Book Description

Augmented reality takes the real world and through the use of graphics, sound and other effects allows you to enhance the environment. It makes a game more real. Your social media app puts you where want to be or go.

Pro iOS 5 Augmented Reality walks you through the foundations of building an augmented reality application for the iPhone or iPad. From using MapKit, to the accelerometer and magnetometer, to integrating facial recognition and Facebook data, you’ll learn the building blocks of creating augmented reality applications. Case studies are included in this one-of-a-kind book and you’ll learn how to create augmented reality apps that unleash the full potential of the on-board sensors and camera. This book complements other iOS game or social media apps development books available from Apress.

After reading Pro iOS 5 Augmented Reality, you’ll be able to build augmented reality rich media apps or integrate all the best augmented reality techniques and tools into your existing apps.

What you’ll learn

• The differences in hardware sensors, cameras and more between the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, iPod touch, iPad and iPad 2
• How to use MapKit and integrate it into your app
• How to play and record sound within an augmented reality app
• How to use the iPhone or iPad camera and video
• How to program against the accelerometer and gyroscope to detect movement Download Now »

Book Description

Pro Java 7 NIO.2 addresses the three primary elements that offer new input/output (I/O) APIs in Java 7, giving you the skills to write robust, scalable Java applications:

• An extensive file I/O API system addresses feature requests that developers have sought since the inception of the JDK
• A socket channel API addresses multicasting, socket binding associated with channels, and related issues
• An asynchronous I/O API enables mapping to I/O facilities, completion ports, and various I/O event port mechanisms to enhance scalability

NIO.2 for the Java platform, known as JSR 203, is a major feature of the new Java JDK 7 under the leadership of Alan Bateman as an OpenJDK project. Take advantage of these exciting new developments with Pro Java 7 NIO.2.

What you’ll learn

• How to carry out Path class operations
• How to get/set file metadata through the java.nio file attribute API (including POSIX)
• How to manage symbolic and hard links (including create, delete, and find target)
• How to deal with files and directories through the new java.nio.file.Files API
• How to use the FileVisitor API to develop file recursive operations
• How to explore the Watch Service API and file change notification
• How to use the new SeekableByteChannel API for Random Access File
• How to develop blocking/non-blocking socket-based applications Download Now »

Book Description

Expert Oracle Application Express Plugins is your “go to” book on the groundbreaking plugin architecture introduced in Oracle Application Express 4.0. Using the new APEX functionality, you can create well-packaged, documented, reusable components and reliably leverage your coding investments across many applications. Components you create can define new item and region types, specify validation processes, and present dynamic actions to client applications. You can design innovative and colorful ways to display information, such as displaying the temperature using an image of a thermometer, or displaying sales velocity in the form of an automotive speedometer. The new plugin architecture is sure to create a tidal wave of creativity.

Author Martin D’Souza shows everything you need to know to get started in building and deploying plugins of your own design. You’ll learn the underlying architecture, including the APIs used to tie your plugins seamlessly into an Application Express environment. You’ll learn about the different types of plugins, and you’ll walk through examples of each to ensure that you can create the right type of plugin when you need it. Finally, Expert Oracle Application Express Plugins shows how to work as part of the larger Application Express community by leveraging that community’s efforts and by giving back as you deploy your own plugins to the broad audience of Application Express developers.

• Presents the architecture and APIs available for customizing Application Express
• Gives clear examples of plugin development, for each type of plugin
• Helps you work as part of the broader community of plugin developers Download Now »

Book Description

WebMatrix is the latest addition to the hugely popular Microsoft ASP.NET web platform. This exciting new technology aims to simplify the process of developing websites by combining the new and powerful Razor syntax with a fully extensible set of data and HTML helpers for performing common web tasks.

The WebMatrix installation includes all the tools the developer requires to quickly create fully-functional, data-driven, dynamic sites using ASP.NET web pages. The lightweight custom development tool works alongside SQL Server Compact Edition and Internet Information Services (IIS) Express to provide a seamless and easy-to-use environment which enables the web developer to concentrate on the rapid development of feature-rich websites, without the need to learn the complex concepts and highly structured programming models which many other frameworks require.

What you’ll learn

• How to combine HTML and server-side C# Razor code with the powerful .NET framework to easily develop websites using Microsoft WebMatrix
• How to create layouts which can be applied across multiple pages
• How to interact with SQL Server and other databases, using proven techniques and best practices
• How to add social networking features to your web site using WebMatrix Helpers
• How to create your own custom functions and helpers to provide reusable code and content
• How to secure your website using a role-based membership model
• How to deploy your website to a hosting provider Download Now »

Book Description

Pro .NET Best Practices is a practical reference to the best practices that you can apply to your .NET projects today. You will learn standards, techniques, and conventions that are sharply focused, realistic and helpful for achieving results, steering clear of unproven, idealistic, and impractical recommendations.

Pro .NET Best Practices covers a broad range of practices and principles that development experts agree are the right ways to develop software, which includes continuous integration, automated testing, automated deployment, and code analysis. Whether the solution is from a free and open source or a commercial offering, you will learn how to get a continuous integration server running and executing builds every time code changes. You will write clearer and more maintainable automated testing code that focuses on prevention and helping your .NET project succeed. By learning and following the .NET best practices in this book, you will avoid making the same mistakes once.

With this book at your side, you’ll get:

• Real-world, no-nonsense approaches to continuous integration, automated testing, automated deployment, and code analysis
• Tips and tricks you’ll need to clear hurdles that keep others from putting these common sense ideas into common practice
• Guidance from the minimal, essential approach all the way to what’s necessary to deliver at the highest levels of quality and effectiveness Download Now »

Book Description

With Pro iOS Web Design and Development, you’ll design websites and develop web applications for iPhone and iPad using web standards deployed with Apple’s Safari browser.

Utilizing the very latest web and mobile technologies and releases, this book shows every web professional how to use HTML5 to do the heavy lifting, CSS3 to create the look and feel, and JavaScript to add program logic to their mobile sites and Web applications.

In addition, you’ll learn how to address the specific features made available through Apple’s iOS, especially with regard to designing Web-based touch-screen interfaces.

Pro iOS Web Design and Development will help you deliver rich mobile user experiences without compromise by optimizing your sites for WebKit and Safari, the de facto standard for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

What you’ll learn

• Design an optimal website for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
• Use web standards to develop professional sites on Apple’s key platforms and see why this is important for Web developers and designers.
• Take advantage of Apple’s multi-touch screen technology in your Web apps, maximizing user experience and accessibility.
• Carry out usability testing for mobile websites and Web apps. Download Now »