Java

Developing Backbone.js Applications

2013-05-22T14:18:00-08:10

If you want to build your site’s frontend with the single-page application (SPA) model, this hands-on book shows you how to get the job done with Backbone.js. You’ll learn how to create structured JavaScript applications, using Backbone’s own flavor of model-view-controller (MVC) architecture.

JavaScript for PHP Developers

2013-05-02T14:17:59-08:11

If you want to significantly expand your web development skills beyond PHP, this practical, hands-on book teaches you ECMAScript—the core JavaScript language—from the ground up. You’ll discover some similarities between JavaScript and PHP, such as conditions and loops, but the primary focus is on JavaScript’s unique object creation, classes, prototypes, and inheritance.

The Modern Web

2013-04-23T13:17:58-08:12

Peter Gasston's The Modern Web will guide you through the latest and most important tools of device-agnostic web development, including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

AngularJS

2013-04-23T13:17:58-08:13

Develop smaller, lighter web apps that are simple to create and easy to test, extend, and maintain as they grow. This hands-on guide introduces you to AngularJS, the open source JavaScript framework that uses Model–view–controller (MVC) architecture, data binding, client-side templates, and dependency injection to create a much-needed structure for building web apps.

Jump Start Responsive Web Design

2013-04-04T13:31:01-08:14

Get a Jump Start on Responsive Web Design today!

Responsive Web Design is redefining the way websites are designed, enabling you to craft websites that deliver exceptional experiences to your users - whether they happen to be using a desktop PC, tablet or mobile device.

In just one weekend with this SitePoint book, you'll learn how to:

Use media queries to maximize website usability
Harness the power of fluid grids
Use dynamic images to automatically scale and select appropriate images

Plus you'll discover how to use responsive content and a mobile first approach.

Training Guide: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3

2013-03-29T13:31:59-08:15

Build the real-world skills needed to begin developing modern apps with HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. Work at your own pace through the lessons, exercises, and practices in this Training Guide—for the hands-on expertise your job demands.

JavaScript Testing with Jasmine

2013-03-28T12:33:09-08:16

Get a concise introduction to Jasmine, the popular behavior-driven testing framework for JavaScript. This practical guide shows you how to write unit tests with Jasmine that automatically check for bugs in your application. Learn how to write specifications for individual components, and then use those specs to test the code you write.

Mastering the Android Developer Tools

2013-03-15T14:23:48-08:17

Developing Android apps is a challenge: it's hard enough to write high-performing apps that run well, but you've also got to make them look good on a wide variety of Android devices.

Fortunately, there are a many tools that take the pain out of developing Android, but they don't readily give up their secrets.

To help with your user interface, the Android Graphical Layout Tools make laying out complicated Activities easy, and the HierarchyViewer does a great job of identifying complexity in your layouts. To help identify memory or resource issues you can use the Dalvik Debug Manager Service (DDMS) tools, which include TraceView and AllocationTracker. These make it easy to understand exactly where your application is allocating resources. There are tools to help simulate devices: the Android Virtual Device (AVD) tools. Lastly, there is a rich set of plugins for a variety of Integrated Development Environments that help streamline the development process:the Android Developer Tools (ADT) plug-ins.

This book will guide you through the proper usage of all of these tools. It will describe in detail what each tool is designed to do, when and how to use them, and how to integrate them into your development workflow, making the development process less painful. This book will give you a better understanding of the variety of tools available, and empower your to design and deliver great Android Applications.

DOM Enlightenment

2013-02-20T20:28:40-08:18

With DOM Enlightenment, you’ll learn how to manipulate HTML more efficiently by scripting the Document Object Model (DOM) without a DOM library. Using code examples in cookbook style, author Cody Lindley (jQuery Cookbook) walks you through modern DOM concepts to demonstrate how various node objects work.

Cucumber Recipes

2013-02-12T13:23:42-08:19

You can test just about anything with Cucumber. We certainly have, and in Cucumber Recipes we'll show you how to apply our hard-won field experience to your own projects. Once you've mastered the basics, this book will show you how to get the most out of Cucumber--from specific situations to advanced test-writing advice. With over forty practical recipes, you'll test desktop, web, mobile, and server applications across a variety of platforms. This book gives you tools that you can use today to automate any system that you encounter, and do it well.

Learning from jQuery

2013-02-06T13:23:45-08:20

If you’re comfortable with jQuery but a bit shaky with JavaScript, this concise guide will help you expand your knowledge of the language—especially the code that jQuery covers up for you. Many jQuery devotees write as little code as possible, but with some JavaScript under your belt, you can prevent errors, reduce overhead, and make your application code more efficient.

Enyo: Up and Running

2013-01-30T12:25:46-08:21

Learn how easy it is to design and build responsive, cross-platform apps with the Enyo open source JavaScript framework. With this hands-on book, Enyo contributor Roy Sutton shows you how to get started with the framework’s core object-oriented features, including its modular design, reusable and extensible components, layout and widget libraries, easy-to-use deployment options, and support for HTML5 standards.

Testable JavaScript

2013-01-24T12:25:15-08:22

One skill that’s essential for any professional JavaScript developer is the ability to write testable code. This book shows you what writing and maintaining testable JavaScript for the client- or server-side actually entails, whether you’re creating a new application or rewriting legacy code.

The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference

2013-01-15T13:24:03-08:23

Programmers run into parsing problems all the time. Whether it's a data format like JSON, a network protocol like SMTP, a server configuration file for Apache, a PostScript/PDF file, or a simple spreadsheet macro language--ANTLR v4 and this book will demystify the process. ANTLR v4 has been rewritten from scratch to make it easier than ever to build parsers and the language applications built on top. This completely rewritten new edition of the bestselling Definitive ANTLR Reference shows you how to take advantage of these new features.

JavaScript Enlightenment

2012-12-31T18:23:22-08:24

If you’re an advanced beginner or intermediate JavaScript developer, JavaScript Enlightenment will solidify your understanding of the language—especially if you use a JavaScript library. In this concise book, JavaScript expert Cody Lindley (jQuery Cookbook) provides an accurate view of the language by examining its objects and supporting nuances.

Spring Data

2012-10-24T12:24:45-08:25

This hands-on introduction shows you how Spring Data makes it relatively easy to build applications across a wide range of new data access technologies such as NoSQL and Hadoop. Through several sample projects, you’ll learn how Spring Data provides a consistent programming model that retains NoSQL-specific features and capabilities, and helps you develop Hadoop applications across a wide range of use-cases

Programming Android

2012-10-12T12:24:44-08:26

Get thoroughly up to speed on Android programming, and learn how to create up-to-date user experiences for both handsets and tablets. With this book’s extensively revised second edition, you’ll focus on Android tools and programming essentials, including best practices for using Android 4 APIs.

Hadoop Operations

2012-10-09T18:24:13-08:27

If you’ve been asked to maintain large and complex Hadoop clusters, this book is a must. Eric Sammer, Principal Solution Architect at Cloudera, shows you the particulars of running Hadoop in production, from planning, installing, and configuring the system to providing ongoing maintenance.

Programming Hive

2012-09-26T05:26:19-08:28

This comprehensive guide introduces you to Apache Hive, Hadoop’s data warehouse infrastructure. You’ll quickly learn how to use Hive’s SQL dialect—HiveQL—to summarize, query, and analyze large datasets stored in Hadoop’s distributed filesystem. This example-driven guide shows you how to set up and configure Hive in your environment, provides a detailed overview of Hadoop and MapReduce, and demonstrates how Hive works within the Hadoop ecosystem.

Continuous Enterprise Development in Java

2012-09-26T05:26:19-08:29

Take a use-case approach to effective Enterprise Java development. This practical book shows you how to perform continuous development, using a testing platform the authors built with the JBoss community. Known as Arquillian, this platform acts as the missing link between testing and development. Discover how testing is essential for learning and critical for ensuring that code is consumable, complete, and correct.

Java EE 6 Pocket Guide

2012-09-25T05:27:25-08:30

This handy guide provides an overview of Java Enterprise Edition 6’s main technologies and includes extensive, easy-to-understand code samples that demonstrate the platform’s many improvements. You’ll quickly understand how Java EE 6 simplifies the process of developing and deploying web and enterprise applications.

Testable JavaScript

2012-09-06T02:26:40-08:31

That’s right: JavaScript code is testable, despite the lack of unit test standards for this language. With this book, you’ll discover how to devise excellent tests and real-world testing plans for your existing JavaScript code. Developers starting out on a new project will greatly benefit from these guidelines.

Continuous Integration mit Hudson Jenkins

2012-09-05T03:27:07-08:32

Continuous Integration wird so wichtig wie Unit-Testing, und Hudson ist das beste Open-Source-Tool dafür.+ Autor ist Hudson-Comitter + Geleitwort von Hudson-Initiator Kohsuke Kawaguchi+ Erstes Hudson-Buch weltweit

Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen

2012-09-05T03:27:07-08:33

Solides Lehrbuch - grundlegend und umfassend * Java als Implementierungssprache, unter Berücksichtigung der Spezifika von Java mit Netzanschluss: Programmbeispiele/Animationen Autoren sind sehr angesehen und kompetent

Testable JavaScript

2012-08-31T02:26:40-08:34

Regular Expressions Cookbook

2012-08-27T12:24:38-08:35

Take the guesswork out of using regular expressions. With more than 140 practical recipes, this cookbook provides everything you need to solve a wide range of real-world problems. Novices will learn basic skills and tools, and programmers and experienced users will find a wealth of detail. Each recipe provides samples you can use right away.

Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS

2012-08-27T12:24:38-08:36

Learn how to build interactive, data-driven websites—even if you don’t have any previous programming experience. If you know how to build static sites with HTML, this popular guide will help you tackle dynamic web programming. You’ll get a thorough grounding in today’s core open source technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS. Explore each technology separately, learn how to combine them, and pick up valuable web programming concepts along the way.

JavaScript from jQuery

2012-08-23T12:24:17-08:37

jQuery has made JavaScript development easier, and helped many developers build powerful applications quickly. Sometimes, though, you need to go beyond jQuery - because you need to work with someone else's code, because you need something smaller and lighter-weight, or because you need to go beyond what jQuery can do. This book will show you how to build on your core jQuery skills and go much further into JavaScript itself, examining event handler, function declaration, JavaScript patterns, and the DOM.

Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

2012-08-20T12:23:48-08:38

With Learning JavaScript Design Patterns, you’ll learn how to write beautiful, structured, and maintainable JavaScript by applying classical and modern design patterns to the language. If you want to keep your code efficient, more manageable, and up-to-date with the latest best practices, this book is for you.

The Past, Present, and Future of JavaScript

2012-07-19T02:22:14-08:39

What’s next for JavaScript? Its phenomenal rise from a simple client-side scripting tool to a versatile and flexible programming language exceeded everyone’s expectations. Now, hopes and expectations for JavaScript’s future are considerable.

In this insightful report, Dr. Axel Rauschmayer explains how the combination of several technologies and opportunities in the past 15 years turned JavaScript’s fortunes. With that as a backdrop, he provides a detailed look at proposed new features and fixes in the next version, ECMAScript.next, and then presents his own JavaScript wish list—such as an integrated IDE.