VimL is the scripting language of the Vim editor. If you've ever edited or saved a vimrc file, you've written VimL. With VimL you can configure basic settings and specify option values- or add entirely new functionality. You can write entire plugins in VimL.This quick and easy introduction from Benjamin Klein helps you create your own Vim plugin while learning the concepts and syntax of VimL.

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Jon Raasch and his co-authors go beyond design concepts to show data analysts, developers, and web designers how they can put modern JavaScript libraries to work to analyze data and then present it using visualizations. They also demonstrate the use of each technique with real–world use cases, showing how to apply the appropriate JavaScript and jQuery libraries to achieve the desired visualization.

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Bring your data to the forefront with effective visualization and communication approaches. Zach and Chris Gemignani show you tools and strategies for getting the job done right. Learn thebest practices of data presentation and the ways that reporting and dashboards can help organizations effectively gauge performance,identify areas for improvement, and communicate results.

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Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years, shifting from code-heavy monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices. Sam Newman provides you with a firm grounding in the concepts while diving into current solutions for modeling, integrating, testing, deploying, and monitoring your own autonomous services. Follow a fictional company throughout the book to learn how building a microservice architecture affects a single domain.

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In a world of mobile devices, new browsers, and changing standards, each page of your website can require an unmanageably large number of separate designs. Responsive web design is a set of techniques that allow you to design pages that efficiently adapt to whatever device or platform loads them. Matthew Carver builds on the best practices that have emerged from production experience. He skips pure theory and shows you exactly how to make responsive web design work for you in the real world. 

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The release of Java SE 8 introduced significant enhancements that impact the Core Java technologies and APIs. Many old Java idioms are no longer required and while new features like lambda expressions will increase programmer productivity, navigating the changes can be challenging. This new tutorial from Cay S. Horstmann offers a faster, easier pathway for learning the language and libraries. There’s plenty of material to cover, but it’s presented in small chunks organized for quick access and easy understanding.

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A complete introduction to programming in the open source music language ChucK. You'll learn the basics of digital sound creation and manipulation as you progress through this easy-to-follow book. Create meaningful and rewarding digital compositions and "instruments" that make sound and music in direct response to program logic, scores, gestures, and other systems connected via MIDI or the network.

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Get quick answers for developing and debugging applications with Swift, Apple’s multi-paradigm programming language, designed to work with Cocoa and Cocoa Touch in tandem with Objective-C. This pocket reference by Tony Gray is an on-the-job tool for learning Swift’s modern language features, including type safety, generics, type inference, closures, tuples, automatic memory management, and support for Unicode. 

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With the subtitle "How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale" this hardback asks, How well does your organization respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies when building software-based products? Through case studies, you’ll learn how successful enterprises have rethought everything from governance and financial management to systems architecture and organizational culture in the pursuit of radically improved performance. 

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In the Teach Yourself series, Jennifer Kyrnin helps you create websites that work equally well on everything from smartphones and tablets to multi-screen monitors. Using a step-by-step approach she shows how to use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build the responsive sites today’s users and clients want. In just a few hours, you’ll be building layouts, sites, forms, and web apps that automatically adapt to virtually any device. 
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Ian Molyneaux shows you how to test mission-critical applications for scalability and performance before you deploy them—whether it’s to the cloud or a mobile device. You’ll learn the complete testing process lifecycle step-by-step, along with best practices to plan, coordinate, and conduct performance tests on your applications. He explains the pitfalls of an inadequate testing strategy and offers a robust, structured approach for ensuring that your applications perform well and scale effectively.

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 With the subtitle Android programming for kids and the rest of us, Paula Beer and Carl Simmons introduce creative young readers to the world of mobile programming—no experience required! Featuring more than 30 fun invent-it-yourself projects, this full-color, fun-to-read book starts with the building blocks you need to create a few practice apps. Then you'll learn the skills you need to bring your own app ideas to life.

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