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12 Essential Skills for Software Architects *****
Dave Hendricksen
Master the Crucial Non-Technical Skills Every Software Architect Needs!   Thousands of software professionals have the necessary technical qualifications to become architects, but far fewer have the crucial non-technical skills needed to get hired an...
Arduino Cookbook ****
Michael Margolis
Create your own toys, remote controllers, alarms, detectors, robots, and many other projects with the Arduino device. This simple microcontroller board lets artists and designers build a variety of amazing objects and prototypes that interact with th...
The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .NET ****
Roy Osherove
Unit testing, done right, can mean the diff erence between a failed project and a successful one, between a maintainable code base and a code base that no one dares touch, and between getting home at 2 AM or getting home in time for dinner, even befo...
Becoming Agile: --In an Imperfect World
Greg Smith and Ahmed Sidky
Many books discuss Agile from a theoretical or academic perspective. Becoming Agile takes a different approach and focuses on explaining Agile from a case-study perspective. Agile principles are discussed, explained, and then demonstrated in the cont...
Beginning: iOS 5 Application Development
Wei-Meng Lee
The ideal starting point for iPhone and iPad app development with iOS 5If you want to develop apps for Apple's iPhone and iPad, first you need to know how to use the tools--iPhone's new iOS 5 operating system and SDK, and the new xCode toolset that c...
Building IPhone Apps With HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa ****
Jonathan Stark
What people are saying about *Building iPhone Apps w/ HTML, CSS, and JavaScript*"The future of mobile development is clearly web technologies like CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Jonathan Stark shows you how to leverage your existing web development skills...
C# 3.0 Cookbook ****
Jay Hilyard and Stephen Teilhet
Completely updated for C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 platform, the new edition of this bestseller offers more than 250 code recipes to common and not-so-common problems that C# programmers face every day. Every recipe in the book has been reconsidered with...
C# 5.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference ****
Joseph Albahari and Ben Albahari
When you have a question about C# 5.0 or the .NET CLR, this bestselling guide has precisely the answers you need. Uniquely organized around concepts and use cases, this updated fifth edition features a reorganized section on concurrency, threading, a...
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
Robert C. Martin
&> Programmers who endure and succeed amidst swirling uncertainty and nonstop pressure share a common attribute: They care deeply about the practice of creating software. They treat it as a craft. They are professionals. In The Clean Coder: A ...
Coding Faster: Getting More Productive With Microsoft Visual Studio: Covers Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 ****
Zain Naboulsi and Sara Ford
Expert advice to help you work smarter and increase your productivity with Visual Studio.Take a detailed look into Visual Studio—and learn practical techniques to help you work more efficiently. This fully revised and expanded version of Visual Studi...
Data Architecture: From Zen to Reality **
Charles Tupper
ReviewI am extremely thrilled that Mr. Tupper has decided to write this book. This book would fill a void in knowledge and know-how in the area of data administration and architecture. Mr. Tupper built over the years an impressive expertise and autho...
Dependency Injection in .NET ****
Mark Seemann
Dependency Injection in .NET presents core DI patterns in plain C#, so you'll fully understand how DI works, covers integration with standard Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET MVC, and teaches you to use DI frameworks like Structure Map, Castle Win...
Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet With Open Source Tools ****
Gary E. Sherman
"Desktop GIS" explores the world of Open Source GIS software and provides a guide to navigate the many options available. Discover what kind of GIS user you are and lay the foundation to evaluate the options and decide what software is best for you. ...
The Developer's Code ****
Ka Wai Cheung
The Developer's Code isn't about the code you write, it's about the code you live by.There are no trite superlatives here. Packed with lessons learned from more than a decade of software development experience, author Ka Wai Cheung takes you through ...
Entity Framework 4.0 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Larry Tenny and Zeeshan Hirani
Entity Framework 4.0 Recipesprovides an exhaustive collection of ready-to-use code solutions for Entity Framework, Microsoft's vision for the future of data access. Entity Framework is a model-centric data access platform with an ocean of new concept...
GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Web Applications ****
Scott Davis
There is a hidden revolution going on: geography is moving from niche to the mainstream. News reports routinely include maps and satellite images. More and more pieces of equipment cell phones, cars, computers now contain Global Positioning System (G...
Head First IPhone and IPad Development: A Learner's Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the IPhone and IPad
Tracey Pilone and Dan Pilone
Let's say you have a killer app idea for iPhone and iPad. Where do you begin? Head First iPhone and iPad Development will help you get your first application up and running in no time. You'll not only learn how to design for Apple's devices, you'll a...
Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build ****
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi and William Bartholomew
As software complexity increases, proper build practices become ever more important. This essential reference—fully updated for Visual Studio 2010—drills inside MSBuild and shows you how to maximize your control over the build and deployment process....
Location-Aware Applications ****
Richard Ferraro and Murat Aktihanoglu
As mobile device usage continues to expand at a rapid pace, applications that effectively utilize a user’s location become increasingly valuable to businesses operating in the mobile world. Location-Aware Applications aims to provide readers with a...
Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action ***
Braulio Díez and Rocío Serrano and José Fernando Almoguera and Pablo Núñez Navarro and Sebastian Stehle
Develop a full LOB Microsoft Silverlight 5 application from scratch with the help of expert advice and an accompanying case study using this book and eBook Dive straight into Silverlight 5 with the advanced techniques in this expert guideFully up-to-...
Mastering Unix Shell Scripting: Bash, Bourne, and Korn Shell Scripting for Programmers, System Administrators, and UNIX Gurus ****
Randal K. Michael
UNIX expert Randal K. Michael guides you through every detail of writing shell scripts to automate specific tasks. Each chapter begins with a typical, everyday UNIX challenge, then shows you how to take basic syntax and turn it into a shell scripting...
Objective-C for Absolute Beginners: IPhone and Mac Programming Made Easy
Gary Bennett and Mitchell Fisher and Brad Lees
It seems as if everyone is writing applications for Apple's iPhone and iPad, but how do they all do it? It's best to learn Objective-C, the native language of both the iOSand Mac OS X, but where to begin? Right here, even if you've never programmed b...
The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development
Chad Fowler
Success in today's IT environment requires you to view your career as a business endeavor. In this book, you'll learn how to become an entrepreneur, driving your career in the direction of your choosing. You'll learn how to build your software develo...
Pro .NET 2.0 Code and Design Standards in C# ***
Mark Horner
This book is special, because for the first time you get an easy-to-follow set of code and design standards that addresses the basic needs of .NET developers and application architects. The material is presented in a "what, why, where, and how" forma...
Pro .Net Best Practices
Stephen D. Ritchie
Pro .NET Best Practicesis a practical reference to the best practices that you can apply to your .NET projects today. You will learn standards, techniques, and conventions that are sharply focused, realistic and helpful for achieving results, steerin...
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