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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This quick reference on Filemaker's Functions, Scripts, Commands, and Grammars will appeal to the entire FileMaker Pro community and be a great extension of its library. This edition is updated for the many new features of FileMaker 12, including the product's design functionality and the file format, and a new section dedicated to FileMaker Go, which is the iOS client.

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Third edition of the definitive guide to applying agile development and modern software engineering practices with Microsoft’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform. With the strap line, From Backlog to Continuous Feedback focuses on solving real development challenges, systematically eliminating waste, improving transparency, and delivering better software.

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Focussing solely on C#, Matthew MacDonald introduces the latest thinking and best practices for the ASP.NET 4.5 technology. Assuming no prior coding experience, he teaches   the skills needed to be an effective ASP.NET developer ready to progress to more sophisticated projects and professional work. See our 5-star review of previous edition.

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Content for this book on detecting and preventing web application security problems has been selected to ensure coverage of the most vicious attacks out there. It explains the anatomy of these attacks and how to get rid of  worms, trojans, and botnets and defend against them in the future. Countermeasures are detailed so that you can fight against similar attacks as they evolve.

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With the subtitle Modern Data Access for Enterprise Java, this is a hands-on introduction to big data access, showing how Spring Data makes it relatively easy to build bridge applications to such technologies as NoSQL and Hadoop. You’ll also discover the features Spring Data adds to Spring’s existing JPA and JDBC support for writing RDBMS-based data access layers.

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Why is information security so dysfunctional? Are you wasting the money you spend on security? How can you make more effective security decisions? This book explains why professionals have taken to studying economics, not cryptography--and why you should, too. And why security breach notices are the best thing to ever happen to information security.

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With the subtitle A Real World Project - Case Study Approach this book walks you through creating an arcade-style Prison Break game app—top to bottom—for an Android smartphone or tablet.  It teaches you the unique characteristics and challenges of creating an Arcade style game And it provides you with the full source code for this sample game app.

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All the tools you need for predictive analytics are available in Microsoft Excel. The knowledge and skills ayou need to make use of them are in this book. This is Conrad Carlberg’s eleventh book about quantitative analysis using Microsoft Excel, which he still regards with a mix of awe and exasperation.

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