Building Mapping Applications with QGIS 
by Erik Westra
QGIS is one of the premiere open source Geographical Information Systems. While developing Python geospatial applications can be challenging, QGIS simplifies the process by combining the necessary geoprocessing libraries with a sophisticated user interface, all of which can be directly controlled using Python code.Starting with an introduction to QGIS and how to use the built-in QGIS Python Console, we will...
Price: $43.65 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Python Network Programming Cookbook 
by Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
This book highlights major aspects of network programming in Python starting from writing simple networking clients, to developing complex screen-scraping and network security monitoring scripts. It creates the building blocks for many practical web and networking applications that rely on various networking protocols. This book presents the power and beauty of Python in solving the numerous real-world task...
Price: $26.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
FREE EBOOK - Classical Object-Oriented Programming with ECMAScript
by Mike Gerwitz
ECMAScript (more popularly known by the name "JavaScript") is the language of the web. In the decades past, it has been used to augment web pages with trivial features and obnoxious gimmicks. Today, the language is used to write full-featured web applications that rival modern desktop software in nearly every regard and has even expanded to create desktop and server software. With increased usage,...
Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2014
by Marc Cohen, Kathryn Hurley, Paul Newson
Learn how to run large-scale, data-intensive workloads with Compute Engine, Google's cloud platform. Written by Google engineers, this tutorial walks you through the details of this Infrastructure as a Service by showing you how to develop a project with it from beginning to end. You'll learn best practices for using Compute Engine, with a focus on solving practical problems.With programming examp...
Price: $24.10 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Jason Swartz
Why learn Scala? You don't need to be a data scientist or distributed computing expert to appreciate this object-oriented functional programming language. This practical book provides a comprehensive yet approachable introduction to the language, complete with syntax diagrams, examples, and exercises. You'll start with Scala's core types and syntax before diving into higher-order functions an...
Price: $31.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Paul DuBois
MySQL's popularity has brought a flood of questions about how to solve specific problems, and that's where this cookbook is essential. When you need quick solutions or techniques, this handy resource provides scores of short, focused pieces of code, hundreds of worked-out examples, and clear, concise explanations for programmers who don't have the time (or expertise) to solve MySQL problems f...
Price: $48.88 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Beginning Apache Cassandra Development
by Vivek Mishra
Beginning Apache Cassandra Development introduces you to one of the most robust and best-performing NoSQL database platforms on the planet. Apache Cassandra is a document database following the JSON document model. It is specifically designed to manage large amounts of data across many commodity servers without there being any single point of failure. This design approach makes Apache Cassandra a robust and...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Warren Gay
You probably already know that the Raspberry Pi is an excellent teaching tool. If you want to teach Linux basics or Python programming or basic electronics, it's a great place to start. But what if you are an electronics engineer or a Linux systems administrator or a very experienced maker? You want to know all of the details and inner working of the Raspberry Pi -- how to (figuratively or maybe even l...
Price: $44.22 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by David Hows, Peter Membrey, Eelco Plugge
Need a quick and easy to understand introduction to MongoDB and NoSQL databases? MongoDB Basics, from The Definitive Guide to MongoDB, 2E, shows you how a document-oriented database system differs from a relational database, and how to install and get started using it. You'll also learn MongoDB design basics, including geospatial indexing, how to navigate, view, and query your database, and how to use ...
Price: $27.41 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Getting Started with OpenShift
by Steve Pousty, Katie Miller
Intrigued by the possibilities of developing web applications in the cloud? With this concise book, you get a quick hands-on introduction to OpenShift, the open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering from Red Hat. You'll learn the steps necessary to build, deploy, and host a complete real-world application on OpenShift, without having to read long, detailed explanations of the technologies involv...
Price: $8.88 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014