Start-to-finish guidance for planning, customizing, deploying, integrating, managing, and securing both cloud and on-premise based versions of Dynamics CRM from Dynamics implementer Marc Wolenik. Covers Dynamics CRM 2013 including its revamped “Flow” interface and advanced cross-platform mobile client support and many features first introduced in Microsoft’s “Polaris” and Update Rollup 12.

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For the third edition of  the comprehensive, authoritative guide to delivering production-quality code with Rails, Kevin Faustino joins Obie Fernandez to illuminate the entire Rails 4 API, including its  idioms, design approaches, and libraries. They present extensive new and updated content on security, performance, caching, Haml, RSpec, Ajax, the Asset Pipeline, and more.

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Interested in developing web applications in the cloud? In this slim hands-on introduction to OpenShift, the open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering from Red Hat, present the steps necessary to build, deploy, and host a complete real-world application on OpenShift, without you having to read long, detailed explanations of the technologies involved.

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Covering multiple SQL Server versions from 2005 to 2014, Dmitri Korotkevitch explains how different SQL Server components work “under the hood” and how they communicate with each other. He explores new SQL Server 2014 features including the new Cardinality Estimator, In-Memory OLTP Engine (codename Hekaton), and Clustered Columnstore Indexes.

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Tizen is an open source, HTML5–centric platform designed for multiple device categories. Written by experts, this guide includes chapters on both web and native application development, covering subjects such as location and social features, advanced UIs, animations, sensors and multimedia and is a comprehensive resource for learning how to develop apps suitable for a range of smart devices.

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Many systems development practitioners find traditional “one-size-fits-all” processes inadequate for the growing complexity, diversity, dynamism, and assurance needs of their products and services. The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM) responds with a principle- and risk-based framework for defining and evolving your project and corporate process assets. This book explains ICSM’s framework of decision criteria and principles, and shows how to apply them through relevant examples.

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Detailed recipes for a wide range of common iOS game-development issues, ranging from 2D and 3D math to Game Center integration, and OpenGL to performance. Rather than focus on specific game engines for iOS, such as Cocos2D or the Corona SDK, Jonathon Manning and Paris Buttfield-Addison deal with baked-in iOS technologies. You’ll learn solutions for everything from tile-matching games to racing, with working code that you can use right away.

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Written by the inventors of the technology, this edition of the definitive technical reference for the Java Virtual Machine fully describes the invokedynamic instruction and method handle mechanism added in Java SE 7, and gives the formal Prolog specification of the type-checking verifier introduced in Java SE 6.

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Write your own Minecraft plugins and watch your code come to life with flaming cows, flying creepers, teleportation, and interactivity. Follow along with the book and add your own features to the Minecraft game by developing Java code that "plugs in" to the server. You don't need programming experience to get started. Andy Hunt will teach you everything you need to know.

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Stephen Wendel, HelloWallet’s head researcher, takes you step-by-step through the process of applying behavioral economics and psychology to the practical problems of product design and development. Using a combination of lean and agile development methods, you’ll learn a simple iterative approach for identifying target users and behaviors, building the product, and gauging its effectiveness. Discover how to create easy-to-use products to help people make positive changes.

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Four IBM experts offer practical, hands-on coverage of front-end development with IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5, IBM Worklight, and today’s most popular open source frameworks to provide a coherent strategy for building modern mobile and web applications. Throughout, you’ll learn better ways to deliver Web 2.0 apps with HTML /JavaScript front ends, RESTful Web Services, and persistent data.

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Many books cover functional testing techniques, but relatively few also cover technical testing. This book by Graham Bath and Judy McKay, core members of the ISTQB Working Party that created the new "Advanced Level Syllabus—Test Analyst" and "Advanced Level Syllabus—Technical Test Analyst," which were released in 2012 fills that gap. It  provides a solid preparation base for these exams together with interesting real-world examples.

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