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• Google Web Toolkit Applications

  Published 2 months ago

  “Ryan clearly understands the GWT value proposition and how GWT integrates into a diverse web technology stack–and not just in a theoretical way. With the popularity of gpokr.com and kdice.com, Ryan can speak with the authority of concrete success.”–Bruce Johnson, creator of Google Web Toolkit

• Eclipse Plug-ins (3rd Edition)

  Published 2 months ago

  Producing a commercial-quality plug-in means going above and beyond the minimal requirements needed to integrate with Eclipse. It means attending to all those details that contribute to the “fit and polish” of a commercial offering. This comprehensive guide covers the entire process of plug-in development, including all the extra steps needed to achieve the highest quality results.

• A Programmer's Guide to Java SCJP Certification: A Comprehensive Primer (3rd Edition)

  Published 2 months ago

  This book will help you prepare for and pass the Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform SE 6 (CX-310-065) Exam. It is written for any experienced programmer (with or without previous knowledge of Java) interested in mastering the Java programming language and passing the SCJP 1.6 Exam.

• Bundle of Algorithms in Java, Third Edition, Parts 1-5: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching, and Graph Alg

  Published 2 months ago

  Texts provide a tool set for programmers in implementing, debugging, and using graph algorithms across a wide range of computer applications. Volume 1 listed in approval week 50-2002; Volume 2 listed in approval week 32-2003. Softcover.

• The Essence of Object-Oriented Programming with Java(TM) and UML

  Published 2 months ago

  Not only explains the essence of the object oriented paradigm, but also places it in the context of real-world application development, so you can reap the concrete benefits of programming with objects. Softcover.

• Enterprise Java(TM) Security: Building Secure J2EE(TM) Applications

  Published 2 months ago

  "For a long time, there has been a need for a J2EE security book. I am very happy to see there is now a book that can answer many of the technical questions that developers, managers, and researchers have about such a critical topic. I am sure that this book will contribute greatly to the success of the J2EE platform and e-business." --From the Foreword by Steven A.

• RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

  Published 2 months ago

  Ruby on Rails is fast displacing PHP, ASP, and J2EE as the development framework of choice for discriminating programmers, thanks to its elegant design and emphasis on practical results. RailsSpace teaches you to build large-scale projects with Rails by developing a real-world application: a social networking website like MySpace, Facebook, or Friendster.

• C# Design Patterns: A Tutorial

  Published 2 months ago

  The first book for C# programmers on how to use Design Patterns. Explains how to write C# programs using some of the most common design patterns. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

• EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework (2nd Edition) (Eclipse Series)

  Published 2 months ago

  EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework Dave Steinberg Frank Budinsky Marcelo Paternostro Ed Merks Series Editors: Erich Gamma • Lee Nackman • John Wiegand The Authoritative Guide to EMF Modeling and Code Generation The Eclipse Modeling Framework enables developers to rapidly construct robust applications based on surprisingly simple models. Now, in this thoroughly revised Second Edition, the project's developers offer expert guidance, insight, and examples for solving real-world

• Eclipse Modeling Project: A Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Toolkit (Eclipse Series)

  Published 2 months ago

  Achieve Breakthrough Productivity and Quality with MDD and Eclipse-Based DSLs Domain-specific languages (DSLs) and model-driven development (MDD) offer software engineers powerful new ways to improve productivity, enhance quality, and insulate systems from rapid technological change. Now, there's a pragmatic, start-to-finish guide to creating DSLs and using MDD techniques with the powerful open source Eclipse platform. In Eclipse Modeling Project, Richard C. Gronback illuminates both the

• Flex on Rails: Building Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex 3 and Rails 2 (Developer's Library)

  Published 3 months ago

  “There’s no question you’re going to be a better Flex and Rails developer when you’re done reading this book.”–From the Foreword by Matt Chotin, Senior Product Manager, Adobe Systems, Inc.Adobe Flex enables the rapid development of rich and engaging user experiences. Ruby on Rails dramatically simplifies the development of database-driven web applications.

• Essential C# 3.0: For .NET Framework 3.5 (2nd Edition) (Microsoft .Net Development Series)

  Published 3 months ago

  Praise for Essential C# 3.0“If you want to be a C# developer, or if you want to enhance your C# programming skills, there is no more useful tool than a well-crafted book on the subject. You are holding such a book in your hands.”–From the Foreword by Charlie Calvert, Community Program Manager, Visual C#, Microsoft“In a time when you can search online for any reference material, Essential C# 3.0 is the one book I still bother to carry in my bag.

• Event-Driven Architecture: How SOA Enables the Real-Time Enterprise

  Published 3 months ago

  Improving Business Agility with EDAGoing beyond SOA, enterprises can gain even greater agility by implementing event-driven architectures (EDAs) that automatically detect and react to significant business events. However, EDA planning and deployment is complex, and even experienced SOA architects and developers need expert guidance. In Event-Driven Architecture , four leading IT innovators present both the theory of EDA and practical, step-by-step guidance to implementing it successfully.

• Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls For .NET Framework 3.5 (Microsoft .Net Development Series)

  Published 3 months ago

  Microsoft .NET Development Series“Supported by the leaders and principal authorities of core Microsoft technologies, this series has an author pool that combines some of the most insightful authors in the industry with the lead software architects and developers at Microsoft and the developer community at large.”– Don BoxArchitect, Microsoft“This is a great resource for professional .NET developers. It covers all bases, from expert perspective to reference and how-to.

• The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL

  Published 3 months ago

  Information, explanations, and advice you need to master Transact-SQL and develop the best possible Transact-SQL code. Covers Microsoft Transact-SQL. Softcover. CD-ROM included. DLC: SQL (Computer program language)

• Developing Hybrid Applications for the iPhone: Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to Build Dynamic Apps for the iPhone (Dev

  Published 4 months ago

  “For those not ready to tackle the complexities of Objective-C, this is a great way to get started building iPhone apps. If you know the basics of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, you'll be building apps in no time.” –August Trometer, Owner of FoggyNoggin Software, www.foggynoggin.com Discover the Easier, Faster Way to Build High-Quality iPhone Applications Now, you don’t need to dive headfirst into Objective-C to write state-of-the-art applications for the iPhone.

• Python Essential Reference (4th Edition) (Developer's Library)

  Published 4 months ago

  Every so often a book comes along that makes you ask yourself, "Gee, when was the last time I had my eyes checked?" David M. Beazley's Python: Essential Reference is just such a book. Condensing thousands of pages of Python online documentation into a compact 319-page softcover, Beazley and his editors used the old-college trick (often performed in reverse) of dickering with the font size to meet a putative page-limit requirement.

• Professional Excel Development: The Definitive Guide to Developing Applications Using Microsoft Excel, VBA, and .

  Published 4 months ago

  “As Excel applications become more complex and the Windows development platform more powerful, Excel developers need books like this to help them evolve their solutions to the next level of sophistication. Professional Excel Development is a book for developers who want to build powerful, state-of-the-art Excel applications using the latest Microsoft technologies.

• eXtreme .NET: Introducing eXtreme Programming Techniques to .NET Developers (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

  Published 4 months ago

  In a major shift from the past, Microsoft has been encouraging developers whouse Visual Studio to pay attention to software architecture and softwaredevelopment methodologies. One methodology which is well-suited to the waythat many Microsoft development teams work is eXtreme Programming. Manydevelopers using VB and C# admire its flexibility, its emphasis on testing, andthe idea of developing in small teams.

• The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

  Published 4 months ago

  "If you have any interest in writing .NET programs using Active Directory or ADAM, this is the book you want to read." --Joe Richards, Microsoft MVP, directory services Identity and Access Management are rapidly gaining importance as key areas of practice in the IT industry, and directory services provide the fundamental building blocks that enable them. For enterprise developers struggling to build directory-enabled .NET applications, The .

• Understanding .NET (2nd Edition) (Independent Technology Guides)

  Published 4 months ago

  Microsoft's .NET is revolutionizing Windows-based software development. Since its initial release in 2002, .NET has changed significantly, becoming the foundation for a new generation of Windows applications. The .NET Framework and Visual Studio, the two core aspects of this initiative, provide a multilanguage environment in which developers can create Web services, graphical user interfaces, and other kinds of applications. Taken as a whole, the .

• Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce: Deploying Windows Forms Applications with ClickOnce (Microsoft .

  Published 4 months ago

  “ClickOnce demos may look simple, but those techniques only work for simple applications. Brian Noyes gives us the information we need to use ClickOnce in the real world, and he does it with a comprehensive and organized presentation. If you expect your smart client application to move very far beyond ‘Hello,World,’ you’ll want this book to help you deploy it.”—Billy Hollis,president/owner, Elysian Consulting, Microsoft Regional Director“Once again Brian has outdone himself.

• Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

  Published 4 months ago

  "Microsoft Office InfoPath represents a revolutionary leap in XML technologies and a new paradigm for gathering business-critical information. I am delighted that Scott Roberts and Hagen Green, two distinguished members of the InfoPath product team, decided to share their experience in this book."--From the Foreword by Jean Paoli, cocreator of XML 1.0 and Microsoft Office InfoPath

• Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition) (Microsoft .

  Published 4 months ago

  “ Framework Design Guidelines is one of those rare books that can be read at different reading levels and can be useful to different kinds of developers. Regardless of whether you want to design an effective object model, improve your understanding of the .NET Framework, borrow from the experience of software gurus, stay clear of the most common programming mistakes, or just get an idea of the huge effort that led to the .NET initiative, this book is a must-read.

• The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML

  Published 4 months ago

  Teaches that stored procedure development does not occur in a vacuum--it involves a wide variety of skills, subjects, and technologies--and helps the reader become a better software engineer, not just a stored procedure expert. The most complete coverage of SQL Server stored procedure programming available in one source. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

• Essential LINQ (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

  Published 4 months ago

  “Charlie and Dinesh bring important skills to this project that enable them to show how LINQ works and the practical ways you can use it in your daily development process.” From the Foreword by Anders Hejlsberg LINQ is one of Microsoft’s most exciting, powerful new development technologies. Essential LINQ is the first LINQ book written by leading members of Microsoft’s LINQ and C# teams.

• The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals

  Published 4 months ago

  Ken Henderson's first two Guru's Guides for Addison-Wesley have been widely praised by reviewers, and have sold extremely well. He has now written a key reference to SQL Server which is much broader in scope than either of the first two, which will appeal to an even larger audience. The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture is all about the internal pieces of SQL Server, the architecture of how they fit together, and the effect those have on performance and tuning issues.

• Creating Visual Experiences with Flex 3.0 (Developer's Library)

  Published 4 months ago

  “Adobe Flex is changing the face of the Web by enabling developers to create rich Internet applications quickly. This book provides developers a way to get a jump on the competition by enabling them to quickly learn how easily they can set their application apart from the rest.” –Gary Mangum, Principal Engineer, The Generations Network “Juan and Andy do a great job breaking ground on a vast and exciting topic.

• Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): For .NET Framework 3.5 (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

  Published 5 months ago

  “Whether this is the first time or the fifty-first time you’re using WCF, you’ll learn something new by reading this book.” --Nicholas Allen, Program Manager, Web Services, Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the easiest way to produce and consume Web services on the Microsoft platform. With .NET 3.5, WCF has been extensively revamped--and Visual Studio 2008 gives developers powerful new tools for utilizing it.

• Processing XML with Java(TM): A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX

  Published 5 months ago

  A complete guide to writing Java programs that read and write XML documents. Shows developers how to save XML documents, read XML documents, communicate with network servers that send and receive XML data, and integrate XSLT into their programs. Softcover.

• Integrating and Extending BIRT (2nd Edition) (Eclipse Series)

  Published 5 months ago

  The world-wide developer community has downloaded over three million copies of BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) from the Eclipse web site. Built on the open-source Eclipse platform, BIRT is a powerful reporting system that provides an end-to-end solution, from creating and deploying reports to integrating report capabilities in enterprise applications.

• Text Processing in Python

  Published 5 months ago

  Text Processing in Python describes techniques for manipulation of text using the Python programming language. At the broadest level, text processing is simply taking textual information and doing something with it. This might be restructuring or reformatting it, extracting smaller bits of information from it, or performing calculations that depend on the text. Text processing is arguably what most programmers spend most of their time doing.

• Eclipse Distilled (Eclipse Series)

  Published 5 months ago

  Eclipse is an incredibly powerful platform for software development, but thispower and flexibility is often overwhelming for novice programmers andsometimes daunting for experienced professionals. The goal of this book is todistill significant features of the Eclipse platform and its Java developmentcapabilities in a way that is approachable for newbies and beneficial for seniordevelopers who are new to Eclipse. But this book is not just a catalog offeatures and screenshots.

• Design Patterns in Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

  Published 5 months ago

  Praise for Design Patterns in Ruby"Design Patterns in Ruby documents smart ways to resolve many problems that Ruby developers commonly encounter. Russ Olsen has done a great job of selecting classic patterns and augmenting these with newer patterns that have special relevance for Ruby. He clearly explains each idea, making a wealth of experience available to Ruby developers for their own daily work."—Steve Metsker, Managing Consultant with Dominion Digital, Inc.

• Software Product Lines: Practices and Patterns (SEI Series in Software Engineering)

  Published 5 months ago

  Discusses practices and patterns of software product lines. Author is a senior member of the technical staff at the SEI where he works on software architecture and product line engineering.

• Servlets and JavaServer Pages(TM): The J2EE(TM) Technology Web Tier (DevelopMentor Series)

  Published 5 months ago

  Series: The DevelopMentor Series This is the authoritative tutorial to the JSP 2.0 and Servlets 2.4 specifications written by JSP W3C expert committee members-Jayson Falkner, JSPInsider founder and WebMaster, and Kevin Jones, DevelopMentor UK co-founder. Servlets and JavaServer PagesaA A is a complete guide to building web applications using Java Servlets and JavaServer Pages. The book covers the basics including installing a JSP/Servlet environment on your computer, HTTP, HTML forms, JSP 2.

• J2EE Web Services: XML SOAP WSDL UDDI WS-I JAX-RPC JAXR SAAJ JAXP

  Published 5 months ago

  Web Services is the latest trend to hit the software industry. It promises to promote interoperability among disparate applications; i.e., applications written in different languages and running on diverse platforms. This book covers Web services protocols SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and the J2EE APIs that are used with these protocols including: JAX-RPC, JAXM, JWSDL, and JAXR.

• The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse, 2nd Edition

  Published 5 months ago

  "Fully updated and revised for Eclipse 3.0, this book is the definitive Eclipse reference--an indispensable guide for tool builders, rich client application developers, and anyone customizing or extending the Eclipse environment." --Dave Thomson, Eclipse Project Program Director, IBM The Ultimate Guide to Eclipse 3.0 for the Java Developer. No Eclipse Experience Required! Eclipse is a world-class Java integrated development environment (IDE) and an open source project and community.

• The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

  Published 5 months ago

  The expert guide to building Ruby on Rails applications Ruby on Rails strips complexity from the development process, enabling professional developers to focus on what matters most: delivering business value. Now, for the first time, there’s a comprehensive, authoritative guide to building production-quality software with Rails.

• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

  Published 5 months ago

  Your class library works, but could it be better? Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code shows how refactoring can make object-oriented code simpler and easier to maintain. Today refactoring requires considerable design know-how, but once tools become available, all programmers should be able to improve their code using refactoring techniques. Besides an introduction to refactoring, this handbook provides a catalog of dozens of tips for improving code.

• Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

  Published 5 months ago

  Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) was released in August of 2003. It brought the power of .NET to developing Word and Excel applications. While powerful, it was also lacking in some key features, and difficult to use. VSTO 2005 will be released as part of the Whidbey release. It will be incorporated in the more advanced versions of Visual Studio .NET 2005, and will also be available as a stand-alone product.

• Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET

  Published 5 months ago

  Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns is the first complete, practical guide to leveraging patterns, domain-driven design, and test-driven development in .NET environments. Drawing on seminal work by Martin Fowler and Eric Evans, Jimmy Nilsson shows how to customize real-world architectures for any .NET application.

• Python Web Development with Django (Developer's Library)

  Published 5 months ago

  Using the simple, robust, Python-based Django framework, you can build powerful Web solutions with remarkably few lines of code. In Python Web Development with Django®, three experienced Django and Python developers cover all the techniques, tools, and concepts you need to make the most of Django 1.0, including all the major features of the new release.

• Concurrent Programming on Windows (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

  Published 5 months ago

  “I have been fascinated with concurrency ever since I added threading support to the Common Language Runtime a decade ago. That’s also where I met Joe, who is a world expert on this topic. These days, concurrency is a first-order concern for practically all developers. Thank goodness for Joe’s book. It is a tour de force and I shall rely on it for many years to come.

• More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# (Effective Software Development Series)

  Published 5 months ago

  “Shining a bright light into many of the dark corners of C# 3.0, this book not only covers the ‘how,’ but also the ‘why,’ arming the reader with many field-tested methods for wringing the most from the new language features, such as LINQ, generics, and multithreading. If you are serious about developing with the C# language, you need this book.” –Bill Craun, Principal Consultant, Ambassador Solutions, Inc.

• Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language (Developer's Library)

  Published 6 months ago

  Python 3 is the best version of the language yet: It is more powerful, convenient, consistent, and expressive than ever before. Now, leading Python programmer Mark Summerfield demonstrates how to write code that takes full advantage of Python 3’s features and idioms.