In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll learn how to use SQL to build effective databases, efficiently retrieve your data, and manage everything from performance to security! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll learn hands-on through practical examples. Each lesson...

Starling is an ActionScript 3 2D framework developed on top of the Stage3D APIs (available on desktop in Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3). Starling is mainly designed for game development, but could be used for many other use cases....

Get more done faster with jQuery and JavaScript! Brad Dayley’s jQuery and JavaScript Phrasebook brings together 100+ instantly useful code snippets and idioms for performing a wide spectrum of common web application tasks. This hands-on guide gets straight to the essence of what’s new and important in...

• Master the use of P4V - the Perforce Visual Client
• Get into the Perforce mindset for seamless use in your daily work
• Grasp key concepts and learn how to apply them for proper...

Risk control, capital allocation, and realistic derivative pricing and hedging are critical concerns for major financial institutions and individual traders alike. Events from the collapse of Lehman Brothers to the Greek sovereign debt crisis demonstrate the urgent and abiding need for statistical tools...

Building JavaScript Games teaches game programming through a series of engaging, arcade-style games that quickly expand your JavaScript and HTML5 skills. JavaScript is in the top ten most-used programming languages world wide, and is the basis for applications that can run in any modern browser, on any device from smart phone to...

Welcome to Turbo Pascal for Windows Bible, a b o o k that will clear many of the mysteries of Windows programming in Turbo Pascal for Windows style. Windows programming is difficult, but Turbo Pascal for Windows makes the difficulty manageable. In fact, developing Windows applications with Turbo Pascal for Windows is much more fun once y o u...

MIDP 2.0 Style Guide for the Java(TM) 2 Platform, Micro Edition, is the comprehensive reference for designing and creating interactive Java(TM) applications for consumer-oriented mobile devices. Readers learn how to best exploit MIDP 2.0 features, such as the gaming API, multimedia, and...

In this new edition of his popular title, Moving to VB .NET, Visual Basic guru Dan Appleman not only updates the book to include coverage of changes to VB.NET in Visual Studio 2003, but extends those areas that have proven important to VB.Net programmers since its release. Topics such as .Net remoting, versioning and object oriented...