This book is an intermediate-level introduction to Xcode 4, Apple’s integrated
development environment. It assumes you have some development experience
and are familiar with the Cocoa API. It won’t teach you how to write code or much
at all about Cocoa. There are other books for that. This one is strictly focused on...
Storing and manipulating data plays an important role in making any mobile phone effective in business applications or any other data-driven application. Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook covers topics such as how to bind data easily using databinding techniques, how to save data in local storage for later retrieval, how to format XML for data...
Highly regarded for its accessible writing and practical case studies, Control Systems Engineering is the most widely adopted textbook for this core course in Mechanical and Electrical engineering programs. This new sixth edition has been revised and updated with 20% new problems and greater emphasis on computer-aided design.
This book is based on the same criteria that are used for Apple’s official
training course, Lion 101: OS X Support Essentials 10.7, an in-depth
exploration of troubleshooting on OS X Lion. It serves as a self-paced
tour of the breadth of functionality of Lion and the best methods for
effectively supporting users of Lion...
This book is intended for Information Technology (IT) professionals who have been
hearing about or have been tasked to evaluate, learn or implement data warehousing
technologies. This book also aims at providing fundamental techniques of KDD and Data
Mining as well as issues in practical use of Mining tools.
Writing this book has been like discovering RabbitMQ itself—encountering a problem
that needed solving, but not knowing what the solution looked like. Until May
2010, we didn’t even know each other. We both had been active in the RabbitMQ community
for the past two years, but we’d never actually...
It’s no longer enough to know how to wrangle HTML, CSS, and a bit of Java-
Script. Today’s web developer needs to know how to write testable code, build
interactive interfaces, integrate with other services, and sometimes even do
some server configuration, or at least a little bit of backend work. This...
Stateful web servers are a core concept of dRuby. dRuby lets you pass normal
Ruby objects and call their methods across processes and networks seamlessly.
With dRuby, you’ll experience the world of distributed computing as a
natural extension of Ruby.
WELCOME TO BEGINNING CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, Third Edition.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the tool that web designers and developers use alongside markup
languages such as HTML and XHTML to build websites. CSS provides web browsers with the
information they need to control the visual aspect of a web...
This is a book about system administration. As any system administrator knows, there
is no professional joy greater than seeing systems work consistently and perform their
tasks flawlessly. And the joy is even greater if the systems need as little human attention
as possible. Automating system administration tasks...
What do you think of when you hear the phrase music theory? Does the image
of your elementary school music teacher scowling at you from behind the
piano pop into your head? Or perhaps a later image of fellow college students
in theory classes determinedly trying to notate...
This book is about developing SharePoint applications using Microsoft’s Visual Studio
LightSwitch product. The overall goal of this book is to present enough information
by way of worked examples to help you get started writing SharePoint applications
using Visual Studio LightSwitch.
