Professional iOS ProgrammingWith over 50 billion app downloads and counting, app development can be lucrative, but you must be able to stand out from the crowd. In order to accomplish this, your app will likely need to incorporate advanced functionality. This book will show you how. It walks you step by step through building professional level iOS applications by taking advantage of available iOS frameworks using modern Objective-C programming principles. Throughout the chapters, you'll find 70 real-world sample programs that you can download and use as a starting point. With this helpful guidance, you'll create your own cutting-edge app ready for the App Store. ...
Professional Embedded ARM DevelopmentWhether it's an iPad, Surface tablet, iPhone or Nintendo DS, ARM is the microprocessor technology that helps run them all. These ARM-based processors offer powerful number-crunching capabilities while using very little energy, making them perfect for mobile devices. This guide gets you started in the world of embedded ARM development, walking you through the different systems common to every ARM processor. It explores the basics of ARM embedded development, including a brief tour of the processors, the programming language used by the processor, and numerous programming examples. Following its step-by-step details, you'll quickly create your first embedded application. ...
ReSharper EssentialsReSharper is one of the best tools that extends Microsoft Visual Studio. It adds a lot of features which increases a developer's productivity. It started with providing support for C# and VB.NET projects, but the current version supports developers in almost any type of applications which you can create with Visual Studio.
This book explains how to start using ReSharper and how you can configure it to suit your needs. In the beginning it focuses on introducing the most commonly used features that help you in writing code and find things in smarter, quicker ways. You will learn about code analysis which will help you to eliminate errors and code smells, and how ReSharper supports web development by providing support for writing ASP.NET (MVC) applications and JavaScript/TypeScript or HTML/CSS code. ...
Cocos2d-x Game Development EssentialsCocos2d-x is the C++ port of the most popular open source 2D framework in the world. Cocos2d-x is an amazing open source game engine that allows developers to exploit their existing C++, Lua, and JavaScript knowledge for cross-platform deployment into iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Tizen, and HTML5, saving you time, effort, and cost.
You will learn the essentials of Cocos2d-x through examples, by creating a game from scratch. The book starts with adding scenes and menus to the game. Furthermore, you can learn more about the varied features such as scene transitions, game sprites, moving the spaceship, and adding audio to make your game livelier. By the end of the book, you will be able to solve problems that may arise during the entire game development phase. ...
AngularJS: Up and RunningIf want to get started with AngularJS, either as a side project, an additional tool, or for your main work, this practical guide teaches you how to use this meta-framework step-by-step, from the basics to advanced concepts. By the end of the book, you'll understand how to develop a large, maintainable, and performant application with AngularJS.
Guided by two engineers who worked on AngularJS at Google, you'll learn the components needed to build data-driven applications, using declarative programming and the Model–view–controller pattern. You'll also learn how to conduct unit tests on each part of your application. ...
VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization SolutionsVMware Horizon 6 (with View) delivers virtualized desktops and applications through a single platform. It supports users, providing them with access to all of their Windows and online resources through one unified workspace, anywhere, using the device of their choice. The latest VDI release has brought with it various enhancements that will provide a better way to solve the common problems that occur while designing a VDI solution.
This book will guide you through how to produce a solid VDI solution with VMware Horizon 6 View, by combining best practices with actual installation challenges. ...
Getting Started with Beautiful SoupBeautiful Soup is a Python library designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for dissecting a document and extracting what you need without writing excess code for an application. It doesn't take much code to write an application using Beautiful Soup.
Getting Started with Beautiful Soup is a practical guide to Beautiful Soup using Python. The book starts by walking you through the installation of each and every feature of Beautiful Soup using simple examples which include sample Python codes as well as diagrams and screenshots wherever required for better understanding. ...
SQL Server 2012 with PowerShell V3 CookbookProvides over a hundred practical recipes that utilize PowerShell to automate, integrate and simplify SQL Server tasks.
Offers easy to follow, step-by-step guide to getting the most out of SQL Server and PowerShell.
Covers numerous guidelines, tips, and explanations on how and when to use PowerShell cmdlets, WMI, SMO, .NET classes or other components.
Builds a strong foundation that gets you comfortable using PowerShell with SQL Server - empowering you to create more complex scripts that you need in your day-to-day job. ...
Oracle 11g Anti-hacker's CookbookLearn to protect your sensitive data by using industry certified techniques.
Implement and use ultimate techniques in Oracle Security and new security features introduced in Oracle 11g R2.
Implement strong network communication security using different encryption solutions provided by Oracle Advanced Security. ...
Web Services Testing with soapUIBecome more proficient in testing web services included in your service-oriented solutions.
Find, analyze, reproduce bugs effectively by adhering to best web service testing approaches.
Learn with clear step-by-step instructions and hands-on examples on various topics related to web services testing using soapUI. ...