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
Automating ActionScript Projects with Eclipse and Ant
by Sidney de Koning
Automating repetitive programming tasks is easier than many Flash / AS3 developers think. With the Ant build tool, the Eclipse IDE, and this concise guide, you can set up your own "ultimate development machine" to code, compile, debug, and deploy projects faster. You'll also get started with versioning systems, such as Subversion and Git.Create a consistent workflow for multiple machi...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Migrating Applications to IPv6
by Dan York
If IPv6 is to be adopted on a large scale, the applications running on desktop systems, laptops, and even mobile devices need to work just as well with this protocol as they do with IPv4. This concise book takes you beyond the network layer and helps you explore the issues you need to address if you are to successfully migrate your apps to IPv6. It's ideal for application developers, system/network arc...
Price: $3.98 | 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
by Matthew B. Doar
One advantage of using JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, or project management is the ability to extend this tool with hundreds of plugins from the JIRA community. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar - the author of Practical JIRA Administration - shows you how to create and maintain your own JIRA plugins to meet the specific needs of a project.This book uses detailed examples to clarify...
Price: $11.00 | 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
by John Verzani
Dive into the RStudio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for using and programming R, the popular open source software for statistical computing and graphics. This concise book provides new and experienced users with an overview of RStudio, as well as hands-on instructions for analyzing data, generating reports, and developing R software packages.The open source RStudio IDE brings many powerful coding...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Getting Started with Arduino, 2nd Edition
by Massimo Banzi
Arduino is the open-source electronics prototyping platform that's taken the design and hobbyist world by storm. This thorough introduction, updated for Arduino 1.0, gives you lots of ideas for projects and helps you work with them right away. From getting organized to putting the final touches on your prototype, all the information you need is here!Getting started with Arduino is a snap. To use the in...
Price: $4.58 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Application Security for the Android Platform
by Jeff Six
With the Android platform fast becoming a target of malicious hackers, application security is crucial. This concise book provides the knowledge you need to design and implement robust, rugged, and secure apps for any Android device. You'll learn how to identify and manage the risks inherent in your design, and work to minimize a hacker's opportunity to compromise your app and steal user data.How ...
Price: $3.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by O'Reilly Radar Team
This collection represents the full spectrum of data-related content we've published on O'Reilly Radar over the last year. Mike Loukides kicked things off in June 2010 with "What is data science?" and from there we've pursued the various threads and themes that naturally emerged. Now, roughly a year later, we can look back over all we've covered and identify a number of...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011