Dave Crenshaw's Invaluable series reveals how to build a career improvement plan by increasing personal productivity, pursuing different avenues for self-education, and setting up a documented standard of performance.

This installment in the series, Developing Your Business Savvy, explains how understanding your company, your role, and the future of your industry will enhance your value as an employee and advance your talents and career. The course covers how to increase savvy by researching market trends, enhancing your product and service knowledge, and understanding customers and their complaints. Exercise files are included with the course.

If you�re looking to use the single-page application model to build your site�s frontend, Backbone.js is an ideal framework for the job. This practical guide provides all the information you need to create structured javascript applications using Backbone.js and its unique flavor of the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture.