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Effective STL: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of the Standard Template Library (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)»rank: 44515by: Scott Meyers
: :(Pearson Education) Explains STL, Standard Template Library, and how to use it. Offers STL programmes at varying levels of skill techniques to master the efficiency of STL and STL programs, with insights into functions, allocators, and iterators, among other concepts. Softcover. DLC: C++ (Computer program language). Review:Written for the intermediate or advanced C++ programmer, renowned C++ expert Scott Meyers provides essential techniques for getting more out of the Standard Template Library in Effective STL, a tutorial for doing more with this powerful library. STL is a hugely powerful feature of today's C++, but one with a well-earned reputation for complexity. The book is organized into 50 tips that explore different areas ... |
Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent»rank: 11917by: Joel Spolsky
: :A guide to attracting, recruiting, interviewing, and hiring the best technical talent. A comprehensive system for hiring top-notch technical employees Packed with useful information and specific advice written in a breezy, humorous style Learn how to find great people--and get them to work for you--in an afternoon! The top software developers are ten times as productive as average developers. Ten times. You can't afford not to hire them. But if you haven't been reading Joel Spolsky's books or blog, you probably don't know how to find them and make them want to work for you. In this brief book, Joel reveals all his secrets--from his years at Microsoft, and as the co-founder ... |
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The Object-Oriented Thought Process (3rd Edition) (Developer's Library)»rank: 120560by: Matt Weisfeld
: :The Object-Oriented Thought Process Third Edition Matt Weisfeld An introduction to object-oriented concepts for developers looking to master modern application practices. Object-oriented programming (OOP) is the foundation of modern programming languages, including C++, Java, C#, and Visual Basic .NET. By designing with objects rather than treating the code and data as separate entities, OOP allows objects to fully utilize other objects’ services as well as inherit their functionality. OOP promotes code portability and reuse, but requires a shift in thinking to be fully understood. Before jumping into the world of object-oriented programming languages, you must first master The Object-Oriented Thought Process. Written by a developer for developers who ... |
WPF Recipes in C# 2008: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in .Net)»rank: 70946by: Allen Jones, Sam Bourton, Sam Noble
: :WPF offers amazing new opportunities to .NET programmers in terms of the user interfaces they can deliver to their customers. But this significant technological advance comes with a steep learning curve, requiring the programmer to learn new classes, new syntax, and an entirely new approach to UI development. Although WPF has been generally available for over a year, commercial take–up has been relatively slow, and the publicly available body of knowledge has been weak in terms of real–world examples and best–practice information. Using WPF Recipes in C# 2008, you’ll find a simple and straightforward approach to solving the problems you face every day. Each solution contains a complete, working example that demonstrates ... |
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Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache All in One (4th Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself)»rank: 152479by: Julie C. Meloni
: :Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL® and Apache All in One Fourth Edition Julie C. Meloni Starter Kit CD-ROM includes a complete starter kit for Windows®, Linux®, and Mac® OS X In just a short time, you can learn how to use PHP, MySQL, and Apache together to create dynamic, interactive websites and applications using the three leading open-source web development technologies. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson in this book builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials of PHP scripting, MySQL databases, and the Apache web server from the ground up. Regardless of whether you run Linux, Windows, or Mac OS ... |
Essential C# 3.0: For .NET Framework 3.5 (2nd Edition) (Microsoft .Net Development Series)»rank: 139800by: Mark Michaelis
: : Praise for Essential C# 3.0 “If you want to be a C# developer, or if you want to enhance your C# programming skills, there is no more useful tool than a well-crafted book on the subject. You are holding such a book in your hands.” –From the Foreword by Charlie Calvert, Community Program Manager, Visual C#, Microsoft “In a time when you can search online for any reference material, Essential C# 3.0 is the one book I still bother to carry in my bag. Any developer can hit F1 for help with the language syntax; this book, however, arms me with the knowledge to make better design and coding decisions ... |
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Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great»rank: 67223by: Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, Ken Schwaber
: :See how to mine the experience of your software development team continually throughout the life of the project. The tools and recipes in this book will help you uncover and solve hidden (and not-so-hidden) problems with your technology, your methodology, and those difficult 'people' issues on your team. Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as 'post-mortems') are only helpful at the end of the project--too late to help. You need agile retrospectives that are iterative and incremental. You need to accurately find and fix problems to help the team today. Now, Derby and Larsen show you the tools, ... |
Foundation ActionScript 3.0 with Flash CS3 and Flex (Foundation)»rank: 144506by: Todd Yard, Steve Webster, Sean McSharry
: :If you want to create exciting dynamic web sites that will amaze your online audience, then the Flash platform is a great way to go, with it's many features, including powerful graphical and sound and video capabilities. To really harness the power of Flash though, you need to make use of ActionScript to provide dynamic effects, enable user interaction, and manipulate data. ActionScript 3.0, the latest version of the Flash Platform's scripting language, offers a lot of new and powerful features. ActionScript is now a full-fledged programming language, with complete object-oriented capabilities, improved event handling, sound and video support, drawing capabilities, support for regular expressions, and much more. Whether you are a ... |
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Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity»rank: 16413by: Joel Spolsky
: : Spolsky is knowledgeable, funny and free of unnecessary religious fervor. Joel on Software is a must-read. ...having (Joel on Software) in one place, edited, with an index, is probably the best twenty-five dollars you'll spend this year. — Greg Wilson, Dr. (Joel Spolsky's) genuine desire to make the software world a better place keeps us coming back for more. — Bruce Hadley, softwareCEO. This book will challenge, encourage, upset, and entertain you. Spolsky knows his stuff, and he's got the war wounds to prove it. This book is worth the price of admission... — Tom Duff, Duffbert's Random Musings An entertaining oportunity to get to know one of today's most influential ... |
Mastering Dojo: JavaScript and Ajax Tools for Great Web Experiences (Pragmatic Programmers)»rank: 17141by: Craig Riecke, Rawld Gill, Alex Russell
: :The last couple of years have seen big changes in server-side web programming. Now it's the client's turn; Dojo is the toolkit to make it happen and Mastering Dojo shows you how. Dojo is a set of client-side JavaScript tools that help you build better web applications. Dojo blurs the line between local, native applications and browser based applications; the browser becomes the user interface platform. 'Modern' browsers provide an incomplete, inconvenient, and incompatible programming environment, but Dojo eliminates these problems. While there are many JavaScript libraries available, most focus on just one thing (for example, effects libraries, perceived JavaScript omissions, or HTML widgets). Dojo addresses all of these functional areas-and many ... |