Applications – The Info Search

Next Series: Google Applications Productivity

Admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:11:21 +0000

Revolutionary new software applications are constantly emerging onto the market. As part of an academic series written on alternative technology, this text presents key information on Google Applications Productivity and encourages hands-on learning throughout the material.

Price: $78.67

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Mining Google Web Services: Building Applications with the Google API

Admin — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:01:21 +0000

Google Brings Data Mining to the People!

Virtually everyone sees Google as, hands down, the best online search tool. Now you can use and improve on Google technology in your own applications.
Mining Google Web Services teaches you dozens of techniques for tapping the power of the Google API. Google already gives you fine-grained control over your search criteria, and this book shows you how to exert the same control in your own focused search and analysis applications. With just a little knowledge of JavaScript, VBA, Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio .NET, PHP, or Java, you will get better (and more relevant) search results–faster and more easily. Here’s a little of what you’ll find covered inside:

Improving the speed and accuracy of searches
Performing data mining across the Internet
Using Google Web Services to search a single website
Building search applications for mobile devices
Using caching techniques to improve application performance and reliability
Analyzing Google data
Creating searches for users with special needs
Discovering new uses for Google
Obtaining historical data using cached pages
Performing spelling checks on any text
Reducing the number of false search hits

Whether your goal is to improve your own searches or share specialized search capabilities with others, this is the one resource that will see you through the job from start to finish.

Price: $29.99

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Accelerated GWT: Building Enterprise Google Web Toolkit Applications (Expert’s Voice in Web Development)

Admin — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 08:31:21 +0000

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a key member of Google’s popular array of software development solutions, and is easily the most popular Ajax framework solution for Java developers. Fully compatible with the most popular Java frameworks, Grails and Spring among them, GWT is quickly going to become an indispensable part of Java-minded developers’ knowledge base.

Accelerated Google Web Toolkit offers a fast paced yet thorough introduction to GWT, offering serious developers not only key insights into the framework’s capabilities, but also into how readers can most effectively incorporate GWT into their daily development routine.

See the following resources for more information on the Google Web Toolkit:

GWT project website:

http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/

Price: $36.99

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Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax: From Novice to Professional

Admin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:19:21 +0000

The Google Maps API remains one of the showcase examples of the Web 2.0 development paradigm, making it fairly trivial for third-party developers to incorporate dynamic mapping services into Web applications. In fact, interest in the Google service is so strong that it arguably sparked the mashup phenomenon, along with a number of websites such as http://www.gmapsmania.com intended to highlight some of the exciting applications developers are building using the mapping API.

Google Maps Application Development is the first book to comprehensively introduce the service from a developer-perspective, showing readers how they can integrate mapping features into their Web applications.

Proceeding far beyond creating a simplistic map display, readers are shown how to draw upon a variety of data sources such as geocode.us and the U.S. Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line data to build comprehensive geocoding services for mapping any location in North America.

Readers are also guided through various examples demonstrating how to encourage user interaction such as pinpointing map locations, adding comments, and building community-driven maps.

Price: $34.99

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Google Web Toolkit Applications

Admin — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:56:21 +0000

“Ryan clearly understands the GWT value proposition and how GWT integrates into a diverse web technology stack–and not just in a theoretical way. With the popularity of gpokr.com and kdice.com, Ryan can speak with the authority of concrete success.”

–Bruce Johnson, creator of Google Web Toolkit

“This book distinguishes itself from other books on GWT in that it walks through the entire process of building several nontrivial GWT applications, not the toy applications that most books present.”

–R. Mark Volkmann, Object Computing, Inc.

“Google Web Toolkit Applications is an excellent resource for any GWT developer. Solutions to challenges commonly encountered in GWT are presented through the design and development of actual applications. The applications developed throughout the text demonstrate best practices from simple UI design all the way to custom code generation, and are presented with little pretext about the amount of Java knowledge a given developer may have. Advanced concepts are not withheld but are presented in a way that will be understood by both novice and seasoned developers alike. Good application development practices and proper Model View Controller design is reinforced throughout the book, nearly guaranteeing that the reader will come away a better programmer. “

–Jason Essington, Senior Web/Java Engineer, Green River Computing

“Dewsbury’s Google Web Toolkit Applications is a book for both experts and beginner programmers who want to discover this open source Java software development framework, as well as write Ajax applications. A very detailed book!”

–Massimo Nardone, Advisory IT Security Architect

Accelerate and Simplify Ajax Development with Google Web Toolkit

Get the edge you need to deliver exceptional user experiences with Google Web Toolkit Applications, a guidebook that provides web developers with core information and instructions for creating rich web applications. Whether you’re a developer who needs to build a high-performance front end for Java, PHP, or Ruby applications, or to integrate with external web services, this resource from expert Google Web Toolkit (GWT) developer Ryan Dewsbury delivers the in-depth coverage you’ll need.

In this valuable book, insider Ryan Dewsbury provides instructions for using the robust tool set and gets you on your way to creating first-class web applications by providing a comprehensive overview of GWT technology. In addition, he shares his “in-the-trenches” insights on

Building elegant and responsive user interfaces with Cascading Style Sheets and GWT’s Widgets and Panels
Creating seamless user experiences through asynchronous communication with HTTP, REST, JSON/JSONP, and RPC Interoperating with web standards–such as XML, RSS, and Atom–and web services–such as Google Maps, Amazon Books, Yahoo! Search, Flickr, and Blogger
Overcoming browser security restrictions, such as HTTP’s two-connection limit and the Same-Origin policy
Accelerating development, using software engineering, code generation, internationalization, application patterns, and Java tools
Deploying for optimal performance with resource compression and caching
Building five non-trivial applications: a gadget application with a rich drag-and-drop interface, a multi-search application that makes requests to many search engines, a blog editor application for managing entries across multiple blogs, a web-based instant messenger, and a database manager for a traditional web page

This practical guide to GWT introduces you to the technology; provides techniques, tips, and examples; and puts you on the road to delivering top-notch user experiences for your web applications.

Price: $59.99

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Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax: From Novice to Professional

Admin — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:02:21 +0000

Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax is the first book to comprehensively introduce the service from a developer-perspective, showing readers how they can integrate mapping features into their Rails-driven Web applications.

Proceeding far beyond simplistic map display, readers are shown how to draw upon a variety of data sources such as the U.S. Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line data and Google’s own geocoding feature to build comprehensive geocoding services for mapping many locations around the world.

Readers are also guided through various examples demonstrating how to encourage user interaction such as pinpointing map locations, adding comments, and building community-driven maps.

Price: $34.99

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Google Scholar and More: New Google Applications and Tools for Libraries and Library Users

Admin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:10:21 +0000

In only a few years, Google has become an authoritative provider of multiple products which have changed the digital information landscape. This book discusses how libraries can go beyond Google’s basic search and Scholar functions to expand services for their patrons. Respected authorities reveal the expanding variety of new Google applications developed in the past few years, many of which have not received wide attention and are as yet not often used in libraries. Applications explored include Google Co-op, Google News, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, and Google Talk.

This book also discusses different important aspects of the company’s expansion of functions, such as the failure of the Google Answers experiment, the broad variety of free Google applications that librarians can use to collaborate, and the success of Google’s Blogger, among others. A helpful chronology of Google’s growth is provided, as well as comparative analyses between various Google functions and other functions that are currently available. The book is extensively referenced.

This book is an invaluable resource for academic librarians, public librarians, school librarians, library science faculty, and special librarians.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Library Administration.

Price: $45.95

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Building Search Applications: Lucene, LingPipe, and Gate

Admin — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:20:21 +0000

Lucene, LingPipe, and Gate are popular open source tools to build powerful search applications. Building Search Applications describes functions from Lucene that include indexing, searching, ranking, and spelling correction to build search engines. Use LingPipe and Gate to find the meaning of text to make search applications more useful.

With this book you will learn to:

– Extract tokens from text using custom tokenizers and analyzers from Lucene, LingPipe, and Gate.
– Construct a search engine index with an optional backend database to manage large document collections.
– Explore the wide range of Lucene queries to search an index, understand the ranking algorithm for a query, and suggest spelling corrections.
– Find the names of people, places, and other entities in text using LingPipe and Gate.
– Categorize documents by topic using classifiers and build groups of self-organized documents using clustering algorithms from LingPipe.
– Create a Web crawler to scan the Web, Intranet, or desktop using Nutch.
– Track the sentiment of articles published on the Web with LingPipe
– Detect plagiarism of documents using a registered document collection.

Price: $44.95

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