Shows you how to approach legacy "brownfield" applications with the concepts, patterns, and tools you've learned to apply to new projects. Using an existing application as an example, this book guides you in applying the techniques and best practices you need to make it more maintainable and receptive to change.

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Jim Waldo peels away 15 years of additions and changes to reveal the very best parts of Java, and shows how those parts alone will help you build better applications. You may not like some of the features this book reveals, but you'll actually write better code with them.

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Divided into specific game genre projects this book covers everything from old classics such as a Missile Command-style game, to new genres such as tower defense. The chapters build in complexity and new tools are introduced along the way that can be reused for other games.

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This Adventure Book has building and programming instructions for eight innovative robots. Follow two astronauts through training in the basics of programming NXT robots, building increasingly sophisticated robots as the book progresses. Learn essential programming skills - how to make robots move, how to use sensors.

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Perl has evolved into a multipurpose, multiplatform language for heavy-duty web applications, the cloud, systems administration, natural language processing, and financial engineering. Now in its 3rd edition this book explores Perl’s role regarding all of these tasks and more.

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This introduction to Apple's Cocoa programming environment and its Objective-C language quickly gets you up to speed with step-by-step tutorials, hands-on tasks, and numerous examples. You'll learn just enough foundation and theory to ground you before jumping right into building applications, managing events, creating GUIs, and more.

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Using a Web site created by the author as a reference point, you′ll go through the steps of creating a live, fully functional application for the Web using Silverlight 4 and the Silverlight Control Toolkit. Along the way, the book addresses important design considerations, such as the use of Web Services and the SQL Server database.

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Second edition has been updated to help you take advantage of everything Facebook now offers. It helps  you with specific Facebook tasks, such as signing up, networking, shopping, joining groups, finding or filling a job, and a whole lot more. You'll learn how to create your own Facebook page and make connections with other members.

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Traditional research models tell us very little about how people will actively navigate and search through information structures and what information they will choose to consume. IFT is a new theory in Adaptive Information Interaction. Its main aim is to create technology that is better shaped to users. 

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