Get up to speed on Android programming, and learn how to create up-to-date user experiences for both handsets and tablets. This extensively revised second edition includes best practices for using Android 4 APIs. If you’re experienced with Java or Objective-C, you’ll gain the knowledge necessary for building well-engineered applications. See our review of the previous edtion.

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Guide to applying agile development and modern software engineering practices with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012. Subtitled "From Backlog to Continuous Feedback" it focuses on systematically eliminating waste, improving transparency, and delivering better software more quickly and painlessly.

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Subtitled A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code takes an unflinching look at behavioral problems in the software engineering industry, shedding much-needed light on the social forces that make it difficult for programmers to do their job. Also discusses tools and techniques for effective and aggressive debugging.

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Easy-to-follow guide that covers core scripting concepts using four practical examples to reinforce learning. Each chapter builds on the previous one as you add custom formatting, error handling, input validation, help files and documentation and more.

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Open source statistical language R is fast becoming the de facto standard for statistical computing and analysis in science, business, engineering, and related fields. This book examines this complex language using simple statistical examples, for simple summary statistics, hypothesis testing, creating graphs, regression, and much more.

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Subtitled Developing Real-World Web Applications with ASP.NET MVC, this book helps you get up and running with ASP.NET MVC 4 and understand how the framework performs. It shows how to use its features to build modern server-side web applications. In the process, you’ll learn how to work with HTML, JavaScript, the Entity Framework, and other web technologies.

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Covers the creation of ten apps that will run on multiple mobile platforms, from design to completion, using the PhoneGap (Apache Cordova) APIs. Begins with the importance of localization and how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript interact to create the mobile app experience. then proceeds through mobile apps of various genres. Enter our competition to win a copy.

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Even if you’ve never created a pivot table before, this book will help you leverage all their amazing flexibility and analytical power. In early chapters, learn how to generate complex pivot reports complete with drill-down capabilities and accompanying charts. Then discover how to build a comprehensive, dynamic pivot table reporting system for any business task or function.

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Subtitled "Automate Anything with BDD Tools and Techniques" has over forty practical recipes for testing desktop, web, mobile, and server applications across a variety of platforms,  giving you tools that you can use to automate any system that you encounter.

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Analyzes project management methodology, explaining why it creates problems for software development projects by describing 12 ways in which software projects are different from other kinds of projects. Also analyzes the project management to discover 10 hidden assumptions that are invalid in the context of software projects.

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