Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning Recipes 
by Sam Alapati, Darl Kuhn, Bill Padfield
Performance problems are rarely "problems" per se. They are more often "crises" during which you're pressured for results by a manager standing outside your cubicle while your phone rings with queries from the help desk. You won't have the time for a leisurely perusal of the manuals, nor to lean back and read a book on theory. What you need in that situation is ...
Price: $50.66 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2011
Expert Indexing in Oracle Database 11g
by Ignatius Fernandez, Darl Kuhn, Sam Alapati, Bill Padfield
Expert Indexing in Oracle Database 11g is about the one database structure at the heart of almost all performance concerns: the index. Database system performance is one of the top concerns in information technology today. Administrators struggle to keep up with the explosion of access and activity driven by the proliferation of computing into everything from phones to tablets to PCs in our increasingly con...
Price: $53.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2011
Expert Oracle and Java Security
by David Coffin
Expert Oracle and Java Security: Programming Secure Oracle Database Applications with Java provides resources that every Java and Oracle database application programmer needs to ensure that they have guarded the security of the data and identities entrusted to them. You'll learn to consider potential vulnerabilities, and to apply best practices in secure Java and PL/SQL coding. Author David Coffin show...
Price: $46.78 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2011
by Brad Broulik
You need to build an app, and you need it to run everywhere. And you need it now! jQuery Mobile gives you the ability to write once and run everywhere using jQuery and jQuery UI. Pro jQuery Mobile will teach you how to create themable, responsive, native-looking applications for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, and more.jQuery Mobile is a framework for delivering cross-platform mobile web applicatio...
Price: $44.96 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2011
by Grant Allen, Mark Murphy
Beginning Android 4 is your first step on the path to creating marketable apps for the burgeoning Android Market, Amazon's Android Appstore, and more. Google's Android operating-system has taken the industry by storm, going from its humble beginnings as a smartphone operating system to its current status as a platform for apps that run across a gamut of devices from phones to tablets to netbooks t...
Price: $12.68 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2011
by Lyza Danger Gardner, Jason Grigsby
Mobile web usage is exploding. Soon, more web browsing will take place on phones and tablets than PCs. Your business needs a mobile strategy, but where do you start? Head First Mobile Web shows how to use the web tech- nology you're already familiar with to make sites and apps that work on any device of any size. Put your JavaScript, CSS media query, and HTML5 skills to work, and then optimize your sit...
Price: $10.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets
by Tero Karvinen, Kimmo Karvinen
Want to build your own robots, turn your ideas into prototypes, control devices with a computer, or make your own cell phone applications? It's a snap with this book and the Arduino open source electronic prototyping platform. Get started with six fun projects and achieve impressive results quickly.With Arduino, building your own embedded gadgets is easy, even for beginners. Embedded systems are everyw...
Price: $21.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by David Wolber, Hal Abelson, Ellen Spertus, Liz Looney
Yes, you can create your own apps for Android phones-and it's easy to do. This extraordinary book introduces App Inventor for Android, a powerful visual tool that lets anyone build apps for Android-based devices. Learn the basics of App Inventor with step-by-step instructions for more than a dozen fun projects, such as creating location-aware apps, data storage, and apps that include decision-making lo...
Price: $4.89 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Nicolas Moreau
This book presents tools and algorithms required to compress / uncompress signals such as speech and music. These algorithms are largely used in mobile phones, DVD players, HDTV sets, etc.In a first rather theoretical part, this book presents the standard tools used in compression systems: scalar and vector quantization, predictive quantization, transform quantization, entropy coding. In particular we show ...
Price: $77.79 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2011
Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development
by Nick Randolph, Christopher Fairbairn
The inclusion of Silverlight and XNA on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 offers you the opportunity to create unique applications for this smart phone. Using tools such as Visual Studio, Expression Blend, and the device emulator, this book shows you how to take your Windows Phone 7 applications from the drawing board to the marketplace. Helpful examples throughout the book and on the website demonstrate how...
Price: $2.26 | Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2010