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- Description
- Table of Contents
- About the author
- Reviews
Plenty of resources offer you snippets of code and a variety of tutorials can show you the solutions to web development problems. But it’s much more valuable (and a better investment of your time!) to learn some core problem-solving skills. This book shares key rules and strategies that will empower you to become a confident coder and web developer, ready to think through whatever complications present themselves. Bengtson, an expert developer, describes 11 challenges typical of a library setting and ones he has faced himself. He then walks you through his thinking, with explorations of alternate approaches, as he works toward a solution. As you follow along, you’ll gain wisdom involving scenarios such as
- integrating a reader app with Dspace;
- tips when using a public API;
- troubleshooting a Google Analytics Event hook in a new application;
- building a database from a collection of CSV files;
- collecting information from a university’s web pages to display in the library website; and
- moving mass quantities of information to the next page of your app.
Armed with the conceptual foundation outlined in this book, you’ll be ready to meet the web development challenges you face in your library.
Preface
Chapter 1 The Problems We Need to Solve
Chapter 2 Tracking Just About Anything in the Client
Chapter 3 Moving Data between Your Web Pages
Chapter 4 Wrestling Same Origin Policy (Or, Why Won’t My App Read This Data?)
Chapter 5 Using FIFIOs to Extract Data without an API
Chapter 6 Using Sideways Development to Improve Web Interfaces
Chapter 7 Pulling Data from Multiple Sources for a Single Interface
Chapter 8 Making a Mobile-Friendly Image Map
Chapter 9 Using Server-Side Scripting to Reshape Troublesome Data
Chapter 10 A Few Last Rules to Follow
Afterword
- Appendix A The Rules
- Appendix B Next Steps
Index
"Say you want to do more-advanced web analytics, extract data without an API, or make a mobile-friendly image map. If you understand the above sentence and have these web-design needs for the library, this book might be just the ticket ... Bengston writes in a breezy, accessible style, and yet his approach is no-nonsense."
— Booklist
"In addition to discussing the many challenging scenarios that he has experienced as a library web developer, such as customizing Google Analytics or building interactive maps, the author shares his ten rules for thinking critically and solving coding-related issues in libraries and demonstrates how these are applied in practice ... Library staff who are mostly self-trained web developers will likely find this helpful in navigating the dynamic and complex web development landscape."
— Library Journal
"This book focuses on how to systematically solve web coding puzzles using critical thinking and holistic examination of the task in context ... Conceptional frameworks alternate with real-life code solutions to illustrate issues from a library perspective."
— CHOICE