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The Unity game engine has revolutionized the gaming industry with its complete set of intuitive tools.. This book will guide you through the entire process of creating a 3D VR game, from downloading the Unity game engine to publishing your game. It not only gives you a strong foundation, but puts you on the path to game development.

Hit the ground running with React, the open-source technology from Facebook for building rich web applications fast. With this practical guide, Yahoo! web developer Stoyan Stefanov teaches you how to build components-React's basic building blocks-and organize them into maintainable, large-scale apps.

Create scalable, reusable high-quality JavaScript applications and libraries. Learn to think in JavaScript, the language of the web browser. Object-oriented programming made accessible and understandable to web developers. Do it yourself: experiment with examples that can be used in your own scripts.Write better, more maintainable JavaScript code.

phpBB is a free, open source Internet community application, with outstanding discussion forums and membership management. Presenting the process of setting up a phpBB site, this guide helps to create, customize, and manage online community with phpBB. Written by experienced phpBB administrators and enthusiasts, it contains step-by-step examples.

Performance is critical to the success of any website. In this book, web performance experts including Steve Souders, Tom Hughes-Croucher, Nicholas Zakas, and Stoyan Stefanov offer a collection of practical tips, techniques, and advice to help you optimize your site's user experience.

What's the best approach for developing an application with JavaScript? This book helps you answer that question with numerous JavaScript coding patterns and best practices. If you're an experienced developer looking to solve problems related to objects, functions, inheritance, and other language-specific categories, the abstractions and code templates in this guide are idealwhether you're using JavaScript to write a client-side, server-side, or desktop application.Written by JavaScript expert Stoyan StefanovSenior Yahoo! Technical and architect of YSlow 2.0, the web page performance optimization toolJavaScript Patterns includes practical advice for implementing each pattern discussed, along with several hands-on examples. You'll also learn about anti-patterns: common programming approaches that cause more problems than they solve.Explore useful habits for writing high-quality JavaScript code, such as avoiding globals, using single var declarations, and moreLearn why literal notation patterns are simpler alternatives to constructor functionsDiscover different ways to define a function in JavaScriptCreate objects that go beyond the basic patterns of using object literals and constructor functionsLearn the options available for code reuse and inheritance in JavaScriptStudy sample JavaScript approaches to common design patterns such as Singleton, Factory, Decorator, and moreExamine patterns that apply specifically to the client-side browser environment