You’ve promised the boss that you’ll turn the new powerful multicore pro- cessor into a blazingly fast workhorse for your application. You’d love to exploit the power on hand and beat your competition with a faster, responsive application that provides great user experience. Those gleeful thoughts are interrupted by your colleague’s cry for help—he’s run into yet another syn- chroni…
The early walkthroughs, which demonstrate the use of the Entity Framework in a variety of applications (Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, ASP.NET, WCF services, and WCF Data Services), are written so that you can follow them even if you have never created a particular application type before. The goal of this book is to help developers not only get up and running with the Entity F…
The Java platform is arguably one of the most powerful and widely adopted ecosystems today. It has three significant pieces: • The Java Virtual Machine (JVM), which has become increasingly powerful and more performant over the years • The Java Development Kit (JDK), the rich set of third-party libraries and frameworks that help us effectively leverage the power of the platform • The se…
As a busy Java developer, you’re constantly looking for ways to be more productive, right? You’re probably willing to take all the help you can get from the platform and tools available to you. When I wax poetic about the “strength of Java,” I’m not talking about the language or its syntax. It’s the Java platform that has become more capable and more performant. To reap the benefit…
I started my professional development career in 1999, when I first was paid a salary to be a developer. (I don’t count the few years before that when I was just having fun playing around on the Web.) In 1999 the Web was a scary place. HTML files were loaded down with font and table tags. CSS was just coming on the scene. JavaScript1 was only a few years old, and a battlefield of various imple…
The purpose of this book is to teach solid idiomatic Go programming using all the features the language provides, as well as the most commonly used Go packages from Go’s standard library. The book is also designed to serve as a useful reference once the language is learned. To meet both of these goals the book isquite comprehensiveand triestocover every topic in just one place—and with forw…
Python is probably the easiest-to-learn and nicest-to-use programming language in widespread use. Python code is clear to read and write, and it is con- cise without being cryptic. Python isa very expressive language,which means that we can usually write far fewer lines of Python code than would be required for an equivalent application written in, say, C++ or Java. Python isa cross-platform l…
With the advent of version 2 of the iPhone system, Apple proved they could do a re- markable thing — adapt their existing Cocoa computer application programming framework to make applications for a touch-based device with limited memory and speed and a dauntingly tiny display. The resulting Cocoa Touch framework, in fact, turned out to be in many ways better than the original Cocoa. A program…
With the advent of version 2 of the iPhone system, Apple proved they could do a remarkable thing — adapt their existing Cocoa computer application programming framework to make applications for a touch-based device with limited memory and speed and a dauntingly tiny display. The resulting Cocoa Touch framework, in fact, turned out to be in many ways better than the original Cocoa. A programmi…
A programming framework has a kind of personality, an overall flavor that provides an insight into the goals and mindset of those who created it. When I first encountered Cocoa Touch, my assessment of its personality was: “Wow, the people who wrote this are really clever!” On the one hand, the number of built-in interface widgets was severely and deliberately limited; on the other hand, the…
This book is geared to iOS 8.1 and Xcode 6.1, both of which became publicly available in October, 2014. In general, only very minimal attention is given to earlier versions of iOS and Xcode. As I’ve already said, it is not my intention to embrace in this book any detailed knowledge about earlier versions of the software, which is, after all, readily and compendiously available in my earlier b…
Chapters 1 and 2 introduce you to the Mac OS X environment, providing a foundation for understanding the origins of the operating system, how it is structured, and what components it contains. The first two chapters explain how to use and navigate Mac OS X, and introduce you to technologies you will use throughout the book.
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services is an enterprise-ready platform for developing data integration solutions. SQL Server Integration Services provides the ability to extract and load from and to heterogeneous data sources and destina- tions. In addition, it provides the ability for you to easily deploy, manage, and configure these data integration solutions. If you are a data integration…
When Andy and I wrote the first edition, we had to explain the background and appeal of Ruby. Among other things, we wrote, “When we discovered Ruby, we realized that we’d found what we’d been looking for. More than any other language with which we have worked, Ruby stays out of your way. You can concentrate on solving the problem at hand, instead of struggling with compiler and language…
This book is the second edition of the PickAxe, as Programming Ruby is known to Rubyists. It is a tutorial and reference for the Ruby programming language. If you have the first edition, you’ll find that this version is a significant rewrite. When Andy and I wrote the first edition, we had to explain the background and appeal of Ruby. Among other things, we wrote “When we discovered Ru…
This book is an advanced reference for the mobile web today, and it is the most complete reference available at this time. This may seem an ambitious claim, but it is the truth. This book draws upon a mix of experience and very detailed research and testing not available in other books, websites, or research papers about the mobile web. Programming the Mobile Web will teach you how to create ef…
Programming languages matter. They affect the reliability, security, and efficiency of the code you write, as well as how easy it is to read, refactor, and extend. The languages you know can also change how you think, influencing the way you design software even when you’re not using them. We wrote this book because we believe in the importance of programming languages, and that OCaml in part…
HTTP is an application-level protocol that defines operations for transferring representations between clients and servers. In this protocol, methods such as GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE are operations on resources. This protocol eliminates the need for you to invent application-specific operations such as createOrder, getStatus, updateStatus, etc. How much you can benefit from the HTTP infrastru…