Author: Chris Hasema
Publisher: Apre
Keywords: firstpress, essentials, android
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008-07-21
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1430210648
ISBN-13: 9781430210641

Android Essentials is a no–frills, no–nonsense, code–centric run through the guts of application development on Google’s Mobile OS. This book uses the development of a sample application to work through topics, focusing on giving developers the essential tools and examples required to make viable commercial applications work. Covering the entirety of the Android catalog in less than 150 pages is simply impossible. Instead, this book focuses on just four main topics: the application life cycle and OS integration, user interface, location–based services, and network

Author: Steven Sanderson
Publisher: Apress
Keywords: preview, firstpress, framework, mvc, net, asp
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008-08-25
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1430216468
ISBN-13: 9781430216469

The ASP.NET MVC framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET web platform. It introduces a radically new high–productivity programming model, promotes cleaner code architecture, supports test–driven development, and provides powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET 3.5. ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview is a first look at this technology’s main features, designed to give you a head start getting to grips with this powerful new technology. What you’ll learn A solid architectural background to ASP.NET MVC, including Model–View–Controller

Author: Matthew MacDonald
Publisher: Apre
Keywords: firstpress, essentials, visual, silverlight
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-08-04
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1430215828
ISBN-13: 9781430215820

Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug–in that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. It is a rules–changing, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, it is able to host true .NET applications in non–Microsoft browsers (like Firefox) and on non–Microsoft platforms (like Mac OS X). Silverlight is still new and evolving fast, and you need a reliable guidebook to make sense of it. What you’ll learn This 176 page book is meant to give you a sense of what you,

Author: Eugene Ciurana
Publisher: Apress
Keywords: firstpress, engine, app, google, developing
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2009-02-02
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1430218312
ISBN-13: 9781430218319

Developing with Google App Engine introduces development with Google App Engine, a platform that provides developers and users with infrastructure Google itself uses to develop and deploy massively scalable applications. Introduction to concepts Development with App Engine Deployment into App Engine What you’ll learn Create processes that are ideal for cloud platforms. Design data for the cloud. Learn what types of applications are ideal for the cloud. Deploy web applications into the cloud. Measure the success and health of the cloud.

Author: Wayne Graham
Publisher: Apress
Keywords: firstpress, guide, developers, api, facebook
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1430209690
ISBN-13: 9781430209690

The Facebook API allows web developers to create Facebook applications and access Facebook data from other applications. Facebook API Developers Guide covers the use and implementation of the Facebook API—what the key features are and how you can access them. You will learn, through practical examples, the main features of the Facebook API including an introduction to the API–specific languages FQL and FBML. These examples are further supported by the introduction of other technologies like language libraries, relational database management systems, and XML. Covers all key features

Author: Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati
Publisher: Apre
Keywords: firstpress, visual, linq
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2008-08-04
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1430215801
ISBN-13: 9781430215806

Every C# programmer needs to learn about LINQ (Language–lIntegrated Query), Microsoft’s breakthrough technology for simplifying and unifying data access from any data source. With LINQ you can write more elegant and flexible code not just to access databases and files but to manipulate data structures and XML. This book is a short yet comprehensive guide to the major features of LINQ and the significant enhancements introduced with .NET 3.5. There is no better source for getting a head–start on the future of these technologies than this book. A clear and comprehensive yet con

Author: C. J. Date
Publisher: Apress
Keywords: firstpress, extended, dictionary, database, relational
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2008-07-28
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1430210419
ISBN-13: 9781430210412

Chris Date, one of the founders of the relational model, has updated and expanded his relational database dictionary to be current with over 900 terms. What you’ll learn Over 900 relational database terms defined Precise and concise definitions, unlike those found on Wikipedia and other sources Clear examples used where appropriate Hyperlinks included in the eBook for easy reference Who is this book for? People who need to know something about databases, although it is not their main line of work, people new to databases, and noncomputer people looking to be conversant in d