ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Rough Cut Version
By Bill Sanders, Chandima Cumaranatunge
Rough Cuts Release: February 2007
Print Book Release: July 2007
$39.99 USD

This hands-on introduction to design patterns is for experienced Flash developers ready to tackle sophisticated programming techniques with ActionScript 3.0. The book takes you through the process step by step,… Read more.

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Programming .NET 3.0: Rough Cuts Version
By Alex Horovitz, Jesse Liberty
Rough Cuts Release: February 2007
Print Book Release: July 2007
$49.99 USD

Bestselling author Jesse Liberty and industry expert Alex Horovitz uncover the common threads that unite the .NET 3.0 technologies, so you can benefit from the best practices and architectural patterns… Read more.

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ActionScript 3.0 Programming: Overview, Getting Started, and Examples of New Concepts
By Bill Sanders
January 2007 
$9.99 USD

This document employs reusable code examples to demonstrate the basic functionality of ActionScript 3.0 in the following topic areas: Packages and Classes; Display Programming; Movie Clips and Buttons; and Basic… Read more.

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Rails Cookbook
By Rob Orsini
January 2007 
$39.99 USD

This book is packed with the solutions you need to be a proficient developer with Rails, the leading framework for building the new generation of Web 2.0 applications. Recipes range… Read more.

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Backup & Recovery
By W. Curtis Preston
January 2007 
$49.99 USD

Packed with practical, freely available backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- this new guide is a… Read more.

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Ajax on Rails
By Scott Raymond
January 2007 
$39.99 USD

Learn to build dynamic, interactive web applications using the two most important approaches to web development today: Ajax and the phenomenally efficient Ruby on Rails platform. This book teaches you… Read more.

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Java and XML , Third Edition
By Brett McLaughlin, Justin Edelson
December 2006 
$49.99 USD

This new edition shows you how to cut through all the hype about XML and put it to work. You'll learn how to use the APIs, tools, and tricks of… Read more.

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Programming Firefox: Rough Cuts Version
By Kenneth C. Feldt
Rough Cuts Release: December 2006
Print Book Release: April 2007
$59.99 USD

This is the essential guide to building user interfaces and rich internet applications for the Firefox web browser, the Thunderbird email client and independent projects using free development tools from… Read more.

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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web , Third Edition
By Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld
November 2006 
$39.99 USD

In this post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups, well-planned information architecture has never been more essential. This classic primer shows information architects, designers, and web site developers… Read more.

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Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
By Brett McLaughlin, Gary Pollice, David West
November 2006 
$49.99 USD

Tired of reading object-oriented analysis and design books that only make sense after you're an expert? Try our Head First book. This witty and entertaining tutorial shows you how to… Read more.

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MySQL Cookbook , Second Edition
By Paul DuBois
November 2006 
$49.99 USD

A handy resource when you need quick solutions or techniques, this Cookbook addresses specific questions in using MySQL. You'll find dozens of short, focused pieces of code and hundreds of… Read more.

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Essential CVS , Second Edition
By Jennifer Vesperman
November 2006 
$44.99 USD

This easy-to-follow reference shows a variety of professionals how to use the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), the open source tool that lets you manage versions of anything stored in files.… Read more.

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Programming Embedded Systems , Second Edition
By Michael Barr, Anthony Massa
October 2006 
$49.99 USD

Whether you're writing your first embedded program, designing the latest generation of hand-held whatchamacalits, or managing the people who do, this book is for you. Programming Embedded Systems will help you develop the… Read more.

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Mastering Regular Expressions , Third Edition
By Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
August 2006 
$44.99 USD

Written in the lucid, entertaining tone that makes a complex, dry topic become crystal-clear to programmers, and sprinkled with solutions to complex real-world problems, Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition, offers a wealth of… Read more.

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Interface Oriented Design
By Ken Pugh
July 2006 
$29.95 USD

Interface Oriented Design explores how to develop robust, reliable software as a collection of interfaces that interact with each other. You'll learn what polymorphism and encapsulation really mean, and how… Read more.

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Rails Recipes
By Chad Fowler
June 2006 
$32.95 USD

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 Rails application. But ingredients don't just… Read more.

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How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your Project
By Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
June 2006 
$7.99 USD

Like it or not, your project needs management. Yet few good software projects can survive bad management. If you're a programmer on a high-visibility project, this PDF offers five principle… Read more.

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bash Quick Reference
By Arnold Robbins
June 2006 
$9.99 USD

In this quick reference, you'll find everything you need to know about the bash shell. Whether you print it out or read it on the screen, this PDF gives you… Read more.

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Your Life in Web Apps
By Giles Turnbull
June 2006 
$5.99 USD

Have you dreamed of a simpler life where web apps and a browser meet all of your computing needs? All you need is a network connection. In this PDF Giles… Read more.

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Learning UML 2.0
By Russell Miles, Kim Hamilton
April 2006 
$44.99 USD

Engaging and accessible, this book shows you how to use UML to craft and communicate your project's design. Russ Miles and Kim Hamilton have written a pragmatic introduction to UML… Read more.

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Practices of an Agile Developer
By Venkat Subramaniam, Andy Hunt
April 2006 
$29.95 USD

These are the proven, effective agile practices that will make you a better developer. You'll learn pragmatic ways of approaching the development process and your personal coding techniques. You'll learn… Read more.

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UML 2.0 Pocket Reference
By Dan Pilone
March 2006 
$9.99 USD

Globe-trotting travelers have long resorted to handy, pocket-size dictionaries as an aid to communicating across the language barrier. Dan Pilone's UML 2.0 Pocket Reference is just such an aid for… Read more.

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Write Great Code, Volume 2
By Randall Hyde
March 2006 
$44.95 USD

The second volume in the Write Great Code series supplies critical information that today's computer science students don't often get in class: How to carefully choose their high-level language statements… Read more.

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Information Dashboard Design
By Stephen Few
January 2006 
$34.99 USD

Dashboards have become popular in recent years as uniquely powerful tools for communicating important information at a glance. This book will teach you the visual design skills you need to… Read more.

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Learn to Program
By Chris Pine
January 2006 
$19.95 USD

It's now easier to learn to write your own computer software than it has ever been before. Now everyone can learn to write programs for themselves--no previous experience is necessary.… Read more.

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Write Portable Code
By Brian Hook
July 2005 
$34.95 USD

Write Portable Code contains the lessons, patterns, and knowledge for developing cross-platform software that programmers usually must acquire through sheer trial and error. This book is targeted at intermediate-to advanced-level… Read more.

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Start Your Engines
By Jim Parker
July 2005 
$39.99 USD

In Start Your Engines: Developing Driving and Racing Games, you will learn all of the secrets and programming techniques of developing one of the most popular style of games. The… Read more.

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UML 2.0 in a Nutshell
By Dan Pilone, Neil Pitman
June 2005 
$34.95 USD

This comprehensive guide has been fully revised to cover UML 2.0, today's standard method for modeling software systems. Packed with concise information, it's been crafted to help IT professionals read,… Read more.

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Data Crunching
By Greg Wilson
April 2005 
$29.95 USD

Programmers always need to move data around, to translate it from one format to another, or extract useful information from it. This book shows the best approaches to "crunching" data… Read more.

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Write Great Code
By Randall Hyde
November 2004 
$39.95 USD

The first in a series from assembly language expert Randall Hyde, Write Great Code Vol I teaches the important concepts of machine organization in a language-independent fashion, and without the… Read more.

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Art of Assembly Language
By Randall Hyde
September 2003 
$59.95 USD

Presents assembly language from the high-level programmer's point of view, so you can start writing meaningful programs within days. The High Level Assembler (HLA) that accompanies the book is the… Read more.

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Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS
By Dave Thomas, Andy Hunt
September 2003 
$29.95 USD

Version control systems don't have to be complicated, or time-consuming. This book is a recipe-based approach to using the CVS Version Control system that will get you up and running… Read more.

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Extreme Programming Pocket Guide
By chromatic
July 2003 
$9.95 USD

The Extreme Programming Pocket Guide covers XP assumptions, principles, events, artifacts, roles, and resources, and more. It concisely explains the relationships between the XP practices. If you want to adopt… Read more.

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Art of Interactive Design
By Chris Crawford
December 2002 
$29.95 USD

An understanding of what makes things interactive is key to the successful creation of websites, computer games, and software. In The Art of Interactive Design, Chris Crawford explains what interactivity… Read more.

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Access Database Design & Programming , Third Edition
By Steven Roman, Ph.D.
January 2002 
$34.95 USD

When using GUI-based software, we often focus so much on the interface that we forget about the general concepts required to use the software effectively. Access Database Design & Programming… Read more.

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Physics for Game Developers
By David M. Bourg
November 2001 
$39.95 USD

Colliding billiard balls. Missile trajectories. Cornering dynamics in speeding cars. By applying the laws of physics, you can realistically model nearly everything in games that bounces around, flies, rolls, slides,… Read more.

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3DS Max 4 in Depth
By Jon McFarland, Rob Polevoi
June 2001 
$59.99 USD

Provides readers with a comprehensive reference for creating effects for film, movies, and games. This book covers the modeling and modification of structures from primitive objects, plus other parametric design… Read more.

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Delphi in a Nutshell
By Ray Lischner
March 2000 
$29.95 USD

The first concise reference to Borland/Inprise Delphi Available. Succinctly collects all the information you need in one easy-to-use, complete, and accurate volume that goes beyond the product documentation itself. Read more.

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Power Programming with RPC
By John Bloomer
February 1992 
$29.95 USD

RPC, or remote procedure calling, is the ability to distribute the execution of functions on remote computers. Written from a programmer's perspective, this book shows what you can do with… Read more.

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