Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell 
by Simon Marlow
If you have a working knowledge of Haskell, this hands-on book shows you how to use the language's many APIs and frameworks for writing both parallel and concurrent programs. You'll learn how parallelism exploits multicore processors to speed up computation-heavy programs, and how concurrency enables you to write programs with t...
Price: $35.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Neil Middleton, Richard Schneeman
Take full advantage of Heroku's cloud-based hosting services. This guide takes you through the inner workings of this PaaS platform and delivers practical advice for architecting your application to work as efficiently as possible. You'll learn best practices for improving speed and throughput, solving latency issues, locating a...
Price: $8.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Eric A. Meyer
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a powerful tool that transforms the presentation of a document or a collection of documents, and it's spread to nearly every corner of the Web - as well as many non-web environments. In this free introduction to Cascade Style Sheets, you'll learn how CSS makes it possible for you to completely cha...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Eric A. Meyer
Nearly everything you do with CSS involves units for determining the look and formatting of your web page elements. With this concise guide, you'll learn how to work with an array of units - including measurements and keywords - that help you define color, text, distance between elements, location of external files, and other values....
Price: $6.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Jennifer Greene, Andrew Stellman
Head First C# is a complete learning experience for learning how to program with C#, XAML, the .NET Framework, and Visual Studio. Fun and highly visual, this introduction to C# is designed to keep you engaged and entertained from first page to last.You'll build a fully functional video game in the opening chapter, and then learn how ...
Price: $6.79 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Russell J.T. Dyer
If you're a programmer new to databases - or just new to MySQL and its community-driven variant, MariaDB - you've found the perfect introduction. This hands-on guide provides an easy, step-by-step approach to installing, using, and maintaining these popular relational database engines.Author Russell Dyer, Curriculum Manager at M...
Price: $38.70 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
Building iPhone and iPad Electronic Projects 
by Mike Westerfield
Why simply play music or go online when you can use your iPhone or iPad for some really fun projects, such as building a metal detector, hacking a radio control truck, or tracking a model rocket in flight? Learn how to build these and other cool things by using iOS device sensors and inexpensive hardware such as Arduino and a Bluetooth Lo...
Price: $7.78 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Java Web Services: Up and Running, 2nd Edition
by Martin Kalin
Learn how to develop REST-style and SOAP-based web services and clients with this quick and thorough introduction. This hands-on book delivers a clear, pragmatic approach to web services by providing an architectural overview, complete working code examples, and short yet precise instructions for compiling, deploying, and executing them. ...
Price: $4.87 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Chris Wilson
Create beautiful, interactive images on the Web with RaphaelJS, the JavaScript library that lets you draw Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) right in the browser. With this concise guide, you'll quickly learn how to paint the screen with shapes and colors that you can turn into lively, animated graphics and visualizations.Author Chris Wi...
Price: $21.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Stephen Wendel
A new wave of products is helping people change their behavior and daily routines, whether it's exercising more (Jawbone Up), taking control of their finances (HelloWallet), or organizing their email (Mailbox). This practical guide shows you how to design these types of products for users seeking to take action and achieve specific g...
Price: $28.25 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013