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Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java Applications, Second Edition By: Jeff McAffer; Jean-Michel Lemieux; Chris Aniszczyk Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 19-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 20-NOV-2009 | Overview: Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java Applications, Second Edition Build Powerful, Cross-Platform Rich
Client Applications
Eclipse is more than a state-of-the-art IDE: Its Rich Client
Platform (RCP) plug-ins form an outstanding foundation for any
desktop application, from chat applications to enterprise software
front-ends. In Eclipse Rich Client Platform, three
leaders of the Eclipse RCP project show exactly how to leverage
Eclipse for rapid, efficient, cross-platform desktop development.
In addition to explaining the power of Eclipse as a desktop
application development platform, the authors walk step-by-step
through developing a fully featured,...
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Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, Second Edition By: Bill Wagner Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 05-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 11-NOV-2009 | Overview: Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, Second Edition C#'s resemblances to C++, Java, and C make
it easier to learn, but there's a downside: C# programmers often
continue to use older techniques when far better alternatives are
available. In Effective C#, Second Edition,
respected .NET expert Bill Wagner identifies fifty ways you can
start leveraging the full power of C# (including C# 3.0 and 4.0) in
order to write faster, more efficient, and more reliable
software.
Effective C#, Second
Edition, follows the format that made
Effective C++ and Effective Java indispensable to
hundreds of thousands of developers: clear, practical...
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Advanced Qt Programming: Creating Great Software with C++ and Qt 4 By: Mark Summerfield Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 25-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 04-OCT-2009 | Overview: Advanced Qt Programming: Creating Great Software with C++ and Qt 4 Advanced Qt Programming
is aimed at existing C++/Qt programmers and presents ideas and
techniques that are too advanced or specialized (although not
necessarily difficult) for a first book on Qt. Qt has now grown to
over 700 classes and well over a million words of documentation,
far too much to cover in a single volume. So, this book focuses on
key areas of Qt technology and provides the
most comprehensive coverage available.The book is completely practical in
emphasis, with every technique illustrated by working code. The
examples (which will be available for download with the...
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Core Data for iPhone: Building Data-Driven Applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch By: Tim Isted Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 26-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 22-SEP-2009 | Overview: Core Data for iPhone: Building Data-Driven Applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch Apple's Core Data framework presents a
unified and powerful solution to storing an application's data.
“Core Data for iPhone” offers a comprehensive yet
readable reference for the framework and its use in the iPhone 3.0
SDK. The book begins by offering a discussion of general object
modeling and data persistence, and demonstrates how to build an
object model using Xcode's data modeling tool.The second part of the book focuses on a
discussion of topics that apply to most applications wanting to
make use of Core Data on the iPhone. Each facet of the framework or
its related technologies is...
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Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language, Second Edition By: Mark Summerfield Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 20-NOV-2009 Insert Date: 12-SEP-2009 | Overview: Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language, Second Edition Python 3 is the best version of the language
yet: It is more powerful, convenient, consistent, and expressive
than ever before. Now, leading Python programmer Mark Summerfield
demonstrates how to write code that takes full advantage of Python
3’s features and idioms. A revision of the first book written
from a completely “Python 3” viewpoint,
Programming in Python 3, Second Edition, brings
together all the knowledge you need to write any program, use any
standard or third-party Python 3 library, and create new library
modules of your own.Summerfield draws on his many years of
Python...
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Windows System Programming, Fourth Edition By: Johnson M. Hart Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 29-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 30-AUG-2009 | Overview: Windows System Programming, Fourth Edition This is the 4th edition of Johnson Hart's popular Windows
Programming book. First published in 1997 (as Win32 System
Programming) this book has been updated for Win64 and delves
into topics like Visual Studio, OpenSource and Parallelism.
Hart's covers the externals at the Windows API (Application
Programming Interface) level and shows how to develop application
programs to run on Windows. A complementary read to Mark
Russinovich's book on Windows internals, it fully explains the
features described and how to use them....
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Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails By: Paul Dix Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 21-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2009 | Overview: Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails Service-Oriented Design with Ruby
and Rails covers Ruby libraries for building and
consuming RESTful web services, which generally refers to services
that respond to HTTP requests. Further, the APIs of these services
are defined by the URIs requested and the method (GET, PUT, POST,
DELETE) used. While the focus of the book is on a REST-based
approach, there are sections where the authors deviate from a
purist style. In these cases the goal is to provide clarity or
flexibility to a proposed service. The primary topics covered in
the book are REST, HTTP verbs, and response codes; API...
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Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point By: Mary Poppendieck; Tom Poppendieck Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 30-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 21-AUG-2009 | Overview: Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point Building on the foundation of Mary and Tom Poppendieck’s
two bestselling books on lean software development, Leading
Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point
addresses six areas of focus that are critical to leading sustained
excellence in system development.
Written for managers who want to move beyond initial successes with
agile practices, this engaging and concise book shows how
successful organizations frame each of these key areas.
Starting with a chapter on “systems thinking” that
investigates how work actually works, and a chapter on
“technical excellence” that covers the...
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Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility By: Alan Shalloway; Guy Beaver; James R. Trott Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 23-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 13-AUG-2009 | Overview: Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility Agile techniques have demonstrated immense
potential for developing more-effective, higher-quality software.
However, scaling these techniques to the enterprise has been
challenging. The solution is to integrate the principles and
practices of Lean Software Development with Agile’s ideology
and methods. By doing so, software organizations leverage
Lean’s powerful capabilities for “optimizing the
whole” and managing complex enterprise projects.A combined “Lean-Agile” approach
can dramatically improve both developer productivity and the
software’s business value. In this book, three expert...
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LINQ to Objects Using C# 4.0: Using and Extending LINQ to Objects and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) By: Troy Magennis Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 26-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 04-AUG-2009 | Overview: LINQ to Objects Using C# 4.0: Using and Extending LINQ to Objects and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) MVP Troy Magennis has managed the popular
"Hooked on LINQ" web site since LINQ first arrived on the
scene. He has fielded hundreds of email questions about LINQ
and has an exceptional understanding of what it can do for
developers, as well as anticipating their potential pain
points. Developers will learn LINQ, Standard Query
Operators and how to write their own LINQ operators, as well as the
performance impact of LINQ queries versus basic collection
looping. Further, readers will come away with the
following:
[1] A clear explanation of the features
[2] An understanding of the Query...
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