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1. |  By: Willie Wheeler with Joshua White Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 08-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 26-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Spring in Practice Summary
Spring in Practice shows you how to tackle the challenges
you face when you build Spring-based applications. The book
empowers software developers to solve concrete business problems by
mapping application-level issues to Spring-centric solutions.
It diverges from other cookbooks because it presents the
background you need to understand the domain in which a solution
applies before it offers the specific steps to solve the
problem.
About this Book
Spring in Practice covers 66 Spring development
techniques and the practical issues you will encounter when using
them. The book...
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2. |  By: Nilanjan Raychaudhuri Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 10-APR-2013 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Scala in Action Summary
Scala in Action is a comprehensive tutorial that
introduces Scala through clear explanations and numerous hands-on
examples. Because Scala is a rich and deep language, it can be
daunting to absorb all the new concepts at once. This book takes a
"how-to" approach, explaining language concepts as you explore
familiar programming challenges that you face in your day-to-day
work.
About the Technology
Scala runs on the JVM and combines object-orientation with
functional programming. It’s designed to produce succinct,
type-safe code, which is crucial for enterprise applications....
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3. |  OCA Java SE 7 Programmer I Certification Guide: Prepare for the 1Z0-803 exam By: Mala Gupta Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 08-APR-2013 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: OCA Java SE 7 Programmer I Certification Guide: Prepare for the 1Z0-803 exam Summary
This book is a comprehensive guide to the 1Z0-803 exam. You'll
explore a wide range of important Java topics as you systematically
learn how to pass the certification exam. Each chapter starts with
a list of the exam objectives covered in that chapter. You'll find
sample questions and exercises designed to reinforce key concepts
and to prepare you for what you'll see in the real exam, along with
numerous tips, notes, and visual aids throughout the book.
About this Book
To earn the OCA Java SE 7 Programmer Certification, you need to
know your Java inside and out, and to pass the...
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4. |  PowerShell in Depth: An administrator's guide By: Don Jones, Richard Siddaway, and Jeffery Hicks Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 28-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PowerShell in Depth: An administrator's guide Summary
PowerShell in Depth is the kind of book you'll want open
on your desk most of the time. With 40 short chapters, each focused
on a specific area of PowerShell, you'll be able to find the
answers you need quickly. Each chapter is concise and to-the-point,
so you can spend less time reading and more time getting down to
the business at hand. It was written by three seasoned PowerShell
experts, and every technique has been thoroughly tested. With this
book in hand, you'll be able to consistently and quickly produce
production quality, maintainable scripts that will save you
countless...
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5. |  By: Holly Cummins; Timothy Ward Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 03-APR-2013 Insert Date: 12-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Enterprise OSGi in Action Summary
Enterprise OSGI in Action is a hands-on guide for
developers using OSGi to build the next generation of enterprise
Java applications. By presenting relevant examples and case
studies, this book guides the reader through the maze of new
standards and projects.
About This Book
Enterprise OSGi is a set of standards for building modular Java
applications which integrate seamlessly with existing Java EE
technologies. It extends the OSGi component framework to
distributed systems.
Enterprise OSGi in Action is a hands-on guide for
developers using OSGi to build enterprise Java...
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6. |  Effective Unit Testing: A guide for Java Developers By: Lasse Koskela Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 13-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 31-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Effective Unit Testing: A guide for Java Developers Summary
Effective Unit Testing is written to show how to write
good tests—tests that are concise and to the point,
expressive, useful, and maintainable. Inspired by Roy Osherove's
bestselling The Art of Unit Testing, this book focuses on
tools and practices specific to the Java world. It introduces you
to emerging techniques like behavior-driven development and
specification by example, and shows you how to add robust practices
into your toolkit.
About Testing
Test the components before you assemble them into a full
application, and you'll get better software. For Java...
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7. |  By: Adam Tacy, Robert Hanson, Jason Essington, and Anne Tökke Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 07-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 26-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: GWT in Action, Second Edition Summary
GWT in Action, Second Edition is a completely revised
edition of the best-selling GWT book. It covers the new features
introduced in GWT 2.4 and 2.5, as well as the best development
practices that have emerged in the GWT community. It begins with a
rapid-fire introduction to GWT and Ajax to get you up to speed with
GWT concepts and tools. Then, you'll explore key concepts like
managing events, interacting with the server, creating UI
components, building your user interface declaratively using
UiBinder ... and more.
About the Technology
Google Web Toolkit works on a simple idea....
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8. |  By: Ben Vinegar and Anton Kovalyov Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 19-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 26-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Third-Party JavaScript Summary
Third-Party JavaScript guides web developers through the
complete development of a full-featured third-party JavaScript
application. You'll learn dozens of techniques for developing
widgets that collect data for analytics, provide helpful overlays
and dialogs, or implement features like chat or commenting. The
concepts and examples throughout this book represent the best
practices for this emerging field, based on thousands of real-world
dev hours and results from millions of users.
About this Book
There's an art to writing third-party JavaScript—embeddable
scripts that can plug...
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9. |  Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches By: Don Jones and Jeffrey Hicks Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 19-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 25-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches Summary
Packed with hands-on labs to reinforce what you're learning,
Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches is the
best way to learn PowerShell scripting and toolmaking. Just set
aside one hour a day—lunchtime would be perfect—for
each self-contained lesson. You'll move quickly through core
scripting concepts and start working on four real-world, practical
tools. Each chapter adds more functionality, including custom
formatting, error handling, parameterized input, input validation,
help files and documentation, and more.
About this Book
You don’t have to be a software...
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10. |  Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja By: John Resig and Bear Bibeault Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 28-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja Summary
Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja takes you on a journey
towards mastering modern JavaScript development in three phases:
design, construction, and maintenance. Written for JavaScript
developers with intermediate-level skills, this book will give you
the knowledge you need to create a cross-browser JavaScript library
from the ground up.
About this Book
You can’t always attack software head-on. Sometimes you
come at it sideways or sneak up from behind. You need to master an
arsenal of tools and know every stealthy trick. You have to be a
ninja.
Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja...
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11. |  Taming Text: How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It By: Grant S. Ingersoll, Thomas S. Morton, and Andrew L. Farris Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 28-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Taming Text: How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It Summary
Taming Text is a hands-on, example-driven guide to
working with unstructured text in the context of real-world
applications. This book explores how to automatically organize text
using approaches such as full-text search, proper name recognition,
clustering, tagging, information extraction, and summarization. The
book guides you through examples illustrating each of these topics,
as well as the foundations upon which they are built.
About this Book
There is so much text in our lives, we are practically drowning
in it. Fortunately, there are innovative tools and techniques...
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12. |  By: Chris Buckett Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 28-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Dart in Action Summary
Dart in Action introduces Google's Dart language and
provides techniques and examples showing how to use it as a viable
replacement for Java and JavaScript in browser-based desktop and
mobile applications. It begins with a rapid overview of Dart
language and tools, including features like interacting with the
browser, optional typing, classes, libraries, and concurrency with
isolates. After you master the core concepts, you'll move on to
running Dart on the server and creating single page HTML5 web
applications.
About the Technology
Dart is a web programming language developed...
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13. |  HTML5 for .NET Developers: Single page web apps, JavaScript, and semantic markup By: Jim Jackson II and Ian Gilman Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 28-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: HTML5 for .NET Developers: Single page web apps, JavaScript, and semantic markup Summary
HTML5 for .NET Developers teaches professional software
engineers how to integrate the latest HTML5 APIs and semantic
markup into rich web applications using JavaScript, ASP.NET MVC,
and WCF. Written from the .NET perspective, this book is full of
practical applications and ways to connect the new web standards
with your existing development practices.
About the Technology
A shift is underway for Microsoft developers — to build
web applications you’ll need to integrate HTML5 features like
Canvas-based graphics and the new JavaScript-driven APIs with
familiar technologies like...
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14. |  By: Kevin Hazzard and Jason Bock Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 28-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Metaprogramming in .NET Summary
Metaprogramming in .NET is designed to help readers
understand the basic concepts, advantages and potential pitfalls of
metaprogramming. It introduces core concepts in clear,
easy-to-follow language and then it takes you on a deep dive into
the tools and techniques you'll use to implement them in your .NET
code. You'll explore plenty of real-world examples that reinforce
key concepts. When you finish, you'll be able to build
high-performance, metaprogramming-enabled software with
confidence.
About the Technology
When you write programs that create or modify other programs,
you...
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15. |  Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition By: Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 28-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 29-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition Summary
Learn Windows PowerShell3 in a Month of Lunches, Second
Edition is an innovative tutorial designed for administrators.
Just set aside one hour a daylunchtime would be perfectfor a month,
and you'll be automating Windows tasks faster than you ever thought
possible. You'll start with the basicswhat is PowerShell and what
can you do with it. Then, you'll move systematically through the
techniques and features you'll use to make your job easier and your
day shorter.
About the Technology
PowerShell is both a language and an administrative shell with
which you can control and automate...
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16. |  Hello! HTML5 & CSS3: A user-friendly reference guide By: Rob Crowther Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 29-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 19-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Hello! HTML5 & CSS3: A user-friendly reference guide Summary
Hello! HTML5 & CSS3 is written for the web designer
or developer who wants a fast, example-oriented introduction to the
new HTML and CSS features. This snappy, user-friendly, and fun
guide will get you started right away.
About this Book
Whether you’re building web pages, mobile apps, or desktop
apps, you need to learn HTML5 and CSS3. So why wait? Hello!
HTML5 & CSS3 is a smart, snappy, and fun way to get started
now.
In this example-rich guide to HTML5 and CSS3, you’ll start
with a user-friendly introduction to HTML5 markup and then take a
quick tour through forms, graphics,...
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17. |  By: Mark Fisher, Jonas Partner, Marius Bogoevici, Iwein Fuld Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 26-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 19-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Spring Integration in Action Summary
Spring Integration in Action is a hands-on guide to
Spring-based messaging and integration. After addressing the core
messaging patterns, such as those used in transformation and
routing, the book turns to the adapters that enable integration
with external systems. Readers will explore real-world enterprise
integration scenarios using JMS, Web Services, file systems, and
email. They will also learn about Spring Integration's support for
working with XML. The book concludes with a practical guide to
advanced topics such as concurrency, performance,
system-management, and...
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18. |  Restlet in Action: Developing RESTful web APIs in Java By: Jerome Louvel, Thierry Templier, and Thierry Boileau Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 05-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 19-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Restlet in Action: Developing RESTful web APIs in Java Summary
Restlet in Action gets you started with the Restlet
Framework and the REST architecture style. You'll create and deploy
applications in record time while learning to use popular RESTful
Web APIs effectively. This book looks at the many aspects of web
development, on both the server and client side, along with cloud
computing, mobile Android devices, and Semantic Web
applications.
About the Technology
In a RESTful architecture any component can act, if needed, as
both client and server — this is flexible and powerful, but
tricky to implement. The Restlet project is a...
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19. |  By: Bear Cahill Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 28-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 19-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: iOS in Practice Summary
iOS in Practice is a hands-on guide with 98 specific
techniques to help solve the specific problems you'll encounter
over and over as you work on your iPhone and iPad apps. You'll dig
into the practical nuts and bolts of applying views, view
controllers, table views and cells, audio, images, graphics, file
structure—and more. Examples written for iOS 6.
About this Book
When you are building an iOS app, you want more than basic
concepts—you want real answers to practical problems. You
want iOS in Practice
This book distills the hard-won experience of iOS developer Bear
Cahill...
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20. |  HBase in Action: Foreword by Michael Stack By: Nick Dimiduk and Amandeep Khurana Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 28-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 19-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: HBase in Action: Foreword by Michael Stack Summary
HBase in Action has all the knowledge you need to design,
build, and run applications using HBase. First, it introduces you
to the fundamentals of distributed systems and large scale data
handling. Then, you'll explore real-world applications and code
samples with just enough theory to understand the practical
techniques. You'll see how to build applications with HBase and
take advantage of the MapReduce processing framework. And along the
way you'll learn patterns and best practices.
About the Technology
HBase is a NoSQL storage system designed for fast, random access
to large...
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