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1. |  Head First iPhone DevelopmentHead First iPhone Development By: Dan Pilone; Tracey Pilone Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 04-SEP-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Head First iPhone DevelopmentHead First iPhone Development
Let's say you have an idea for a killer iPhone app. Where do you
begin?
Head First iPhone Development
will help you get
your first application up and running in no time. You'll quickly
learn to use iPhone SDK tools, including Interface Builder and
Xcode, and master Objective-C programming principles that will make
your app stand out. It's a complete learning experience for
creating eye-catching, top-selling iPhone applications.
Put Objective-C core concepts to work, including message
passing, protocols, properties, and memory management
Take advantage of...
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2. |  Programming the iPhone User Experience, 1st Edition By: Toby Boudreaux Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 12-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 04-AUG-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Programming the iPhone User Experience, 1st Edition
Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch not only feature the world's most
powerful mobile operating system, they also usher in a new standard
of human-computer interaction through gestural interfaces and
multi-touch navigation. This book provides you with a hands-on,
example-driven tour of UIKit, Apple's user interface toolkit, and
includes common design patterns to help you create new iPhone and
iPod Touch user experiences.
Using Apple's Cocoa Touch framework, you'll learn how to build
applications that respond in unique ways when users tap, slide,
swipe, tilt, shake, or pinch the screen....
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3. |  By: Rituraj Singh; Joydip Kanjilal Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-NOV-2008 Insert Date: 03-JUL-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro Sync Framework
The Sync Framework is Microsoft's latest innovation to deal with the dilemma of occasionally connected systems. It is a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline access for applications, services, and devices. In particular, it features technologies and tools that enable device roaming, sharing, and the ability to take networked data offline before synchronizing it back to the networked application at a later time.
Pro Sync Framework concludes with a working example that shows how the techniques you've learned can be used to create a versatile...
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Core Animation: Simplified Animation Techniques for Mac and iPhone Development Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 18-DEC-2009 Insert Date: 10-APR-2009 | Overview: Core Animation: Simplified Animation Techniques for Mac and iPhone Development This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.Core Animation is a new application framework introduced by
Apple for the Mac OS X Leopard (v. 10.5) release. Built on a subset
of OpenGL and the OpenGL Shading Language, Core Animation makes it
possible for Mac developers to create complex animations and
graphically-rich UI elements with a minimal amount of code.Core Animation's APIs leverage the power of the Mac’s
graphics processing unit (GPU) to run the code, which helps
animations run faster and smoother than if just run through the
CPU. Core Animation was originally designed for...
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Advanced Python 3 Programming Techniques By: Mark Summerfield Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 13-FEB-2009 Insert Date: 20-FEB-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Advanced Python 3 Programming Techniques This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
This short cut is taken from Programming in Python 3: A Complete
Introduction to the Python Language (Addison-Wesley, 2009) and
provides self-containedcoverage of Python’s advanced
features. Most of the techniques covered arenot needed every day,
but in the right circumstances they can make a crucialdifference,
allowing us to write clean and straightforward code rather
thanhaving to resort to hacks and workarounds to achieve what we
need. The shortcut explains a range of procedural, object-oriented,
and functional-style techniques,and...
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6. |  Microsoft Expression Blend 2 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide By: Corey Schuman; Robert Reinhardt Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 16-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 01-OCT-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Microsoft Expression Blend 2 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step
instructions and plenty of screenshots to teach beginning and
intermediate users how to create streamlined, innovative and just
plain beautiful applications with Microsoft's new application
development tool . Design expert and author Robert Reinhardt takes
readers step-by-step through the features and tools, and shows them
how they can use Microsoft Expression Blend to create engaging,
cinematic user interfaces with a rich design environment that
combines multiple media elements...
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7. |  Microsoft® Expression Blend™ Unleashed By: Brennon Williams Publisher: Sams Publication Date: 03-JUN-2008 Insert Date: 11-MAY-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Microsoft® Expression Blend™ Unleashed This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
Microsoft Expression Blend Unleashed
is about learning a new tool for designers, but also learning a new
mindset for developers. Expression Blend enables the delivery of
rich interactive applications, for the web as well as the desktop,
allowing you to take graphical assets and blend them with
functional .NET code through the power of XAML and the WPF
platform. Microsoft Expression Blend Unleashed also features
a C# Primer, introducing designers to the .NET Framework. .NET
allows the reader to extend the functionality of many of the...
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8. |  Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming By: Mark Summerfield Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 18-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 16-JUN-2007 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming
The Insider's Best-Practice Guide to Rapid PyQt 4 GUI
Development
Whether you're building GUI prototypes or full-fledged
cross-platform GUI applications with native look-and-feel, PyQt 4
is your fastest, easiest, most powerful solution. Qt expert Mark
Summerfield has written the definitive best-practice guide to PyQt
4 development.
With Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt
you'll learn how to build efficient GUI applications that run on
all major operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux,
and many versions of Unix, using the same source code for all of
them. Summerfield...
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9. |  By: Jenifer Tidwell Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 21-NOV-2005 Insert Date: 25-JAN-2006 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Designing Interfaces
Designing a good interface isn't easy. Users demand software that
is well-behaved, good-looking, and easy to use. Your clients or
managers demand originality and a short time to market. Your UI
technology -- web applications, desktop software, even mobile
devices -- may give you the tools you need, but little guidance on
how to use them well.
UI designers over the years have refined the art of interface
design, evolving many best practices and reusable ideas. If you
learn these, and understand why the best user interfaces work so
well, you too can design engaging and usable interfaces with...
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10. |  Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets By: Julian Smart; Kevin Hock; Stefan Csomor Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 26-JUL-2005 Insert Date: 16-JUL-2005 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets
"This book is the best way for beginning
developers to learn wxWidgets programming in C++. It is a must-have
for programmers thinking of using wxWidgets and those already using
it."
–Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus
Software and the Open Source Applications Foundation
Build advanced cross-platform applications
that support native look-and-feel on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS
X, and even Pocket PC
Master wxWidgets from start to
finish–even if you've never built GUI applications before
Leverage advanced wxWidgets capabilities:
networking,...
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