Product Description: After completing this self-contained course on server-based Internet applications software, students who start with only the knowledge of how to write and debug a computer program will have learned how to build web-based applications on the scale of Amazon...read more

Product Description: This book is about the summer I spent seeing North America, meeting North Americans, and trying to figure out how people live, writes Greenspun after losing his companion. Youll come face to face with examples of the stunning ethnic, scenic, and cultural richness of the continent...read more

Amazon.com Review: This isn't another cookie-recipe approach to planning a successful Web site. Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing, by MIT veteran Philip Greenspun, is both broadly conceptual and deeply technical, and it assumes that the reader is willing to think seriously about the challenge of building a content site, a community site, or an e-commerce store before plunging in...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Shows readers how to make a site from the ground up, using an RDBMS design. The author takes a humourous approach in teaching readers how to do this in a book on how to do sites his way, and an intermediate/high-end tutorial on relational database backed Web site design. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)