Ebooks Review

The R Book /by Michael J. Crawley. The high-level language of R is recognized as one of the most powerful and flexible statistical software environments, and is rapidly becoming the standard setting for quantitative analysis, statistics and graphics. R provides free access to unrivalled coverage and cu ... Read more »

Flash Development for Android Cookbook /by Joseph Labrecque. Over 100 recipes to build exciting Android applications with Flash, Flex, and AIR
The quickest way to solve your problems with building Flash applications for Android
Contains a variety of recipes to demonstrate mob ... Read more »

EJB 3.1 Cookbook /by Richard Reese. Enterprise Java Beans enable rapid and simplified development of secure and portable applications based on Java technology.Creating and using EJBs can be challenging and rewarding. Among the challenges are learning the EJB technology itself, learning how to use the d ... Read more »

Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6 /by Guillermo Musumeci. XenApp 6 is the leader in application hosting and virtualization delivery, allowing users from different platforms such Windows, Mac, Linux, and mobile devices to connect to their business applications. It reduces resources and costs for ap ... Read more »

Computer Vision Using Local Binary Patterns /by Matti Pietikäinen, Abdenour Hadid, Guoying Zhao and Timo Ahonen. The recent emergence of Local Binary Patterns (LBP) has led to significant progress in applying texture methods to various computer vision problems and applications. The focus of this research ... Read more »

The Python Standard Library by Example /by Doug Hellmann. The Python Standard Library contains hundreds of modules for interacting with the operating system, interpreter, and Internet—all extensively tested and ready to jump-start your application development. The Python Standard Library by Ex ... Read more »

Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software /by Gojko Adzic. Specification by Example is a must read for anyone serious about delivering software that matters. In it, author Gojko Adzic shares the secrets of how teams all over the world specify, develop, test, and deli ... Read more »

iOS 4 in Action: Examples and Solutions for iPhone & iPad /by Jocelyn Harrington, Brandon Trebitowski, Christopher Allen and Shannon Appelcline. iOS 4, Apple's advanced mobile operating system, has introduced new and improved features to the iPhone/iPad SDK, including multitasking, the acceleromete ... Read more »

JIRA 4 Essentials /by Patrick Li. This book is a step-by-step tutorial and is packed with practical examples that will make learning JIRA easy. If you want to get started with JIRA, then this is the perfect book for you. You will need to be familiar with basic computer knowledge for your or your organ ... Read more »

Real World XML (2nd Edition) /by Steve Holzner. Inside XML is an intelligent and easy-to-follow guide to today's proliferating XML standards. Aside from being a road map to the latest and greatest in what's on the horizon with XML, this book gives you what you need to know to be productive with ... Read more »

Quaternions for Computer Graphics /by John Vince. Sir William Rowan Hamilton was a genius, and will be remembered for his significant contributions to physics and mathematics. The Hamiltonian, which is used in quantum physics to describe the total energy of a system, would have been a major achievement f ... Read more »

Using XML: Special Edition /by Lee Anne Phillips. The book delves into the programming realm--where its strength lies, incidentally--after a couple of obligatory "Intro to XML" chapters. Because XML, being a comparatively simple language, is more frequently about understanding when or why to use a particu ... Read more »

Cocoa and Objective-C Cookbook /by Jeff Hawkins. Written in a cookbook style, this book offers solutions using a recipe-based approach. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by an analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. The cookbook approach means you can dive ... Read more »

Umbraco User's Guide /By Nik Wahlberg, Paul Sterling. The first guide to show you how to power your site using Umbraco.More companies are turning to the power and simplicity of Umbraco’s web content management system to build robust, customized sites. Written by leaders in the Umbraco commun ... Read more »

The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game /by Lee Sheldon. THE MULTIPLAYER CLASSROOM: DESIGNING COURSEWORK AS A GAME is a how-to guide to creating games for the classroom to better reach today's students. The book shows the reader how to create a teaching tool that will engage ... Read more »