Shows how to easily set up an Android development environment and quickly begin with some simple games using sprites and choreographed movement. Next, learn how to handle user input in the modern age of touch screens and motion. Discover how to use the extra screen space on a tablet to provide more interesting user interactions in your games.

In-depth guide to writing efficient batch applications. Starting with the basics, it discusses the best practices of batch jobs along with details of the Spring Batch framework. You'll learn by working through dozens of practical, reusable examples in key areas like monitoring, tuning, enterprise integration, and automated testing.

Subtitled, "Develop and Design" this book shows how to use Android tools to begin writing the next generation of Android applications. After a tour of how to install and configure the Android SDK and Eclipse IDE, you jump right in, building your first Android project, starting with how to use the major building blocks to create an intuitive and good-looking interface.

Shows how Apple’s implementation of Ruby gives access to all the features available to Objective-C programmers with code samples and complete project examples and quick programming techniques such as prototyping. If you use Ruby, you can tap your skills to take advantage of Interface Builder, Cocoa libraries, the Objective-C runtime, and more. If you’re a Cocoa developer, you’ll learn how to improve your productivity with MacRuby.

A tour of the key features of developing for Microsoft's devices.Covers everything from data handling to accelerometers, from mapping to WCF and walks you through monetizing your application through Microsoft's online Windows Phone store. Along the way points out how .NET and C# differ in their execution of the standard OOP concepts from other languages' implementations.

Master the most powerful photo editing tools and techniques that Elements has to offer! Whether you want to create impressive, seamless montages, optimize your photos for perfect print quality, or simply enhance your images for maximum impact, this step-by-step guide provides the skills and know-how needed to create professional quality results.

Tools used for penetration testing are based on languages such as Perl, Python, or Ruby. If you wants to extend, augment, or change the functionality of a tool to perform a test differently tyou need to know the basics of coding the scripting languages that are commonly used. This book also guides you through specific examples of custom tool development and the situations where such tools might be used.

Not just another social media marketing book but an anti-marketing how-to community-engagement book. Twitter  is a community of interested, engaged, and influential people. Meeting and getting to know these people can help you build your own community.These projects help you approach your Twitter audience in ways that are strategic, measurable, and fun.

This book isn't about the code you write, it's about the code you live by looks at the programming profession from nearly every angle to uncover ways of sustaining a healthy connection with your work. See how to stay productive even on the longest projects, create a workflow that works with you, not against you. Learn how to deal with clients whose goals don't align with your own.

Second Edition of guide to designing and implementing effective architectures for information systems. It is both an introduction to software architecture and a handbook of well-established best practices. Provides scenarios and patterns to drive the creation and validation of your architecture and shows how to document your architecture as a set of related views.

As digital technology takes an ever-increasing role in our lives, one question is how we’ll manage our collections after we’re gone. What takes the place of shoeboxes full of pictures and dog-eared record albums? A look at how we might manage the digital artifacts and content we’re creating now—and how we might pass on or inherit these kinds of items in the future.

Layers are the building blocks for working in Photoshop but are often misused and misunderstood. This book covers everything you need to know to work with layers, including how to use masks, blending, modes and layer management.Learn professional techniques as you become completely familiar with the power of layers as an organizational, correction, and revision tool.