Programming Android, 2nd Edition 
by Zigurd Mednieks, Laird Dornin, G. Blake Meike, Masumi Nakamura
Get thoroughly up to speed on Android programming, and learn how to create up-to-date user experiences for both handsets and tablets. With this book's extensively revised second edition, you'll focus on Android tools and programming essentials, including best practices for using Android 4 APIs. If you're experienced with Java or Objective-C, you'll gain the knowledge necessary for buildi...
Price: $15.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
JavaScript Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition
by David Flanagan
JavaScript is the ubiquitous programming language of the Web, and for more than 15 years, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide has been the bible of JavaScript programmers around the world. This book is an all-new excerpt of The Definitive Guide, collecting the essential parts of that hefty volume into this slim yet dense pocket reference.The first 9 chapters document the latest version (ECMAScript 5) of the co...
Price: $8.36 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Thibault Imbert
Starling is an ActionScript 3 2D framework developed on top of the Stage3D APIs (available on desktop in Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3). Starling is mainly designed for game development, but could be used for many other use cases. Starling makes it possible to write fast GPU accelerated applications without having to touch the low-level Stage3D APIs.Most Flash developers want to be able to leverage GPU ac...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Ido Green
Web apps would run much better if heavy calculations could be performed in the background, rather than compete with the user interface. With this book, you'll learn how to use Web Workers to run computationally intensive JavaScript code in a thread parallel to the UI. Yes, multi-threaded programing is complicated, but Web Workers provide a simple API that helps you be productive without the complex alg...
Price: $7.71 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Madhusudhan Konda
JDBC has simplified database access in Java applications, but a few nagging wrinkles remain - namely, persisting Java objects to relational databases. With this book, you'll learn how the Spring Framework makes that job incredibly easy with dependency injection, template classes, and object-relational-mapping (ORM).Through sample code, you'll discover how Spring streamlines the use of JDBC and ORM...
Price: $15.82 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Dan Bode, Nan Liu
Puppet's true power exists in the simple resource model it uses to manage the state of complex operating systems. This concise guide shows you how to extend that model and implement custom functionality on top of Puppet by working with the type and provider APIs.Two experts from Puppet Labs explain the concepts behind these APIs, and provide instructions and examples to help you write your own fully fu...
Price: $10.26 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Programming Google App Engine, 2nd Edition
by Dan Sanderson
Google App Engine makes it easy to create a web application that can serve millions of people as easily as serving hundreds, with minimal up-front investment. With Programming Google App Engine, Google engineer Dan Sanderson provides practical guidance for designing and developing your application on Google's vast infrastructure, using App Engine's scalable services and simple development model.Th...
Price: $35.10 | 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 Jim Jackson II, Ian Gilman
HTML5 for .NET Developers teaches you how to blend HTML5 with your current .NET tools and practices. You'll start with a quick overview of the new HTML5 features and the semantic markup model. Then, you'll systematically work through the JavaScript APIs as you learn to build single page web apps that look and work like desktop apps. Along the way, you'll get tips and learn techniques that wil...
Price: $24.79 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2012
Android 4: New Features for Application Development
by Murat Aydin
Learn new APIs in Android 4. Get familiar with the best practices in developing Android applications. Step-by-step approach with clearly explained sample codes....
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2012