Written by a core developer on the Grails team, this practical guide takes you behind the curtain to reveal the inner workings of its 2.0 feature set. You’ll learn best practices writing simpler Groovy code and for building and deploying Grails applications, including performance, security, scaling, tuning, debugging, and monitoring.

Lays out practical, proven steps to take your startup from initial idea to product/market fit and beyond. Packed with over 30 case studies, and based on a year of interviews with over a hundred founders and investors, the book is a practical guide for Lean Startup practitioners.

Teach–yourself tutorial for developers who already know Windows C and C++ and are eager to add parallelism to their code. With a focus on applying tools, techniques, and language extensions to implement parallelism, this essential resource for Intel′s Parallel Studio teaches you how to write programs for multicore.

Guide for experienced developers who want to create, ship, and profit from Windows 8 apps built with HTML5 and JavaScript. Co-authored by Chris Sells, who led the team that built Microsoft’s official Windows 8 JavaScript app templates covers every facet of development with Microsoft’s new JavaScript framework and WinRT.

Taking a "Problem-Solution Approach", this second edition offers more than 100 code recipes, and guides you step-by-step through a wide range of useful topics using complete and real-world working code examples.  It has been updated to include the Jelly Bean Android SDK as well as earlier releases.

Use Excel 2013 to automate virtually any routine task, and save yourself hours, days, maybe even weeks. Then, learn how to make Excel do things you thought were simply impossible! You’ll discover macro techniques you won’t find anywhere else and learn how to create automated reports that are amazingly powerful and useful.

Provides architectural guidance through patterns and antipatterns and shows how to build real SOA services that feature flexibility, availability, and scalability. Identifies major SOA pressure points and provides reusable techniques to address them.

Reference work with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting techniques, and workarounds. Discover how the experts keep their Windows 8 systems running smoothly-and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery.

Concise, step-by-step explanations of core tools and tasks, with plenty of helpful screen shots and crammed with examples with a special section on widgets. This Visual QuickStart Guide includes an hour-long HD video and eBook in ePub, PDF, and Mobi eBook formats.

A quick 100-page guide to Anders Hejlsberg's new take on JavaScript. With this brief, fast-paced introduction to TypeScript, .NET, Web and Windows 8 application developers who are already familiar with JavaScript will easily get up to speed with TypeScript and decide whether or not to start incorporating it into their own development.

Learn to build fast and scalable software in JavaScript with Node.js. After an overview of Node.js this book dives into the code, core concepts, and APIs. In–depth coverage pares down the essentials to cover debugging, unit testing, and flow control so that you can start building and testing your own modules right away.