Subtitled "Automate, Deploy, Scale, Maintain, and Sleep at Night" this book takes you on a guided tour of the current best practices in Rails deployment and management. You'll find in-depth explanations on effectively running a Rails app using open source tools such as Puppet, Capistrano, and Vagrant and learn how to use Ganglia and Nagios to monitor your application's health and gather metrics.

Shows you how to add the power of social networking to your mobile apps on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, helping  you write apps that connect to Facebook and Twitter quickly, securely, and discreetly. Instead of starting from scratch, let's you build on the resources, data storage capacity, and familiar features of these platforms.

This practical guide shows you how to develop a solid mobile strategy for the enterprise, starting with an effective mobile website. Provides essential architectural and implementation guidance, as well as mobile-specific design patterns for building cross-platform and native applications.

A quick overview of the new API for accessing Windows 8 to get you started developing Windows 8 applications in this new environment. Written at a brisk space and a no-nonsense style, you'll find exactly what you need to understand what's different in WinRT compared to what you know, and pointers on how to develop solid WinRT applications even before Windows 8's release.

In this fun and intriguing guide, and by using fundamental math and doing simple programming with the Ruby and R languages, you’ll learn how to model a problem and work toward a solution. All you need is a basic understanding of programming. After a quick introduction to Ruby and R, explore a wide range of questions learning how to assemble, process, simulate, and analyze the available data.

Subtitled "A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process" this book is intended for all team members, managers, and executives provides descriptions enhanced by more than two hundred illustrations based on an entirely new visual icon language for describing Scrum’s roles, artifacts, and activities.

This book presents the C# 5.0 language in a succinct and visual format in which figures are of prime importance. The author uses short, focused code samples; and clear, concise explanations with each important concept distilled  into simple but accurate illustrations.

Straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn how to use Google+’s latest improvements to connect with everyone you care about and share what you want to share.

Take your web development skills from browser to server with Node and learn how to write fast, highly scalable network applications on this JavaScript-based platform. With this hands-on guide, you’ll master Node’s core fundamentals, gain experience with several built-in and contributed modules, and learn the differences and parallels between client- and server-side programming.

The latest title in the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl has the subtitle Patterns & Constraints for Building Enterprise Solutions with REST. It is a comprehensive tutorial and reference for designing and building RESTful services in conjucntion with service-orineted architecture.

With the arrival of HTML5, jQuery, and Ajax, JavaScript web development skills are more valuable  than ever. This   hands-on JavaScript tutorial covers the fundamentals of Modern JavaScript.  Using line-by-line code walkthroughs and end-of-chapter exercises, it will help you get results fast, even if you’ve never written a line of JavaScript before.

This collection of  "Biting And Humorous Tales"  is drawn from Michel Lopp's management experiences at Apple, Netscape, Symantec, and Borland, among others. If you are  an aspiring manager, a current manager, or just wondering what the heck a manager does all day, there is a story in this book that will help you survive and prosper amongst the general craziness.