by Greg Borenstein
This detailed, hands-on guide provides the technical and conceptual information you need to build cool applications with Microsoft's Kinect, the amazing motion-sensing device that enables computers to see. Through half a dozen meaty projects, you'll learn how to create gestural interfaces for software, use motion capture for easy 3D character animation, 3D scanning for custom fabrication, and many...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Vandad Nahavandipoor
Now you can overcome the vexing, real-life issues you confront when creating apps for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. By making use of more than 100 new recipes in this updated cookbook, you'll quickly learn the steps necessary for writing complete iOS apps, whether they're as simple as a music player or feature a complex mix of animations, graphics, multimedia, a database, and iCloud storage.If ...
Price: $5.81 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Getting Started with OAuth 2.0 
by Ryan Boyd
Whether you develop web applications or mobile apps, the OAuth 2.0 protocol will save a lot of headaches. This concise introduction shows you how OAuth provides a single authorization technology across numerous APIs on the Web, so you can securely access users data - such as user profiles, photos, videos, and contact lists - to improve their experience of your application.Through code examples, step-by-step...
Price: $8.58 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Programming Entity Framework: DbContext
by Julia Lerman, Rowan Miller
The DbContext API captures Entity Framework's (EF) most commonly used features and tasks, simplifying development with EF. This concise book shows you how to use the API to perform set operations with the DbSet class, handle change tracking and resolve concurrency conflicts with the Change Tracker API, and validate changes to your data with the Validation API.With DbContext, you'll be able to quer...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Max Kanat-Alexander
Good software design is simple and easy to understand. Unfortunately, the average computer program today is so complex that no one could possibly comprehend how all the code works. This concise guide helps you understand the fundamentals of good design through scientific laws - principles you can apply to any programming language or project from here to eternity.Whether you're a junior programmer, seni...
Price: $21.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Allen B. Downey
Expand your Python skills by working with data structures and algorithms in a refreshing context - through an eye-opening exploration of complexity science. Whether you're an intermediate-level Python programmer or a student of computational modeling, you'll delve into examples of complex systems through a series of exercises, case studies, and easy-to-understand explanations.You'll work with...
Price: $17.56 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Peter Brinkmann
Want to turn your mobile device into a musical instrument? Or equip your game with interactive audio, rather than canned samples? You can do it with Pure Data (Pd), an open source visual programming environment that lets you manipulate digital audio in real time. This concise book shows you how to use Pd - with help from the libpd library - as an easily embeddable and widely portable sound engine.Whether yo...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Madhusudhan Konda
Get started with Spring Integration, the lightweight Java-based framework that makes designing and developing message-oriented architectures a breeze. Through numerous examples, you'll learn how to use this open source framework's basic building blocks to work with both inter - and intra-application programming models.If you're a Java developer familiar with the Spring framework and want to a...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Chris Grover
You can build everything from simple animations to full-fledged iPhone, iPad, and Android apps with Flash CS6, but learning this complex program can be difficult - unless you have this fully updated, bestselling guide. Learn how to create gorgeous Flash effects even if you have no programming experience. With Flash CS6: The Missing Manual, you'll move from the basics to power-user tools with ease....
Price: $3.65 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Enabling Programmable Self with HealthVault
by Vaibhav Bhandari
Personal health and fitness has joined the digital revolution. Using Microsoft HealthVault, people interested in monitoring their health have an unprecedented opportunity to research their own data. This concise book explains how HealthVault users can collect and analyze their data, and how application developers can help them with mobile or web-based applications.You'll learn how to use HealthVault�...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012