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Cassandra: The Definitive Guide: Rough Cuts Version

By O'Reilly Media, Inc. at 28 August, 2010, 8:32 pm

The rising popularity of Apache Cassandra rests on this database’s ability to handle very large data sets that include hundreds of terabytes. This hands-on guide provides the all the details and practical examples you need to understand Cassandra’s non-relational database design and put it to work in a production environment. The author pays special attention to data modeling, and demonstrates Cassandra’s many advantages — including its high availability, eventual consistency model, and ability to scale easily.

Announcing: Flex on Java eXchange

By Rich Tretola at 2 June, 2010, 11:46 am

Skills Matter is organizing the first annual Flex on Java eXchange in London on June 16th. This highly interactive, intimate event will feature Tomas Lin, who will give a talk on Grails with Flex… Spring BlazeDS project Lead Jeremy…

Get ready to create an Android Twitter app

By Elisabeth Robson at 4 May, 2010, 7:42 pm

If you’re interested in learning how to build a Twitter app on your Android phone with Java then you’ll want to check out our upcoming online course, Developing Android Applications with Java: Building a Twitter App, and you’ll want to watch this screencast so you’re ready to go on the first day of class.

Java: The Good Parts

By Jim Waldo at 30 April, 2010, 1:34 am

In this book, one of the most highly respected developers in the Java world peels away 15 years of additions and changes to reveal the very best parts of Java, and shows you how those parts alone will help you build better applications. You may not like some of the features this book reveals, but you’ll actually write better code with them. Java: The Good Parts is essential for every Java developer, from beginners to advanced programmers.

The XML Character Encoding Detection Routine in Different Programming Languages

By Rick Jelliffe at 16 April, 2010, 10:13 am

The XML encoding detection routine is a nice single page size for comparing programming language capabilities related to simple scanning. Here are a few. Scala Python Java C++ search function definition for xmlSwitchInputEncodingInt PHP …

Developing Android Applications with Java, Part 2

By O'Reilly Media, Inc. at 5 April, 2010, 8:38 am

Learn to build mobile applications for the exciting new Android platform. When you purchase this product, you’ll get access to the videos, slide presentations, and code examples associated with the online course, Developing Android Applications with Java, Part 2. As you learn, you will build a Twitter app from start to finish.

You can never have too many Twitter clients, as the market has already proven. We’ll use a very comprehensive and useful library called twitter4j to do the heavy lifting for us, but there will be plenty of lifting left to do. We’ll walk you through setting up sign ins, creating a public timeline, making sure your app is responsive and giving it style to stand out from the flock. Finally, for those times when 140 characters isn’t enough, you’ll extend your Twitter client to also post photos to the popular Twitpic image service.

What’s New in O’Reilly Answers – Windows phone and iPhone programming, algorithms in Python, recovering files in Win7, and much more!

By O'Reilly Media at 18 March, 2010, 4:44 pm

Do I need to learn Objective-C to program the iPhone?
How to get started with Windows Phone programming
An introduction to genetic algorithms in Python
How to recover lost, damaged, and deleted files and folders in Windows 7
How to link to a specific point in a YouTube video
Will we see Java on the iPhone?
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jQuery: Novice to Ninja

By Earl Castledine at 22 February, 2010, 9:38 pm

jQuery: Novice to Ninja is a compilation of best-practice jQuery solutions to meet the most challenging JavaScript problems. In this question-and-answer book on jQuery, you’ll find a cookbook of ready-to-go solutions to help breathe life into your web page. All code used to create each solution is available for download and guaranteed to be simple, efficient and cross-browser compatible.

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

By Kevlin Henney at 13 February, 2010, 1:38 am

Get 97 short and extremely useful tips from some of the most experienced and respected practitioners in the industry, including Uncle Bob Martin, Scott Meyers, Dan North, Linda Rising, Udi Dahan, Neal Ford, and many more. They encourage you to stretch yourself by learning new languages, looking at problems in new ways, following specific practices, taking responsibility for your work, and becoming as good at the entire craft of programming as you possibly can.