by Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, Barry O'Reilly
How well does your organization respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies when building software-based products? This practical guide presents Lean and Agile principles and patterns to help you move fast at scale - and demonstrates why and how to apply these methodologies throughout your organization, rather than with just one department or team.Through case studies, y...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Jonathon Manning, Paris Buttfield-Addison
Want to build games with iOS technologies? This cookbook provides detailed recipes for a wide range of common iOS game-development issues, ranging from 2D and 3D math to Game Center integration, and OpenGL to performance. If you're familiar with iOS and Objective-C, this is the problem-solving guide you want.Rather than focus on specific game engines for iOS, such as Cocos2D or the Corona SDK, the reci...
Price: $6.70 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Client-Server Web Apps with JavaScript and Java 
by Casimir Saternos
As a Java programmer, how can you tackle the disruptive client-server approach to web development? With this comprehensive guide, you'll learn how today's client-side technologies and web APIs work with various Java tools. Author Casimir Saternos provides the big picture of client-server development, and then takes you through many practical client-server architectures. You'll work with hands...
Price: $7.69 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Simon St. Laurent, J. David Eisenberg
Elixir is an excellent language if you want to learn about functional programming, and with this hands-on introduction, you'll discover just how powerful and fun Elixir can be. This language combines the robust functional programming of Erlang with a syntax similar to Ruby, and includes powerful features for metaprogramming.This book shows you how to write simple Elixir programs by teaching one skill a...
Price: $19.95 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Semmy Purewal
Grasp the fundamentals of web application development by building a simple database-backed app from scratch, using HTML, JavaScript, and other open source tools. Through hands-on tutorials, this practical guide shows inexperienced web app developers how to create a user interface, write a server, build client-server communication, and use a cloud-based service to deploy the application.Each chapter includes...
Price: $10.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Brandon Satrom
Add custom features to browsers old and new by writing polyfill libraries, JavaScript plugins that take browsers beyond their native capabilities. In this practical fieldbook, author Brandon Satrom introduces principles and guidelines for polyfill development, and then walks you through the steps for building a complex, real-world HTML5 polyfill.You'll also explore the future of polyfilling - or prolly...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Richard Warburton
If you're a developer with core Java SE skills, this hands-on book takes you through the language changes in Java 8 triggered by the addition of lambda expressions. You'll learn through code examples, exercises, and fluid explanations how these anonymous functions will help you write simple, clean, library-level code that solves business problems.Lambda expressions are a fairly simple change to Ja...
Price: $22.94 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Java in a Nutshell, 6th Edition
by Benjamin J Evans, David Flanagan
The latest edition of Java in a Nutshell is designed to help experienced Java programmers get the most out of Java 7 and 8, but it's also a learning path for new developers. Chock full of examples that demonstrate how to take complete advantage of modern Java APIs and development best practices, the first section of this thoroughly updated book provides a fast-paced, no-fluff introduction to the Java p...
Price: $26.18 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Building Web Apps with Ember.js
by Jesse Cravens, Thomas Brady
If you're a web developer interested in building scalable single-page applications - full-stack, browser-based apps that connect to a backend - this practical guide shows you how to use Ember.js, the popular JavaScript framework based on the model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern.Through the course of the book, you'll learn how to build a prototype Ember application (a musician index ca...
Price: $4.18 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Full Stack Web Development with Backbone.js
by Patrick Mulder
Learn how to build a full-stack application with Backbone.js by taking advantage of JavaScript modules, workflow automation, and Backbone's interface building blocks. With this practical guide, author Patrick Mulder takes experienced backend developers and JavaScript programmers through the steps necessary to create a fully functional single-page application.Backbone's rich ecosystem of plugins ma...
Price: $6.93 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014