| Pro iOS 5 Tools: Xcode Instruments and Build Tools Posted: 13 Jan 2012 09:48 AM PST 
Book Description You will start by studying an alpha-stage iOS app and learning how you can use the tools provided in the iOS developer's toolbox, plus popular third-party tools, to take an app to a final product and ready to ship. Your own app development will never be the same again! - Learn the tools available to all iOS developers: Xcode, Instruments, network diagnostic tools and version control
- Techniques for debugging by using Instruments, as well as the new features available in newest version of Xcode
- Performance tuning techniques and workflow enhancements
What you'll learn - How to set up a bare-bones shopping cart app; from creating a new project to using a distributed version control system for setting up the environment
- How to work your way through an app and tune the user interface for performance
- How to diagnose and address memory issues, leaks and dealing with intermittent crashes
- How to deal with networking issues and reliably recreate or simulate these environments
- How to address multitasking, behind the scenes power drains, and reduce/optimize power usage from the radio and other power draining features in iOS devices
- How to distribute your app to beta testers, prepare for the App Store and speed up development time by learning shortcuts and other enhancements to developer tools
Who this book is for
This book is for iOS developers looking to fully utilize iOS 5 tools like Xcode, Interface Builder and more, making their apps development faster and more efficient. Table of Contents - Wax On, Wax Off
- First-Class Tools
- Three Screens and…Well, It Runs
- Memory Management and Diagnostics
- Core Animation and Smooth Scrolling
- Networking, Cache, and Power Management
- Prepare the Beta!
- Why Are Things Breaking?
- Can We Automate Some of This?
- Now, They Want an iPad Version
- How Do I Share Some of This?
- One More Thing
Book Details - Paperback: 392 pages
- Publisher: Apress (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430236086
- ISBN-13: 978-1430236085
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| Pro iOS 5 Augmented Reality Posted: 13 Jan 2012 09:47 AM PST 
Book Description Augmented reality takes the real world and through the use of graphics, sound and other effects allows you to enhance the environment. It makes a game more real. Your social media app puts you where want to be or go. Pro iOS 5 Augmented Reality walks you through the foundations of building an augmented reality application for the iPhone or iPad. From using MapKit, to the accelerometer and magnetometer, to integrating facial recognition and Facebook data, you’ll learn the building blocks of creating augmented reality applications. Case studies are included in this one-of-a-kind book and you’ll learn how to create augmented reality apps that unleash the full potential of the on-board sensors and camera. This book complements other iOS game or social media apps development books available from Apress. After reading Pro iOS 5 Augmented Reality, you’ll be able to build augmented reality rich media apps or integrate all the best augmented reality techniques and tools into your existing apps. What you'll learn - The differences in hardware sensors, cameras and more between the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, iPod touch, iPad and iPad 2
- How to use MapKit and integrate it into your app
- How to play and record sound within an augmented reality app
- How to use the iPhone or iPad camera and video
- How to program against the accelerometer and gyroscope to detect movement and the orientation of the iPhone or iPad
- How to access and use the information from the magnetometer (compass)
- How to use cocos2D to overlay a heads-up display on the camera view
- How to integrate facial recognition into your app
- How to build augmented reality feature-rich enterprise game and Facebook apps
Who this book is for
This book is for iOS developers familiar with iOS programming, but new to the camera, accelerometer, magnetometer and building augmented reality applications in general. Table of Contents - Introduction
- Hardware Comparisons
- Location Services
- iOS Sensors
- Sound and User Feedback
- Camera and Video
- Using cocos2D for AR
- Building a cocos2D AR Game
- Third-party AR SDKs
- Building a Marker-based AR App Using OpenGL
- Building a Social AR App
- OpenCV and Facial Recognition
- Building a Facial-recognition AR App
Book Details - Paperback: 356 pages
- Publisher: Apress (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430239123
- ISBN-13: 978-1430239123
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| Pro Java 7 NIO.2 Posted: 13 Jan 2012 09:47 AM PST 
Book Description Pro Java 7 NIO.2 addresses the three primary elements that offer new input/output (I/O) APIs in Java 7, giving you the skills to write robust, scalable Java applications: - An extensive file I/O API system addresses feature requests that developers have sought since the inception of the JDK
- A socket channel API addresses multicasting, socket binding associated with channels, and related issues
- An asynchronous I/O API enables mapping to I/O facilities, completion ports, and various I/O event port mechanisms to enhance scalability
NIO.2 for the Java platform, known as JSR 203, is a major feature of the new Java JDK 7 under the leadership of Alan Bateman as an OpenJDK project. Take advantage of these exciting new developments with Pro Java 7 NIO.2. What you'll learn - How to carry out Path class operations
- How to get/set file metadata through the java.nio file attribute API (including POSIX)
- How to manage symbolic and hard links (including create, delete, and find target)
- How to deal with files and directories through the new java.nio.file.Files API
- How to use the FileVisitor API to develop file recursive operations
- How to explore the Watch Service API and file change notification
- How to use the new SeekableByteChannel API for Random Access File
- How to develop blocking/non-blocking socket-based applications
- How to explore the jewel of NIO.2: the Asynchronous Channel API
- How to use the Zip File System Provider and write a custom file system provider
- How to refactor java.io.File code
Who this book is for
This book is for experienced Java programmers new to Java 7 and those with some experience with Java 7. Table of Contents - Working with the Path Class
- Metadate File Attributes
- Symbolic Links
- Files and Directories
- The FileVisitor Class: Recursive Operations
- Watch Service API
- Two Security Models
- SPI Package
- Mapping java.io.file Functionality to java.nio.file
- General Methods
Book Details - Paperback: 296 pages
- Publisher: Apress (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430240113
- ISBN-13: 978-1430240112
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| Expert Oracle Application Express Plugins Posted: 13 Jan 2012 07:30 AM PST 
Book Description Expert Oracle Application Express Plugins is your "go to" book on the groundbreaking plugin architecture introduced in Oracle Application Express 4.0. Using the new APEX functionality, you can create well-packaged, documented, reusable components and reliably leverage your coding investments across many applications. Components you create can define new item and region types, specify validation processes, and present dynamic actions to client applications. You can design innovative and colorful ways to display information, such as displaying the temperature using an image of a thermometer, or displaying sales velocity in the form of an automotive speedometer. The new plugin architecture is sure to create a tidal wave of creativity. Author Martin D’Souza shows everything you need to know to get started in building and deploying plugins of your own design. You'll learn the underlying architecture, including the APIs used to tie your plugins seamlessly into an Application Express environment. You'll learn about the different types of plugins, and you'll walk through examples of each to ensure that you can create the right type of plugin when you need it. Finally, Expert Oracle Application Express Plugins shows how to work as part of the larger Application Express community by leveraging that community's efforts and by giving back as you deploy your own plugins to the broad audience of Application Express developers. - Presents the architecture and APIs available for customizing Application Express
- Gives clear examples of plugin development, for each type of plugin
- Helps you work as part of the broader community of plugin developers
What you'll learn - Understand the APEX plugin architecture
- Design and develop each of the four types of plugin
- Debug and troubleshoot plugin-based applications
- Deploy your plugins to the wider community
- Make your plugins compatible across different browsers
- Master the plugin APIs that APEX provides
Who this book is for
Expert Oracle APEX Plugins is aimed at Oracle Application Express developers wanting to develop reusable components using Application Express's new, plugin architecuture. The book appeals to in-house developers wanting to preserve their investment in writing code by packaging it for convenient reuse in other applications. The book also appeals to commercial software developers who want to write plugins for sale. Table of Contents - Introduction to Plugins
- Plug-in Fundamentals
- Item Plug-ins
- Dynamic Action Plug-ins
- Region Plugiins
- Process Plugiins
- Best Practices & Community
- Debugging & Tools
Book Details - Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Apress (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430235039
- ISBN-13: 978-1430235033
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| Building ASP.NET Web Pages with Microsoft WebMatrix Posted: 13 Jan 2012 07:30 AM PST 
Book Description WebMatrix is the latest addition to the hugely popular Microsoft ASP.NET web platform. This exciting new technology aims to simplify the process of developing websites by combining the new and powerful Razor syntax with a fully extensible set of data and HTML helpers for performing common web tasks. The WebMatrix installation includes all the tools the developer requires to quickly create fully-functional, data-driven, dynamic sites using ASP.NET web pages. The lightweight custom development tool works alongside SQL Server Compact Edition and Internet Information Services (IIS) Express to provide a seamless and easy-to-use environment which enables the web developer to concentrate on the rapid development of feature-rich websites, without the need to learn the complex concepts and highly structured programming models which many other frameworks require. What you'll learn - How to combine HTML and server-side C# Razor code with the powerful .NET framework to easily develop websites using Microsoft WebMatrix
- How to create layouts which can be applied across multiple pages
- How to interact with SQL Server and other databases, using proven techniques and best practices
- How to add social networking features to your web site using WebMatrix Helpers
- How to create your own custom functions and helpers to provide reusable code and content
- How to secure your website using a role-based membership model
- How to deploy your website to a hosting provider
Who this book is for
This book is aimed at anyone with a basic knowledge of web technologies who wants to use this latest addition to the Microsoft ASP.NET web platform to easily and quickly build feature-rich, dynamic, data-driven websites. Table of Contents - Introduction
- Getting Started
- C# Primer
- Working with Razor and ASP.NET Web Pages
- Forms and Validation
- Working with Data
- Security & Membership
- Full Application Tutorial: Getting Started
- Adding E-Commerce Features
- Site Administration
- Adding Social Networking with the Package Manager and WebMatrix Helpers
- Advanced WebMatrix
- Deployment
Book Details - Paperback: 504 pages
- Publisher: Apress (December 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430240202
- ISBN-13: 978-1430240204
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