by Darrin Perez
Beginning RPG Maker VX Ace takes you through the process of using the RPG Maker VX Ace game development engine to create your very own role playing game. The book has been designed with the complete beginner in mind who has little to no experience with the engine. Tutorials and exercises will take you from installing the software to putting the final touches upon your first project.Game design can be quite ...
Price: $4.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Shripad Godbole, Elvis C. Foster
Database Systems: A Pragmatic Approach provides a comprehensive, yet concise introduction to database systems. It discusses the database as an essential component of a software system, as well as a valuable, mission critical corporate resource. The book is based on lecture notes that have been tested and proven over several years, with outstanding results. It also exemplifies mastery of the technique of com...
Price: $62.57 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Practical Zendesk Administration, 2nd Edition 
by Stafford Vaughan, Anton de Young
Implementing the Zendesk customer service software as part of your company's operations can be time-consuming, but with the best practices and advice in this hands-on guide, you can shorten the procedure considerably. You'll learn the purpose, benefits, and pitfalls of each Zendesk feature, with examples of how to configure it to match your company's needs and processes.Written by written by ...
Price: $23.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Joe Arnold
Get up and running with OpenStack Swift, the free, open source solution for deploying high-performance object storage clusters at scale. In this practical guide, Joe Arnold, co-founder and CEO of SwiftStack, brings you up-to-speed on the basic concepts of object storage and walks you through what you need to know to plan, build, operate, and measure the performance of your own Swift storage system.Object st...
Price: $5.31 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Scott Meyers
Coming to grips with C++11 and C++14 is more than a matter of familiarizing yourself with the features they introduce (e.g., auto type declarations, move semantics, lambda expressions, and concurrency support). The challenge is learning to use those features effectively - so that your software is correct, efficient, maintainable, and portable. That's where this practical book comes in. It describes how...
Price: $35.10 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Jeff Patton
User story mapping is a valuable tool for software development, once you understand why and how to use it. This insightful book examines how this often misunderstood technique can help your team stay focused on users and their needs without getting lost in the enthusiasm for individual product features.Author Jeff Patton shows you how changeable story maps enable your team to hold better conversations about...
Price: $26.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Pete Goodliffe
If you're passionate about programming and want to get better at it, you've come to the right source. Code Craft author Pete Goodliffe presents a collection of useful techniques and approaches to the art and craft of programming that will help boost your career and your well-being.Goodliffe presents sound advice that he's learned in 15 years of professional programming. The book's standa...
Price: $8.16 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Anthony Gray
Get quick answers for developing and debugging applications with Swift, Apple's multi-paradigm programming language. This pocket reference is the perfect on-the-job tool for learning Swift's modern language features, including type safety, generics, type inference, closures, tuples, automatic memory management, and support for Unicode.Designed to work with Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, Swift can be used ...
Price: $3.98 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
iPhone: The Missing Manual, 8th Edition
by David Pogue
With the iOS 8.1 software and the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, Apple has taken its flagship products into new realms of power and beauty. The modern iPhone comes with everything - camera, music player, Internet, flashlight - except a printed manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back with this expanded edition of his witty, full-color guide: the world's most popular iPhone book.The iPhone may be the world�...
Price: $1.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Peter Bell, Brent Beer
If you're new to GitHub, this concise book shows you just what you need to get started and no more. It's perfect for project and product managers, stakeholders, and other team members who want to collaborate on a development project - whether it's to review and comment on work in progress or to contribute specific changes. It's also great for developers just learning GitHub.GitHub has ra...
Price: $18.46 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014