Pinpoint

Pinpoint

A lawyer, a murderer and a policeman – caught in a tangled web of love, loss, terror and intrigue. When lawyer Julia Grant interviews Sam Smith who has been charged with an especially vicious murder, she feels a strange connection to him, as if she has met him before, as if he holds the key to something she has forgotten among the unbearable memories from her past she has determinedly blotted out. He feels a connection too. ‘Julia, you are the only one who can help me,’ he pleads. Is it the same connection? Does he know something she cannot recall? When he is duly convicted despite her best efforts, he suddenly turns on her in the courtroom and threatens that one day he will make sure to wreak his revenge on her. But why? What has she ever done to him? And then, on his way to prison, he escapes ……

Pinpoint

ASP.NET Web API Succinctly

ASP.NET Web API Succinctly

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ASP.NET Web API Succinctly

An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African

An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African

Designing with Progressive Enhancement

Designing with Progressive Enhancement

Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience, and simplifies coding and testing as well. Whether users are viewing your sites on an iPhone, the latest and greatest high-end system, or even hearing them on a screen-reader, their experience should be easy to understand and use, and as fully-featured and functional as possible.

Designing with Progressive Enhancement

Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches

Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches

When a website slows to a crawl or worse, the server shuts down. It’s imperative to get things working againfast. IIS is the fundamental communication gateway for many Microsoft servers as well as the primary technology for publishing web sites. Knowing how to manage IIS effectively can mean the difference between a successful business solution and a vacant parking lot.

Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches

Linked Data

Linked Data

Linked Data is a standards-driven model for representing structured data on the Web that gives developers, publishers, and information architects a consistent, predictable way to publish, merge and consume data. It’s been adopted by many well-known institutions, including Google, Facebook, IBM, Oracle, and government agencies, as well projects such as Drupal and WordPress.

Linked Data

HTML5 Programming for ASP.NET Developers

HTML5 Programming for ASP.NET Developers

HTML5 Programming for ASP.NET Developers teaches you to harness the power and flexibility of HTML5 in new or existing ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC web applications. Focusing on the programmable features of HTML5 that will be most useful to you as an ASP.NET developer, this book will take you straight to the heart of what you can get out of this new technology.

HTML5 Programming for ASP.NET Developers

Hello World! - Second Edition

Hello World! - Second Edition

Computer savvy kids and can be found surfing the web, chatting with friends, downloading music, and playing gamesall at the same time. Many, however, want to do more. Not only do they want to use computers to stay connected to the world, they want to understand what makes them work, and they want to make computers work for them; they want to learn programming. Warren and Carter Sande, a father and son team, created just the book to get them started.

Hello World! - Second Edition

Grails 2

Grails 2

Grails is a full-stack web development framework that enables you to build complete web applications in a fraction of the time and with less code than other frameworks. Grails uses the principle of convention over configuration and the dynamic Groovy programming language.

Grails 2

From Java to Ruby

From Java to Ruby

As a development team, you want to be productive. You want to write flexible, maintainable web applications. You want to use Ruby and Rails. But can you justify the move away from established platforms such as J2EE? Bruce Tate’s From Java to Ruby has the answers, and it expresses them in a language that’ll help persuade managers and executives who’ve seen it all. See when and where the switch makes sense, and see how to make it.

From Java to Ruby

RestKit for iOS

RestKit for iOS

A step-by-step, example-based guide to learning how you can link your apps and web services using RestKit.This book is for iOS developers of all levels who are interested in boosting their productivity by utilizing third party libraries and who have a willingness to learn how to build RESTful apps using the RestKit framework. A basic knowledge of Objective-C is required as well as a simple understanding of how to use CoreData.

RestKit for iOS

Ruby for Rails

Ruby for Rails

-The word is out: with ‘Ruby on Rails’ you can build powerful Web applications easily and quickly! And just like the Rails framework itself, Rails applications are Ruby programs. That means you can’t tap into the full power of Rails unless you master the

Ruby for Rails

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

Practical Ruby Projects

Practical Ruby Projects

Want to take Ruby to the limit? Looking for new, powerful, and creative ideas that will take Ruby beyond Rails and web programming? If youre comfortable with Ruby, youll be itching to go furtherapply Practical Ruby Projects: Ideas for the Eclectic Programmer and become a master of advanced Ruby techniques.

Practical Ruby Projects

Pro HTML5 Programming

Pro HTML5 Programming

HTML5 is here, and with it, web applications take on a power, ease, scalability, and responsiveness like never before. In this book, developers will learn how to use the latest cutting-edge HTML5 web technologyavailable in the most recent versions of modern browsersto build web applications with unparalleled functionality, speed, and responsiveness.

Pro HTML5 Programming

Connected Services

Connected Services

‘Connected Services is a must-read for telco strategists who need to get up to speed on how the world of software and the web 2. 0 works.’ Andreas Constantinou, Research Director, VisionMobile

Connected Services

jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials - Second Edition

jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials - Second Edition

Packed with practical examples, code, and screenshots, this book will show you how to create mobile optimized sites using the easiest, most practical HTML/JavaScript framework available today.If you are a web developer looking to create mobile optimized websites then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of HTML is required. Some familiarity with JavaScript will help, but is not required.

jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials - Second Edition

Bedford Square

Bedford Square

The freshly dead body sprawled on the Bedford Square doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne is an affront to every respectable sensibility. The general denies all knowledge of the shabbily dressed victim who has so rudely come to death outside his home, but Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot believe himfor in the dead mans pocket, Pitt finds a rare snuffbox that recently graced the generals study. The superintendent must tread lightly, however, lest his investigation trigger a tragedy of immense proportions, ensnaring honorable men like flies in a web. Pitts clever wife, Charlotte, becomes his full partner in probing this masterpiece of evil, spawned by an amorality greater than they can imagine.

Bedford Square

Ruby and MongoDB Web Development

Ruby and MongoDB Web Development

Step-by-step instructions and practical examples to creating web applications with , and MongoDB. Learn to , the object model in a , way. Create objects in Ruby and map them to MongoDB. Learn about Mongoid and MongoMapper for mapping Ruby objects to MongoDB documents. Process large datasets with MapReduce. Create geo-spatial indexes or 2D indexes.

Ruby and MongoDB Web Development

Rails Recipes

Rails Recipes

You’ve read the tutorials and watched the online videos. You have a strong grasp of all of the ingredients that make up a successful , application. But ingredients don’t just turn themselves into a meal. Chad Fowler’s Rails Recipes is a collection of recipes that will take you step by step through the the most cutting edge Rails techniques, mixing the ingredients to create world-class web applications. Learn how to do it, and how to do it right.

Rails Recipes