Rabu, 03 Oktober 2012

Wow! eBook: Java EE 6 Pocket Guide - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Java EE 6 Pocket Guide - 5 new eBooks

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Java EE 6 Pocket Guide

Posted: 03 Oct 2012 09:41 AM PDT

Java EE 6 Pocket Guide

Book Description

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 6 simplifies the process of developing and deploying and enterprise applications.

  • Explore what's new in 6, including Contexts and Dependency Injection and the Java for Services
  • Discover how Java EE 6 features relate to patterns in web and enterprise applications
  • Get the specifications for making your application Java EE compliant
  • Learn about revisions to Enterprise , Faces, and other components
  • Find out how Java EE 6 profiles change the platform's "one size fits all" approach
  • Get started with Java EE 6 and deployment, using IDE and GlassFish

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
Chapter 2. Managed Beans
Chapter 3. Servlets
Chapter 4. Java Persistence
Chapter 5. Enterprise
Chapter 6. Contexts and Dependency Injection
Chapter 7. Faces
Chapter 8. -Based
Chapter 9.
Chapter 10. Java Message Service
Chapter 11. Bean Validation

Appendix A. Getting Started with Java EE 6 and Deployment
Appendix B. Further Reading

Book Details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly (September 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 144933668X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449336684
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Async in C# 5.0

Posted: 03 Oct 2012 09:37 AM PDT

Async in C# 5.0

Book Description

If you're writing one of several applications that call for asynchronous , this concise hands-on guide shows you how the async feature in # 5.0 can make the process much simpler. Along with a clear introduction to asynchronous , you get an in-depth look at how the async feature works and why you might want to use it in your application.

Written for experienced # programmers—yet approachable for beginners—this book is packed with code examples that you can extend for your own projects.

  • Write your own asynchronous code, and learn how async saves you from this messy chore
  • Discover new possibilities in code
  • Explore how async and WinRT work together in 8 applications
  • Learn the importance of the await keyword in async methods
  • Understand which thread is running your code—and at what points in the program
  • Use the Task-based Asynchronous Pattern (TAP) to write asynchronous APIs in
  • Take advantage of computing in modern machines
  • Measure async code by comparing it with alternatives

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Why Programs Need to Be Asynchronous
Chapter 3. Writing Asynchronous Code Manually
Chapter 4. Writing Async Methods
Chapter 5. What await Actually Does
Chapter 6. The Task-Based Asynchronous Pattern
Chapter 7. Utilities for Async Code
Chapter 8. Which Thread Runs My Code?
Chapter 9. Exceptions in Async Code
Chapter 10. Parallelism Using Async
Chapter 11. Unit Async Code
Chapter 12. Async in Applications
Chapter 13. Async in WinRT Applications
Chapter 14. The Async Compiler Transform—in Depth
Chapter 15. The Performance of Async Code

Book Details

  • Paperback: 108 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly (September 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449337163
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449337162
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The Civic Apps Competition Handbook

Posted: 03 Oct 2012 09:34 AM PDT

The Civic Apps Competition Handbook

Book Description

Organize a Competition (CAC) in your city. This practical guide provides best practices for each phase of the process, based largely on the authors' firsthand experience planning and managing Apps for Metro Chicago (A4MC). You'll learn everything from setting goals and creating a budget to running the competition and measuring the outcome.

CACs provide software programmers with platforms for building effective apps, using open government data as a way to foster community involvement and make government more transparent. This helps you address serious questions about the process and shows you what's required for making your competition successful.

  • Gain insights from the authors' survey of 15 CACs in the US and Canada
  • Get guidelines for establishing specific goals, and evaluate results with reliable metrics
  • Understand major costs involved and build a budget around partners and sponsors
  • Determine participation incentives, prize categories, and judging
  • Avoid unstructured data sets by being selective when choosing public datasets
  • Learn how the authors handled roadblocks during the A4MC competition
  • Discover ways to sustain lasting community interest once the CAC is over

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Pursuit of Accountability, Efficiency, and Growth
Chapter 2. Benefits of Competitions
Chapter 3. Identifying Goals and Metrics for Your Apps Competition
Chapter 4. Building Your CAC Budget
Chapter 5. Surveying Your Data Resources
Chapter 6. Your CAC
Chapter 7. Common Roadblocks
Chapter 8. Building on Success

Book Details

  • Paperback: 78 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly (September 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449322646
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449322649
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Values, Units, and Colors

Posted: 03 Oct 2012 09:29 AM PDT

Values, Units, and Colors

Book Description

Nearly everything you do with involves units for determining the look and formatting of your page elements. With this concise guide, you'll learn work with an array of units—including measurements and keywords—that help you define color, text, distance between elements, location of external files, and other values.

This book contains chapters from the upcoming fourth edition of : The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of Values, Units, and Colors, you'll receive a significant discount on the entire Definitive Guide when it's released. Why wait when you can learn use units and other key features right away?

  • Use RGB or HSL values to mix your own colors, and designate the degree of opacity
  • Learn how to apply global keywords introduced in
  • Use string values to wrap a sequence of text characters in quotes
  • Describe margins, letter spacing, and other properties, with either fixed or relative length units
  • Understand how number, integer, and percentage values differ
  • Explore CSS3 unit types for describing display resolution
  • Use time values for transitions and animations

Table of Contents

  • Keywords, Strings, and Other Text Values
  • Numbers and Percentages
  • Distances
  • Color
  • Angles
  • Time and Frequency
  • Position
  • Summary
  • Color Equivalence Table

Book Details

  • Paperback: 44 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly (September 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449342515
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449342517
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CSS and Documents

Posted: 03 Oct 2012 09:25 AM PDT

CSS and Documents

Book Description

Cascading Style Sheets () is a powerful tool that transforms the presentation of a document or a collection of documents, and it's spread to nearly every corner of the —as well as many non- environments. In this free introduction to Cascade Style Sheets, you'll learn how makes it possible for you to completely change the way document elements are presented by a user agent. You'll discover the origins of this specification and how styles work with .

Learn how you can choose style sheets based on the features of a given type, including desktop screens, -enabled phones, projectors, TVs, Braille devices, print documents, and even various renderings of a document. and Documents is an excerpt from the forthcoming 4th edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide.

Table of Contents

  • A Brief History of (Web) Style
  • Elements
  • Bringing CSS and Together
  • Queries
  • Style Sheet Contents
  • Summary

Book Details

  • Paperback: 36 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (September 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449342477
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449342470
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