Books

Web APIs should be beautiful and fun to use: this short book will guide you through the simple steps and key points needed to design or improve you API and make your users happy when using it.

A progressive discovery of the Laravel helper features, functions, classes, utilities, Collections, and more!

Just Enough Ghost on a Raspberry Pi aims at providing a low stress method of experimenting with some cool hardware in the form of the Raspberry Pi and some neat software in the form of the free Ghost blogging platform.

Errors drive us crazy. Computers can reduce errors, but in a minute can multiply a single error a million times. To use a computer successfully, you need to know more about errors than you ever imagined.

Learn more about Ratpack features with code snippets and short articles. The articles and code will get you started quickly and will give more insight in Ratpack.

This book is dedicated to those who want to be an web developer. Here you can find lots of cool tips and tricks which will boost your web development process and make you successful. Also an reference of the programming language which are used in the web development process.

The software that's managing your data shouldn't be a mystery. MySQL is the most popular open source database and powers WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento and more. You don't have to be a professional database designer to understand and make use of its tools. MySQL Explained provides a clear and accessible step-by-step tutorial that will enable you to understand how your data is being stored and even design your own custom applications!

Learn how to create React applications that render complex sets of data with dynamic, efficient, and effective data-visualizations. Common tools utilized within the React ecosystem -- such as Node.js, Grunt, Babel, and Browserify -- are also covered in depth as well. You don't want to miss out on learning all about this exciting new technology!

Learn how to create and completely customize image-rich Android apps with Glide. Boost your productivity and save yourself valuable time by learning all the required optimizations for an amazing user experience. This book is based on Glide 4.8.0.Sample app & code is included.

You know next to nothing about ASP.NET MVC 5 but need to start coding your next application within a week. Don't worry: this book has you covered.

So you wake up on day and something happens. It forces you to realize that your wife may have been right all along, YOU REALLY AREN'T AS SMART AS YOU THINK! Now what? If you want to find out what happens next, this book's for you.

Just Enough Raspberry Pi aims at providing a low stress method of experimenting with super cool computer hardware in the form of the Raspberry Pi. We'll look at the different versions, peripherals and operating systems. We'll also check out some 'power-ups' to get more from the Pi and cover some basic Linux use.

Why do so many software projects either fail or have problems? How can we approach Project Management so that we avoid these problems? The answer is to side-step the methodological debate and use the essential principles of Project Management to deliver effectively with minimal overhead or method conflicts

Time to start from scratch! In this book we skip old, useless or deprecated functions and will ignore jargon. If you ever wanted to learn PHP, then there is no need to search the web for guides and videos divided between countless websites with no thread to follow. Just sit back and relax while I help you along your path to PHP mastery.