by Richard Dallaway
If you need help building web applications with the Lift framework, this cookbook provides scores of concise, ready-to-use code solutions. You'll find recipes for everything from setting up a coding environment to creating REST web services and deploying your application to production.Built on top of the Scala JVM programming language, Lift takes a different - yet ultimately easier - approach to develo...
Price: $3.85 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Khaled El Emam, Luk Arbuckle
With this practical book, you will learn proven methods for anonymizing health data to help your organization share meaningful datasets, without exposing patient identity. Leading experts Khaled El Emam and Luk Arbuckle walk you through a risk-based methodology, using case studies from their efforts to de-identify hundreds of datasets.Clinical data is valuable for research and other types of analytics, but ...
Price: $25.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Theory of Fun for Game Design, 2nd Edition 
by Raph Koster
Now in full color, the 10th anniversary edition of this classic book takes you deep into the influences that underlie modern video games, and examines the elements they share with traditional games such as checkers. At the heart of his exploration, veteran game designer Raph Koster takes a close look at the concept of fun and why it's the most vital element in any game.Why do some games become boring q...
Price: $17.87 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
HTML5: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
by Matthew MacDonald
HTML5 is more than a markup language - it's a collection of several independent web standards. Fortunately, this expanded guide covers everything you need in one convenient place. With step-by-step tutorials and real-world examples, HTML5: The Missing Manual shows you how to build web apps that include video tools, dynamic graphics, geolocation, offline features, and responsive layouts for mobile devic...
Price: $9.05 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
HTML5 Pocket Reference, 5th Edition
by Jennifer Niederst Robbins
Need help finding the right HTML5 element or attribute for your web page or application? HTML5 Pocket Reference is the classic reference that web designers and developers have been keeping close at hand for more than thirteen years.This fifth edition has been updated to reflect the current state of HTML5, including the HTML5 Candidate Recommendation, the emerging HTML5.1 Working Draft, and the living WHATWG...
Price: $6.67 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Building iPhone and iPad Electronic Projects
by Mike Westerfield
Why simply play music or go online when you can use your iPhone or iPad for some really fun projects, such as building a metal detector, hacking a radio control truck, or tracking a model rocket in flight? Learn how to build these and other cool things by using iOS device sensors and inexpensive hardware such as Arduino and a Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Shield.This hands-on book shows you how to write simple ...
Price: $7.78 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Kevin Schmidt, Christopher Phillips
Although you don't need a large computing infrastructure to process massive amounts of data with Apache Hadoop, it can still be difficult to get started. This practical guide shows you how to quickly launch data analysis projects in the cloud by using Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), the hosted Hadoop framework in Amazon Web Services (AWS).Authors Kevin Schmidt and Christopher Phillips demonstrate best ...
Price: $28.58 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Mike Barlow
Five or six years ago, analysts working with big datasets made queries and got the results back overnight. The data world was revolutionized a few years ago when Hadoop and other tools made it possible to get the results from queries in minutes. But the revolution continues. Analysts now demand sub-second, near real-time query results. Fortunately, we have the tools to deliver them. This report examines too...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Kathleen Ting, Jarek Jarcec Cecho
Integrating data from multiple sources is essential in the age of big data, but it can be a challenging and time-consuming task. This handy cookbook provides dozens of ready-to-use recipes for using Apache Sqoop, the command-line interface application that optimizes data transfers between relational databases and Hadoop.Sqoop is both powerful and bewildering, but with this cookbook's problem-solution-d...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Jennifer Greene, Andrew Stellman
Learn the latest principles and certification objectives in The PMBOK Guide, in a unique and inspiring way with Head First PMP. This book helps you prepare for the PMP certification exam using a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works. You'll find a full-length sample exam included inside the book.More than just proof of passing a test, a PMP certification means that you have the kno...
Price: $5.81 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013