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1. | Rough Cuts  Designing Multi-Device Experiences By: Michal Levin Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-SEP-2013 Insert Date: 16-MAY-2013 | Overview: Designing Multi-Device Experiences In Designing Multi-Device Experiences, author Michal Levin discusses how UX design is currently evolving beyond the boundaries of the single-device model. Until recently, design models for online products considered only the standalone computer or laptop as the platform. Now, in our increasingly multi-device world, a user’s experience with one application can span many devices--a smart phone, a tablet, a computer, the TV, and beyond. In response to this reality, Michal introduces and explores three key patterns she identifies as critical to addressing multi-device design: consistent,...
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2. |  By: Safari Content Team Publisher: Safari Books Online Publication Date: 14-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 0.0 | Overview: Software Testing Bibliography Use this bibliography to master all uses of software testing, from unit-based testing like JUnit, language-specific testing, penetration testing, UI testing and more....
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3. |  Metamodelling for Software Engineering By: Cesar Gonzalez-Perez; Brian Henderson-Sellers Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 13-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Metamodelling for Software Engineering
This book focuses on metamodelling as a discipline, exploring its foundations, techniques and results. It presents a comprehensive metamodel that covers process, product and quality issues under a common framework.
Issues covered include:
An explanation of what metamodelling is and why it is necessary in the context of software engineering.
Basic concepts and principles of traditional metamodelling, and some existing results of this approach.
Problems associated with traditional approaches to Metamodelling are discussed, alongside an exploration of possible solutions and...
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4. |  Object Oriented Programming with C++, Second Edition By: Mahesh Bhave; Sunil Patekar Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 15-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Object Oriented Programming with C++, Second Edition
This fully revised and indispensable edition of Object-Oriented Programming with C++ provides a sound appreciation of the fundamentals and syntax of the language, as well as of various concepts and their applicability in real-life problems. Emphasis has been laid on the reusability of code in object-oriented programming and how the concepts of class, objects, inheritance, polymorphism, friend functions, and operator overloading are all geared to make the development and maintenance of applications easy, convenient and economical.
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5. |  iOS App Development Portable Genius By: Richard Wentk Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 07-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: iOS App Development Portable Genius
The essential skills and technologies needed for iOS development in one handy guide!
The unprecedented popularity of iOS devices, such as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, has led to a development boom. If you're eager to become part of the action, then this is the book for you! Packed with must-have information on iOS development, this handy guide covers Objective-C, Xcode, Frameworks, and sound design principles and explains how to upload an app to the app store and integrate apps with the latest advances that Apple offers developers. The featured tips and tricks will get you up and...
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6. |  Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics, Second Edition By: Gregory Dudek; Michael Jenkin Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 30-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics, Second Edition
This textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students emphasizes algorithms for a range of strategies for locomotion, sensing, and reasoning. It concentrates on wheeled and legged mobile robots but discusses a variety of other propulsion systems. The new edition includes advances in robotics and intelligent machines over the last ten years, including significant coverage of SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) and multi-robot systems. It includes additional mathematical background and an extensive list of sample problems. Various mathematical techniques that were...
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7. |  Verification and Validation in Scientific Computing By: William L. Oberkampf; Christopher J. Roy Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 14-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Verification and Validation in Scientific Computing
Advances in scientific computing have made modelling and simulation an important part of the decision-making process in engineering, science, and public policy. This book provides a comprehensive and systematic development of the basic concepts, principles, and procedures for verification and validation of models and simulations. The emphasis is placed on models that are described by partial differential and integral equations and the simulations that result from their numerical solution. The methods described can be applied to a wide range of technical fields, from the physical sciences,...
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8. |  By: Laura Klein Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 16-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: UX for Lean Startups Great user experiences (UX) are essential for products today, but designing one can be a lengthy and expensive process. With this practical, hands-on book, you’ll learn how to do it faster and smarter using Lean UX techniques. UX expert Laura Klein shows you what it takes to gather valuable input from customers, build something they’ll truly love, and reduce the time it takes to get your product to market....
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9. | Rough Cuts  iOS Drawing: Practical UIKit Solutions By: Erica Sadun Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 23-SEP-2013 Insert Date: 01-MAY-2013 | Overview: iOS Drawing: Practical UIKit Solutions This Rough Cut is an early draft manuscript version of the
final book. Please excuse typos.
UIKit provides a powerful two-dimensional drawing engine for
iOS. It enables developers to draw elements using arbitrary output
fidelity, regardless of the display specifics (retina or
non-retina) and destination (device, printing services, etc). This
device- and destination-independent API includes powerful features
like transparency, path-based drawing, antialiasing, and
more.
In this guide, Erica Sadun, bestselling author of The Core iOS 6
Developer's Cookbook and The Advanced iOS 6...
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10. |  By: Dan Saffer Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 10-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 01-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Microinteractions It’s the little things that turn a good digital product into a great one. With this practical book, you’ll learn how to design effective microinteractions: the small details that exist inside and around features. How can users change a setting, or know they have a new email message? You’ll quickly discover how microinteractions can change a product from one that’s tolerated into one that’s treasured....
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11. |  Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis By: John Shawe-Taylor; Nello Cristianini Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 28-JUN-2004 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis
Kernel methods provide a powerful and unified framework for pattern discovery, motivating algorithms that can act on general types of data (e.g. strings, vectors or text) and look for general types of relations (e.g. rankings, classifications, regressions, clusters). The application areas range from neural networks and pattern recognition to machine learning and data mining. This book, developed from lectures and tutorials, fulfils two major roles: firstly it provides practitioners with a large toolkit of algorithms, kernels and solutions ready to use for standard pattern discovery...
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12. |  By: Jobin Kuruvilla; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 25-APR-2013 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook
This book is your one stop resource for mastering JIRA extensions and customizations
Extend and customize JIRA; work with custom fields, workflows, reports, gadgets, JQL functions, plugins, and more
Customize the look and feel of your JIRA user interface by adding new tabs, web items and sections, drop down menus, and more
Master JQL (JIRA Query Language) that enables advanced searching capabilities through which users can search for issues in their JIRA instance and then exploit all the capabilities of the issue navigator
In Detail
JIRA provides issue tracking and...
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Instant Selenium Testing Tools Starter By:Â Unmesh Gundecha; Publisher:Â Packt Publishing Publication Date:Â 25-APR-2013 Insert Date:Â 30-APR-2013 Slots:Â 1.0 | Overview: Instant Selenium Testing Tools Starter
A short, fast, and focused guide on Selenium Testing tools that delivers
immediate results
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
Learn to create web tests using Selenium Tools
Learn to use Page Object Pattern
Run and analyse test results on an easy-to-use platform
In Detail
Selenium is a software testing framework for automating web applications for testing purposes. It uses components such as Selenium IDE, Selenium Client API, and Selenium Webdriver to test web applications, which provides an easy-to-use...
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By:Â Wayne Ye; Publisher:Â Packt Publishing Publication Date:Â 24-APR-2013 Insert Date:Â 30-APR-2013 Slots:Â 1.0 | Overview: Instant Cucumber BDD How-to
A short and quick guide to mastering behavior-driven software development with
Cucumber
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
A step-by-step process of developing a real project in a BDD-style using Cucumber
Pro tips for writing Cucumber features and steps
Introduces some popular and useful third-party gems used with Cucumber
In Detail
Cucumber is a Behavior Driven Design framework, which allows a developer to write specification tests which then tests that the program works as it should. It is a different...
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15. | Rough Cuts  Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners: Agile Tactics, Tools & Tips By: Ilan Goldstein Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 19-JUL-2013 Insert Date: 29-APR-2013 | Overview: Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners: Agile Tactics, Tools & Tips This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.
Scrum is rapidly gaining momentum as the
most popular agile framework primarily because its concepts are
simple, and they just make sense! However, this perceived
simplicity often gives rise to the false belief that Scrum is a
silver bullet and trivial to implement. When 'rubber hits the
road', Scrum teams often find that translating the framework into
effective, practical approaches is anything but easy...
Full of easily digestible chapters, 'Scrum
Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners' presents a wide range of
tactics, tools and tips that...
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Instant Eclipse Application Testing How-to By:Â Anatoly Spektor; Publisher:Â Packt Publishing Publication Date:Â 23-APR-2013 Insert Date:Â 26-APR-2013 Slots:Â 1.0 | Overview: Instant Eclipse Application Testing How-to
An easy-to-use guide on how to test Java applications of any scope using Eclipse
IDE
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering
immediate results.
Learn how to install Eclipse and Java for any platform
Get to grips with how to efficiently navigate in the Eclipse environment using
shortcuts
Create your own Java sample app and learn how to test and debug it using a
rich set of Eclipse debugging tools
Learn how to create an automatic set of tests for your app using the JUnit
framework
Easyto follow steps backed up by the code and...
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17. |  The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook By: Stacia Viscardi; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 19-APR-2013 Insert Date: 24-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook
A collection of tips, tricks, and war stories to help the professional ScrumMaster break
the chains of traditional organization and management
Checklists, questions, and exercises to get you thinking (and acting) like a professional ScrumMaster
Presented in a relaxed, jargon-free, personable style
Full of ideas, tips, and anecdotes based on real-world experiences
In Detail
A natural and difficult tension exists between a project team (supply) and its customer (demand); a professional ScrumMaster relaxes this tension using the Scrum framework so that the team arrives at...
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18. |  Hidden Visual Studio LightSwitch: Secrets from the Real World for Creating Great Apps By: Alessandro Del Sole Publisher: Sams Publication Date: 20-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 23-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Hidden Visual Studio LightSwitch: Secrets from the Real World for Creating Great Apps This eBook offers practical tips and tricks as well as useful
guidance on how to implement common features in LightSwitch, such
as those for working with documents, business analysis, screen
customization, optimal server configuration, usage with databases
other than SQL Server, and so on.
What you can expect to find is solutions for everyday problems,
with suggestions on how to implement requirements that are very
common in any business application, especially for running across
distributed networks in the enterprise.
In summary, what you’ll find in this eBook is how to solve
problems...
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19. |  By: Patrick Li; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 18-APR-2013 Insert Date: 22-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: JIRA 5.2 Essentials
Learn how to track bugs and issues, and manage your software development
projects with JIRA
Learn how to set up JIRA for software development
Effectively manage and handle software bugs and issues
Includes updated JIRA content as well as coverage of the popular GreenHopper plugin
In Detail
Atlassian’s JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to aid speed of development and quality of code. This book will show you how to develop software more efficiently by planning, designing, and customizing your own JIRA implementation.
JIRA...
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20. |  Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook By: Abhishek Sur; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 17-APR-2013 Insert Date: 20-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook
Over 40 recipes for successfully mixing the powerful capabilities of .NET 4.5 and Visual
Studio 2012
Step-by-step instructions to learn the power of .NET development with Visual
Studio 2012
Filled with examples that clearly illustrate how to integrate with the technologies
and frameworks of your choice
Each sample demonstrates key conceptsto build your knowledge of the
architecture in a practical and incremental way
In Detail
Working with a varied set of upcoming technologies is a challenge. Visual Studio 2012 is all about enabling you to develop and manage these...
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