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This book starts with an overview of PHP Data Objects (PDO), followed by getting started with PDO. Then it covers error handling, prepared statements, and handling rowsets, before covering advanced uses of PDO and an example of its use in an MVC application. Finally an appendix covers the new object-oriented features of PHP 5. This book will guide you through the data layer abstraction objects in PHP. PHP developers who need to use PDO for data abstraction....

Creating video games has traditionally been a long and complicated process, requiring years of experience and a vast array of skills. However, with the introduction of comprehensive game-development toolkits such as Stencyl, the fun has returned to the art of game-creation - anyone who has the desire to create their own video game can now do so with almost any desktop computer and a free software download from the Internet! Learning Stencyl 3.x Game Development: Beginner's Guide will put you on the fast-track to learning the essentials of the powerful Stencyl game-development toolkit. You will develop a complete, ready-to-publish video game including in-game advertising, by following the clear, step-by-step tutorials, supported by numerous screenshot...

Optimize high-scale data by tuning and troubleshooting using Cassandra Overview Install and set up a multi datacenter Cassandra Troubleshoot and tune Cassandra Covers CAP tradeoffs, physical/hardware limitations, and helps you understand the magic Tune your kernel, JVM, to maximize the performance Includes security, monitoring metrics, Hadoop configuration, and query tracing In Detail Apache Cassandra is a massively scalable open source NoSQL database. Cassandra is perfect for managing large amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across multiple data centers and the cloud. Cassandra delivers linear scalability and performance across many commodity servers with no single point of failure. This book starts by explaining how to ...

Develop and deploy graphics-rich Android applications using Android Canvas Overview Understand user interactions and respond to those actions Discover how to work with graphics in Android from scratch Using a step by step approach, create a graphics-rich, fully functional application Use Nine-Patch image In Detail When you're writing an application in which you would like to perform specialized drawing and/or control the animation of graphics, you should do so by drawing through a canvas. A canvas works for you as an interface to the actual surface upon which your graphics will be drawn-it holds all of your "draw" calls. Via the Android Canvas, your drawing is actually performed on an underlying Bitmap, which is placed into the window. Le...