Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
The Complete Guide to Writing More Maintainable, Manageable, Pleasing, and Powerful Ruby Applications Ruby’s widely admired ease of use has a downside: Too many Ruby and Rails applications have been created without concern for their long-term maintenance or evolution. The Web is awash in Ruby code that is now virtually impossible to change or extend. This text …
Praise for the Second Edition “A must-have book for anyone expecting to do research and/or applications in categorical data analysis.” -Statistics in Medicine “It is a total delight reading this book.” -Pharmaceutical Research “If you do any analysis of categorical data, this is an essential desktop reference.” -Technometrics The use of statistical methods for analyzing …
“If you ever wanted to learn to use MySQL, write SQL queries, create database elements, then this is the book to pick up.” (JavaRanch.com)”I was amazed at how much information was packed into this book.””As a developer with almost 10 years of MySQL experience, I still picked up a lot of new detail on things I thought I …
SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL (3rd Edition)
The #1 Easy, Common-Sense Guide to SQL Queries—Updated for Today’s Databases, Standards, and Challenges SQL Queries for Mere Mortals ® has earned worldwide praise as the clearest, simplest tutorial on writing effective SQL queries. The authors have updated this hands-on classic to reflect new SQL standards and database applications and teach valuable new techniques. …
PHP and MySQL Web Development, Fourth Edition The definitive guide to building database-drive Web applications with PHP and MySQL PHP and MySQL are popular open-source technologies that are ideal for quickly developing database-driven Web applications. PHP is a powerful scripting language designed to enable developers to create highly featured Web applications quickly, and MySQL …
Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, Streams, and functional-style programming
SummaryJava 8 in Action is a clearly written guide to the new features of Java 8. The book covers lambdas, streams, and functional-style programming. With Java 8’s functional features you can now write more concise code in less time, and also automatically benefit from multicore architectures. It’s time to dig in!Purchase of the print book includes a free …
SummarySpring in Action, Fourth Edition is a hands-on guide to the Spring Framework, updated for version 4. It covers the latest features, tools, and practices including Spring MVC, REST, Security, Web Flow, and more. You’ll move between short snippets and an ongoing example as you learn to build simple and efficient J2EE applications. Author Craig Walls has a …
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals (Developer Reference)
Gain a solid understanding of T-SQL—and write better queries Master the fundamentals of Transact-SQL—and develop your own code for querying and modifying data in Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Led by a SQL Server expert, you’ll learn the concepts behind T-SQL querying and programming, and then apply your knowledge with exercises in each chapter. Once you understand …
Data Structures and Other Objects Using Java is a gradual, “just-in-time” introduction to Data Structures for a CS2 course. Each chapter provides a review of the key aspects of object-oriented programming and a syntax review, giving students the foundation for understanding significant programming concepts. With this framework they are able to accomplish writing functional data …
The top-selling guide to Google’s free online office suite is now available in a revised and expanded second edition! In a single sitting, get up to speed with Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, the free online alternative to Microsoft Office. Millions of people use Google’s office suite every day. You can use Drive, …