by Alasdair Allan
What really sets the iPhone apart from laptops and PCs is its use of onboard sensors, including those that are location-enabled. This concise book takes experienced iPhone and Mac developers on a detailed tour of iPhone and iPad hardware by explaining how these sensors work, and what they're capable of doing.With this book, you'll build sample applications for each sensor, and learn hands-on how t...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Daniel Jacobson, Greg Brail, Dan Woods
Programmers used to be the only people excited about APIs, but now a growing number of companies see them as a hot new product channel. This concise guide describes the tremendous business potential of APIs, and demonstrates how you can use them to provide valuable services to clients, partners, or the public via the Internet. You'll learn all the steps necessary for building a cohesive API business st...
Price: $18.50 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by John Verzani
Dive into the RStudio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for using and programming R, the popular open source software for statistical computing and graphics. This concise book provides new and experienced users with an overview of RStudio, as well as hands-on instructions for analyzing data, generating reports, and developing R software packages.The open source RStudio IDE brings many powerful coding...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
20 Recipes for Programming MVC 3 
by Jamie Munro
There's no need to reinvent the wheel every time you run into a problem with ASP.NET's Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework. This concise cookbook provides recipes to help you solve tasks many web developers encounter every day. Each recipe includes the C# code you need, along with a complete working example of how to implement the solution. Learn practical techniques for applying user authentica...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Programming Entity Framework: Code First
by Julia Lerman, Rowan Miller
Take advantage of the Code First data modeling approach in ADO.NET Entity Framework, and learn how to build and configure a model based on existing classes in your business domain. With this concise book, you'll work hands-on with examples to learn how Code First can create an in-memory model and database by default, and how you can exert more control over the model through further configuration.Code F...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Michael Margolis
Want to create devices that interact with the physical world? This cookbook is perfect for anyone who wants to experiment with the popular Arduino microcontroller and programming environment. You'll find more than 200 tips and techniques for building a variety of objects and prototypes such as toys, detectors, robots, and interactive clothing that can sense and respond to touch, sound, position, heat, ...
Price: $10.90 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Matt Aimonetti
Want to build native Mac OS X applications with a sleek, developer-friendly alternative to Objective-C? MacRuby is an ideal choice. This in-depth guide shows you how Apple's implementation of Ruby gives you access to all the features available to Objective-C programmers. You'll get clear, detailed explanations of MacRuby, including quick programming techniques such as prototyping.Perfect for progr...
Price: $17.17 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Head First iPhone and iPad Development, 2nd Edition
by Dan Pilone, Tracey Pilone
Let's say you have a killer app idea for iPhone and iPad. Where do you begin? Head First iPhone and iPad Development will help you get your first application up and running in no time. You'll not only learn how to design for Apple's devices, you'll also master the iPhone SDK tools - including Interface Builder, Xcode, and Objective-C programming principles - to make your app stand out.Wh...
Price: $22.98 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Vandad Nahavandipoor
You can build a variety of amazing apps on the iOS platform - and every one of them presents a unique set of problems. With the recipes in this cookbook, you'll go beyond theory to solve the vexing, real-life issues you're likely to face when creating apps for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Each recipe provides a clear solution and sample code that you can use right away....
Price: $3.65 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Matthew A. Russell
Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn generate a tremendous amount of valuable social data, but how can you find out who's making connections with social media, what they're talking about, or where they're located? This concise and practical book shows you how to answer these questions and more. You'll learn how to combine social web data, analysis techniques, and visualization to help you fin...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011