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21. |  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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22. |  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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23. |  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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24. |  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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25. |  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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26. |  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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27. |  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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28. |  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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29. |  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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30. |  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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31. |  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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32. |  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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33. |  Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 Databases, Third Edition By: Sandeep Chanda; Damien Foggon Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 20-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 Databases, Third Edition
Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 Databases introduces you to the world of building data-driven Web sites using ASP.NET, ADO.NET and the Entity Framework using C#. Since ASP.NET developers need to access databases quickly and efficiently, this book teaches the best practices and methods to help developers achieve professional ASP.NET and database solutions.
Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 Databases is a comprehensive introduction on how you can connect a Web site to many different data sources — not just databases — and use the data to create dynamic page content. It also shows you how to build a relational...
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34. |  By: Ivor Horton Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning C, Fifth Edition
Beginning C, 5th Edition teaches you how to program using the widely-available C language. You'll begin from first-principles and progress through step-by-step examples to become a competent, C-language programmer. All you need are this book and any of the widely available free or commercial C or C++ compilers, and you'll soon be writing real C programs.
C is a foundational language that every programmer ought to know. C is the basis for C# used in Microsoft .NET programming. It is the basis for Objective-C used in programming for the iPhone, the iPad, and other Apple devices. It is the...
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35. |  Know and Grow the Value of Your Business: An Owner's Guide to Retiring Rich By: Tim McDaniel Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Know and Grow the Value of Your Business: An Owner's Guide to Retiring Rich
A 63-year-old woman said to author and valuation expert Tim McDaniel, "I need to sell my business for $2.5 million to support my country club lifestyle." The reality was that her business was worth less than $1 million. How could she have been so wrong? What was the long-term impact of her misinformation? In a flash, McDaniel realized that most owners work in their businesses and not on their businesses. McDaniel, veteran of over 1,800 valuation and M&A deals, has seen the look of surprise on client faces far too often: "It's only worth that much?!"
In the rush of day-to-day work and...
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36. |  By: S G Ganesh; Tushar Sharma Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 7 Programmer Exams 1Z0-804 and 1Z0-805 is a concise, comprehensive, step-by-step, and one-stop guide for the Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 7 Programmer Exam. The first two chapters set the stage for exam preparation and let the reader get started quickly. The first chapter answers frequently asked questions about the OCPJP exam.
This book assumes that the reader is already familiar with Java fundamentals which is in line with the prerequisite of having a OCAJP certification.
The book sports considerable supportive material to help the...
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37. |  Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition By: Clare Churcher Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition
Beginning Database Design, Second Edition provides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database design right the first time. This book offers numerous examples to help you avoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-new database designers. Through the help of use cases and class diagrams modeled in the UML, you'll learn to discover and represent the details and scope of any design problem you choose to attack.
Database design is not an exact science. Many are surprised to find that problems with their databases are caused by poor design rather than by difficulties in...
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38. |  SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning, Third Edition By: Grant Fritchey Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 20-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning, Third Edition
Queries not running fast enough? Tired of the phone calls from frustrated users? Grant Fritchey's book SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning is the answer to your SQL Server query performance problems. The book is revised to cover the very latest in performance optimization features and techniques. It is current with SQL Server 2012. It provides the tools you need to approach your queries with performance in mind.
SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning leads you through understanding the causes of poor performance, how to identify them, and how to fix them. You'll learn to be...
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39. |  Pro SQL Server 2012 Relational Database Design and Implementation By: Louis Davidson; Jessica M. Moss Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 11-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro SQL Server 2012 Relational Database Design and Implementation
Learn effective and scalable database design techniques in a SQL Server environment. Pro SQL Server 2012 Relational Database Design and Implementation covers everything from design logic that business users will understand, all the way to the physical implementation of design in a SQL Server database. Grounded in best practices and a solid understanding of the underlying theory, Louis Davidson shows how to "get it right" in SQL Server database design and lay a solid groundwork for the future use of valuable business data.
Gives a solid foundation in best practices and relational...
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40. |  Designing for Windows 8: Fundamentals of Great Design in Windows Store Apps By: Brent Schooley Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 13-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Designing for Windows 8: Fundamentals of Great Design in Windows Store Apps
Designing for Windows 8 is a fast-paced, 150-page primer on the key design concepts you need to create successful Windows 8 apps. This book will help you design a user interface that is both delightful and effective, feels 'right' to your users, and encapsulates a great Windows 8 experience.
In this book, you will:
Meet the building blocks of solid Windows 8 UI design in a well-designed sample app.
Learn how to incorporate key design elements into your apps, such as the app bar, charms and subtle animations from the animation library.
Find out how to deliver the core...
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