An example-rich tutorial designed to teach developers to use the ArcGIS JavaScript API to build custom GIS web applications.

This hands-on guide to the Spring Framework covers the latest features, tools, and practices, including Spring MVC, REST, Security, Web Flow, and more. A best-seller, now updated for Spring version 4.

The go-to reference for administrators working with Windows PowerShell. Every major technique, technology, and tactic is carefully explained and demonstrated, providing a hands-on guide to almost everything an admin would do in the shell.

Introduces young readers to the world of mobile programming—no experience required! Written especially for kids, the book is also perfect for educators or anyone who wants to learn a fast, comfortable way to write Android apps.

Introduces Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) from both the server and the client perspective. You'll learn to build apps that can take advantage of APIs hosted anywhere and how to write APIs that expand your products to a wider range of users.

An easy-to-read introduction to responsive web design packed with instantly useful tips and techniques, and dozens of examples that show you exactly how to benefit from this valuable approach. You'll learn innovative ways to use what you already know along with design techniques leveraging new HTML5 and CSS3 features.

Includes 104 tested and instantly useful techniques that will help you conquer big data using Hadoop. This revised edition covers changes and new features in the Hadoop core architecture, including MapReduce 2. Brand new chapters cover YARN and integrating Kafka, Impala, and Spark SQL with Hadoop.

A collection of 66 tested cookbook-style techniques that will optimize the way you and your team manage your development projects. The book begins with a brief reminder of the core version control concepts you need when using Git and moves on to the high-value features you may not have explored yet.

A practical guide to using and customizing jQuery UI library components to build rich, user-friendly web applications.

Teaches you the Behavior-Driven Development model and shows you how to integrate it into your existing development process, no matter what language you use.

A serious tutorial for programmers looking to learn FP and apply it to the everyday business of coding. The book guides readers from basic techniques to advanced topics in a logical, concise, and clear progression.

Every new version of Java is important, but Java 8 is a game changer. A clearly written guide to the new features of Java 8, this book covers lambdas, streams, and functional-style programming in Java.

A comprehensive introduction to Grails 2. In this totally revised edition you'll master Grails 2.3 as you apply TDD techniques to a full-scale example (a Twitter clone). Along the way, you'll learn single-page web app techniques, work with NoSQL back ends, integrate with enterprise messaging, implement a RESTful API ... and more.

A tutorial both for newcomers to Ruby as well as Ruby programmers who want to deepen their understanding of the language. This totally revised second edition includes coverage of features that are new in Ruby 2.1, as well as expanded and updated coverage of aspects of the language that have changed.

A crisp tutorial that introduces the Ember.js framework and shows you how to build production-quality web applications. You'll learn the basic architecture, how to integrate Ember.js with your favorite back end, handling data ... and more.

Fully updated for Clojure 1.6, this new edition takes a deep look at the Clojure language. You'll learn functional and declarative approaches to programming and how to master the techniques that make Clojure so elegant and efficient.

A tutorial that teaches you how, where, and why to use CoffeeScript. It begins by quickly exposing you to CoffeeScript's new but instantly familiar syntax. Then you'll explore programming challenges that illustrate CoffeeScript's unique advantages.