The Smart Guide to Building World-Class Applications
Among other things, SQL Server 2012 promises improved availability and increased business insight. But are these features and promised benefits really worthwhile for your organization—and is there anything you should really be excited about? To find out, join independent SQL Server experts Stacia Misner and Michael K. Campbell for a frank and informative overview of essential SQL Server 2012 features that will provide your organization with practical benefits.
HTML 5 is all the rage today. Learning HTML 5 will ensure that your web applications will work across many different browsers. Of course, that is once all browsers support HTML 5. But that day is coming sooner, rather than later. In this introductory set of webcasts you will learn the new HTML 5 tags to help you build better websites. You will also learn new tips and tricks in CSS 3. Finally you will learn how to add some simple reusable styles to spice up your HTML 5 websites.
A new version of ASP.NET MVC is realized approximately every year and brings new features to the table. However, to maximize the return on your investment in learning ASP.NET MVC you need to make sure you use existing features and capabilities effectively. Recipes and built-in features are great and welcome, but design is what makes them shine. This series of webcasts focuses on keeping your ASP.NET code clean, readable, and easy to maintain. In three sessions, you’ll learn how to make your controller classes thin by using layers and dependency injection and how to keep them readable by moving infrastructure code out of methods. Finally, you’ll learn how to structure your JavaScript code to avoid spaghetti code.
Mobile development is a hot item. Customers are buying iPhones, iPads, Android devices, and many other mobile computing devices at an ever increasing record pace. Devices based on iOS and Android are nearly 80 percent of the marketplace. RIM continues to be dominant in the business area across the world. Nokia's growth with Windows Phone will grow on a worldwide basis. At the same time, clearly web development is a tremendous driver of applications, both on the public Internet and on private networks. How can developers target these various mobile platforms with web technologies? Developers can write web applications that take advantage of each mobile platform, but that is a lot of work. Into this space, the jQuery Mobile framework was developed. This eLearning series will provide an overview of mobile web development with jQuery Mobile, a detailed look at what the jQuery Mobile framework provides for us, how we can customize jQuery Mobile, and how we can use jQuery Mobile inside of ASP.NET.