Ebooks Review

bash Pocket Reference /by Arnold Robbins (Author) .It's simple: you need to know how to work with the bash shell if you want to get to the heart of Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unix systems. Updated for the most recent version of bash, this concise little book puts all of the essential information about bash at your fingertips. Yo ... Read more »

Beginning Hibernate, Second Edition /by Jeff Linwood (Author), Dave Minter (Author) .Beginning Hibernate, Second Edition is ideal if you’re experienced in Java with databases (the traditional, or “connected,” approach), but new to open source, lightweight Hibernate—the de facto object-relational mapping and datab ... Read more »

Entity Framework 4.0 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach /by Larry Tenny (Author), Zeeshan Hirani (Author) .Entity Framework 4.0 Recipes provides an exhaustive collection of ready-to-use code solutions for Microsoft’s Entity Framework, Microsoft’s vision for the future of data access. Entity Framework is a model-centric data acces ... Read more »

Visual Basic Game Programming with DirectX /by Jonathan S. Harbour (Author) .Think Visual Basic is just to slow to write a decent game? Think again! Microsoft Visual Basic Game Programming with DirectX gives you all of the tricks and techniques that you need to create awesome games using Visual Basic. Offering equal pa ... Read more »

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC /by Dino Esposito (Author) .Delve into the features, principles, and pillars of the ASP.NET MVC framework-deftly guided by Web development luminary Dino Esposito. ASP.NET MVC forces developers to think in terms of distinct components-model, view, controller-that make it eas ... Read more »

Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Step by Step /by George Shepherd (Author) .Teach yourself the fundamentals of Web development with ASP.NET 4-one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you get the guidance and learn-by-doing examples you need to start building Web applications and Web services in the Microsoft Visual Studio® 2010 enviro ... Read more »

Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers /by Daniel H. Steinberg (Author) .Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers shows you how to get productive with Cocoa-fast! We won't walk you through every class and method in the API (but we will show you where to find that information). Instead, ... Read more »

Mathematica Cookbook /by Sal Mangano (Author) .Mathematica Cookbook helps you master the application's core principles by walking you through real-world problems. Ideal for browsing, this book includes recipes for working with numerics, data structures, algebraic equations, calculus, and statistics. You'll also ventur ... Read more »

Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4 /by Matthew MacDonald (Author) .Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides the foundation for building applications and high-quality user experiences for the Windows operating system. It blends the application user interface, documents, and media conte ... Read more »

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development: Beginners Guide /by Cameron Albert (Author), Frank LaVigne (Author) .Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plug-in that enables features including animation, vector graphics, and audio-video playback--features that characterize ... Read more »

Java: The Good Parts /by Jim Waldo (Author) .What if you could condense Java down to its very best features and build better applications with that simpler version? In this book, veteran Sun Labs engineer Jim Waldo reveals which parts of Java are most useful, and why those features make Java among the best programming languages ... Read more »

Pro WPF in VB 2010 /by Matthew MacDonald (Author) .Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides the foundation for building applications and high-quality user experiences for the Windows operating system. It blends the application user interface, documents, and media content, while exploi ... Read more »

iPhone for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach /by Paul Deitel (Author), Harvey Deitel (Author), Abbey Deitel (Author), Eric Kern (Author), Michael Morgano (Author) .More than 1.5 billion iPhone apps were downloaded from Apple’s App Store in just one year! This book gives you everything you’ll need to ... Read more »

Professional SlickEdit /by John Hurst (Author). Professional SlickEditis the first guide to the award-winning SlickEdit tools, and is technically reviewed by the SlickEdit development team. SlickEdit expert John Hurst shares his years of experience in developing with SlickEdit to teach readers how to maximize the tool's f ... Read more »

Geekonomics The Real Cost of Insecure Software /by David Rice (Author) .Software has become crucial to the very survival of civilization. But badly written, insecure software is hurting people–and costing businesses and individuals billions of dollars every year. This must change. In Gee ... Read more »