Building Applications with iBeacon 
by Matthew S. Gast
High-precision location information is increasingly useful for mobile application developers, since it allows devices to interact with the world around them. This practical book shows you how to achieve arm's reach accuracy with iBeacons, simple transmitters that enable your applications to react to nearby surroundings and then deliver timely, relevant information - especially indoors, where GPS and ce...
Price: $9.95 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Unity AI Programming Essentials
by Curtis Bennett, Dan Violet Sagmiller
Unity is a powerful cross-platform game creation system that includes a game engine and integrated development environment (IDE). AI programming in Unity is a key task for any game developer as it gives you the ability to make computer characters think and behave like a living organism.This book focuses on the different AI tasks that are essential for game development using Unity. It includes topics such as...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Amr Gawish
Oracle ADF is an ADF view framework that consists of over 150 Ajax-enabled JavaServer Faces (JSF) components. It is comparable to the jQuery User Interface library as it helps developers to build exciting User Interfaces for Java EE apps. Oracle ADF Faces 12c can be used to create scalable, reactive, and stunning user experiences.This book covers the latest version of Oracle ADF Faces 12c and explains not o...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Programming Sound with Pure Data
by Tony Hillerson
Sound gives your native, web, or mobile apps that extra dimension, and it's essential for games. Rather than using canned samples from a sample library, learn how to build sounds from the ground up and produce them for web projects using the Pure Data programming language. Even better, you'll be able to integrate dynamic sound environments into your native apps or games-sound that reacts to the ap...
Price: $22.52 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2014
Learn to Program with Minecraft Plugins, 2nd edition
by Andy Hunt
Expand your Minecraft experience! You'll learn how to write Java code and build plugins for your own Minecraft servers using the popular Java programming language. This new edition has been completely revised to use the freely-available CanaryMod library.You'll create plugins that can change blocks from air to stone, or spawn cows and creepers. You'll write plugins that react to game events, ...
Price: $5.13 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2014
by Andrew Adamatzky
Reaction-diffusion and excitable media are amongst most intriguing substrates. Despite apparent simplicity of the physical processes involved the media exhibit a wide range of amazing patterns: from target and spiral waves to travelling localisations and stationary breathing patterns. These media are at the heart of most natural processes, including morphogenesis of living beings, geological formations, ner...
Publisher: Springer | Release: 2013
Big Data Analytics Using Splunk
by Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
Big Data Analytics Using Splunk is a hands-on book showing how to process and derive business value from big data in real time. Examples in the book draw from social media sources such as Twitter (tweets) and Foursquare (check-ins). You also learn to draw from machine data, enabling you to analyze, say, web server log files and patterns of user access in real time, as the access is occurring. Gone are the d...
Price: $39.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
Pro SharePoint Disaster Recovery and High Availability, 2nd Edition
by Stephen Cummins
Few IT professionals take the time to learn what needs to be known to do disaster recovery well. Most labor under the pretense that good administration equals close to five-nines uptime. Most technical people do not see the value of planning for disasters until the unexpected has already happened, and the effects of a disaster involving a SharePoint farm-which today houses business information, line-of-busi...
Price: $55.37 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Rudolf Pecinovsky
You can find a whole range of programming textbooks intended for complete beginners. However, this one is exceptional to certain extent. The whole textbook is designed as a record of the dialogue of the author with his daughter who wants to learn programming. The author endeavors not to explain the Java programming language to the readers, but to teach them real programming. To teach them how to think and d...
Price: $40.00 | Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2013
Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK
by Jarrett Webb, James Ashley
Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK gets you up and running developing Kinect applications for your PC using Microsoft tools and the official SDK. You will have a working Kinect program by the end of the first chapter! The following chapters will open up the secrets of three-dimensional vision, skeleton tracking, audio through the Kinect, and more. Examples illustrate the concepts in ...
Price: $32.94 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012