Fluent Conference 2013: JavaScript & Beyond Complete Video Compilation

Fluent Conference 2013: JavaScript & Beyond Complete Video Compilation - Overall this is great video collection suits web developers of various experiences. Personally I am refreshed on  a lot topic as well introduce many new things.

Breaking Limits on JavaScript for Mobile HTML5 - will help you one various aspects of the limitation of mobile web development and the way to deal with them.

The ABC of Data Visualization - reinforced my understanding of reusable charting and provide me a fresh look how to approach it

Secrets of Awesome JavaScript API Design and Secure RESTful API Automation with JavaScript - on the api design consideration

Flow Control with Promises -  use promises to control the flow of program

Improving JavaScript Code Quality - provide overview on various way/tools to minimize mistaken etc.

I will highly recommend this video set.

Interactive Data Visualization for the Web By Scott Murray

Interactive Data Visualization for the Web by Scott Murray from O'Reilly Media is an excellent book on get started on D3 for data visualization. The book starts off with overview on web technology, specifically on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The author then follow the natural mind set to construct a graph from a dataset. Step by step, the power of D3 on data visualization is present to user. Particularly for me, the chapter 5, data, help me grasp the core of D3 to interact with data. Furthermore, the free online version has example readily available for reader to play around to enforce the learning. I will highly recommend this book for anyone want to learn d3 library. 

Introducing Windows Azure for IT Professionals By Mitch Tulloch

Introducing Windows Azure for IT Professionals is targeting the professionals who want get to know what MsS Azure can offer. It provides high level of introduction on various services or options the azure can offer. As the title indicates this book only touch the surface on each individual features, however it is useful for businesses to grasp what feature is needed and then dive deeper using addition resources provided. Overall, this is a good resource to get a overview on MS azure for beginner.