by Colin Ihrig
Since it's creation in 2009, Node.js has grown into a powerful and increasingly popular asynchronous-development framework for creating highly-scalable network applications using JavaScript. Respected companies such as Dow Jones and LinkedIn are among the many organizations to have seen Node's potential and adopted it into their businesses.Pro Node.js for Developers provides a comprehensive guide ...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Prabhu Sunderaraman
Practical Ext JS 4 will get you up and running, using Ext JS 4.2 for your projects, as quickly as possible. After a quick refresher on some JavaScript basics, you will get to grips with Ext JS 4's OO concepts (such as mixins) and familiarize yourself with its UI components and layout. You'll learn all the core features of the Ext JS framework, such as its MVC architecture, theming and styling your...
Price: $5.13 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Ray Rischpater, Carmen Au
Geospatial mapping applications have become hugely popular in recent years. With smart-phone and tablet numbers snow-balling this trend looks set to continue well into the future. Indeed, it is true to say that in today's mobile world location-aware apps are becoming the norm rather than the exception. In Microsoft Mapping author Ray Rischpater showcases Microsoft's Bing Maps API and demonstrates ...
Price: $52.28 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
Learn 2D Game Development with C# 
by Kelvin Sung
2D games are hugely popular across a wide range of platforms and the ideal place to start if you're new to game development. With Learn 2D Game Development with C#, you'll learn your way around the universal building blocks of game development, and how to put them together to create a real working game.C# is increasingly becoming the language of choice for new game developers. Productive and easie...
Price: $37.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Adrian Kaehler, Gary Bradski
Learning OpenCV puts you in the middle of the rapidly expanding field of computer vision. Written by the creators of the free open source OpenCV library, this book introduces you to computer vision and demonstrates how you can quickly build applications that enable computers to "see" and make decisions based on that data.The 2nd edition is updated to cover new features and changes in OpenC...
Price: $60.42 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Daniel Hinojosa
If you build your Scala application through Test-Driven Development, you'll quickly see the advantages of testing before you write production code. This hands-on book shows you how to create tests with ScalaTest and the Specs2 - two of the best testing frameworks available - and how to run your tests in the Simple Build Tool (SBT) designed specifically for Scala projects.By building a sample digital ju...
Price: $6.45 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Burt Beckwith
Dig deeper into Grails architecture and discover how this application framework works its magic. Written by a core developer on the Grails team, this practical guide takes you behind the curtain to reveal the inner workings of its 2.0 feature set. You'll learn best practices for building and deploying Grails applications, including performance, security, scaling, tuning, debugging, and monitoring.Under...
Price: $32.45 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Twisted Network Programming Essentials, 2nd Edition
by Jessica McKellar, Abe Fettig
Get started with Twisted, the event-driven networking framework written in Python. With this introductory guide, you'll learn the key concepts and design patterns to build event-driven client and server applications for many popular networking protocols. You'll also learn the tools to build new protocols using Twisted's primitives.Start by building basic TCP clients and servers, and then focu...
Price: $13.15 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Developing Backbone.js Applications
by Addy Osmani
If you want to build your site's frontend with the single-page application (SPA) model, this hands-on book shows you how to get the job done with Backbone.js. You'll learn how to create structured JavaScript applications, using Backbone's own flavor of model-view-controller (MVC) architecture.Start with the basics of MVC, SPA, and Backbone, then get your hands dirty building sample applicatio...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Henri Binsztok, Adam Koprowski, Ida Swarczewskaja
Want to simplify web development? This hands-on book shows you how to write frontend and backend code simultaneously, using the Opa framework. Opa provides a complete stack for web application development, including a web server, database engine, distribution libraries, and a programming language that compiles to JavaScript.You'll learn step-by-step how to use Opa by building two projects through the c...
Price: $18.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013