Releasing HTML5 Games for Windows 8 
by Jesse Freeman
Windows 8 presents an incredible opportunity for distributing and monetizing HTML5 games, and this guide shows how you can profit from it. You'll learn everything you need to know about porting your original web-based JavaScript game to the new "touch-first" version of Windows, as well as several options for selling your game in Windows Store.Windows 8 is a big leap forward for develo...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Michael Fogus
How can you overcome JavaScript language oddities and unsafe features? With this book, you'll learn how to create code that's beautiful, safe, and simple to understand and test by using JavaScript's functional programming support. Author Michael Fogus shows you how to apply functional-style concepts with Underscore.js, a JavaScript library that facilitates functional programming techniques.Fo...
Price: $6.42 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Curt Gabrielson
After-school and out-of-school programs - as well as home schooling - have been growing steadily for nearly a decade, but instructors are still searching for high-interest content that ties into science standards without the rigidity of current classroom canon. The author draws on more than 20 years of experience doing hands-on science to facilitate tinkering: learning science while fooling around with real...
Price: $8.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Flavio Junqueira, Benjamin Reed
Building distributed applications is difficult enough without having to coordinate the actions that make them work. This practical guide shows how Apache ZooKeeper helps you manage distributed systems, so you can focus mainly on application logic. Even with ZooKeeper, implementing coordination tasks is not trivial, but this book provides good practices to give you a head start, and points out caveats that d...
Price: $15.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Foster Provost, Tom Fawcett
Written by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. This guide also helps you understand the many data-mining techniques in use today.Based on an MBA c...
Price: $23.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
RESTful Java with JAX-RS 2.0, 2nd Edition
by Bill Burke
Learn how to design and develop distributed web services in Java, using RESTful architectural principles and the JAX-RS 2.0 specification in Java EE 7. By focusing on implementation rather than theory, this hands-on reference demonstrates how easy it is to get started with services based on the REST architecture.With the book's technical guide, you'll learn how REST and JAX-RS work and when to use...
Price: $31.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Feedback Control for Computer Systems
by Philipp K. Janert
How can you take advantage of feedback control for enterprise programming? With this book, author Philipp K. Janert demonstrates how the same principles that govern cruise control in your car also apply to data center management and other enterprise systems. Through case studies and hands-on simulations, you'll learn methods to solve several control issues, including mechanisms to spin up more servers ...
Price: $33.66 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Building Hybrid Android Apps with Java and JavaScript
by Nizamettin Gok, Nitin Khanna
Build HTML5-based hybrid applications for Android with a mix of native Java and JavaScript components, without using third-party libraries and wrappers such as PhoneGap or Titanium. This concise, hands-on book takes you through the entire process, from setting up your development environment to deploying your product to an app store.Learn how to create apps that have access to native APIs, such as location,...
Price: $7.44 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
iPhone: The Missing Manual, 7th Edition
by David Pogue
In iOS 7, Apple gave the iPhone the most radical makeover in its history. The new software is powerful, sleek, and a perfect companion to the iPhone 5s and 5c - but it's wildly different. Fortunately, David Pogue is back with an expanded edition of his witty, full-color guide: the world's most popular iPhone book.The iPhone may be the world's coolest computer, but it's still a computer, ...
Price: $6.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
OS X Mavericks: The Missing Manual
by David Pogue
What do you get when you cross a Mac with an iPad? OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Its 200 new features include Mac versions of iPad goodies like Maps, iBooks, and iTunes Radio - but not a single page of instructions. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the expertise and humor that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for over 11 years straight....
Price: $3.65 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013