Books by Jamie Munro

ASP.NET MVC 5 with Bootstrap and Knockout.js: Building Dynamic, Responsive Web Applications

Bring dynamic server-side web content and responsive web design together to build websites that work and display well on any resolution, desktop or mobile. With this practical book, you'll learn how by combining the ASP.NET MVC server-side language, the Bootstrap front-end framework, and Knockout.js-the JavaScript implementation of the Model-View-ViewModel pattern.

Author Jamie Munro introduces these and other related technologies by having you work with sophisticated web forms. At the end of the book, experienced and aspiring web developers alike will learn how to build a complete shopping cart that demonstrates how these technologies interact with each other in a sleek, dynamic, and responsive web application.

• Build well-organized, easy-to-maintain web applications by letting ASP.NET MVC 5, Bootstrap, and Knockout.js do the heavy lifting
• Use ASP.NET MVC 5 to build server-side web applications, interact with a database, and dynamically render HTML
• Create responsive views with Bootstrap that render on a variety of modern devices; you may never code with CSS again
• Add Knockout.js to enhance responsive web design with snappy client-side interactions driven by your server-side web application

Knockout.js: Building Dynamic Client-Side Web Applications

Use Knockout.js to design and build dynamic client-side web applications that are extremely responsive and easy to maintain. This example-driven book shows you how to use this lightweight JavaScript framework and its Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. You'll learn how to build your own data bindings, extend the framework with reusable functions, and work with a server to enhance your client-side application with persistence. In the final chapter, you'll build a shopping cart to see how everything fits together.

If you're a web developer with experience in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, you're ready for Knockout.

• Learn how to create a ViewModel
• Bind HTML data and attributes, and CSS classes and styles
• Understand data binding in Knockout's context hierarchy
• Use properties that change dynamically through user interaction
• Work with forms by using several different bindings
• Bind multiple ViewModels on a single page
• Extend or attach custom functions to observables
• Perform server-side interactions with jQuery
• Map a JavaScript object or apply JSON data to a new object

20 Recipes for Programming MVC 3: Faster, Smarter Web Development

There's no need to reinvent the wheel every time you run into a problem with ASP.NET's Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework. This concise cookbook provides recipes to help you solve tasks many web developers encounter every day. Each recipe includes the C# code you need, along with a complete working example of how to implement the solution. Learn practical techniques for applying user authentication, providing faster page reloads, validating user data, filtering search results, and many other issues related to MVC3 development.

These recipes help you:

• Restrict access to views with password protection
• Allow users to upload and save a file to your website
• Implement AJAX to allow users to see updated content quickly
• Validate form input to ensure the data you capture is what you expect
• Create thumbnails to preview images rather than view them full-size
• Give your web application the ability to change languages
• Use CAPTCHA to prevent automated programs from completing forms
• Make URLs more user- and search-engine-friendly with the MapRoute function

20 Recipes for Programming PhoneGap: Cross-Platform Mobile Development for Android and iPhone

Gain hands-on experience with the amazing PhoneGap library, using the practical recipes in this handy guide. With these solutions, you can enable your mobile web apps to interact with device-specific features such as the accelerometer, GPS, camera, and address book. Learn how to use your knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build full mobile apps for iOS, Android, and several other platforms without rewriting apps in the native platform language. Each recipe includes sample code you can use in your project right away, as well as a discussion of why the solution works.

• Add functionality that's available only on a certain device or platform
• Retrieve the device's current GPS location and place a marker on a map
• Create and save a new contact or edit an existing contact in the address book
• Take pictures with the camera or select one of the user's existing photos
• Upload a file from the local device to an external server
• Allow the device to record audio or video through your app
• Enable your application to save files locally

Rapid Application Development With CakePHP

This book was written by a web developer for web developers. It is written in a fashion where it will be useful for beginning web developers and also help advanced web developers learn more.

To ensure you are not completely lost, knowledge of PHP, Javascript, HTML, and CSS are required. A basic understanding of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is useful, but not 100 percent required.

Whether you are an advanced web developer or a beginner looking to learn CakePHP, this book promises to help you build simple and complex web sites, quickly and easily.

The goal of this book is to provide a wide variety of useful functionality that is required by most websites today. In the final chapter, we will take all that we've learned and create one final large project.

During this process, I will instill my knowledge in taking a project from start to finish including creating a scope of work to ensure we have accomplished our target goals.

By the end of this book, you should be able to build fully functional websites using CakePHP. Hopefully, you should also be able to cut your development time at least in half, if not more!