Wednesday, 08 August 2012 |
Online communities provide a wide range of opportunities for supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or building open source software. This expanded 2nd edition shows you how to keep community projects on track, make use of social media, and organize collaborative events. Its 12 interviewees include Linus Torvalds and Tim O’Reilly.
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Tuesday, 07 August 2012 |
With the subtitle "Choosing the Best Cloud Adoption Strategy for Your Business" this is a guide to cloud decision making for senior executives in both technology and non-technology roles. It presents practical business cases, vignettes, and techniques to help you understand when cloud investments make sense and when they don’t.
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Monday, 06 August 2012 |
Tested, easy-to-adapt code examples illuminate every step of Go development, helping you write highly scalable, concurrent software. Includes Go-specific idioms for working with strings, collections, arrays, error handling, goroutines, slices, maps, channels, numbers, dates, times, files, networking, web apps, the runtime, and more.
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Sunday, 05 August 2012 |
Subtitled, The science of computers and how it shapes our world, this book explores how this young discipline grew from its theoretical conception by pioneers such as Turing, through its growth spurts in the Internet, its difficult adolescent stage where the promises of AI were never achieved and dot-com bubble burst, to its current stage as a (semi)mature field, now capable of remarkable achievements.
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Saturday, 04 August 2012 |
Photoshop CS6 can be overwhelming if you’re just getting started. This book help you in learning Photoshop by explaining things in a friendly, conversational style—without technical jargon. After a thorough introduction to the program, you’ll delve deep into Photoshop’s secrets with expert tips and practical advice you can use every day. Includes a guided tour of Photoshop’s new workspace.
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Friday, 03 August 2012 |
Covers Windows Phone 7 design and architecture with best practices for building a variety of applications. Each chapter focuses on a single Windows Phone building block or feature and shows how to apply it in your applications. If you’re an experienced .NET developer familiar with Silverlight, you’ll gain deep insights into the Windows Phone platform.
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Thursday, 02 August 2012 |
Learn how to use PHP, MySQL, and Apache together to create dynamic, interactive websites and applications using the three leading open-source web development technologies using a straightforward, step-by-step approach in which each lesson builds on previous ones. Supplied CD includes complete starter kit for PC/Mac/Linux.
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Wednesday, 01 August 2012 |
Mark Bates shows web developers why CoffeeScript is so useful and how it avoids the problems that often make JavaScript code buggy and unmanageable. He guides you through every feature and technique you need to write quality CoffeeScript code and shows how to take advantage of CoffeeScript’s increasingly robust toolset.
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Tuesday, 31 July 2012 |
Organized around concepts and use cases, this updated fifth edition of a book widely known as the definitive reference on C# features a reorganized section on concurrency, threading, and parallel programming - including in-depth coverage of C# 5.0’s new asynchronous functions.
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Monday, 30 July 2012 |
A comprehensive tutorial designed to introduce developers to the world of business process modeling using Activiti. Before diving into the nuts and bolts of Activiti, this book presents a solid introduction to BPMN 2.0 from a developer's perspective.
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Sunday, 29 July 2012 |
Easy-to-follow instructions for five projects that use Microsoft’s rapid prototyping Gadgeteer platform. No soldering involved you simply plug in modules that make gadget-building quick and easy. Ideal for beginners, this book shows you how to work with modules and other hardware in the Fez Spider Starter Kit, and how to program your with C#.
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Saturday, 28 July 2012 |
The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly understood and rigorously defined, and even today not all their mysteries have been revealed. This comprehensive book on the subject tells the story of irrational numbers and the mathematicians who have tackled their challenges, from antiquity to the twenty-first century.
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