HLSL and Pixel Shaders for XAML Developers 
by Walt Ritscher
Graphic Shaders are used throughout the game and movie industry to improve onscreen graphics. They are versatile, doing important tasks like making computer rendered aliens look realistic, providing the ripples on a background lake or growing fur on the latest Pixar monster. In the PC world, programmers are often delighted to find that sh...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Civic Apps Competition Handbook
by Kate Eyler-Werve, Virginia Carlson
Organize a Civic Apps Competition (CAC) in your city. This practical guide provides best practices for each phase of the process, based largely on the authors' firsthand experience planning and managing Apps for Metro Chicago (A4MC). You'll learn everything from setting goals and creating a budget to running the competition and ...
Price: $8.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Andrew Hinton
To make sense of the world, we're always trying to place things in context, whether our environment is physical, cultural, or something else altogether. Now that we live among digital, always-networked products, apps, and places, context is more complicated than ever-starting with "where" and "who"...
Price: $24.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Making Android Accessories with IOIO
by Simon Monk
Create your own electronic devices with the popular IOIO ("yoyo") board, and control them with your Android phone or tablet. With this concise guide, you'll get started by building four example projects - after that, the possibilities for making your own fun and creative accessories with Android and IOIO are endless...
Price: $5.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Stuart Sierra, Luke VanderHart
Learn how to build complete client-side applications with ClojureScript, the Clojure language variant that compiles to optimized JavaScript. This hands-on introduction shows you how ClojureScript not only has similarities to JavaScript - without the flaws - but also supports the full semantics of its parent language. You'll delve int...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
Android Developer Tools Essentials
by Mike Wolfson
Android development can be challenging, but through the effective use of Android Developer Tools (ADT), you can make the process easier and improve the quality of your code. This concise guide demonstrates how to build apps with ADT for a device family that features several screen sizes, different hardware capabilities, and a varying numb...
Price: $12.52 | 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 le...
Price: $18.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Kathy Walrath, Seth Ladd
Get up to speed on Dart, the web development language that not only matches the dynamic nature of JavaScript, but addresses its problems as well. This practical book gets you up to speed on the language, libraries, and tools for developing structured, fast, and maintainable web apps that run in most browsers.Google designed the Dart platf...
Price: $4.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
Agile has revolutionized the way teams approach software development, but with dozens of agile methodologies to choose from, the decision to "go agile" can be tricky. This practical book helps you sort it out, first by grounding you in agile's underlying principles, then by describing four specific-and well-used-agi...
Price: $27.29 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Programming the Mobile Web, 2nd Edition
by Maximiliano Firtman
With the second edition of this popular book, you'll learn how to build HTML5 and CSS3-based apps that access geolocation, accelerometer, multi-touch screens, offline storage, and other features in today's smartphones, tablets, and feature phones. The market for mobile apps continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, and this book ...
Price: $32.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013