Author › Joe Marini
Joe Marini is a Senior Developer Advocate at Google, and has worked in the web and software industries for more than 20 years. He was an original member of the Dreamweaver engineering team at Macromedia, and held prominent early roles in creating products such as QuarkXPress, Microsoft Expression Blend, mFactory’s mTropolis, and Extensis QX-Tools. He is regularly a featured speaker at industry conferences and has authored or co-authored several publications on web and software development. Prior to Google, Joe was responsible for the mobile web developer platform for Windows Phone 7 at Microsoft. His book, The Document Object Model, is widely regarded as the definitive resource for working with the DOM.
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Teaches how to use jQuery to build web pages that today's users (and clients) are looking for, from complex animation effects to professional user interface controls.
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Introduces the LESS and Sass tools—dynamic CSS style sheet preprocessors that add features like variables, conditionals, and functions to the CSS language and can accelerate complex CSS implementations.
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Take a quick tour of the free web development tool Aptana Studio and its features for building rich HTML sites that integrate CSS and JavaScript.
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Shows how to use the jQuery Mobile framework to create visually rich, interactive web pages for mobile devices.
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Introduces the concepts behind the HTML5 File API technology.
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Offers a detailed tour of the foundational programming language for several Microsoft platforms, including Windows, ASP.NET, Silverlight, SharePoint, and Windows Phone.
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Surveys the core principles and techniques essential to building web sites for mobile devices.
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Introduces the technical concepts behind the Canvas in HTML5 and shows how to perform drawing operations directly in a web page.
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Details the latest enhancements for client-side forms found in the HTML5 specification.
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Concepts and techniques for using Prototype and script.aculo.us for building cross-browser, interactive, visually appealing web sites.
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Introduces the concepts and techniques behind developing Silverlight-based applications for Windows Phone 7.
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Presents features that experienced developers need to streamline workflows and introduce dynamic new functions to projects.
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Discusses the implementation of XML formats, and how these formats work in real-world situations.
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Joe Marini takes you through the basic rules of XML, discusses suggested tools, and explains XML syntax.
