Subversion is the most popular open-source version control system on the planet. Development teams-big and small, enterprise and open source-use this fast, feature-rich tool daily. Pragmatic Guide to Subversion presents the 42 core uses that have powered Subversion's success. Stripping away the exhaustive details of reference books, this guide gives you a shortcut to the Subversion master's recommended set of features and best practices. With this book, you can get to the good parts quickly, and be more productive and effective.

Host Your Web Site On The Cloud is a step-by-step guide to hosting web sites on Amazon EC2. Authored by Amazon's Senior Manager of Cloud Computing Solutions, Jeffrey Barr, this book covers all aspects of best-practice cloud hosting and migrating your existing applications and websites to the Cloud.

Faced with a software project of epic proportions? Tired of over-committing and under-delivering? Enter the dojo of the agile samurai, where agile expert Jonathan Rasmusson shows you how to kick-start, execute, and deliver your agile projects. Combining cutting-edge tools with classic agile practices, The Agile Samurai gives you everything you need to deliver something of value every week and make rolling your software into production a non-event.

Join the next wave of Web 2.0 software development in the cloud! Cloud applications are the next big shift in application development: instead of building single-user applications to run on a personal computer, new applications are being built as multi-user services that run in data centers around the world. One of the most exciting new environments for building services in the cloud is Google's AppEngine. AppEngine is a powerful, easy-to-use framework for developing cloud-based services. This book will teach you what you need to make the shift to cloud development using AppEngine.

Get in-depth, all-in-one prep for the Microsoft® Office Specialist Study Guide exams. Work through the tutorials and practice questions—demonstrating your expertise in Microsoft Word 2007, Excel® 2007, Outlook® 2007, PowerPoint® 2007, and Access® 2007.

Apache Hadoop is ideal for organizations with a growing need to store and process massive application datasets. With Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, programmers will find details for analyzing large datasets with Hadoop, and administrators will learn how to set up and run Hadoop clusters. The book includes case studies that illustrate how Hadoop is used to solve specific problems.

Make your iPhone or iPad app stand out in the highly competitive App Store. Along with a technical overview, App Savvy focuses on the business, product, and marketing elements critical to pursuing, completing, and selling an app. This practical reference explains every step in the process, with guidelines for making your app unique, addressing budget items, and finding the right app developer.

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If you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop Android apps. With this book, you'll learn how to use these web technologies to design and build apps for any Android device, using the framework of your choice. No knowledge of Java is required.

With over 250,000 apps to choose from, you can make your iPhone or iPod Touch do just about anything you can imagine -- and almost certainly a few things you would never think of. But how do you know which apps rise above the rest? The second edition of Best iPhone Apps guides the way, with an updated collection of gee-whiz apps that delight, empower, and entertain. Author J.D. Biersdorfer stress-tested thousands of titles from the App Store emporium to handpick the ones that will make the biggest difference in every aspect of your life.

If you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop Android apps. With this book, you'll learn how to use these web technologies to design and build apps for any Android device, using the framework of your choice. No knowledge of Java is required.

With this practical guide, you’ll gain project management best practices for implementing SharePoint 2010 in your organization, and learn expert techniques for tuning your system to match the communication and collaboration needs of your users.

Real World Data Analysis shows you how you think about data and the results you want to achieve with it. Author Philipp Janert teaches you how to effectively approach data analysis problems, and how to extract all the available information from your data. Many people can apply a data analysis formula. This book shows you how to look at the results and know whether they're meaningful.

REST continues to gain momentum as the best method for building web services, leaving many web architects to consider whether and how to include this approach in their SOA and SOAP-dominated world. This book offers a down-to-earth explanation of REST, with techniques and examples that show you how to design and implement integration solutions using the REST architectural style.

None of the JavaScript libraries today has a more impressive track record than Google Closure, the tool suite used for Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps. Closure: The Definitive Guide has precisely what you need to get started with these tools, including valuable information not available publicly anywhere else.

Discover how MongoDB can help you manage a huMONGOus amount of data collected through your web application. This book covers the basic principles and advanced uses of this document-oriented database, and demonstrates why why MongoDB is scalable, high-performance, and reliable. This authoritative introduction, written by two software engineers from the company that develops this open-source database, offers guidance for programmers and advanced configuration for system administrators.

Learn how to code, package, deploy, and test functional Enterprise JavaBeans with the latest edition of bestselling guide. Written by the developers of the JBoss EJB 3.1 implementation, this book brings you up to speed on each of the component types and container services in this technology, while the workbook in the second section provides several hands-on examples for putting the concepts into practice. Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 is the most complete reference you'll find on this specification.

Now that JavaScript plays such a key role in modern websites, programmers who once dismissed it as a language for amateurs find themselves immersed in JavaScript code. JavaScript Patterns identifies key problem areas you might face when working with the language, and provides design patterns and coding patterns as solutions. Author Stoyan Stefanov includes several examples for each pattern as well as practical advice for implementing it.

LEGO TECHNIC is designed to allow builders to create more advanced models with moving parts, like those built with LEGO MINDSTORMS. The LEGO TECHNIC Idea Book: Gears offers hundreds of ideas and examples for building mechanisms with TECHNIC. This volume focuses on gears and power transmission. The book is color throughout, with little to no text accompanying its diagrams; rather than tell you what to think, you're encouraged to use your own imagination. The book's illustrations demonstrate various ways to combine TECHNIC gears, which you'll use as a starting point for your own creations. Gears begins with the basics of gears, shafts, connectors, and gear combinations, then demonstrates more complex actions, like how to build winches, cranes, and chains; change rotational motion to linear motion; launch projectiles with rubber bands; change speed and direction; and even create musical instruments. The LEGO TECHNIC Idea Books are for anyone who wants to create a moving masterpiece, as well as those who want to make original robots with MINDSTORMS. It can also be used to demonstrate how machines work and to experience the fun of mechanics.

LEGO TECHNIC is designed to allow builders to create more advanced models with moving parts, like those built with LEGO MINDSTORMS. The LEGO TECHNIC Idea Book: Vehicles offers hundreds of ideas and examples for building mechanisms with TECHNIC. This volume focuses on vehicles that can drive, turn, move things, and go backwards. The book is color throughout, with little to no text accompanying its diagrams. The book's illustrations demonstrate various ways to build TECHNIC vehicles, which you'll use as a starting point for your own creations. Vehicles begins by teaching readers about tires, rotation speed, and how to build a simple car with a motor, then demonstrates more complex actions, like how to use differential gears; make a car turn or move items; add car suspension with rubber bands or springs; and go backwards and forwards and switch rotational directions. The LEGO TECHNIC Idea Books are for anyone who wants to create a moving masterpiece, as well as those who want to make original robots with MINDSTORMS. It can also be used to demonstrate how machines work and to experience the fun of mechanics.