Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design by Andrew Rollings (Author), Ernest Adams (Author)
Publisher: New Riders Games (May 11, 2003) | ISBN-10: 1592730019 | CHM | 8,8 Mb | 648 pages

How often have you heard "anyone can design a game?" While it seems likean easy job, game ideas are cheap and plentiful. Advancing those ideasinto games that people want to play is one of the hardest, and mostunder-appreciated, tasks in the game development cycle. Andrew Rollingsand Ernest Adams on Game Design introduces both students and experienced developers to the craft of designing computer and video games for the retail market.

Doug Marschke, Harry Reynolds “JUNOS Enterprise Routing: A Practical Guide to JUNOS Software and Enterprise Certification"
O'Reilly Media, Inc | 2008-03-27 | ISBN: 0596514425 | 812 pages | CHM | 6,7 Mb

Written by the instructors and creators of the JNTCP-ER Certification Exams, JUNOS Enterprise Routing is the only comprehensive book for Juniper enterprise and edge routing environments. It offers complete coverage of all the services available to the JUNOS administrator, including JUNOS Enhanced Services (ES).
This book is the official study guide for all three Juniper Enterprise Routing certification exams, and is highly recommended reading to pass the exams. With its field-guide emphasis on practical solutions, you can easily take the book beyond the classroom and into working networks as a design, maintenance, and troubleshooting reference par excellence.

William Steinmetz, Brian Ward “Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems"
No Starch Press | 2008-02-09 | ISBN: 1593271735 | 224 pages | CHM | 1,9 Mb

PHP is an easy-to-use scripting language perfect for quickly creating the Web features you need. Once you know the basics of how the language works, wouldn't it be great to have a collection of useful scripts that solve those tricky problems and add interesting functionality to your site? We thought so, too.
Instead of starting at "Hello World," Wicked Cool PHP assumes that you're familiar with the language and jumps right into the good stuff. After you learn the FAQs of life-the most commonly wished for PHP scripts-you'll work your way through smart configuration options and the art of forms, all the way through to complex database-backed scripts.

Jon Erickson, "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition"
Publisher: No Starch Press | CHM | Number Of Pages: 488 | 2008-02-04 | ISBN: 1593271441 | 4.5 Mb

Hacking is the art of creative problem solving, whether that means finding an unconventional solution to a difficult problem or exploiting holes in sloppy programming. Many people call themselves hackers, but few have the strong technical foundation needed to really push the envelope.

Jonathan Zdziarski, "iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Objective-C Applications for the iPhone"
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. | CHM | Number Of Pages: 280 | 2008-03-10 | ISBN: 0596518552 | 1.44 MB

Certain technologies bring out everyone's hidden geek, and iPhone did the moment it was released. Even though Apple created iPhone as a closed device, tens of thousands of developers bought them with the expressed purpose of designing and running third-party software. In this clear and concise book, veteran hacker Jonathan Zdziarski -- one of the original hackers of the iPhone -- explains the iPhone's native environment and how you can build software for this device using its Objective-C, C, and C++ development frameworks. iPhone Open Application Development walks you through the iPhone's proprietary development environment, offers an overview of the Objective-C language you'll use with it, and supplies background for the iPhone operating system. You also get detailed recipes and working examples for everyone's favorite iPhone features -- graphics and audio programming, interfaces for adding multitouch functionality to games, the use of hardware sensors, and the device's vast user interface kit. This book explains: How to access the iPhone's underlying operating system The makeup of an iPhone application How to get the open source tool chain running on your desktop The iPhone's core user interface framework, which is heavily tied to major application-level functions Using the many touted iPhone features such as multitouch, hardware sensors, and gestures Intercepting and handling event notifications for many iPhone-related events Raw video surfaces and 3D transformations that take you deeper into advanced graphics on the iPhone How to record and play simple sounds and intercept sound events Advanced digital audio output using Apple's new Audio Toolbox framework Advanced user interfacecomponents such as section lists, keyboards, and image manipulation The Appendix includes a compendium of miscellaneous code examples for cool application features, such as using the camera and creating a CoverFlow(R)-like album browser. This book is a true hacker's book, designed for the millions of users who have run third party applications on their iPhone, but its concepts and code examples have shown to be remarkably similar to Apple's official SDK, making this book a valuable resource for both camps. Any programmer can use this book to write applications with the same spectacular effects that made the device an immediate hit, and impress users just as much as the official iPhone software does. That programmer can easily be you.

Bill Hamilton, "ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook"
Publisher:O'Reilly Media, Inc. | PDF | Number Of Pages: 980 | 2008-03-27 | ISBN: 0596101406 | 2.88 MB

This guide is strikingly different from other books on Microsoft ADO.NET. Rather than load you down with theory, the new edition of ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook gives you more than 200 coding solutions and best practices for real problems you're likely to face with this technology using Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET 3.5 platform.

Maxim Magazine - February 2008 (Russia)
PDF | Russian | 37.79 Mb

Maxim is an international English language lad mag (men's magazine) based in the United Kingdom and known for its revealing pictorials featuring popular actresses, singers, and female models, ...

US News & World Report April 7 2008
PDF | English | 13 MB


The editorial staff of U.S.News & World Report is based in Washington, D.C., but it is owned by U.S.News & World Report, L.P., which is based in the Daily News building in New York City. Founded in 1933 as United States News, it merged with World Report in 1948. The magazine's founder, David Lawrence (1888–1973), sold it to his employees. In 1984, it was purchased by Mortimer Zuckerman, who is also the owner of the New York Daily

David J Murphy “Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion"
Packt Publishing | 2007-12-15 | ISBN: 1847191665 | 120 pages | PDF | 2,3 Mb

Software development - especially for small teams & projects - often ends up unmanaged and suffering from the ever present problem of feature creep. This book presents a simple set of processes and practices that allow you to manage these projects without getting in the way. This book looks at what is needed to manage software development projects, how Trac and Subversion meets these needs, and how to install, configure and use them.

The Software Development Edge: Essays on Managing Successful Projects
Addison-Wesley Professional | ISBN: 0321321316 | 336 pages | April 23, 2005 | CHM | 1 Mb
The new software management classic: in-the-trenches wisdom from legendary project leader Joe Marasco

Over the course of a distinguished career, Joe Marasco earned a reputation as the go-to software project manager: the one to call when you were facing a brutally tough, make-or-break project. Marasco reflected on his experiences in a remarkable series of "Franklin's Kite" essays for The Rational Edge, Rational and IBM's online software development magazine. Now, Marasco collects and updates those essays, bringing his unique insights (and humor) to everything from modeling to scheduling, team dynamics to compensation. The result: a new classic that deserves a place alongside Frederick Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month in the library of every developer and software manager. If you want to ship products you're proud of... ship on time and on budget... deliver real customer value... you simply must read The Software Development Edge.

Timothy J. Thompson, C Bala Kumar, Paul Kline “Bluetooth Application Programming with the Java APIs Essentials Edition "
Morgan Kaufmann | 2008-02-15 | ISBN: 0123743427 | 304 pages | PDF | 2,1 Mb

Adoption of Bluetooth wireless technology has become ubiquitous in the last few years. One of the biggest steps forward is the standardization of Java APIs for Bluetooth wireless technology (JABWT). The latest updates to this standard is explained in detail in this book. The JABWT standard, defined by the JSR-82 Java Specification Request, supports rapid development of Bluetooth applications that are portable, secure, and highly-usable. Wireless device manufacturers have responded overwhelmingly to the JABWT specification by implementing JABWT applications in mobile phones and other personal wireless communications products.