Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers Mastering the iPad SDK

Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers: Mastering the iPad SDK It's in magazines and newspapers, it's on television and radio, it's on busses and billboards and pretty much everywhere you look (except for Apple stores, where it's likely still...

 iPhone for Programmers An App-Driven Approach

The wild success of the iPhone App Store has created a vibrant and exciting new market for application developers, and has caused business--including Pearson--to scramble to create applications for their customers to use on their iPhones. Developers are d...

 Java in a Nutshell

With more than 700,000 copies sold to date, Java in a Nutshell from O'Reilly is clearly the favorite resource amongst the legion of developers and programmers using Java technology. And now, with the release of the 5.0 version of Java, O'Reilly has given ...

 Ajax for Web Application Developers

Reusable components and patterns for Ajax-driven applications Ajax is one of the latest and greatest ways to improve users' online experience and create new and innovative web functionality. By allowing specific parts of a web page to be displayed wi...

 Learning WCF A Hands-on Guide

This easy-to-use introduction to Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is ideal for developers who want to learn to build services on a company network or as part of an enterprise system. Built into Windows Vista and Longhorn, and available for...

  Programming PC Connectivity Applications for Symbian OS Smartphone Synchronization and Connectivity for Enterprise and Application Developers

The only guide for developers and power users on how to build PC connectivity applications. This unique handbook provides all the information that is needed for the job. Fully worked examples and a do's and don'ts section provide design recommendations an...

 Beginning Lua Programming

A small yet extraordinarily powerful programming language, Lua achieved its popularity early on as a video game scripting language and has since evolved into a general purpose programming language that is compact enough to fit on a variety of host platf...

 Cryptography for Developers The Only Cryptography Guide Written for Software Developers

Developers tasked with security problems are often not cryptographers themselves. They are bright people who, with careful guidance, can implement secure cryptosystems. This book will guide developers in their journey towards solving cryptographic problem...

 PHP 5 in Practice

With the release of PHP 5 web developers need a guide to developing with PHP 5 to both learn its complex new features and more fully implement the long-standing features on which PHP's success is built. PHP 5 in Practice is a reference guide that provide...

 Developing Services for the Wireless Internet

The book supports the developers of services and applications for mobile phones, PDAs and smart phones. This new emerging domain is characterized by a very fast pace of change in the underlying technology, exposing products and applications to a constant ...

 ATL Internals Working with ATL 8

The most important book on Microsoft's Active Template Library (ATL) is now revised for ATL 8 and Visual Studio 2005 Provides in-depth coverage of ATL's inner workings, showing not just how something works, but also explaining why The only book on ATL...

  SQL Server 2005 for Developers

Capturing and analyzing data about customers, products, and the market is essential to staying competitive. Microsoft SQL Server is a leading database tool, and with its ease of use and low total ownership cost, you can customize it to meet your ever-chan...

 From Java to Ruby Things Every Manager Should Know

If you're trying to adopt Ruby in your organization and need some help, this is the book for you. Based on a decision tree (a concept familiar to managers and executives) Java to Ruby stays above the low-level technical debate to examine the real benef...

 Quicktime for .Net and COM Developers

At the heart of Apple's hugely popular iLife software suite-iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand, and iTunes-is QuickTime, the powerful media engine that drives elegant applications for managing movies, images, and audio files. The enduring success of QuickTi...

 Extending and Embedding PHP

In just a few years PHP has rapidly evolved from a small niche language to a powerful web development tool. Now in use on over 14 million Web sites, PHP is more stable and extensible than ever. However, there is no documentation on how to extend PHP; deve...

 Ruby for Rails Ruby Techniques for Rail Developers

The word is out: with Ruby on Rails you can build powerful Web applications easily and quickly! And just like the Rails framework itself, Rails applications are Ruby programs. That means you can't tap into the full power of Rails unless you master the Rub...

 Developing Serious Games

With the impressive growth the games industry has enjoyed for the past decade, game developers, educators, and marketing firms are excitedly envisioning serious games applications for computer game technologies. These applications- serious games- represen...

 Producing Open Source Software How to Run a Successful Free Software Project

The corporate market is now embracing free, "open source" software like never before, as evidenced by the recent success of the technologies underlying LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). Each is the result of a publicly collaborative process among nume...

 Programming with Quartz 2D and PDF Graphics in Mac OS X

Written by members of the development team at Apple, Programming with Quartz is the first book to describe the sophisticated graphics system of Mac OS X. By using the methods described in this book, developers will be able to fully exploit the state-of-th...

 UPC Distributed Shared Memory Programming

This is the first book to explain the language Unified Parallel C and its use. Authors El-Ghazawi, Carlson, and Sterling are among the developers of UPC, with close links with the industrial members of the UPC consortium. Their text covers background mate...

  Cryptographic Libraries for Developers

Learn to Use the Right Cryptography Library Everytime! No longer is it an option for software to include cryptography; everyone from office suites to accounting software and eCommerce Web sites use it. So today's developers have to know how to write ...

 Programming Jakarta Struts

While the look and feel of an enterprise web application is certainly important, developers usually find themselves spending far too much time on the front-end presentation before they can get to coding the good stuff--the business logic at the heart of t...

 Visual C# 2005 A Developer's Notebook

In the three years since Microsoft made C# available, there have been lots of tweaks to the language. That's because C# is not only essential for making .NET work, it's a big way for Microsoft to attract millions of Java, C and C++ developers to the platf...

 Professional JavaScript for Web Developers

JavaScript is an important feature of every major browser because it enables enhanced user interaction on both Web sites and Web applications. While exploring everything from its history to today's advanced features, this book shows you how to use this po...

 The JavaT Developers Almanac 1.4, Volume 1 Examples and Quick Reference

The ultimate Java quick reference - now fully updated for J2SE Version 1.4! Now printed in 2-color for even easier access. JDK 1.0/1.1 through J2SE 1.4 - thousands of classes and members, organized and cross-referenced for fast lookup and complete answe...

 MySQL

For years, MySQL has been helping MySQL developers and database administrators learn their MySQL system inside and out. This newest edition has been updated to include information on MySQL 5 and it will prove itself again to you as being the most definiti...

 Applied .NET Framework Programming

This title takes advanced developers and software designers under the covers of .NET to provide them with an in-depth understanding of its structure, functions, and operational components so they can create high-performance applications for .NET more easi...

 Python Pocket Reference

Python is optimized for quality, productivity, portability, and integration. Hundreds of thousands of Python developers around the world rely on Python for general-purpose tasks, Internet scripting, systems programming, user interfaces, and product custom...

 Developing Scalable Series 40 Applications A Guide for Java Developpers

Developing Scalable Series 40 Applications: A Guide for Java Developers An end-to-end solutions guide for Java programmers covering Nokia's most popular platform--Series 40. In the Nokia Mobile Developer Series; reviewed by Nokia experts and official...

 Mono A Developper's Notebook

The Mono Project is the much talked-about open source initiative to create a Unix implementation of Microsoft's .NET Development Framework. Its purpose is to allow Unix developers to build and deploy cross-platform .NET applications. The project has also ...

 AI for Game Developers Creating Intelligent Behavior in Games

Have game characters that won't chase? Prey that runs into obstacles? Sick of non-player characters that don't move as a group? Now advanced artificial intelligence (AI) game techniques to combat such issues are within your grasp. Whether you're new to ga...

 ASP.NET Cookbook

Developers who want to create dynamic, data-driven web sites running on Microsoft web servers have long relied on Active Server Pages (ASP). ASP.NET is Microsoft's latest evolution of ASP. While ASP.NET has a lot in common with its predecessor, this new t...

 .NET Development for Java Programmers

Java developers have already adapted to a world in which everything is an object, resources are reclaimed by a garbage collector, and multiple inheritance is replaced by interfaces. This makes them well equipped to thrive in Microsoft's new .NET environme...

 C# for Java Developers

The similarities between C# and Java are immediate and obvious, but Java programmers need to overcome certain challenges before they can get up to speed with C#. The expert authors of this title have written the perfect guide to help Java developers move ...

  Software Engineering for Game Developers

"Software Engineering for Game Developers" is a unique guide-a toolbox for effectively building a computer game using practices that are fostered by software engineering. Examine each major phase of the software engineering lifecycle of an actual game and...

 Seeing Data Designing User Interfaces for Database Sytems Using .NET

"Rebecca provides an invaluable resource to help developers focus on a commonly overlooked but vital part of an application-the user experience." DAVID SCEPPA, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation "Rebecca Riordan takes UI programming and pract...

 Practical WebObjects

While Apple provides a modicum of documentation for developers just starting with WebObjects, more-skilled WebObjects developers typically learn from each other or via trial and error. Practical WebObjects formalizes this process for the skilled and exper...

 A first look at SQL server 2005 for developers

Few technologies have been as eagerly anticipated as Microsoft SQL Server 2005 ("Yukon"). Now, three SQL Server insiders deliver the definitive hands-on preview-accurate, comprehensive, and packed with examples. A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for D...

 Practical Python

Python is an interpreted, object-oriented programming language offering developers an uncommonly powerful and flexible solution for executing a variety of tasks, including Web site development, system administration, GUI creation, and much more. Offering ...

 Java Cryptography Extensions Practical Guide gor Programmers

For a long time, there has been a need for a practical, down-to-earth developers book for the Java Cryptography Extension. I am very happy to see there is now a book that can answer many of the technical questions that developers, managers, and researcher...