Essential Skills for the Agile Developer 
by Alan Shalloway, Scott Bain, Ken Pugh, Amir Kolsky
Agile has become today's dominant software development paradigm, but agile methods remain difficult to measure and improve. Essential Skills for the Agile Developer fills this gap from the bottom up, teaching proven techniques for assessing and optimizing both individual and team agile practices.Written by four principals of Net Objectives - one of the world's leading agile training and consulting...
Price: $10.40 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2011
by Aaftab Munshi, Benedict Gaster, Timothy G. Mattson, James Fung, Dan Ginsburg
Using the new OpenCL (Open Computing Language) standard, you can write applications that access all available programming resources: CPUs, GPUs, and other processors such as DSPs and the Cell/B.E. processor. Already implemented by Apple, AMD, Intel, IBM, NVIDIA, and other leaders, OpenCL has outstanding potential for PCs, servers, handheld/embedded devices, high performance computing, and even cloud systems...
Price: $19.97 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2011
Programming in Objective-C, 4th Edition
by Stephen Kochan
Programming in Objective-C is a concise, carefully written tutorial on the basics of Objective-C and object-oriented programming for Apple's iOS and Mac platforms.The book makes no assumptions about prior experience with object-oriented programming languages or with the C language (which Objective-C is based upon). Because of this, both beginners and experienced programmers alike can use this book to q...
Price: $6.60 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2011
Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Game Programming in 24 Hours
by Jonathan Harbour
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you'll learn how to build high performance games for Windows Phone 7 with Microsoft's free XNA 4.0 toolset. Using this book's straightforward, step-by-step approach, you'll master all the skills you need to design, develop, test, and publish highly playable games for any WP7 device. You'll learn how to integrate game logic, touch screen user ...
Price: $21.48 | Publisher: SAMS Publishing | Release: 2011
Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4
by Dino Esposito
Completely reengineered for ASP.NET 4 - this definitive guide deftly illuminates the core architecture and programming features of ASP.NET 4 in a single, pragmatic volume. Web development expert Dino Esposito provides essential, architectural-level guidance, along with the in-depth technical insights designed to take you - and your solutions - to the next level. The book covers Dynamic Data, AJAX, Microsoft...
Price: $4.99 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2011
Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0: Learn Programming Now!
by Rob Miles
Now you can build your own games for your Xbox 360, Windows Phone 7, or Windows-based PC - as you learn the underlying concepts for computer programming. Use this hands-on guide to dive straight into your first project - adding new tools and tricks to your arsenal as you go. No experience required!...
Price: $3.99 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2011
Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++
by Colin Campbell, Ade Miller
Your CPU meter shows a problem. One core is running at 100 percent, but all the other cores are idle. Your application is CPU-bound, but you are using only a fraction of the computing power of your multicore system. Is there a way to get better performance?The answer, in a nutshell, is parallel programming. Where you once would have written the kind of sequential code that is familiar to all programmers, yo...
Price: $77.47 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2011
Start Here! Fundamentals of Microsoft .NET Programming
by Rod Stephens
Grasp the basic concepts that drive all Microsoft .NET-based languages - and prepare yourself to learn .NET programming. If you have absolutely no previous experience, no problem - simply start here! This ebook provides the foundation for all other .NET programming language books in the Start Here! series. You'll explore programming concepts and techniques with clear explanations, easy-to-follow exampl...
Price: $4.18 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2011
OS X and iOS Kernel Programming
by Ole Henry Halvorsen , Douglas Clarke
OS X and iOS Kernel Programming combines essential operating system and kernel architecture knowledge with a highly practical approach that will help you write effective kernel-level code. You'll learn fundamental concepts such as memory management and thread synchronization, as well as the I/O Kit framework. You'll also learn how to write your own kernel-level extensions, such as device drivers f...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2011
by Peter MacIntyre, Brian Danchilla, Mladen Gogala
If you are a web programmer, you need to know modern PHP. This book presents with many new areas in which PHP plays a large role. If you want to write a mobile application using geo-location data, Pro PHP Programming will show you how. Additionally, if you need to make sure that you can write a multilingual indexing application using Sphinx, this book will help you avoid the pitfalls.Pro PHP Programming dea...
Price: $24.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2011