May 31 2015 Added eBooks

WordPress for Web Developers is a complete guide for web designers and developers who want to begin building and administeringsites with WordPress. This book is an update of Beginning WordPress 3, freshened and clarified forweb developers who want to make the most of WordPress.You'll start by learning WordPress basics, including how to publish content, add media, and manage users. Then you'll dig deeper into your WordPress server administration, including domain mapping, security, and importing and migrating. The book then steps up a gear with an introduction to developing for WordPress, perfect for developers and designers with some PHP experience, who want to learn to create custom themes and plugins. WordPress is the most popular open source blogg...

Take advantage of Chef';s highly customizable design to tackle specific automation issues that you can';t solve by simply using Chef';s tools, resources, and services out of the box. With this practical guide, you';ll examine the internal structure of this configuration management technology and learn where, how, and why to add custom code.Author Jon Cowie not only provides code snippets and practical advice for customizing Chef, but also helps you determine case by case whether it';s in your best interests to customize at all. If you have intermediate-to-advanced Chef experience, this book is indispensable.Explore Chef';s typical setups and why you';d want to customize themLearn the Ruby concepts needed to write customizationsCustomize the Chef run ...

Automation through Chef Opscode provides an in-depth understanding of Chef, which is written in Ruby and Erlang for configuration management, cloud infrastructure management, system administration, and network management. Targeted at administrators, consultants, and architect, the book guides them through the advanced features of the tool which are necessary for infrastructure automation, devops automation, and reporting. The book presumes knowledge of Ruby and Erlang which are used as reference languages for creating recipes and cookbooks and as a refresher on them to help the reader get on speed with the flow of book. The book provides step by step instructions on installation and configuration of Chef, usage scenarios of Chef, in infrastructur...

Get quick answers for developing and debugging applications with Swift, Apple';s multi-paradigm programming language. This pocket reference is the perfect on-the-job tool for learning Swift';s modern language features, including type safety, generics, type inference, closures, tuples, automatic memory management, and support for Unicode.Designed to work with Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, Swift can be used in tandem with Objective-C, and either of these languages can call APIs implemented in the other. Swift is still evolving, but it';s clear that Apple sees it as the future language of choice for iOS and OS X software development.Topics include:Swift';s Run-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) and interactive playgroundsSupported data types, such as strings, arrays, and ...