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Data warehouses and OLAP: concepts ... Lessons, advice, and unadulterated opinions on web development - The Developer's Code. Free eBooks For Designers And Web Developers. Nowadays, knowledge isn’t something so hard to get and difficult to possess as in the past, when there was no Internet and you had to go to the library and hope that the book you’re searching for isn’t taken, or you had to study hard and also pay good money for this effort. Nowadays you can find almost everything about anything on the web and, in a few days, you can master the weirdest or most difficult skills.

Maybe for somebody, designing or web developing is something that was always on their ‘to study’ list, but something was standing in their way. Maybe the wish and enthusiasm to learn designing or developing is still there? If so, here are 30 of the best free eBooks that every future or actual designer and developer should read. Of course there are a lot of tutorials and ebooks out there on the world wide web, but who has the time, in this fast-paced reality, to look for them? Introduction to Web Applications Development Offered Free by: Free Technology Academy (FTA) Topics include:

Killer Game Programming in Java. Killer Game Programming in Java is for people who already know the basics of Java. For example, students who've finished an 'Introduction to Java' course. The aim is to teach reusable techniques which can be pieced together to make lots of different, fun games. For example, how to make a particle system, first-person keyboard controls, a terrain follower, etc. If you don't know Java, then Killer Game Programming in Java isn't for you. Instead, have a look at my Java book suggestions. The main emphasis of my book (over 17 chapters) is on 3D gaming using Java 3D.

Early (sometimes very early) draft versions of the book's chapters can be downloaded from here (see the links below). All the book's code is here, either downloadable as a single zip file (visit the code page), or on a chapter-by-chapter basis from each chapter's page (see the links below). I've also been adding new chapters here; chapters which don't appear in the book. There's a Czech edition of my book. Dr. 13 Free Online Books and 17 Free eBooks (PDF) Tutorials For Web Designers | JournalDev. Few months back when I posted a huge list of HTML5 tutorials, it got a lot of buzz and many of us bookmarked and shared it. I consider myself as a newbie in the web designing world and to learn web designing I have collected a lot of Online tutorials and some of the eBooks that are free.

There is so much of information about web designing scattered everywhere in the internet in the form of blog posts, case studies and online resources. Here I am sharing my huge collection of 13 free online books and 17 free pdf eBooks that you can download and learn a lot from it. Web Designing Online Books 1. Getting real is one of the most famous books for web designing. 2. This online white paper is for Flash developers but anyone serious about web design/development should read this. 3. A very small whitepaper but very effective. 4. Access by Design is organized into tight, well-constructed chapters each of which focuses on a key area of design, such as forms, color, and layout. 5. jQuery Fundamentals. Up and Running with Node.js. Why?s (poignant) guide to ruby. Read This Paragraph At my local Barnes and Noble, there is a huge wall of Java books just waiting to tip over and crush me one day.

And one day it will. At the rate things are going, one day that bookcase will be tall enough to crush us all. It might even loop the world several times, crushing previous editions of the same Java books over and over again. And This Paragraph Too This is just a small Ruby book. But Don’t Read This One! Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby is released under the Attribution-ShareAlike License. Now Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Paragraph I’ll try not to feel utterly rejected if this book doesn’t capture your fancy.

Learning to Program A very basic, ground-level tutorial for the beginner to Ruby. Now, if you can’t seem to find the contents link on the left-hand side of the page, then here’s a link to the first page of the (Poignant) Guide. Welcome to the pirate radio of technical manuals. Killer Game Programming in Java. Killer Game Programming in Java is for people who already know the basics of Java. For example, students who've finished an 'Introduction to Java' course. The aim is to teach reusable techniques which can be pieced together to make lots of different, fun games. For example, how to make a particle system, first-person keyboard controls, a terrain follower, etc.

If you don't know Java, then Killer Game Programming in Java isn't for you. The main emphasis of my book (over 17 chapters) is on 3D gaming using Java 3D. Early (sometimes very early) draft versions of the book's chapters can be downloaded from here (see the links below). All the book's code is here, either downloadable as a single zip file (visit the code page), or on a chapter-by-chapter basis from each chapter's page (see the links below). I've also been adding new chapters here; chapters which don't appear in the book. There's a Czech edition of my book. So now I'm an expert author: (not a) Eight Step Plan to Publishing Greatness.

Free Web Design E-Books and Online Books Worth Checking out — tripwire magazine. E-books, guidelines, videos and other information products published online seams to be gaining popularity as a way to learn new stuff. Information products of any kind is simply available all over the Internet today. In the Web Design space there are tons of “information snippets” available and they are useful for sure, but there are not as many free E-books covering web design in a broader sense as we see in other areas. This is a bit sad as the availability of hand held products to read E-books are exploding and web designers need to read books to learn fundamental stuff and be inspired to move forward with advanced techniques.

I have been looking around the Internet and found a few good E-books that you can should consider taking a look at, happy reading! Please share it in a comment if you know other free E-books on Web Design. Advertisement Web Designer’s Success Guide Web Designer’s Success Guide is the definitive guide to starting your own freelance Web design business. Just Ask. Software Sites and Products. Vaadin ( is an open source web application framework having a server-side architecture which constructs user interface of web applications as RIA (rich internet applications), using Java code only. For developing Vaadin applications, you only use Java code, like Java Swing. This Java code is then converted to GWT (Google Web Toolkit) components (which are HTML and Javascript based) for browser side, and AJAX code sections are generated for some actions to support RIA concept.

Server side validation is also performed for all actions. An example source code is shown below: import com.vaadin.ui public class HelloWorld extends com.vaadin.Application { public void init() { Window main = new Window("Hello window"); setMainWindow(main); main.addComponent(new Label("Hello World! ")) And the result is: Vaadin supports so many UI components and these can be extended with new GWT components if required, and CSS themes can be applied to results. Vaadin is very well documented. Data Mining Algorithms In R - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks.