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1. |  Learn Corona SDK Game Development By: Frank W. Zammetti Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 24-APR-2013 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learn Corona SDK Game Development
Corona SDK is one of the most popular app and game mobile development platforms in the world, and Learn Corona SDK Game Development walks you through creating a full-featured Corona game from scratch to the App Store.
You'll learn Lua basics (the foundation of Corona), how to add and manipulate graphics, and how to use controls like multitouch, accelerometer, and gyroscope. You'll also learn how to use Box2D (Corona physics under the hood), and how to add sound effects and music.
As you're polishing your game, you'll also learn about ads, in-app purchases, and OpenFeint and Game Center...
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2. |  Beginning EJB 3: Java EE 7 Edition By: Jonathan Wetherbee; Chirag Rathod; Raghu Kodali; Peter Zadrozny Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 24-APR-2013 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning EJB 3: Java EE 7 Edition
Targeted at Java and Java EE developers both with and without prior Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) experience, Beginning EJB 3, Java EE 7 Edition will guide you in building enterprise software based on the latest cross-platform industry standards. Learn how to use the EJB 3 API to develop powerful, standards-based backend business logic for creating the complex enterprise applications that run today's transactions and more.
With over 20 years of combined EJB experience, the authors offer many practical insights into designing and coding EJB components in combination with related Java EE...
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3. |  By: Dan Rahmel Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 08-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Advanced Joomla!
Advanced Joomla! teaches you advanced techniques for customizing a Joomla! CMS, including creating templates, administration, and building extensions. It will provide the technical know-how and a bonanza of information that will allow you to take your Joomla! sites to the next level.
Written by bestselling Beginning Joomla! author Dan Rahmel, Advanced Joomla! picks up right where Beginning Joomla! left off. Amongst other things, it shows you how to integrate advanced features into your Joomla! site, including social networking, blogging, and Google and Yahoo! web services; construct...
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4. |  By: Beth L. Leech Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 24-APR-2013 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Lobbyists at Work
"Lobbyists at Work is a must-read for anyone interested in the serious business of government. Leech's probing questions reflect her years of research tracking the real impact of money and influence on policy." —Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. (Chairman, Patton Boggs LLP)
Received wisdom has it that lobbyists run the American government on behalf of moneyed interests. But what makes lobbyists run, and how do they induce legislators and bureaucrats to do their bidding? These are questions for which even the harshest critics lack satisfying answers. Lobbyists at Work explores what lobbyists really...
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5. |  By: Wallace Jackson Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 06-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learn Android App Development
Learn Android App Development is a hands-on tutorial and useful reference. You'll quickly get up to speed and master the Android SDK and the Java that you need for your Android Apps. You will fid that Learn Android App Development is an all-in-one getting started guide to building your first Android smartphone or tablet apps!
The Android SDK offers powerful features, and this book is the fastest path to mastering them—and the rest of the Andorid SDK —for programmers with some experience who are new to Android smartphone and tablet apps development. Many books introduce the Android SDK,...
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6. |  Practical SharePoint 2013 Governance By: Steve Goodyear Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 29-APR-2013 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Practical SharePoint 2013 Governance
Practical SharePoint 2013 Governance is the first book to offer practical and action-focused SharePoint governance guidance based on consulting experiences with real organizations in the field. It provides the quintessential governance reference guide for SharePoint consultants, administrators, architects, and anyone else looking for actual hands-on governance guidance. This book goes beyond filling in a governance document template and focuses entirely on actions to take and behaviors to adopt for addressing real-world governance challenges.
Walks you through how to define what...
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7. |  Expert Oracle Application Express Security By: Scott Spendolini Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 24-APR-2013 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Expert Oracle Application Express Security
Expert Oracle Application Express Security covers all facets of security related to Oracle Application Express (APEX) development. From basic settings that can enhance security, to preventing SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting attacks, Expert Oracle Application Express Security shows how to secure your APEX applictions and defend them from intrusion.
Security is a process, not an event. Expert Oracle Application Express Security is written with that theme in mind. Scott Spendolini, one of the original creators of the product, offers not only examples of security best practices, but...
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8. |  From Techie to Boss: Transitioning to Leadership By: Scott Cromar Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 17-APR-2013 Insert Date: 24-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: From Techie to Boss: Transitioning to Leadership
From Techie to Boss teaches technical people who are making or mulling the transition from team player to team leader all the management techniques and soft leadership skills they never needed before—but need now, pronto. Veteran team lead and project manager Scott Cromar lays out the classical management training course, but stripped down to precisely the essentials that techies need to start managing on the fly. He gets it that a front-line techie getting a field promotion to team leader just doesn't have the time to wade through an MBA textbook bulging with irrelevant material.
The...
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9. |  Realtime Web Apps: With HTML5 WebSocket, PHP, and jQuery By: Jason Lengstorf; Phil Leggetter Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 17-APR-2013 Insert Date: 23-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Realtime Web Apps: With HTML5 WebSocket, PHP, and jQuery
Realtime Web Apps: With HTML5 WebSocket, PHP, and jQuery is a guide for intermediate- to advanced-level web developers looking to take the next leap forward in website and app development: realtime.
With Realtime Web Apps, you'll be able to quickly get up to speed on what HTML5 WebSocket does, how it is going to affect the future of the web as we know it, and—thanks to Pusher's simple API—start developing your first realtime app today.
Using a practical approach, Realtime Web Apps will guide you through building your first app using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, and Pusher. After your initial...
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10. |  Control Your Retirement Destiny: Achieving Financial Security Before the Big Transition By: Dana Anspach Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 03-APR-2013 Insert Date: 16-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Control Your Retirement Destiny: Achieving Financial Security Before the Big Transition
People in their fifties start to wonder: When should I retire? Once I do, when should I take Social Security? Do I need to buy an annuity to make sure I have enough money to last my whole life? Should I move everything into Treasury Bills and other "safe" investments? In short, what do I need to do now to ensure a comfortable retirement in five or ten years?
Control Your Retirement Destiny: Achieving Financial Security Before the Big Transition provides practical, how-to knowledge on what you need to do to get your finances in order to prepare for a transition out of the workforce. While...
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11. |  Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming, Second Edition By: Dan Clark Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 15-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming, Second Edition
Learn C# with Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming and you'll be thinking about program design in the right way from day one. Whether you want to work with .NET for the web or desktop, or for Windows 8 on any device, Dan Clark's accessible, quick-paced guide will give you the foundation you need for a successful future in C# programming.
In this book you will:
Master the fundamentals of object-oriented programming
Work through a case study to see how C# and OOP work in a real-world application
Develop techniques and best practices that lead to efficient, reusable, elegant...
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12. |  Pro iOS Geo: Building Apps with Location Based Services By: Giacomo Andreucci Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 30-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 15-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro iOS Geo: Building Apps with Location Based Services
Deepen your app development skills with Pro iOS Geo. This book shows you how to use geolocation-based tools to enhance the iOS apps you develop. Author Giacomo Andreucci describes different ways to integrate geo services, depending on the kind of app you're looking to develop: a web app, a hybrid app, or a native app. You'll discover how to use the Google Maps API features to integrate powerful geo capabilities in your apps with a little effort.
You'll learn how to:
Design geographic features for your apps while respecting usability criteria
Design touristic geo apps
Use...
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13. |  Oracle Application Express for Mobile Web Applications By: Roel Hartman; Christian Rokitta; David Peake Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 29-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 13-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Oracle Application Express for Mobile Web Applications
Oracle Application Express for Mobile Web Applications is an action driven book, taking you by the hand through all required steps in building your very own web application that will run on phones, tablets, and other mobile devices. Because you've built every piece of it yourself, you will know exactly how every tiny part is used and how you can tweak it to your own – or your customer's – taste.
Oracle Application Express is widely known in the Oracle community as a great tool for creating web applications suitable for desktop browsers. Features have now been added to open up the world...
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14. |  Pro ASP.NET Web API Security: Securing ASP.NET Web API By: Badrinarayanan Lakshmiraghavan Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro ASP.NET Web API Security: Securing ASP.NET Web API
ASP.NET Web API is a key part of ASP.NET MVC 4 and the platform of choice for building RESTful services that can be accessed by a wide range of devices. Everything from JavaScript libraries to RIA plugins, RFID readers to smart phones can consume your services using platform-agnostic HTTP.
With such wide accessibility, securingyour code effectively needs to be a top priority. You will quickly find that the WCF security protocols you're familiar with from .NET (WS-* and similar)are less suitable than they once were in this new environment; proving themselves cumbersome and limited in...
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15. |  Compensating Your Employees Fairly: A Guide to Internal Pay Equity By: Stephanie R. Thomas Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 20-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 05-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Compensating Your Employees Fairly: A Guide to Internal Pay Equity
Compensation fairness is a universal preoccupation in today's workplace, from whispers around the water cooler to kabuki in the C-suite. Gender discrimination takes center stage in discussions of internal pay equity, but many other protected characteristics may be invoked as grounds for alleging discrimination: age, race, disability, physical appearance, and more. This broad range of vulnerability to discrimination charges is often neglected in corporate assessments of how well compensation systems comply with the law and satisfy employee norms of fairness. Blind spots in general equity...
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16. |  By: Mark Rollins Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 04-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: LEGO Technic Robotics
Building robots is a snap with LEGO Technic Robotics! This book shows you how to use LEGO bricks and Power Functions components such as motors and remote controls to create all kinds of robots. Best of all, you don't have to learn any programming. You just need your imagination and the expert building principles that you'll find inside LEGO Technic Robotics.
Author Mark Rollins teaches you the hows and whys of Technic project design. You're not just snapping pieces here and there; with LEGO Technic Robotics you're actively learning the fundamentals of good design so you can go on to...
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17. |  iPhone and iPad Apps for Absolute Beginners, Third Edition By: Dr. Rory Lewis; Chad Mello Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 20-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 04-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: iPhone and iPad Apps for Absolute Beginners, Third Edition
So how do you build an application for the iPhone and iPad? Don't you need to spend years learning complicated programming languages? What about Objective-C and Cocoa touch? The answer is that you don't need to know any of those things! Anybody can start building simple apps for the iPhone and iPad, and this book will show you how.
This update of an Apress bestseller walks you through creating your first app, using plain English and practical examples using the iOS 6 software development platform and more. It cuts through the fog of jargon and misinformation that surrounds iPhone and...
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18. |  By: Carlo Scarioni Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 02-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro Spring Security
Security is a key element in the development of any non-trivial application. The Spring Security Framework provides a comprehensive set of functionalities to implement industry-standard authentication and authorization mechanisms for Java applications.
Pro Spring Security will be a reference and advanced tutorial that will do the following:
Guides you through the implementation of the security features for a Java web application by presenting consistent examples built from the ground-up.
Demonstrates the different authentication and authorization methods to secure...
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19. |  Oracle SQL Tuning with Oracle SQLTXPLAIN By: Stelios Charalambides Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 20-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 27-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Oracle SQL Tuning with Oracle SQLTXPLAIN
Oracle SQL Tuning with SQLTXPLAIN is a practical guide to SQL tuning the way Oracle's own experts do it, using a freely downloadable tool called SQLTXPLAIN. Using this simple tool you'll learn how to tune even the most complex SQL, and you'll learn to do it quickly, without the huge learning curve usually associated with tuning as a whole.
Firmly based in real world problems, this book helps you reclaim system resources and avoid the most common bottleneck in overall performance, badly tuned SQL. You'll learn how the optimizer works, how to take advantage of its latest features, and...
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20. |  The Definitive Guide to HTML5 WebSocket By: Vanessa Wang; Frank Salim; Peter Moskovits Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Definitive Guide to HTML5 WebSocket
The Definitive Guide to HTML5 WebSocket is the ultimate insider's WebSocket resource. This revolutionary new web technology enables you to harness the power of true real-time connectivity and build responsive, modern web applications.
This book contains everything web developers and architects need to know about WebSocket. It discusses how WebSocket-based architectures provide a dramatic reduction in unnecessary network overhead and latency compared to older HTTP (Ajax) architectures, how to layer widely used protocols such as XMPP and STOMP on top of WebSocket, and how to secure...
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