With over 100 recipes to help you develop iOS applications with Xamarin, Dimitris Tavlikos provides you with the necessary knowledge and skills to be part of the mobile development era, using C#. Starting from installing the necessary tools, he covers everything you need to develop an application ready to be deployed plus best practices for interacting with the device hardware, such as the GPS, compass, and accelerometer.

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If you have questions about using Intuit's small buinsess accounting package QuickBooks, Gail Perry and Michelle Long provide answers in a visual step-by-step format with lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions. Numbered steps guide you through each task including new QuickBooks features for 2014 - Income Tracker, Bank Feeds, and Rules.

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Presents a comprehensive overview of modern mathematical concepts, models, methods and tools with applications in computer graphics, computer vision and machine learning. Hongyu Guo covers 15 topics arranged in three parts: algebra, geometry and topology, with an emphasis on tensors and manifolds, and there's a separate part on applications.

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In this step-by-step guide to creating dynamic websites, Robin Nixon first explore each technology separately and then shows how to use them together, demoing up valuable web programming practices along the way. At the end of the book, you’ll put everything together to build a fully functional social networking site.

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Start-to-finish guidance for planning, customizing, deploying, integrating, managing, and securing both cloud and on-premise based versions of Dynamics CRM from Dynamics implementer Marc Wolenik. Covers Dynamics CRM 2013 including its revamped “Flow” interface and advanced cross-platform mobile client support and many features first introduced in Microsoft’s “Polaris” and Update Rollup 12.

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For the third edition of  the comprehensive, authoritative guide to delivering production-quality code with Rails, Kevin Faustino joins Obie Fernandez to illuminate the entire Rails 4 API, including its  idioms, design approaches, and libraries. They present extensive new and updated content on security, performance, caching, Haml, RSpec, Ajax, the Asset Pipeline, and more.

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Interested in developing web applications in the cloud? In this slim hands-on introduction to OpenShift, the open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering from Red Hat, present the steps necessary to build, deploy, and host a complete real-world application on OpenShift, without you having to read long, detailed explanations of the technologies involved.

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Covering multiple SQL Server versions from 2005 to 2014, Dmitri Korotkevitch explains how different SQL Server components work “under the hood” and how they communicate with each other. He explores new SQL Server 2014 features including the new Cardinality Estimator, In-Memory OLTP Engine (codename Hekaton), and Clustered Columnstore Indexes.

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Tizen is an open source, HTML5–centric platform designed for multiple device categories. Written by experts, this guide includes chapters on both web and native application development, covering subjects such as location and social features, advanced UIs, animations, sensors and multimedia and is a comprehensive resource for learning how to develop apps suitable for a range of smart devices.

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Many systems development practitioners find traditional “one-size-fits-all” processes inadequate for the growing complexity, diversity, dynamism, and assurance needs of their products and services. The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM) responds with a principle- and risk-based framework for defining and evolving your project and corporate process assets. This book explains ICSM’s framework of decision criteria and principles, and shows how to apply them through relevant examples.

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Detailed recipes for a wide range of common iOS game-development issues, ranging from 2D and 3D math to Game Center integration, and OpenGL to performance. Rather than focus on specific game engines for iOS, such as Cocos2D or the Corona SDK, Jonathon Manning and Paris Buttfield-Addison deal with baked-in iOS technologies. You’ll learn solutions for everything from tile-matching games to racing, with working code that you can use right away.

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Written by the inventors of the technology, this edition of the definitive technical reference for the Java Virtual Machine fully describes the invokedynamic instruction and method handle mechanism added in Java SE 7, and gives the formal Prolog specification of the type-checking verifier introduced in Java SE 6.

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