David Flanagan

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David Flanagan is a computer programmer who spends most of his time writing about JavaScript and Java. His books with O'Reilly include Java in a Nutshell, Java Examples in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, and JavaScript Pocket Reference. David has a degree in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives with his wife and children in the U.S. Pacific Northwest bewteen the cities of Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. David has a blog at www.davidflanagan.com.

JavaScript Pocket Reference by David Flanagan Third Edition April 2012 Print: $12.99 Ebook: $7.99	JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan Sixth Edition May 2011 Print: $49.99 Ebook: $39.99
jQuery Pocket Reference by David Flanagan December 2010 Print: $12.99 Ebook: $10.99	Canvas Pocket Reference by David Flanagan December 2010 Print: $12.99 Ebook: $10.99
The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan , Yukihiro Matsumoto January 2008 Print: $39.99 Ebook: $31.99	JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan Fifth Edition August 2006 Ebook: $39.99
Java in a Nutshell by David Flanagan Fifth Edition March 2005 Print: $44.95 Ebook: $35.99	Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook by David Flanagan , Brett McLaughlin June 2004 Print: $34.99 Ebook: $27.99
Java Examples in a Nutshell by David Flanagan Third Edition January 2004 Print: $39.95 Ebook: $39.99	JavaScript Pocket Reference by David Flanagan Second Edition October 2002 Ebook: $7.99
Java Enterprise in a Nutshell by William Crawford , Jim Farley , David Flanagan Second Edition April 2002 OUT OF PRINT	Java In a Nutshell by David Flanagan Fourth Edition March 2002 OUT OF PRINT
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan Fourth Edition November 2001 OUT OF PRINT	Java Professional Library by Kris Magnusson , David Flanagan , Jim Farley , William Crawford November 2000 OUT OF PRINT
Java Examples in a Nutshell by David Flanagan Second Edition September 2000 OUT OF PRINT	Java in a Nutshell by David Flanagan Third Edition December 1999 OUT OF PRINT
Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell by David Flanagan October 1999 Print: $49.99 Ebook: $39.99	Java Enterprise in a Nutshell by Kris Magnusson , David Flanagan , Jim Farley , William Crawford September 1999 OUT OF PRINT
Java Power Reference by David Flanagan March 1999 OUT OF PRINT	JavaScript Pocket Reference by David Flanagan October 1998 Ebook: $4.99
Javascript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan Third Edition June 1998 OUT OF PRINT	Java Examples in a Nutshell by David Flanagan September 1997 OUT OF PRINT
Java in a Nutshell, Deluxe Edition by David Flanagan June 1997 OUT OF PRINT	Java Reference Library on the Web by John Zukowski , Josh Peck , Patrick Niemeyer , Mark Grand , David Flanagan June 1997 OUT OF PRINT
Java in a Nutshell by David Flanagan Second Edition May 1997 OUT OF PRINT	Netscape IFC in a Nutshell by Dean Petrich January 1997 OUT OF PRINT
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan Second Edition January 1997 OUT OF PRINT	JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Beta Version by David Flanagan August 1996 OUT OF PRINT
Java in a Nutshell by David Flanagan March 1996 OUT OF PRINT	Volume 6C: Motif Tools by David Flanagan August 1994 OUT OF PRINT
X Toolkit Intrinsics Ref Man R5 Third Edition August 1992 Print: $44.95	Programmer's Supplement for R5 of the X Window System by David Flanagan November 1991 OUT OF PRINT

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Five Favorite Features from 5.0
Publish Date: Apr. 20, 2005A lot has been written about Java 5.0's great new features, leaving David Flanagan to focus on this review of five of his favorite new API features: the Callable and Future interfaces, new APIs for varargs and autoboxing, new ability interfaces, the @Override annotation, and MatchResult. Read to the end, where David reveals a bonus sixth feature, a new language syntax supported by Java 5.0 but known to very few. David is the author of Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition. Top Ten Cool New Features of Java 2SE 1.4
Publish Date: Mar. 6, 2002David Flanagan describes his favorite new features in Java 2SE 1.4, with plenty of sample code. Making SQL Queries with JDBC and Displaying Results with Swing
Publish Date: Oct. 19, 2000O'Reilly author discusses making SQL queries with JDBC and displaying results with Swing. By David Flanagan, author of O'Reilly's Java Examples in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (October 2000). An Overview of the Java 2 Platform
Publish Date: Dec. 1, 1998In early December 1998, Sun Microsystems launched the Java 2 platform, a major new release of the Java APIs (application programmer interfaces). Java 2 is a vast improvement upon previous releases: new graphics, user interface, and enterprise capabilities make it three times as large as Java 1.1, and over seven times as large as the initial Java 1.0 release.

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