Building and Testing with Gradle 
by Tim Berglund, Matthew McCullough
Build and test software written in Java and many other languages with Gradle, the open source project automation tool that's getting a lot of attention. This concise introduction provides numerous code examples to help you explore Gradle, both as a build tool and as a complete solution for automating the compilation, test, and releas...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Making Isometric Social Real-Time Games with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
by Mario Andres Pagella
Anyone familiar with Zynga's Farmville understands how fun and addictive real-time social games can be. This hands-on guide shows you how to design and build one of these games from start to finish, with nothing but open source tools. You'll learn how to render graphics, animate with sprites, add sound, validate scores to preven...
Price: $11.32 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Fred Trotter, David Uhlman
Ready to take your IT skills to the healthcare industry? This concise book provides a candid assessment of the US healthcare system as it ramps up its use of electronic health records (EHRs) and other forms of IT to comply with the government's Meaningful Use requirements. It's a tremendous opportunity for tens of thousands of I...
Price: $5.98 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Developing Android Applications with Flex 4.5
by Rich Tretola
Ready to put your ActionScript 3 skills to work on mobile apps? This hands-on book walks you through the process of creating an Adobe AIR application from start to finish, using the Flex 4.5 framework. Move quickly from a basic Hello World application to complex interactions with Android APIs, and get complete code examples for working wi...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Mitch Garnaat
If you intend to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for remote computing and storage, Python is an ideal programming language for developing applications and controlling your cloud-based infrastructure. This cookbook gets you started with more than two dozen recipes for using Python with AWS, based on the author's boto library.You'll...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Planning and Managing Drupal Projects
by Dani Nordin
If you're a solo website designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, this concise guide will get you started. Drupal's learning curve has thrown off many experienced designers, particularly the way it handles design challenges. This book shows you the lifecycle of a typical Drupal project,...
Price: $3.90 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Design and Prototyping for Drupal
by Dani Nordin
Itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, but confused by the way it handles design challenges? This concise guide helps small teams and solo website designers understand how Drupal works by demonstrating the ways it outputs content. You'll learn how to manage Drupal's output, design around it, and then turn your design...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Vandad Nahavandipoor
Jazz up your iPhone and iPad apps with some slick graphics and animation - and keep users from looking elsewhere. This short and concise book shows developers with even little Cocoa programming experience how to create impressive graphics and animation effects with relatively easy coding. Learn how to incorporate smooth animations and dra...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Creating HTML5 Animations with Flash and Wallaby
by Ian L. McLean
Creating standards-compliant animations for the Web just got a lot easier. With this concise guide, you'll learn how to convert Flash animations into HTML5, using Wallaby - the experimental tool from Adobe. Wallaby makes Flash content available for devices that don't support Flash runtimes, including the iPhone and iPad.Developi...
Price: $11.48 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
Getting Started with GEO, CouchDB, and Node.js
by Mick Thompson
Today's mobile devices have GPS and standard APIs to give you access to coordinates - but what can you do with that data? With this concise book, application developers learn how to work with location data quickly and easily, using Node.js, CouchDB, and other open source tools and libraries.Node.js makes it simple to run event code o...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011