Game Development Tool Essentials 
by Paula Berinstein, Nicusor Nedelcu, Alessandro Ardolino, Remi Arnaud, Simon Franco, Adrien Herubel, John McCutchan, Benjamin Nitschke, Don Olmstead, Fabrice Robinet, Christian Ronchi, Gustavo Samour, Rita Turkowski, Robert Walter
Game Development Tool Essentials provides must-have tips and tricks from industry professionals for strengthening and streamlining your game tools pipeline. Everyone knows the game tools pipeline is important, but in the current environment of shrinking budgets and increased time pressure, developers often have to settle for inefficient, ad hoc, messy pipelines.This unique book will break you out of that cy...
Price: $37.58 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning
by Murali Vallath
Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning provides comprehensive coverage of the features, technology and principles for testing and tuning RAC databases. The book takes a deep look at optimizing RAC databases by following a methodical approach based on scientific analysis rather than using a speculative approach, twisting and turning knobs and gambling on the system.The book starts with the basi...
Price: $64.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
FREE EBOOK - Digital Video Concepts, Methods, and Metrics
by Shahriar Akramullah
Digital Video Concepts, Methods, and Metrics: Quality, Compression, Performance, and Power Trade-off Analysis is a concise reference for professionals in a wide range of applications and vocations. It focuses on giving the reader mastery over the concepts, methods and metrics of digital video coding, so that readers have sufficient understanding to choose and tune coding parameters for optimum results that ...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
MySQL High Availability, 2nd Edition
by Charles Bell, Mats Kindahl, Lars Thalmann
Server bottlenecks and failures are a fact of life in any database deployment, but they don't have to bring everything to a halt. This practical book explains replication, cluster, and monitoring features that can help protect your MySQL system from outages, whether it's running on hardware, virtual machines, or in the cloud.Written by engineers who designed many of the tools covered, this book re...
Price: $42.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Java in a Nutshell, 6th Edition
by Benjamin J Evans, David Flanagan
The latest edition of Java in a Nutshell is designed to help experienced Java programmers get the most out of Java 7 and 8, but it's also a learning path for new developers. Chock full of examples that demonstrate how to take complete advantage of modern Java APIs and development best practices, the first section of this thoroughly updated book provides a fast-paced, no-fluff introduction to the Java p...
Price: $26.18 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Azat Mardan
Pro Express.js is for the reader who wants to quickly get up-to-speed with Express.js, the flexible Node.js framework. Author Azat Mardan clearly explains how to start developing with Express.js with a basic 'Hello World', and then delves into a deep API reference, before looking at common and abstract development problems. Lastly, you will learn how to build a series of real-world apps in order t...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming
by Daniel Kusswurm
Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming shows the fundamentals of x86 assembly language programming. It focuses on the aspects of the x86 instruction set that are most relevant to application software development. The book's structure and sample code are designed to help the reader quickly understand x86 assembly language programming and the computational capabilities of the x86 platform.The primary a...
Price: $56.66 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Basarat Ali Syed
Beginning Node.js is your step-by-step guide to learning all the aspects of creating maintainable Node.js applications. You will see how Node.js is focused on creating high-performing, highly-scalable websites, and how easy it is to get started. Many front-end devs regularly work with HTML, CSS, PHP, even WordPress, but haven't yet got started with Node.js. This book explains everything for you from a ...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Practical Software Development Techniques
by Edward Crookshanks
This book provides an overview of tools and techniques used in enterprise software development, many of which are not taught in academic programs or learned on the job. This is an ideal resource containing lots of practical information and code examples that you need to master as a member of an enterprise development team.This book aggregates many of these "on the job" tools and techniques...
Price: $39.65 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Yves Hilpisch
The financial industry has adopted Python at a tremendous rate recently, with some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds using it to build core trading and risk management systems. This hands-on guide helps both developers and quantitative analysts get started with Python, and guides you through the most important aspects of using Python for quantitative finance.Using practical examples through th...
Price: $47.20 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014