books by Apress     books:       Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition (Windows.Net)62 reviews Andrew Troelsen Apress, 2007 Excellent Book - a must buy. I sometimes read peoples reviews and wonder what planet they come from. Simply put, if you're an intermediate developer in C# and you buy this book, you will save yourself a lot of stress/heartache in the future. I've read a couple of other C# at intermediate level and here's the rub: For myself, I personally try to gauge if the book is for me by looking at the first couple of chapters or ...             Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework41 reviews Steven Sanderson Apress, 2009 Excellent Book Lots of people write, but few know what the hell they are doing. When I cannot put down the book, I know the author must be a rare beast in the jungle out there!             The Game Maker's Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners (Technology in Action)49 reviews Jacob Habgood, Mark Overmars Apress, 2006 5 Stars Is Not Enough!!!! I have been an educator and professional software developer for over 20 years now and can say that this is the most well crafted instructional book of any kind that I have ever read. Taking a reader from zero to being able to create interesting games while understanding the logic, design considerations, and even programming syntax needed in one 300 page book with an easy to master learning ...             Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK167 reviews Dave Mark, Jeff LaMarche Apress, 2009 A Great Book If you intend on learning iPhone development, then go ahead and buy this book without thinking twice. It covers all the basic aspects of iPhone development through a very complete series of examples, it gives you a lot of valuable information and it is well written and easy to follow In a word: raccomended             Coders at Work26 reviews Peter Seibel Apress, 2009 Rekindled my love for the craft of coding This book is just a bunch of interviews with some programmers you might recognize and some you may not. It seems to be pretty lightly edited and some people may find some sections boring (and others may not)! "Coders at Work" is a fascinating insight into the education, careers and minds of some pretty big names in the field. I ordered the book before reading some of the negative reviews and I'm ...             LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0: The King's Treasure (Technology in Action) James Floyd Kelly Apress, 2009 Follow the adventures of Evan and his archaeologist uncle as they explore for treasure from an ancient kingdom. Help them succeed by building a series of five robots using LEGO?s popular MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 robotics kit. Without your robots, Evan and his uncle are doomed to failure and in grave danger. Your robots are the key to their success in unlocking the secret of The King?s Treasure . In this sequel to the immensely popular ...             iPhone Cool Projects12 reviews Gary Bennett, Wolfgang Ante, ... Apress, 2009 Your next step in iPhone SDK programming I have to admit I initially overlooked what a great book it is, given its meager 200-page content ;) When I got the book, I thought: oh nice paper and colorful prints. But maybe it just looks fancy instead of offering real substance. I was wrong. Once I started reading, I couldn't put the book off. While reading it, it's both satisfying and addictive at the same time. All the chapter ...             Learn Objective?C on the Mac (Learn Series)37 reviews Mark Dalrymple, Scott Knaster Apress, 2009 Great Book! I first read Learn C on a Mac and then read this book. My intentions were to learn how to develop on the iPhone. I had a very minimum background in programming and and after reading the first book, I felt confident in taking everything in and the most important part, getting it. I am happy to say that I do get it. People say that Objective C is different with it's syntax and all. I like it. Once ...             iPhone Advanced Projects1 review Joachim Bondo, Dylan Bruzenak, ... Apress, 2009 Book Rocked Book was fantastic , actual useful and interesting topics, though some of the source did have bugs and leaks. Worth the price             Pro Silverlight 3 in C#6 reviews Matthew MacDonald Apress, 2009 By far the best resource for Silverlight 3.0 This book is by far the best resource for Silverlight 3.0. In this version the author added a whopping 185 pages to the last edition. He added chapters on Data Controls, separated the Styles, Templates, and Custom Controls into two separate chapters name Styles and Behaviors, and Templates and Custom Controls, and added a new chapter on Navigation. I have bought 3 other books on Silverlight ...             Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Books for Professionals by Professionals)24 reviews Gary Mak Apress, 2008 Outstanding This is THE book you should own if you are using Spring. It is organized as cookbook. I refer to it all the time. Very thorough and complete. Of course if you want a good introduction you should read Craig Walls book on Spring If you want to use Spring Web Services or Spring Security in a more than elementary way read the respective reference manuals.             Beginning Java? EE 6 Platform with GlassFish? 3: From Novice to Professional7 reviews Antonio Goncalves Apress, 2009 Review by Celinio Fernandes Antonio Goncalves, if you do not know him yet, is the co-founder of the Paris JUG and is a member of the experts committees regarding the following JSRs : JSR-316 (Java EE 6), JSR-317 (JPA 2.0) et JSR-318 (EJB 3.1). This is his second book. He has been recently awarded the title of Java champion. Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine (GlassFish team) wrote the foreword. The 1st chapter enumerates a list ...             Beginning BlackBerry Development1 review Anthony Rizk Apress, 2009 Ok but not great The book is great in that is is the first of it's kind for Blackberry but I found bugs in the chapters and it doesn't feel like it was thought out and executed. The most annoying thing I found was the samples on the site broke the golden rule of example code. A FULL project in eJDE and JDE. Wasting time with having the user redo the whole project is a waste of time. Also the examples were pretty ...             Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: Includes Silverlight 2, Third Edition7 reviews Matthew MacDonald, Mario Szpuszta Apress, 2009 Perfect book for your ASP application... I can say I actually read most of this book and in every chapter there was something that was useful and the way it laid it out was perfect. I have used several books from Apress but this one was really full of information and it covers so much on ASP that I want to keep it handy. Advanced ASP programmers will find this book handy as it covers the latest in 3.5 and also Silverlight 2. The topics ...             Pro Android2 reviews Satya Komatineni Apress, 2009 Highly recommended for busy developers Another excellent book from Apress. Although there is a lot of documentation for Android available on the web, it is difficult task for a busy developer to dig through it all and make sense of it. The authors do a great job of distilling concepts like resources, intents and OpenGL 3D to their core components, making them easily understood by the reader. There are lots of great code snippets that ...             Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition (Beginning)25 reviews John K. VanDyk Apress, 2008 Excellent Book on Drupal API Coding with PHP Drupal's online documentation leaves something to be desired. It is so difficult to find detailed and complete, step-by-step, online tutorials of exactly how to customize Drupal via its API using PHP. Because of this, my first Drupal rollout was a little hodgepodge - some CCK work, combined some piecemeal code mined from online, combined with contributed modules to do other things, even [dare I ...             Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition61 reviews Akkana Peck Apress, 2009 One of the Best! I have had this book for a couple years now and I still refer to it. I read someone else's review that gave the book 3 stars with his major complaint being that this was not a reference book. I do not necessarily agree with that opinion but I would concur that this is a type of book that you want to set down and read throughly and then use it as reference book. There is an awful lot to learn from ...             Ultra-Fast ASP.NET: Build Ultra-Fast and Ultra-Scalable web sites using ASP.NET and SQL Server1 review Richard Kiessig Apress, 2009 Seeing the big picture: best practices + tips & tricks One of the author's stated goals for this book is "to help remove some of the fog that may be masking the end-to-end vision of the technology and to help you see the beauty and the full potential of ASP.NET and SQL Server." He does an excellent job of doing just that. We all want our web applications to run lean, clean and fast, but how do we best spend our time doing so? You might ask, ...             Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Ap)82 reviews Jessica Livingston Apress, 2008 At the Heart of the Entrepreneurial Audience I started reading Founders at Work before I flew out to California for my Y-Combinator interview (Jessica Livingston is a part of this group along with Paul Graham). I eventually bought the book, and I've been reading it on and off for the last few months when I have a few moments away from my start-up. The main thing to understand is that this book is the story of many entrepreneurs and ...             Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5, Second Edition (Books for Professionals by ...28 reviews Matthew MacDonald Apress, 2008 Best WPF book out there so far... I purchased many of the WPF books out there for myself and my team. This book has become my new favorite (with Chris Sells WPF book coming in second - sorry Chris!). The book goes into more details about why things work the way they do instead of just saying this is how it should be done. Books that provide deep understanding of a topic are hard to find in today's mantra of pushing low budget ...              search for books advanced, android, apprentice, approach, beginners, beginning, blackberry, development, exploring, foundation, founders, framework, glassfish, includes, mindstorms, objective, platform, presentation, problem-solution, professional, professionals, projects, scalable, silverlight, solution, startups, technology, treasure, ultra-fast, ultra-scalable books:    randomly chosen DVD: Deadlands: The Rising we recommend Black Adder the complete series home  impressum - about us