by Timothy Binkley-Jones, Massimo Perga, Michael Sync, Adam Benoit
With 10 million (and climbing) active handsets, Windows Phone 8 has become a real alternative to Android and iOS. WP users are hungry for great apps, so it's time for you to start creating them!Windows Phone 8 in Action teaches you how to design, build, and sell WP8 apps. In it, you'll learn to use the WP Runtime and .NET APIs to control key features like the accelerometer, camera, GPS, and microp...
Price: $10.16 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013
by Faruk Akgul
ØMQ (also spelled ZeroMQ, 0MQ, or ZMQ) is a high-performance asynchronous messaging library aimed at use in scalable distributed or concurrent applications. It provides a message queue, but unlike message-oriented middleware, a ØMQ system can run without a dedicated message broker. The library is designed to have a familiar socket-style API.ZeroMQ teaches you to use ZeroMQ through exam...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Instant Selenium Testing Tools Starter 
by Unmesh Gundecha
Selenium is a software testing framework for automating web applications for testing purposes. It uses components such as Selenium IDE, Selenium Client API, and Selenium Webdriver to test web applications, which provides an easy-to-use platform and lets you test your applications more effectively and efficiently.Instant Selenium Testing Tools Starter - was born out of the need for a short, yet all-encompass...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
FREE EBOOK - Learning Three.js: The JavaScript 3D Library for WebGL
by Jos Dirksen
Three.js is a JavaScript 3D library that offers a wide range of features for creating and displaying stunning 3D computer graphics on a web browser in an intuitive manner using JavaScript without having to deal with the complexity of a WebGL low-level API. Even though WebGL makes it possible to create 3D graphics in the browser without having to use plugins, programming WebGL, however, is hard and complex. ...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Java Persistence with MyBatis 3
by K. Siva Prasad Reddy
Storing and retrieving data to and from relational databases is a very common requirement, and is a crucial part of many applications. Even though Java provides a JDBC API for database access, it is not very effective and involves writing the boilerplate code again and again. Getting data out of a database, populating into Java objects, and persisting data from Java objects into a database using JDBC involv...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Fast Data Processing with Spark
by Holden Karau
Spark is a framework for writing fast, distributed programs. Spark solves similar problems as Hadoop MapReduce does but with a fast in-memory approach and a clean functional style API. With its ability to integrate with Hadoop and inbuilt tools for interactive query analysis (Shark), large-scale graph processing and analysis (Bagel), and real-time analysis (Spark Streaming), it can be interactively used to ...
Price: $22.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Instant Eclipse 4 RCP Development How-to
by Ram Kulkarni
Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. A concise guide that delivers immediate results with practical recipes on learning practical hints and avoiding pitfalls in Eclipse 4 development. You will find this book useful if you are looking to create cross-platform rich client applications. Eclipse platform is built with Java, so basic kno...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON
by Bhakti Mehta, Masoud Kalali
As the technology landscape moves focus towards smaller devices, the need for building scalable, flexible, lightweight, and real-time communications-based applications grows. HTML 5 and Java EE 7 provide a new synthesis of technologies that demonstrate tremendous scope and potential in areas of device independence, asynchronous communication, interoperability, and portability.Developing RESTful Services wit...
Price: $23.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Getting Started with Twitter Flight
by Tom Hamshere
Flight is a lightweight, component-based JavaScript application framework developed by Twitter for Twitter.com. It is an exciting alternative to the complexities of modern MVVM frameworks, offering a minimal API that allows you to write fast, reliable, scalable applications with a minimum of boilerplate code.Getting Started with Twitter Flight offers the reader insight into why Flight was created and how to...
Price: $17.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
by Rafal Kuc, Marek Rogozinski
ElasticSearch is fast, distributed, scalable, and written in the Java search engine that leverages Apache Lucene capabilities providing a new level of control over how you index and search even the largest set of data.Mastering ElasticSearch covers the intermediate and advanced functionalities of ElasticSearch and will let you understand not only how ElasticSearch works, but will also guide you through its ...
Price: $32.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013