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...