Programming ERLANG Software for a Concurrent World

Moore's Law is the observation that the amount you can do on a single chip doubles every two years. Historically, Moore's Law has delivered ever faster computing power to more and more demanding audiences. But Moore's Law is about to break down-there's a ...

 Best of Ruby Quiz

Sharpen your Ruby programming skills with twenty-five challenging problems from Ruby Quiz. Read the problems, work out a solution, and compare your solution with others. Sharpen your programming skills Learn using the most effective method available: ...

 Rails Recipes

Rails is large, powerful, and new. How do you use it effectively? How do you harness the power? And, most important, how do you get high quality, real-world applications written? From the latest Ajax effects to time-saving automation tips for your develo...

 Advanced Rails Recipes

Ruby on Rails continues to build up a tremendous head of steam. Fueled by significant benefits and an impressive portfolio of real-world applications already in production, Rails is destined to continue making significant inroads in coming years. Each ...

 Deploying Rails Applications A Step-by-Step Guide

First you'll learn how to build out your shared, virtual, or dedicated host. Then, you'll see how to build your applications for production and deploy them with one step, every time. Deploying Rails Applications will take you from a simple shared host thr...

 Agile Web Development with Rails

Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework that enables you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications, but with a twist... A full Rails application probably has less total code than the XML you'd need to configure the same applic...

 Rails for PHP Developers

As a PHP developer, you have some great tools for developing web applications. Ruby on Rails is another key tool to add to your web development toolbox. Rails is a high-level web development framework that emphasizes high productivity and clean code. Howe...

 Pragmatic Ajax A Web 2.0 Primer

It's not just another book on Ajax. It's Pragmatic Ajax: a concise, complete look at a new way of envisioning and implementing browser-based applications. Ajax turns static web pages into interactive applications. Now you can deploy rich-client applica...

 Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit

The NIST estimates that poor testing costs the US economy $60 billion annually. This book gives teams straightforward and proven ways to introduce unit testing into their process, resulting in higher quality and fewer bugs. All over the world, software...

 Everyday Scripting with Ruby For Teams, Testers and You

Are you a tester who spends more time manually creating complex test data than using it? A business analyst who seemingly went to college all those years so you can spend your days copying data from reports into spreadsheets? A programmer who can't finish...

 Rails for Java Developers The Facets of Ruby Series

If you are a Java programmer, you shouldn't have to start at the very beginning! You already have deep experience with the design issues that inspired Rails, and can use this background to quickly learn Ruby and Rails. But Ruby looks a lot different from ...

 Release It ! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software

In Release It!, Michael T. Nygard shows you how to design and architect your application for the harsh realities it will face. You'll learn how to design your application for maximum uptime, performance, and return on investment. Mike explains that man...

 TextMate Power Editing for the Mac

TextMate is a full-featured text editor available for Mac OS X that can greatly enhance your text manipulation skills. TextMate is actually a thin shell over a personalized team of robot ninjas ready to do your bidding. Let's face it, who doesn't want the...

 Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion

This book is a recipe-based approach to using Subversion that will get you up and running quickly---and correctly. All projects need version control: it's a foundational piece of any project's infrastructure. Yet half of all project teams in the U.S. don'...

 Enterprise Integration with Ruby

Typical enterprises use dozens, hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of applications, components, services, and databases. These run on heterogeneous operating systems and hardware, they use databases and messaging systems from various vendors, and they...