O'Reilly Media, Inc. New Titles

Spring in a Nutshell

2012-05-24T12:27:03-08:10

Spring in a Nutshell is the most complete reference available for the 3.x version of this popular application framework. Ideal whether you're new to Spring or familiar with previous versions, this book provides all of the details you need to configure and build lightweight enterprise applications on the Java platform.

Maintainable JavaScript

2012-05-24T12:27:03-08:11

You may have definite ideas about writing code when working alone, but team development requires that everyone use the same approach. With the JavaScript practices in this book—including code style, programming tips, and automation—you’ll learn how to write maintainable code that other team members can easily understand, adapt, and extend. Author Nicholas Zakas assembled this collection of best practices as a front-end tech leader at Yahoo!, after completing his own journey from solo hacker to team player.

The Art of Community

2012-05-23T13:27:26-08:12

Online communities offer a wide range of opportunities today for supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or developing open source software. The Art of Community helps you recruit members, motivate them, and manage them as active participants. This expanded edition shows you how to keep community projects on track, make use of social media, and organize collaborative events. You'll also benefit from interviews with several community management leaders.

WebGL: Up and Running

2012-05-23T13:27:26-08:13

Get a quick introduction to WebGL, the new standard for 3D rendering on the web. With WebGL, web developers can create games animations, data visualizations, product displays, and more using JavaScript, a web browser, and a standard web technology stack. If you’re familiar with JavaScript, this concise book will help you gain a working knowledge of WebGL through clear and simple examples.

Web Development Bibliography

2012-05-22T15:25:51-08:14

Today's web applications are powerful and interactive that have to work equally well on a variety of web browsers on desktop computers, tablets, and smartphones. Many of the most popular web applications are able to do all of this while scaling to handle thousands of requests per second from all over the globe. It's a good thing that the list of technologies and tools for creating these web applications has also grown rapidly to enable web developers to build them. This guide allows you to tap into books and videos that cover the major technologies required to build Web apps: from JavaScript and HTML5 and CSS3 to Java and PHP to jQuery, Node.js and more.

Web Design Bibliography

2012-05-22T15:25:51-08:15

Every day more people adopt the Web and more uses for this technology are discovered. This has created an overwhelming demand for designers, specifically ones who can craft beautiful, usable and emotionally engaging websites. Becoming a great web designer is no easy task, since it requires dozens of skills beyond graphical comprehension. If you want resources to help you acquire these skills or hone existing ones, then this guide can help. Tap into books and videos that cover everything from design principles to usability to user interfaces and typography to layout to color, and more.

Resource-Oriented Computing with NetKernel

2012-05-22T12:28:32-08:16

Take resource-oriented computing out for a spin with this hands-on introduction to NetKernel, and discover how ROC can improve the way you design and implement software and software systems. Learn how ROC’s new approach combines core ideas from the REST architectural style with the Unix development model. By using NetKernel to create and then string simple services together, you can develop complex systems that scale as easily as the Internet does. Author Tom Geudens helps you create several NetKernel modules right away, and then walks you through the results to demonstrate their effectiveness.

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

2012-05-19T14:25:36-08:17

Ready to unlock the power of your data? With this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn how to build and maintain reliable, scalable, distributed systems with Apache Hadoop. You’ll also find illuminating case studies that demonstrate how Hadoop is used to solve specific problems. This book is ideal for programmers looking to analyze datasets of any size, and for administrators who want to set up and run Hadoop clusters.

Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual

2012-05-18T04:26:54-08:18

Photoshop CS6 is truly amazing, but it can also be overwhelming if you’re just getting started. This book makes learning Photoshop a breeze by explaining things in a friendly, conversational style—without technical jargon. After a thorough introduction to the program, you’ll delve deep into Photoshop’s secrets with expert tips and practical advice you can use every day.

Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, Color Edition

2012-05-18T14:26:14-08:19

When you’re under pressure to produce a well designed, easy-to-navigate mobile app, there’s no time to reinvent the wheel. This concise book provides a handy reference to 70 mobile app design patterns, illustrated by more than 400 screenshots from current iOS, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian apps.

Python for Data Analysis

2012-05-18T17:26:32-08:20

Despite the explosive growth of data in industry after industry, learning and accessing data analysis tools has remained a challenge. This pragmatic guide demonstrates the nuts and bolts of manipulating, processing, cleaning, and crunching data with Python. It also serves as a modern introduction to scientific computing in Python for data-intensive applications.

Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer

2012-05-17T12:28:12-08:21

Learn how to quickly build cool electronic gadgets with .NET Gadgeteer. With the easy-to-follow instructions in this guide, you’ll tackle five fascinating projects, using Microsoft’s rapid prototyping Gadgeteer platform. There’s no soldering involved—you simply plug in modules that make gadget-building quick and easy. Ideal for beginners, this book shows you how to work with modules and other hardware in the popular Fez Spider Starter Kit, and teaches you how to program your gadgets with Visual Studio C# Express and the .NET Micro Framework 4.1 SDK.

Playful Design

2012-05-17T10:27:32-08:22

Game design is a sibling discipline to software and Web design, but they're siblings that grew up in different houses. They have much more in common than their perceived distinction typically suggests, and user experience practitioners can realize enormous benefit by exploiting the solutions that games have found to the real problems of design.

Understanding IPv6, 3rd Edition

2012-05-17T12:26:40-08:23

Get the in-depth technical information you need to put IPv6 technology into practice—and learn how the protocol relates to the next releases of Windows® and Windows Server®. Written by a networking expert, this reference details IPv6 from its features and benefits to its packet structure and protocol processes. You’ll learn how IPv6 works and how to use its built-in services in your network deployments.

JavaScript for PHP Developers

2012-05-16T10:27:32-08:24

Ready to expand your PHP web development skills with JavaScript? With this guide, you can use your experience with PHP to learn JavaScript from the ground up. Because both languages share the C language syntax, this book skips similarities such as conditions and loops to focus on JavaScript’s unique object creation, classes, prototypes, and inheritance.