by Charles Platt
Want to learn the fundamentals of electronics in a fun, hands-on way? With Make: Electronics, you'll start working on real projects as soon as you crack open the book. Explore all of the key components and essential principles through a series of fascinating experiments. You'll build the circuits first, then learn the theory behind them!...
Price: $6.14 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Dean Wampler, Alex Payne
Learn how to be more productive with Scala, a new multi-paradigm language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that integrates features of both object-oriented and functional programming. With this book, you'll discover why Scala is ideal for highly scalable, component-based applications that support concurrency and distribution.Programming Scala clearly explains the advantages of Scala as a JVM language...
Price: $3.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Toby Segaran, Jeff Hammerbacher
With this insightful book, you'll learn from the best data practitioners in the field just how wide-ranging -- and beautiful -- working with data can be. Join 39 contributors as they explain how they developed simple and elegant solutions on projects ranging from the Mars lander to a Radiohead video....
Price: $18.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Jon Loeliger
Version Control with Git takes you step-by-step through ways to track, merge, and manage software projects, using this highly flexible open-source version control system. Git permits practically an infinite variety of methods for development and collaboration, but its flexibility also means that some users don't understand how to use it to best advantage. This book offers tutorials on ways to use it, a...
Price: $7.97 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
FREE EBOOK - 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know 
by Richard Monson-Haefel, Kevlin Henney
In this truly unique technical book, today's leading software architects present valuable principles on key development issues that go way beyond technology. More than four dozen architects - including Neal Ford, Michael Nygard, and Bill de hOra - offer advice for communicating with stakeholders, eliminating complexity, empowering developers, and many more practical lessons they've learned from ye...
Price: $20.63 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by Gregory T Brown
Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby the way Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn (prawn.majesticseacreature.com), this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages, work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive, write code that's readable and expressive...
Price: $25.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
Mercurial: The Definitive Guide
by Bryan O'Sullivan
This instructive book takes you step by step through ways to track, merge, and manage both open source and commercial software projects with Mercurial, using Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and other systems. Mercurial is the easiest system to learn when it comes to distributed revision control. And it's a very flexible tool that's ideal whether you're a lone programmer working on a small ...
Price: $24.61 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by David Griffiths, Paul Barry
Looking for a reliable way to learn how to program on your own, without being overwhelmed by confusing concepts? Head First Programming introduces the core concepts of writing computer programs - variables, decisions, loops, functions, and objects - which apply regardless of the programming language. This book offers concrete examples and exercises in the dynamic and versatile Python language to demonstrate...
Price: $35.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
by George Anderson, Charles D. Nilson, Tim Rhodes, Sachin Kakade, Andreas Jenzer, Bryan King, Jeff Davis, Parag Doshi, Veeru Mehta, Heather Hillary
SAP can help you capture better information and deliver it more quickly, allowing you to make better decisions and maximize the business value of everything you do. However, SAP implementations require massive effort, total buy-in, and significant change throughout the organization. In SAP Implementation Unleashed, 10 expert SAP project managers, functional consultants, and technologists guide you through t...
Price: $6.40 | Publisher: SAMS Publishing | Release: 2009
by Joseph C. Rattz, Jr., Dennis Hayes
LINQ is the project name for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that provide a generic approach to querying data from different data sources. LINQ made its debut in Visual Studio 2008, and became a must-have skill for .NET developers.In most books, you'll find plenty of simple examples to demonstrate how to use a method, but authors rarely show how to use the more complex prototypes. Pro LINQ: L...
Price: $17.50 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2009