Surface For Dummies, 2nd Edition 
by Andy Rathbone
Microsoft's Surface tablet has the features and personality you're looking for, with a robust environment for business computing that doesn't skimp on fun. Surface for Dummies, 2nd Edition explains how Windows 8.1 Pro and Windows RT differ, and helps you decide which Surface model is best for you. Step by step, this book walks you through both the hardware and software features of the Surface...
Price: $5.99 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2014
Macs For Dummies, 13th Edition
by Edward C. Baig
Discover what makes Macs superior computing machines. Learn the basics, from mastering the Dock and customizing OS X, to iCloud syncing and backing up with Time Machine. You'll suddenly find your computer fun again as you make FaceTime calls and explore iLife. Plus, you'll find out that switching to OS X doesn't mean leaving your favorite Windows programs behind. Macs For Dummies, 13th Editio...
Price: $7.99 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2014
Automation through Chef Opscode
by Navin Sabharwal, Manak Wadhwa
Automation through Chef Opscode provides an in-depth understanding of Chef, which is written in Ruby and Erlang for configuration management, cloud infrastructure management, system administration, and network management.Targeted at administrators, consultants, and architect, the book guides them through the advanced features of the tool which are necessary for infrastructure automation, devops automation, ...
Price: $52.17 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Keyvan Nayyeri, Darren White
ASP.NET SignalR is the new solution to real-time communication between servers and clients in .NET. Use it to push new data to a web page or mobile device as soon as it becomes available, whether it's a notification, live chat, up-to-the-minute financial data, or a range of other exciting applications. Innovations like Google live search and live Facebook and Twitter updates are pushing users' exp...
Price: $47.40 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services
by Brian Beach
Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services is written specifically for Windows professionals who already know PowerShell and want to learn to host Windows workloads in the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) cloud service. The cloud offers information technology workers significant cost savings and agility unimaginable even just a few years ago. Tasks that traditionally took weeks of work, costing thousands of d...
Price: $56.16 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Patrick Desjardins
Visual Studio 2013 is one of the most sophisticated integrated development environments in the world today. With hundreds of features and several different editions available, it can be hard to learn your way around, and hard to know whether you're using it to its full potential. Visual Studio Condensed gives you a quick and systematic guide to the features that matter most, tagged clearly according to...
Price: $37.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, 2nd Edition
by Theresa Neil
When you're under pressure to produce a well-designed, easy-to-navigate mobile app, there's no time to reinvent the wheel - and no need to. This handy reference provides more than 90 mobile app design patterns, illustrated by 1,000 screenshots from current Android, iOS, and Windows Phone apps.Much has changed since this book's first edition. Mobile OSes have become increasingly different, dri...
Price: $32.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Lee Boonstra
Get hands-on experience building speedy mobile web apps with Sencha Touch 2.3, the user interface JavaScript framework built specifically for the mobile Web. With this book, you'll learn how to build a complete touch application, called Find a Cab, that has the look and feel of a native app on Android, iOS, Windows, and BlackBerry devices.In the process, you'll work with Sencha's model-view-c...
Price: $6.06 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming
by Daniel Kusswurm
Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming shows the fundamentals of x86 assembly language programming. It focuses on the aspects of the x86 instruction set that are most relevant to application software development. The book's structure and sample code are designed to help the reader quickly understand x86 assembly language programming and the computational capabilities of the x86 platform.The primary a...
Price: $56.66 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Beginning SQL Server for Developers, 4th Edition
by Robin Dewson
Beginning SQL Server for Developers is the perfect book for developers new to SQL Server and planning to create and deploy applications against Microsoft's market-leading database system for the Windows platform. Now in its fourth edition, the book is enhanced to cover the very latest developments in SQL Server, including the in-memory features that are introduced in SQL Server 2014.Within the book, th...
Price: $36.98 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014