Book Description

After you’ve uncovered the basics in Lion, Mac Kung Fu is your next step. You’ll learn how to master everyday tools such as the Dock, Spotlight, Mission Control, Launchpad, and Dashboard. You’ll discover other amazingly useful tools and built-in add-ons that you never knew existed. You’ll customize the OS X interface, refine your workflow, learn valuable security tricks, work better with photos, movies and documents, and test your Mac hardware. You’ll wow friends with your insanely great Mac knowledge!

Mac Kung Fu details things even Mac Geniuses don’t know. And why should they? Many of the tips in this book exploit settings or experimental features never officially made public.

Each tip in this unique book is deliberately short and readable, and you can dip in and out whenever you want. Most take less than a minute to complete, yet the results last for a lifetime of better computing.

What You Need: Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) and above.

About the Author
Keir Thomas is a Linux Journal award-winning author who has been writing about Linux, operating systems and computer hardware for over a decade. Formerly a computer magazine journalist and editor, working on titles such as Linux User and Developer, Linux Magazine and PC Utilities, his other book titles include Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Third Edition Download Now »

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iOS Recipes begins with a tour of UIKit. Former Apple Evangelist Matt Drance and expert graphical-systems programmer Paul Warren show you how to write splash screens and embedded web browsers that are easily dropped into any project. You’ll explore techniques for building complex table views without losing yourself in a sea of code, and see how to add some unique visual touches to any table–even the ones you’ve already built.

Next you’ll explore Quartz and Core Animation, and you’ll walk through a number of fills, transforms, and animations that will breathe life into any app or game. You’ll also learn about gestures, transitions, and custom controls to take your user interactions to the next level.

You’ll tackle networking with a few basic techniques to prevent unnecessary repetition in your codebases, and address some more complex problems like uploading large files to a web server. Finally, you’ll see some simple disciplines and ideas that will make architecting, debugging, maintaining, and ultimately shipping your application easier every single time.

By the end of this book, you’ll have expanded your iPhone and iPad development knowledge and be well on your way to building elegant solutions that are ready for whatever project you take on next.

About the Author
Matt Drance founded Bookhouse Software, an iOS development and consulting company, after an eight-year career at Apple. He also trains new iOS developers for the Pragmatic Studio, and shares his thoughts on the industry at Apple Outsider Download Now »

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A collection of tips, tricks, and hacks to help MongoDB developers get the most out of the software. The tips cover everything from application design to data safety and monitoring.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Application Design Tips
Tip #1: Duplicate data for speed, reference data for integrity
Tip #2: Normalize if you need to future-proof data
Tip #3: Try to fetch data in a single query
Tip #4: Embed dependent fields
Tip #5: Embed “point-in-time” data
Tip #6: Do not embed fields that have unbound growth
Tip #7: Pre-populate anything you can
Tip #8: Preallocate space, whenever possible
Tip #9: Store embedded information in arrays for anonymous access
Tip #10: Design documents to be self-sufficient
Tip #11: Prefer $-operators to JavaScript
Tip #12: Compute aggregations as you go
Tip #13: Write code to handle data integrity issues
Chapter 2 Implementation Tips
Tip #14: Use the correct types
Tip #15: Override _id when you have your own simple, unique id
Tip #16: Avoid using a document for _id Download Now »