“….” — Kevin Lisota , Product Manager, Mobile Devices Division, Microsoft Corporation “Mobile applications are truly a new class of applications and having feature-rich development tools and infrastructures like VS .NET and the .NET Compact Framework is only half the battle of learning to build them. It’s great to see Dan and Jon apply their in-depth knowledge of the .NET Compact Framework to cover the important topics that everybody learning to build mobile applications should understand.” — Craig Neable , .NET Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation “Mobile solutions and their development present new challenges for enterprises, especially with disconnected/synchronization scenarios. …”

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“…Theories of imperialism and historic civilizations, and their relation to world order, have been discarded. With more than half the world's population living in cities, with unprecedented levels of migration, global politics is present on every street corner. …”

“…And since writing code is only half of the work, the book also guides you in creating installers and packaging and distributing your software. …”

“…What You Will Learn Use kernel facilities to develop powerful drivers Develop drivers for widely used I2C and SPI devices and use the regmap API Write and support devicetree from within your drivers Program advanced drivers for network and frame buffer devices Delve into the Linux irqdomain API and write interrupt controller drivers Enhance your skills with regulator and PWM frameworks Develop measurement system drivers with IIO framework Get the best from memory management and the DMA subsystem Access and manage GPIO subsystems and develop GPIO controller drivers In Detail Linux kernel is a complex, portable, modular and widely used piece of software, running on around 80% of servers and embedded systems in more than half of devices throughout the World. Device drivers play a critical role in how well a Linux system performs. …”

“…You'll learn about the Red-Green-Refactor procedure, how to write unit tests, and how to use them as executable documentation.With this book, you'll also discover how to design simple and easily maintainable code, work with mocks, utilize behavior-driven development, refactor old legacy code, and release a half-finished feature to production with feature toggles.You will fi..…”

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“…Meyer: German Jewry's Path to Normality and Assimilation: Complexities, Ironies, Paradoxes - Christhard Hoffmann: Constructing Jewish Modernity: Mendelssohn Jubilee Celebrations within German Jewry, 1829-1929 - Johannes Hei: "... durch Fluten und Scheiterhaufen": Persecution as a Topic in Jewish Historiography on the Way to Modernity - Christian Wiese: Struggling for Normality: The Apologetics of Wissenschaft des Judentums in Wilhelmine Germany as an Anti-colonial Intellectual Revolt against the Protestant Construction of Judaism - Deborah Hertz: The Troubling Dialectic Between Reform and Conversion in Biedermeier Berlin - Simone Lässig: The Emergence of a Middle-Class Religiosity: Social and Cultural Aspects of the German-Jewish Reform Movement During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century - Gregory A. Caplan: Germanising the Jewish Male: Military Masculinity as the Last Stage of Acculturation - Lisa Swartout: Segregation or Integration? …”

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“…You will use this new power to access the features provided in Unity's Scripting Reference. The first half of this book is devoted to the code writing beginner. …”

“…Thought-provoking and intense, tutorials include: A half-day practical guide to securing Hadoop clusters led by principals at Cloudera; Data 101, an overview of the core principles of data architecture from experts at Silicon Valley Data Science, EMC, and Metis; Spark Camp, eight hours of instruction on DataFrames, Spark SQL, GraphX, and Spark streaming; and eight hours on Big Data issues in the financial industry with case studies from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, and Sand Hill Econometrics. …”

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