Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint 
by David Feldman, Jason Himmelstein
Create dynamic business intelligence (BI) solutions for SharePoint faster and with more capabilities than previously possible. With this book, you'll learn the entire process - from high-level concepts to development and deployment - for building data-rich BI applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch, SQL Server 2012, and a host of related Microsoft technologies.You'll learn practical techniques...
Price: $4.18 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Twisted Network Programming Essentials, 2nd Edition
by Jessica McKellar, Abe Fettig
Get started with Twisted, the event-driven networking framework written in Python. With this introductory guide, you'll learn the key concepts and design patterns to build event-driven client and server applications for many popular networking protocols. You'll also learn the tools to build new protocols using Twisted's primitives.Start by building basic TCP clients and servers, and then focu...
Price: $13.15 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Pieter Hintjens
Dive into ZeroMQ, the smart socket library that gives you fast, easy, message-based concurrency for your applications. With this quick-paced guide, you'll learn hands-on how to use this scalable, lightweight, and highly flexible networking tool for exchanging messages among clusters, the cloud, and other multi-system environments.ZeroMQ maintainer Pieter Hintjens takes you on a tour of real-world appli...
Price: $41.70 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Programming the Mobile Web, 2nd Edition
by Maximiliano Firtman
With the second edition of this popular book, you'll learn how to build HTML5 and CSS3-based apps that access geolocation, accelerometer, multi-touch screens, offline storage, and other features in today's smartphones, tablets, and feature phones. The market for mobile apps continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, and this book is the most complete reference available for the mobile web.Author and...
Price: $32.49 | 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
by Arun Gupta
Get up to speed on the principal technologies in the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7, and learn how the latest version embraces HTML5, focuses on higher productivity, and provides functionality to meet enterprise demands. Written by Arun Gupta, a key member of the Java EE team, this book provides a chapter-by-chapter survey of several Java EE 7 specifications, including WebSockets, Batch Processing, RES...
Price: $36.93 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Pieter Hintjens
Even connecting a few programs across a few sockets is plain nasty when you start to handle real life situations. Trillions? The cost would be unimaginable. Connecting computers is so difficult that software and services to do this is a multi-billion dollar business. So today we're still connecting applications using raw UDP and TCP, proprietary protocols, HTTP, Websockets. It remains painful, slow, ha...
Price: $25.00 | Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2013
by Carlos Sessa
Hacks. Clever programming techniques to solve thorny little problems. Ten lines of code that save you two days of work. The little gems you learn from the old guy in the next cube or from the geniuses on Stack Overflow. That's just what you'll find in this compact and useful book.The name 50 Android Hacks says it all. Ranging from the mundane to the spectacular, each self-contained, fully illustra...
Price: $4.50 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013
The Art of Unit Testing, 2nd Edition
by Roy Osherove
You know you should be unit testing, so why aren't you doing it? If you're new to unit testing, if you find unit testing tedious, or if you're just not getting enough payoff for the effort you put into it, keep reading.The Art of Unit Testing, Second Edition guides you step by step from writing your first simple unit tests to building complete test sets that are maintainable, readable, and tr...
Price: $8.44 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013
by Dan McCreary, Ann Kelly
If you want to understand and perhaps start using the new data storage and analysis technologies that go beyond the SQL database model, this book is for you. Written in plain language suitable for technical managers and developers, and using many examples, use cases, and illustrations, this book explains the concepts, features, benefits, potential, and limitations of NoSQL.Making Sense of NoSQL starts by co...
Price: $7.03 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013