Kevin Marshall – författare

This PDF will show you how your small business or enterprise can publish its APIs (application programming interface) to a developer community just like the behemoths of the Internet--Google, Yahoo!, eBay, and Amazon.

These giants already offer their APIs to other programmers and allow for add-on services and mash-ups to develop from them--but until recently, the capability for most enterprises to do the same was limited by a myriad of competing standards and a lack of easy-to-use tools to accomplish the task.

Ruby on Rails levels the playing field for companies by simplifying the process of building web services and documenting APIs. Now with Rails, enterprise-quality tools are available for all developers.

In this document, we''ll look at how Ruby on Rails makes building web service clients and servers simple and fun. Along the way, we''ll give working examples and code details so you can see just how everything works.

Pro Active Record helps you take advantage of the full power of your database engine from within your Ruby programs and Rails applications. ActiveRecord, part of the magic that makes the Rails framework so powerful and easy to use, is the model element of the Rails Model-View-Controller framework. It''s an object-relational mapping library enabling you to interact with databases from both Ruby and Rails applications.

Because ActiveRecord is configured with default assumptions that mesh perfectly with the Rails framework, Rails developers often find they hardly need think about it at all. However, if you are developing in Ruby without Rails, or are deploying against legacy databases designed without Rails in mind, or you just want to take advantage of database-specific features such as large objects and stored procedures, you need the in-depth knowledge of ActiveRecord found in this book.

In Pro Active Record, authors Kevin Marshall, Chad Pytel, and Jon Yurek walk you through every step from the basics of getting and installing the ActiveRecord library to working with legacy schema to using features specific to each of todays most popular database engines, including Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, and more! You''ll come to a deep understanding of ActiveRecord that will enable you to truly exploit all that Ruby, Rails, and your chosen database platform have to offer.

This concise, no-nonsense book teaches you how to develop accessible, standards-compliant ASP.NET-driven web sites with ASP.NET and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004. Real-world tutorials will help you achieve results quickly as you plunge into the text.

You''ll learn the fundamental concepts of the .NET Framework, then quickly move on to the workings of ASP.NET within the Framework. You will explore databases and SQL, in preparation for handling ASP.NET databound controls. Next, you''ll explore the core role that XML, and XML web services play in .NET. Finally, you''ll learn about Dreamweaver''s extensibility and coding efficiency features—two of the most important aspects of developing with Dreamweaver.

The Dreamweaver Developer''s Instant Troubleshooter focuses on the problems common to complex areas of Dreamweaver web development. This book also functions as a grounding and installation reference for additional technologies like PHP, ASP, MySQL, and CSS.

Inside the covers of this book, await top-notch solutions to your web development problems. Youll want to keep this tool by your side as you explore and create with Dreamweaver MX, because this complex tool sets possible traps for the unwary. Complexities include new features for building web sites with server-side scripting, standards-compliant code, advanced template features, and Cascading Style Sheets.

But this book will steer you away from possible Dreamweaver traps. Each chapter focuses on a particular area of Dreamweaver MX development, and examines likely questionsproviding complete solutions. Whether you''re having problems with setting up IIS to test your ASP pages, or you have a CSS quandary that you just can''t wrap your brain around, then this is the book for you!