by Clay Breshears
If you're looking to take full advantage of multi-core processors with concurrent programming, this practical book provides the knowledge and hands-on experience you need. The Art of Concurrency is one of the few resources to focus on implementing algorithms in the shared-memory model of multi-core processors, rather than just theoretical models or distributed-memory architectures. The book provides de...
Price: $30.14 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Al Anderson, Ryan Benedetti
Frustrated with networking books so chock-full of acronyms that your brain goes into sleep mode? Head First Networking's unique, visually rich format provides a task-based approach to computer networking that makes it easy to get your brain engaged. You'll learn the concepts by tying them to on-the-job tasks, blending practice and theory in a way that only Head First can.With this book, you'l...
Price: $8.02 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Steve Souders
Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today's web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site's performance.Souders' previous book, the bestsell...
Price: $4.65 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
FREE EBOOK - 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
by Richard Monson-Haefel, Kevlin Henney
In this truly unique technical book, today's leading software architects present valuable principles on key development issues that go way beyond technology. More than four dozen architects - including Neal Ford, Michael Nygard, and Bill de hOra - offer advice for communicating with stakeholders, eliminating complexity, empowering developers, and many more practical lessons they've learned from ye...
Price: $20.63 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Dan Sanderson
As one of today's cloud computing services, Google App Engine does more than provide access to a large system of servers. It also offers you a simple model for building applications that scale automatically to accommodate millions of users. With Programming Google App Engine, you'll get expert practical guidance that will help you make the best use of this powerful platform. Google engineer Dan Sa...
Price: $3.74 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Gregory T Brown
Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby the way Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn (prawn.majesticseacreature.com), this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages, work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive, write code that's readable and expressive...
Price: $25.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by John Viega
If you think computer security has improved in recent years, Myths of Security will shake you out of your complacency. Longtime security professional John Viega reports on the sorry state of security, with concrete suggestions for professionals and individuals confronting the issue. Provocative, insightful, and often controversial, The Myths of Security addresses IT professionals who deal with security issu...
Price: $10.35 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by C. J. Date
Understanding SQL's underlying theory is the best way to guarantee that your SQL code is correct and your database schema is robust and maintainable. In SQL and Relational Theory, author C.J. Date demonstrates how you can apply relational theory directly to your use of SQL, with numerous examples and clear explanations of the reasoning behind them. Anyone with a modest to advanced background in SQL wil...
Price: $3.50 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by John Graham-Cumming
With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. Travel to Munich to see the world's largest science museum, watch Foucault's pendulum swinging in Paris, ponder a descendant of Newton's apple tree at Trinity College, Cambridge, and more. Each site in The Geek...
Price: $3.74 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual, 5th Edition
by David Pogue, Derrick Story
If you used iPhoto when it first came out, you'll remember the way it slowed to a crawl once you loaded it with about 2,000 photos. Compare that to this year's model: iPhoto 6 can handle as many as 250,000 images and still have the power to run a host of suped-up features. Its new software engine lets you make changes with a drag & drop editing tool, find photos with a robust search feature, a...
Price: $3.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009