Beginning Java Game Development with LibGDX
by Lee Stemkoski
Design and create video games using Java, with the LibGDX software library. By reading Beginning Java Game Development with LibGDX, you will learn how to design video game programs and how to build them in Java. You will be able to create your own 2D games, using various hardware for input (keyboard/mouse, gamepad controllers, or touchscreen), and create executable versions of your games. The LibGDX library...
Price: $34.79 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
by Jeff Friesen
Java I/O, NIO, and NIO.2 is a power-packed book that accelerates your mastery of Java's various I/O APIs. In this book, you'll learn about classic I/O APIs (File, RandomAccessFile, the stream classes and related types, and the reader/writer classes). Next, you'll learn about NIO's buffer, channel, selector, regular expression, charset, and formatter APIs. Finally, you'll discover NI...
Price: $48.66 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Java Threads and the Concurrency Utilities 
by Jeff Friesen
This concise book empowers all Java developers to master the complexity of the Java thread APIs and concurrency utilities. This knowledge aids the Java developer in writing correct and complex performing multithreaded applications.Java's thread APIs and concurrency utilities are among its most powerful and challenging APIs and language features. Java beginners typically find it very difficult to use th...
Price: $29.00 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
Programming Google App Engine with Java
by Dan Sanderson
This practical guide shows intermediate and advanced web and mobile app developers how to build highly scalable Java applications in the cloud with Google App Engine. The flagship of Google's Cloud Platform, App Engine hosts your app on infrastructure that grows automatically with your traffic, minimizing up-front costs and accommodating unexpected visitors. You'll learn hands-on how to perform co...
Price: $24.62 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
JavaScript Cookbook, 2nd Edition
by Shelley Powers
Problem solving with JavaScript is a lot trickier now that its use has expanded considerably in size, scope, and complexity. This cookbook has your back, with recipes for common tasks across the JavaScript world, whether you're working in the browser, the server, or a mobile environment. Each recipe includes reusable code and practical advice for tackling JavaScript objects, Node, Ajax, JSON, data pers...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Rick Viscomi, Andy Davies, Marcel Duran
Learn basic and advanced uses of WebPagetest, the performance measurement tool for optimizing websites. This practical guide shows users new to this tool how run tests and interpret results, and helps experienced users gain a better and more thorough understanding of hidden features in WebPagetest that make testing easier.Written by WebPagetest power users and performance experts, this book will help web de...
Price: $25.80 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
You Don't Know JS: ES6 & Beyond
by Kyle Simpson
No matter how much experience you have with JavaScript, odds are you don't fully understand the language. As part of the "You Don't Know JS" series, this compact guide focuses on new features available in ECMAScript 6 (ES6), the latest version of the standard upon which JavaScript is built.Like other books in this series, You Don't Know JS: ES6 & Beyond dives into trickier parts...
Price: $6.02 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Ryan Mitchell
Learn web scraping and crawling techniques to access unlimited data from any web source in any format. With this practical guide, you'll learn how to use Python scripts and web APIs to gather and process data from thousands - or even millions - of web pages at once.Ideal for programmers, security professionals, and web administrators familiar with Python, this book not only teaches basic web scraping m...
Price: $14.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
Programmer's Guide to Drupal, 2nd Edition
by Jennifer Hodgdon
If you're a web programmer, your experiences have taught you certain lessons - and only some of them apply well to Drupal. Drupal has its own set of programming principles that require a different approach, and many programmers make mistakes when relying on skills they've used for other projects. This book will show you which programming techniques you can use - and which you should avoid - when b...
Price: $23.06 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
Architecting HBase Applications
by Jean-Marc Spaggiari, Kevin O'Dell
Lots of HBase books, online HBase guides, and HBase mailing lists/forums are available if you need to know how HBase works. But if you want to take a deep dive into use cases, features, and troubleshooting, Architecting HBase Applications is the right source for you.With this book, you'll learn a controlled set of APIs that coincide with use-case examples and easily deployed use-case models, as well as...
Price: $31.22 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015