Bøger af Jon Westfall

With Beginning Android Web Apps Development, you'll learn how to apply HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ajax and other Web standards for use on the Android mobile platform, by building a variety of fun and visually stimulating games and other web applications! If you've done some basic web development, and you want to build your skills to create exceptional web apps, you'll find everything you seek in the discussions and examples in this book.Each application you'll build in Beginning Android Web Application Development will show you solutions that you can apply to many of your own projects. Each example shares techniques and coding solutions that will inspire your own work. You'll learn how to tie your Android apps into Twitter through two apps that you'll build: Who's that Tweet?!, a quiz game based on celebrity accounts, and I Love Ham, a coding investigation into search phrases and rhyming. Your Android web app development skills will then proceed in another direction, as you discover the power of HTML5 in two game apps: Scavenger Hunt, which introduces you to the HTML5 GPS location API, and Spies!, a location-based application that shows you how to use CSS3, Ajax, and HTML5 within multi-player environments. You'll also create an Android web application which checks the arrival time of buses and light-rails through the use of Portland, Oregon's open Tri-Met data API! This app is a great template for other apps you may want to build in the future, and showcases the important techniques for incorporating cloud-based apps into web games. After reading Beginning Android Web Apps Development, you will have built real apps and developed along the way the skills you'll need to create highly interactive, professional web applications... and, your journey will be engaging and enjoyable!

What happens when a mediocre ghost's afterlife is disrupted by two hipsters and their baby? For Franklin, who doesn't quite get pop culture references and never studied too hard in specter school, nothing good. Join him as he eventually rids his home of the unwanted trendy non-conformists. Along the way you'll meet others in this short story anthology - everyone from a vengeful supernatural being bent on enforcing morality, to a lawyer who was not so happy to receive a visit from Santa Claus last Christmas!

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be the opposite sex? Aaron Lee doesn't have to wonder. For nearly 20 years his body has been able to reshape itself, turning him into a her at will. Crafting full lives for himself and his female half, Aaron has kept this ability and his asexuality a secret from everyone around him, until now.Inspired to tell his best friend, Sabrina, things seem fine until a chance comment in a work meeting reveals the expertise of his other half. Slowly Aaron descends into a dangerous game of dual identity, family drama, and ancestral history. Emerging on the other side, will he or her ever be the same?

With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has created a completely new smartphone operating system that focuses on allowing users to be productive with their smartphone in new ways, while offering seamless integration and use of Microsoft Office Mobile as well as other productivity apps available in the Microsoft App Store.