by Yaron Minsky, Anil Madhavapeddy, Jason Hickey
This fast-moving tutorial introduces you to OCaml, an industrial-strength programming language designed for expressiveness, safety, and speed. Through the book's many examples, you'll quickly learn how OCaml stands out as a tool for writing fast, succinct, and readable systems code.Real World OCaml takes you through the concepts of the language at a brisk pace, and then helps you explore the tools...
Price: $25.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Burt Beckwith
Dig deeper into Grails architecture and discover how this application framework works its magic. Written by a core developer on the Grails team, this practical guide takes you behind the curtain to reveal the inner workings of its 2.0 feature set. You'll learn best practices for building and deploying Grails applications, including performance, security, scaling, tuning, debugging, and monitoring.Under...
Price: $32.45 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Chris Seibold
Want to take real control of your Mac? The hacks in this book help you dig below the surface to tweak system preferences, mount drives and devices, and generally do things with your system that Apple doesn't expect you to do. With a little effort, you can make your Mac and its applications perform exactly the way you want them to.There are more than 50 hacks in this book that show you how to fine-tune ...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Richard E. Silverman
This pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job companion to Git, the distributed version control system. It provides a compact, readable introduction to Git for new users, as well as a reference to common commands and procedures for those of you with Git experience.Written for Git version 1.8.2, this handy task-oriented guide is organized around the basic version control functions you need, such as making comm...
Price: $11.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Twisted Network Programming Essentials, 2nd Edition 
by Jessica McKellar, Abe Fettig
Get started with Twisted, the event-driven networking framework written in Python. With this introductory guide, you'll learn the key concepts and design patterns to build event-driven client and server applications for many popular networking protocols. You'll also learn the tools to build new protocols using Twisted's primitives.Start by building basic TCP clients and servers, and then focu...
Price: $13.15 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Russell Jurney
Mining big data requires a deep investment in people and time. How can you be sure you're building the right models? With this hands-on book, you'll learn a flexible toolset and methodology for building effective analytics applications with Hadoop.Using lightweight tools such as Python, Apache Pig, and the D3.js library, your team will create an agile environment for exploring data, starting with ...
Price: $7.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Leonard Rosenthol
PDF is becoming the standard for digital documents worldwide, but it's not easy to learn on your own. With capabilities that let you use a variety of images and text, embed audio and video, and provide links and navigation, there's a lot to explore. This practical guide helps you understand how to work with PDF to construct your own documents, troubleshoot problems, and even build your own tools.Y...
Price: $23.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Android Developer Tools Essentials
by Mike Wolfson
Android development can be challenging, but through the effective use of Android Developer Tools (ADT), you can make the process easier and improve the quality of your code. This concise guide demonstrates how to build apps with ADT for a device family that features several screen sizes, different hardware capabilities, and a varying number of resources.With examples in Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, you...
Price: $12.52 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Developing Backbone.js Applications
by Addy Osmani
If you want to build your site's frontend with the single-page application (SPA) model, this hands-on book shows you how to get the job done with Backbone.js. You'll learn how to create structured JavaScript applications, using Backbone's own flavor of model-view-controller (MVC) architecture.Start with the basics of MVC, SPA, and Backbone, then get your hands dirty building sample applicatio...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Henri Binsztok, Adam Koprowski, Ida Swarczewskaja
Want to simplify web development? This hands-on book shows you how to write frontend and backend code simultaneously, using the Opa framework. Opa provides a complete stack for web application development, including a web server, database engine, distribution libraries, and a programming language that compiles to JavaScript.You'll learn step-by-step how to use Opa by building two projects through the c...
Price: $18.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013