Books in the Developer's Library series

Long acknowledged as the clearest and most practical guide to PHP/MySQL web development, the brand-new Fifth Edition of PHP and MySQL Web Development fully reflects the latest versions of PHP and MySQL to help your students master today's best practices for succeeding with PHP 7 and MySQL 5.7 web database development. New coverage of security, cloud and mobile development, and using the PEAR repository's massive resources have been added to this edition. The authors teach all these things while maintaining the clarity and character that thousands of readers have found so appealing in the book's first four editions.

In iOS and macOS(TM) Performance Tuning, Marcel Weiher drills down to the code level to help you systematically optimize CPU, memory, I/O, graphics, and program responsiveness in any Objective-C, Cocoa, or CocoaTouch program. This up-to-date guide focuses entirely on performance optimization for macOS and iOS. Drawing on 25 years of experience optimising Apple device software, Weiher identifies concrete performance problems that can be discovered empirically via measurement. Then, based on a deep understanding of fundamental principles, he presents specific techniques for solving them. Weiher presents insights you won't find anywhere else, most of them applying to both macOS and iOS development. Throughout, he reveals common pitfalls and misconceptions about Apple device performance, explains the realities, and helps you reflect those realities in code that performs beautifully.

Shell Programming in Unix, Linux and OS X (the Fourth Edition of Kochan and Wood's classic Unix Shell Programming tutorial) can help any modern Unix, Linux, or OS X user get more done faster with their operating system of choice. One of the world's most respected Unix programming books, it has been updated throughout to fully address today's widely-used platforms, including Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and Linux.

A concise and readable primer, The Object-Oriented Thought Process lays the foundation in object-oriented concepts and then explains how various object technologies are used. Early chapters introduce object-oriented concepts, then cover abstraction, public and private classes, reusing code, and developing frameworks. Later chapters cover building objects that work with databases and distributed systems. Written by a developer for developers who want to make the leap to object-oriented technologies, The Object-Oriented Thought Process provides a solutions-oriented approach to object-oriented programming. Readers will learn to understand the proper uses of inheritance and composition, the difference between aggregation and association, and the important distinction between interfaces and implementations.

The Kotlin language brings state-of-the-art programming techniques and constructs to Android development. Kotlin for Android App Development will help students rapidly understand Kotlin's principles and techniques, apply Kotlin in production app development, integrate Kotlin with existing Java code, and plan a migration to Kotlin. For students with at least basic programming experience (with any language), Peter Sommerhoff's well-crafted overview and examples will help them get quickly up-to-speed with the Kotlin language, its constructs, and its advanced functional and object-oriented capabilities. Once students have mastered these foundations, Sommerhoff walks them through two complete app development projects, introducing best practices and emerging patterns for writing code that's robust, concise, readable, and highly performant. Leverage advanced Kotlin features including lambdas, collections, null safety, type inference, and try-with-resources Explore powerful coroutines with this guide's unique, exclusive coverage Quickly migrate existing Java app projects to Kotlin Jumpstart your Kotlin projects with working code examples and two full sample apps, all available at a companion Github repository Use Kotlin to write more concise, expressive code -- and more robust, scalable Android apps Master Google's industrial-strength object-oriented language for building Android apps faster and more successfully Leverage advanced Kotlin features including lambdas, collections, null safety, type inference, and try-with-resources Explore powerful coroutines with this guide's unique, exclusive coverage Quickly migrate existing Java app projects to Kotlin Jumpstart your Kotlin projects with working code examples and two full sample apps, all available at a companion Github repository

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