| Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with XAML and C# Posted: 13 Jul 2012 09:04 AM PDT 
Book Description The key features for developing on Microsoft's eagerly anticipated Windows 8 operating system are unveiled in this fast-paced 80-pageprimer. Windows 8 contains the revolutionary Metro application framework for building dynamic and responsive touch-enabled applications that target both desktops and mobile devices. With the official release of Windows 8 looming ever closer, experienced author Adam Freeman invites you to take a crash course in Metro development. Using XAML and C#, he ensures you understand the changes that are being made to Windows development practices and puts you on the right course to creating innovative and elegant applications for this latest evolution of the world's most successful operating system. What you'll learn - Create and configure Metro applications
- Implement a touch-enabled user interface
- Store data and application state using the Metro persistence model
- Access remote data using Metro networking
- Package and deploy your Metro application to the app store
Who this book is for
This book is for early-adopters of the Windows 8 operating system working with the Consumer Preview in order to be ahead of the curve in understanding the new ways of working that the operating system introduces. Table of Contents - Creating the UI
- Responding to the User
- Storage and Persistence
- NetworkingPackaging and Deployment
- These chapters are supported by a substantial stand alone code sample.
Book Details - Paperback: 100 pages
- Publisher: Apress (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430244917
- ISBN-13: 978-1430244912
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| Android Apps with Eclipse Posted: 13 Jul 2012 09:00 AM PDT 
Book Description Eclipse is the most adopted integrated development environment (IDE) for Java programmers. And, now, Eclipse seems to be the preferred IDE for Android apps developers. Android Apps with Eclipse provides a detailed overview of Eclipse, including steps and the screenshots to help Android developers to quickly get up to speed on Eclipse and to streamline their day-to-day software development. This book includes the following: - Overview of Eclipse fundamentals for both Java and C/C++ Development.
- Using Eclipse Android Development Toolkit (ADT) to develop, debug, and troubleshoot Android applications.
- Using Eclipse C/C++ Development Toolkit (CDT) in conjunction with Android Native Development Kit (NDK) to integrate, develop and troubleshoot native Android components through Eclipse.
What you'll learn - How to use the most popular Java IDE for Android apps development
- How to install and configure Eclipse for Android development
- How to build an Android media player app using the Eclipse IDE
- How to leverage Eclipse with the Android Native Development Kit for C/C++ needs
- How to leverage Eclipse for scripting using Android’s SL4A (Scripting Layer for Android)
- How to do continuous integration in Eclipse, including source code controls, scripting builds with Ant and more
Who this book is for
This book is for both beginner and intermediate developers who would like to quickly come up to speed on Android development using the Eclipse IDE. Table of Contents - What is Android?
- Application Architecture
- What is Eclipse?
- Mastering Eclipse
- Android Development Tools for Eclipse
- Project: Movie Player
- Android Native Development using Eclipse
- Project: Adding AVI Support to Movie Player
- Android Scripting using Eclipse
- Project: Scripting Movie Player using Lua
- Appendix A: Testing
Book Details - Paperback: 372 pages
- Publisher: Apress (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430244348
- ISBN-13: 978-1430244349
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| Managing Humans, 2nd Edition Posted: 13 Jul 2012 08:56 AM PDT 
Book Description The humor and insights in the 2nd Edition of Managing Humans are drawn from Michael Lopp’s management experiences at Apple, Netscape, Symantec, and Borland, among others. This book is full of stories based on companies in the Silicon Valley where people have been known to yell at each other and occasionally throw chairs. It is a place full of dysfunctional bright people who are in an incredible hurry to find the next big thing so they can strike it rich and then do it all over again. Among these people are managers, a strange breed of people who, through a mystical organizational ritual, have been given power over the future and bank accounts of many others. Whether you’re an aspiring manager, a current manager, or just wondering what the heck a manager does all day, there is a story in this book that will speak to you—and help you survive and prosper amongst the general craziness. Lopp’s straight-from-the-hip style is unlike any other writer on management. He pulls no punches and tells stories he probably shouldn’t. But they are massively instructive and cut to the heart of the matter whether it’s dealing with your boss, handling a slacker, hiring top guns, or seeing a knotty project through to completion. This second editions expands on the management essentials. It will explain why we hate meetings, but must have them, it carefully documents the right way to have a 1-on-1, and it documents the perils of not listening to your team. Writing code is easy. Managing humans is not. You need a book to help you do it, and this is it. What you'll learn - How to lead geeks
- How to handle conflict
- How to hire well
- How to motivate employees
- How to manage your boss
- How to say no
- How to handle stressed people freaking out
- How to improve your social IQ
- How to run a meeting well
- And much more
Who this book is for
This book is designed for managers and would-be managers staring at the role of a manager wondering why they would ever leave the safe world of bits and bytes for the messy world of managing humans. The book covers handling conflict, managing wildly differing personality types, infusing innovation into insane product schedules, and figuring out how to build a lasting and useful engineering culture. Table of Contents
Part I: The Management Quiver
Chapter 1. Don’t Be a Prick
Chapter 2. Managers Are Not Evil
Chapter 3. The Rands Test
Chapter 4. How to Run a Meeting
Chapter 5. The Twinge
Chapter 6. The Update, The Vent, and the Disaster
Chapter 7. The Monday Freakout
Chapter 8. Lost in Translation
Chapter 9. Agenda Detection
Chapter 10. Mandate Dissection
Chapter 11. Information Starvation
Chapter 12. Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence
Chapter 13. Managementese
Chapter 14. Fred Hates It
Chapter 15. DNA
Chapter 16. An Engineering Mindset
Chapter 17. Three Superpowers
Chapter 18. Saying No Part II: The Process is the Product
Chapter 19. 1.0
Chapter 20. How to Start
Chapter 21. Taking Time to Think
Chapter 22. The Soak
Chapter 23. Managing Malcolm Events
Chapter 24. Capturing Context
Chapter 25. Trickle Theory
Chapter 26. When the Sky Falls
Chapter 27. Hacking is Important Part III: Versions of You
Chapter 28. Bored People Quit
Chapter 29. Bellwethers
Chapter 30. The Ninety Day Interview
Chapter 31. Managing Nerds
Chapter 32. NADD
Chapter 33. A Nerd in a Cave
Chapter 34. Meeting Creatures
Chapter 35. Incrementalists and Completionists
Chapter 36. Organics and Mechanics
Chapter 37. Inwards, Outwards, and Holistics
Chapter 38. Free Electrons
Chapter 39. Rules for the Reorg
Chapter 40. An Unexpected Connection
Chapter 41. Avoiding the Fez
Chapter 42. A Glimpse and a Hook
Chapter 43. Nailing the Phone Screen
Chapter 44. Your Resignation Checklist Book Details - Paperback: 292 pages
- Publisher: Apress; 2nd Edition (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430243147
- ISBN-13: 978-1430243144
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| Broken Markets Posted: 13 Jul 2012 08:48 AM PDT 
Book Description “I would sleep better if I knew that Bernanke, Geithner, Bachus, Sen. Tim Johnson, Obama and Romney all kept dog-eared copies of Kevin Mellyn’s Broken Markets on their nightstands. . . . Mellyn’s work is a fascinating, important, and eminently good read and should inform the debate on overhauling the U.S. and global financial regulatory systems and sustainable macro fiscal and monetary policy.”
–Eric Grover, in his review of Broken Markets in The American Banker Broken Markets allows the intelligent non-specialist to understand and navigate the ongoing worldwide aftermath of the 2008 financial market meltdown. The key theme of the book is how the leading financial institutions and the political leadership of the U.S. and European Union have failed us and set the stage for continued market turmoil. It explains what this means for investors, borrowers, society in general, and the financial-services industry. Former banker Kevin Mellyn focuses on providing readers with clear and simple explanations of the forces at work and the potential consequences for their future prosperity. As this book makes clear, what's coming is a world in which high structural unemployment and flat or declining real income is likely—not to mention a diminished retirement financial safety net. The book therefore provides actionable information for protecting wealth and making prudent investment decisions in an economy that is nothing like the one that has sustained us for decades. As a forward-looking narrative about rapidly changing events and volatile markets and politics, Broken Markets will provide no single prediction about the future but rather describe alternative scenarios and provide the reader with signposts to watch out for in deciding which reality is actually unfolding. Unlike most books written by journalists on global finance, the scenarios and signposts described will be largely based on the lessons of financial and political history rather than breaking news. This book: - Tells you in plain language how today's financial system threatens your livelihood and wealth
- Tells you why and how governments worldwide, with some notable exceptions, are taking actions likely to make things worse instead of better
- Explains how the leading financial institutions lost their way during the bubble years and how they can find the path back to prosperity and value to society
- Tells you what life will be like in a "post-finance" economy and how you can protect your wealth
What you'll learn
After reading Broken Markets, you will: - Understand how governments and financial leaders made poor decisions and the consequences in both the short and long term
- "Connect the dots" between seemingly unconnected market developments
- Understand how global finance really influences your livelihood
- Evaluate professional investment advice critically
- Make an independent, informed evaluation of competing economic and political policies
- Develop a long-term financial game plan for a "post-finance" world
- Impress your friends and family with your financial savvy
Who this book is for
Broken Markets is for people who have savings and investments, watch the business news, read the Wall Street Journal or Financial Times at least occasionally, and just want to make sense of the post-2008 crisis world while taking steps to protect their hard-won wealth. It is not intended for financial professionals, though it will strike a chord there. Mostly it is for the sensible, educated man and woman looking for straight talk and clarity. It is also a good choice for students and young people just starting their careers since it teaches them things their teachers (and often their employers) never told them. Above all, it is a good choice for anyone who likes to be informed, provoked into re-examining beliefs and assumptions, and entertained by sharp-edged writing. Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Rise and Fall of the Finance-Driven Economy
Chapter 2. Banking, Regulation, and Financial Crises
Chapter 3. Economic Consequences of Regulation
Chapter 4. Life after Finance
Chapter 5. Global Whirlwinds
Chapter 6. The Consumer in the World After Finance
Chapter 7. The Reconstruction of Finance Book Details - Paperback: 188 pages
- Publisher: Apress (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430242213
- ISBN-13: 978-1430242215
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