Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails leads you through the steps necessary to build your first application. You'll get hands-on experience with Facebook technologies such as FBML and FQL, and master messaging and news feeds.
You'll do more than just study the Facebook API-you'll get practical tips from an experienced...
Learn and understand how you can perform a wide range of tasks on your new Windows computer, including managing files, browsing the internet, and protecting yourself, as well as interacting with Cortana.
Using Absolute Beginners Guide to Computing you will see how to use Windows, and how you can connect and...
A hands-on guide to Microsoft's latest rich application development technology: Silverlight 4
Silverlight 4 is the newest version of the rich Internet application toolkit that provides support for .NET capabilities over the Internet. With this latest release of Silverlight, Microsoft has revolutionized the way that Web...
APIs are a big deal and they are getting bigger. Pioneering companies such as Google,
Facebook, Apple, and Twitter have exposed amazing technological solutions to the
public, transforming existing businesses and creating new industries. Central to these
companies’ successes are the APIs that link people and...
YOU CAN BUILD HIGH-QUALITY MOBILE APPS using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And you
can use JavaScript to build the cloud services that support those apps. You don’t need to learn
Objective-C or Java to deliver production-quality iPhone and Android mobile apps.
This book shows you how to use the web development...
Why have developers at places like Facebook and Twitter increasingly turned to graph databases to manage their highly connected big data? The short answer is that graphs offer superior speed and flexibility to get the job done.
It’s time you added skills in graph databases to your toolkit....
Gain a practical introduction to DataOps, a new discipline for delivering data science at scale inspired by practices at companies such as Facebook, Uber, LinkedIn, Twitter, and eBay. Organizations need more than the latest AI algorithms, hottest tools, and best people to turn data into insight-driven action and useful...
Communities have built collections of information in a collaborative manner for
centuries. Around 250 years ago, more than 140 people wrote l’Encyclopedie in 28
volumes with 70,000 articles. More recently, Wikipedia has demonstrated how
collaborative efforts can be a powerful method of building a massive data storage. It
is...
"The Linked Photographer's Guide to Online Marketing and Social Networking" is a complete resource for photographers looking to improve their business through social media. This book provides a step-by-step process for getting a photographer's business online, and acts as a reference guide for the variety of online marketing...
What are the ingredients of robust, elegant, flexible, and maintainable software architecture? Beautiful Architecture answers this question through a collection of intriguing essays from more than a dozen of today's leading software designers and architects. In each essay, contributors present a notable software architecture, and analyze...