Books

The only book on the market written for non-developers and total beginners, by a non-developer and one-time total beginner. If you're frustrated by endless jargon, huge logic leaps, and a decent helping of that good old feeling of WTF, but you still want to learn PowerShell, then PowerShell for Total Beginners was written just for you.

Learn how to facilitate and host a coderetreat from two of the most experienced coderetreat facilitators.

Gulp is new build system is capable of automate minification, file copy, watching file changes and rerun tasks. Gulp is built on top of the NodeJS and is available as open source.This book covers the gulp plugin architecture with simple explanation.Finally, We will learn to develop our own Gulp plugin.

Stuck with Symfony2 forms? Want to know how to easily solve (complex) form use-cases? This book contains practical recipes that are easily implemented in your own projects, and gives you a bit more insight in the Symfony Form component.

Web APIs should be beautiful and fun to use: this short book will guide you through the simple steps and key points needed to design or improve you API and make your users happy when using it.

A progressive discovery of the Laravel helper features, functions, classes, utilities, Collections, and more!

Just Enough Ghost on a Raspberry Pi aims at providing a low stress method of experimenting with some cool hardware in the form of the Raspberry Pi and some neat software in the form of the free Ghost blogging platform.

Errors drive us crazy. Computers can reduce errors, but in a minute can multiply a single error a million times. To use a computer successfully, you need to know more about errors than you ever imagined.

Learn more about Ratpack features with code snippets and short articles. The articles and code will get you started quickly and will give more insight in Ratpack.

This book is dedicated to those who want to be an web developer. Here you can find lots of cool tips and tricks which will boost your web development process and make you successful. Also an reference of the programming language which are used in the web development process.

The software that's managing your data shouldn't be a mystery. MySQL is the most popular open source database and powers WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento and more. You don't have to be a professional database designer to understand and make use of its tools. MySQL Explained provides a clear and accessible step-by-step tutorial that will enable you to understand how your data is being stored and even design your own custom applications!

Learn how to create React applications that render complex sets of data with dynamic, efficient, and effective data-visualizations. Common tools utilized within the React ecosystem -- such as Node.js, Grunt, Babel, and Browserify -- are also covered in depth as well. You don't want to miss out on learning all about this exciting new technology!

Learn how to create and completely customize image-rich Android apps with Glide. Boost your productivity and save yourself valuable time by learning all the required optimizations for an amazing user experience. This book is based on Glide 4.8.0.Sample app & code is included.

You know next to nothing about ASP.NET MVC 5 but need to start coding your next application within a week. Don't worry: this book has you covered.