For intermediate and experienced Android app developers that are already familiar with writing apps, this book provides guiding principles for how to best design and develop Android apps with security in mind. It explores concepts that can be used to secure apps and how developers can use and incorporate these security features into their apps.

Portable and precise, this pocket-sized guide delivers ready answers for the day-to-day administration of Windows Server 2012. Zero in on core operations and daily tasks using quick-reference tables, instructions, and lists. You’ll get the focused information to solve problems and get the job done-whether at your desk or in the field.

Focused entirely on creating production-quality rich animations and transitions with CSS3. Covers everything web developers need to know, teaching through solid examples that help web professionals build their skills one step at a time. Learn how to create 2D transforms that serve as the foundation for CSS3 animations; use transitions to make changes come alive  and master essential keyframing techniques.

What is bad data? Some people consider it a technical phenomenon, like missing values or malformed records, but bad data includes a lot more.Here twenty authors reveal how they’ve recovered from nasty data problems. Bottom line? Bad data is data that gets in the way. This book explains effective ways to get around it.

Takes you on a journey towards mastering modern JavaScript development in three phases: design, construction, and maintenance. Written for JavaScript developers with intermediate-level skills, this book will give you the knowledge you need to create a cross-browser JavaScript library from the ground up.

Take your PHP skills to the next level with this fully revised and updated third edition of Larry Ullman's Visual QuickPro Guide. Fourteen chapters of step-by-step content cover specific topics in direct, focused segments to show how PHP is used in real-world applications.

A practical how-to book on Excel programming, suitable for readers already familiar with the Excel user interface. Introduces programming concepts via hands-on exercises and custom projects. Goes from recording and editing a macro and writing VBA code to working with XML documents and using classic ASP to access and display data on the Web.

Linux is today’s dominant Internet server platform. System administrators and Web developers need deep Linux fluency, including expert knowledge of shells and the command line. Mark Sobell has brought together comprehensive, insightful guidance on the tools sysadmins, developers, and power users need most in this day-to-day reference.

This collection of recipes brings together more than one hundred self-contained, downloadable examples, each with an in-depth explanation of how the code works and how to adapt it for your own needs. You can apply them immediately in virtually any web or mobile app, and with any server-side platform, including PHP, .NET, Java, Ruby, Node.js, or Python.

This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated by to reflect the new Ubuntu 12.10 ("Quantal Quetzal") and the forthcoming Ubuntu 13.04. Covers all you need to know about installation, configuration, productivity, multimedia, development, system administration, server operations, networking, virtualization, security, DevOps, and techniques you won't find in any other book.

Learn how to create games, gadgets, and home automation peojects with the AVR microcontroller used in the Arduino. First set up your development environment and learn how the "naked" AVR differs from the Arduino. Then  gain experience by building a few simple gizmos and learning how everything can be interconnected before proceeding to projects.

This graduate-level textbook introduces fundamental concepts and methods in machine learning. It describes several important modern algorithms, provides the theoretical underpinnings of these algorithms, and illustrates key aspects for their application. Presents novel theoretical tools and concepts while giving concise proofs even for relatively advanced topics.