Beginning Java Game Development with LibGDX
by Lee Stemkoski
Design and create video games using Java, with the LibGDX software library. By reading Beginning Java Game Development with LibGDX, you will learn how to design video game programs and how to build them in Java. You will be able to create your own 2D games, using various hardware for input (keyboard/mouse, gamepad controllers, or touchscreen), and create executable versions of your games. The LibGDX library...
Price: $34.79 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
by Deepak Vohra
In this fast-paced book on the Docker open standards platform for developing, packaging and running portable distributed applications, author Deepak Vohra discusses how to build, ship and run applications on any platform such as a PC, the cloud, data center or a virtual machine. He describes how to install Docker images and create Docker containers, and the advantages of Docker containers.The remainder of t...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
by Mahmoud Parsian
If you are ready to dive into the MapReduce framework for processing large datasets, this practical book takes you step by step through the algorithms and tools you need to build distributed MapReduce applications with Apache Hadoop or Apache Spark. Each chapter provides a recipe for solving a massive computational problem, such as building a recommendation system. You'll learn how to implement the app...
Price: $54.57 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Sandy Ryza, Uri Laserson, Sean Owen, Josh Wills
In this practical book, four Cloudera data scientists present a set of self-contained patterns for performing large-scale data analysis with Spark. The authors bring Spark, statistical methods, and real-world data sets together to teach you how to approach analytics problems by example.You'll start with an introduction to Spark and its ecosystem, and then dive into patterns that apply common techniques...
Price: $20.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
FileMaker Pro 14: The Missing Manual 
by Susan Prosser, Stuart Gripman
You don't need a technical background to build powerful databases with FileMaker Pro 14. This crystal-clear, objective guide shows you how to create a database that lets you do almost anything with your data so you can quickly achieve your goals. Whether you're creating catalogs, managing inventory and billing, or planning a wedding, you'll learn how to customize your database to run on a PC,...
Price: $4.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 4th Edition 
by Matthew MacDonald
You can easily create a professional-looking website with nothing more than an ordinary computer and some raw ambition. Want to build a blog, sell products, create forums, or promote an event? No problem! This friendly, jargon-free book gives you the techniques, tools, and advice you need to build a site and get it up on the Web....
Price: $10.11 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Owen Yamauchi
A couple of years ago, Facebook switched its production servers from a PHP-to-C++ compiler to their own HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) and then launched a new version of PHP to run on HHVM called Hack. This comprehensive guide - written by a member of the core HHVM and Hack teams at Facebook - shows you how to get up and running with both HHVM and Hack.What makes them useful? The HHVM engine is faster and mo...
Price: $7.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
Building Applications on Mesos
by David Greenberg
How can Apache Mesos make a difference in your organization? With this practical guide, you'll learn how this cluster manager directs your datacenter's resources, and provides real time APIs for interacting with (and developing for) the entire cluster. You'll learn how to use Mesos as a deployment system, like Ansible or Chef, and as an execution platform for building and hosting higher-level...
Price: $29.43 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Mike Barlow
Until recently, many people thought big data was a passing fad. "Data science" was an enigmatic term. Today, big data is taken seriously, and data science is considered downright sexy. With this anthology of reports from award-winning journalist Mike Barlow, you'll appreciate how data science is fundamentally altering our world, for better and for worse.Barlow paints a picture of the ...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Robert I. Kabacoff
R in Action, Second Edition presents both the R language and the examples that make it so useful for business developers. Focusing on practical solutions, the book offers a crash course in statistics and covers elegant methods for dealing with messy and incomplete data that are difficult to analyze using traditional methods. You'll also master R's extensive graphical capabilities for exploring and...
Price: $14.98 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015