FREE EBOOK - Rethinking the Internet of Things 
by Francis daCosta
Over the next decade, most devices connected to the Internet will not be used by people in the familiar way that personal computers, tablets and smart phones are. Billions of interconnected devices will be monitoring the environment, transportation systems, factories, farms, forests, utilities, soil and weather conditions, oceans and resources.Many of these sensors and actuators will be networked into auton...
Price: $5.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Automation through Chef Opscode
by Navin Sabharwal, Manak Wadhwa
Automation through Chef Opscode provides an in-depth understanding of Chef, which is written in Ruby and Erlang for configuration management, cloud infrastructure management, system administration, and network management.Targeted at administrators, consultants, and architect, the book guides them through the advanced features of the tool which are necessary for infrastructure automation, devops automation, ...
Price: $52.17 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
4G: Deployment Strategies and Operational Implications
by Trichy Venkataraman Krishnamurthy, Rajaneesh Shetty
As telecommunications operators and network engineers understand, specific operational requirements drive early network architectural and design decisions for 4G networks. But they also know that because technology, standards, usage practices, and regulatory regimes change on a continuous basis, so do best practices. 4G: Deployment Strategies and Operational Implications helps you stay up to date by providi...
Price: $25.80 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services
by Brian Beach
Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services is written specifically for Windows professionals who already know PowerShell and want to learn to host Windows workloads in the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) cloud service. The cloud offers information technology workers significant cost savings and agility unimaginable even just a few years ago. Tasks that traditionally took weeks of work, costing thousands of d...
Price: $56.16 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
HTML5 Game Development Insights
by Colt McAnlis, Peter Lubbers, Duncan Tebbs, Brandon Jones, Andrzej Mazur, Sean Bennett, Florian d'Erfurth, Bruno Garcia, Shun Lin, Ivan Popelyshev, Jason Gauci, Jon Howard, Ian Ballantyne, Jesse Freeman, Takuo Kihira, Tyler Smith, Don Olmstead, John M
HTML5 Game Development Insights is a from-the-trenches collection of tips, tricks, hacks, and advice straight from professional HTML5 game developers. The 24 chapters here include unique, cutting edge, and essential techniques for creating and optimizing modern HTML5 games. You will learn things such as using the Gamepad API, real-time networking, getting 60fps full screen HTML5 games on mobile, using langu...
Price: $41.69 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning
by Murali Vallath
Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning provides comprehensive coverage of the features, technology and principles for testing and tuning RAC databases. The book takes a deep look at optimizing RAC databases by following a methodical approach based on scientific analysis rather than using a speculative approach, twisting and turning knobs and gambling on the system.The book starts with the basi...
Price: $64.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Sudipta Mukherjee
LINQ represents a paradigm shift for developers used to an imperative / object oriented programming style, because LINQ draws on functional programming principles.Using the familiar "recipes" approach, Thinking in LINQ shows you how to approach building LINQ-based solutions, how such solutions are different from what you already know, and why they're better. The recipes cover a wide r...
Price: $38.32 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Marko Gargenta, Masumi Nakamura
Want to build apps for Android devices? This book is the perfect way to master the fundamentals. Written by experts who have taught this mobile platform to hundreds of developers in large organizations and startups alike, this gentle introduction shows experienced object-oriented programmers how to use Android's basic building blocks to create user interfaces, store data, connect to the network, and mo...
Price: $23.22 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Programming Windows Store Apps with C#
by Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, Iris Classon
If you're a .NET developer looking to build tablet apps, this practical book takes you step-by-step through the process of developing apps for the Windows Store. You'll learn how to use Microsoft's Modern UI design language with Windows 8.1 and WinRT 8.1.1 by building a line-of-business mobile app with C# through the course of the book.To develop the app, you'll work with the same system...
Price: $6.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Andrew Hinton
To make sense of the world, we're always trying to place things in context, whether our environment is physical, cultural, or something else altogether. Now that we live among digital, always-networked products, apps, and places, context is more complicated than ever-starting with "where" and "who" we are.This practical, insightful book provides a powerful toolset to...
Price: $24.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014