THE WORLD OF MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT is changing rapidly, and frameworks like PhoneGap
represent an important step in broadening that world to a very large audience of experienced web
developers. With PhoneGap, you can now transfer some (if not most) of your knowledge and skills
from the web world to the mobile app world.
Learn how to use messaging technologies to build responsive and resilient applications for mobile devices and web browsers. With this hands-on guide, you’ll use the Stomp and Mqtt messaging protocols to write iOs and web applications capable of sending and receiving Gps and device sensor data, text messages, and alerts.
I’ll be honest: I’m an introduction-skipper. When I sit down with a technical book, I skip right past the introduction or preface and go straight for the goods. If it doesn’t begin with the words “Chapter,” then I figure I can probably move on and not miss anything crucial. This is not, however, one of those books. ...
Students graduating today face a tough job market—making
it important that they develop the expertise and critical
thinking skills that give them a competitive edge.
Information Technology for Management, 8th edition is
designed to give students an edge when they face the
challenges and opportunities that business...
With the explosive popularity of mobile apps and its much anticipated continued growth for the foreseeable future, developers will want to get their hands dirty and build some cool mobile apps. But we know that building mobile apps is not easy: we need to handle cross-platform issues, mobile devices of different screen sizes, not to mention...
Pro Express.js is for the reader who wants to quickly get up-to-speed with Express.js, the flexible Node.js framework. Author Azat Mardan clearly explains how to start developing with Express.js with a basic 'Hello World', and then delves into a deep API reference, before looking at common and abstract development problems....
Spotfire can give your organization the competitive edge through better analysis and visual presentation of business intelligence and this book will show you how. A guided tour of all the essential features of Spotfire.
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C# developers, here’s your opportunity to learn the ins-and-outs of Entity Framework Core, Microsoft’s recently redesigned object-relational mapper. Benefit from hands-on learning that will teach you how to tackle frustrating database challenges, such as workarounds to missing features in Entity Framework Core, and...
Computer Vision is fast becoming an important technology and is used in Mars robots, national security systems, automated factories, driver-less cars, and medical image analysis to new forms of human-computer interaction. OpenCV is the most common library for computer vision, providing hundreds of complex and fast algorithms. But it has a...
Get up to speed with mobile device management with this fantastic, fully illustrated guide to XenMobile. From security to package deployment, it's an essential companion for the current trend of BYOD and corporate mobile devices.