No Starch Press: 203 books
Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Erlang is the language of choice for programmers who want to write robust, concurrent applications, but its strange syntax and functional design can intimidate the uninitiated. Luckily, there’s a new weapon in the battle against Erlang-phobia: Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!
Erlang...
Autotools
A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
The GNU Autotools make it easy for developers to create software that is portable across many Unix-like operating systems. Although the Autotools are used by thousands of open source software packages, they have a notoriously steep learning curve. And good luck to the beginner who wants to find anything...
The Book of Ruby
A Hands-On Guide for the Adventurous
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Ruby is famous for being easy to learn, but most users only scratch the surface of what it can do. While other books focus on Ruby's trendier features, The Book of Ruby reveals the secret inner workings of one of the world's most popular programming languages, teaching you to write clear, maintainable...
The Book of F#
Breaking Free with Managed Functional Programming
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
F# brings the power of functional-first programming to the .NET Framework, a platform for developing software in the Microsoft Windows ecosystem. If you're a traditional .NET developer used to C# and Visual Basic, discovering F# will be a revelation that will change how you code, and how you think...
Write Great Code, Volume 2
Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
It's a critical lesson that today's computer science students aren't always being taught: How to carefully choose their high-level language statements to produce efficient code. Write Great Code, Volume 2: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level shows software engineers what too many college and university...
The Book of CSS3
A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
CSS3 is behind most of the eye-catching visuals on the Web today, but the official documentation can be dry and hard to follow and browser implementations are scattershot at best.
The Book of CSS3 distills the dense technical language of the CSS3 specification into plain English and shows you...
by Manul Laphroaig
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This highly anticipated print collection gathers articles published in the much-loved International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out.
PoC||GTFO follows in the tradition of Phrack and Uninformed by publishing on the subjects of offensive security research, reverse engineering,...
by John Graham-Cumming
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
GNU make is the most widely used build automation tool, but it can be challenging to master and its terse language can be tough to parse for even experienced programmers. Those who run into difficulties face a long, involved struggle, often leaving unsolved problems behind and GNU make's vast potential...
Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition
The Complete Guide to FreeBSD
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
This updated edition of Michael W. Lucas' definitive volume on FreeBSD-based systems adds coverage of modern disks, the ZFS filesystem IPv6, redesigned jail and packaging systems, and virtualization, among dozens of new features added in the last 10 years.
FreeBSD is the muscle behind companies...
The Tangled Web
A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Modern web applications are built on a tangle of technologies that have been developed over time and then haphazardly pieced together. Every piece of the web application stack, from HTTP requests to browser-side scripts, comes with important yet subtle security consequences. To keep users safe, it...
The Modern Web
Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Today’s web technologies are evolving at near–light speed, bringing the promise of a seamless Internet ever closer to reality. When users can browse the Web on a three-inch phone screen as easily as on a fifty-inch HDTV, what’s a developer to do?
Peter Gasston’s The Modern Web will...
Practical SQL
A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Practical SQL is an approachable and fast-paced guide to SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for defining, organizing, and exploring data in relational databases. The book focuses on using SQL to find the story your data tells, with the popular open-source database PostgreSQL...
Understanding ECMAScript 6
The Definitive Guide for JavaScript Developers
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
ECMAScript 6 represents the biggest update to the core of JavaScript in the history of the language. In Understanding ECMAScript 6, expert developer Nicholas C. Zakas provides a complete guide to the object types, syntax, and other exciting changes that ECMAScript 6 brings to JavaScript. Every chapter...
by Randall Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Assembly is a low-level programming language that's one step above a computer's native machine language. Although assembly language is commonly used for writing device drivers, emulators, and video games, many programmers find its somewhat unfriendly syntax intimidating to learn and use.
Since...