Programming Ebook Guide: April 2011

Sabtu, 30 April 2011

4 new posts

Discovering SQL: A Hands-On Guide for Beginners
Professional Test Driven Development with C#: Developing Real World Applications with TDD
Murach’s C++ 2008
Murach’s SQL Server 2008 for Developers

Discovering SQL: A Hands-On Guide for Beginners

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 08:39 AM PDT

Book Description Teaching the SQL skills that businesses demand when hiring programmersIf you’re a SQL beginner, you don’t just want to learn SQL basics, you also want to get some practical SQL skills you can use in the job market. This book gives you both. Covering the basics through intermediate topics with clear explanations, hands-on [...]

Professional Test Driven Development with C#: Developing Real World Applications with TDD

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 08:36 AM PDT

Book Description Hands-on guidance to creating great test-driven development practice Test-driven development (TDD) practice helps developers recognize a well-designed application, and encourages writing a test before writing the functionality that needs to be implemented. This hands-on guide provides invaluable insight for creating successful test-driven development processes. With source code and examples featured in both C# [...]

Murach’s C++ 2008

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 08:33 AM PDT

Book Description Finally, a great training and reference book for Visual C++ by Dr. Prentiss Knowlton, an instructor of C++ since its inception. This book helps you master C++ 2008 quickly and easily by using all the time- and work-saving features of Visual Studio. That’s true whether you’re a: Java developer who wants to learn [...]

Murach’s SQL Server 2008 for Developers

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 08:28 AM PDT

Book Description This book is designed to teach application developers all of the skills they need to use SQL to work with a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database. But it’s also a great first book for developers who are on the path to becoming a DBA.Unlike most SQL Server 2008 books, this one starts by [...]

Jumat, 29 April 2011

9 new posts

Mathematics and Its History, 3rd Edition
Pervasive Information Architecture: Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences
Data Architecture: From Zen to Reality
Brave NUI World: Designing Natural User Interfaces for Touch and Gesture
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Unleashed
iPhone Obsessed: Photo editing experiments with Apps
Calvinize: Signature Techniques of Photoshop Artist Calvin Hollywood
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems
Chasing the Light: Improving Your Photography with Available Light

Mathematics and Its History, 3rd Edition

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:53 AM PDT

Book Description This book offers a collection of historical essays detailing a large variety of mathematical disciplines and issues; it's accessible to a broad audience. This third edition includes new chapters on simple groups and new sections on alternating groups and the Poincare conjecture. Many more exercises have been added as well as commentary that [...]

Pervasive Information Architecture: Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:48 AM PDT

Book Description As physical and digital interactions intertwine, new challenges for digital product designers and developers, as well as, industrial designers and architects are materializing. While well versed in designing navigation, organization, and labelling of websites and software, professionals are faced the crucial challenge of how to apply these techniques to information systems that cross [...]

Data Architecture: From Zen to Reality

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:45 AM PDT

Book Description Data is an expensive and expansive asset. Information capture has forced storage capacity from megabytes to terabytes, exabytes and, pretty soon, zetabytes of data. So the need for accessible storage space for this data is great. To make this huge amount of data usable and relevant, it needs to be organized effectively. Database [...]

Brave NUI World: Designing Natural User Interfaces for Touch and Gesture

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:43 AM PDT

Book Description Touch and gestural devices have been hailed as next evolutionary step in human-computer interaction. As software companies struggle to catch up with one another in terms of developing the next great touch-based interface, designers are charged with the daunting task of keeping up with the advances in new technology and this new aspect to user experience [...]

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Unleashed

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 06:30 AM PDT

Book Description This is the industry's most comprehensive, realistic, and useful guide to Microsoft Lync Server 2010. It brings together "in-the-trenches" guidance for all facets of planning, integration, deployment, and administration, from expert consultants who've spent years implementing Microsoft Unified Communications solutions. The authors first introduce Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and show how it represents [...]

iPhone Obsessed: Photo editing experiments with Apps

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 06:27 AM PDT

Book Description Obsessed with the instant gratification of taking pictures with his iPhone, designer-photographer Dan Marcolina dedicated an entire year to a series of mobile image experiments. His amazing results and the post-processing steps on the iPhone to achieve them can be found in this gorgeous four-color photography guide. Part inspiration and part how-to, iPhone [...]

Calvinize: Signature Techniques of Photoshop Artist Calvin Hollywood

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 06:25 AM PDT

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 06:23 AM PDT

Book Description It’s been known for years that usability testing can dramatically improve products. But with a typical price tag of $5,000 to $10,000 for a usability consultant to conduct each round of tests, it rarely happens. In this how-to companion to Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug [...]

Chasing the Light: Improving Your Photography with Available Light

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 06:20 AM PDT

Book Description Light. It’s the most transformative tool at any photographer's disposal. Whether the lens is turned to people, wildlife, or landscape, the creative use of light is often the difference between a snapshot and a powerful photograph. In Chasing the Light: Improving Your Photography with Available Light, renowned photographer, writer, and educator Ibarionex Perello [...]

Kamis, 28 April 2011

8 new posts

Cyber Security Essentials
3D Art Essentials: The Fundamentals of 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Animation
Moving Media Storage Technologies: Applications & Workflows for Video and Media Server Platforms
Business in the Cloud: What Every Business Needs to Know About Cloud Computing
The Industrial Electronics Handbook, 2nd Edition
Multi-Core Embedded Systems
XNA Game Studio 4.0 for Xbox 360 Developers
Scrum in Action

Cyber Security Essentials

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 09:45 AM PDT

Book Description The sophisticated methods used in recent high-profile cyber incidents have driven many to need to understand how such security issues work. Demystifying the complexity often associated with information assurance, Cyber Security Essentials provides a clear understanding of the concepts behind prevalent threats, tactics, and procedures. To accomplish this, the team of security professionals [...]

3D Art Essentials: The Fundamentals of 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Animation

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 09:42 AM PDT

Book Description Create high-quality 3D animations and models by using the basic concepts and principles of 3D art presented by GeekAtPlay.com’s Ami Chopine. This handy studio reference breaks down the core concepts into easy-to-understand segments and teaches you the ‘why’ in addition to the ‘how.’ Using application agnostic step-by-step tutorials, this book teaches you how [...]

Moving Media Storage Technologies: Applications & Workflows for Video and Media Server Platforms

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 09:37 AM PDT

Book Description Complex media storage computer systems are employed by broadcasters, digital cinemas, digital signage, and other business and entertainment venues to capture, store and retrieve moving media content on systems that will preserve the original integrity of the content over time and technological transition. This book provides detailed information related to the concepts, applications, [...]

Business in the Cloud: What Every Business Needs to Know About Cloud Computing

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 05:42 AM PDT

Book Description A close look at cloud computing’s transformational role in business Covering cloud computing from what the business leader needs to know, this book describes how IT can nimbly ramp up revenue initiatives, positively impact business operations and costs, and how this allows business leaders to shed worry about technology so they can focus [...]

The Industrial Electronics Handbook, 2nd Edition

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 05:39 AM PDT

Book Description The field of industrial electronics covers a plethora of problems which must be solved in industrial practice. Electronic systems control many processes that begin with the control of relatively simple devices like electric motors, through more complicated devices such as robots, to the control of entire fabrication processes.An industrial electronics engineer works with [...]

Multi-Core Embedded Systems

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 05:35 AM PDT

Book Description Details a real-world product that applies a cutting-edge multi-core architecture Increasingly demanding modern applications—such as those used in telecommunications networking and real-time processing of audio, video, and multimedia streams—require multiple processors to achieve computational performance at the rate of a few giga-operations per second. This necessity for speed and manageable power consumption makes [...]

XNA Game Studio 4.0 for Xbox 360 Developers

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 05:30 AM PDT

Book Description With the release of XNA Game Studio Express version 2.0, the XNA toolkit is becoming more popular for programming both independent and commercial games for the PC and Xbox 360. “Complete XNA: An Exploration of the XNA Framework Library” shows intermediate to advanced game programmers how to use XNA with C# to program [...]

Scrum in Action

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 05:23 AM PDT

Book Description SCRUM IN ACTION: AGILE SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT is a practical how-to guide for software project teams on how to successfully deploy an Agile software framework with Scrum. It is clearly and concisely written and is the first practical guide with real world situations written by corporate practitioners. This book describes many [...]

Rabu, 27 April 2011

3 new posts

Foundation HTML5 Canvas: For Games and Entertainment
Beginning Android Games
APM Best Practices: Realizing Application Performance Management

Foundation HTML5 Canvas: For Games and Entertainment

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 12:01 PM PDT

Book Description Foundation HTML5 Canvas: For Games and Entertainment teaches you how to make exciting interactive games and applications using HTML5 canvas. Canvas lets you produce graphics, animations, and applications using the HTML5 and JavaScript web standards. It allows you to draw directly within the browser without the need for third-party plugins like Adobe Flash, and [...]

Beginning Android Games

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 11:58 AM PDT

APM Best Practices: Realizing Application Performance Management

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 11:56 AM PDT

Book Description The objective of APM Best Practices: Realizing Application Performance Management is to establish reliable Application Performance Management practices—to demonstrate value, to do it quickly, and to adapt to the client circumstances. Balancing long-term goals with short-term deliverables, but without compromising usefulness or correctness. The successful strategy is to establish a few reasonable goals, [...]

You Never Cared

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 08:21 AM PDT

You Never Cared by Michele L. Montgomery I would gladly trade places with Casper, given the chance. I lifted my head to see Casper’s best friend standing on the other side of the grave. Jordan is a golden child, wealthy, popular, the self-professed ruler of the senior class. Jordan is also a bully, a bully [...]

Learn to Brush Paint Model Airplanes

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 08:16 AM PDT

Learn to Brush Paint Model Airplanes by Andy M A guide to getting a great model airplane paint job with a brush. Remember that you will spend hours (maybe tens of hours, or in some cases hundreds of hours!) getting your model airplane to the stage where it is ready for painting. You will more [...]

Lucky

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 08:11 AM PDT

Lucky by Suzanne Herlihy Lucky is about a celebrity and a woman that come together because of an avalanche! They survive it – but can they survive each other? Enjoy this romance drama! Click on the link below to start downloading this free ebook:- Lucky – 60 pages, 98KB (PDF) Items posted here are free [...]

Popsicle Fish: Tales of Fathering

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 08:06 AM PDT

Popsicle Fish: Tales of Fathering by Michael Murphy Popsicle Fish is a series of humorous, heart-warming, and thought-provoking tales relayed by Michael Murphy, Ed.D., about his fathering experience with his three sons. Dr. Murphy’s reflections carry a strong message about the critical value of fathering. ‘Popsicle Fish puts in writing all of the funny, yet [...]

Future Speculation

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 08:01 AM PDT

Future Speculation by Tim C. Taylor Joel thought briefly about turning and letting off a snapshot but then his feet found the factory floor and he needed to move. Fast. But where to? He leaped onto the conveyer belt, bouncing awkwardly off a robot arm as it disassembled a finished device back into its component [...]

Block of 6

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 07:56 AM PDT

Block of 6 by Phil Dumas BLOCK OF 6 is a dry humoured present day story about the ups and downs of a bunch of unemployable misfits who have been housed in the middle of nowhere. The characters are so diverse that prostitution, alcoholism, racism, blackmail, jealousy, and even murder, all rear their ugly heads. [...]