Developing iOS Applications with Flex 4.5 
by Rich Tretola
Ready to put your ActionScript 3 skills to work on iPhone and iPad apps? This hands-on book walks you through the process of creating an Adobe AIR application for iOS devices from start to finish, using the Flex 4.5 framework. Move quickly from a basic Hello World application to complex interactions with iOS APIs, and get complete code examples for working with device components - including the acceleromete...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Alasdair Allan
What really sets the iPhone apart from laptops and PCs is its use of onboard sensors, including those that are location-enabled. This concise book takes experienced iPhone and Mac developers on a detailed tour of iPhone and iPad hardware by explaining how these sensors work, and what they're capable of doing.With this book, you'll build sample applications for each sensor, and learn hands-on how t...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Alasdair Allan
Turn your iPhone or iPad into the hub of a distributed sensor network with the help of an Arduino microcontroller. With this concise guide, you'll learn how to connect an external sensor to an iOS device and have them talk to each other through Arduino. You'll also build an iOS application that will parse the sensor values it receives and plot the resulting measurements, all in real-time.iOS proce...
Price: $9.04 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Q. Ethan McCallum, Stephen Weston
It's tough to argue with R as a high-quality, cross-platform, open source statistical software product - unless you're in the business of crunching Big Data. This concise book introduces you to several strategies for using R to analyze large datasets. You'll learn the basics of Snow, Multicore, Parallel, and some Hadoop-related tools, including how to find them, how to use them, when they wor...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Niall O'Higgins
Learn how to leverage MongoDB with your Python applications, using the hands-on recipes in this book. You get complete code samples for tasks such as making fast geo queries for location-based apps, efficiently indexing your user documents for social-graph lookups, and many other scenarios.This guide explains the basics of the document-oriented database and shows you how to set up a Python environment with ...
Price: $6.88 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Make a Mind-Controlled Arduino Robot
by Tero Karvinen, Kimmo Karvinen
Build a robot that responds to electrical activity in your brain - it's easy and fun. If you're familiar with Arduino and have basic mechanical building skills, this book will show you how to construct a robot that plays sounds, blinks lights, and reacts to signals from an affordable electroencephalography (EEG) headband. Concentrate and the robot will move. Focus more and it will go faster. Let y...
Price: $4.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Stephan Spencer
Behind Google's deceptively simple interface is immense power for both market and competitive research - if you know how to use it well. Sure, basic searches are easy, but complex searches require specialized skills. This concise book takes you through the full range of Google's powerful search-refinement features, so you can quickly find the specific information you need. Learn techniques ranging...
Price: $8.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Programming Entity Framework: Code First
by Julia Lerman, Rowan Miller
Take advantage of the Code First data modeling approach in ADO.NET Entity Framework, and learn how to build and configure a model based on existing classes in your business domain. With this concise book, you'll work hands-on with examples to learn how Code First can create an in-memory model and database by default, and how you can exert more control over the model through further configuration.Code F...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Matthew A. Russell
Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn generate a tremendous amount of valuable social data, but how can you find out who's making connections with social media, what they're talking about, or where they're located? This concise and practical book shows you how to answer these questions and more. You'll learn how to combine social web data, analysis techniques, and visualization to help you fin...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets
by Tero Karvinen, Kimmo Karvinen
Want to build your own robots, turn your ideas into prototypes, control devices with a computer, or make your own cell phone applications? It's a snap with this book and the Arduino open source electronic prototyping platform. Get started with six fun projects and achieve impressive results quickly.With Arduino, building your own embedded gadgets is easy, even for beginners. Embedded systems are everyw...
Price: $21.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011