by Diomidis Spinellis , Georgios Gousios
What are the ingredients of robust, elegant, flexible, and maintainable software architecture? Beautiful Architecture answers this question through a collection of intriguing essays from more than a dozen of today's leading software designers and architects. In each essay, contributors present a notable software architecture, and analyze what makes it innovative and ideal for its purpose....
Price: $35.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Chris Fry, Martin Nystrom
How well does your enterprise stand up against today's sophisticated security threats? In this book, security experts from Cisco Systems demonstrate how to detect damaging security incidents on your global network -- first by teaching you which assets you need to monitor closely, and then by helping you develop targeted strategies and pragmatic techniques to protect them. These recommendations will hel...
Price: $34.58 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson
This book is an in-depth introduction to Erlang, a programming language ideal for any situation where concurrency, fault tolerance, and fast response is essential. Erlang is gaining widespread adoption with the advent of multi - core processors and their new scalable approach to concurrency. With this guide you'll learn how to write complex concurrent programs in Erlang, regardless of your programming ...
Price: $6.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Rand Fishkin, Jessie C. Stricchiola
If your company is going to succeed in the web economy, optimizing your site for search engine visibility is essential. In this book, four of the most noted experts in the field of search engine optimization (SEO) provide you with proven guidelines and cutting-edge techniques for planning and executing a comprehensive SEO strategy. The authors clearly explain SEO fundamentals, while correcting many common m...
Price: $4.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Jon Loeliger
Version Control with Git takes you step-by-step through ways to track, merge, and manage software projects, using this highly flexible open-source version control system. Git permits practically an infinite variety of methods for development and collaboration, but its flexibility also means that some users don't understand how to use it to best advantage. This book offers tutorials on ways to use it, a...
Price: $7.97 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
The Art of Application Performance Testing 
by Ian Molyneaux
This practical book provides a step-by-step approach to testing mission - critical applications for scalability and performance before they're deployed - a vital topic to which other books devote one chapter, if that.Businesses today live and die by network applications and web services. Because of the increasing complexity of these programs, and the pressure to deploy them quickly, many professionals ...
Price: $13.19 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan
This cookbook provides more than 100 recipes to help you crunch data and manipulate text with regular expressions. With recipes for popular programming languages such as C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and VB.NET, Regular Expressions Cookbook will help you learn powerful new tricks, avoid language-specific gotchas, and save valuable time with this library of proven solutions to difficult, rea...
Price: $7.04 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Alan Beaulieu
Updated for the latest database management systems, this introductory guide will get you up and running with SQL quickly. Whether you need to write database applications, perform administrative tasks, or generate reports, Learning SQL, Second Edition, will help you easily master all the SQL fundamentals. Each chapter presents a self-contained lesson on a key SQL concept or technique, with numerous illustrat...
Price: $14.50 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
Java Web Services: Up and Running
by Martin Kalin
This example-driven book offers a thorough introduction to Java's APIs for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) and RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS).Java Web Services: Up and Running takes a clear, pragmatic approach to these technologies by providing a mix of architectural overview, complete working code examples, and short yet precise instructions for compiling, deploying, and executing an application. You'll...
Price: $3.81 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Peter Saint-Andre, Kevin Smith, Remko Troncon
This practical book provides everything you need to know about the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) -- the open technology for real-time communication used in instant messaging, Voice over IP, real-time collaboration, social networking, microblogging, lightweight middleware, cloud computing, and more. XMPP: The Definitive Guide walks you through the thought processes and design decisions in...
Price: $28.03 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009