O Reilly: 1860 books
Building Tools with GitHub
Customize Your Workflow
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
For your next project on GitHub, take advantage of the service’s powerful API to meet your unique development requirements. This practical guide shows you how to build your own software tools for customizing the GitHub workflow. Each hands-on chapter is a compelling story that walks you through...
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
The Missing Manual
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2008
Want to be part of the largest group-writing project in human history? Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, the user-generated online reference for the 21st century. Considered more popular than eBay, Microsoft.com, and Amazon.com, Wikipedia servers respond to approximately 30,000 requests per second,...
Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics
Perl Programming for Bioinformatics
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
Historically, programming hasn't been considered a critical skill for biologists. But now, with access to vast amounts of biological data contained in public databases, programming skills are increasingly in strong demand in biology research and development. Perl, with its highly developed capacities...
Design and Prototyping for Drupal
Drupal for Designers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, but confused by the way it handles design challenges? This concise guide helps small teams and solo website designers understand how Drupal works by demonstrating the ways it outputs content. You’ll learn how to manage Drupal’s output, design...
Moving Hadoop to the Cloud
Harnessing Cloud Features and Flexibility for Hadoop Clusters
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Until recently, Hadoop deployments existed on hardware owned and run by organizations. Now, of course, you can acquire the computing resources and network connectivity to run Hadoop clusters in the cloud. But there’s a lot more to deploying Hadoop to the public cloud than simply renting machines.
This...
Programming Windows Store Apps with C#
Master WinRT, XAML, and C# to Create Innovative Windows 8 Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
If you’re a .NET developer looking to build tablet apps, this practical book takes you step-by-step through the process of developing apps for the Windows Store. You’ll learn how to use Microsoft’s Modern UI design language with Windows 8.1 and WinRT 8.1.1 by building a line-of-business mobile...
Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET
Harnessing the Power of the Web
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Design and build Web APIs for a broad range of clients—including browsers and mobile devices—that can adapt to change over time. This practical, hands-on guide takes you through the theory and tools you need to build evolvable HTTP services with Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web API framework. In the...
Physics for Game Developers
Science, math, and code for realistic effects
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
If you want to enrich your game’s experience with physics-based realism, the expanded edition of this classic book details physics principles applicable to game development. You’ll learn about collisions, explosions, sound, projectiles, and other effects used in games on Wii, PlayStation, Xbox,...
Your Brain: The Missing Manual
The Missing Manual
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
Puzzles and brain twisters to keep your mind sharp and your memory intact are all the rage today. More and more people -- Baby Boomers and information workers in particular -- are becoming concerned about their gray matter's ability to function, and with good reason. As this sensible and entertaining...
Learning jQuery Deferreds
Taming Callback Hell with Deferreds and Promises
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Orchestrating asynchronous function calls in JavaScript often leads to callback hell, but there is a reliable way to avoid this painful state of affairs. With this concise and simple guide, you’ll learn how to use jQuery deferreds and promises, an elegant approach for managing asynchronous calls...
by Dennis O'Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This Weekly Digest of posts from the Workers' Edge blog highlights the dangers posed by unfettered surveillance activities conducted by law enforcement and agencies at the local, state, and federal level. Topic include the return of the general warrant for phone searches, the dismantling of the...
Building Modular Cloud Apps with OSGi
Practical Modularity with Java in the Cloud Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
If you’re an experienced Java developer in the enterprise, this practical, hands-on book shows you how to use OSGi to design, develop, and deploy modular cloud applications. You’ll quickly learn how to use OSGi, through concise code examples and a set of best practices derived from the authors’...
Communicating Data with Tableau
Designing, Developing, and Delivering Data Visualizations
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Go beyond spreadsheets and tables and design a data presentation that really makes an impact. This practical guide shows you how to use Tableau Software to convert raw data into compelling data visualizations that provide insight or allow viewers to explore the data for themselves.
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Programming Flex 2
The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
Is there an easier way to build and deliver rich internet applications (RIAs) other than the Flash IDE or Ajax? Absolutely. With Adobe Flex 2, the Flex 2 SDK, and this book, you have all you need to build RIAs. Programming Flex 2 offers you plenty of practical and useful examples that reveal how and...