Guide to J2EE

Guide to J2EE

Enterprise Java experts John Hunt and Chris Loftus take the reader through the core technologies that make up the Enterprise Edition of the Java 2 platform (J2EE). They cover all the aspects of J2EE that both the professional and student needs to know to build multi-tier enterprise applications in Java. This includes the various technologies, design methodology, and design patterns. The text contains fully worked examples, built up throughout the book, which enables the reader to quickly develop multi-tier applications. An invaluable text for those who want to build enterprise wide applications in Java.

Guide to J2EE

Building Web Apps with WordPress

Building Web Apps with WordPress

WordPress is much more than a blogging platform. As this practical guide clearly demonstrates, you can use WordPress to build web apps of any typenot mere content sites, but full-blown apps for specific tasks. If you have PHP experience with a smattering of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, youll learn how to use WordPress plugins and themes to develop fast, scalable, and secure web apps, native mobile apps, web services, and even a network of multiple WordPress sites.

Building Web Apps with WordPress

World Christianity in Local Context

World Christianity in Local Context

Global Christianity in Local Context is the first volume of a unique collection of essays in honour of David A. Kerr, well-known for his contributions in the areas of Christian-Muslim dialogue, Ecumenical Studies and Missions. With contributions from recognized experts in these fields, the book provides a platform for examining contemporary Christian-Muslim relations and critical issues facing twenty-first century Christianity.

World Christianity in Local Context

SonarQube in Action

SonarQube in Action

SonarQube in Action shows developers how to use the SonarQube platform to help them continuously improve their source code. The book presents SonarQube’s core Seven Axes of Quality: design/architecture, duplications, comments, unit tests, complexity, potential bugs, and coding rules. You’ll find simple, easy-to-follow discussion and examples as you learn to integrate SonarQube into your development process.

SonarQube in Action

Zune Game Development Using XNA 3.0

Zune Game Development Using XNA 3.0

Zune Game Development Using XNA 3.0 is a comprehensive book that will guide you through the many aspects of XNA game development and their specific implementations on the Zune platform. The book addresses Zune game development concepts in detail and shows you how to apply them in practical, stepbystep examples, building complete, working XNA 3.0 examples along the way that you can download and play.

Zune Game Development Using XNA 3.0

Programming Firefox

Programming Firefox

This is your guide to building Internet applications and user interfaces with the Mozilla component framework, which is best known for the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client. Programming Firefox demonstrates how to use the XML User Interface Language (XUL) with open source tools in the framework’s Cross-Platform Component (XPCOM) library to develop a variety of projects, such as commercial web applications and Firefox extensions.

Programming Firefox

Hyper-V Replica Essentials

Hyper-V Replica Essentials

A fast-paced, step-by-step guide to configuring Hyper-V Replica in various deployment scenarios.a in various deployment scenarios.Hyper-V Replica Essentials is for Windows Server administrators who want to improve their system availability and speed up disaster recovery. You will need experience in Hyper-V deployment because Hyper-V Replica is built in the Hyper-V platform.

Hyper-V Replica Essentials

Managing Software Debt

Managing Software Debt

Shipping imperfect software is like going into debt. When you incur debt, the illusion of doing things faster can lead to exponential growth in the cost of maintaining software. , debt takes five major forms: technical, quality, configuration management, design, and platform experience. In today’s rush to market, software debt is inevitable. And that’s okay – if you’re careful about the debt you incur, and if you quickly pay it back.

Managing Software Debt

Magento Site Performance Optimization

Magento Site Performance Optimization

In the open source, e-commerce platform community, Magento has established itself as the most popular e-commerce platform in the market. It is supported by a very strong developer community and it fits most merchants’ needs. Despite this leadership, Magento has a major problem; it is very slow. To serve customers in a more efficient way, we need a tool that can optimize our sites’ performance. Even if the tool is able to boost the speed of the site to some extent, it can still be a very crucial factor when there are so many competing websites on the market.,

This book will start by providing a list of trustee companies to host a Magento website with high traffic. Also, we will discuss the required configurations in terms of amount of RAM, CPU, and HDD.

Magento Site Performance Optimization

RESTful Web Services

RESTful Web Services

‘Every developer working with the Web needs to read this book.’ – David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the , framework,

‘RESTful Web Services finally provides a practical roadmap for constructing services that embrace the Web, instead of trying to route around it.’ – Adam Trachtenberg, , author and EBay Web Services Evangelist,

You’ve built web sites that can be used by humans. But can you also build web sites that are usable by machines? That’s where the future lies, and that’s what RESTful Web Services shows you how to do. The World Wide Web is the most popular distributed application in history, and Web services and mashups have turned it into a powerful distributed computing platform. But today’s web service technologies have lost sight of the simplicity that made the Web successful. They don’t work like the Web, and they’re missing out on its advantages.

RESTful Web Services

Rails for .NET Developers

Rails for .NET Developers

Rails for .NET Developers introduces the joy of , on , development to , .NET developers. This book demonstrates the essential elements of both the Ruby language and the Rails application framework, geared especially for developers already fluent in the Microsoft .NET platform.

Rails for .NET Developers

Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, 2nd Preview

Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, 2nd Preview

Writing a book like this has always been a journey of exploration for myself, and I’m truly grateful that I also have the opportunity to share the results with you. The process has involved many discussions with the , engineering team who created the platform, often taking me into far-off corners of the galaxy, so to speak. I’ve also been doing my best to follow app-building discussions both within Microsoft, on the MSDN forums, and StackOverflow so that I can try to anticipate and answer questions that will likely arise in your own mind. And with this over-abundance of information and experience, my goal has been to pull together a narrative story from start to finish, blazing a single trail through what can seem at times like a thick jungle. I would love to hear from you how successful I’ve been at this endeavor.

Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, 2nd Preview

Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Apply your existing skills with HTML, CSS, and , – and start building your own , 8 apps now. As a member of the Windows Ecosystem team, the author has trained hundreds of , engineers and has been on the front lines of bringing the first Windows 8 apps to the Windows Store. Through this book, you’ll get a thorough grounding in platform features and considerations, and delve into development essentials across the whole scope of the Windows 8 platform. And you’ll gain insights and best practices on design, coding, and performance from real-world developers working on real-world apps.

Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Programmer"s Guide to Java SCJP Certification, 3rd Edition

Programmer"s Guide to Java SCJP Certification, 3rd Edition

This book will help you prepare for and pass the Sun Certified Programmer for the , Platform SE 6 (CX-310-065) Exam. It is written for any experienced programmer (with or without previous knowledge of Java) interested in mastering the Java , language and passing the SCJP 1.6 Exam.,

A Programmer’s Guide to Java SCJP Certification, Third Edition, provides detailed coverage of all exam topics and objectives, readily runnable code examples, programming exercises, extensive review questions, and a new mock exam. In addition, as a comprehensive primer to the Java programming language, this book is an invaluable reference tool.

Programmer"s Guide to Java SCJP Certification, 3rd Edition

Professional Website Performance

Professional Website Performance

Effective website development requires optimum , with regard to both web browser and server. This book covers all aspects of building and maintaining websites that deliver peak performance on all levels. Exploring both front-end and back-end configuration, it examines factors like compression and JavaScript, , performance, , tuning, NoSQL alternatives, load-balancing across multiple servers, effective caching of web contents, CSS, and much more. Both developers and system administrators will find value in this platform-neutral guide.

Professional Website Performance

Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers

Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers

This definitive guide examines how to take advantage of the new , methodologies offered when using , on , (RoR). You’ll quickly grasp the RoR methodology by focusing on the RoR development from the point of view of the beginner- to intermediate-level Microsoft developer. Plus, you’ll get a reliable roadmap for migrating your applications, skill set, and development processes to the newer, more agile programming platform that RoR offers.

Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers

Programming WCF Services, 3rd Edition

Programming WCF Services, 3rd Edition

Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling guide to Microsoft’s unified platform for developing modern service-oriented applications on Windows. Hailed as the definitive treatment of WCF, this book provides unique insight, rather than documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for building WCF-based applications that are maintainable, extensible, and reusable.

Programming WCF Services, 3rd Edition

Programming Social Applications

Programming Social Applications

Social networking has made one thing clear: websites and applications need to provide users with experiences tailored to their preferences. This in-depth guide shows you how to build rich social frameworks, using open source technologies and specifications. You’ll learn how to create third-party applications for existing sites, build engaging social graphs, and develop products to host your own socialized experience.,

Programming Social Apps focuses on the OpenSocial platform, along with , Shindig, OAuth, OpenID, and other tools, demonstrating how they work together to help you solve practical issues. Each chapter uncovers a new layer in the construction of highly viral social applications and platforms.

Programming Social Applications

Programming Scala

Programming Scala

Scala is an exciting, modern, multi-paradigm language for the JVM. You can use it to write traditional, imperative, object-oriented code. But you can also leverage its higher level of abstraction to take full advantage of modern, multicore systems. , , will show you how to use this powerful functional programming language to create highly scalable, highly concurrent applications on the , Platform.

Programming Scala

Professional Oracle 8i Application Programming with Java, PL/SQL and XML

Professional Oracle 8i Application Programming with Java, PL/SQL and XML

This book is for professional , , programmers who need a comprehensive roadmap of the new , possibilities with Oracle 8i. On the other hand, if you are already developing with Java and XML this book will show you how to exploit PL/SQL and the enterprise features of Oracle 8i in optimally distributing your n-tier applications. Knowledge of the essentials of PL/SQL programming is required, and familiarity with Java would be useful. What does this book cover? The Oracle 8i platform and architecture, covering Net8 and the Oracle JVM; PL/SQL development using the Web Toolkit, PSP and Designer 6i; Java application development, including a Java primer; Oracle 8i and Java Stored Procedures, EJB, BC4J, JDBC, SQLJ; XML development with an XML primer; Oracle XDK, XSQL, XSLT, Transviewer JavaBeans; Case studies using Designer 6i, interMedia, Portal-to-Go, ASP and SOAP.

Professional Oracle 8i Application Programming with Java, PL/SQL and XML