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
by Matthew Kirk
Learn how to apply test-driven development (TDD) to machine-learning algorithms - and catch mistakes that could sink your analysis. In this practical guide, author Matthew Kirk takes you through the principles of TDD and machine learning, and shows you how to apply TDD to several machine-learning algorithms, including Naive Bayesian classifiers and Neural Networks.Machine-learning algorithms often have test...
Price: $21.79 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | 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
by Anthony Lewis
Rails is a robust, flexible development platform that lets you build complex websites quickly. Major websites like GitHub, Hulu, and Twitter have run Rails under the hood, and if you know just enough HTML and CSS to be dangerous, Rails Crash Course will teach you to harness Rails for your own projects and create web applications that are fast, stable, and secure.In Part I, you'll learn Ruby and Rails f...
Price: $11.99 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2014
by Patrick Lee
JavaScript runs (almost) everywhere but it can be quirky and awkward. Its cousin CoffeeScript is easier to comprehend and compose. An expressive language, not unlike Ruby or Python, it compiles into standard JavaScript without modification and is a great choice for complex web applications. It runs in any JavaScript-enabled environment and is easy to use with Node.js and Rails.CoffeeScript in Action teaches...
Price: $39.36 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2014
Rake Task Management Essentials
by Andrey Koleshko
Rake is a build automation tool written in Ruby. It allows you to specify tasks and describe dependencies as well as group tasks in a namespace. Rake uses Ruby's anonymous function blocks to define various tasks, allowing the use of the Ruby syntax. Rake's goal is to automate build processes quickly and expressively.Rake Task Management Essentials is a practical guide that covers the latest techni...
Price: $13.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Computer Science Programming Basics in Ruby
by Ophir Frieder, Gideon Frieder, David Grossman
If you know basic high-school math, you can quickly learn and apply the core concepts of computer science with this concise, hands-on book. Led by a team of experts, you'll quickly understand the difference between computer science and computer programming, and you'll learn how algorithms help you solve computing problems.Each chapter builds on material introduced earlier in the book, so you can m...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Pat Shaughnessy
Ruby is a powerful programming language with a focus on simplicity, but beneath its elegant syntax it performs countless unseen tasks.Ruby Under a Microscope gives you a hands-on look at Ruby's core, using extensive diagrams and thorough explanations to show you how Ruby is implemented (no C skills required). Author Pat Shaughnessy takes a scientific approach, laying out a series of experiments with Ru...
Price: $34.00 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2013
Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0, 4th Edition
by Dave Thomas, with Chad Fowler, Andy Hunt
Would you like to go from first idea to working code much, much faster? Do you currently spend more time satisfying the compiler instead of your clients or end users? Are you frustrated with demanding languages that seem to get in your way, instead of getting the work done? Are you using Rails, and want to dig deeper into the underlying Ruby language? If so, then we've got a language and book for you!R...
Price: $32.99 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2013
Agile Web Development with Rails 4
by Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson
Rails just keeps on changing. Both Rails 3 and 4, as well as Ruby 1.9 and 2.0, bring hundreds of improvements, including new APIs and substantial performance enhancements. The fourth edition of this award-winning classic has been reorganized and refocused so it's more useful than ever before for developers new to Ruby and Rails.Rails 4 introduces a number of user-facing changes, and the ebook has been ...
Price: $4.17 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2013