When Android was first introduced by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, my first thought was of how awesome it would be to have a free open-source application environment for the growing smart phone revolution. The harsh reality hit when I tried to apply my rusty programming skills to the Java and Android software development kit (SDK)....
The short history of computing machines has witnessed some major events, which
forever transformed our usage of technology. From the first massive main frames to
the democratization of personal computers, and then the interconnection of networks.
Mobility is the next revolution. Like the primitive soup, all the ingredients are now...
Wel come to the Pragmatic Guide to Sass. Sass (Syntactically
Awes o me Style Sheets) enables you to do amazing things
with your style sheets, helping you describe how HTML is
laid out on a web page. Sass is an alternative way of writing
CSS.
This book is intended for developers interested in learning more about how to develop against the set of Microsoft cloud services: Windows Azure and Office 365. In some cases, you can combine the two technologies to build your solution, but in other cases you will use only one of the cloud solutions, so understanding what each has to offer...
THE AMAZING SUCCESS OF THE IPHONE and iPad over the past four years has proven that
application developers are now smack deep in a brave new world of sophisticated, multifunctional
mobile applications. No longer do applications and various media need to live in separate silos.
Instead, mobile web-based applications can bring...
Windows Internals, Sixth Edition is intended for advanced computer professionals
(both developers
and system administrators) who want to understand how the
core components of the Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating
systems work internally. With this knowledge, developers can better...
The phone rings, and the networking guys tell you that you’ve been hacked and that your customers’ sensitive information is being stolen from your network. You begin your investigation by checking your logs to identify the hosts involved. You scan the hosts with antivirus software to find the malicious program, and catch a lucky...
Web Workers is a powerful feature of HTML5 that hasn’t received very much attention.
It provides an API that allows you to run JavaScript in a separate thread that doesn’t
interfere with the user interface of your web application. This JavaScript runs in parallel
with the main renderer and any of your...
Dart is a new language developed by Google that’s getting attention in web app circles.
We asked Kathy Walrath and Seth Ladd, members of Google’s developer relations team,
to explain Dart’s purpose and its applications.
Writing a web app can be lots of fun, especially at the beginning when you...
Our goal in writing this book was to combine a strong emphasis on problem solving
and software design with the study of data structures. To this end, we discuss applications
of each data structure to motivate its study. After providing the specification
(a header file) and the implementation of an abstract data type, we cover case...
Discover all the security risks and exploits that can threaten iOS-based mobile devices
iOS is Apple's mobile operating system for the iPhone and iPad. With the introduction of iOS5, many security issues have come to light. This book explains and discusses them all. The award-winning author team, experts in Mac and iOS...
This book is for every SharePoint developer who wants to build state-of-the-art solutions with Silverlight—within the enterprise, for consulting clients, or for commercial sale.
Developers increasingly want to build rich applications that run in the...
