SharePoint 2010, users can achieve goals like web sites with a consistent single view, improved collaboration within their organization, and better document management, and may even get one step closer to the paperless office we’ve been promised for years. This book has topics for Office users of all skill levels, from those just starting to use Office tools to experienced power users. It examines each major Office tool and shows how it contributes to the support and use of SharePoint in today’s increasingly electronic-based office environment. Continue reading…

Apress Pro Telerik ASP.NET And Silverlight Controls (Ebook Tutorial)

This book provides a complete guide to implementing Telerik’s range of ASP.NET and Silverlight controls. Telerik controls are invaluable for ASP.NET and Silverlight developers because they provide a vast array of rich controls targeted for the presentation layer of web applications. Telerik offers you solutions for the reports, grids, charts, and text-editing controls that you need but don’t want to build from scratch yourself—the options are endless for increasing the functionality of any of your web solutions.

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Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Covers ASP.NET MVC 2 and Visual Studio 2010

Description Delve into the features, principles, and pillars of the ASP.NET MVC framework-deftly guided by Web development luminary Dino Esposito. ASP.NET MVC forces developers to think in terms of distinct components-model, view, controller-that make it easier to manage application complexity. Plunge into the framework’s internal mechanics and gain a practical, what-why-how perspective behind each ASP.NET MVC building block. You’ll understand how and when to use this programming model as an alternative to Web Forms-to gain full control of HTML, simplify testing and extensibility, and design better Web sites and experiences. As always, Esposito provides the detailed, insightful guidance and illustrative code samples you need to get productive quickly.  Continue reading…

Comprehensive guide to creating Web sites with the open-source Joomla!1.5

Joomla! is an open-source content management system (CMS) for Web sites. While it is free and relatively easy to use, there are lots of tricks and functionality that may not be intuitive to new users or those switching from other systems. And the previous version is quite different from the new Joomla 1.5, for which documentation is sparse. Joomla! Bible is the complete, step-by-step guide you need to build and manage Web sites using the very newest version of this powerful and popular CMS.
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WordPress Bible (e-book) by Wiley

Install WordPress and go beyond blogging
WordPress is so flexible that developers are now tapping it to create robust applications for content, contact, and e-mail management. Whether you’re a casual blogger or programming pro, this comprehensive guide covers WordPress from the basics through advanced application development. Learn how to use custom plugins and themes, retrieve data, maintain security, use social media, and modify your blog without changing any core code. You’ll even get to know the ecosystem of products that surrounds this popular, open-source tool.
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MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide

Learn how to create dynamic, interactive, and responsive cross-browser web applications using this popular JavaScript framework      * Learn how to build super-charged web forms     * Learn how to write powerful and flexible cross-browser code     * Make your web applications more dynamic and user-interactive with AJAX     * Packed with examples that will show you step by step the most important aspects of getting started with MooTools  MooTools is a simple-to-use JavaScript library, ideal for people with basic JavaScript skills who want to elevate their web applications to a superior level. If you’re a newcomer to MooTools looking to build dynamic, rich, and user-interactive web site applications this beginner’s guide with its easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions is all you need to rapidly get to grips with MooTools.  Continue reading…

Head First PHP and MySQL By OReilly

Product Description
If you’re ready to create web pages more complex than those you can build with HTML and CSS, Head First PHP & MySQL is the ultimate learning guide to building dynamic, database-driven websites using PHP and MySQL. Packed with real-world examples, this book teaches you all the essentials of server-side programming, from the fundamentals of PHP and MySQL coding to advanced topics such as form validation, session IDs, cookies, database queries and joins, file I/O operations, content management, and more.

Head First PHP & MySQL offers the same visually rich format that’s turned every title in the Head First series into a bestseller, with plenty of exercises, quizzes, puzzles, and other interactive features to help you retain what you’ve learned.

• Use PHP to transform static HTML pages into dynamic web sites
• Create and populate your own MySQL database tables, and work with data stored in files
• Perform sophisticated MySQL queries with joins, and refine your results with LIMIT and ORDER BY
• Use cookies and sessions to track visitors’ login information and personalize the site for users
• Protect your data from SQL injection attacks
• Use regular expressions to validate information on forms
• Dynamically display text based on session info and create images on the fly
• Pull syndicated data from other sites using PHP and XML

Throughout the book, you’ll build sophisticated examples — including a mailing list, a job board, and an online dating site — to help you learn how to harness the power of PHP and MySQL in a variety of contexts. If you’re ready to build a truly dynamic website, Head First PHP & MySQL is the ideal way to get going.

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PHP for Absolute Beginners 400 pages | Apress ISBN: 1430224738 | PDF | 9.6 MB

PHP for Absolute Beginners starts slowly and covers everything you need to know about beginning web development using PHP. Even the most inexperienced web developer will find this book accessible. Get started in web development using PHP. Even if you’ve never programmed before, author Jason Lengstorf introduces you to PHP by building a PHP-based blogging site while covering all the good coding practices and skills that you’ll need when you start your own projects. Continue reading…