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Learning Rails 3
Published 8 years ago
by Simon St. Laurent, Edd Dumbill Edd, Eric J Gruber, O'Reilly Media
Ready to learn Rails? Unlike most Rails books, Learning Rails is for web developers, and not for programmers. Rather than begin with the inner layers of a Rails web application—the models and controllers—this book approaches Rails development from the outer layer: the view side of an application. You’ll start from the foundations of the Web you already know, and learn how to create something visible with Rails before reaching the more difficult database models and controller code.
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JavaScript for PHP Developers
Published 8 years ago
by Stoyan Stefanov, O'Reilly Media
Ready to expand your PHP web development skills with JavaScript? With this guide, you can leverage your experience with PHP to pick up JavaScript quickly. Both languages share the C language syntax, enabling you to skip similarities such as conditions and loops to focus on JavaScript’s unique object creation, classes, prototypes, and inheritance.
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Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling
Published 8 years ago
by Allen B. Downey, O'Reilly Media
Dive into Python’s advanced possibilities, including algorithm analysis, graphs, scale-free networks, and cellular automata with this in-depth, hands-on guide. Whether you’re an intermediate-level Python programmer, or a student of computational modeling, you’ll examine data structures, complexity science, and other fascinating topics through a series of exercises, easy-to-understand explanations, and case studies.
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Creating Windows Applications with HTML
Published 8 years ago
by Robert A. Heath, O'Reilly Media
HTML applications, or HTAs, are the best-kept secret in Windows desktop programming. With minimal programming skills and readily-available tools, you can create Windows applications with a graphical user interface. This book lowers the bar on the time and cost to develop simple desktop applications, using the same programming techniques used to develop Web pages.
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Kinect Hacks: Creative coding techniques for motion and pattern detection
Published 8 years ago
by Jared St. Jean, O'Reilly Media
Much more than a game controller, Microsoft’s Kinect is a bundle of high quality sensors for capturing data on depth, motion, and form. It was only a matter of time before spirited hackers got involved, and this hands-on guide—written by an editor of developkinect.com—highlights the best projects to come out of OpenKinect, the largest and most active Kinect hacking community.Each hack details a Kinect application and explains in detail how to reproduce the project.
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Linux Pocket Guide
Published 8 years ago
by Daniel J. Barrett, O'Reilly Media
If you use Linux in your day-to-day work, this popular pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job reference. The second edition has expanded from Fedora-only coverage to distro-neutral, with practical information on a wider range of commands requested by readers.Linux Pocket Guide provides an organized learning path for Linux use, rather than Linux programming and system administration. You’ll find options for the most useful commands, grouped by functionality.
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NOOK Tablet: The Missing Manual
Published 8 years ago
by Preston Gralla, O'Reilly Media
Barnes & Noble's hot new device lets you enjoy all of your e-books, movies, TV shows, magazines, and even comics along with tablet features like web browsing, email, and apps. But to make the most of the NOOK Tablet, you need to manage Wi-Fi access and a variety of new apps. NOOK Tablet: The Missing Manual shows you the way with loads of full-color illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and savvy tips.
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The Art of SEO
Published 8 years ago
by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Rand Fishkin, O'Reilly Media
A well-designed, easy-to-navigate website is useless if no one can find it. In this book, four experts help you optimize your site for search engine visibility, using proven guidelines and cutting-edge techniques for planning and executing a comprehensive strategy.Much has changed in SEO since the first edition of this book, including new methods for ranking sites based on user engagement with pages and content.
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Programming Android: Java Programming for the New Generation of Mobile Devices
Published 8 years ago
by Zigurd Mednieks, Laird Dornin, G. Blake Meike, Masumi Nakamura, O'Reilly Media
What does it take to build well-engineered Android applications? Explore Android's core building blocks and APIs in depth with this authoritative guide (updated to cover the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android), and learn how to create compelling apps that work on a full range of Android devices. You'll work with proven approaches to app design and implementation—including application frameworks that you can use as a starting point for your own projects.
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Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works
Published 8 years ago
by Ash Maurya, O'Reilly Media
Are you an entrepreneur about to create a new web application? If you want to maximize your chances of building something customers want, this book demonstrates ways to apply and test techniques for customer development, Lean Startup, and bootstrapping. Learn how to identify and engage customers throughout the development cycle so you can focus on building a product that people will actually buy and use.
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20 Recipes for Programming PhoneGap: Cross Platform Mobile development for Android and iPhone
Published 8 years ago
by Jamie Munro, O'Reilly Media
This book will explore many common features of mobile development and how they are accomplished with PhoneGap. This will include GPS location, maps, media, accelerometer, and much more. PhoneGap is a library that allows developers to interface directly with a mobile device through the use of its Javascript libraries. With the multitude of mobile platforms it is very difficult and expensive to create multiple applications in Java, Objective-C, or other native languages.
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Programming iOS 5: Fundamentals of iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Development
Published 8 years ago
by Matt Neuburg, O'Reilly Media
Get a solid grounding in all the fundamentals of Cocoa Touch—and avoid problems during iPhone and iPad app development. With this revised and updated edition, you’ll learn how to work effectively with Objective-C and Xcode, using iOS 5 and Xcode 4.2 features, such as ARC memory management, storyboards, Core Image filters, and Emitter layers.
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High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More
Published 8 years ago
by Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko, O'Reilly Media
High Performance MySQL teaches you advanced techniques in depth so you can bring out MySQL's full power. Learn how to design schemas, indexes, queries, and advanced MySQL features for maximum performance, and get detailed guidance for tuning your MySQL server, operating system, and hardware to their fullest potential. You'll also learn practical, safe, high-performance ways to scale your applications with replication, load balancing, high availability, and failover.
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Developing with Google
Published 9 years ago
by Jennifer Murphy, O'Reilly Media
This hands-on exploration of the Google+ platform walks through the full offering of Google+ APIs.Developing with Google+ takes a common sense, sequential approach to learning Google+. It focuses on concrete examples of integrating existing websites with Google+ as well as building social applications upon this new platform.In this book you will: *Make the most of social widgets like the +1 Button and the Sharebox
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Making Musical Apps: Using the libpd Sound Engine
Published 9 years ago
by Peter Brinkmann, O'Reilly Media
Do you want to turn your smartphone into a musical instrument? Are you thinking about equipping a game with real-time procedural audio instead of relying on canned samples? If so, then Pure Data and libpd are for you. Pure Data (Pd) is an open-source graphical programming environment for digital audio that has been popular in computer music circles for more than a decade. libpd is a library that turns Pd into an easily embeddable and widely portable sound engine.
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Introduction to Tornado
Published 9 years ago
by Michael Dory, Adam Parrish, Brendan Berg, O'Reilly Media
Tornado is a scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework written in Python. It is also light-weight to deploy, fun to write for, and incredibly powerful. Tornado was written with performance in mind, aiming to solve the C10k problem, so by design it’s an extremely high-performance framework. It’s also packed with handy tools for dealing with social networks, user authentication, and all sorts of asynchronous fun.
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MySQL Troubleshooting: What To Do When Queries Don't Work
Published 9 years ago
by Sveta Smirnova, O'Reilly Media
Sometimes applications can go mad: tables contain wrong data, users get random replies, server stop working, and so on. Several easy methods allow users to often find the problems quickly. This book, based on successful conference presentations by the author, cover SQL problems, memory and other server problems, replication, and problems related to particular storage engines.
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Head First iPhone and iPad Development: A Learner's Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone and iPad
Published 9 years ago
by Dan Pilone, Tracey Pilone, O'Reilly Media
Let's say you have a killer app idea for iPhone and iPad. Where do you begin? Head First iPhone and iPad Development will help you get your first application up and running in no time. You'll not only learn how to design for Apple's devices, you'll also master the iPhone SDK tools -- including Xcode -- and Objective-C programming principles to make your app stand out.
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Mobile HTML5
Published 9 years ago
by Estelle Weyl, Maximiliano Firtman, O'Reilly Media
If you're a web developer looking to move into the mobile space, or a mobile developer seeking ways to build apps that work on several mobile platforms, this book shows you how HTML5 can provide the solution you need.With Mobile HTML5, you'll quickly become familiar with HTML5's many new APIs, and understand how they work in the mobile environment. Though it seems counterintuitive, HTML5 is easier to use in mobile development than it is for desktop browsers.
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Embedded Android: Porting, Extending, and Customizing
Published 9 years ago
by Karim Yaghmour, O'Reilly Media
Embedded Android is for Developers wanting to create embedded systems based on Android and for those wanting to port Android to new hardware, or creating a custom development environment. Hackers and moders will also find this an indispensible guide to how Android works.
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21-23 Oct 2008 in Berlin, Germany
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