Walks you through developing a full featured application based on the Mac OS X Core Data APIs. This book helps to discover how Core Data contributes to Cocoa applications, as well as some of the pitfalls and issues surrounding the implementation.

A guide to developing applications for iPhone and iPod touch. It helps you learn to use the XCode IDE to manage your source code, images, sounds, database files and other application resources, building your app and deploying it onto your own device for testing and also develop your user interface the visual, code-free way, with Interface Builder.

Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is about writing software that matters. It is an approach to agile software development that takes cues from Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, and Acceptance Test Driven Planning. This book introduces you to RSpec, Cucumber, and a number of other tools that make up the Ruby BDD family.

Shows you how to make your web-based application look professionally designed. This work lets you pick the right colors and fonts, avoid costly interface and accessibility mistakes.

Apple's Cocoa frameworks let you write powerful and attractive applications for Mac OS X or the iPhone. This book helps to take advantage of Cocoa and create compelling, feature rich, compliant Mac applications for this industry-leading environment. It shows you how to get productive with Cocoa-fast.

Like any kid in Devon Grove, thirteen-year-old Charlie Parker has been waiting for his talent apple his entire life, but he has even more at stake: his father is the caretaker of the Talent Tree, the source of the town's magic, and someday Charlie will inherit the responsibility, whether he wants to or not.

Objective-C is a powerful object-oriented language which adds a dynamic message-passing architecture (based on Smalltalk) to C. Objective-C is a proper superset of C and it is compact and easy to learn, especially when compared with C++. This title provides manageable introduction to Objective-C.

Discusses some basic bug-fixing principles. This book equips you with the tools, techniques and approaches - proven in the crucible of professional software development - to ensure that you can tackle any bug with confidence.

Shows how to coach your team to become more agile. This book lets you learn the secrets of running effective agile meetings and how to get your team following a consistent approach to creating software.

All of your projects and programs make up your portfolio. But how much time you actually spend on your projects, and how much time do you spend responding to emergencies? This book introduces you to different ways of ordering various projects you are working on, and helps you figure out how to staff those projects.

Intends to bring together two enthusiastic development communities. This book shows you how productive Ruby programmers are with just the right amount of code.

Features a technology that makes writing applications with animated and cinematic user interfaces easy. This title presents concepts you already know from the pre-Leopard development kits.

Ruby 1.9 is the latest version of Ruby. It has many compelling features, including multinationalization support, new block scoping, and better performance. At the same time, the current Ruby 1.8 is still being maintained and is widely used.

Explores how to develop robust, reliable software as a collection of interfaces that interact with each other. This work explains what polymorphism and encapsulation really mean, and how to use these ideas more effectively.

The secret weapon for attacking complexity in any project is to break it down into smaller, cohesive, and more easily digestible pieces. This guide deals with developing modular applications using OSGi, the framework for dynamic modularity in Java, and Spring Dynamic Modules, an OSGi extension to the Spring Framework.

One of the most pressing problems facing developers today: how to write reliable, concurrent, high-performance systems.

A toolkit for building lean, mean, cross-platform graphical user interfaces in Ruby. It helps in learning how to develop powerful, sophisticated GUIs in your programming language. It introduces you to the basics of FXRuby programming by leading you through building a GUI application with FXRuby from start to finish.

Ubuntu builds on a solid base of Debian Linux to create an operating system that's light-years ahead of its competitors. This book includes tips on tweaking Ubuntu, wrangling the system into shape, optimizing, and enhancing security. It helps to learn what extraordinary things can be done with Ubuntu.

Scala is a hybrid Object-Oriented/Functional Programming language on the JVM. This book shows you the fundamentals of functional programming using Scala.

Shows how to speed up various aspects of the development process using Groovy. This book also covers Grails.