by Simon Monk
The world of Raspberry Pi is evolving quickly, with many new interface boards and software libraries becoming available all the time. In this cookbook, prolific hacker and author Simon Monk provides more than 200 practical recipes for running this tiny low-cost computer with Linux, programming it with Python, and hooking up sensors, motors, and other hardware - including Arduino.You'll also learn basic...
Price: $27.94 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Chris Wilson
Create beautiful, interactive images on the Web with RaphaelJS, the JavaScript library that lets you draw Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) right in the browser. With this concise guide, you'll quickly learn how to paint the screen with shapes and colors that you can turn into lively, animated graphics and visualizations.Author Chris Wilson (Time.com) shows you how to create Raphael objects and manipulate...
Price: $21.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Charles E. Spurgeon, Joann Zimmerman
If you're ready to build a large network system, this handy excerpt from Ethernet: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition gets you up to speed on a basic building block: Ethernet switches. Whether you're working on an enterprise or campus network, data center, or Internet service provider network, you'll learn how Ethernet switches function and how they're used in network designs.This brie...
Price: $11.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Andrew Collette
Gain hands-on experience with HDF5 for storing scientific data in Python. This practical guide quickly gets you up to speed on the details, best practices, and pitfalls of using HDF5 to archive and share numerical datasets ranging in size from gigabytes to terabytes.Through real-world examples and practical exercises, you'll explore topics such as scientific datasets, hierarchically organized groups, u...
Price: $23.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Programming iOS 7, 4th Edition 
by Matt Neuburg
If you're grounded in the basics of Objective-C and Xcode, this practical guide takes you through the components you need for building your own iOS apps. With examples from real apps and programming situations, you'll learn how to create views, manipulate view controllers, and use iOS frameworks for adding features such as audio and video.New iOS 7 topics covered include asset catalogs, snapshots,...
Price: $3.74 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Jeff Sheltren, Narayan Newton, Nathaniel Catchpole
How can you help your Drupal website continue to perform at the highest level as it grows to meet demand? This comprehensive guide provides best practices, examples, and in-depth explanations for solving several performance and scalability issues. You'll learn how to apply coding and infrastructure techniques to Drupal internals, application performance, databases, web servers, and performance analysis...
Price: $19.27 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Pieter Hintjens
Even connecting a few programs across a few sockets is plain nasty when you start to handle real life situations. Trillions? The cost would be unimaginable. Connecting computers is so difficult that software and services to do this is a multi-billion dollar business. So today we're still connecting applications using raw UDP and TCP, proprietary protocols, HTTP, Websockets. It remains painful, slow, ha...
Price: $25.00 | Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2013
Windows 8.1: Out of the Box, 2nd Edition 
by Mike Halsey
Get a real feel for Windows 8.1 with a wealth of tips in this step-by-step guide. After using Windows 7 or XP, learning Microsoft's latest operating system takes some adjustment. Never fear. Windows expert Mike Halsey starts with the basics and then takes you through the trickier parts of Microsoft's latest operating system. You'll quickly learn how to make the most of Windows 8 for work and ...
Price: $3.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Matthias Felleisen, David Van Horn, Conrad Barski
Racket is a descendant of Lisp, a programming language renowned for its elegance, power, and challenging learning curve. But while Racket retains the functional goodness of Lisp, it was designed with beginning programmers in mind. Realm of Racket is your introduction to the Racket language.In Realm of Racket, you'll learn to program by creating increasingly complex games. Your journey begins with the G...
Price: $21.37 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2013
by Martin Evans, Joshua Noble, Jordan Hochenbaum
Arduino in Action is a hands-on guide to prototyping and building DIY electronics. You'll start with the basics - unpacking your board and using a simple program to make something happen. Then, you'll attempt progressively more complex projects as you connect Arduino to motors, LCD displays, Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth. You'll explore input/output sensors, including ultrasound, infrared, and li...
Price: $19.62 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013