by Tim Roadley
This is the first Core Data book to fully reflect Apple's latest platform innovations, including its dramatic recent improvements to iCloud support. Hands-on from start to finish, it teaches you step-by-step as you create a modern data-driven iOS app using Storyboards, ARC, iOS 7, and Xcode 5.Tim Roadley introduces new patterns and best practices designed to overcome the frustrations of Core Data deve...
Price: $3.72 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2013
by Tao Liu
Extend your C# skills to F# - and create data-rich computational and parallel software components faster and more efficiently. Focusing on F# 3.0 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, you'll learn how to exploit F# features to solve both computationally-complex problems as well as everyday programming tasks.Topics include: C# and F# data structures; F# for functional, object-oriented, and imperative progra...
Price: $29.95 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2013
by Chris Nodder
Learn how companies make us feel good about doing what they want. Approaching persuasive design from the dark side, this book melds psychology, marketing, and design concepts to show why we're susceptible to certain persuasive techniques. Packed with examples from every nook and cranny of the web, it provides easily digestible and applicable patterns for putting these design techniques to work....
Price: $25.59 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2013
by Judith Hurwitz, Alan Nugent, Fern Halper, Marcia Kaufman
Big data management is one of the major challenges facing business, industry, and not-for-profit organizations. Data sets such as customer transactions for a mega-retailer, weather patterns monitored by meteorologists, or social network activity can quickly outpace the capacity of traditional data management tools. If you need to develop or manage big data solutions, you'll appreciate how these four ex...
Price: $1.79 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2013
The Data Warehouse Toolkit, 3rd Edition 
by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross
The first edition of Ralph Kimball's The Data Warehouse Toolkit introduced the industry to dimensional modeling, and now his books are considered the most authoritative guides in this space. This new third edition is a complete library of updated dimensional modeling techniques, the most comprehensive collection ever. It covers new and enhanced star schema dimensional modeling patterns, adds two new ch...
Price: $48.99 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2013
Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture For Dummies 
by Robert Hanmer
Imagine how much easier it would be to solve a programming problem, if you had access to the best practices from all the top experts in the field, and you could follow the best design patterns that have evolved through the years. Well, now you can. This unique book offers development solutions ranging from high-level architectural patterns, to design patterns that apply to specific problems encountered afte...
Price: $21.92 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2013
Windows 8 MVVM Patterns Revealed
by Ashish Ghoda
The Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) pattern is held in high regard by many developers as an excellent way of creating sophisticated modern applications. It's clear seperation of presentation and business logic produces a clean implementation that promotes speed, scalability and code reuse in applications with a complex UI. These strengths have found it favor with WPF and Silverlight developers. It is now...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Wallace Jackson
Learn Android App Development is a hands-on tutorial and useful reference. You'll quickly get up to speed and master the Android SDK and the Java that you need for your Android Apps.The Android SDK offers powerful features, and this book is the fastest path to mastering them - and the rest of the Andorid SDK - for programmers with some experience who are new to Android smartphone and tablet apps develo...
Price: $36.73 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
Big Data Analytics Using Splunk
by Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
Big Data Analytics Using Splunk is a hands-on book showing how to process and derive business value from big data in real time. Examples in the book draw from social media sources such as Twitter (tweets) and Foursquare (check-ins). You also learn to draw from machine data, enabling you to analyze, say, web server log files and patterns of user access in real time, as the access is occurring. Gone are the d...
Price: $39.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Magy Seif El-Nasr, Anders Drachen, Alessandro Canossa
Developing a successful game in today's market is a challenging endeavor. Thousands of titles are published yearly, all competing for players' time and attention. Game analytics has emerged in the past few years as one of the main resources for ensuring game quality, maximizing success, understanding player behavior and enhancing the quality of the player experience. It has led to a paradigm shift...
Price: $84.99 | Publisher: Springer | Release: 2013