SignalR Programming in Microsoft ASP.NET 
by Jose M. Aguilar
Get definitive guidance on SignalR, a new library for ASP.NET developers that simplifies the process of adding real-time web functionality to your applications. Real-time web functionality enables server-side code to push content to connected clients instantly as it becomes available. With this book, Microsoft .NET developers familiar with HTML and JavaScript will gain the skills to add real-time and async ...
Price: $20.48 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2014
FREE EBOOK - Rethinking the Internet of Things 
by Francis daCosta
Over the next decade, most devices connected to the Internet will not be used by people in the familiar way that personal computers, tablets and smart phones are. Billions of interconnected devices will be monitoring the environment, transportation systems, factories, farms, forests, utilities, soil and weather conditions, oceans and resources.Many of these sensors and actuators will be networked into auton...
Price: $5.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning, 4th Edition
by Grant Fritchey
Queries not running fast enough? Wondering about the in-memory database features in 2014? Tired of phone calls from frustrated users? Grant Fritchey's book SQL Server Query Performance Tuning is the answer to your SQL Server query performance problems. The book is revised to cover the very latest in performance optimization features and techniques, especially including the newly-added, in-memory databa...
Price: $77.64 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Learning Responsive Web Design
by Clarissa Peterson
Deliver an optimal user experience to all devices - including tablets, smartphones, feature phones, laptops, and large screens - by learning the basics of responsive web design. In this hands-on guide, UX designer Clarissa Peterson explains how responsive web design works, and takes you through a responsive workflow from project kickoff to site launch.Ideal for anyone involved in the process of creating web...
Price: $27.91 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, 2nd Edition
by Theresa Neil
When you're under pressure to produce a well-designed, easy-to-navigate mobile app, there's no time to reinvent the wheel - and no need to. This handy reference provides more than 90 mobile app design patterns, illustrated by 1,000 screenshots from current Android, iOS, and Windows Phone apps.Much has changed since this book's first edition. Mobile OSes have become increasingly different, dri...
Price: $32.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Mike Crittenden
If you want your Drupal website to work well on smartphones, tablets, and desktops, this practical guide shows you how to incorporate Responsive Web Design (RWD) with specific Drupal 7 themes. You'll learn how to create attractive, easy-to-navigate layouts for everything from tiny phone screens to 30-inch desktop monitors - all with the same codebase.Ideal for experienced Drupal developers, this book t...
Price: $3.39 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Preston Gralla
Get the most out of Samsung's Galaxy S5 smartphone right from the start. With clear instructions from technology expert Preston Gralla, this Missing Manual gives you a guided tour of Samsung's new flagship phone, including great new features such as the fingerprint scanner, heart rate sensor, and Download Booster. You'll get expert tips and tricks for playing music, calling and texting, shoot...
Price: $7.73 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Paula Beer, Carl Simmons
Have you ever wondered how apps are made? Do you have a great idea for an app that you want to make reality? This book can teach you how to create apps for any Android device, even if you have never programmed before. With App Inventor, if you can imagine it, you can create it. Using this free, friendly tool, you can decide what you want your app to do and then click together colorful jigsaw-puzzle blocks t...
Price: $31.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2014
Getting Started with Clickteam Fusion
by Jurgen Brunner
Clickteam Fusion is an extremely powerful yet easy-to-use visual creation tool. With Clickteam Fusion's amazing event editor system, you are able to quickly generate games or apps without having to master a traditional programming language. Clickteam Fusion is a game and application authoring tool that allows you to design and develop games for Windows, iOS, Android, Flash, and XNA for Windows mobile p...
Price: $13.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Roger Stringer
Have you ever wanted to integrate phone features into a project you were working on? Maybe you wanted to send SMS messages to your customers about the latest sales? Maybe you want to set up a company directory with voice mail? Or maybe you want to add two-factor authentication to your web sites to verify your users? Since Twilio was launched in 2007, developers have had an easy and efficient way to do these...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014