by Greg Shackles
It's true: you can build native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone with C# and the .NET Framework - with help from MonoTouch and Mono for Android. This hands-on guide shows you how to reuse one codebase across all three platforms by combining the business logic layer of your C# app with separate, fully native UIs. It's an ideal marriage of platform-specific development and the "writ...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Programming F# 3.0, 2nd Edition 
by Chris Smith
Why learn F#? This multiparadigm language not only offers you an enormous productivity boost through functional programming, it also lets you develop applications using your existing object-oriented and imperative programming skills. With Programming F#, you'll quickly discover the many advantages of Microsoft's new language, which includes access to all the great tools and libraries of the .NET p...
Price: $5.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Mark Miller
If you work with SharePoint, you may have discovered that there are countless tricks for using this platform to solve real-world problems - and you certainly wouldn't mind learning some of them. That's the purpose behind EndUserSharePoint, a community site that lets end users share ingenious new ways for putting SharePoint to work.This insightful and entertaining book presents a compilation of pop...
Price: $17.36 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Tom Igoe
If you want to experiment with radio frequency identification (RFID), this book is the perfect place to start. All you need is some experience with Arduino and Processing, the ability to connect basic circuits on a breadboard with jumper wire - and you're good to go. You'll be guided through three hands-on projects that let you experience RFID in action.RFID is used in various applications, such a...
Price: $3.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
iPad: The Missing Manual, 5th Edition
by J.D. Biersdorfer
Apple's wildly popular iPad and new iPad Mini come jam-packed with features, like access to your media library from the Web, Siri voice control, and seamless Facebook and Twitter integration. But to tap your iPad's potential, you need a trustworthy owner's manual. This bestselling book shows you how to import, create, and play back media; sync and shop wirelessly; keep in touch over the Inter...
Price: $3.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Learning Unix for OS X Mountain Lion
by Dave Taylor
Think your Mac is powerful now? Author Dave Taylor shows you how to get much more from your system by tapping into Unix, the robust operating system concealed beneath OS X's beautiful user interface. Mountain Lion puts more than a thousand Unix commands at your fingertips - for finding and managing files, remotely accessing your Mac from other computers, and using a variety of freely downloadable open ...
Price: $4.67 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by David Griffiths, Dawn Griffiths
Ever wished you could learn C from a book? Head First C provides a complete learning experience for C and structured imperative programming. With a unique method that goes beyond syntax and how-to manuals, this guide not only teaches you the language, it helps you understand how to be a great programmer. You'll learn key areas such as language basics, pointers and pointer arithmetic, and dynamic memory...
Price: $18.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Timothy Binkley-Jones, Massimo Perga, Michael Sync
Windows Phone 7 in Action is a hands-on guide to programming the WP7 platform. It zips through standard phone, text, and email controls and dives head-first into how to build great mobile apps. You'll master the hardware APIs, access web services, and learn to build location and push applications. Along the way, you'll see how to create the stunning visual effects that can separate your apps from ...
Publisher: Manning | Release: 2012
by Nick Dimiduk, Amandeep Khurana
HBase is a NoSQL storage system designed for fast, random access to large volumes of data. It runs on commodity hardware and scales smoothly from modest datasets to billions of rows and millions of columns.HBase in Action is an experience-driven guide that shows you how to design, build, and run applications using HBase. First, it introduces you to the fundamentals of handling big data. Then, you'll ex...
Price: $8.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2012
by Jonathan Campos
Flex Mobile in Action teaches you to use the powerful open source Flex platform to create applications that can stretch across Apple iOS, Android, and BlackBerry devices. It focuses on practical application development techniques such as accessing native device capabilities, choosing the right architectural patterns, building data access models, and more. For developers new to Flex, the book provides a quic...
Publisher: Manning | Release: 2012