Computer & Internet

Build powerful and scalable single-page web applications using a full stack JavaScript environment with Node.js, MongoDB, AngularJS, and the Express framework

Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Cookbook

Run blazingly fast queries on complex graph datasets with the power of the Neo4j graph database

Advanced Wireless Communications: 4G Cognitive and Cooperative Broadband Technology, 2nd Edition

Windows Phone 7 for iPhone Developers

Developing 2D & 3D games in Objective-C

Over 110 practical recipes to solve real-world shell problems, guaranteed to make you wonder how you ever lived without them

Using C# & VB

Create your own plugins, modules, and components in Joomla! 3, the award-winning CMS, using hands-on, step-by-step examples

Using REST, WebSockets, and Backbone

with XDoclet, JUnit, WebWork, Hibernate

Manage and monitor SQL Server administration and application deployment with PowerShell

Beginning Android Application Development

Model-Driven Application Development in SQL Server 2008

Enterprise and web applications require full-featured, "Google-quality" searchcapabilities, but such features are notoriously difficult to implement and maintain.Hibernate Search builds on the Lucene feature set and offers an easyto-implement interface that integrates seamlessly with Hibernate-the leadingdata persistence solution for Java applications. Hibernate Search in Action introduces both the principles of enterprise searchand the implementation details a Java developer will need to use HibernateSearch effectively. This book blends the insights of the Hibernate Search leaddeveloper with the practical techniques required to index and manipulate data,assemble and execute search queries, and create smart filters for better searchresults. Along the way, the reader masters performance-boosting concepts likeusing Hibernate Search in a clustered environment and integrating with thefeatures already in your applications. This book assumes you're a competent Java developer with some experienceusing Hibernate and Lucene. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

Grid Database Design investigates the origin, background, and components of this new computing model. This book presents new concepts and analyzes pre-existing ideas in the context of Grid, educating organizations as to how Grid can increase their computing power and strengthen their operations. Divided into three sections, the volume begins by laying the groundwork in the field, defining the concepts that led to the model's emergence. The second section explains what is entailed in building a Grid, focusing on security, hardware, and the forces driving growth. The final section explores details of databases in a Grid environment, illustrating how the Grid environment will shape database evolution. Grid Database Design reveals what will be coming in the near future, allowing database and systems administrators, programmers, and executives to get beyond the rumblings about this up-and-coming model and learn what Grid can offer to benefit their organizations.

Food writer Annie Wilkins is on an express elevator to fame and fortune, thanks to research scientist/husband Tom's remarkable invention: fat-free, carb-free, calorie-free chocolate that tastes better than the real thing! Once reduced to writing walleye-on-a-stick articles for Minnesota Menus, now she's living large in showcase houses and hobnobbing with the hoi polloi. Annie and "America's Sexiest Scientist" Tom happily accept their new status as the nation's most happening Fabulous Couple.But as a high-profile spokesperson, Annie's got a corporate responsibility to change her hair, her style, and lose twenty-five pounds. Her kids are becoming too worldly too fast and Tom's in demand for a lot more than just his candy. If this is the American Dream, Annie needs to wake up because all of a sudden her marriage and her sanity are in jeopardy. . . and she's about to bottom out on top!

From advanced selectors to generated content to web fonts, and from gradients, shadows, and rounded corners to elegant animations, CSS3 holds a universe of creative possibilities. No one can better guide you through these galaxies than Dan Cederholm. In this second edition, he tackles new properties and techniques, including micro layouts. Learn what works, how it works, and how to adapt for browsers where it doesn't. WHAT'S NEW IN THE SECOND EDITION? Many of the CSS3 properties Dan discussed in 2010 now have wider browser support, which means you can feel even more confident putting them to use. In this updated edition, Dan has carefully refreshed code samples, removed old hacks that are no longer necessary, and written a whole new chapter on micro layouts. There's no better time to dive in to-or polish up-your CSS3 skills.

The Unity engine game development tool is a multi-platform engine and editor rolled into one. It is an ideal development tool for independent developers and students, and many pro studios turn to it for fast prototyping.