by Lara Callender Hogan
As a web designer, you encounter tough choices when it comes to weighing aesthetics and performance. Good content, layout, images, and interactivity are essential for engaging your audience, and each of these elements have an enormous impact on page load time and the end-user experience. In this practical book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and bench...
Price: $5.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Ben Klemens
Throw out your old ideas about C and get to know a programming language that's substantially outgrown its origins. With this revised edition of 21st Century C, you'll discover up-to-date techniques missing from other C tutorials, whether you're new to the language or just getting reacquainted.C isn't just the foundation of modern programming languages; it is a modern language, ideal for ...
Price: $24.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Scott Meyers
Coming to grips with C++11 and C++14 is more than a matter of familiarizing yourself with the features they introduce (e.g., auto type declarations, move semantics, lambda expressions, and concurrency support). The challenge is learning to use those features effectively - so that your software is correct, efficient, maintainable, and portable. That's where this practical book comes in. It describes how...
Price: $35.10 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
You Don't Know JS: this & Object Prototypes 
by Kyle Simpson
No matter how much experience you have with JavaScript, odds are you don't fully understand the language. This concise, in-depth guide takes you inside JavaScript's this structure and object prototypes. You'll learn how they work and why they're integral to behavior delegation - a design pattern in which objects are linked, rather than cloned....
Price: $18.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Preston Gralla
Get the most out of Samsung's Galaxy S5 smartphone right from the start. With clear instructions from technology expert Preston Gralla, this Missing Manual gives you a guided tour of Samsung's new flagship phone, including great new features such as the fingerprint scanner, heart rate sensor, and Download Booster. You'll get expert tips and tricks for playing music, calling and texting, shoot...
Price: $7.73 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Building Applications with iBeacon 
by Matthew S. Gast
High-precision location information is increasingly useful for mobile application developers, since it allows devices to interact with the world around them. This practical book shows you how to achieve arm's reach accuracy with iBeacons, simple transmitters that enable your applications to react to nearby surroundings and then deliver timely, relevant information - especially indoors, where GPS and ce...
Price: $9.95 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Jeff Patton
User story mapping is a valuable tool for software development, once you understand why and how to use it. This insightful book examines how this often misunderstood technique can help your team stay focused on users and their needs without getting lost in the enthusiasm for individual product features.Author Jeff Patton shows you how changeable story maps enable your team to hold better conversations about...
Price: $26.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Pete Goodliffe
If you're passionate about programming and want to get better at it, you've come to the right source. Code Craft author Pete Goodliffe presents a collection of useful techniques and approaches to the art and craft of programming that will help boost your career and your well-being.Goodliffe presents sound advice that he's learned in 15 years of professional programming. The book's standa...
Price: $8.16 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by David Wolber, Hal Abelson, Ellen Spertus, Liz Looney
Yes, you can create your own apps for Android devices - and it's easy to do. This extraordinary book introduces you to App Inventor 2, a powerful visual tool that lets anyone build apps. Learn App Inventor basics hands-on with step-by-step instructions for building more than a dozen fun projects, including a text answering machine app, a quiz app, and an app for finding your parked car!The second half ...
Price: $6.51 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Jason Pamental
Responsive web design helps your site maintain its design integrity on a variety of screen sizes, but how does it affect your typography? With this practical book, graphic designers, web designers, and front-end developers alike will learn the nuts and bolts of implementing web fonts well, especially how to get the best appearance from type without sacrificing performance on any device.After examining typog...
Price: $16.04 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014