Computers

C++ Cookbook

by D. Ryan Stephens, Christopher Diggins & Jonathan Turkanis

Despite its highly adaptable and flexible nature, C++ is also one of the more complex programming languages to learn. Once mastered, however, it can help you organize and process information with amazing efficiency...

CSS Pocket Reference: Visual Presentation for the Web

by Eric A. Meyer

They say that good things come in small packages, and it's certainly true for this edition of CSS Pocket Reference. Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest Cascading Style Sheet specifications in...

Service Design: From Insight to Implementation

by Andy Polaine, Lavrans Løvlie & Ben Reason

Service Design is an eminently practical guide to designing services that work for people. It offers powerful insights, methods, and case studies to help you design, implement, and measure multichannel service...

NOOK HD: The Missing Manual

by Preston Gralla

You can do many things with NOOK HD right out of the box, but if you really want to get the most from your HD or HD+ tablet, start with this book. With clear instructions, full-color illustrations, and savvy...

Learning PHP Design Patterns

by William Sanders

Build server-side applications more efficiently—and improve your PHP programming skills in the process—by learning how to use design patterns in your code. This book shows you how to apply several object-oriented...

Microsoft Access 2013 Step By Step

by Joan Lambert & Joyce Cox

Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to build your own database with Access 2013. With Step by Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you them!...

Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step

by Ed Wilson

Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to automating Windows® administration with Windows PowerShell® 3.0

Teach yourself the fundamentals of Windows PowerShell 3.0 command line interface and scripting language—one...

Microsoft Office Professional 2013 Plain & Simple

by Katherine Murray

Learn the simplest ways to get things done with Microsoft® Office 2013

Get the full-color, visual guide that makes learning Microsoft Office 2013 plain and simple! Follow the book’s easy steps and screenshots...

XSLT 1.0 Pocket Reference

by Evan Lenz

XSLT is an essential tool for converting XML into other kinds of documents: HTML, PDF file, and many others. It's a critical technology for XML-based platforms such as Microsoft .NET, Sun Microsystems' Sun One,...

XSL-FO: Making XML Look Good in Print

by Dave Pawson

No matter how flexible and convenient digital information has become, we haven't done away with the need to see information in print. Extensible Style Language-Formatting Objects, or XSL-FO, is a set of tools...

Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom

by Ben Hammersley

Perhaps the most explosive technological trend over the past two years has been blogging. As a matter of fact, it's been reported that the number of blogs during that time has grown from 100,000 to 4.8 million-with...

Programming PHP

by Kevin Tatroe, Peter MacIntyre & Rasmus Lerdorf

This updated edition teaches everything you need to know to create effective web applications with the latest features in PHP 5.x. You’ll start with the big picture and then dive into language syntax, programming...

Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules

by Randal L. Schwartz & Tom Phoenix

Perl is a versatile, powerful programming language used in a variety of disciplines, ranging from system administration to web programming to database manipulation. One slogan of Perl is that it makes easy things...

Learning XSLT

by Michael Fitzgerald

XSLT is a powerful language for transforming XML documents into something else. That something else can be an HTML document, another XML document, a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, a Scalable Vector Graphics...

Build Windows 8 Apps with Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic Step by Step

by Luca Regnicoli, Paolo Pialorsi & Roberto Brunetti

Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to building Windows 8 apps with .NET

Teach yourself how to build Windows 8 applications using Microsoft® .NET Framework 4.5 with Microsoft Visual C# 2012 or Visual Basic 2012—one...

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 App Development

by Scot Hillier & Ted Pattison

Your guide to designing apps that extend the capabilities of your SharePoint site.

Take advantage of the most important new concept in Microsoft® SharePoint® 2013--the app. Led by two SharePoint experts,...

Coding with Coda

by Eric J Gruber

Like to build websites in the wild with your MacBook? This concise hands-on guide introduces you to the ideal editor: Coda 2. Rather than clutter your screen with shell access, a separate CSS editor, and a version...

Introducing Erlang

by Simon St. Laurent

If you’re new to Erlang, its functional style can seem difficult, but with help from this hands-on introduction, you’ll scale the learning curve and discover how enjoyable, powerful, and fun this language...

Kindle Fire HD: The Missing Manual

by Peter Meyers

Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD combines the most popular e-reader and tablet features in one sleek package, and with this entertaining guide, you’ll master everything the Fire has to offer. With loads of illustrations,...

Enyo: Up and Running

by Roy Sutton

Learn how easy it is to design and build responsive, cross-platform apps with the Enyo open source JavaScript framework. With this hands-on book, Enyo contributor Roy Sutton shows you how to get started with...