by Michael Dory, Adam Parrish, Brendan Berg
Walk through the basics of Tornado, the high-performance web server known for its speed, simplicity, and scalability on projects large and small. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how to use Tornado's acclaimed features by working with several example applications. You also get best practices for using Tornado in the real world.Are you interested in creating a scalable social application, rea...
Price: $14.70 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Matthew MacDonald
Whether you're a budding blogger or web development professional, WordPress is a brilliant tool for creating websites - if you know how to tap its impressive features. This jargon-free Missing Manual shows you how to use WordPress and its themes, plug-ins, and widgets to build just about any website you can imagine, from a classy blog to a basic e-commerce site....
Price: $10.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Building Web Applications with Erlang 
by Zachary Kessin
Why choose Erlang for web applications? Discover the answer hands-on by building a simple web service with this book. If you're an experienced web developer who knows basic Erlang, you'll learn how to work with REST, dynamic content, web sockets, and concurrency through several examples. In the process, you'll see first-hand that Erlang is ideal for building business-critical services.Erlang ...
Price: $15.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Programming Interactivity, 2nd Edition
by Joshua Noble
Ready to create rich interactive experiences with your artwork, designs, or prototypes? This is the ideal place to start. With this hands-on guide, you'll explore several themes in interactive art and design - including 3D graphics, sound, physical interaction, computer vision, and geolocation - and learn the basic programming and electronics concepts you need to implement them. No previous experience ...
Price: $13.60 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Programming Entity Framework: DbContext
by Julia Lerman, Rowan Miller
The DbContext API captures Entity Framework's (EF) most commonly used features and tasks, simplifying development with EF. This concise book shows you how to use the API to perform set operations with the DbSet class, handle change tracking and resolve concurrency conflicts with the Change Tracker API, and validate changes to your data with the Validation API.With DbContext, you'll be able to quer...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Steve Francia
What would happen if you optimized a data store for the operations application developers actually use? You'd arrive at MongoDB, the reliable document-oriented database. With this concise guide, you'll learn how to build elegant database applications with MongoDB and PHP.Written by the Chief Solutions Architect at 10gen - the company that develops and supports this open source database - this book...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Ryan Troy, Matthew Helmke
With scores of step-by-step solutions, this cookbook helps you work with VMware ESXi in a wide range of network environments. You'll not only learn the basics - how to pool resources from hardware servers, computer clusters, networks, and storage, and then distribute them among virtual machines - but also how to overcome the stumbling blocks you'll encounter when you monitor systems, troubleshoot ...
Price: $32.94 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress
by Peter Tyson
Dwarf Fortress may be the most complex video game ever made, but all that detail makes for fascinating game play, as various elements collide in interesting and challenging ways. The trick is getting started. In this guide, Fortress geek Peter Tyson takes you through the basics of this menacing realm, and helps you overcome the formidable learning curve.The book's focus is the game's simulation mo...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby
by Sau Sheong Chang
If you're curious about how things work, this fun and intriguing guide will help you find real answers to everyday problems. By using fundamental math and doing simple programming with the Ruby and R languages, you'll learn how to model a problem and work toward a solution.All you need is a basic understanding of programming. After a quick introduction to Ruby and R, you'll explore a wide ran...
Price: $18.63 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Madhusudhan Konda
Get started with Spring Integration, the lightweight Java-based framework that makes designing and developing message-oriented architectures a breeze. Through numerous examples, you'll learn how to use this open source framework's basic building blocks to work with both inter - and intra-application programming models.If you're a Java developer familiar with the Spring framework and want to a...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012