Ebooks Review

The Economics of Software Quality /by Capers Jones and Olivier Bonsignour. Poor quality continues to bedevil large-scale development projects, but few software leaders and practitioners know how to measure quality, select quality best practices, or cost-justify their usage. In The Econo ... Read more »

Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X Lion in 10 Minutes /by Brad Miser. This book offers straightforward, practical information designed to get you up and running quickly and easily. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to know to effectively use Mac OS X Lion. Each compact lesson zeros ... Read more »

Sams Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 Hours /by Lauren Darcey, Shane Conder. Android is the world's #1 mobile development platform, and with the new Android 3.0, it's becoming as popular for tablets as it is for smartphones. If you are a beginner, in just 24 lessons of one hour or less ... Read more »

Cartesian Genetic Programming /by Julian F. Miller. Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) is a highly effective and increasingly popular form of genetic programming. It represents programs in the form of directed graphs, and a particular characteristic is that it has a highly redundant genotype–pheno ... Read more »

Objective-C Fundamentals /by Christopher Fairbairn, Collin Ruffenach, Johannes Fahrenkrug. Objective-C Fundamentals guides you gradually from your first line of Objective-C code through the process of building native apps for the iPhone. Starting with chapter one, you’ll dive into iPhone development by building a ... Read more »

Portlets in Action /by Ashish Sarin. Portlets in Action is a comprehensive guide to building portlet-driven applications in Java. It teaches portlet development hands-on as you develop a portal that incorporates most key features of the Portlet 2.0 API. And because portals and portlets a ... Read more »

Rails 3 in Action /by Yehuda Katz and Ryan Bigg . Rails 3 is a full stack, open source web framework powered by Ruby and this book is an introduction to it. Whether you’re just starting or you have a few cycles under your belt, you’ll appreciate the book’s guru’s-eye-view of idiomatic Rails programmin ... Read more »

Computer Organization and Embedded Systems /by Carl Hamacher, Zvonko Vranesic, Safwat Zaky and Naraig Manjikian. The sixth edition of this book covers the key topics in computer organization and embedded systems.
It presents hardware design principles and shows how hardware design is influenced by the requirements of so ... Read more »

Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming /by Daniel Sanchez-Crespo Dalmau. To even try to keep pace with the rapid evolution of game development, you need a strong foundation in core programming techniques-not a hefty volume on one narrow topic or one that devotes itself to ... Read more »

Domain of Attraction: Analysis and Control via SOS Programming /by Graziano Chesi. For nonlinear dynamical systems, which represent the majority of real devices, any study of stability requires the investigation of the domain of attraction of an equilibrium point, i.e. the set of initial conditions from which the trajectory of the sy ... Read more »

Self-organising Software: From Natural to Artificial Adaptation /by Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Marie-Pierre Gleizes and Anthony Karageorgos. Self-organisation, self-regulation, self-repair and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches for dealing with complex distributed i ... Read more »

Model-Driven Software Development /by Sami Beydeda, Matthias Book and Volker Gruhn. Abstraction is the most basic principle of software engineering. Abstractions are provided by models. Modeling and model transformation constitute the core of model-driven development. Models can be refined and finally ... Read more »

Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects: A step-by-step tutorial to building web mashups /by Chang Sau Sheong (Author). A web mashup is a new type of web application that uses data and services from one or more external sources to build entirely new and different web applications. Web mashups usually mash up data and services ... Read more »

Go Programming /by John P. Baugh (Jun 16, 2010) . Google's new programming language Go has caused a lot of excitement. As a modern systems programming language, Go offers significant advantages over older languages like C, C++, and Java. This book, "Go Programming" takes an example-based approa ... Read more »

Average Time Complexity of Decision Trees /by Igor Chikalov. Decision tree is a widely used form of representing algorithms and knowledge. Compact data models and fast algorithms require optimization of tree complexity. This book is a research monograph on average time complexity of decisi ... Read more »