“…The author concludes by discussing what you need to learn to transition to Microsoft's coming .NET framework. Regardless of what lies ahead for .NET, many distributed systems are being built today with COM+. …”

“…Signaling System No. 7 (SS7/C7): Protocol, Architecture, and Services will help you understand SS7 from several perspectives. It examines the framework and architecture of SS7, as well as how it is used to provide today's telecommunications services. …”

“…For every Java developer, regardless of previous Eclipse experience Thoroughly covers Eclipse 3.1's new RCP features and its extensive new tools for designing, coding, and packaging RCP applications Presents techniques for branding and customizing the look and feel of RCP applications Shows how to overcome the challenges and "rough edges" of RCP development Discusses the similarities and differences between RCP and conventional plug-in development Includes an overview of OSGi, the base execution framework for Eclipse If you want to develop and deploy world-class Java applications with rich, native GUIs, and use Eclipse RCP— get this book . …”

“…Coverage includes Understanding and using presentation-oriented, data-oriented, process-oriented, or hybrid mashup styles Identifying the optimal uses for mashups in your environment Up-front planning: requirements, constraints, and security considerations; stability, reliability, and performance issues Creating an enterprise mashup, step by step: design, identification of services and data sources, and more Creating effective frameworks for mashup mediation and monitoring Applying proven patterns to your enterprise mashup infrastructure Securing mashups: validation, HTML sanitization, protecting iframes, and avoiding common attacks, such as cross-site request forgery Building mashups with third-party tools for Google, Oracle, Salesforce.com, Amazon, and other environments Developing an open, agile environment that supports rapid, flexible development of new mashups Also of interest: The companion book, Mashup Patterns: Designs and Examples for the Modern Enterprise by Mike Ogrinz (Addison-Wesley), is an indispensable guide to patterns, with insights for making mashups work in production environments…”

“…Highlights include: How and where business case analyses fit into the software and IT life cycle process Explanations of the most common tools for business case analysis, such as present-value, return-on-investment, break-even, and cost/benefit calculation Tying the business process to the software development life cycle Packaging the business case for management consumption Frameworks and guidelines for justifying IT productivity, quality, and delivery cycle improvement strategies Case studies for applying appropriate decision situations to software process improvement Strategic guidelines for various business case analyses With this book in hand, you will find the facts, examples, hard data, and case studies needed for preparing your own winning business cases in today's complex software environment. 0201728877B09102001…”

“…Not only does it teach you about Ninject core framework features that are essential for implementing dependency injection, but it also explores the power of Ninject’s most useful extensions and demonstrates how to apply them. …”

“…Peri shows how to set up the Twitter API environment; make API calls and parse responses; work with components; create displays; build application frameworks; handle error messages and downtime; pass credentials to Twitter; create clients; send messages; use Twitter search; and more. …”

“…Both a practical how-to guide and a framework for planning, Decision Management Systems focuses on mainstream business challenges. …”

“…With this guide, all developers will be able to learn and improve their mastery of both the language and the .NET Framework Class Libraries…”

“…Explains some of the sector's key macro drivers--like regulation, interest rates, and credit trends Shows how to capitalize on a wide array of macro conditions and industry-specific features to help you form an opinion on each of the industries within the sector Takes you through the major components of the industries within the global Financials sector and reveals how they operate Offers investment strategies to help you determine when and how to overweight specific industries within the sector Outlines a five-step process to help differentiate firms in this field--designed to help you identify those with the greatest probability of outperforming Filled with in-depth insights, Fisher Investments on Financials provides a framework for understanding this sector and its industries to help you make better investment decisions--now and in the future. …”

“…Coverage includes Setting up a development environment that makes it easy to continually address performance Understanding the anatomy of a Google App Engine application Making the right technical setup and design choices for each new application Efficiently modeling data for App Engine’s NoSQL data storage Recognizing when to avoid OR-mapping and pass datastore entities directly to HTML templates Finding alternatives to frameworks and libraries that impair App Engine performance Using JavaScript and AJAX on the client side of your cloud applications Improving browser performance and reducing resource consumption via better use of HTML5 and CSS3 Taking advantage of key App Engine APIs: datastore, blobstore, mail, task scheduling, memory caching, URL retrieval, and messaging Securing cloud-based Web applications with Google Accounts, OpenID, and OAuth Improving your cloud development, quality assurance, and deployment processes Targeting, marketing, and selling cloud solutions, from planning to payment handling…”

“…Drawing on decades of process improvement experience, author Paul McMahon explains how combining an Agile approach with the CMMI process improvement framework is the fastest, most effective way to achieve your business objectives. …”

“…With this book you’ll learn how to Use free Android tools for creating code, artwork, and sound Implement the “game loop” that is at the heart of Android games Bring your game to life with scene transitions and entity modifiers Make the most of bitmap and vector graphics, sprites, and animation Integrate user input via touch, multitouch, keyboard, voice recognition, accelerometer, location, and compass Build infinite virtual worlds with tile maps Create, save, and reuse powerful particle effects Find, acquire, modify, and use background music and sound effects Implement highly realistic physics effects with Box2D Use AI techniques to make your games smarter and more fun Build a scoring framework based on collisions between your game elements Download the free version of Virgins Versus Vampires (V3) from Android Market today, as you learn how to build the game in this book…”

“…JavaScript has an effective set of frameworks and libraries that support the robotics ecosystem. …”

“…Pioneering expert Bob Zeidman—creator of CodeSuite®, the world’s #1 software IP analysis tool—thoroughly covers all technical and legal aspects of IP theft detection. Using his rigorous framework and practical examples, you can accurately determine whether software copying, theft, or infringement has occurred, and fully support your findings in any venue. …”

“…Make your programs more robust with intelligent exception handling and learn to assert that everything works as expected using JUnit5 as your testing framework. Impress your peers with an elegant functional programming style and clear-cut object-oriented class design. …”

“…Understand the four main aspects of being a software architect Learn the difference between architecture decisions and technology decisions Acquire crucial soft skills, such as how to communicate effectively as a team leader Explore ways to match methodologies with architecture to ensure successful implementations Discover various techniques and patterns for integrating multiple applications and databases Learn how to make your architecture more adaptable to changes in business and technology Understand application, integration, and enterprise architecture frameworks Get up to speed on architecture patterns such as CQRS and LMAX Pick up techniques, strategies, and tools for analyzing architecture Explore the impact of engineering practices like continuous delivery and evolutionary architecture Neal Ford is Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy. …”

“…Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails will help you Build highly scalable, Ruby-based service architectures that operate smoothly in the cloud or with legacy systems Scale Rails systems to handle more requests, larger development teams, and more complex code bases Master new best practices for designing and creating services in Ruby Use Ruby to glue together services written in any language Use Ruby libraries to build and consume RESTful Web services Use Ruby JSON parsers to quickly represent resources from HTTP services Write lightweight, well-designed API wrappers around internal or external services Discover powerful non-Rails frameworks that simplify Ruby service implementation Implement standards-based enterprise messaging with Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Optimize performance with load balancing and caching Provide for security and authentication…”

“…Presenting them in a comprehensive methodology for the first time, Smith names them, describes them, explains their importance, helps you compare and choose among them, and offers a framework for using them together. He also introduces an innovative Pattern Instance Notation diagramming system that makes it easier to work with patterns at many levels of granularity, regardless of your goals or role. …”

“… • Use Xcode 5 to write modern Objective-C software more quickly and efficiently • Master Objective-C’s object-oriented features and techniques • Manage projects more efficiently with the Git source code repository • Write more dynamic code with Objective-C’s powerful messaging architecture • Declare classes, instance variables, properties, methods, and actions • Work with mutable and immutable data types • Organize data with collections, including arrays, dictionaries, and sets • Painlessly manage memory with Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) • Expand and extend classes with protocols, delegates, categories, and extensions • Get started with Apple’s powerful classes and frameworks • Create and work with code blocks • Manage queues and threading with Grand Central Dispatch…”