Developing BlackBerry Tablet Applications with Flex 4.5
by Rich Tretola
Ready to put your ActionScript 3 skills to work on mobile apps? This hands-on book walks you through the process of creating an Adobe AIR application for Blackberry Tablets from start to finish, using the Flex 4.5 framework. Move quickly from a basic Hello World application to complex interactions with Blackberry APIs, and get complete code examples for working with tablet components - including the acceler...
Price: $3.87 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Writing Game Center Apps in iOS
by Vandad Nahavandipoor
Now that Apple has introduced the GameKit framework to its iOS SDK, you can integrate Game Center features directly into your iPhone and iPad apps. This concise cookbook shows you how it's done, with 18 targeted recipes for adding leaderboards, user authentication, achievements, multiplayer games, and many other features.How do you display players' scores and achievements? How do you create Game C...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Jon Reid
Native apps have distinct advantages, but the future belongs to mobile web apps that function on a broad range of smartphones and tablets. Get started with jQuery Mobile, the touch-optimized framework for creating apps that look and behave consistently across many devices. This concise book provides HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript code examples, screen shots, and step-by-step guidance to help you build a comple...
Price: $7.40 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Managing Infrastructure with Puppet
by James Loope
Get started with Puppet, and learn how this popular configuration management framework helps you automate your servers. This concise introduction shows you how to use Puppet's tools and templates to organize and execute configuration plans on Linux, Unix, and Windows servers. Through code samples and real-world examples, you'll learn how to manage pools of servers and virtual instances, and how to...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Josh Long, Steve Mayzak
Spring Roo goes a step beyond the Spring Framework by bringing true Rapid Application Development to Java - just as Grails has done with Groovy. This concise introduction shows you how to build applications with Roo, using the framework's shell as an intelligent and timesaving code-completion tool. It's an ideal RAD tool because Roo does much of the tedious code maintenance.You'll get started...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
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
ActionScript Developer's Guide to Robotlegs
by Joel Hooks, Stray (Lindsey Fallow)
Robotlegs is a standout among the ActionScript 3 development frameworks available today. With it, Flash, Flex, and AIR developers can create well-architected, testable, and flexible Rich Internet Applications - fast. This concise guide shows you how the light footprint and focused scope of this open source framework not only solves your immediate coding problems, it helps you gain insight into AS3 architect...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by John Mertic
In the crowded field of customer relationship management (CRM) systems, SugarCRM stands out - not only for its modular design, but also for the ease with which you can develop, customize, and extend your CRM applications. This concise book provides a thorough overview of the development tools and APIs available in SugarCRM 6.2, showing both developers and nondevelopers alike how to use them to build a sampl...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
20 Recipes for Programming MVC 3
by Jamie Munro
There's no need to reinvent the wheel every time you run into a problem with ASP.NET's Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework. This concise cookbook provides recipes to help you solve tasks many web developers encounter every day. Each recipe includes the C# code you need, along with a complete working example of how to implement the solution. Learn practical techniques for applying user authentica...
Price: $16.99 | 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