Web Development Recipes 1st Edition

It's okay to admit it- we can't all be uber, know-it-all, web developers and designers. Just confront this truth and you're on your way to recovery, my friend! But on the other hand, you don't need to let your friends and clients know the whole truth, either. That's where this book can help you with your "dirty little secret".Has this ever happened to you? You're working on a website or webpage and want to add some extra functionality. You know it can be done- you've seen it used on other sites, but you're not exactly sure how it's done. Whip out this handy "cookbook" and you'll be building 12-column, flexible layout, jQuery functioning, HTML 5 web pages faster than Paula Dean can deep fry a Moon Pie - and with less calories too! And your client need be none the wiser if you don't want them to. Bonus Power-Up!You need this book. Just get it and move on.

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I have to admit that most "recipe" type programming books that I've read over the years leave me quite disappointed. There are usually a lot of recipes that are not that useful and seem more filler than anything else. If not filler, then many of them are so specific that you may never quite find a use for them.Web Development Recipes is extremely useful. The recipes cover a lot of ground and could be useful in many situations. I am not the most programming oriented developer out there but the writing is clear and concise and the recipes are so compelling it has motivated me to step up my game and learn more in some of the areas where I'm weak.One aspect of the book that I really appreciated was the introduction to some frameworks and tools that I was unaware. Such as- litmus.com, a website that enables you to test email delivery- virtualBox which is a x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product- jasmine which is a framework for testing javascript codeI also got some great ideas from the book on how to leverage DropBox to do some cool sutff like use it as a place to host a static web site, or to use it to host a blog created with Jekyll.The book is a rich resource of tools, tips and solid, useable recipes all written in a very approachable style.I would say that a beginner would be in too deep with this book. Intermediates and up will get the most value from the book.The publisher, Pragmatic Programmers is a new one to me, but if this book is any indication of the quality of their other books, I'll be a big fan! Highly recommended.

I do this stuff at work so I was amazed at the high selection of usable recipes. I was actually intending to purchase a CSS3/Layout book, but I just can't get excited about a book for something like that and was excited to see some of that covered in this book.It's impossible to have projects take you in to every "possible" area in front end web dev, and this book seems to cover a lot of ground. Perhaps I'm a bit early to rate this as I'm only 1/3 through the book, but I'm giving it 5 stars just on what I've read so far + relevance. I have read other pragmatic recipe books that I thought were just ok but this one is better. Again, I do this stuff for a living and I can assure that the choices made are pretty darn good (e.g. knockout and backbone; ok, you can go learn Ember, etc., yourself, but I've tried all the MVC's to date and these are quite reasonable choices). Also, stuff that I DO know already I can confirm that they're advise is pretty spot on.Disclaimer: Assumes you're relatively experienced (although a determined beginner could google missing info). Also, the book is very time sensitive in that many recipes will become obsolete in time but what else is new! Also, as someone who's reasonably experienced, I'm not so worried if there are typos/mistakes and I'm a bit more interested in concepts that will bootstrap me in the right direction. Lastly, if you prefer full coverage of topics, rationale, etc., this book is likely not aimed at your needs; although you may still consider it as a supplementary material to a thicker reference, etc. If you get bored with long winded books, however, this one's probably a fit. It's sort of a "written by developer's, for developers" approach they take.

Web Development Recipes has quickly become one of my go to resources for development. The book covers a wide range of topics from how to properly style outgoing email to Javascript tricks and techniques as well as source control and workflow. Reading this one book will save you hours of Googling. I have been through it twice now and each time I keep picking up new tricks.

Being pretty new to web development I have done plenty of mindless exercises with little interest. Web Development Recipes is a great resource to learn and grown, with practical examples that will be useful to all skill levels. This book has been a huge help to me. A big thanks to everyone involved in putting it together.

Web development recipes is a great read and has tons of extremely useful recipes that are commonly used in web development today. This book is a great resource and needs to be on every web developer's shelf. Buy it!