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Just Spring Integration

by Madhusudhan Konda

Get started with Spring Integration, the lightweight Java-based framework that makes designing and developing message-oriented architectures a breeze. Through numerous examples, you’ll learn how to use this...

Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software

by Max Kanat-Alexander

Good software design is simple and easy to understand. Unfortunately, the average computer program today is so complex that no one could possibly comprehend how all the code works. This concise guide helps you...

Enabling Programmable Self with HealthVault: An Accessible Personal Health Record

by Vaibhav Bhandari

Personal health and fitness has joined the digital revolution. Using Microsoft HealthVault, people interested in monitoring their health have an unprecedented opportunity to research their own data. This concise...

20 Recipes for Programming PhoneGap: Cross-Platform Mobile Development for Android and iPhone

by Jamie Munro

Gain hands-on experience with the amazing PhoneGap library, using the practical recipes in this handy guide. With these solutions, you can enable your mobile web apps to interact with device-specific features...

Drupal Development Tricks for Designers

by Dani Nordin

Take your Drupal skills even further with valuable tricks for making site building truly efficient. In this concise guide—the third in a series by award-winning designer Dani Nordin—you’ll learn how to...

Introduction to Tornado

by Michael Dory, Adam Parrish & Brendan Berg

Walk through the basics of Tornado, the high-performance web server known for its speed, simplicity, and scalability on projects large and small. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how to use Tornado’s...

Building Mobile Applications with Java: Using the Google Web Toolkit and Phonegap

by Joshua Marinacci

Do you want to develop mobile apps with Java—and have them work on a variety of devices powered by iOS and Android? You’ve come to the right place.

This project-driven book shows you how to build portable...

Linux Pocket Guide

by Daniel J. Barrett

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...

Learning Unix for OS X Mountain Lion: Going Deep With the Terminal and Shell

by Dave Taylor

Think your Mac is powerful now? Author Dave Taylor shows you how to get much more from your system by tapping into Unix, the robust operating system concealed beneath OS X’s beautiful user interface. Mountain...

Programming Entity Framework: DbContext

by Julia Lerman & Rowan Miller

The DbContext API captures Entity Framework’s (EF) most commonly used features and tasks, simplifying development with EF. This concise book shows you how to use the API to perform set operations with the...

Getting Started with Fluidinfo

by Nicholas J. Radcliffe & Nicholas H. Tollervey

Imagine a public storage system that has a place online for structured data about everything that exists—or that could exist. This book introduces Fluidinfo, a system that enables you to store information...

Getting Started with OAuth 2.0

by Ryan Boyd

Whether you develop web applications or mobile apps, the OAuth 2.0 protocol will save a lot of headaches. This concise introduction shows you how OAuth provides a single authorization technology across numerous...

SharePoint Apps with LightSwitch

by Paul Ferrill

Build custom business applications for SharePoint with Visual Studio LightSwitch—including intuitive apps that don’t require a single line of code. This example-driven guide takes non-programmers step-by-step...

Building HTML5 Games with ImpactJS: An Introduction On HTML5 Game Development

by Jesse Freeman

Create a real 2D game from start to finish with ImpactJS, the JavaScript game framework that works with the HTML5's Canvas element. Making video games is hard work that requires technical skills, a lot of planning,...

Getting Started with Netduino

by Chris Walker

Start building electronics projects with Netduino, the popular open source hardware platform that’s captured the imagination of makers and hobbyists worldwide. This easy-to-follow book provides the step-by-step...

Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer

by Simon Monk

Learn how to quickly build cool electronic gadgets with .NET Gadgeteer. With the easy-to-follow instructions in this guide, you’ll tackle five fascinating projects, using Microsoft’s rapid prototyping Gadgeteer...

Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual: The book that should have been in the box

by Peter Meyers

Enter a bright new world of entertainment with Amazon’s red hot tablet. This guide lights the way with lots of illustrations and step-by-step instructions for browsing the Web, emailing, playing games, and...

#tweetsmart: 25 Twitter Projects to Help You Build Your Community

by J. S. McDougall

"OK. I’ve got my Twitter account…now what can I do with it?" Sound familiar? #tweetsmart provides the answer with 25 creative projects to help your business, cause, or organization grow. But this isn’t...

Node for Front-End Developers

by Garann Means

If you know how to use JavaScript in the browser, you already have the skills you need to put JavaScript to work on back-end servers with Node. This hands-on book shows you how to use this popular JavaScript...

C# Database Basics

by Michael Schmalz

Working with data and databases in C# certainly can be daunting if you’re coming from VB6, VBA, or Access. With this hands-on guide, you’ll shorten the learning curve considerably as you master accessing,...