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81. |  Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML By: Jeremy Likness, John Montgomery Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 25-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 19-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML “Jeremy builds real apps for real
customers. That’s why I can heartily recommend this book. Go
out and write some great apps…and keep this book
handy.”
—From the Foreword by Jeff Prosise
Build Exceptionally Immersive and Responsive Touch-Based Windows
Store Apps for Windows 8 with C# and XAML
This is the first practical guide to building breakthrough
applications for Windows 8 from project templates through
publication to the new Windows Store. Microsoft “MVP of the
Year” Jeremy Likness helps you combine your existing
developer skills with new Visual Studio 2012 tools and...
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82. |  Making Process Improvement Work for Service Organizations: A Concise Action Guide By: Neil S. Potter; Mary E. Sakry Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 15-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Making Process Improvement Work for Service Organizations: A Concise Action Guide Process improvement too often reflects a significant disconnect
between theory and practice. Making Process Improvement Work
for Service Organizations bridges the gap–offering a
straightforward, systematic approach to planning, implementing, and
monitoring a process improvement program. Managers and
practitioners will appreciate the book’s concise presentation
style and will be able to apply its practical ideas immediately to
real-life challenges.
With examples
based on the authors’ own extensive experience, this book
shows how to define goals that directly address the needs of...
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83. |  Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking By: Srinivasan Keshav Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 15-APR-2012 Insert Date: 12-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking “To design future networks that are
worthy of society’s trust, we must put the
‘discipline’ of computer networking on a much stronger
foundation. This book rises above the considerable minutiae of
today’s networking technologies to emphasize the
long-standing mathematical underpinnings of the field.”
–Professor Jennifer Rexford,
Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
“This book is exactly the one I have
been waiting for the last couple of years. Recently, I decided most
students were already very familiar with the way the net works but
were not being taught the...
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84. |  Learning JavaScript: A Hands-On Guide to the Fundamentals of Modern JavaScript By: Tim Wright Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 26-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learning JavaScript: A Hands-On Guide to the Fundamentals of Modern JavaScript Get Started Fast with Modern
JavaScript Web Development!
With the arrival of HTML5, jQuery, and Ajax,
JavaScript web development skills are more valuable than
ever! This complete, hands-on JavaScript tutorial covers everything
you need to know now. Using line-by-line code walkthroughs
and end-of-chapter exercises, top web developer and speaker Tim
Wright will help you get results fast, even if you’ve never
written a line of JavaScript before.
Smart, friendly, enthusiastic, and packed
with modern examples, Learning JavaScript covers both design-level
and development-level JavaScript....
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Introduction to Android™ App Development for the Kindle Fire™ By: Lauren Darcey; Shane Conder Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 13-APR-2012 Insert Date: 23-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introduction to Android™ App Development for the Kindle Fire™ Get Started Fast with Android App
Development for Amazon’s Best-Selling Kindle Fire!
Practically overnight, the Amazon Kindle
Fire has become the world’s top-selling Android-based tablet.
Now, in this electronic-only mini-book, expert Android developers
provide an introduction to the basics of Kindle Fire
development.
Lauren Darcey and Shane Conder first
introduce you to Android and walk you through installing its latest
development tools. Next, you’ll learn the essential design
principles you need to write Android Kindle Fire apps, discover how
Android applications are structured and...
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86. |  ATDD by Example: A Practical Guide to Acceptance Test-Driven Development By: Markus Gärtner Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 26-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 12-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: ATDD by Example: A Practical Guide to Acceptance Test-Driven Development With Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), business
customers, testers, and developers can collaborate to produce
testable requirements that help them build higher quality software
more rapidly. However, ATDD is still widely misunderstood by many
practitioners. ATDD by Example is the first
practical, entry-level, hands-on guide to implementing and
successfully applying it.
ATDD pioneer Markus Gärtner walks
readers step by step through deriving the right systems from
business users, and then implementing fully automated, functional
tests that accurately reflect business requirements,...
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87. |  Enterprise Software Delivery: Bringing Agility and Efficiency to the Global Software Supply Chain By: Alan W. Brown Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 25-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 08-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Enterprise Software Delivery: Bringing Agility and Efficiency to the Global Software Supply Chain Globalization, rapid technology churn, and
massive economic shifts have made it more difficult than ever to
deliver high-value enterprise software.
In Enterprise Software
Delivery, IBM Distinguished Engineer Alan W. Brown
guides decision-makers in understanding these new challenges,
choosing today’s best solutions, and successfully
anticipating future trends.
Alan presents detailed, actionable
techniques for building software supply chains that improve agility
and innovation while responding to growing cost pressure. Using
real-world case studies, he introduces the modern global...
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88. |  PhoneGap Essentials: Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps By: John M. Wargo Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 11-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 30-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PhoneGap Essentials: Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps PhoneGap is Adobe’s distribution of
the free and open source framework (originally developed by Nitobi)
that is now also available from the Apache Foundation as Apache
Cordova™. Using PhoneGap, developers can build native mobile
apps using standard HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS, and then deploy
those apps to every leading mobile platform with little or no
recoding. Up to now, though, PhoneGap was lacking complete,
practical documentation. PhoneGap Essentials
fills that void: It’s the first concise, yet complete,
tutorial for succeeding with PhoneGap in real-world
development.
Experienced...
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89. |  Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process By: Kenneth S. Rubin Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 26-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 14-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process A Practical Guide to the Most Popular
Agile Process
The Single-Source, Comprehensive Guide
to Scrum for All Team Members, Managers, and Executives
If you want to use Scrum to develop
innovative products and services that delight your customers,
Essential Scrum is the complete, single-source
reference you’ve been searching for. Leading Scrum coach and
trainer Kenny Rubin illuminates the values, principles, and
practices of Scrum, and describes flexible, proven approaches that
can help you implement it far more effectively.
Whether you are new to Scrum or years into
your use, this book...
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90. |  By: Erica Sadun Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 22-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 02-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | This title contains the standard edition
of The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook PLUS nine additional
chapters on advance content. If you already have the eBook edition
of The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook, you can purchase
The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook: The Additional Recipes
(ISBN: 9780133028393), which only contains the extra chapters, at a
low cost.
In this expanded ebook, best-selling
author and iOS development guru Erica Sadun brings together all the
information you need to quickly start building successful iOS apps
for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Sadun has thoroughly revised...
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91. |  The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook: The Additional Recipes By: Erica Sadun Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 13-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 20-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook: The Additional Recipes This title contains the nine additional
chapters that are also included in The iOS 5 Developer’s
Cookbook: Expanded Electronic Edition. Note that this material
is in addition to the print edition and standard eBook edition of
The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook.
Erica Sadun’s iOS
“Developer’s Cookbooks” have established
themselves as the single best source of knowledge and sample code
for production-quality iOS development. There’s only one
problem: To support Apple’s breakthrough iOS 5, Sadun has
created more great content and recipes than can fit in a single
printed book. So we’ve bundled nine...
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92. |  Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript By: David Herman Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 26-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 14-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript “It’s uncommon to have a
programming language wonk who can speak in such comfortable and
friendly language as David does. His walk through the syntax and
semantics of JavaScript is both charming and hugely insightful;
reminders of gotchas complement realistic use cases, paced at a
comfortable curve. You’ll find when you finish the book that
you’ve gained a strong and comprehensive sense of
mastery.”
—Paul Irish, developer advocate,
Google Chrome
“This is not a book for those looking
for shortcuts; rather it is hard-won experience distilled into a
guided tour. It’s one of the few books on...
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93. |  Ruby on Rails™ Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails, Second Edition, Video Enhanced Edition By: Michael Hartl Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 27-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 08-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Ruby on Rails™ Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails, Second Edition, Video Enhanced Edition “Ruby on Rails™ Tutorial
by Michael Hartl has become a must-read for developers learning how
to build Rails apps.”
—Peter Cooper, Editor of Ruby
Inside
Using Rails, developers can build web
applications of exceptional elegance and power. Although its
remarkable capabilities have made Ruby on Rails one of the
world’s most popular web development frameworks, it can be
challenging to learn and use. Ruby on Rails™
Tutorial, Second Edition, is the solution. Best-selling
author and leading Rails developer Michael Hartl teaches Rails by
guiding you through the development of your own complete...
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94. |  Android™ Wireless Application Development Volume II: Advanced Topics, Third Edition By: Lauren Darcey; Shane Conder Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 24-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 05-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Android™ Wireless Application Development Volume II: Advanced Topics, Third Edition Android Wireless Application
Development has earned a reputation as the most useful
real-world guide to building robust, commercial-grade Android apps.
Now, authors Lauren Darcey and Shane Conder have systematically
revised and updated this guide for the latest Android SDK and tools
updates. To accommodate their extensive new coverage, they’ve
split the book into two leaner, cleaner volumes. This Volume II
focuses on advanced techniques for the entire app development
cycle, including design, coding, testing, debugging, and
distribution. Darcey and Conder cover hot topics ranging from
tablet...
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95. |  jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile: Recipes and Examples By: Adriaan de Jonge Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 26-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile: Recipes and Examples 100+ Practical jQuery Recipes for Solving
Your Real-World Web and Mobile Development Challenges!
jQuery makes it easier than ever for
developers to build exceptionally robust, cross-platform websites
and mobile apps. jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile:
Recipes and Examples is a practical
“cookbook,” packed with realistic, easy-to-use
solutions for making the most of jQuery Core, jQuery UI, plugins,
and jQuery Mobile.
This guide brings together more than one
hundred self-contained, downloadable examples, each with an
in-depth explanation of how the code works and how to adapt it for
your...
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96. |  By: Gary Gruver; Mike Young; Pat Fulghum Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 15-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 26-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Today, even the largest development organizations are turning to
agile methodologies, seeking major productivity and quality
improvements. However, large-scale agile development is difficult,
and publicly available case studies have been scarce. Now, three
agile pioneers at Hewlett-Packard present a candid, start-to-finish
insider’s look at how they’ve succeeded with agile in
one of the company’s most mission-critical software
environments: firmware for HP LaserJet printers.
This book tells the story of an extraordinary experiment and
journey. Could agile principles be applied to...
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97. |  By: Graham Lee Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 09-APR-2012 Insert Date: 26-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Test-Driven iOS Development As iOS apps become increasingly complex and
business-critical, iOS developers must ensure consistently superior
code quality. This means adopting best practices for creating and
testing iOS apps. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is one of the most
powerful of these best practices. Test-Driven iOS
Development is the first book 100% focused on helping you
successfully implement TDD and unit testing in an iOS
environment.
Long-time iOS/Mac developer Graham Lee helps
you rapidly integrate TDD into your existing processes using
Apple’s Xcode 4 and the OCUnit unit testing framework. He
guides you...
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98. |  Learning OpenGL ES for iOS: A Hands-On Guide to Modern 3D Graphics Programming By: Erik M. Buck Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 27-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 26-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learning OpenGL ES for iOS: A Hands-On Guide to Modern 3D Graphics Programming Get Started Fast with Modern OpenGL ES
Graphics Programming for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
OpenGL ES technology underlies the user
interface and graphical capabilities of Apple’s iPhone, iPod
touch, and iPad–as well as devices ranging from video-game
consoles and aircraft-cockpit displays to non-Apple smartphones. In
this friendly, thorough introduction, Erik M. Buck shows how to
make the most of Open GL ES in Apple’s iOS
environment.
This highly anticipated title focuses on
modern, efficient approaches that use the newest versions of
OpenGL ES, helping you avoid the irrelevant,...
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99. |  By: Dawn M. Cappelli; Andrew P. Moore; Randall F. Trzeciak Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 24-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 25-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Since 2001, the CERT® Insider Threat
Center at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering
Institute (SEI) has collected and analyzed information about more
than seven hundred insider cyber crimes, ranging from national
security espionage to theft of trade secrets. The
CERT® Guide to Insider Threats describes
CERT’s findings in practical terms, offering specific
guidance and countermeasures that can be immediately applied by
executives, managers, security officers, and operational staff
within any private, government, or military organization.
The authors systematically address...
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100. |  By: Erica Sadun Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 18-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 25-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | ***This is the updated and corrected edition
ofThe iOS 5 Developer's Cookbook.***
The iOS 5 Developer’s Cookbook,
Third Edition
Covers iOS 5, Xcode 4.2, Objective-C
2.0’s ARC, LLVM, and more!
In this book, bestselling author and iOS
development guru Erica Sadun brings together all the information
you need to quickly start building successful iOS apps for iPhone,
iPad, and iPod touch. Sadun has thoroughly revised this book to
focus on powerful new iOS 5 features, the latest version of
Objective-C, and the Xcode 4 development tools.
The iOS 5 Developer’s
Cookbook, Third Edition is...
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