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The Java EE 7 Tutorial: Enterprise Beans: Jun 20, 2014; In this chapter you'll learn all about Enterprise Beans, Session Beans, Message-Driven Beans.

Interface Lessons from "A Dark Room": Jun 18, 2014; "A Dark Room" is an enormous mess, visually. And yet, despite this it works with perhaps more appeal than if it had presented a gorgeous UI. There are lessons to be learned from this.

Preface to The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model: Principles and Practices for Successful Systems and Software: Jun 18, 2014; Do your projects overrun their budgets and schedule or have a lot of late rework or technical debt? Are your delivered systems hard to maintain? Do your systems need to succeed in situations involving rapid change, emergent requirements, high levels of assurance, or some combination of those? If so, then this might be the right book for you.

Kicking the Tires of Xcode 5: Jun 13, 2014; In this chapter, Fritz Anderson provides a first look at Xcode.

Working with XML Data in R: Jun 13, 2014; Tobi Bosede's step-by-step example shows how easily you can mine XML data from APIs by using R. Simple analysis and even multi-level reporting and output are possible with just a few lines of code.

Introduction to "The Java Language Specification, Java SE 8 Edition": Jun 12, 2014; The authors of The Java Language Specification, Java SE 8 Edition introduce the book and the specs of Java SE 8.

Building Blocks into AVFoundation Movies in Objective-C: Jun 11, 2014; Do you like AVFoundation? Do you like blocks? They're two great technologies that taste great together. Learn how to blend these two to create flexible frame compositions for your custom movies.

Introduction to Play 2 for Java: Jun 9, 2014; Learn about when you might want to use Play Framework to help you set up a development environment, and walk through building your first Hello, Play application.

The Art of Computer Programming: Introduction to Algorithms: Jun 6, 2014; In this chapter from Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms, 3rd Edition, Donald E. Knuth discusses the history and definition of the algorithm, notational conventions used in the book, and features of an algorithm. He closes the section with a brief indication of one method by which the concept of algorithm can be firmly grounded in terms of mathematical set theory.

Notes to the Reader of Bjarne Stroustrup's Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++, 2nd Edition: Jun 5, 2014; This chapter from Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++, 2nd Edition is a grab bag of information; it aims to give you an idea of what to expect from the rest of the book. Please skim through it and read what you find interesting.

The Java EE 7 Tutorial: Getting Started with Web Applications: Jun 5, 2014; This chapter introduces web applications, which typically use JavaServer Faces technology and/or Java Servlet technology.

Code as Data: Java 8 Interfaces: Jun 2, 2014; Tired of updating Java interfaces and implementation code? Would you prefer an easier way of maintaining your Java service interfaces? Are you finding anonymous class instances a little too heavyweight in your Java GUIs? Java 8 provides some lightweight facilities that may be just what the coding doctor ordered. Stephen B. Morris explores the functional programming world of Java 8.

Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++: Vectors and Arrays: May 29, 2014; This chapter from Bjarne Stroustrup's Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++, 2nd Edition describes how vectors are copied and accessed through subscripting.

Real-Time 3D Rendering with DirectX and HLSL: Hello, Shaders!: May 29, 2014; In this chapter, you write your first shaders. You will be introduced to HLSL syntax, the FX file format, data structures, and more. By the end of this chapter, you’ll have a base from which to launch the rest of your exploration into graphics programming.

Adding Bounce to Your UIViews: The Joy of Damped Harmonics in iOS 7 Development: May 28, 2014; iOS 7 introduced built-in damped harmonic oscillations through its spring-based animator. Learn about this new API and how it adds timing curves that emulate the motion of a physical spring.

Put on Your Sorting Hat: Which Algorithm Makes Your Sort 500 Times Faster?: May 27, 2014; Are you in a hurry? Brian Overland explains how to speed up your program's sorting capabilities by specifying the right type of sort for each occasion. Is your sort type fast to program but pokey to run? Zippy but a space hog? Learn why one algorithm is speedier than another—potentially hundreds of times faster!

Using the Command and Adaptor Patterns in Java 8: May 27, 2014; Design patterns remain a hugely beneficial programming tool. Watch as Stephen B. Morris explores the use of the Command and Adaptor patterns in the brave new world of Java 8.

Training Users for Cheap: Offering Simple Guided Tours in Your Mobile Interfaces: May 21, 2014; Avoid training and support overhead by adding simple tours to your apps. This write-up explores a simple boilerplate solution that’s easy to implement.

Twenty Questions for Donald Knuth: May 20, 2014; To celebrate the publication of the eBooks of The Art of Computer Programming, (TAOCP), we asked several computer scientists, contemporaries, colleagues, and well-wishers to pose one question each to author Donald E. Knuth. Here are his answers.

Java SE 8's New Compact Profiles and Integer APIs: May 19, 2014; Java SE 8 offers many useful features that can increase your productivity. Lambdas, the Streams API, and Nashorn may be more widely known, but the Java SE 8 release also includes compact profiles, an API for unsigned integers, and an API for integer arithmetic overflow/underflow detection. Jeff Friesen introduces you to these three lesser-known features.