by Stoyan Stefanov
If you want to significantly expand your web development skills beyond PHP, this practical, hands-on book teaches you ECMAScript - the core JavaScript language - from the ground up. You'll discover some similarities between JavaScript and PHP, such as conditions and loops, but the primary focus is on JavaScript's unique object creation, classes, prototypes, and inheritance.JavaScript knowledge is ...
Price: $10.50 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Mark Ethan Trostler
One skill that's essential for any professional JavaScript developer is the ability to write testable code. This book shows you what writing and maintaining testable JavaScript for the client- or server-side actually entails, whether you're creating a new application or rewriting legacy code.From methods to reduce code complexity to unit testing, code coverage, debugging, and automation, you'...
Price: $25.31 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Twisted Network Programming Essentials, 2nd Edition 
by Jessica McKellar, Abe Fettig
Get started with Twisted, the event-driven networking framework written in Python. With this introductory guide, you'll learn the key concepts and design patterns to build event-driven client and server applications for many popular networking protocols. You'll also learn the tools to build new protocols using Twisted's primitives.Start by building basic TCP clients and servers, and then focu...
Price: $13.15 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Henri Binsztok, Adam Koprowski, Ida Swarczewskaja
Want to simplify web development? This hands-on book shows you how to write frontend and backend code simultaneously, using the Opa framework. Opa provides a complete stack for web application development, including a web server, database engine, distribution libraries, and a programming language that compiles to JavaScript.You'll learn step-by-step how to use Opa by building two projects through the c...
Price: $18.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
High Performance Browser Networking
by Ilya Grigorik
How prepared are you to build fast and efficient web applications? This eloquent book provides what every web developer should know about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications - including HTTP 2.0 and XHR improvements, Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSocket, and WebRTC.Author Ilya Grigorik, a web performance e...
Price: $28.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by William Sanders
Build server-side applications more efficiently - and improve your PHP programming skills in the process - by learning how to use design patterns in your code. This book shows you how to apply several object-oriented patterns through simple examples, and demonstrates many of them in full-fledged working applications.Learn how these reusable patterns help you solve complex problems, organize object-oriented ...
Price: $14.95 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Getting Started with BeagleBone
by Matt Richardson
Many people think of Linux as a computer operating system, running on users' desktops and powering servers. But Linux can also be found inside many consumer electronics devices. Whether they're the brains of a cell phone, cable box, or exercise bike, embedded Linux systems blur the distinction between computer and device.Many makers love microcontroller platforms such as Arduino, but as the comple...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Java Network Programming, 4th Edition
by Elliotte Rusty Harold
This practical guide provides a complete introduction to developing network programs with Java. You'll learn how to use Java's network class library to quickly and easily accomplish common networking tasks such as writing multithreaded servers, encrypting communications, broadcasting to the local network, and posting data to server-side programs.Author Elliotte Rusty Harold provides complete worki...
Price: $34.82 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Feedback Control for Computer Systems
by Philipp K. Janert
How can you take advantage of feedback control for enterprise programming? With this book, author Philipp K. Janert demonstrates how the same principles that govern cruise control in your car also apply to data center management and other enterprise systems. Through case studies and hands-on simulations, you'll learn methods to solve several control issues, including mechanisms to spin up more servers ...
Price: $33.66 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Kathleen Ting, Jarek Jarcec Cecho
Integrating data from multiple sources is essential in the age of big data, but it can be a challenging and time-consuming task. This handy cookbook provides dozens of ready-to-use recipes for using Apache Sqoop, the command-line interface application that optimizes data transfers between relational databases and Hadoop.Sqoop is both powerful and bewildering, but with this cookbook's problem-solution-d...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013