Computer Programming / Software Development

You ve bested creepers, traveled deep into caves, and maybe even gone to The End and back but have you ever transformed a sword into a magic wand? ...

The next step in the evolution of user interfaces is here. Chatbots let your users interact with your service in their own natural language. Use fr...

You work in a loop: write code, get feedback, iterate. The faster you get feedback, the faster you can learn and become a more effective developer....

Performance tuning is an experimental science, but that doesnt mean engineers should resort to guesswork and folklore to get the job done. Yet that...

Don''t accept the compromise between fast and beautiful: you can have it all. Phoenix creator Chris McCord, Elixir creator Jose Valim, and award-wi...

What sets Laravel apart from other PHP web frameworks? Speed and simplicity, for starters. This rapid application development framework and its eco...

Every day billions of people view billions of web pages. A blank rectangle in a web browser transforms into the Guardian, or Google, or, God help u...

Get ready to see Rails as you've never seen it before. Learn how to extend the framework, change its behavior, and replace whole components to bend...

Rails just keeps on changing. Both Rails 3 and 4, as well as Ruby 1.9 and 2.0, bring hundreds of improvements, including new APIs and substantial p...

Flex 4 Cookbook is the ideal problem-solving guide for developing interactive Rich Internet Applications for the Adobe Flash Platform. Through hand...

By integrating the Web with traditional TV, Google TV offers developers an important new channel for content. But creating apps for Google TV requi...

While flowing text around images is certainly nothing new, with CSS you can float any element, from images to paragraphs to lists. In this practica...

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON ADOBE FLASH PROFESSIONAL CS6: INTRODUCTORY, International Edition offers a critical-thinking approach to teaching multimedia. T...

Build HTML5-based hybrid applications for Android with a mix of native Java and JavaScript components, without using third-party libraries and wrap...

Want to simplify web development? This hands-on book shows you how to write frontend and backend code simultaneously, using the Opa framework. Opa ...

Learning Flex 4 provides step-by-step lessons to help beginners create Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with Flex immediately. Written by Yahoo!''...

Software development today is embracing functional programming (FP), whether it's for writing concurrent programs or for managing Big Data. Where d...

With the advent of HTML5, front-end MVC, and Node.js, JavaScript is ubiquitous--and still messy. This book will give you a solid foundation for man...

In the crowded field of customer relationship management (CRM) systems, SugarCRM stands out-not only for its modular design, but also for the ease ...

While it's always been possible to run Java applications on Amazon EC2, Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk makes the process easier - especially if you und...

From custom fonts to ad-hoc font families you assemble out of a variety of individual faces, CSS 3 gives you more typographic options than ever bef...

If you plan to use Amazon Web Services to run applications in the cloud, the end-to-end approach in this book will save you needless trial and erro...

When you're writing code alone, you have a lot of leeway. But when you start writing code as part of a team, you need to think harder about the dec...

HTML and CSS have dominated web development for more than a decade, but these technologies - and the ways developers use them - have accumulated so...

Improve the user experience for your Rails app with rich, engaging client-side interactions. Learn to use the Rails 6 tools and simplify the comple...

Coding and testing are generally considered separate areas of expertise. In this practical book, Java expert Scott Oaks takes the approach that any...

Every day, companies struggle to scale critical applications. As traffic volume and data demands increase, these applications become more complicat...

Programmers don't just use Kotlin, they love it. Even Google has adopted it as a first-class language for Android development. With Kotlin, you can...

If you understand the basics of HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript and want to make quick sense of the extensive but often overwhelming reference documenta...

Languages may come and go, but the relational database endures. Learn how to use Ecto, the premier database library for Elixir, to connect your Eli...

The best modern JavaScript is simple, readable, and predictable. Learn to write modern JavaScript not by memorizing a list of new syntax, but with ...

When youre working with CSS and need an answer now, this concise yet comprehensive quick reference provides the essential information you need. Rev...

Docker does for DevOps what Rails did for web development--it gives you a new set of superpowers. Gone are works on my machine woes and lengthy set...

JavaScript is no longer to be feared or loathed - the world's most popular and ubiquitous language has evolved into a respectable language. Whether...

If you're a web developer or designer ready to learn Ruby on Rails, this hands-on guide is the ideal way to get started. Rather than toss you into ...

Several client-side storage options are available to web applications, but one area that's been lacking until now is file I/O - the ability to orga...

The complete guide to the productivity and performance enhancements in ASP.NET  Beginning ASP.NET for Visual Studio 2015 is your ultimate guide to ...

More than ever, learning to program concurrency is critical to creating faster, responsive applications. Speedy and affordable multicore hardware i...

Its an exciting time to get involved with MicroPython, the re-implementation of Python 3 for microcontrollers and embedded systems. This practical ...