by Wallace Jackson
Learn the foundational concepts of vector graphics and raster imaging, including what new media formats are best for use with Android Studio, Java and JavaFX, iOS, Kindle and HTML5, as well as key factors regarding the data footprint optimization work process, and why data footprint optimization is important. Digital Painting Techniques covers concepts central to digital painting using the Inkscape 0.91 ope...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2015
by Mahmoud Parsian
If you are ready to dive into the MapReduce framework for processing large datasets, this practical book takes you step by step through the algorithms and tools you need to build distributed MapReduce applications with Apache Hadoop or Apache Spark. Each chapter provides a recipe for solving a massive computational problem, such as building a recommendation system. You'll learn how to implement the app...
Price: $54.57 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Doug Sillars
Unique and clever ideas are important when building a hot-selling Android app, but the real drivers for success are speed, efficiency, and power management. With this practical guide, you'll learn the major performance issues confronting Android app developers, and the tools you need to diagnose problems early.Customers are finally realizing that apps have a major role in the performance of their Andro...
Price: $27.69 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Mike Barlow
Until recently, many people thought big data was a passing fad. "Data science" was an enigmatic term. Today, big data is taken seriously, and data science is considered downright sexy. With this anthology of reports from award-winning journalist Mike Barlow, you'll appreciate how data science is fundamentally altering our world, for better and for worse.Barlow paints a picture of the ...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
Java Persistence with Hibernate, 2nd Edition 
by Christian Bauer, Gavin King, Gary Gregory
Java Persistence with Hibernate, 2nd Edition explores Hibernate by developing an application that ties together hundreds of individual examples. You'll immediately dig into the rich programming model of Hibernate, working through mappings, queries, fetching strategies, transactions, conversations, caching, and more. Along the way you'll find a well-illustrated discussion of best practices in datab...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
FREE EBOOK - Mastering iOS Game Development
by Miguel DeQuadros
iOS is an operating system for Apple manufactured phones and tablets. Mobile gaming is one of the fastest-growing industries, and compatibility with iOS is now becoming the norm for game developers. SpriteKit is part of the native SDK from Apple, and enables developers to make simple entry into game development without unnecessary overhead and a long learning process. SpriteKit also provides other functiona...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
LibGDX Cross-Platform Development Blueprints
by Indraneel Potnis
LibGDX is a very popular open source game framework for the Java programming language. It features deployment to multiple platforms with the same code base and it is very fast. Its vast amount of features makes it very easy to learn and master game development without knowing the low-level details.LibGDX Cross-platform Development Blueprints teaches you the concepts of game development using the LibGDX fram...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
Building Web Applications with Python and Neo4j
by Sumit Gupta
Py2neo is a simple and pragmatic Python library that provides access to the popular graph database Neo4j via its RESTful web service interface. This brings with it a heavily refactored core, a cleaner API, better performance, and some new idioms.You will begin with licensing and installing Neo4j, learning the fundamentals of Cypher as a graph query language, and exploring Cypher optimizations. You will disc...
Price: $34.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
Mastering Python Data Visualization
by Kirthi Raman
Python has a handful of open source libraries for numerical computations involving optimization, linear algebra, integration, interpolation, and other special functions using array objects, machine learning, data mining, and plotting. Pandas have a productive environment for data analysis. These libraries have a specific purpose and play an important role in the research into diverse domains including econo...
Price: $54.38 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
Learning Unity Android Game Development
by Thomas Finnegan
Unity 5 is a revolution in developing great games for Android that provides a great integration platform that works seamlessly with Unity 5, which means that games can be developed quicker and easier than ever before.Packed with a lot of examples, this book starts by helping you to understand all the great features that Unity 5 and Android have to offer. You will then create great games like Tic-Tac-Toe and...
Price: $14.97 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015