HLSL and Pixel Shaders for XAML Developers 
by Walt Ritscher
Graphic Shaders are used throughout the game and movie industry to improve onscreen graphics. They are versatile, doing important tasks like making computer rendered aliens look realistic, providing the ripples on a background lake or growing fur on the latest Pixar monster. In the PC world, programmers are often delighted to find that shaders are nothing more than a miniature program that is optimized to r...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Donald Miner, Adam Shook
Until now, design patterns for the MapReduce framework have been scattered among various research papers, blogs, and books. This handy guide brings together a unique collection of valuable MapReduce patterns that will save you time and effort regardless of the domain, language, or development framework you're using.Each pattern is explained in context, with pitfalls and caveats clearly identified to he...
Price: $19.90 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Building a Windows IT Infrastructure in the Cloud
by David K. Rensin
Run your entire corporate IT infrastructure in a cloud environment that you control completely - and do it inexpensively and securely with help from this hands-on book. All you need to get started is basic IT experience.You'll learn how to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a private Windows domain, complete with Active Directory, enterprise email, instant messaging, IP telephony, automated managem...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, Christophe Grand
Clojure is a practical, general-purpose language that offers expressivity rivaling other dynamic languages like Ruby and Python, while seamlessly taking advantage of Java libraries, services, and all of the resources of the JVM ecosystem. This book helps you learn the fundamentals of Clojure with examples relating it to the languages you know already, in the domains and topics you work with every day. See h...
Price: $35.96 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Peter Harrington
A machine is said to learn when its performance improves with experience. Learning requires algorithms and programs that capture data and ferret out the interesting or useful patterns. Once the specialized domain of analysts and mathematicians, machine learning is becoming a skill needed by many.Machine Learning in Action is a clearly written tutorial for developers. It avoids academic language and takes yo...
Price: $22.27 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2012
by Jean-Louis Boulanger
Although formal analysis programming techniques may be quite old, the introduction of formal methods only dates from the 1980s. These techniques enable us to analyze the behavior of a software application, described in a programming language. It took until the end of the 1990s before formal methods or the B method could be implemented in industrial applications or be usable in an industrial setting.Current ...
Price: $109.73 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2012
The ThoughtWorks Anthology, Volume 2
by Michael Swaine
When you hit a rough spot in software development, it's nice to know that someone has been there before. The domain experts at ThoughtWorks share what they've learned in this anthology, bringing together the best field-tested insights in IT and software development. You'll benefit from their experience in areas from testing to information visualization, from object oriented to functional prog...
Price: $7.08 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2012
by Richard G. Ellis
Classic techniques used for Web-enabling traditional Domino applications.Demonstrates how to incorporate HTML, CSS and JavaScript into designs.Offers tips and suggestions for testing, debugging, and troubleshooting.Organized, easy to read, and well-illustrated, with numerous code examples.Instructions valid for Domino versions 6, 7, and 8....
Price: $35.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2011
Essential Skills for the Agile Developer
by Alan Shalloway, Scott Bain, Ken Pugh, Amir Kolsky
Agile has become today's dominant software development paradigm, but agile methods remain difficult to measure and improve. Essential Skills for the Agile Developer fills this gap from the bottom up, teaching proven techniques for assessing and optimizing both individual and team agile practices.Written by four principals of Net Objectives - one of the world's leading agile training and consulting...
Price: $10.40 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2011
HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers
by Klaus Forster, Bernd Oggl
In HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers, two pioneering web developers provide a comprehensive guide to HTML5's powerful new elements and techniques through compact, practical, easy-to-understand examples. You'll discover just how much you can do with HTML5 - from programming audio/video playback to integrating geographical data into pages and applications.This concise, friendly reference is packed...
Price: $12.86 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2011