| PROFESSIONAL MOBILE WEB DEVELOPMENT WITH WORDPRESS, JOOMLA, AND DRUPAL |
This is the most comprehensive mobile web development book i've read. the title threw me off at first - i don't do joomla or drupal, and only a little bit of wordpress. but i heard james pearce speak at several mobile development conferences and was impressed, so i decided to read the book.
the book is laid out perfectly. the chapters that deal with wordpress, joomla, and drupal are in the second half and are fairly well isolated. the first half of the book (chapters 1-10) cover all aspects of mobile web development. i was struck by the balance of detail. james covers some areas that other books don't even touch on, but does it in a way that makes you feel like you're sailing through the book instead of getting bogged down.
here are some examples of the deeper areas that i was glad to see covered that often are skipped in other books: transcoders: james defines what transcoders are, but he also covers the major transcoder vendors, how they impact the website, and how to avoid them. uaprof: this is an industry standard way for devices to communicate their capabilities to a server using these publicly available user-agent profiles. mobile networks: the depth of james' knowledge is shown in the histories he provides around mobile devices, networks, browsers, and more. in talking about mobile networks, for example, he walks through the evolution of gsm, cdma, 3g (umts, w-cdma, cdma2000), hsdpa, ev-do, wimax, and lte, describes their providers and typical bandwidths.
in addition to these deep dives, the book has a lot of breadth. it covers jquery mobile, sencha touch, and other major frameworks. james also covers more conceptual topics such as responsive web design and mobile first.
after the wordpress, joomla, and drupal chapters are three more chapters that offer great advice for general mobile web development. the best for me was the coverage of development and testing tools. james covers user-agent switching as well as all the major emulators (iphone, ipad, android, blackberry, nokia, palm, opera, and windows). he also talks about several device testing services including deviceanywhere (acquired by keynote systems last week) and perfecto mobile.
this book covers everything: mobile networks, devices, frameworks, design, tools, testing, metrics, and more. a better title would be the comprehensive book for mobile web development. if you're just starting out or have even been doing mobile web development for a few years, i highly recommend this book as a guide to the world of the mobile web.
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by
steve souders
Author : James pearce
Publication : Wrox
Isbn : 9788126531011
Store book number : 105
NRS 960.00
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