by Jess Chadwick
Take Razor for a test drive and discover first hand how this scripting syntax simplifies the way you create dynamic, data-driven websites. With this concise guide, you'll work with Razor syntax by building example websites with Microsoft WebMatrix and ASP.NET MVC. You'll quickly learn how Razor lets you combine code and content in a fluid and expressive manner on Windows-based servers.Programming ...
Price: $8.86 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Getting Started with GEO, CouchDB, and Node.js 
by Mick Thompson
Today's mobile devices have GPS and standard APIs to give you access to coordinates - but what can you do with that data? With this concise book, application developers learn how to work with location data quickly and easily, using Node.js, CouchDB, and other open source tools and libraries.Node.js makes it simple to run event code on the Web, and the CouchDB document-oriented database lets you store l...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by James Floyd Kelly, Marc de Vinck
Get started with MintDuino, the Maker Shed kit that's perfect for learning or teaching the fundamentals of how microcontrollers work. This hands-on book shows you how to build a complete MintDuino project from start to finish. Learn how to assemble the microcontroller on a breadboard (no soldering required), and immediately begin programming it.You'll build the MintDuino Reflex Game in five separa...
Price: $2.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Matthew B. Doar
One advantage of using JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, or project management is the ability to extend this tool with hundreds of plugins from the JIRA community. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar - the author of Practical JIRA Administration - shows you how to create and maintain your own JIRA plugins to meet the specific needs of a project.This book uses detailed examples to clarify...
Price: $11.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Alasdair Allan
Turn your iPhone or iPad into the hub of a distributed sensor network with the help of an Arduino microcontroller. With this concise guide, you'll learn how to connect an external sensor to an iOS device and have them talk to each other through Arduino. You'll also build an iOS application that will parse the sensor values it receives and plot the resulting measurements, all in real-time.iOS proce...
Price: $9.04 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
ActionScript Developer's Guide to Robotlegs
by Joel Hooks, Stray (Lindsey Fallow)
Robotlegs is a standout among the ActionScript 3 development frameworks available today. With it, Flash, Flex, and AIR developers can create well-architected, testable, and flexible Rich Internet Applications - fast. This concise guide shows you how the light footprint and focused scope of this open source framework not only solves your immediate coding problems, it helps you gain insight into AS3 architect...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Getting Started with Arduino, 2nd Edition
by Massimo Banzi
Arduino is the open-source electronics prototyping platform that's taken the design and hobbyist world by storm. This thorough introduction, updated for Arduino 1.0, gives you lots of ideas for projects and helps you work with them right away. From getting organized to putting the final touches on your prototype, all the information you need is here!Getting started with Arduino is a snap. To use the in...
Price: $9.97 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Ken Pepple
OpenStack was created with the audacious goal of being the ubiquitous software choice for building public and private cloud infrastructures. In just over a year, it's become the most talked-about project in open source. This concise book introduces OpenStack's general design and primary software components in detail, and shows you how to start using it to build cloud infrastructures.If you're...
Price: $16.99 | 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
by Zigurd Mednieks, Laird Dornin, G. Blake Meike, Masumi Nakamura
What does it take to build well-engineered Android applications? Explore Android's core building blocks and APIs in depth with this authoritative guide, and learn how to create compelling apps that work on a full range of Android devices. You'll work with proven approaches to app design and implementation - including application frameworks that you can use as a starting point for your own projects...
Price: $5.19 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011