Node.js is changing the way web apps are built. As Node.js apps are written in JavaScript, you can quickly and simply use your front-end skills to develop staggeringly fast, scalable real-time web applications. Learn how to develop a complete working Node.js application, deploy to a production server and scale your projects.

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Create your own innovative applications in computer vision, game design, music, robotics, and other areas by taking full advantage of Kinect’s extensive interactive, multi-media platform.  This book provides a step-by-step walkthrough of  techniques and tools from the OpenKinect project, the largest and most active Kinect hacking community.

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A hands-on guide with 98 specific techniques to help solve the specific problems you'll encounter over and over as you work on your iPhone and iPad apps. You'll dig into the practical nuts and bolts of applying views, view controllers, table views and cells, audio, images, graphics, file structure—and more. Examples written for iOS 6.

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This  collaboratively written book takes this single line of code - a BASIC program for the Commodore 64 and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. Topics include randomness and regularity in computing and art, the maze in culture, the BASIC programming language, and the Commodore 64 computer.

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Subtitled "The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking" this book explores the the free and open source software (F/OSS) movement. Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software, and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project, reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism?

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Provides practical examples of cost-effective business intelligence projects. Readers will be guided through several complete projects that build a foundation for real-world solutions. Even with limited experience using Microsoft's SQL Server, Integration Server, Analysis Server, and Reporting Server, you can leverage your existing knowledge of SQL programming and database design to provide users with the BI reports they need.  

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Throw out your old ideas of C, and relearn a programming language that’s substantially outgrown its origins. C isn’t just the foundation of modern programming languages, it is a modern language, ideal for writing efficient, state-of-the-art applications. Learn to dump old habits that made sense on mainframes, and pick up the tools you need to use this evolved and aggressively simple language. No matter what programming language you currently champion, you’ll agree that C rocks.

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Originally conceived of as a fun, easy way for kids (and curious adults) to learn computer programming, the Raspberry Pi quickly evolved into a remarkably robust, credit-card-size computer that can be used for everything from playing HD videos and hacking around with hardware to learning to program! Co-authored by Eben Upton, one of the creators of the Raspberry Pi, this book fills you in on everything you need to know to get up and running on your Raspberry Pi.

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Every skill and technique you need to write production-quality apps for Amazon Kindle Fire. You’ll learn by building a complete app from start to finish. Every chapter builds on what you’ve already learned, helping you construct, expand, and extend your working app as you move through the entire development lifecycle. With fully tested, reusable sample code, this book requires no previous Android or mobile development experience.

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All the knowledge you need to design, build, and run applications using HBase. First, it introduces you to the fundamentals of distributed systems and large scale data handling. Then, you'll explore real-world applications and code samples with just enough theory to understand the practical techniques. You'll see how to build applications with HBase and take advantage of the MapReduce processing framework. And along the way you'll learn patterns and best practices.

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Provides a detailed overview of Eclipse, the most widely adopted IDE for Java programmers, to help Android developers to quickly get up to speed  and streamline their day-to-day software development. Covers using Eclipse Android Development Toolkit (ADT) to develop, debug, and troubleshoot Android applications.

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Need to move a relational database application to Hadoop? This example-driven guide introduces you to Apache Hive, Hadoop’s data warehouse infrastructure and shows how to use Hive’s SQL dialect, HiveQL, to summarize, query, and analyze large datasets stored in Hadoop’s distributed filesystem. It provides a detailed overview of Hadoop and MapReduce, and demonstrates how Hive works within the Hadoop ecosystem.

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