O Reilly Media: 1789 books
ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook
Building Data-Centric .NET Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
This guide is strikingly different from other books on Microsoft ADO.NET. Rather than load you down with theory, the new edition of ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook gives you more than 200 coding solutions and best practices for real problems you're likely to face with this technology using Visual Studio 2008...
SOA in Practice
The Art of Distributed System Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
This book demonstrates service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a concrete discipline rather than a hopeful collection of cloud charts. Built upon the author's firsthand experience rolling out a SOA at a major corporation, SOA in Practice explains how SOA can simplify the creation and maintenance of...
by Kevin Purdy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
If you want to gain more control over your social networking activities with Google+, this jargon-free guide helps you quickly master the ins and outs of the site. Learn how to organize your contacts, hold video chats with as many as ten people, and determine exactly who may learn what about you....
Programming ASP.NET AJAX
Build Rich, Web 2.0-Style UI with ASP.NET AJAX
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Delivering rich, Web 2.0-style experiences has never been easier. This book gives you a complete hands-on introduction to Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, the new framework that offers many of the same benefits for Ajax development that ASP.NET provides for server-side development. With Programming ASP.NET...
Getting Started with SQL
A Hands-On Approach for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Businesses are gathering data today at exponential rates and yet few people know how to access it meaningfully. If you’re a business or IT professional, this short hands-on guide teaches you how to pull and transform data with SQL in significant ways. You will quickly master the fundamentals of...
Becoming Functional
Steps for Transforming Into a Functional Programmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
If you have an imperative (and probably object-oriented) programming background, this hands-on book will guide you through the alien world of functional programming. Author Joshua Backfield begins slowly by showing you how to apply the most useful implementation concepts before taking you further...
React: Up & Running
Building Web Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Hit the ground running with React, the open-source technology from Facebook for building rich web applications fast. With this practical guide, Yahoo! web developer Stoyan Stefanov teaches you how to build components—React’s basic building blocks—and organize them into maintainable, large-scale...
Data Wrangling with Python
Tips and Tools to Make Your Life Easier
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
How do you take your data analysis skills beyond Excel to the next level? By learning just enough Python to get stuff done. This hands-on guide shows non-programmers like you how to process information that’s initially too messy or difficult to access. You don't need to know a thing about the Python...
Efficient R Programming
A Practical Guide to Smarter Programming
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
There are many excellent R resources for visualization, data science, and package development. Hundreds of scattered vignettes, web pages, and forums explain how to use R in particular domains. But little has been written on how to simply make R work effectively—until now. This hands-on book teaches...
Mobile JavaScript Application Development
Bringing Web Programming to Mobile Devices
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
When developing apps for the latest smartphones, you’re faced with several vexing questions. How many platforms do you need to accommodate? What level of support do mobile browsers provide? To help you address these and many other key issues, this guide provides a hands-on tour of the most powerful...
Developing Backbone.js Applications
Building Better JavaScript Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
If you want to build your site’s frontend with the single-page application (SPA) model, this hands-on book shows you how to get the job done with Backbone.js. You’ll learn how to create structured JavaScript applications, using Backbone’s own flavor of model-view-controller (MVC) architecture.
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Code Simplicity
The Fundamentals of Software
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Good software design is simple and easy to understand. Unfortunately, the average computer program today is so complex that no one could possibly comprehend how all the code works. This concise guide helps you understand the fundamentals of good design through scientific laws—principles you can...
Web Performance Daybook Volume 2
Techniques and Tips for Optimizing Web Site Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Performance is critical to the success of any website, and help with using today’s new tools is key. In this remarkable guide, 32 leading web performance experts offer practical tips, techniques, and advice for optimizing your site’s user experience.
Originally written for an online calendar,...
iOS 12 Programming Fundamentals with Swift
Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa Basics
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode 9 IDE, Cocoa Touch, and the latest version of Apple’s acclaimed programming language, Swift 4. With this thoroughly updated guide, you’ll learn the Swift language, understand Apple’s Xcode development...