by Leslie Sikos
Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML provides solutions to the most common website problems, and gives you a deep understanding of web standards and how they can be applied to improve your website. You will learn how to create fully standards-compliant websites and provide search engine-optimized Web documents with faster download times, accurate rendering, correct appearance and layout, lower deve...
Price: $39.34 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2011
by Peder Jungck, Ralph Duncan, Dwight Mulcahy
packetC speeds the development of applications that live within computer networks, the kind of programs that provide network functionality for connecting "clients" and "servers" and "clouds". The simplest examples provide packet switching and routing while more complex examples implement cyber security, broadband policies or cloud-based network infrastru...
Price: $59.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2011
by Pete Warden
If you're a developer looking to supplement your own data tools and services, this concise ebook covers the most useful sources of public data available today. You'll find useful information on APIs that offer broad coverage, tie their data to the outside world, and are either accessible online or feature downloadable bulk data. You'll also find code and helpful links.This guide organizes API...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Kristina Chodorow
Create a MongoDB cluster that will to grow to meet the needs of your application. With this short and concise ebook, you'll get guidelines for setting up and using clusters to store a large volume of data, and learn how to access the data efficiently. In the process, you'll understand how to make your application work with a distributed database system....
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Jeremy Leipzig, Xiao-Yi Li
How do you use R to import, manage, visualize, and analyze real-world data? With this short, hands-on tutorial, you learn how to collect online data, massage it into a reasonable form, and work with it using R facilities to interact with web servers, parse HTML and XML, and more. Rather than use canned sample data, you'll plot and analyze current home foreclosure auctions in Philadelphia.This practical...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Bob DuCharme
Get hands-on experience with SPARQL, the RDF query language that's become a key component of the semantic web. With this concise book, you will learn how to use the latest version of this W3C standard to retrieve and manipulate the increasing amount of public and private data available via SPARQL endpoints. Several open source and commercial tools already support SPARQL, and this introduction gets you ...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Getting Started with GEO, CouchDB, and Node.js 
by Mick Thompson
Today's mobile devices have GPS and standard APIs to give you access to coordinates - but what can you do with that data? With this concise book, application developers learn how to work with location data quickly and easily, using Node.js, CouchDB, and other open source tools and libraries.Node.js makes it simple to run event code on the Web, and the CouchDB document-oriented database lets you store l...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Managing Infrastructure with Puppet
by James Loope
Get started with Puppet, and learn how this popular configuration management framework helps you automate your servers. This concise introduction shows you how to use Puppet's tools and templates to organize and execute configuration plans on Linux, Unix, and Windows servers. Through code samples and real-world examples, you'll learn how to manage pools of servers and virtual instances, and how to...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Matt Aimonetti
Want to build native Mac OS X applications with a sleek, developer-friendly alternative to Objective-C? MacRuby is an ideal choice. This in-depth guide shows you how Apple's implementation of Ruby gives you access to all the features available to Objective-C programmers. You'll get clear, detailed explanations of MacRuby, including quick programming techniques such as prototyping.Perfect for progr...
Price: $17.17 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Lars George
If you're looking for a scalable storage solution to accommodate a virtually endless amount of data, this book shows you how Apache HBase can fulfill your needs. As the open source implementation of Google's BigTable architecture, HBase scales to billions of rows and millions of columns, while ensuring that write and read performance remain constant. Many IT executives are asking pointed questions...
Price: $3.87 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011