| Mobile JavaScript Application Development Posted: 30 Jun 2012 01:12 AM PDT 
Book Description When developing apps for the latest smartphones, you're faced with several vexing questions. How many platforms do you need to accommodate? What level of support do mobile browsers provide? To help you address these and many other key issues, this guide provides a hands-on tour of the most powerful JavaScript frameworks available today. You'll build sample apps with jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, and PhoneGap to learn the unique advantages—and disadvantages—of each framework. From there, you can determine which one is best for your project. This book is ideal for web developers familiar with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. - Experience the simplicity of jQuery Mobile for building cross-browser applications
- Learn how Sencha Touch's architecture, widgets, and blazing-fast rendering engine makes it a good choice for enterprise software
- Use PhoneGap to package your web app into a native iOS, Android, or Windows Phone application
- Discover the impact of various HTML5 features on mobile app development
- Pick up JavaScript productivity tips as you delve into its object orientation, closures, and coding conventions
- Test and debug your app with a collection of tips, tricks, and tools
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. HTML5 for Mobile Applications
Chapter 2. JavaScript Productivity Tips
Chapter 3. jQuery Mobile
Chapter 4. Sencha Touch
Chapter 5. PhoneGap
Chapter 6. Debugging and Testing
Chapter 7. Conclusion Book Details - Paperback: 168 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449327850
- ISBN-13: 978-1449327859
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| Web Performance Daybook, Volume 2 Posted: 30 Jun 2012 01:09 AM PDT 
Book Description Performance is critical to the success of any website, and help with using today's new tools is key. In this remarkable guide, 32 leading web performance experts offer practical tips, techniques, and advice for optimizing your site's user experience. Originally written for an online calendar, this collection of articles will inspire you to squeeze every ounce of performance from your site—whether you're a web developer, mobile developer, or web designer. Check the table of contents and you'll be convinced. In order of appearance, Web Performance Daybook authors include: - Patrick Meenan
- Nicholas Zakas
- Guy Podjarny
- Stoyan Stefanov
- Tim Kadlec
- Brian Pane
- Josh Fraser
- Steve Souders
- Betty Tso
- Israel Nir
- Marcel Duran
- Éric Daspet
- Alois Reitbauer
- Matthew Prince
- Buddy Brewer
- Alexander Podelko
- Estelle Weyl
- Aaron Peters
- Tony Gentilcore
- Matthew Steele
- Bryan McQuade
- Tobie Langel
- Billy Hoffman
- Joshua Bixby
- Sergey Chernyshev
- JP Castro
- Pavel Paulau
- David Calhoun
- Nicole Sullivan
- James Pearce
- Tom Hughes-Croucher
- Dave Artz
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. WebPagetest Internals
Chapter 2. localStorage Read Performance
Chapter 3. Why Inlining Everything Is NOT the Answer
Chapter 4. The Art and Craft of the Async Snippet
Chapter 5. Carrier Networks: Down the Rabbit Hole
Chapter 6. The Need for Parallelism in HTTP
Chapter 7. Automating Website Performance
Chapter 8. Frontend SPOF in Beijing
Chapter 9. All about YSlow
Chapter 10. Secrets of High Performance Native Mobile Applications
Chapter 11. Pure CSS3 Images? Hmm, Maybe Later
Chapter 12. Useless Downloads of Background Images in Android
Chapter 13. Timing the Web
Chapter 14. I See HTTP
Chapter 15. Using Intelligent Caching to Avoid the Bot Performance Tax
Chapter 16. A Practical Guide to the Navigation Timing API
Chapter 17. How Response Times Impact Business
Chapter 18. Mobile UI Performance Considerations
Chapter 19. Stop Wasting Your Time Using the Google Analytics Site Speed Report
Chapter 20. Beyond Web Developer Tools: Strace
Chapter 21. Introducing mod_spdy: A SPDY Module for the Apache HTTP Server
Chapter 22. Lazy Evaluation of CommonJS Modules
Chapter 23. Advice on Trusting Advice
Chapter 24. Why You're Probably Reading Your Performance Measurement Results Wrong (At Least You're in Good Company)
Chapter 25. Lossy Image Compression
Chapter 26. Performance Testing with Selenium and JavaScript
Chapter 27. A Simple Way to Measure Website Performance
Chapter 28. Beyond Bandwidth: UI Performance
Chapter 29. CSS Selector Performance Has Changed! (For the Better)
Chapter 30. Losing Your Head with PhantomJS and confess.js
Chapter 31. Measure Twice, Cut Once
Chapter 32. When Good Backends Go Bad
Chapter 33. Web Font Performance: Weighing @font-face Options and Alternatives Book Details - Paperback: 226 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449332919
- ISBN-13: 978-1449332914
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| VMware Cookbook, 2nd Edition Posted: 30 Jun 2012 01:02 AM PDT 
Book Description With scores of step-by-step solutions, this cookbook helps you work with VMware ESXi in a wide range of network environments. You'll not only learn the basics—how to pool resources from hardware servers, computer clusters, networks, and storage, and then distribute them among virtual machines—but also how to overcome the stumbling blocks you'll encounter when you monitor systems, troubleshoot problems, and deal with security. This expanded second edition covers recent advances in vCloud Director and vShield cloud security. Ideal for system administrators of any level, VMware Cookbook also includes valuable information to help you determine your virtualization needs. - Move into the cloud with vCloud Director, and secure virtual datacenters with vSphere
- Secure and monitor your virtual environment from the command line
- Manage disk, SSD, and SAN storage implementation and configuration
- Discover options for managing resources, such as clustering, shares, and hot add/hotplug support
- Configure logical and physical networks, including virtual switches and software and hardware adapters
- Make virtual machine replication easier by automating ESXi installations
- Gain valuable tips for configuration and fine-tuning
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. VMware Infrastructure Installation
Chapter 2. Storage
Chapter 3. Networking
Chapter 4. Resource and vCenter Management
Chapter 5. Useful Tools and References
Chapter 6. General Security
Chapter 7. Automating ESXi Installations
Chapter 8. vCloud Director Overview
Chapter 9. vSphere Storage Appliance Book Details - Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 2nd Edition (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449314473
- ISBN-13: 978-1449314477
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| C# 5.0 in a Nutshell, 5th Edition Posted: 30 Jun 2012 12:58 AM PDT 
Book Description When you have a question about C# 5.0 or the .NET CLR, this bestselling guide has precisely the answers you need. Uniquely organized around concepts and use cases, this updated fifth edition features a reorganized section on concurrency, threading, and parallel programming—including in-depth coverage of C# 5.0's new asynchronous functions. Shaped by more than 20 expert reviewers, including Microsoft's Eric Lippert, Stephen Toub, Chris Burrows, and Jon Skeet, this book has all you need to stay on track with C# 5.0. It's widely known as the definitive reference on the language. - Get up to speed on C# language basics, including syntax, types, and variables
- Explore advanced topics such as unsafe code and type variance
- Dig deep into LINQ via three chapters dedicated to the topic
- Learn about code contracts, dynamic programming, and parallel programming
- Work with .NET features, including reflection, assemblies, memory management, security, I/O, XML, collections, networking, and native interoperability
“C# 5.0 in a Nutshell is one of the few books I keep on my desk as a quick reference.”
—Scott Guthrie, Microsoft “Whether you're a novice programmer or an expert who wants to improve your knowledge of modern asynchronous programming techniques, this book has the information you need to get the job done in C#.”
—Eric Lippert, Microsoft Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introducing C# and the .NET Framework
Chapter 2. C# Language Basics
Chapter 3. Creating Types in C#
Chapter 4. Advanced C#
Chapter 5. Framework Overview
Chapter 6. Framework Fundamentals
Chapter 7. Collections
Chapter 8. LINQ Queries
Chapter 9. LINQ Operators
Chapter 10. LINQ to XML
Chapter 11. Other XML Technologies
Chapter 12. Disposal and Garbage Collection
Chapter 13. Diagnostics and Code Contracts
Chapter 14. Concurrency & Asynchrony
Chapter 15. Streams and I/O
Chapter 16. Networking
Chapter 17. Serialization
Chapter 18. Assemblies
Chapter 19. Reflection and Metadata
Chapter 20. Dynamic Programming
Chapter 21. Security
Chapter 22. Advanced Threading
Chapter 23. Parallel Programming
Chapter 24. Application Domains
Chapter 25. Native and COM Interoperability
Chapter 26. Regular Expressions Book Details - Paperback: 1064 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 5th Edition (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449320104
- ISBN-13: 978-1449320102
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| Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide Posted: 30 Jun 2012 12:55 AM PDT 
Book Description Unlock the secrets of the Terminal and discover how this powerful tool solves problems the Finder can't handle. With this handy guide, you'll learn commands for a variety of tasks, such as killing programs that refuse to quit, renaming a large batch of files in seconds, or running jobs in the background while you do other work. Get started with an easy-to-understand overview of the Terminal and its partner, the shell. Then dive into commands neatly arranged into two dozen categories, including directory operations, file comparisons, and network connections. Each command includes a concise description of its purpose and features. - Log into your Mac from remote locations
- Search and modify files in powerful ways
- Schedule jobs for particular days and times
- Let several people use one Mac at the same time
- Compress and uncompress files in a variety of formats
- View and manipulate Mac OS X processes
- Combine multiple commands to perform complex operations
- Download and install additional commands from the Internet
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Macintosh Terminal
Chapter 2. Commands
Chapter 3. Advanced Topics Book Details - Paperback: 232 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449328342
- ISBN-13: 978-1449328344
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