Unity 3.x Game Development by Example

Unity 3.x Game Development by Example

The book takes a clear, step-by-step approach to building small, simple game projects. It focuses on short, attainable goals so that the reader can finish something, instead of trying to create a complex RPG or open-world game that never sees the light of day. This book encourages readers hungry for knowledge. It does not go into gory detail about how every little knob and dial functions – that’s what the software manual is for! Rather, this book is the fastest path from zero to finished game using the Unity game engine. If you’ve ever wanted to develop games, but have never felt ‘smart’ enough to deal with complex programming, this book is for you. It’s also a great kick-start for developers coming from other tools like Flash, Unreal Engine, and Game Maker Pro.

Unity 3.x Game Development by Example

Core PHP Programming

Core PHP Programming

Core PHP Programming, Third Edition is the authoritative guide to the new PHP 5 for experienced developers. Top PHP developer Leon Atkinson and PHP 5 contributor/Zend Engine 2 co-creator Zeev Suraski cover every facet of real-world PHP 5 development, from basic syntax to advanced object-oriented development — even design patterns! It’s all here: networking, data structures, regular expressions, math, configuration, graphics, MySQL/PostgreSQL support, XML, algorithms, debugging, optimizationand 650 downloadable code examples, with a Foreword by PHP 5 contributor and Zend Engine 2 co-creator Andi Gutmans!

Core PHP Programming

PHP5 and MySQL Bible

PHP5 and MySQL Bible

This comprehensive tutorial and reference covers all the basics of PHP 5, a popular open source Web scripting language, and MySQL 4.012, the most popular open source database engine

PHP5 and MySQL Bible

Pro Active Record

Pro Active Record

Pro Active Record helps you take advantage of the full power of your database engine from within your Ruby programs and Rails applications. ActiveRecord, part of the magic that makes the Rails framework so powerful and easy to use, is the model element of the Rails Model-View-Controller framework. It’s an object-relational mapping library enabling you to interact with databases from both Ruby and Rails applications.

Pro Active Record

Mastering Grunt

Mastering Grunt

Grunt.js continues to excel as the build automation tool of choice. Along with its support for many third-party technologies, Grunt is packaged with a clean , for defining tasks. This powerful tool can streamline your workflow by automating the preparation tasks for production, such as compression, compilation, obfuscation, testing, and even pushing your web application live. This book will teach you how to master build automation and , with Grunt. You will have the opportunity to utilize the latest and in-demand web tools, such as Git, Jade, CoffeeScript, Sass, and the Mocha testing engine, across several exciting projects by combining Grunt with them. You will also learn to create a , a simple Bulletin Board System (BBS), which will explain the use of Grunt alongside the Mocha testing library to automate testing throughout the build process.,

Mastering Grunt will demonstrate how to leverage Grunt with other technologies to become an expert in build automation, teaching you the best practices for modern web development along the way.

Mastering Grunt

Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition

Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition

The utility simply known as make is one of the most enduring features of both Unix and other operating systems. First invented in the 1970s, make still turns up to this day as the central engine in most , projects; it even builds the , kernel. In the third edition of the classic Managing Projects with GNU make, readers will learn why this utility continues to hold its top position in , build software, despite many younger competitors.,

The premise behind make is simple: after you change source files and want to rebuild your program or other output files, make checks timestamps to see what has changed and rebuilds just what you need, without wasting time rebuilding other files. But on top of this simple principle, make layers a rich collection of options that lets you manipulate multiple directories, build different versions of programs for different platforms, and customize your builds in other ways.

Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition

Making Musical Apps

Making Musical Apps

Want to turn your mobile device into a musical instrument? Or equip your game with interactive audio, rather than canned samples? You can do it with Pure Data (Pd), an open source visual , environment that lets you manipulate digital , in real time. This concise book shows you how to use Pd – with help from the libpd library – as an easily embeddable and widely portable sound engine.,

Whether you’re an audio developer looking to create musical apps with sophisticated audio capabilities, or an application developer ready to enhance , games with real-time procedural audio, Making Musical Apps introduces you to Pd and libpd, and provides hands-on instructions for creating musical apps for Android and iOS.

Making Musical Apps

Magento 1.4 Themes Design

Magento 1.4 Themes Design

Install and configure Magento 1.4 and learn the fundamental principles behind Magento themes. Customize the appearance of your Magento 1.4 e-commerce store with Magento’s powerful theming engine by changing Magento templates, skin files and layout files. Change the basics of your Magento theme from the logo of your store to the color scheme of your theme. Integrate popular social , aspects such as , and , into your Magento store.

Magento 1.4 Themes Design

Rails 3 in Action

Rails 3 in Action

Rails 3 is a full stack, open source web , powered by , and this book is an introduction to it. Whether you’re just starting or you have a few cycles under your belt, you’ll appreciate the book’s guru’s-eye-view of idiomatic , programming.,

You’ll master Rails 3.1 by developing a ticket tracking application that includes RESTful routing, authentication and authorization, state maintenance, file uploads, email, and more. You’ll also explore powerful features like designing your own APIs and building a Rails engine. You will see Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development in action throughout the book, just like you would in a top Rails shop.

Rails 3 in Action

Pro SQL Server Internals

Pro SQL Server Internals

Pro SQL Server Internals explains how different , , components work ‘under the hood’ and how they communicate with each other. This is the practical book with a large number of examples that will show you how various , and implementation decisions affect the behavior and performance of your systems.,

Pro SQL Server Internals covers a multiple SQL Server versions starting with SQL Server 2005 all the way up to the recently released SQL Server 2014. You’ll learn about new SQL Server 2014 features including the new Cardinality Estimator, In-Memory OLTP Engine (codename Hekaton), and Clustered Columnstore Indexes. With Pro SQL Server Internals, you have a solid roadmap for understanding the depth and power of the SQL Server database backend, regardless of the version and edition of SQL Server you use.

Pro SQL Server Internals

Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services, 3rd Edition

Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services, 3rd Edition

Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services opens the door to delivering customizable, web-enabled reports across your , at reasonable cost. Reporting Services is Microsoft’s enterprise-level reporting platform. It is included with many editions of , Server, and is something you’ll want to take advantage of if you’re running SQL , as your database engine.,

Reporting Services provides a full set of tools with which to create and deploy reports. Create interactive reports for business users. Define reporting models from which business users can generate their own ad hoc reports. Pull data from relational databases, from XML, and from other sources. Present that data to users in tabular and graphical forms, and more.

Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services, 3rd Edition

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals

Explore the core engine of , , , 2012 – and put that practical knowledge to work. Led by a team of SQL Server experts, you’ll learn the skills you need to exploit key architectural features. Go behind the scenes to understand internal operations for creating, expanding, shrinking, and moving databases – whether you’re a database developer, architect, or administrator.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services

Build and manage data integration solutions with expert guidance from the , , , Integration Services (SSIS) team. See best practices in action and dive deep into the SSIS engine, SSISDB catalog, and security features. Using the developer enhancements in SQL Server 2012 and the flexible SSIS toolset, you’ll handle complex data integration scenarios more efficiently – and acquire the skills you need to build comprehensive solutions.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services

XDoclet in Action

XDoclet in Action

Are you tired of writing the same , code, over and over again? XDoclet will take the burden of repetitive development tasks off your shoulders by automating them. XDoclet is a metadata-driven, code generation engine for Java. Starting from simple JavaDoc-style comments, it generates deployment descriptors, interfaces, , classes and other utility classes your , requires.,

XDoclet in Action is an easy to read introduction to XDoclet and its uses. It is a resource on code generation with this popular open source tool. With many short code examples and a full-scale J2EE example, the book shows you how to use XDoclet with EJBs, Servlets, JMX, and other technologies.

XDoclet in Action