Web Design for Developers
Web Design for Developers (Pragmatic Bookshelf, $42.95 USD) will show you how to make your web-based application look professionally designed. You’ll learn how to pick the right colors and fonts, avoid costly interface and accessibility mistakes, and make your application really come alive.
Author Brian Hogan says, “If you’ve ever written an application and wished it looked a little better, then this book is for you. If you’ve ever looked at your favorite website and tried to pull apart the CSS to figure out how it works, you’re come to the right place.”
Brian walks you through some common Photoshop and CSS techniques and works through a complete web site redesign, taking a new design from concept all the way to implementation.
You’ll learn how to take a sketch and transform it into a digital mockup in Photoshop, and then finally into a working web page. You’ll see how to develop logos, icons, and buttons using Illustrator and Photoshop, and then code a web page that will load fast, be easy to maintain, and most of all, be accessible to all audiences.
Advance Praise
“This is the book I wish I had had when I started to build my first website. It covers web development from A to Z and will answer many of your questions while improving the quality of the sites you produce.”
–Shae Murphy, CTO, Social Brokerage
Web Design for Developers
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Brian Hogan
ISBN: 9781934356135, 300 pages
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Visual Importer ETL
DB Software Laboratory announces new release of Visual Importer ETL, the visual integration software for the Windows platforms. The vendor, the world’s leading innovator in data integration and management technologies, today has announced the release of Visual Importer ETL, the latest version of the visual integration software for the Windows platforms. The application combines ETL and design capabilities all within one environment, significantly simplifying the creation and deployment of complex data warehouses and marts.
Comparing to previous release there are four major improvements:
- Massive performance gains
- Support for Unicode
- Better integration for Oracle databases
- Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Interbase/Firebird
We put a lot of effort into optimizing data import engine of “Visual Importer ETL” and as a result, it is much smaller, efficient and faster now. For example loading delimited text file into MS SQL Sever via BCP 500000 lines.
- Visual Importer ETL Standard version 4.9.0.0
2229 records per second
3 minutes and 44 seconds to load the data
- Visual Importer ETL Standard version 4.9.3.0
14347.58 records per second
34 seconds to load the data
Another important change is the ability to load data from Utf8, Utf16BE, Utf16LE files with or without BOM. There is also full support for international characters for ODBC connections, MS SQL Servers and Oracle databases.
“Visual Importer ETL” features a well-organized, straightforward program interface and simplified navigation, requiring no specialized programming skills in database deployment. By completely automating all stages of data processing, the application eliminates the need for any regular intervention and upkeep.
Below are some of the most significant “Visual Importer ETL” features:
- Easily extract and transform data from one database or file to another;
- Ultra-fast processing of input data;
- Comprehensive Error log;
- Rejected records file;
- Integrated Expressions builder;
- Calculations during loading process;
- Pivot tables loading;
- Mapping editor;
- Package designer
And here is what one of the customers think about the latest release: “‘I just transferred 10,000,000 million records from the main SQL Anywhere database over the network into a PostgreSQL database without a hitch…Thank you…You guys rock!”
Pricing and Availability
Visual Importer ETL runs under Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2008. Its price starts from $100 for standard version. Registered customers are entitled to free updates and technical support. The 30-day fully functional evaluation version of the program is available for free at http://www.dbsoftlab.com
Related Links
Product page: http://www.dbsoftlab.com/ETL-Tools/Visual-Importer-Professional.html
Download page: http://www.dbsoftlab.com/Download-ETL-Tools/View-category.html
Company page: http://www.dbsoftlab.com/
Categories: News, Press Releases Tags: mysql, php, sql, visual importer
Programming Google App Engine
Google App Engine is a cloud computing service unlike any other: it provides a simple model for building applications that scale automatically to accommodate millions of users. With Programming Google App Engine (O’Reilly, US $44.99), you’ll get expert practical guidance that will help you make the best use of this powerful platform. Google engineer Dan Sanderson (@dan_sanderson) shows you how to design your applications for scalability, including ways to perform common development tasks using App Engine’s APIs and scalable services.
You’ll learn about App Engine’s application server architecture, runtime environments, and scalable datastore for distributing data, as well as techniques for optimizing your application. App Engine offers nearly unlimited computing power, and this book provides clear and concise instructions for getting the most from it—right from the source.
"Some of the most exciting areas in web application development involve the potential for rapid success, especially mobile and social apps," says Sanderson. "With traditional web app development, this potential is a hazard: you either grow slow and miss an opportunity to connect with your customers, or you grow quickly, fail to meet demand, and halt development while you re-engineer for scale. Small companies and independent developers often can’t afford either of these options. By working at a level of abstraction designed with Google’s experience in building scalable web apps, small teams can build apps that are scalable from the start, get hot new ideas to market, and innovate at the cutting edge based on feedback from thousands of active, happy users."
With Programming Google App Engine by your side, you will discover the differences between traditional web development and development with App Engine, learn the details of App Engine’s Python and Java runtime environments , understand how App Engine handles web requests and executes application code, learn how to use App Engine’s scalable datastore, including queries and indexes, transactions, and data modeling, use task queues to parallelize and distribute work across the infrastructure and deploy and manage applications with ease
Advance Praise:
"Without a doubt, the most comprehensive, well-written, and up-to-date book about App Engine. I think it’s fair to say that if you’ve read this book cover-to-cover, you’re now an expert on App Engine."
–Kevin Gibbs, tech lead and manager, Google App Engine
Dan Sanderson is a technical writer and software engineer at Google Inc. He has worked in the web industry for over 10 years as a software engineer and technical writer for Google, Amazon.com, and the Walt Disney Internet Group. He lives in Seattle, Washington. For more information about Dan, visit his website at http://www.dansanderson.com.
Keys: google, google apps, dan sanderson
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