Friday, April 04, 2009

Free chm ebook download: Creating Games in C++: A Step-by-Step Guide

Title: Creating Games in C++: A Step-by-Step Guide

By David Conger, Ron Little
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Publisher: New Riders
Pub Date: February 21, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-7357-1434-7
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-7357-1434-2
Pages: 464

Do you love video games? Ever wondered if you could create one of your own, with all the bells and whistles? It's not as complicated as you'd think, and you don't need to be a math whiz or a programming genius to do it. In fact, everything you need to create your first game, "Invasion of the Slugwroths," is included in this book and CD-ROM. Author David Conger starts at square one, introducing the tools of the trade and all the basic concepts for getting started programming with C++, the language that powers most current commercial games. Plus, he's put a wealth of top-notch (and free) tools on the CD-ROM, including the Dev-C++ compiler, linker, and debugger--and his own LlamaWorks2D game engine. Step-by-step instructions and ample illustrations take you through game program structure, integrating sound and music into games, floating-point math, C++ arrays, and much more. Using the sample programs and the source code to run them, you can follow along as you learn. Bio: David Conger has been programming professionally for over 23 years. Along with countless custom business applications, he has written several PC and online games. Conger also worked on graphics firmware for military aircraft, and taught computer science at the university level for four years. Conger has written numerous books on C, C++, and other computer-related topics. He lives in western Washington State and has also published a collection of Indian folk tales.

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Thursday, April 04, 2009

Free chm ebook download: OReilly Harnessing Hibernate Apr 2008 .chm

Title: Harnessing Hibernate
Author: James Elliott; Timothy M. O'Brien; Ryan Fowler
Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: April 28, 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-596-51772-4
 
Pages: 380

Overview

Harnessing Hibernate is an ideal introduction to the popular framework that lets Java developers work with information from a relational database easily and efficiently. Databases are a very different world than Java objects, and they often involve people with different skills and specializations. With Hibernate, bridging these two worlds is significantly easier, and with this book, you can get up to speed with Hibernate quickly. Rather than present you with another reference, Harnessing Hibernate lets you explore the system, from download and configuration through a series of projects that demonstrate how to accomplish a variety of practical goals. The new edition of this concise guide walks you through Hibernate's primary features, which include mapping from Java classes to database tables, and from Java data types to SQL data types. You will also learn about Hibernate's data query and retrieval facilities, and much more. By reading and following along with the examples, you can get your own Hibernate environment set up quickly and start using it for real-world tasks right away. Harnessing Hibernate teaches you how to:

Perform Object/Relational mapping

Work with persistent data from Java code

Work with groups and relationships between objects

Extend Hibernate's rich type support for your own needs

Simplify query creation using criteria and examples

Use the Hibernate Query Language (HQL) and understand how it differs from SQL

Use Hibernate in conjunction with Spring

Use Hibernate in conjunction with other packages, such as the Stripes web framework and the Eclipse IDE

Once you're past the first few chapters, you can jump to topics that you find particularly interesting or relevant. All background material and explanations of how Hibernate works and why is in the service of a focused task. Source code can be downloaded from the book's website. If using SQL is an uncomfortable chore, Harnessing Hibernate offers you an effective and trouble-free method for working with the information you store in your applications.

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Friday, March 03, 2009

Free ebook download -- Core JavaServer Faces, Second Edition .chm

Title: Core JavaServer Faces, Second Edition
Author: David Geary, Cay Horstmann
Format: CHM
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub Date: May 08, 2007
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-173886-0
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-173886-7
 
Pages: 752


Overview

JavaServer Faces (JSF) is quickly emerging as the leading solution for rapid user interface development in Java-based server-side applications. Now, Core JavaServer? Faces—the #1 guide to JSF—has been thoroughly updated in this second edition, covering the latest feature enhancements, the powerful Ajax development techniques, and open source innovations that make JSF even more valuable.

Authors David Geary and Cay Horstmann delve into all facets of JSF 1.2 development, offering systematic best practices for building robust applications, minimizing handcoding, and maximizing productivity. Drawing on unsurpassed insider knowledge of the Java platform, they present solutions, hints, tips, and "how-tos" for writing superior JSF 1.2 production code, even if you're new to JSF, JavaServer Pages?, or servlets.

The second edition's extensive new coverage includes: JSF 1.2's improved alignment with the broader Java EE 5 platform; enhancements to the JSF APIs; controlling Web flow with Shale; and using Facelets to replace JSP with XHTML markup. The authors also introduce Ajax development with JSF—from real-time validation and Direct Web Remoting to wrapping Ajax in JSF components and using the popular Ajax4jsf framework.

This book will help you

Automate low-level details and eliminate unnecessary complexity in server-side development

Discover JSF best practices, ranging from effective UI design and style sheets to internationalization

Use JSF with Tiles to build consistent, reusable user interfaces

Leverage external services such as databases, LDAP directories, authentication/authorization, and Web services

Use JBoss Seam to greatly simplify development of database-backed applications

Implement custom components, converters, and validators

Master the JSF 1.2 tag libararies, and extend JSF with additional tag libraries

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