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Android Programming for Beginners

Learn all the Java and Android skills you need to start making powerful mobile applications

by John Horton, Paresh Mayani ...

Learn all the Java and Android skills you need to start making powerful mobile applicationsKey Features\[\*\]Kick-start your Android programming career, or just have fun publishing apps to the Google Play marketplace\[\*\]A first-principles introduction to Java, via Android, which means you’ll be able to start building your own applications from scratch\[\*\]Learn by example and build three real ... Read more

$47.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn all the Java and Android skills you need to start making powerful mobile applicationsKey Features\[\*\]Kick-start your Android programming career, or just have fun publishing apps to the Google Play marketplace\[\*\]A first-principles introduction to Java, via Android, which means you’ll be able to start building your own applications from scratch\[\*\]Learn by example and build three real
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JavaScript Essentials

by Smashing Magazine ...

Series series Smashing eBooks
The number of online solutions provided for JavaScript is growing every day. However, the workflow of Web developers and designers frequently culminates to confusion and disorientation due the information overflow. In order to organize this information and provide you with helpful guidelines to successfully optimize your next Web project, we offer you this Smashing eBook JavaScript Essentials ... Read more

$6.26 CAD

The number of online solutions provided for JavaScript is growing every day. However, the workflow of Web developers and designers frequently culminates to confusion and disorientation due the information overflow. In order to organize this information and provide you with helpful guidelines to successfully optimize your next Web project, we offer you this Smashing eBook JavaScript Essentials
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Log4J

by J. Steven Perry ...

Log4j has been around for a while now, and it seems like so many applications use it. I've used it in my applications for years now, and I'll bet you have too. But every time I need to do something with log4j I've never done before I find myself searching for examples of how to do whatever that is, and I don't usually have much luck. I believe the reason for this is that there is a not a great ... Read more

$5.39 CAD

Log4j has been around for a while now, and it seems like so many applications use it. I've used it in my applications for years now, and I'll bet you have too. But every time I need to do something with log4j I've never done before I find myself searching for examples of how to do whatever that is, and I don't usually have much luck. I believe the reason for this is that there is a not a great
... Read more
Making Android Accessories with IOIO

Going Mobile with Sensors, Lights, Motors, and Robots

by Simon Monk ...

Create your own electronic devices with the popular IOIO ("yoyo") board, and control them with your Android phone or tablet. With this concise guide, you’ll get started by building four example projects—after that, the possibilities for making your own fun and creative accessories with Android and IOIO are endless.To build Android/IOIO devices, you write the program on your computer, transfer it ... Read more

$6.29 CAD

Create your own electronic devices with the popular IOIO ("yoyo") board, and control them with your Android phone or tablet. With this concise guide, you’ll get started by building four example projects—after that, the possibilities for making your own fun and creative accessories with Android and IOIO are endless.To build Android/IOIO devices, you write the program on your computer, transfer it
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Pro Spring 5

An In-Depth Guide to the Spring Framework and Its Tools

by Clarence Ho, Rob Harrop, Chris Schaefer, Iuliana Cosmina ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Master Spring basics and core topics, and share the authors’ insights and real–world experiences with remoting, Hibernate, and EJB. Beyond the basics, you'll learn how to leverage the Spring Framework to build the various tiers and parts of an enterprise Java application: transactions, web and presentation tiers, deployment, and much more. A full sample application allows you to apply many of the ... Read more

$57.69 CAD

Master Spring basics and core topics, and share the authors’ insights and real–world experiences with remoting, Hibernate, and EJB. Beyond the basics, you'll learn how to leverage the Spring Framework to build the various tiers and parts of an enterprise Java application: transactions, web and presentation tiers, deployment, and much more. A full sample application allows you to apply many of the
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Java I/O

Tips and Techniques for Putting I/O to Work

by Elliotte Rusty Harold ...

All of Java's Input/Output (I/O) facilities are based on streams, which provide simple ways to read and write data of different types. Java provides many different kinds of streams, each with its own application. The universe of streams is divided into four largecategories: input streams and output streams, for reading and writing binary data; and readers and writers, for reading and writing ... Read more

$43.19 CAD

All of Java's Input/Output (I/O) facilities are based on streams, which provide simple ways to read and write data of different types. Java provides many different kinds of streams, each with its own application. The universe of streams is divided into four largecategories: input streams and output streams, for reading and writing binary data; and readers and writers, for reading and writing
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Head First Kotlin

A Brain-Friendly Guide

by Dawn Griffiths, David Griffiths ...

What will you learn from this book?Head First Kotlin is a complete introduction to coding in Kotlin. This hands-on book helps you learn the Kotlin language with a unique method that goes beyond syntax and how-to manuals and teaches you how to think like a great Kotlin developer. You’ll learn everything from language fundamentals to collections, generics, lambdas, and higher-order functions. Along ... Read more

$67.99 CAD

What will you learn from this book?Head First Kotlin is a complete introduction to coding in Kotlin. This hands-on book helps you learn the Kotlin language with a unique method that goes beyond syntax and how-to manuals and teaches you how to think like a great Kotlin developer. You’ll learn everything from language fundamentals to collections, generics, lambdas, and higher-order functions. Along
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Enterprise Service Bus

Theory in Practice

by David A Chappell ...

Large IT organizations increasingly face the challenge of integrating various web services, applications, and other technologies into a single network. The solution to finding a meaningful large-scale architecture that is capable of spanning a global enterprise appears to have been met in ESB, or Enterprise Service Bus. Rather than conform to the hub-and-spoke architecture of traditional ... Read more

$28.79 CAD

Large IT organizations increasingly face the challenge of integrating various web services, applications, and other technologies into a single network. The solution to finding a meaningful large-scale architecture that is capable of spanning a global enterprise appears to have been met in ESB, or Enterprise Service Bus. Rather than conform to the hub-and-spoke architecture of traditional
... Read more
Java 8 Lambdas

Pragmatic Functional Programming

by Richard Warburton ...

If you’re a developer with core Java SE skills, this hands-on book takes you through the language changes in Java 8 triggered by the addition of lambda expressions. You’ll learn through code examples, exercises, and fluid explanations how these anonymous functions will help you write simple, clean, library-level code that solves business problems.Lambda expressions are a fairly simple change to ... Read more

$28.79 CAD

If you’re a developer with core Java SE skills, this hands-on book takes you through the language changes in Java 8 triggered by the addition of lambda expressions. You’ll learn through code examples, exercises, and fluid explanations how these anonymous functions will help you write simple, clean, library-level code that solves business problems.Lambda expressions are a fairly simple change to
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Web Services Essentials

Distributed Applications with XML-RPC, SOAP, UDDI & WSDL

by Ethan Cerami ...

As a developer new to Web Services, how do you make sense of this emerging framework so you can start writing your own services today? This concise book gives programmers both a concrete introduction and a handy reference to XML web services, first by explaining the foundations of this new breed of distributed services, and then by demonstrating quick ways to create services with open-source Java ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

As a developer new to Web Services, how do you make sense of this emerging framework so you can start writing your own services today? This concise book gives programmers both a concrete introduction and a handy reference to XML web services, first by explaining the foundations of this new breed of distributed services, and then by demonstrating quick ways to create services with open-source Java
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Head First Android Development

A Learner's Guide to Building Android Apps with Kotlin

by Dawn Griffiths, David Griffiths ...

What will you learn from this book?If you have an idea for a killer Android app, this fully revised and updated edition will get you up and running in a jiffy. You'll go beyond syntax and how-to manuals and learn how to think like a great Android developer. This hands-on book teaches you everything from designing user interfaces to building multi-screen apps that persist data in a database. It ... Read more

$77.59 CAD

What will you learn from this book?If you have an idea for a killer Android app, this fully revised and updated edition will get you up and running in a jiffy. You'll go beyond syntax and how-to manuals and learn how to think like a great Android developer. This hands-on book teaches you everything from designing user interfaces to building multi-screen apps that persist data in a database. It
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Practical JIRA Plugins

Using JIRA Effectively: Custom Development

by Matthew B. Doar ...

One advantage of using JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, or project management is the ability to extend this tool with hundreds of plugins from the JIRA community. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar—the author of Practical JIRA Administration—shows you how to create and maintain your own JIRA plugins to meet the specific needs of a project.This book uses detailed examples to ... Read more

$16.79 CAD

One advantage of using JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, or project management is the ability to extend this tool with hundreds of plugins from the JIRA community. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar—the author of Practical JIRA Administration—shows you how to create and maintain your own JIRA plugins to meet the specific needs of a project.This book uses detailed examples to
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RESTful Java with JAX-RS 2.0

Designing and Developing Distributed Web Services

by Bill Burke ...

Learn how to design and develop distributed web services in Java, using RESTful architectural principles and the JAX-RS 2.0 specification in Java EE 7. By focusing on implementation rather than theory, this hands-on reference demonstrates how easy it is to get started with services based on the REST architecture.With the book’s technical guide, you’ll learn how REST and JAX-RS work and when to use ... Read more

$26.39 CAD

Learn how to design and develop distributed web services in Java, using RESTful architectural principles and the JAX-RS 2.0 specification in Java EE 7. By focusing on implementation rather than theory, this hands-on reference demonstrates how easy it is to get started with services based on the REST architecture.With the book’s technical guide, you’ll learn how REST and JAX-RS work and when to use
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Java for Black Jack: Learn the Java Programming Language in One Session by Writing and Running a Java-Based Card Game Simulation

by U.Q. Magnusson ...

Have you ever wished you could learn a new skill with one reading? Especially a skill that could pay you over $100,000 a year? Wish no longer. With his latest title, Java for Black Jack, famed teacher U.Q. Magnusson will get you going in the dominant programming language of the Internet, Java.Within this compact, easy-to-read Micro-Manual, you will learn the Java programming language by writing ... Read more

$4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Have you ever wished you could learn a new skill with one reading? Especially a skill that could pay you over $100,000 a year? Wish no longer. With his latest title, Java for Black Jack, famed teacher U.Q. Magnusson will get you going in the dominant programming language of the Internet, Java.Within this compact, easy-to-read Micro-Manual, you will learn the Java programming language by writing
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J2EE Design Patterns

Patterns in the Real World

by William Crawford, Jonathan Kaplan ...

Architects of buildings and architects of software have more in common than most people think. Both professions require attention to detail, and both practitioners will see their work collapse around them if they make too many mistakes. It's impossible to imagine a world in which buildings get built without blueprints, but it's still common for software applications to be designed and built ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

Architects of buildings and architects of software have more in common than most people think. Both professions require attention to detail, and both practitioners will see their work collapse around them if they make too many mistakes. It's impossible to imagine a world in which buildings get built without blueprints, but it's still common for software applications to be designed and built
... Read more
Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices

Build scalable applications using traditional, reactive, and concurrent design patterns in Kotlin, 2nd Edition

by Alexey Soshin, Anton Arhipov ...

Future-proof your applications with best practices and design patterns in KotlinKey FeaturesUnderstand traditional and modern design patterns to improve the design of your applicationCombine the benefits of object-oriented, functional, reactive, and concurrent programmingChoose the best microservices architecture and frameworks for your web applicationBook DescriptionThis book shows you how easy ... Read more

$39.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Future-proof your applications with best practices and design patterns in KotlinKey FeaturesUnderstand traditional and modern design patterns to improve the design of your applicationCombine the benefits of object-oriented, functional, reactive, and concurrent programmingChoose the best microservices architecture and frameworks for your web applicationBook DescriptionThis book shows you how easy
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Effective Akka

Patterns and Best Practices

by Jamie Allen ...

Avoid common mistakes when building distributed, asynchronous, high-performance software with the Akka toolkit and runtime. With this concise guide, author Jamie Allen provides a collection of best practices based on several years of using the actor model. The book also includes examples of actor application types and two primary patterns of actor usage, the Extra Pattern and Cameo Pattern.Allen, ... Read more

$12.79 CAD

Avoid common mistakes when building distributed, asynchronous, high-performance software with the Akka toolkit and runtime. With this concise guide, author Jamie Allen provides a collection of best practices based on several years of using the actor model. The book also includes examples of actor application types and two primary patterns of actor usage, the Extra Pattern and Cameo Pattern.Allen,
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Applied Akka Patterns

A Hands-On Guide to Designing Distributed Applications

by Michael Nash, Wade Waldron ...

When it comes to big data processing, we can no longer ignore concurrency or try to add it in after the fact. Fortunately, the solution is not a new paradigm of development, but rather an old one. With this hands-on guide, Java and Scala developers will learn how to embrace concurrent and distributed applications with the open source Akka toolkit. You’ll learn how to put the actor model and its ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

When it comes to big data processing, we can no longer ignore concurrency or try to add it in after the fact. Fortunately, the solution is not a new paradigm of development, but rather an old one. With this hands-on guide, Java and Scala developers will learn how to embrace concurrent and distributed applications with the open source Akka toolkit. You’ll learn how to put the actor model and its
... Read more
JBoss at Work: A Practical Guide

A Practical Guide

by Tom Marrs, Scott Davis ...

Consisting of a number of well-known open source products, JBoss is more a family of interrelated services than a single monolithic application. But, as with any tool that's as feature-rich as JBoss, there are number of pitfalls and complexities, too.Most developers struggle with the same issues when deploying J2EE applications on JBoss: they have trouble getting the many J2EE and JBoss deployment ... Read more

$25.59 CAD

Consisting of a number of well-known open source products, JBoss is more a family of interrelated services than a single monolithic application. But, as with any tool that's as feature-rich as JBoss, there are number of pitfalls and complexities, too.Most developers struggle with the same issues when deploying J2EE applications on JBoss: they have trouble getting the many J2EE and JBoss deployment
... Read more
Java Programming for Kids: Learn Java Step By Step and Build Your Own Interactive Calculator for Fun!

by R. Chandler Thompson ...

Ever use that free calculator application on your computer? Probably, but chances are it was such an unmemorable experience that you couldn’t say for sure whether you have or not.What if that calculator knew your name? What if it carried on a conversation with you, and asked you questions? You’d probably remember it a little better! Maybe even make a point of using it whenever you needed to crack ... Read more

$3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Ever use that free calculator application on your computer? Probably, but chances are it was such an unmemorable experience that you couldn’t say for sure whether you have or not.What if that calculator knew your name? What if it carried on a conversation with you, and asked you questions? You’d probably remember it a little better! Maybe even make a point of using it whenever you needed to crack
... Read more
Building and Testing with Gradle

Understanding Next-Generation Builds

by Tim Berglund, Matthew McCullough ...

Build and test software written in Java and many other languages with Gradle, the open source project automation tool that’s getting a lot of attention. This concise introduction provides numerous code examples to help you explore Gradle, both as a build tool and as a complete solution for automating the compilation, test, and release process of simple and enterprise-level applications.Discover ... Read more

$15.19 CAD

Build and test software written in Java and many other languages with Gradle, the open source project automation tool that’s getting a lot of attention. This concise introduction provides numerous code examples to help you explore Gradle, both as a build tool and as a complete solution for automating the compilation, test, and release process of simple and enterprise-level applications.Discover
... Read more
Performance Testing With JMeter 2.9

by Bayo Erinle ...

Performance Testing With JMeter 2.9 is a standard tutorial that will help you polish your fundamentals, guide you through various advanced topics, and along the process help you learn new tools and skills.This book is for developers, quality assurance engineers, testers, and test managers new to Apache JMeter, or those who are looking to get a good grounding in how to effectively use and become ... Read more

$27.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Performance Testing With JMeter 2.9 is a standard tutorial that will help you polish your fundamentals, guide you through various advanced topics, and along the process help you learn new tools and skills.This book is for developers, quality assurance engineers, testers, and test managers new to Apache JMeter, or those who are looking to get a good grounding in how to effectively use and become
... Read more
Getting Started with Roo

Rapid Application Development for Java and Spring

by Josh Long, Steve Mayzak ...

Spring Roo goes a step beyond the Spring Framework by bringing true Rapid Application Development to Java—just as Grails has done with Groovy. This concise introduction shows you how to build applications with Roo, using the framework's shell as an intelligent and timesaving code-completion tool. It's an ideal RAD tool because Roo does much of the tedious code maintenance.You'll get started by ... Read more

$13.59 CAD

Spring Roo goes a step beyond the Spring Framework by bringing true Rapid Application Development to Java—just as Grails has done with Groovy. This concise introduction shows you how to build applications with Roo, using the framework's shell as an intelligent and timesaving code-completion tool. It's an ideal RAD tool because Roo does much of the tedious code maintenance.You'll get started by
... Read more
Docker and Kubernetes for Java Developers

Scale, deploy, and monitor multi-container applications

by Jaroslaw Krochmalski, Jarosław Krochmalski ...

Leverage the lethal combination of Docker and Kubernetes to automate deployment and management of Java applications Key FeaturesMaster using Docker and Kubernetes to build, deploy and manage Java applications in a jiffLearn how to create your own Docker image and customize your own cluster using KubernetesEmpower the journey from development to production using this practical guide.Book ... Read more

$41.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Leverage the lethal combination of Docker and Kubernetes to automate deployment and management of Java applications Key FeaturesMaster using Docker and Kubernetes to build, deploy and manage Java applications in a jiffLearn how to create your own Docker image and customize your own cluster using KubernetesEmpower the journey from development to production using this practical guide.Book
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