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Xcode is Apple's Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Interface Builder, and other tools for helping app developers and coders to build iPhone and iPad apps more efficiently and quickly. Beginning Xcode aims to get you up and running with Apple's latest Xcode 5 and includes a wide variety of exciting projects to build. So, if you have some programming experience with iOS SDK and Objective-C, but want a more in depth tutorial on Xcode, then Beginning Xcode is for you. The book focusesonthenew technologies, tools and features that Apple has bundled into the new Xcode 5, tocomplement the latest iOS 7 SDK. You'll learn: How to build iOS apps using the latest Xcode How to get started with Xcode, using Workspaces, Interface Builder, storyboarding, ta...

Pro Agile .NET Development with SCRUMguides youthrough a real-world ASP.NET project and shows how agile methodology is put into practice. There is plenty of literature on the theory behind agile methodologies, but no book on the market takes the concepts of agile practices and applies these in a practical manner to an end-to-end ASP.NET project, especially the estimating, requirements and management aspects of a project. Pro Agile .NET Development with SCRUM takes you through the initial stages of a project--gathering requirementsand setting up an environment--through to the development and deployment stages using an agile iterative approach: namely, Scrum. In the book,you'll focuson delivering an enterprise-level ASP.NET project. Each chapter is...

Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET teaches the essential skill of asynchronous programming in .NET. It answers critical questions in .NET application development, such as: how do I keep my program responding at all times to keep my users happy? how do I make the most of the available hardware? how can I improve performance?In the modern world, users expect more and more from their applications and devices, and multi-core hardware has the potential to provide it. But it takes carefully crafted code to turn that potential into responsive, scalable applications.With Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET you will:Meet the underlying model for asynchrony on Windows-threads. Learn how to perform long blocking operations away from your UI thread to kee...

Agreat book everyonecan use to understand how tech startups work.--Rene Reinsberg, GM/VP at GoDaddy, CEO and Co-founder at LocuFinally a book non-techies can use to understandthe web technologies that are changing our lives.--Paul Bottino,Executive Director, Technology and Entrepreneurship Center, Harvard UniversityThrough the simplicity of his presentation, Vinay shows that the basics of technology can be straightforwardly understood by anyone who puts in the time and effort tolearn.--Joseph Lassiter, Professor of Management Science, Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation LabIn a way that anyone can understand,How to Speak Tech:The Non-Techie's Guide to Tech Basics in Businessspells out the essential technical terms and ...