Getting Started with Cubieboard
by Olliver M. Schinagl
Embedded platforms are interesting because they combine two fun fields. On one side, there is open source software, and on the other side, there is open source hardware. But a little further from that, we have electronics (AVR-microcontrollers), which can be very interesting and fun to work with. Cubieboard is a powerful single board computer, similar to Raspberry Pi, that supports multiple operating system...
Price: $22.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Zdenek Machek
The ability to write unit tests and software testing have become skills that every PHP developer should master.This book is a practical guide to PHPUnit and unit testing, covering all aspects of writing PHPUnit tests and using them. The book shows why testable code is better code and how to write good tests with the help of simple and easy-to-understand examples.With this book, you will learn how to write, ...
Price: $26.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Mario Casciaro
Node.js is a massively popular software platform that lets you use JavaScript to easily create scalable server-side applications. It allows you to create efficient code, enabling a more sustainable way of writing software made of only one language across the full stack, along with extreme levels of reusability, pragmatism, simplicity, and collaboration. Node.js is revolutionizing the web and the way people ...
Price: $30.46 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Onofrio Panzarino
Neo4j is generating much interest among NoSQL database users for its features, performance and scalability, and robustness. The software also provides users with a very natural and expressive graph model and ACID transactions with rollbacks. However, utilizing Neo4j in a real-world project can be difficult compared to a traditional relational database. Cypher fills this gap with SQL, providing a declarative...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
VMware vRealize Operations Performance and Capacity Management 
by Iwan 'e1' Rahabok
VMware vRealize Operations is a suite of products that automates operations management using patented analytics and an integrated approach to performance, capacity, and configuration management. vRealize Operations Manager is the most important component of this suite that helps administrators to maintain and troubleshoot their VMware environment as well as their physical environment.This book takes you thr...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Daniel Arbuckle
Automated testing is the best way to increase efficiency and decrease the defects of software testing. It takes away much of the effort on your part so that you can find bugs early and easily. The Python unit testing framework makes it easy to write efficient automated test cases in Python. Applications involving many paradigms and styles can be very complicated to test, but with the right tools, testing be...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
SketchUp 2014 for Architectural Visualization, 2nd Edition
by Thomas Bleicher, Robin de Jongh
SketchUp is an amazing and remarkably powerful 3D modeling software used by millions of architects, visualizers, and drafters across the globe. It allows you to create animated 3D drawings and photorealistic renderings that approximate real-life objects easily.This book is the perfect introduction to SketchUp 2014. It will help you to get started quickly and efficiently to produce and present commercial qua...
Price: $4.11 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
FREE EBOOK - AngularJS Essentials 
by Rodrigo Branas
This book is a practical guide filled with real-world examples that will help you discover the best practices of the AngularJS framework, covering its most important concepts such as directives, expressions, filters, and modules and guiding you through the steps of building your very own web application.You will start by learning how to create reusable components with directives, experiencing an expressive ...
Price: $34.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Simon M.C. Cheng
With the help of an easy-to-use tool provided by Proxmox, users can easily improve their service by building up their own cluster. Proxmox is open source and combines two virtualization technologies (KVM- and container-based) under one platform, offering maximum flexibility for building virtual environments.This book starts with the basics and provides you with some background knowledge of server virtualiza...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Grant Shipley
Cloud computing and particularly Platform as a Service is rapidly changing the way software engineers approach software development. Without knowing the gritty details of the operating system and application servers, developers are able to use the OpenShift Online platform to tune performance and achieve scalability while also ensuring that their applications are stable and reliable.This book will guide you...
Price: $4.36 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014