Force.com Succinctly offers developers and business users easy access to the many benefits of this popular platform. Now anyone can build powerful enterprise apps without writing lots of code, and author Ed Freitas guides readers through the Force.com fundamentals. Developers from backgrounds such as SQL Server, .NET, and JavaScript will see quickl...
Taking advantage of WebHooks is something that many developers want to achieve, but many struggle to find a starting point. In ASP.NET WebHooks Succinctly, Gaurav Arora guides readers through the necessary skills and processes to get started....
The Ruby on Rails Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow....
The book heavily leans on examples to present features of sed as well as regular expressions one by one. It is recommended that you manually type each example and experiment with them. Understanding both the nature of sample input string and the output produced is essential.
You should have prior experience working with command line and bash she...
In this second e-book on Java, Christopher Rose takes readers through some of the more advanced features of the language. Java Succinctly Part 2 explores powerful and practical features of Java, such as multithreading, building GUI applications, and 2-D graphics and game programming. Then learn techniques for using these mechanisms in coherent proj...
It's a fact: if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this book, you'll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch on the platform of your choice-without using Objective-C or Cocoa.
Device-agnostic mob...
AngularDart is an open-source, web app framework created by Google that combines the power of Angular with the Dart programming language, focusing on productivity, performance, and stability. Google has used it to build and run many of its mission-critical web apps that generate much of its revenue. In AngularDart Succinctly, Ed Freitas will show r...
Ruby on Rails (RoR), or Rails, is an open-source popular web application framework. Rails uses Ruby, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create a web application that runs on a web server. Rails uses the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern and provides a fullstack of libraries from the database all the way to the view.
It is an unofficial and free Ruby...
EPPlus is a .NET library that reads and writes Excel files using the Office Open XML format (xlsx). It is an unofficial and free .NET EPPlus book created for educational purposes. All the content is extracted from Stack Overflow Documentation, which is written by many hardworking individuals at Stack Overflow....
Deep learning has transformed the fields of computer vision, image processing, and natural language applications. Thanks to TensorFlow.js, now JavaScript developers can build deep learning apps without relying on Python or R. Deep Learning with JavaScript shows developers how they can bring DL technology to the web. Written by the main authors of t...
Cosmos DB is a NoSQL database service included in Azure that is continuously adding new features and has quickly become one of the most innovative services found in Azure, targeting mission-critical applications at a global scale. This book starts off by showing you the main features of Cosmos DB, their supported NoSQL data models and the foundatio...
This book is designed to introduce you to using containers and Kubernetes for full-stack development. You'll learn how to develop a full-stack application using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL with Sidekiq, and how to manage them all - first with Docker, then with Docker Compose, and finally with Kubernetes.
The topics that it covers include h...
This project-based eBook will introduce you to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a stylesheet language used to control the presentation of websites, by building a personal website using our demonstration site as a model. Though our demonstration site features Sammy the Shark, you can switch out Sammy's information with your own if you wish to pers...
CSS, a shorthand for Cascading Style Sheets, is one of the main building blocks of the Web. Its history goes back to the 90's and along with HTML it has changed a lot since its humble beginnings.
This handbook is aimed at a vast audience.
- First, the beginner. I explain CSS from zero in a succinct but comprehensive way, so you can use thi...
Express is a Node.js Web Framework. Node.js is an amazing tool for building networking services and applications. Express builds on top of its features to provide easy to use functionality that satisfy the needs of the Web Server use case.
The Express Handbook follows the 80/20 rule: learn in 20% of the time the 80% of a topic. The author find t...
The React Beginner's Handbook follows the 80/20 rule: learn in 20% of the time the 80% of a topic. The author find this approach gives a well-rounded overview.
This book does not try to cover everything under the sun related to React. It focuses on the core of the language, trying to simplify the more complex topics. The author hopes the co...
This open book is an introduction to React that works from the foundations upward. Each chapter takes you a little deeper into the React ecosystem, building on your previous knowledge. Along the way, you'll learn how to maintain internal state, pass information between parts of an application, and explore different options for styling your app...
Machine learning used to be the preserve of university research departments with money to burn on high-power, high-cost kit - but not any more! Thanks to a new breed of affordable dev boards, anyone can get in on the act at pocket money prices. We've trawled the makersphere for the best, most creative machine learning projects to show just wha...
This book is designed as an introduction to containers and Kubernetes by way of Node.js. Containers are the basis for distributed, repeatable workflows with orchestrators such as Kubernetes, and they allow developers and operators to develop applications consistently across environments and deploy in a repeatable and predictable fashion.
The exa...
If you are interested in learning how to build and design websites, Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is a great place to start. This project-based tutorial series will introduce you to HTML and its methods by building a personal website using our demonstration site (below) as a model. Once you learn the basics, you will know how change the website...
Nuxt.js is an open-source JavaScript library based on Vue.js. Think of it as a framework for a framework - adding two significant features to Vue.js: server-side rendering; and easy Vue.js application configuration and routing through folders and files. In Nuxt.js Succinctly, long-time Succinctly author Ed Freitas will show readers how Nuxt.js simp...
This book is geared towards users who have no Revit background. It starts with Revit basics such as how to create walls, floors, roof, but it also covers more advanced topics such as creating a complex object, preparing construction documents, and modeling mechanical and structural systems.
This book is an open education platform for Architectur...
The Internet of Things is playground for makers. From practical projects such as pet feeders and automatic blind, to silly things like a texting pot plant, there are as many ways of connecting ordinary object to the internet as you can imagine. Let's explore!
- Meet the mom behind Geek Mom Projects
- Build a flatpack rocket
- Turn 3D prin...
With a little bit of coding, you can breathe life into anything. Discover the building blocks of programming that will take your creations to the next level - whether that's motors, servos, sensors or just adding blinkenlights. Coding is a superpower!
- How to build an elite-level hot air balloon
- Get ready for Christmas with flashy festi...
Sight reading music can be a daunting endeavor for aspiring, and even experienced, musicians. Foundational Sight Singing was created to provide a systematic approach to learn to read, hear and perform music. The ordered presentation of both melodies and rhythms in this text helps students develop accuracy and fluency in sight singing which is a fun...
APIs are such a critical part of software that "API-first" has become a popular approach to development, one where the API is designed before the app itself is written. Without a well-designed API, your app is isolated from the greater app ecosystem. In ASP.NET Core APIs Succinctly, author Dirk Strauss guides you through designing your ow...
In ASP.NET Core 6 Succinctly, author Dirk Strauss guides web developers through some of the significant performance and feature improvements newly available in ASP.NET Core 6. Learn about the unmissable practicality of Hot Reload, explore super-helpful C# 10 features, pick up the essentials of how to build a minimal API, and discover how and why de...