This title will be focused on how to develop unit tested ActionScript (Flex) applications. Readers will learn when/where to apply unit testing as well as how to cover legacy untested code with tests. Unit testing is an important part of any application. We unit test to protect our work, document our code, and code with confidence. There is currently not much consolidated information on the subject for the Actioncript community. This book aims to change that.

Yesod harnesses Haskell's flexibility and strong type system to create a rapid but industrial-strength web application environment. Yesod delivers performance, security, and clean RESTful APIs. Readers should already be familiar with Haskell, as this book picks up where Real World Haskell leaves off.

Introducing Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 explores the exciting enhancements and new capabilities engineered into SQL Server, ranging from improvements in operation to those in reporting and management. This book is for anyone who has an interest in SQL Server 2012 and wants to understand its capabilities, including database administrators, application developers, and technical decision makers.

Ready to take your Arduino skills to the next level? This book shows you how to build projects with the Propeller, a microcontroller built from the silicon up for prototyping. A multicore architecture and new programming language make the Propeller ideal for artists and hobbyists who are building unique applications—especially projects that generate video and audio.

Testing in Scala starts with an introduction of the Scala programming language, explains why project infrastructure is critical, and provides compelling reasons to use Scala testing frameworks to not only test Scala code, but Java code too. This book introduces and explains the Simple Build Tool, the Scala answer to Ant, Maven, Gradle, and Buildr. It then explains in detail all the best tools for testing Scala and Java code today--ScalaTest, Specs2, ScalaCheck, and Borachio. Testing in Scala also gives insight on how to integrate coverage tools, continuous integration, web acceptance frameworks, and Java testing frameworks that you already know and love.

SciPy is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. The SciPy library is built to work with NumPy arrays, and provides many user-friendly and efficient numerical routines. Together, they are easy to use, but powerful enough to be depended upon by some of the world's leading scientists and engineers.

High Performance MySQL teaches you advanced techniques in depth so you can bring out MySQL's full power. Learn how to design schemas, indexes, queries, and advanced MySQL features for maximum performance, and get detailed guidance for tuning your MySQL server, operating system, and hardware to their fullest potential. You'll also learn practical, safe, high-performance ways to scale your applications with replication, load balancing, high availability, and failover.

Dive into Python’s advanced possibilities, including algorithm analysis, graphs, scale-free networks, and cellular automata with this in-depth, hands-on guide. Whether you’re an intermediate-level Python programmer, or a student of computational modeling, you’ll examine data structures, complexity science, and other fascinating topics through a series of exercises, easy-to-understand explanations, and case studies. Think Complexity presents features that make Python such a simple and powerful language.

Assess your readiness for MCTS Exam 70-680—and quickly identify where you need to focus and practice. This practical, streamlined guide provides objective overviews, exam tips, “need-to-know” checklists, review questions, and a list of valuable resources—all designed to help evaluate and reinforce your preparation.

Mastering the Fuji X100 provides the ambitious photographer with everything they need to know to operate this camera that has become an instant classic. Readers will learn about the features and capabilities of the X100 and will discover numerous tips and tricks for how to maximize its potential. Learn how to influence dynamic range, how to optimize focus, which film simulation is best, and much more.

The Fuji X100 is a premium digital viewfinder camera that combines compact size with sophisticated technical features and uncompromising optical quality. This unique camera already enjoys cult status and is used by many photographers as the ideal travel and snapshot camera. Nonetheless, the X100 is much more than an automatic snapshot camera—it is a sophisticated photographic tool.

In a layout suitable to the camera’s attractive design, this manual presents convincing imagery that attests to the fun you will have as you begin to push the envelope of your Fuji X100.

Architectural photography is more than just documenting a project. An architectural photograph shows the form and appeal of a building far better than any other medium. With the advent of the digital photographic workflow, architects are discovering exciting new opportunities to present and market their work.

But what are the ingredients for a successful architectural photograph? In this book, author Adrian Schulz-both an architect and a photographer by training-uses real-world projects to teach you how to:

• Compose and capture outstanding images of buildings, inside and out
• Choose the right equipment and use it effectively
• Work with ambient and artificial light
and much more!

This second edition has been extensively revised and includes 80 new images and illustrations, an expanded chapter on shooting interior spaces, and an updated discussion of the latest technical developments and post-processing techniques. With this book, you will learn a variety of creative tips, tricks, and guidelines for making the perfect architectural image.

Now that storage and collection technologies are cheaper and more precise, methods for extracting relevant information from large datasets is within the reach any experienced programmer willing to crunch data. With this book, you'll learn machine learning and statistics tools in a practical fashion, using black-box solutions and case studies instead of a traditional math-heavy presentation.

This book will explore many common features of mobile development and how they are accomplished with PhoneGap. This will include GPS location, maps, media, accelerometer, and much more. PhoneGap is a library that allows developers to interface directly with a mobile device through the use of its Javascript libraries. With the multitude of mobile platforms it is very difficult and expensive to create multiple applications in Java, Objective-C, or other native languages. Through the PhoneGap library, most web developers can convert their existing knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Javascript into mobile phone applications with very little effort.

Impact JS is a powerful and easy to pick up JavaScript game framework which can help you develop HTML5 games in very little time. Thanks to the adoption of HTML5 in modern desktop and mobile browsers, JavaScript is quickly becoming one of the easiest languages with which to develop games. Whether you want to deploy it to web, desktop or mobile, Impact JS offers some great solutions for creating and distributing your game as well as the tools you will need to get started. In this book we cover some basic concepts of game development, how to manage your game’s asset pipeline, techniques for creating highly optimized game logic and some of the most commonly used HTML5 game development techniques out there. By the time you finish the book, you will have a solid foundation on how to make a game with ImpactJS. While this books offers an overview to HTML5 game development with Impact JS, the knowledge contained in here is key to any aspiring HTML5 game developer.

If you’re a SharePoint site manager or administrator, you finally have a handy single-source reference to help you through the tough SharePoint learning curve. Written by Mark Miller and his stable of well-known contributors at EndUserSharePoint.com, this book contains the most helpful articles from this popular site—fully updated for SharePoint 2010.

This book explains how to use the popular IOIO board to make USB connected accessories for your Android phone. Four example projects of varying level of difficulty are included, from a simple movement detecting intruder alarm that will call you when triggered, to a robot phone that uses your phone as the basis for a web-controlled surveillance bot.

The jQueryUI applies the power and standards of jQuery to user interface design. The library provides elegant versions of many features HTML5 lacks, including tabs, accordions, and dialogs. It also provides programming support for common but complex tasks like managing drag and drop and autocomplete. This code-heavy guide demonstrates how to apply this power to common web situations.

Pure Data (Pd) is a graphical programming environment for audio and more; libpd is a wrapper that turns Pd into a portable, embeddable audio library. Brian Eno’s soundtrack of the game Spore is generated by Pure Data. Inception The App is based on libpd and has been downloaded more than three million times. The popular RJDJ also uses the technology.

The new version of Apple's Mac server platform offers many new services to support workgroups at home or the office. The new software is an evolutionary revision of Snow Leopard Server, but is priced for everyone at $50.

"Using OS X Lion Server" helps non-sysadmins set up and maintain services for sharing files, mail and calendars on their desktops, tablets, or mobile devices. The book covers new web, wiki, chat and podcasting server management tool, as well as tools for managing configurations of multiple OS installations across a network. The book concludes with advice for setting up a home media server.

Apple has released 6 versions of their Mac server platform. The original Lion announcement said that the server components would be bundled with the OS and not marketed as a separate project. This changed in the Spring of 2011 and Apple announced the server package would be available separately for $50. Major features include:

• File sharing between Mac, Windows, Linux and over the Internet • iCal Server • Wiki Server • iChat Server • Address Book Server • SMTP, POP/IMAP, mailing lists, webmail server • Server-side spam filtering and virus detection • Podcasting tools and services • Web server • Directory services and authentication • Profile manager for supporting multiple OS installations • Networking and VPN services • Distributed computing with Xgrid • Automated backups and RAID • Xsan

Every complexity of software design, simplified and codified at last, for use by every programmer, from the novice to the architects of major applications. This book contains the fundamental laws of software development, the primary pieces of understanding that make the difference between a mid-level/junior programmer and the high-level senior software engineer. The book exists to help all programmers understand the process of writing software, on a very fundamental level that can be applied to any programming language or project, from here into eternity. Code Simplicity is also written in such a way that even non-technical managers of software teams can gain an understanding of what the “right way” and the “wrong way” is (and why they are right and wrong) when it comes to software design. The focus of the book is primarily on “software design,” the process of creating a plan for a software project and making technical decisions about the pattern and structure of a system.