Kamis, 06 Desember 2012

Wow! eBook: iOS SDK Development - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: iOS SDK Development - 5 new eBooks

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iOS SDK Development

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 04:03 AM PST

iOS SDK Development

Book Description

SDK Development is the second edition of the bestselling SDK Development, completely rewritten from the ground up to cover 6's new features. You'll get hands-on experience working with Objective- and 4 as you work through this tutorial-style book with two experienced iOS developers by your side. Along the way, you'll learn the fundamentals of maintainable, performant iOS , including:

  • Making apps that are internationalizable, testable, multi-core-capable, and that use less memory.
  • Understanding the underlying concepts of touch event handling, drawing and animation, multi-core concurrency, and memory with iOS's Reference Counting.
  • Developing user interfaces with Auto Layout that take advantage of the extra screen space on the 5.
  • Creating and using unit tests to ensure your app continues to work as intended even as the codebase evolves.
  • Working through 's App Store processes, including preparing apps for submission, avoiding rejections, and understanding crash reports from end users.

Whether you're a first-time iOS developer, or you're looking to get up to speed with all the changes to 's tools and frameworks, iOS SDK Development is the solid grounding you need to master this popular platform.

What you need
You need a Mac running Mac Lion (10.7) and 4.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Tweetings and Welcome to iOS 6
Chapter 2. for iOS
Chapter 3. Asynchronicity and Concurrency
Chapter 4. View Controllers
Chapter 5. Table Views
Chapter 6. Storyboards and Container Controllers
Chapter 7. Documents and
Chapter 8. Drawing and Animating
Chapter 9. and Fixing Apps
Chapter 10. The App Store and Beyond

Book Details

  • Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1934356948
  • ISBN-13: 978-1934356944
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Async JavaScript

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 03:59 AM PST

Async JavaScript

Book Description

With Async , you'll develop a deeper understanding of the language. You'll start with a ground-up primer on the event model—key to avoiding many of the most common mistakes JavaScripters make. From there you'll see tools and design patterns for turning that conceptual understanding into practical code.

The concepts in the book are illustrated with runnable examples drawn from both the and the server framework, incorporating complementary libraries including , , and . You'll learn how to create dynamic pages and highly concurrent servers by mastering the art of distributing events to where they need to be handled, rather than nesting callbacks within callbacks within callbacks.

Async JavaScript will get you with real quickly. By the time you've finished the Promises chapter, you'll be parallelizing Ajax requests or running animations in sequence. By the end of the book, you'll even know how to leverage Workers and AMD for JavaScript applications with cutting-edge . Most importantly, you'll have the knowledge you need to write async code with confidence.

What you need
Basic knowledge of JavaScript is recommended. If you feel that you're not up to speed, see the "Resources for Learning JavaScript" section in the preface.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Understanding JavaScript Events
Chapter 2. Distributing Events
Chapter 3. Promises and Deferreds
Chapter 4. Flow Control with
Chapter 5. Multithreading with Workers
Chapter 6. Async Script Loading

Book Details

  • Paperback: 104 pages
  • Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: n/a
  • ISBN-13: 978-1937785277
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Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 03:54 AM PST

Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition

Book Description

Squeeze every drop of juice from with over 400 quick and easy tips, tricks, hints and hacks in Mac Kung Fu: Second Edition . Exploit settings and hidden apps, push built-in tools to the limit, radically personalize your Mac experience, and make “it just works” even better. In addition to core technologies, this significantly revised and expanded update to the best-selling first edition dissects new Mountain Lion tools such as , Notifications, Reminders, and Calendar.

Mac Kung Fu: Second Edition will blow your mind with hacks never before made public and little-known tricks that will change the way you work forever. From big tasks through everyday jobs, this book will improve your productivity and refine your workflow. You’ll customize and manage the OS X interface, boost the power of built-in apps, efficiently handle the filesystem, implement important tricks, and much more.

Working with files in ? We have tips to help. Managing program on your desktop? Hacks will make life easier. Creating reminders or notes? Use our tricks to make the process more productive. Emailing, tweeting, browsing, printing, word processing, and exploiting hardware, working with photos, movies, and documents… There’s no area Mac Kung Fu: Second Edition doesn’t touch upon, making it a unique and utterly necessary addition for any Mac lover’s bookshelf.

Each is deliberately short and readable, often detailing things even Mac Geniuses don’t know, and you can dip in and out whenever you want. Most tips take less than a minute to complete, yet the results last for a lifetime of better .

What you need
A Mac running OS X Mountain Lion and above.

Table of Contents
1. Getting the Most from the Tips
2. The Tips

Book Details

  • Paperback: 424 pages
  • Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf; 2nd Edition (November 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1937785076
  • ISBN-13: 978-1937785079
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Raspberry Pi: A Quick-Start Guide

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 03:43 AM PST

Raspberry Pi: A Quick Start Guide

Book Description

Raspberry : A Quick-Start Guide gives you everything you need to get the Raspberry and doing cool stuff. You'll get started by learning what additional hardware you need and how to connect it, install Debian Linux and configure it to your needs, and customize the 's firmware to get the most out of your hardware.

Then the fun begins. You'll connect the Pi to your home network and try surfing the and tweeting messages. You'll learn how to get the most out of Midori, the Pi's standard . Then in a few simple steps you'll turn the Pi into a kiosk system that displays Twitter live search information. You'll also learn how you can control the desktops of other PCs in your house with the Pi.

Once you have the basics down, you'll explore the Pi's versatility with a series of home projects. Turn it into a in your home network. Convert the Pi into a powerful center so you can watch high-definition video and listen to your favorite music. Play classic video games. Then use the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi to build electronics projects such as an "out of memory" alarm, and learn how to access the using a . Power to the Pi!

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Meet the Raspberry Pi
Chapter 2. Install an Operating System
Chapter 3. Configure Raspbian
Chapter 4. Configure the Firmware
Chapter 5. Intermezzo: Build a Kiosk with the Pi
Chapter 6. with the Pi
Chapter 7. Turn the Pi into a Center
Chapter 8. Play Games on Your Pi
Chapter 9. Tinker with the GPIO Pins

Book Details

  • Paperback: 120 pages
  • Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (August 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: n/a
  • ISBN-13: 978-1937785048
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Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 03:35 AM PST

Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS

Book Description

is messy. At least, it always seems to get messy as projects and teams grow in size. If you've ever battled specificity issues by throwing "important!" at them, or found the components of your site so increasingly intertwined that you're afraid to change anything, then this book is for you. If you've ever come into a and found yourself confused by the existing code, then this book is for your co-workers. Scalable and Modular for explores techniques that can make your sites more manageable.

A flexible guide to developing sites small and large. Scalable and Modular for CSS (or SMACSS, pronounced “smacks”, for short) is more style guide than rigid framework. There’s no library within here for you to download or install. SMACSS is a way to examine your design process and as a way to fit those rigid frameworks into a flexible thought process. It’s an attempt to document a consistent approach to site when using CSS. And really, who isn’t building a site with CSS these days?!

Learn about the four types of CSS rules for state-based design, and how this approach to can make it easier to work on larger sites and with larger teams.

Contents
Core

  • Categorizing CSS Rules
  • Base Rules
  • Layout Rules
  • Module Rule
  • State Rules
  • Theme Rules
  • Changing State

Aspects of SMACSS

  • Depth of Applicability
  • Selector
  • and SMACSS
  • Prototyping
  • Preprocessors
  • Drop the Base
  • The Icon Module
  • Complicated Inheritance

Appendix

  • Formatting Code
  • Resources

Book Details

  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (July 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: n/a
  • ISBN-13: n/a
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