| Android Cookbook Posted: 25 Apr 2012 07:00 AM PDT 
Book Description Jump in and build working Android apps with the help of more than 200 tested recipes. With this cookbook, you'll find solutions for working with the user interfaces, multitouch gestures, location awareness, web services, and device features such as the phone, camera, and accelerometer. You also get useful steps on packaging your app for the Android Market. Ideal for developers familiar with Java, Android basics, and the Java SE API, this book features recipes contributed by more than three dozen developers from the Android community. Each recipe provides a clear solution and sample code you can use in your project right away. Among numerous topics, this cookbook helps you: - Use guidelines for designing a successful Android app
- Work with UI controls, effective layouts, and graphical elements
- Learn how to take advantage of Android's rich features in your app
- Save and retrieve application data in files, SD cards, and embedded databases
- Access RESTful web services, RSS/Atom feeds, and information from websites
- Create location-aware services to find locations and landmarks, and situate them on Google Maps and OpenStreetMap
- Test and troubleshoot individual components and your entire application
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Chapter 2. Designing a Successful Application
Chapter 3. Testing
Chapter 4. Inter-/Intra-Process Communication
Chapter 5. Content Providers
Chapter 6. Graphics
Chapter 7. Graphical User Interface
Chapter 8. GUI Alerts: Menus, Dialogs, Toasts, and Notifications
Chapter 9. GUI: ListView
Chapter 10. Multimedia
Chapter 11. Data Persistence
Chapter 12. Telephone Applications
Chapter 13. Networked Applications
Chapter 14. Gaming and Animation
Chapter 15. Social Networking
Chapter 16. Location and Map Applications
Chapter 17. Accelerometer
Chapter 18. Bluetooth
Chapter 19. System and Device Control
Chapter 20. Other Programming Languages and Frameworks
Chapter 21. Strings and Internationalization
Chapter 22. Packaging, Deploying, and Distributing/Selling Your App Book Details - Paperback: 688 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media (April 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449388418
- ISBN-13: 978-1449388416
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| Using Drupal, 2nd Edition Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:57 AM PDT 
Book Description Take advantage of Drupal's vast collection of community-contributed modules and discover how they make this web framework unique and valuable. With this guide, you'll learn how to combine modules in interesting ways (with minimal code-wrangling) to develop several community-driven websites— including a job posting board, photo gallery, online store, product review database, and event calendar. The second edition focuses on Drupal 7, the latest version of this open source system. Each project spans an entire chapter, with step-by-step “recipes” to help you build out the precise functionality the site requires. With this book, developers new to Drupal will gain experience through a hands-on introduction, and experienced Drupal developers will learn real-world best practices. - Learn Drupal's concepts and building blocks, and how everything works together
- Hit the ground running—build your first Drupal site hands-on
- Explore solutions that meet each project's requirements, and discover why specific modules were selected
- Understand the projects through case studies, including the client's needs and desires
- Learn how to configure modules with a bird's-eye view of how they work
- Discover new modules, including Drupal Commerce, Media, and Workbench
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Drupal Overview
Chapter 2 Drupal Jumpstart
Chapter 3 Job Posting Board
Chapter 4 Media Management
Chapter 5 Product Reviews
Chapter 6 Event Management
Chapter 7 Managing Publishing Workflows
Chapter 8 Multilingual Sites
Chapter 9 Online Store Appendix A. Installing and Upgrading Drupal
Appendix B. Choosing the Right Modules
Appendix C. Modules and Themes Used in This Book
Appendix D. Major Changes Between Drupal 6 and 7 Book Details - Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 2nd Edition (April 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449390528
- ISBN-13: 978-1449390525
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| PayPal APIs: Up and Running, 2nd Edition Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:54 AM PDT 
Book Description If your web application's success depends on how quickly and easily users can make transactions, PayPal APIs provide effective solutions you can't afford to overlook. This concise book takes you hands-on through several options to help you determine the best choice for your situation, whether you're collecting money via websites or mobile apps for products and services, donations, or anything else. In each chapter, you'll work with a different PayPal API by integrating it into the book's sample application, using Python and the Google App Engine framework. This expanded edition introduces two new options: Express Checkout for Digital Goods and Instant Payment Notifications, complete with sample project code. By the end of this book, you'll understand how to take full advantage of PayPal and its powerful features. - Learn PayPal API basics, and get an introduction to Google App Engine
- Explore the Express Checkout option, and understand what distinguishes it from other generic workflows
- Tailor Express Checkout for electronic documents, videos, and other "in app" digital purchases
- Apply the Adaptive Payments option for transactions that involve multiple recipients
- Embed the payment process into your site with no mention of PayPal, using Website Payments Pro
- Use the Instant Payment Notifications you receive as triggers to take follow-up action
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. PayPal API Overview
Chapter 2. Express Checkout (Including Mobile Express Checkout)
Chapter 3. Express Checkout for Digital Goods
Chapter 4. Adaptive Payments (Simple, Parallel, and Chained Payments)
Chapter 5. Website Payments Pro (Direct Payment)
Chapter 6. Instant Payment Notifications (IPNs) Appendix A. Overview of Tweet Relevance
Appendix B. Mobile Payment Libraries (MPLs) Book Details - Paperback: 152 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 2nd Edition (April 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 144931872X
- ISBN-13: 978-1449318727
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| JavaScript Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:48 AM PDT 
Book Description JavaScript is the ubiquitous programming language of the Web, and for more than 15 years, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide has been the bible of JavaScript programmers around the world. This book is an all-new excerpt of The Definitive Guide, collecting the essential parts of that hefty volume into this slim yet dense pocket reference. The first 9 chapters document the latest version (ECMAScript 5) of the core JavaScript language, covering: - Types, values, and variables
- Operators, expressions, and statements
- Objects and arrays
- Functions and classes
The next 5 chapters document the fundamental APIs for using JavaScript with HTML5 and explain how to: - Interact with web browser windows
- Script HTML documents and document elements
- Modify and apply CSS styles and classes
- Respond to user input events
- Communicate with web servers
- Store data locally on the user’s computer
This book is a perfect companion to jQuery Pocket Reference. Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Lexical Structure
Chapter 2. Types, Values, and Variables
Chapter 3. Expressions and Operators
Chapter 4. Statements
Chapter 5. Objects
Chapter 6. Arrays
Chapter 7. Functions
Chapter 8. Classes
Chapter 9. Regular Expressions
Chapter 10. Client-Side JavaScript
Chapter 11. Scripting Documents
Chapter 12. Handling Events
Chapter 13. Networking
Chapter 14. Client-Side Storage Book Details - Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 3rd Edition (April 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449316859
- ISBN-13: 978-1449316853
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| C# 5.0 Pocket Reference Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:45 AM PDT 
Book Description With this digital Early Release edition of C# 5.0 Pocket Reference, you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form – the author’s raw and unedited content – so you can take advantage of this content long before the book’s official release. You’ll also receive updates when significant changes are made, as well as the final ebook version. When you need answers for using C#5.0, this tightly focused and practical book tells you exactly what you need to know—without long introductions or bloated samples. Succinct and easy to browse, C# 5.0 Pocket Reference is ideal as quick reference—or as a guide to get you rapidly up to speed if you already know Java, C++, or an earlier version of C#. Written by the authors of the acclaimed C# 4.0 in a Nutshell, this book doesn’t skimp on detail, but covers the entire C# 5.0 language, including: - Features new to C# 5.0, such asynchrony with new enhancements to Caller Info Attributes, ReadOnlyDictionary, Web Sockets, and the new HttpClient class
- All of C#’s fundamentals
- Advanced topics-operator overloading, custom conversions, type constraints, covariance & contravariance, iterators, nullable types, operator lifting, lambda expressions & closures
- LINQ, starting with sequences, lazy execution and standard query operators, and finishing with a complete reference to query expressions
- Unsafe code & pointers, custom attributes, preprocessor directives, and XML documentation
Book Details - Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media (August 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449320171
- ISBN-13: 978-1449320171
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| Programming F# 3.0, 2nd Edition Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:38 AM PDT 
Book Description With this digital Early Release edition of Programming F# 3.0, second edition, you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form – the author’s raw and unedited content – so you can take advantage of this content long before the book’s official release. You’ll also receive updates when significant changes are made, as well as the final ebook version.Why learn F#? This multiparadigm language not only offers you an enormous productivity boost through functional programming, it also lets you develop applications using your existing object-oriented and imperative programming skills. With Programming F#, you'll quickly discover the many advantages of Microsoft's new language, which includes access to all the great tools and libraries of the .NET platofrm. Learn how to reap the benefits of functional programming for your next project – whether it's quantitative computing, large-scale data exploration, or even a pursuit of your own. With this comprehensive guide, F# former team member Chris Smith gives you a head start of the fundamentals and advanced concepts of the F# language. - Get a clear understanding of functional programming, and how you can use it to simplify code
- Learn the language’s core syntax, including object-oriented and imperative styles
- Simplify concurrent and parallel programming with F# Asynchronous Workflows and the Parallel Extensions to .NET
- Discover the power of F# 3.0′s new Info Rich Programming and LINQ Queries
Table of Contents
Part I: Multi-Paradigm Programming
Chapter 1. Introduction to F#
Chapter 2. Fundamentals
Chapter 3. Functional Programming
Chapter 4. Imperative Programming
Chapter 5. Object-Oriented Programming
Chapter 6. .NET Programming Part II: Programming F#
Chapter 7. Applied Functional Programming
Chapter 8. Applied OO Programming
Chapter 9. Async and Parallel Programming
Chapter 10. Scripting
Chapter 11. Data Processing Part III: Extending the F# Language
Chapter 12. Reflection
Chapter 13. Computation Expressions
Chapter 14. Quotations
Chapter 15. Type Providers Part IV: Appendix
Appendix A. Overview of .NET Libraries
Appendix B. F# Interop Book Details - Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media (October 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449320295
- ISBN-13: 978-1449320294
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