Architecture Books
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Microsoft® Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition (Patterns & Practices
Published 11 years ago
by Microsoft Patterns Practices Team, Microsoft Press
Get the definitive guide on designing applications on the Microsoft application platform straight from the Microsoft patterns & practices team. Learn how to choose the most appropriate architecture and the best implementation technologies that the Microsoft application platform offers applications developers. Get critical design recommendations and guidelines organized by application type from Web, mobile, and rich Internet applications to Office Business Applications.
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Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions
Published 11 years ago
by Bill Scott, Theresa Neil, O'Reilly Media
Want to learn how to create great user experiences on today's Web? In this book, UI experts Bill Scott and Theresa Neil present more than 75 design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. Distilled from the authors' years of experience at Sabre, Yahoo!, and Netflix, these best practices are grouped into six key principles to help you take advantage of the web technologies available today.
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Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional)
Published 10 years ago
by Ken Schwaber, Microsoft Press
Apply the principles of Scrum, one of the most popular agile programming methods, to software project managementand focus your team on delivering real business value. Author Ken Schwaber, a leader in the agile process movement and a co-creator of Scrum, brings his vast expertise to helping you guide the product and software development process more effectively and efficiently.
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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
Published 14 years ago
by Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld, O'Reilly Media
In Chapter 6 of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the authors discuss the details of good search-engine design. In a bitingly humorous segment, they analyze a Web site's search-page results: "Let's say you're interested in knowing what the New Jersey sales tax is.... So you go to the State of New Jersey web site and search on sales tax. The 20 results are scored at either 84% or 82% relevant. Why does each document receive only one of two scores?...
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Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum
Published 11 years ago
by Mike Cohn, Addison-Wesley Professional
Proven, 100% Practical Guidance for Making Scrum and Agile Work in Any OrganizationThis is the definitive, realistic, actionable guide to starting fast with Scrum and agile–and then succeeding over the long haul. Leading agile consultant and practitioner Mike Cohn presents detailed recommendations, powerful tips, and real-world case studies drawn from his unparalleled experience helping hundreds of software organizations make Scrum and agile work.
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Programming Entity Framework
Published 12 years ago
by Julia Lerman, O'Reilly Media
Programming Entity Framework is a thorough introduction to Microsoft's new core framework for modeling and interacting with data in .NET applications. This book not only gives experienced developers a hands-on tour of the Entity Framework and explains its use in a variety of applications, it also provides a deep understanding of its architecture and APIs. From the Entity Data Model (EDM) and Object Services to EntityClient and the Metadata Workspace, Programming Entity Framework covers it all.
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Windows® Internals: Including Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Fifth Edition (PRO-Developer
Published 11 years ago
by Mark Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Microsoft Press
See how the core components of the Windows operating system work behind the scenes guided by a team of internationally renowned internals experts. Fully updated for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, this classic guide delivers key architectural insights on system design, debugging, performance, and support along with hands-on experiments to experience Windows internal behavior firsthand.
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Head First Design Patterns
Published 16 years ago
by Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra, O'Reilly Media
You're not alone. At any given moment, somewhere in the world someone struggles with the same software design problems you have. You know you don't want to reinvent the wheel (or worse, a flat tire), so you look to Design Patterns--the lessons learned by those who've faced the same problems. With Design Patterns, you get to take advantage of the best practices and experience of others, so that you can spend your time on... something else. Something more challenging. Something more complex.
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Head First Rails: A learner's companion to Ruby on Rails
Published 12 years ago
by david griffiths, O'Reilly Media
Ready to transport your web applications into the Web 2.0 era? Head First Rails takes your programming -- and productivity -- to the max. You'll learn everything from the fundamentals of Rails scaffolding to building customized interactive web apps using Rails' rich set of tools and the MVC framework. By the time you're finished, you'll have learned more than just another web framework.
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XML: Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition)
Published 12 years ago
by kevin howard goldberg, Peachpit Press
What is XML? XML, or eXtensible Markup Language, is a specification for storing information. It is also a specification for describing the structure of that information. And while XML is a markup language (just like HTML), XML has no tags of its own. It allows the person writing the XML to create whatever tags they need. The only condition is that these newly created tags adhere to the rules of the XML specification.