Migrating to Swift from Android 
by Sean Liao
In 250 pages, Migrating to Swift from Android gives you - as an experienced Android app developer - all you need to create native iOS apps using the latest Swift programming language. Starting with preparing your Xcode 6.1 IDE and introducing just enough iOS application framework fundamentals, you'll understand how to create meaningful Swift applications for iOS 8 immediately.After the short IDE setup ...
Price: $30.01 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Practical Linux Infrastructure
by Syed Ali
Practical Linux Infrastructure teaches you how to use the best open source tools to build a new Linux infrastructure, or alter an existing infrastructure, to ensure it stands up to enterprise-level needs. Each chapter covers a key area of implementation, with clear examples and step-by-step instructions.Using this book, you'll understand why scale matters, and what considerations you need to make. You&...
Price: $54.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Experimenting with AVR Microcontrollers
by Alan Trevennor
AVR is the brain that runs Arduino, but you don't need the whole Arduino board to do fun projects. Experimenting with AVR Microcontrollers, from Practical AVR Microcontrollers, shows you how to create a spiffy set of projects that you can build to learn more about electronics, about AVR, and just to generate new ideas for your own projects.Alan Trevennor will show you how to create a secret panel proje...
Price: $27.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript, 4th Edition
by Robin Nixon
Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open-source technologies and web standards, even if you have only basic HTML knowledge. With this popular hands-on guide, you'll tackle dynamic web programming with the help of today's core technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, and HTML5.Explore each technology separately, learn how to use them together, and pick u...
Price: $2.27 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Jeff Mesnil
Learn how to use messaging technologies to build responsive and resilient applications for mobile devices and web browsers. With this hands-on guide, you'll use the STOMP and MQTT messaging protocols to write iOS and web applications capable of sending and receiving GPS and device sensor data, text messages, and alerts.Messaging protocols are not only simple to use, but also conserve network bandwidth,...
Price: $11.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Automating Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services
by Michael Washam
Get valuable tips and techniques for automating your cloud deployments with Azure PowerShell cmdlets, and learn how to provision Azure services on the fly. In this hands-on guide, Microsoft cloud technology expert Michael Washam shows you how to automate various management tasks and deploy solutions that are both complex and at scale.By combining the native automation capabilities of PowerShell with Azure I...
Price: $20.28 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Tom Fifield, Diane Fleming, Anne Gentle, Lorin Hochstein, Jonathan Proulx, Everett Toews, Joe Topjian
Design, deploy, and maintain your own private or public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), using the open source OpenStack platform. In this practical guide, experienced developers and OpenStack contributors show you how to build clouds based on reference architectures, as well as how to perform daily administration tasks.Designed for horizontal scalability, OpenStack lets you build a cloud by integrating ...
Price: $24.25 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS & HTML5, 3rd Edition
by Robin Nixon
Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open-source technologies and web standards, even if you only have basic HTML knowledge. With this popular hands-on guide, you'll tackle dynamic web programming with the help of today's core technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5.Explore each technology separately and learn how to use them together - and pick up va...
Price: $4.96 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Getting Started with Bluetooth Low Energy
by Kevin Townsend, Carles Cufi, Akiba, Robert Davidson
With Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), smart devices are about to become even smarter. This practical guide demonstrates how this exciting wireless technology helps developers build mobile apps that share data with external hardware, and how hardware engineers can gain easy and reliable access to mobile operating systems.This book provides a solid, high-level overview of how devices use BLE to communicate with ea...
Price: $23.68 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Dave Fancher
F# brings the power of functional - first programming to the .NET Framework, a platform for developing software in the Microsoft Windows ecosystem. If you're a traditional .NET developer used to C# and Visual Basic, discovering F# will be a revelation that will change how you code, and how you think about coding.In The Book of F#, Microsoft MVP Dave Fancher shares his expertise and teaches you how to w...
Price: $21.89 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2014