Practical JIRA Administration
Publication Date: June 10, 2011 If you’re familiar with JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, and other uses, you know it can sometimes be tricky to set up and manage. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar clarifies some of the more… more
Think Stats 2011
Publication Date: July 22, 2011 If you know how to program, you have the skills to turn data into knowledge using the tools of probability and statistics. This concise introduction shows you how to perform statistical analysis computationally, rather than mathematically, with programs… more
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Digital Classroom
This 800 page book and DVD combination provides a complete training package covering Creative Suite 5 Design Premium! Twenty self-paced lessons help you discover the basics of page layout, vector graphics, photo editing, document management, Web design, animation, and file management. Step-by-step instructions… more
XML Visual QuickStart Guide 2nd Edition
What is XML? XML, or eXtensible Markup Language, is a specification for storing information. It is also a specification for describing the structure of that information. And while XML is a markup language (just like HTML), XML has no tags of its own.… more
The Python Standard Library
“Hellmann’s writing has become an indispensable resource for me and many others as it fills a critical gap in Python Documentation with examples.” — Jesse Noller, Python Core Developer and PSF Board Member Master the Powerful Python Standard Library through Real Code Examples… more
Teach Yourself Facebook for Business in 10 Minutes
Sams Teach Yourself Facebook® for Business in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn how to profit from Facebook’s powerful new business tools: Facebook Pages, Places, Deals, Ads, and more!… more
Programming in Objective C 2.0 3rd Edition
Programming in Objective-C is a concise, carefully written tutorial on the basics of Objective-C and object-oriented programming for the iOS and Mac platforms. The book makes no assumptions about prior experience with object-oriented programming languages or with the C language (which Objective-C is… more
ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University
Gary Rosenzweig’s ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University shows you how to use ActionScript, the programming language behind Flash CS3 Professional. The lessons teach you all the basics of ActionScript programming through game examples, but the code can be easily adapted to non-game-oriented projects,… more
The Open Innovation Marketplace
The Open Innovation Marketplace introduces groundbreaking strategies for leveraging a world of innovators to develop breakthrough products faster, with lower cost and risk. Drawing on their experience building InnoCentive, the pioneering open innovation platform, the authors show how to dramatically increase the flow… more
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
We design to elicit responses from people. We want them to buy something, read more, or take action of some kind. Designing without understanding what makes people act the way they do is like exploring a new city without a map: results will… more
OpenLayers 2 10 Beginners Guide
Create, optimize, and deploy stunning cross-browser web maps with the OpenLayers JavaScript web mapping library Learn how to use OpenLayers through explanation and example Create dynamic web map mashups using Google Maps and other third-party APIs Customize your map’s functionality and appearance Deploy… more
Python 3 Web Development Beginners Guide
About the Author Michel Anders Michel Anders, after his chemistry and physics studies where he spent more time on computer simulations than on real world experiments, the author found his real interests lay with IT and Internet technology, and worked as an IT… more
OpenCart 1.4 Template Design Cookbook 2011
This hands-on guide cuts short the preamble and gets straight to the point with practical recipes instead of just theoretical learning. Each recipe is specifically tailored to fulfill your appetite for creating professional visually stunning templates and themes for your OpenCart store. You… more
Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6 2 Strategy Implementation
This is both a practical and theoretical guide detailing how to deploy a successful ProVision® strategy, using a number of real business cases along the way. Unlike other architecture books, the approach is holistic – it looks at the whole lifecycle of building… more
Moodle 2 0 for Business Beginners Guide 2011
Part of Packt’s Beginner’s Guide series, each chapter looks at a different aspect of using Moodle in a business environment, and steadily guides the reader through setting Moodle up in their own business with the help of practical examples, accompanied by lots of… more
Android Application Testing Guide
About the Author Diego Torres Milano Diego Torres Milano has been involved with the Android platform since its inception, when he started exploring and researching the platform’s possibilities, mainly in the areas of User Interfaces, Unit and Acceptance Tests, and Test Driven Development.… more
Network Warrior 2nd Edition
ISBN-10: 1449387861 | ISBN-13: 978-1449387860 | Publication Date: June 2, 2011 | Edition: Second Edition Pick up where certification exams leave off. With this practical, in-depth guide to the entire network infrastructure, you’ll learn how to deal with real Cisco networks, rather than… more
Learning Perl
If you’re just getting started with Perl, this is the book you want—whether you’re a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Nicknamed “the Llama” by two generations of users, this bestseller closely follows the popular introductory Perl course taught by the authors since… more
Making Isometric Social Real Time Games with HTML5 CSS3 and JavaScript
Anyone familiar with Zynga’s Farmville understands how fun and addictive real-time social games can be. This hands-on guide shows you how to design and build one of these games from start to finish, with nothing but open source tools. You’ll learn how to… more
Developing Android Applications with Flex 4 5
Ready to put your ActionScript 3 skills to work on mobile apps? This hands-on book walks you through the process of creating an Adobe AIR application from start to finish, using the Flex 4.5 framework. Move quickly from a basic Hello World application… more
Concurrent Programming in Mac OS X and iOS
Now that multicore processors are coming to mobile devices, wouldn’t it be great to take advantage of all those cores without having to manage threads? This concise book shows you how to use Apple’s Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) to simplify programming on multicore… more
The Secret Life of Steve Jobs
Fake Steve the counterintuitive management guru: “Obviously we can’t literally put our employees’ lives at risk. But we have to make them feel that way.” Fake Steve the celebrity hobnobber: “I like Bono. He’s the only person I know who’s more self-absorbed than… more
Modular Neural Networks and Type 2 Fuzzy Systems for Pattern Recognition
This book describes hybrid intelligent systems using type-2 fuzzy logic and modular neural networks for pattern recognition applications. Hybrid intelligent systems combine several intelligent computing paradigms, including fuzzy logic, neural networks, and bio-inspired optimization algorithms, which can be used to produce powerful pattern… more
