O Reilly Media imprint: 1651 books
RTF Pocket Guide
The Universal Document Format
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
Rich Text Format, or RTF, is the internal markup language used by Microsoft Word and understood by dozens of other word processors. RTF is a universal file format that pervades practically every desktop. Because RTF is text, it's much easier to generate and process than binary .doc files. Any programmer...
Concurrency in Go
Tools and Techniques for Developers
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Concurrency can be notoriously difficult to get right, but fortunately, the Go open source programming language makes working with concurrency tractable and even easy. If you’re a developer familiar with Go, this practical book demonstrates best practices and patterns to help you incorporate concurrency...
Hands-On Programming with R
Write Your Own Functions and Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Learn how to program by diving into the R language, and then use your newfound skills to solve practical data science problems. With this book, you’ll learn how to load data, assemble and disassemble data objects, navigate R’s environment system, write your own functions, and use all of R’s...
Closure: The Definitive Guide
Google Tools to Add Power to Your JavaScript
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
If you're ready to use Closure to build rich web applications with JavaScript, this hands-on guide has precisely what you need to learn this suite of tools in depth. Closure makes it easy for experienced JavaScript developers to write and maintain large and complex codebases—as Google has demonstrated...
by Q. Ethan McCallum
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Managing multiple Red Hat-based systems can be easy--with the right tools. The yum package manager and the Kickstart installation utility are full of power and potential for automatic installation, customization, and updates. Here's what you need to know to take control of your systems.
by Raph Koster
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Now in full color, the 10th anniversary edition of this classic book takes you deep into the influences that underlie modern video games, and examines the elements they share with traditional games such as checkers. At the heart of his exploration, veteran game designer Raph Koster takes a close look...
Designing Games
A Guide to Engineering Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Ready to give your design skills a real boost? This eye-opening book helps you explore the design structure behind most of today’s hit video games. You’ll learn principles and practices for crafting games that generate emotionally charged experiences—a combination of elegant game mechanics,...
Node.js for PHP Developers
Porting PHP to Node.js
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
If you’re an experienced PHP developer, you already have a head start on learning how to write Node.js code. In this book, author Daniel Howard demonstrates the remarkable similarities between the two languages, and shows you how to port your entire PHP web application to Node.js. By comparing specific...
Ajax on Java
The Essentials of XMLHttpRequest and XML Programming with Java
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
This practical guide shows you how to make your Java web applications more responsive and dynamic by incorporating new Ajaxian features, including suggestion lists, drag-and-drop, and more. Java developers can choose between many different ways of incorporating Ajax, from building JavaScript into...
JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook
Solutions & Examples for Web Programmers
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2007
In today's Web 2.0 world, JavaScript and Dynamic HTML are at the center of the hot new approach to designing highly interactive pages on the client side. With this environment in mind, the new edition of this book offers bite-sized solutions to very specific scripting problems that web developers...
RT Essentials
Managing Your Team and Projects with Request Tracker
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
In a typical organization, there's always plenty that to do such as: pay vendors, invoice customers, answer customer inquiries, and fix bugs in hardware or software. You need to know who wants what and keep track of what is left to do.
This is where a ticketing system comes in. A ticketing...
Crafting the InfoSec Playbook
Security Monitoring and Incident Response Master Plan
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Any good attacker will tell you that expensive security monitoring and prevention tools aren’t enough to keep you secure. This practical book demonstrates a data-centric approach to distilling complex security monitoring, incident response, and threat analysis ideas into their most basic elements....
Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP
Implement Robust, Fault-Tolerant Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
If you need to build a scalable, fault tolerant system with requirements for high availability, discover why the Erlang/OTP platform stands out for the breadth, depth, and consistency of its features. This hands-on guide demonstrates how to use the Erlang programming language and its OTP framework...
The Art of Readable Code
Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
As programmers, we’ve all seen source code that’s so ugly and buggy it makes our brain ache. Over the past five years, authors Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher have analyzed hundreds of examples of "bad code" (much of it their own) to determine why they’re bad and how they could be...