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Review of Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design

swillerton — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:44:27 +0000

ISBN or ASIN: 9780321543738 Cover Image: essential.JPG Book Author(s): Alan Shalloway Scott Bain Ken Pugh ...

Mobile Learning to cook with WP 7.5 data (a book review)

timdams — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:44:26 +0000

Recently I received a review copy of the “Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook” by Ramesh Thalli from Packt Publishing (ISBN 978-1-84969-122-2). This book, divided in 8 chapters, shows how simple it is to write data-driven programs WP7 applications. What follows is an extensive review of this book. References Reference: Mobile Learning to cook...

"Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth" 2nd edition, free Windows Phone 7.1(5) PDF now available

gduncan411 — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:43:24 +0000

Windows Phone Geek - New FREE e-book: Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth 2nd edition "We are pleased to announce that we have just released our new FREE e-book "Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth" 2nd edition by Boryana Miloshevska.References Reference: "Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth" 2nd edition, free Windows Phone 7.1(5)...

31 Days of Mango - eBooked (for purchase)

gduncan411 — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:48:38 +0000

Blankenblog - 31 Days of Mango | Now In eBook Format! "The entire series, 31 Days of Mango, is now available in e-book format for Kindle and Nook! If you would like to read all of these articles on-the-go, while supporting the developers that wrote them, they are now available for in the Nook and Kindle stores!References Reference: 31...

Free eBook - "Razor View Engine in MVC 3"

gduncan411 — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:18:19 +0000

Itorian - Razor View Engine in MVC 3 "In this e-book you will learn all about Razor View Engine introduced in MVC 3. I will walk through the simple steps and even I will keep my ideas simple so that you can understand the Razor View Engine better. My aim through this e-book is to teach Razor so I am going to play a little loose with rest all. References Reference: ...

The Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF)

jsugrue — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:31:37 +0000

ISBN or ASIN: 0321718380 Book Author(s): Dan Rubel Jamie Wren Eric Clayberg Publisher: Addison-Wesley ...

Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server Published

hull_j — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:24:27 +0000

We are pleased to announce that Eric Pugh and David Smiley have published the second Solr book in publication, Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server. It is an update to the blockbuster Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server, and is available at Packt Publishing.References Reference: Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server Published ...

Microsoft SQLServer 2008 R2 Master Data Services

swillerton — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:53:33 +0000

ISBN or ASIN: 978-0-07-175623-5 Cover Image: mds.JPG Book Author(s): Tyler Graham Suzanne Selhorn Publisher: ...

Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing

swillerton — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:52:54 +0000

ISBN or ASIN: 978-0-321-50481-4 Cover Image: agile.JPG Book Author(s): Ken Collier Publisher: Addison-Wesley ...

Ask DZ: What Book Do You Think Every Programmer Should Read?

johnesposito — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:13:49 +0000

Do you ever think about all the great books for programmers, and then form your opinion on the one book that every programmer should read? Maybe a traditionalist will pick Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Or maybe Fred Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month, for a more human-oriented take. Article Type: Opinion/Editorial ...

HTML5 for Web designers: free intro book online

johnesposito — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:39:32 +0000

Jeremy Keith's HTML5 for Web Designers is up for free web perusal.The book is quick and clear -- a high-level overview, much punchier and more readable than the full spec.I'm a bit of a web fogey, and found Keith's book spot-on what I needed to catch up.

Ops Needs their own TDD: Test -Driven Infrastructure

mitchp — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:59:50 +0000

The recently published book "Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef" is not a proscriptive book as far as tooling, despite having "Chef" in the title. John Arundel a sysadmin and architect just gave an awesome, to-the-point review of the book, which is that even though there's a debate raging over which is better, Puppet or Chef, there's one thing that most people agree on:...

Mahout in Action Review

gingersoll — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:44:43 +0000

You know your (technical) baby is (almost) grown up when the book on the project finally comes out. Such is the case for Apache Mahout, thanks to Manning Publications shipping Mahout in Action this week. So, before I start into my review, let me first say congratulations to Sean, Robin, Ted, Ellen and Manning for producing such an excellent product.References Reference: ...

Pro JPA 2 Mastering the Java Persistence API

dr_pompeii — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:32:24 +0000

ISBN or ASIN: 978-1-4302-1956-9 Book Author(s): Mike Keith Merrick Schincariol Publisher: Apress Publication Date: ...

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jvmoscat — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:24:38 +0000

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