Introduction to JavaScript Object Notation 
by Lindsay Bassett
What is JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and how can you put it to work? This concise guide helps busy IT professionals get up and running quickly with this popular data interchange format, and provides a deep understanding of how JSON works. Author Lindsay Bassett begins with an overview of JSON syntax, data types, formatting, and security concerns before exploring the many ways you can apply JSON today.F...
Price: $15.55 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
SVG Colors, Patterns & Gradients
by Amelia Bellamy-Royds, Kurt Cagle
As a vector graphics format, SVG uses precisely-defined geometric shapes to build an image. But that doesn't mean that SVG graphics have to look like technical drawings. SVG graphics can be shaded, textured, built from partially-transparent overlapping layers, or even filled with photographic images.SVG Colors, Patterns, and Gradients takes an in-depth look at the different ways SVG text and shapes can...
Price: $27.53 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
The New Relational Database Dictionary
by C.J. Date
No matter what DBMS you are using - Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL - misunderstandings can always arise over the precise meanings of terms, misunderstandings that can have a serious effect on the success of your database projects. For example, here are some common database terms: attribute, BCNF, consistency, denormalization, predicate, repeating group, join dependency. Do you know what they all...
Price: $23.40 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Lukas Ruebbelke
AngularJS is a JavaScript-based framework that extends HTML, so you can create dynamic, interactive web applications in the same way you create standard static pages. Out of the box, Angular provides most of the functionality you'll need for basic apps, but you won't want to stop there. Intuitive, easy to customize, and test-friendly, Angular practically begs you to build more interesting apps.Ang...
Price: $4.04 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node
by Simon Holmes
Traditional web dev stacks use a different programming language in every layer, resulting in a complex mashup of code and frameworks. Together, the MongoDB database, the Express and AngularJS frameworks, and Node.js constitute the MEAN stack - a powerful platform that uses only one language, top to bottom: JavaScript. Developers and businesses love it because it's scalable and cost-effective. End users...
Price: $29.00 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
by Stephan Hochhaus, Manuel Christoph Schoebel
You might call Meteor a reactive, isomorphic, full-stack web development framework. Or, like most developers who have tried it, you might just call it awesome. Meteor is a JavaScript-based framework for both client and server web and mobile applications. Meteor applications react to changes in data instantly, so you get impossibly responsive user experiences, and the consistent build process, unified front-...
Price: $32.00 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
by Michael Wittig, Andreas Wittig
Amazon Web Services in Action introduces you to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. The book will teach you about the most important services on AWS. You will also learn about best practices regarding automation, security, high availability, and scalability.Physical data centers require lots of equipment and take time and resources to manage. If you need a data center, but don't want t...
Price: $29.61 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
OpenLayers 3: Beginner's Guide
by Thomas Gratier, Paul Spencer, Erik Hazzard
This book is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with all the information you need to get started with mapping using the OpenLayers 3 library.The book starts off by showing you how to create a simple map. Through the course of the book, we will review each component needed to make a map in OpenLayers 3, and you will end up with a full-fledged web map application. You will learn the key role of eac...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Richard Lawson
The Internet contains the most useful set of data ever assembled, largely publicly accessible for free. However, this data is not easily reusable. It is embedded within the structure and style of websites and needs to be carefully extracted to be useful. Web scraping is becoming increasingly useful as a means to easily gather and make sense of the plethora of information available online. Using a simple lan...
Price: $22.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Saurabh Grover
This book is a practical, example-oriented tutorial that will guide you through the basics and architecture of the Hyper-V platform and help you understand how to build your virtualization infrastructure from the ground up. It then goes on to focus on scalability and high availability aspects, and trains you to set up highly available Hyper-V clusters and perform the live migration of virtual machines. You ...
Price: $59.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015