David Bryant Copeland shows you specific ways to write command-line applications that are easy to use, deploy, and maintain, using a set of clear best practices and the Ruby programming language. This book, now updated for Ruby 2, is designed to make any programmer or system administrator more productive in their job. See our review of the previous edition.

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How can you tap into the wealth of social web data to discover who’s making connections with whom, what they’re talking about, and where they’re located?  In his expanded and thoroughly revised edition, Matthew Russell shows how to acquire, analyze, and summarize data from the social web: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, GitHub, email, websites, and blogs. See our review of original edition.

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William D. Back, Nicholas Goodman and Julian Hyde teache business users and developers how to use Mondrian, the open source data analysis engine and its related tools for strategic business analysis. You'll learn how to design and populate a data warehouse and present the data via a multidimensional model and how to create and add security to a Mondrian schema.

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One-stop reference for learning how to solve problems with Node.js, the de facto framework for building JavaScript-powered servers. You will first be introduced to this exciting technology and what it can do, then learn through comprehensive and easy-to-follow recipes that use a problem-solution approach as Cory Gackenheimer shows you how to fully utilize the Node.js API, and use existing modules to build truly exciting projects.

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Al Sweigart covers the Pygame game library for the Python programming language. Written to be understandable by kids as young as 10 to 12 years old, although it is great for anyone of any age, each chapter gives you the complete source code for a new game and teaches programming concepts from these examples.

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Prepare for the questions, ace the interview and get the Java programming job you deserve  Expert interviewer and Java developer Noel Markham has teamed with Interview Zen to provide challenging Java–specific questions and answers compiled from over 20,000 interviews conducted by real–world IT employers.

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For Agile software professionals, explains why you're going into software debt whether you know it or not—and why the interest on that debt can bring projects to a standstill. Explains forms of software debt, showing how to plan for it intelligently and repay it successfully. Shows how to use the software debt concept to systematically improve architectural agility. See our review of previous edition.

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If you’re grounded in the basics of Objective-C and Xcode, this practical guide takes you through the components you need for building your own iOS apps. With examples from real apps and programming situations, you’ll learn how to create views, manipulate view controllers, and use iOS frameworks for adding features such as audio and video. Matt Neuburg has updated this 4th edition for iOS 7. See our review of iOS 5 edition.

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Dmitri Sotnikov shows you how to apply Clojure programming fundamentals to build a full web application. If you already have some familiarity with this powerful language, you'll learn how to put it to serious practical use. If you're new to it, you'll learn the full process of web development using Clojure with current tools, libraries, and best practices in the language.

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Take your web development experience in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS and apply it toward creating a full-featured business app for iOS and Android. Frank Zammetti shows you how to create a client app using jQuery Mobile wrapped in PhoneGap, and how to create a node.js-based server that uses MongoDB as its data store. 

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