Pragmatic Bookshelf imprint: 111 books
Crafting Rails 4 Applications
Expert Practices for Everyday Rails Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
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 it to your will. Eight different test-driven tutorials will help you understand Rails' inner workings and prepare you to tackle complicated projects with...
Secure Your Node.js Web Application
Keep Attackers Out and Users Happy
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Cyber-criminals have your web applications in their crosshairs. They search for and exploit common security mistakes in your web application to steal user data. Learn how you can secure your Node.js applications, database and web server to avoid these security holes. Discover the primary attack vectors...
Effective Testing with RSpec 3
Build Ruby Apps with Confidence
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
"Our tests are broken again!" "Why does the suite take so long to run?" "What value are we getting from these tests anyway?" Solve your testing problems by building and maintaining quality software with RSpec - the popular BDD-flavored Ruby testing framework. This definitive...
OpenGL ES 2 for Android
A Quick-Start Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Printed in full color.
Android is booming like never before, with millions of devices shipping every day. It's never been a better time to learn how to create your own 3D games and live wallpaper for Android. You'll find out all about shaders and the OpenGL pipeline, and discover the power...
Your Code as a Crime Scene
Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Jack the Ripper and legacy codebases have more in common than you'd think. Inspired by forensic psychology methods, you'll learn strategies to predict the future of your codebase, assess refactoring direction, and understand how your team influences the design. With its unique blend of forensic psychology...
Programming Phoenix
Productive |> Reliable |> Fast
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Don't accept the compromise between fast and beautiful: you can have it all. Phoenix creator Chris McCord, Elixir creator Jose Valim, and award-winning author Bruce Tate walk you through building an application that's fast and reliable. At every step, you'll learn from the Phoenix creators not just...
Ruby Performance Optimization
Why Ruby is Slow, and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
You don't have to accept slow Ruby or Rails performance. In this comprehensive guide to Ruby optimization, you'll learn how to write faster Ruby code--but that's just the beginning. See exactly what makes Ruby and Rails code slow, and how to fix it. Alex Dymo will guide you through perils of memory...
Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir
Find Bugs Before Your Users Do
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Property-based testing helps you create better, more solid tests with little code. By using the PropEr framework in both Erlang and Elixir, this book teaches you how to automatically generate test cases, test stateful programs, and change how you design your software for more principled and reliable...
Raspberry Pi
A Quick-Start Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Printed in full color.
Most of the book is targeted at beginners in computing and programming. A few parts, such as the small electronics project and setting up a web server, assume some intermediate skills.
The Raspberry Pi is one of the most successful open source hardware projects...
Getting Clojure
Build Your Functional Skills One Idea at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Behind every programming language lies a vision of how programs should be built. The vision behind Clojure is of a radically simple language framework holding together a sophisticated collection of programming features. Learning Clojure involves much more than just learning the mechanics of the language....
Seven Web Frameworks in Seven Weeks
Adventures in Better Web Apps
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Whether you need a new tool or just inspiration, Seven Web Frameworks in Seven Weeks explores modern options, giving you a taste of each with ideas that will help you create better apps. You'll see frameworks that leverage modern programming languages, employ unique architectures, live client-side...
Rails 5 Test Prescriptions
Build a Healthy Codebase
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Does your Rails code suffer from bloat, brittleness, or inaccuracy? Cure these problems with the regular application of test-driven development. You'll use Rails 5.1, Minitest 5, and RSpec 3.6, as well as popular testing libraries such as factory_girl and Cucumber. Updates include Rails 5.1 system...
Xcode Treasures
Master the Tools to Design, Build, and Distribute Great Apps
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Learn the critical tips and techniques to make using Xcode for the iPhone, iPad, or Mac easier, and even fun. Explore the features and functionality of Xcode you may not have heard of. Go under the hood to discover how projects really work, so when they stop working, you'll know how to fix them. Explore...
by Chris Pine
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2009
Printed in full color.
For this new edition of the best-selling Learn to Program, Chris Pine has taken a good thing and made it even better. First, he used the feedback from hundreds of reader e-mails to update the content and make it even clearer. Second, he updated the examples in the book...