O Reilly: 1860 books
Beautiful Testing
Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Successful software depends as much on scrupulous testing as it does on solid architecture or elegant code. But testing is not a routine process, it's a constant exploration of methods and an evolution of good ideas. Beautiful Testing offers 23 essays from 27 leading testers and developers that illustrate...
Introduction to Search with Sphinx
From installation to relevance tuning
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
This concise introduction to Sphinx shows you how to use this free software to index an enormous number of documents and provide fast results to both simple and complex searches. Written by the creator of Sphinx, this authoritative book is short and to the point.
Understand the particular way...
SharePoint 2010 for Project Management
Learn How to Manage Your Projects with SharePoint
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
If you were to analyze your team’s performance on a typical project, you’d be surprised how much time is wasted on non-productive tasks. This hands-on guide shows you how to work more efficiently by organizing and managing projects with SharePoint 2010. You’ll learn how to build a Project Management...
Using Moodle
Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Using Moodle is a complete, hands-on guide for instructors learning how to use Moodle, the popular course management system (CMS) that enables remote web-based learning and supplements traditional classroom learning. Updated for the latest version, this new edition explains exactly how Moodle works...
IRC Hacks
100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2004
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) may very well turn out to be the world's most successful hack. In 1988, Jarkko Oikarinen wrote the original IRC program at the University of Oulu, Finland. As he says in his foreword, "IRC started as one summer trainee's programming exercise. A hack grew into a software...
UX Strategy
How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
User experience (UX) strategy requires a careful blend of business strategy and UX design, but until now, there hasn’t been an easy-to-apply framework for executing it. This hands-on guide introduces lightweight strategy tools and techniques to help you and your team craft innovative multi-device...
by Andres Ferrate, Amanda Surya, Daniels Lee
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
By integrating the Web with traditional TV, Google TV offers developers an important new channel for content. But creating apps for Google TV requires learning some new skills—in fact, what you may already know about mobile or desktop web apps isn't entirely applicable. Building Web Apps for Google...
Premiere Elements 8: The Missing Manual
The Missing Manual
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Whether you're aiming for YouTube videos or Hollywood-style epics, you need what Premiere Elements can't provide: crystal-clear guidance and real world know-how. This Missing Manual delivers. Packed with great ideas on how to spiff up your footage, this book helps you avoid the dreaded Help! I Never...
Drupal for Designers
The Context You Need Without the Jargon You Don't
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Are you a solo web designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal? This hands-on book provides the tools and techniques to get you going. Award-winning designer Dani Nordin guides you through site planning, teaches you how to create solid, user-centered design for...
Using Joomla!
Efficiently Build and Manage Custom Websites
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
If you’re new to content management systems—or even new to building websites—this practical guide will get you up and running in no time. You don’t have to know much code, if any, to get started.
Need to build a website quickly? Have a client that requires a powerful website with lots...
Windows PowerShell for Developers
Enhance Your Productivity and Enable Rapid Application Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Want to perform programming tasks better, faster, simpler, and make them repeatable? Take a deep dive into Windows PowerShell and discover what this distributed automation platform can do. Whether you’re a .NET developer or IT pro, this concise guide will show you how PowerShell’s scripting language...
Programming C# 5.0
Building Windows 8, Web, and Desktop Applications for the .NET 4.5 Framework
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
After a dozen years of incremental changes, C# has become one of the most versatile programming languages available. With this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn just how powerful the combination of C# 5.0 and .NET 4.5 can be. Author Ian Griffiths guides you through C# 5.0 fundamentals and teaches...
J2EE Design Patterns
Patterns in the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2003
Architects of buildings and architects of software have more in common than most people think. Both professions require attention to detail, and both practitioners will see their work collapse around them if they make too many mistakes. It's impossible to imagine a world in which buildings get built...
Programming for PaaS
A Practical Guide to Coding for Platform-as-a-Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is gaining serious traction among web and mobile developers, but as new PaaS providers emerge and existing vendors upgrade their features, it’s hard to keep track of what PaaS has to offer. This thorough introduction takes you through the PaaS model from a developer’s...