For serious developers using LightSwitch, this guide goes beyond the "click-and-you're-done" interface. While still maintaining the elegance and convenience of RAD, it tackles: How do you design complex screens? How do you query data using LINQ and other syntax structures? How do you secure your application? 

Originally written for an online calendar, this is a collection of 32 articles with practical tips, techniques, and advice for optimizing your site’s user experience. It aims to inspire you to squeeze every ounce of performance from your site—whether you’re a web developer, mobile developer, or web designer.

Written for readers familiar with Java, provides a fresh and practical look at new Java 7 features, like try-with-resources and NIO.2,  emerging JVM-based languages, including Groovy, Scala, and Clojure, and the array of supporting technologies with modern approaches to testing, build, and CI.

Show you how to use your Arduino to control a variety of different robots, while providing step-by-step instructions on the entire robot building process. Learn Arduino basics as well as the characteristics of different types of motors used in robotics, controller methods and failsafe methods.

Based on beta software, this book provides the early, high-level information you need to begin preparing now for deployment and management. Topics include: Virtualization and cloud solutions,Availability, Provisioning and storage management, Security and scalability, Infrastructure options and Server administration.

Subtitled "Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript", this slim volume shows how Node, which is built on the V8 JavaScript engine that runs Google Chrome scales up to support large numbers of simultaneous connections across multiple servers, and scales down to let you create quick one-off applications with minimal infrastructure.

Mike McGrath guides you through simple stages demonstrating how your own App ideas can become a reality with the MIT open-source Android App Inventor, whether or not you have previous programming knowledge. From building interactive apps and linking them to the Internet, each chapter teaches you something new and exciting.

Using Dynamic Data, ASP.NET developers can create powerful, datadriven sites with speed and efficiency, eliminating massive amounts of manual coding. This practical guide is for experienced ASP.NET developers and makes the framework accessible by providing tested code to solve a wide variety of problems.

Covering the theoretical aspects of image processing and analysis through the use of graphs in the representation and analysis of objects this "Theory and Practice" book also demonstrates how these concepts are used in real-world applications in computational photography, image and video processing, computer graphics, recognition, medical and biomedical imaging.

Windows 8 contains the revolutionary Metro application framework for building dynamic and responsive touch-enabled applications that target both desktops and mobile devices. Take a crash course in Metro development with this fast-paced 80-page primer subtitled "Building Windows 8 apps with HTML5 and JavaScript".

This book unlocks the power of Google and how you can make this search giant work for you and your business. Learn more about the full suite of Google tools, how you can use them to launch and grow your business and have a successful online strategy by understanding exactly what you can get from Google.

The cover proclaims "Learn to play the most complex video game ever made" and it's a guide that takes you through the basics of this menacing realm, and helps you overcome the formidable learning curve. It covers the game’s simulation mode, in which you’re tasked with building a dwarf city, after this looks at resource management and training a dwarf military.