It’s been a while since I first worked on a book with O’Reilly in 1997. That book was a practical guide to data structures and algorithms, a subject that, for the most part, had been defined many years before by some of the early giants of computer science (Dijkstra, Hoare, Knuth, to name a few). By comparison, I’ve been able to witness the rapid evolution of the subject of this book from the front lines, and I have had the good
fortune to help refine it myself while working as a web developer at one of the largest web applications in the world, Yahoo!. Web developers have a fascinating role.
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Developing Large Web Applications

There are an increasing number of CSS resources around, yet you only have to look at a CSS mailing list to see the same questions popping up time and again: How do I center a design? What is the best rounded-corner box technique? How do I create a three-column layout? If you follow the CSS design community, finding the solution is usually a case of remembering which website a particular article or technique is featured on. However, if you are relatively new toCSS, or don’t have the time to read all the blogs, this information can be hard to track down.
Even people who are skilled at CSS run into problems with some of the more obscure aspects of CSS such as the positioning model or specificity. This is because most CSS developers are selftaught, picking up tricks from articles and other people’s code without fully understanding the specifications. And is it any wonder, as the CSS specification is complex, often contradictory, and written for browser manufacturers rather than web developers?

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CSS Mastery – Advanced Web Standards Solution

This book is meant for Web professionals with background in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The related texts HTML & XHTML: The Complete Reference and JavaScript: The Complete Reference are considered background for the material presented in this work. Where possible, the content and examples have been made as accessible as possible to the widest range of readers.

A few appendixes provide some background material for those looking to
jump straight into Ajax. However, by my experience teaching this material for the past two years, I know readers will find that whatever order they approach mastering client-side Web development, foundational work will eventually be required for full enjoyment. Continue Reading »
Ajax The Complete Reference

Blogoscoped” (blog.outer-court.com) and those who read it. Since 2003 I’ve been writing there covering all things Google – not just the fun stuff, but news, discussion, interviews, tutorials, and everything beyond
with a relation to search engines. Thanks to those reading along and providing pointers or feedback, I’ve been able to discover more interesting pages and get to know more interesting people around the world than ever before.
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55 Ways to Have Fun with Google

It must be a great time to work at Microsoft. For the first time in years, the people who work on Windows can hold their heads high in public. Windows 7 is the best-reviewed, best-loved, and, well, best version of Windows
ever. Maybe part of the positive reception is because of Win7’s contrast to Windows Vista, which was almost universally despised.
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Windows 7 The Missing Manual