Manning Publications

We publish computer books for professionals--programmers, system administrators, designers, architects, managers and others. Our key people work from their own offices across the US, all communicating with the center in Greenwich, CT, and with each other and our authors by email, Web, phone and mail.

Books by this publisher

Silverlight 5 in Action

Published 8 years ago

by Pete Brown, Manning Publications

Microsoft's Silverlight is the only development platform that combines the performance, security, and flexibility of a desktop application with cross-platform deployment. The latest version, Silverlight 5, offers tons of new features including improved video, audio, and text rendering, enhanced MVVM support, XNA-based 3D and sound APIs, and under-the-hood performance upgrades.Silverlight 5 in Action is a thorough revision of the bestselling Silverlight 4 in Action.
Windows Phone 7 in Action

Published 8 years ago

by Timothy Binkley-Jones, Massimo Perga, Michael Sync, Manning Publications

Windows Phone 7 is a major shift in the way Microsoft developers design, develop, and sell mobile apps. By leveraging a trio of established technologies, Silverlight, XNA, and C#, developers can blend what they already know about Windows development with the new opportunities and challenges presented by a mobile platform. And with exciting new Windows Phone devices rolling out now, the demand for WP7 apps is just starting to build.
Hello! HTML5 and CSS3: A User Friendly Reference Guide

Published 8 years ago

by Rob Crowther, Manning Publications

HTML and CSS are the foundation of the web, and HTML5 and CSS3 are the latest standards. Anyone who builds web pages, mobile apps, or does any type of development at all, must master these languages.Hello! HTML5 and CSS3 is written for the web designer or developer who wants a fast, example-oriented introduction to the new HTML and CSS features. After a quick review of the basics, the book moves quickly into building real pages in HTML5.
Scala in Action

Published 8 years ago

by Nilanjan Raychaudhuri, Manning Publications

Even within a single application, programming problems often lend themselves to a particular style of programming - functional, imperative, dynamic - but most languages require you to choose a single approach before you start. Scala is a statically typed, JVM-compatible programming language that blends the object oriented and functional programming models, giving one the flexibility to use the right approach for each specific case.
Activiti in Action: Executable business processes in BPMN 2.0

Published 8 years ago

by Tijs Rademakers, Ron von Liempd, Manning Publications

Activiti, an open source process engine, uses Business Process Model and Notation to provide a standard way to capture business processes and to convert those models into executable code. It’s lightweight and integrates seamlessly with standard application software such as Spring. Also included is a set of design and management tools that even helps developers who have never used a process engine get productive quickly.
Flex Mobile in Action

Published 8 years ago

by Jonathan Campos, Manning Publications

With constant innovation on the iOS, Android, and BlackBerry platforms, the mobile device landscape is complicated and changing rapidly. Adobe leads the way with Flex Mobile, a new technology that provides a single development environment that exports applications to any mobile platform, eliminating the need to write and re-write code.
Machine Learning in Action

Published 8 years ago

by Peter Harrington, Manning Publications

The ability to take raw data, access it, filter it, process it, visualize it, understand it, and communicate it to others is possibly the most essential business problem for the coming decades. "Machine learning," the process of automating tasks once considered the domain of highly-trained analysts and mathematicians, is the key to efficiently extracting useful information from this sea of raw data.
RabbitMQ in Action: Distributed Messaging for Everyone

Published 8 years ago

by Alvaro Videla, Jason J. W. Williams, Manning Publications

There's a virtual switchboard at the heart of most large applications, where millions of messages and requests need to be routed to and from the servers, programs, and services that make up the system. RabbitMQ is an efficient, highly scalable, and easy-to-deploy queue that makes handling this message traffic virtually effortless.
Natural User Interfaces in .NET

Published 8 years ago

by Joshua Blake, Manning Publications

Whether it's tapping, flicking, pinching, or stretching, the vocabulary and gestures of user interfaces have changed a lot in the past year. Multitouch surfaces are now common across almost all platforms and device types. The new Windows Touch API, along with innovations from the Surface project, make it easier than ever to build rich, natural, multitouch interfaces for Windows applications.Natural User Interfaces in .NET is a hands-on guide to creating natural user interfaces (NUI)
Restlet in Action: Developing RESTful web APIs in Java

Published 8 years ago

by Jerome Louvel, Thierry Templier, Thierry Boileau, Manning Publications

REST is the main way that sites and applications communicate on the web. Restlet is a free, open source, Java-based framework that makes it easy to build RESTful web applications that use leading web technologies like Atom, Jetty, JSON, Spring, GWT, Google App Engine, and Android.Restlet in Action shows readers how to use Restlet and REST to create and deploy applications in record time.
Enterprise OSGi in Action: With examples using Apache Aries

Published 8 years ago

by Holly Cummins, Timothy Ward, Manning Publications

Modern enterprise applications must be scalable, maintainable, and modular. Unfortunately, by itself Java EE doesn't do modularity very well. The Enterprise OSGi model enforces simple rules to make Java better at modularity. And now, projects such as Apache Aries and Geronimo provide pluggable components that make it easier than ever to use OSGi's mature modularity system in your own enterprise applications.
ManifoldCF in Action

Published 8 years ago

by Karl Wright D., Manning Publications

No matter how exciting a search engine might be, it's worthless unless it has data to index. ManifoldCF is an open source framework for pulling content out of a repository and sending it on to targets such as Solr via a plug-in style, connector-based architecture. ManifoldCF includes connectors for numerous commercial and open source data sources, including Documentum, SharePoint, JDBC, and RSS.
Scala in Depth

Published 8 years ago

by Joshua Suereth D., Manning Publications

Scala is a new hybrid object-oriented/functional language written for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The Scala type system, while very powerful, can be daunting. This book helps remove obstacles by showing how to effectively use this language both on its own and within the JVM ecosystem.Scala in Depth helps readers integrate Scala into their existing projects as well as introducing new best practices and designs that are emerging from the Scala community.
Taming Text: How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It

Published 8 years ago

by Grant S. Ingersoll, Thomas S. Morton, Andrew L. Farris, Manning Publications

It is no secret that the world is drowning in text and data. This causes real problems for everyday users who need to make sense of all the information available, and for software engineers who want to make their text-based applications more useful and user-friendly. Whether building a search engine for a corporate website, automatically organizing email, or extracting important nuggets of information from the news, dealing with unstructured text can be daunting.
ASP.NET MVC 3 in Action

Published 9 years ago

by Jeffrey Palermo, Jimmy Bogard, Eric Hexter, Matthew Hinze, Jeremy Skinner, Manning Publications

Applications built with ASP.NET MVC are easier to test, maintain, and extend because the architecture and role of each component is well-defined. And since it's built from the ground up as a core part of the .NET framework, it integrates seamlessly with other ASP.NET features already widely used, such as Web Forms or Master Pages.ASP.NET MVC 3 in Action, Third Edition is a fast-paced tutorial designed to introduce ASP.NET MVC to .NET developers and show how to apply it effectively.
OpenCL in Action: How to Accelerate Graphics and Computations

Published 9 years ago

by Matthew Scarpino, Manning Publications

OpenCL (Open Computing Language) helps developers build high-performance applications by providing a single programming framework to build programs that execute on today's high-speed devices. Based on C and C++, it's a perfect tool to build number-crunching applications for graphics cards and multi-core processors.OpenCL in Action provides a thorough, hands-on presentation of OpenCL, with an eye toward showing developers how to build high-performance applications of their own.
SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2

Published 9 years ago

by Kalen Delaney, Victor Isakov, Dave Dustin, Aaron Nelson, Denis Gobo, Mike Walsh, Manning Publications

SQL Server is a big, powerful database, and it boasts an equally big and powerful community of professionals. Over 50 of the best known SQL Server gurus, each designated by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional, offer their favorite tips, techniques, and insights in this unique book.
Tika in Action

Published 9 years ago

by Chris Mattmann, Jukka Zitting, Manning Publications

The information trapped in text files, PDFs, and other digital content is a valuable information asset that can be very difficult to discover and use. Apache Tika is an open source toolkit that makes it easy for search engines, content management systems and other applications to detect and extract content from digital documents in all major file formats.
Spring Roo in Action

Published 9 years ago

by Ken Rimple, Srini Penchikala, Gordon Dickens, Manning Publications

Roo is a lightweight Java development tool that works within existing processes, to rapidly produce high-quality, 100% Java code. Roo enforces correct coding practices and patterns and instantly integrates not only with Spring, but also with virtually every mainstream Java technology.Roo in Action is unique book that teaches how to code Java in Roo, with a particular focus on Spring-based applications.
The Well-Grounded Java Developer: Java 7 and Polyglot Programming on the JVM

Published 9 years ago

by Benjamin J Evans, Martijn Verburg, Manning Publications

The Java community has always been dynamic and fast-moving, with constant innovation on the core platform as well as a vibrant community ecosystem. New JVM-based languages like Groovy, Scala, and Clojure are redefining what it means to be a Java developer. The core Standard and Enterprise APIs now co-exist with a large and growing body of open source technologies. Multicore processors, concurrency, and massive data stores require new patterns and approaches to development.