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21. | Rough Cuts  Essential SharePoint 2013, Second Edition By: Scott B. Jamison; Susan Hanley; Chris Bortlik Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 23-AUG-2013 Insert Date: 02-FEB-2013 | Overview: Essential SharePoint 2013, Second Edition This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
Get the most business value from
Microsoft SharePoint® 2013!
Essential SharePoint 2013
approaches the newest release of SharePoint from a strict
business value perspective, explaining exactly how to plan
and implement SharePoint solutions to achieve superior business
performance.
With 85% new and revamped content from a
team of long-time enterprise SharePoint consultants, this book will
help you focus on the SharePoint features, capabilities, and
applications that offer the most real-world value. You'll find
practical advice for...
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22. | Rough Cuts  Learning iOS Development: A Hands-on Guide to the Fundamentals of iOS Programming By: Maurice Sharp; Rod Strougo; Erica Sadun Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 01-AUG-2013 Insert Date: 02-FEB-2013 | Overview: Learning iOS Development: A Hands-on Guide to the Fundamentals of iOS Programming This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
Start writing great iOS 6 apps for iPad,
iPhone, and iPod touch!
Leading iOS authors Maurice
Sharp, Erica Sadun, and Rod Strougo offer the perfect hands-on
introduction to iOS development, covering everything you need to
know about Objective-C, XCode, and modern iOS 6 user interface
development. With hands-on sample projects and end-of-chapter
exercises, this book is ideal both for self-teaching and classroom
instruction. Sadun and Strougo get you started fast with
Objective-C, covering basic syntax, memory management, Foundation
Classes,...
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23. |  The Java® Tutorial: A Short Course on the Basics, Fifth Edition By: Sharon Biocca Zakhour; Sowmya Kannan; Raymond Gallardo Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 27-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 31-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Java® Tutorial: A Short Course on the Basics, Fifth Edition The Java®Tutorial, Fifth
Edition, is based on Release 7 of the Java Platform
Standard Edition. This revised and updated edition introduces the
new features added to the platform, including a section on NIO.2,
the new file I/O API, and information on migrating legacy code to
the new API. The deployment coverage has also been expanded, with
new chapters such as “Doing More with Rich Internet
Applications” and “Deployment in Depth,” and a
section on the fork/join feature has been added to the chapter on
concurrency. Information reflecting Project Coin developments,
including the new...
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24. |  An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms, Second Edition By: Robert Sedgewick; Philippe Flajolet Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 18-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 31-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms, Second Edition Despite growing interest, basic information
on methods and models for mathematically analyzing algorithms has
rarely been directly accessible to practitioners, researchers, or
students. An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms,
Second Edition, organizes and presents that knowledge,
fully introducing primary techniques and results in the field.
Robert Sedgewick and the late Philippe
Flajolet have drawn from both classical mathematics and computer
science, integrating discrete mathematics, elementary real
analysis, combinatorics, algorithms, and data structures. They
emphasize the...
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25. |  The Java EE 6 Tutorial: Advanced Topics, Fourth Edition By: Eric Jendrock; Ricardo Cervera-Navarro; Ian Evans; Devika Gollapudi; Kim Haase; William Markito; Chinmayee Srivathsa Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 09-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 24-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Java EE 6 Tutorial: Advanced Topics, Fourth Edition The Java EE 6 Tutorial: Advanced
Topics, Fourth Edition, is a task-oriented, example-driven
guide to developing enterprise applications for the Java Platform,
Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6). Written by members of the Java EE
6 documentation team at Oracle, this book provides new and
intermediate Java programmers with a deep understanding of the
platform.
This guide–which builds on the
concepts introduced in The Java EE 6 Tutorial: Basic Concepts,
Fourth Edition–contains advanced material, including detailed
introductions to more complex platform features and instructions
for using the...
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26. | Rough Cuts  Learning Core Data for iOS: A Hands-On Guide to Building Core Data Applications By: Tim Roadley Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 31-OCT-2013 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 | Overview: Learning Core Data for iOS: A Hands-On Guide to Building Core Data Applications This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
Learning Core Data for iOS
teaches you all you need to know to build database-enabled iOS apps
with Core Data. This is the first Core Data book to fully reflect
Apple’s latest platform innovations, especially the dramatic
improvements to iCloud support in the next version of iOS. Hands-on
from start to finish, this tutorial teaches you step-by-step as you
create a modern iOS app using ARC, iOS and Xcode 4 with
Storyboards. You’ll walk through:
Discovering how Core Data simplifies the incorporation of
database functionality
Adding...
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27. | Rough Cuts  Learning Android Application Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building Android Applications By: James Talbot; Justin McLean Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 25-OCT-2013 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 | Overview: Learning Android Application Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building Android Applications This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
Learning Android Application
Programming teaches those who have some
programming experience how to build a state of the art Android
application from the ground up, while utilizing the latest Android
SDK and tool set. Readers will find a beginner Android application
development tutorial that offers a series of easy, step by step
lessons focused on learning by doing. This book helps anyone with a
web development background get started with the powerful
functionality of Android development. The book offers a complete
picture of the Android...
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28. |  The Advanced iOS 6 Developer’s Cookbook, Fourth Edition By: Erica Sadun Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 27-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 12-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Advanced iOS 6 Developer’s Cookbook, Fourth Edition The Advanced iOS 6 Developer’s Cookbook brings
together reliable, proven solutions for cutting-edge iOS 6
development. World-renowned iOS expert Erica Sadun covers
device-specific development, document/data sharing, Core Text,
networking, image processing, onboard cameras, audio, Address Book,
Core Location, GameKit,StoreKit, push notifications, and more.
As in her previous bestselling iOS books, Sadun translates
today’s development best practices into working code,
distilling key concepts into concise recipes that are easy to
understand and transfer into your own projects. This isn’t
just...
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29. |  By: Alexis Goldstein Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 04-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 09-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Get Started Fast with Professional-Quality
CSS3 Animation!
For web designers and developers building
rich web and mobile applications, standards-based CSS3 is the
future! Learning CSS3 Animations and Transitions is the only
tutorial focused entirely on creating quality animations and
transitions with CSS3. Leading web developer and trainer Alexis
Goldstein¿ covers everything web professionals need to know
through solid examples that help you build your¿ skills one
step at a time.
Goldstein’s project-based approach
guides you through using transforms, transitions, keyframe¿
animations,...
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30. |  3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice By: Doug A. Bowman; Ernst Kruijff; Joseph J. LaViola Jr.; Ivan Poupyrev Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 26-JUL-2004 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice Here’s what three pioneers in computer graphics and
human-computer interaction have to say about this book:
“What a tour de force—everything one would
want—comprehensive, encyclopedic, and
authoritative.”
—Jim Foley
“At last, a book on this important, emerging area. It
will be an indispensable reference for the practitioner,
researcher, and student interested in 3D user
interfaces.”
—Andy van Dam
“Finally, the book we need to bridge the dream of 3D
graphics with the user-centered reality of interface design. A
thoughtful and practical guide for researchers and...
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31. |  The Android™ Tablet Developer’s Cookbook By: B.M. Harwani Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 24-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 14-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Android™ Tablet Developer’s Cookbook The Android Tablet Developer’s Cookbook helps
experienced Android developers leverage new Android 4.2.2 features
to build compelling applications that take full advantage of
tablets’ bigger screens, dual-core processors, and larger,
faster memory.
Tightly focused on Android 4.2.2’s tablet-related
capabilities, it presents an unparalleled library of easy-to-reuse
code for solving real-world problems. Everything’s organized
in modular, standalone sections to help you quickly find what
you’re looking for, even when you need to use multiple
classes together.
Throughout, B.M. Harwani clearly...
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32. | Rough Cuts  WebGL Programming Guide: Interactive 3D Graphics Programming with WebGL By: Kouichi Matsuda; Rodger Lea Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 28-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 13-DEC-2012 | Overview: WebGL Programming Guide: Interactive 3D Graphics Programming with WebGL This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
WebGL brings plugin-free 3D to the web,
enabling you to create sophisticated interactive 3D graphics right
inside web browsers — perfect for games, user interfaces, and
information visualization. The WebGL Programming
Guide will help you get started quickly with interactive
WebGL 3D programming, even if you have no prior knowledge of HTML5,
JavaScript, 3D computer graphics, mathematics, or OpenGL.
You’ll learn step-by-step, through
realistic examples, building your skills as you move from simple to
complex solutions for building visually...
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33. |  Test-Driven Database Development: Unlocking Agility By: Max Guernsey, III Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 21-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 13-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Test-Driven Database Development: Unlocking Agility The practice of Test-Driven Development (TDD) has helped
thousands of software developers improve quality, agility,
productivity, and speed. In Test-Driven Database
Development, Max Guernsey, III shows how to adapt TDD to
achieve the same powerful benefits in database design and
development.
Guernsey first explains why TDD offers so much potential to
database practitioners, and how to overcome obstacles such as the
lack of conventional “testable classes.” You’ll
learn how to use “classes of databases” to manage
change more effectively; how to define testable database behaviors;
how to...
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34. |  Programming in Objective-C, Fifth Edition By: Stephen G. Kochan Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 04-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 11-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Programming in Objective-C, Fifth Edition Programming in Objective-C, Fifth Edition
Updated for OS X Mountain Lion, iOS 6, and Xcode 4.5
Programming in Objective-C is a concise, carefully written
tutorial on the basics of Objective-C and object-oriented
programming for Apple's iOS and OS X platforms.
The book makes no assumptions about prior experience with
object-oriented programming languages or with the C language (which
Objective-C is based upon). Because of this, both beginners and
experienced programmers alike can use this book to quickly and
effectively learn the fundamentals of Objective-C. Readers can...
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35. |  Database Design for Mere Mortals®: A Hands-on Guide to Relational Database Design, Third Edition By: Michael J. Hernandez Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 14-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 08-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Database Design for Mere Mortals®: A Hands-on Guide to Relational Database Design, Third Edition
The #1 Easy, Commonsense Guide to
Database Design! Michael J. Hernandez’s best-selling
Database Design for Mere Mortals® has earned worldwide
respect as the clearest, simplest way to learn relational database
design. Now, he’s made this hands-on, software-independent
tutorial even easier, while ensuring that his design methodology is
still relevant to the latest databases, applications, and best
practices. Step by step, Database Design for Mere
Mortals®, Third Edition, shows you how
to design databases that are soundly structured, reliable, and
flexible, even in modern web applications....
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36. |  Essential Windows Phone 8, Second Edition By: Shawn Wildermuth Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 17-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 30-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Essential Windows Phone 8, Second Edition “Shawn has created a guide that is easy to read,
up-to-date, and comprehensive–covering the entire application
surface area for Windows Phone developers. Enjoy!”
–Jeff Wilcox, Senior Software Development Engineer,
Microsoft
Essential Windows® Phone 8 is the definitive guide to
creating powerful mobile apps with Microsoft’s dramatically
improved Windows Phone 8 platform. Ten-time Microsoft MVP Shawn
Wildermuth draws on his extensive experience teaching Windows Phone
development, helping you to get started fast and master techniques
that lead to truly outstanding solutions.
Updated...
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37. | Rough Cuts  Learning iOS Design: A Hands-On Guide for Programmers and Designers By: William Van Hecke Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 14-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 24-NOV-2012 | Overview: Learning iOS Design: A Hands-On Guide for Programmers and Designers This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
“This book contains everything you
need to know to create awesome, life-altering applications. . . . I
pride myself on knowing a lot about design, but when reading this
book, I probably didn’t encounter a single page that
didn’t offer at least one interesting idea, new concept, or
clever design technique. It’s also written in a way that
prevents you from putting it down. . . . You’re in for a
treat.”
—From the Foreword by Lukas Mathis,
author of ignorethecode.net
Transform Your Ideas into Intuitive,
Delightful iOS Apps!
As an app...
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38. |  Documents and Data Sharing: The Advanced iOS 6 Developer’s Cookbook By: Erica Sadun Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 30-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 09-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Documents and Data Sharing: The Advanced iOS 6 Developer’s Cookbook Under iOS, applications can share information and data as well
as move control from one application to another using a variety of
system features. Each application has access to a common system
pasteboard that allows copying and pasting across apps. Users can
transfer documents from one app to another app that supports that
format. They can request a number of system-supplied "actions" to
apply to a document, such as printing, tweeting, or posting to a
Facebook wall. Apps can declare custom URL schemes that can be
embedded in text and web pages. This eBook by bestselling author
and developer...
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39. |  An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming: Learning Objective-C 2.0 By: Robert Clair Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 30-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 09-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming: Learning Objective-C 2.0 Procedural programming just isn't ideal for
certain types of problems, and as a result object-oriented
programming has become dominant in many areas of computing today.
Objective-C is an example of an object-oriented language. In this
"digital short" eBook, top OS X and iOS developer Robert Clair
describes the fundamentals of object-oriented programming,
illustrating how object-oriented concepts are implemented in
Objective-C. He also lists the additions that Objective-C makes to
the C language.
This eBook is an adapted excerpt from
Learning Objective-C 2.0: A Hands-on Guide to Objective-C...
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40. | Rough Cuts  Data Just Right: Practical Big Data Analytics By: Michael Manoochehri Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 02-SEP-2013 Insert Date: 28-OCT-2012 | Overview: Data Just Right: Practical Big Data Analytics This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
Large-scale data analysis ("Big Data") is
suddenly of crucial importance to virtually every enterprise.
Mobile and social technologies are generating massive datasets, and
distributed cloud computing is providing better ways to analyzing
and processing that data. Accelerating technological change is
turning long-accepted ideas about Big Data upside down, forcing
companies to evaluate daunting new technologies, including NoSQL
databases. Until now, however, most books on "Big Data" have been
little more than business polemics and product...
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