by Steve Fulton, Jeff Fulton
Flash is fading fast as Canvas continues to climb. The 2nd edition of this popular book gets you started with HTML5 Canvas by showing you how to build interactive multimedia applications. You'll learn how to draw, render text, manipulate images, and create animation - all in the course of building an interactive web game throughout the book.Updated for the latest implementations of Canvas and related H...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Callum Macrae
If you're comfortable with jQuery but a bit shaky with JavaScript, this concise guide will help you expand your knowledge of the language - especially the code that jQuery covers up for you. Many jQuery devotees write as little code as possible, but with some JavaScript under your belt, you can prevent errors, reduce overhead, and make your application code more efficient.This book explores event handl...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell 
by Simon Marlow
If you have a working knowledge of Haskell, this hands-on book shows you how to use the language's many APIs and frameworks for writing both parallel and concurrent programs. You'll learn how parallelism exploits multicore processors to speed up computation-heavy programs, and how concurrency enables you to write programs with threads for multiple interactions.Author Simon Marlow walks you through...
Price: $35.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Tynan Sylvester
Ready to give your design skills a real boost? This eye-opening book helps you explore the design structure behind most of today's hit video games. You'll learn principles and practices for crafting games that generate emotionally charged experiences - a combination of elegant game mechanics, compelling fiction, and pace that fully immerses players.In clear and approachable prose, design pro Tynan...
Price: $30.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Brad Woodberg, Rob Cameron
This complete field guide, authorized by Juniper Networks, is the perfect hands-on reference for deploying, configuring, and operating Juniper's SRX Series networking device. Authors Brad Woodberg and Rob Cameron provide field-tested best practices for getting the most out of SRX deployments, based on their extensive field experience.While their earlier book, Junos Security, covered the SRX platform, t...
Price: $61.61 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Resilience and Reliability on AWS 
by Jurg van Vliet, Flavia Paganelli, Jasper Geurtsen
Cloud services are just as susceptible to network outages as any other platform. This concise book shows you how to prepare for potentially devastating interruptions by building your own resilient and reliable applications in the public cloud. Guided by engineers from 9apps - n independent provider of Amazon Web Services and Eucalyptus cloud solutions - you'll learn how to combine AWS with open source ...
Price: $11.92 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Sencha Touch 2: Up and Running
by Adrian Kosmaczewski
Launch into Sencha Touch 2 with this hands-on book, and quickly learn how to develop robust mobile web apps that look and behave like native applications. Using numerous code samples, author Adrian Kosmaczewski guides you every step of the way through this touchscreen-enabled JavaScript framework - from creating your first basic app to debugging, testing, and deploying a finished product.Learn how to craft ...
Price: $3.35 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Linux System Programming, 2nd Edition
by Robert Love
Write software that draws directly on services offered by the Linux kernel and core system libraries. With this comprehensive book, Linux kernel contributor Robert Love provides you with a tutorial on Linux system programming, a reference manual on Linux system calls, and an insider's guide to writing smarter, faster code.Love clearly distinguishes between POSIX standard functions and special services ...
Price: $25.12 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Alvin Alexander
Save time and trouble when using Scala to build object-oriented, functional, and concurrent applications. With more than 250 ready-to-use recipes and 700 code examples, this comprehensive cookbook covers the most common problems you'll encounter when using the Scala language, libraries, and tools. It's ideal not only for experienced Scala developers, but also for programmers learning to use this J...
Price: $27.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Bruce Hartpence
Go under the hood of an operating Voice over IP network, and build your knowledge of the protocols and architectures used by this Internet telephony technology. With this concise guide, you'll learn about services involved in VoIP and get a first-hand view of network data packets from the time the phones boot through calls and subsequent connection teardown.With packet captures available on the compani...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013