It’s true: if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop Android applications. Now updated for HTML5, the second edition of this hands-on guide shows you how to use open source web standards to design and build apps that can be adapted for any Android device.
With the iOS 6 software and the new iPhone 5, Apple has two world-class hits on its hands. This sleek, highly refined pocket computer comes with everything—cellphone, iPod, Internet, camcorder—except a printed manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back with this expanded edition of his witty, full-color guide: the...
Today, images and video are everywhere. Online photo-sharing sites and social networks
have them in the billions. Search engines will produce images of just about any
conceivable query. Practically all phones and computers come with built-in cameras.
It is not uncommon for people to have many gigabytes of photos and...
Microsoft HealthVault is the most prominent example of a personally controlled health
record. With its open API, flexibility, and connections with multiple health care providers,
it gives people interested in monitoring their own health an unprecedented opportunity
to do their own research on their own data. This...
Let's say you have a killer app idea for iPhone and iPad. Where do you begin? Head First iPhone and iPad Development will help you get your first application up and running in no time. You'll not only learn how to design for Apple's devices, you'll also master the iPhone SDK tools—including...
The network has changed a lot recently, with 10 years’ worth of developments packed
into just 2 or 3. Those changes have been in specific network domains. The industry has
grown out of the “just put another rack in” approach, because putting another rack in
does not necessarily equate to gaining...
Welcome to Linux! If you’re a new user, this book can serve as a quick introduction, as well as a guide to common and practical commands. If you have Linux experience, feel free to skip the introductory material.
If you use Linux in your day-to-day work, this popular pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job reference. The...
Need to learn statistics for your job? Want help passing a statistics course? Statistics in a Nutshell is a clear and concise introduction and reference for anyone new to the subject. Thoroughly revised and expanded, this edition helps you gain a solid understanding of statistics without the numbing complexity of many college...
JavaScript is the ubiquitous programming language of the Web, and for more than 15 years, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide has been the bible of JavaScript programmers around the world. This book is an all-new excerpt of The Definitive Guide, collecting the essential parts of that hefty volume into this slim yet dense...
This collection of articles and blog entries is representative of the full spectrum of commerce-related content we’ve published on PayPal’s Developer Network over the past year. You will find tutorials and quick reference pieces for developers.
With the creation of x.commerce, we’ve expanded our coverage to...
I started using R several years ago to analyze data I had collected for my research in
graduate school. My motivation at first was to escape from the restrictive environments
and canned analyses offered by statistical programs like SPSS. And even better, because
it’s freely available, I didn’t need to...
