by Elecia White
Interested in developing embedded systems? Since they don't tolerate inefficiency, these systems require a disciplined approach to programming. This easy-to-read guide helps you cultivate a host of good development practices, based on classic software design patterns and new patterns unique to embedded programming. Learn how to build system architecture for processors, not operating systems, and discov...
Price: $31.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Planning and Managing Drupal Projects 
by Dani Nordin
If you're a solo website designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, this concise guide will get you started. Drupal's learning curve has thrown off many experienced designers, particularly the way it handles design challenges. This book shows you the lifecycle of a typical Drupal project, with emphasis on the early stages of site planning. Learn how to effi...
Price: $3.90 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Rafiq Elmansy
How do you transform user interface designs created in Photoshop or Illustrator into interactive web pages? It's easier than you think. This guide shows you how to use Adobe Flash Catalyst to create interactive UIs and website wireframes for Rich Internet Applications - without writing a single line of code.Ideal for web designers, this book introduces Flash Catalyst basics with detailed step-by-step i...
Price: $3.30 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Gabe Zichermann, Christopher Cunningham
What do Foursquare, Zynga, Nike+, and Groupon have in common? These and many other brands use gamification to deliver a sticky, viral, and engaging experience to their customers. This book provides the design strategy and tactics you need to integrate game mechanics into any kind of consumer-facing website or mobile app. Learn how to use core game concepts, design patterns, and meaningful code samples to a ...
Price: $7.70 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Serge Haddad, Fabrice Kordon, Laurent Pautet, Laure Petrucci
In today's digital environment, distributed systems are increasingly present in a wide variety of environments, ranging from public software applications to critical systems. Distributed Systems introduces the underlying concepts, the associated design techniques and the related security issues. Distributed Systems: Design and Algorithms, is dedicated to engineers, students, and anyone familiar with al...
Price: $108.65 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2011
by Lukas Mathis
Weaving together hands-on techniques and fundamental concepts, you'll learn how to make usability the cornerstone of your design process. Each technique chapter explains a specific approach you can use during the design process to make your product more user friendly, such as storyboarding, usability tests, and paper prototyping. Idea chapters are concept-based: how to write usable text, how realistic ...
Price: $3.99 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2011
BIRT: A Field Guide, 3rd Edition
by Diana Peh, Nola Hague, Jane Tatchell
More than ten million people have downloaded BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) from the Eclipse web site, and more than one million developers are estimated to be using BIRT. Built on the open source Eclipse platform, BIRT is a powerful report development system that provides an end-to-end solution - from creating and deploying reports to integrating report capabilities in enterprise applicat...
Price: $43.99 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2011
Android Wireless Application Development, 2nd Edition
by Shane Conder, Lauren Darcey
This book delivers all the up-to-date information, tested code, and best practices you need to create and market successful mobile apps with the latest versions of Android. Drawing on their extensive experience with mobile and wireless development, Lauren Darcey and Shane Conder cover every step: concept, design, coding, testing, packaging, and delivery. The authors introduce the Android platform, explain t...
Price: $4.38 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2011
The Python Standard Library by Example
by Doug Hellmann
The Python Standard Library contains hundreds of modules for interacting with the operating system, interpreter, and Internet - all extensively tested and ready to jump-start your application development. The Python Standard Library by Example introduces virtually every important area of the Python 2.7 library through concise, stand-alone source code/output examples, designed for easy learning and reuse.Bui...
Price: $15.23 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2011
Model-Based Development: Applications
by H.S. Lahman
Software continues to become more and more complex, while software consumers' expectations for performance, reliability, functionality, and speed-to-market are also growing exponentially. H. S. Lahman shows how to address all these challenges by integrating proven object-oriented techniques with a powerful new methodology.Model-Based Development represents Lahman's half century of experience as a ...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2011