Friday, January 30, 2009

Microsoft Visual C 2008 Express Edition or Agile Web Development with Rails

Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!

Author: Patrice Pelland

In this lively, eye-opening, hands-on book, all you need is a computer and the desire to learn how to program with Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition. Featuring a full edition of the software, this fun and highly visual guide walks you through a complete programming project-a desktop weather-reporting application-from start to finish. You'll get an introduction to the Microsoft Visual Studior development environment and learn how to put the lightweight, easy-to-use tools in Visual C# Express Edition to work right away-creating, compiling, testing, and delivering your first ready-to-use program. You'll get expert tips, coaching, and visual examples at each step of the way, along with pointers to additional learning resources.

Key Book Benefits:
• This dynamic, full-color, highly-visual book is designed to help novice programmers build fundamental programming skills for Windowsr-quickly and easily
• Provides a quick-start, project-based approach!
• Provides complete software for Visual C# 2008 Express Edition and all the instructions needed to understand and put those tools to work right away
• Features a complete desktop application that can be easily modified and reused-a great learn-by-doing example



Interesting book: La métrique et les Modèles dans l'Ingénierie de Qualité de Logiciel

Agile Web Development with Rails

Author: Dave Thomas

Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework that enables you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications, but with a twist... A full Rails application probably has less total code than the XML you'd need to configure the same application in other frameworks.

With this book you'll learn how to use ActiveRecord to connect business objects and database tables. No more painful object-relational mapping. Just create your business objects and let Rails do the rest. You'll learn how to use the Action Pack framework to route incoming requests and render pages using easy-to-write templates and components. See how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, implement web services, and create dynamic, user-centric web-pages using built-in Javascript and Ajax support. There are extensive chapters on testing, deployment, and scaling.

You'll see how easy it is to install Rails using your web server of choice (such as Apache or lighttpd) or using its own included web server. You'll be writing applications that work with your favorite database (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and more) in no time at all.

You'll create a complete online store application in the extended tutorial section, so you'll see how a full Rails application is developed---iteratively and rapidly.

Rails strives to honor the Pragmatic Programmer's "DRY Principle" by avoiding the extra work of configuration files and code annotations. You can develop in real-time: make a change, and watch it work immediately.

Forget XML. Everything in Rails, from templates to control flow to business logic, is written in Ruby, the language of choice for programmers who like to get the job donewell(and leave work on time for a change).

Rails is the framework of choice for the new generation of Web 2.0 developers. Agile Web Development with Rails is the book for that generation, written by Dave Thomas (Pragmatic Programmer and author of Programming Ruby) and David Heinemeier Hansson, who created Rails.



Table of Contents:
1Introduction1
2The architecture of rails applications11
3Installing rails21
4Instant gratification27
5The depot application47
6Task A : product maintenance53
7Task B : catalog display71
8Task C : cart creation79
9Task D : checkout!101
10Task E : shipping115
11Task F : administrivia125
12Task T : testing139
13Rails in depth181
14Active record basics199
15More active record253
16Action controller and rails289
17Action view339
18The Web, V2.0385
19Action mailer411
20Web services on rails423
21Securing your rails application439
22Deployment and scaling453
AIntroduction to Ruby481
BConfiguration parameters497

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