Silently, and without warning, the Android operating system has quickly dominated the mobile
ecosystem. This operating system exists in many forms, across many devices, and offers a rich
selection of powerful features that could completely change how you accomplish tasks
throughout your day. If you’re looking for a tablet or...
Pro SQL Server 2012 Integration Services teaches how to take advantage of the powerful extract, transform, and load (ETL) platform included with Microsoft SQL Server 2012. You’ll learn to build scalable, robust, performance-driven enterprise ETL solutions that save time and make money for your company. You'll learn to...
I often ask myself, “Why do I do this? Why am I writing another edition of this book? Is it worth it? Isn’t there
anything else that I could be doing that would be more beneficial to me, my family, or the human race? Well, of
course there is. The fact is, however, I generally love relational databases, I love to write, and...
Health Care Reform Simplified describes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. It translates the law’s complex language into terms that are easy to understand, explaining what the new law does, when its provisions take effect, and how to plan for individual, family, and business health coverage. This...
Going Corporate: A Geek's Guide shows technology workers how to gain the understanding and skills necessary for becoming an effective, promotable manager or sought-after consultant or freelancer.
Technology professionals typically dive deeply into small pieces of technology—like lines of code or the design of...
I never thought I’d be writing a technical book. I have a MA in English Literature so I always pictured myself sitting in an oak paneled room surrounded by books and attentive students listening to me pontificating on the latest criticism of 19th Century novels. It didn’t take me long to realize though that path wasn’t for...
This book is aimed at helping Oracle DBAs understand and use PeopleSoft technology. For the typical DBA, the introduction to PeopleSoft is likely to include some surprises, not all of them agreeable. Many—if not most—DBAs have to deal with many different databases, usually supporting different applications. Often they will want to...
Game apps on iPhone and now iPad remain one of the most popular type of apps in the Apple iTunes App Store. Does Angry Birds ring a bell? What you were once able to do just for the iPhone (and iPod touch) is now possible for the popular iPad, using the new iOS 5 SDK.
The new iOS 5-driven iPod touch devices are much more than just music. These have all the features of a PDA—including email, calendar, Google Maps, the App Store, and even phone capabilities—as well as the ability to watch movies and play your favorite games, all packed into Apple’s sleek design.
Today's iPhone and iPad apps developers are often running into the need to refine, improve and optimize their apps performances. As more complex apps can be created, it is even more important for developers to deal with this critical issue.
Pro iOS Apps Performance Tuning and Optimization covers many...
Mac OS X offers an amazing development environment for scores of technologies. It seems that
developers from numerous camps are migrating to Mac en masse. Scan the room at any Ruby or
Rails conference, for example, and you’ll see programmers coding on Macs almost exclusively. As
developers move to Mac, almost inevitably they...
The first edition of this book covered the then-new Jakarta Tomcat 4. Tomcat has come a long way from
there, becoming Apache Tomcat in the process, with version 7 released in January 2011. During this
time, Tomcat has become the most popular and used Java servlet container on the market. Other open
source application servers also...
