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First Edition Published January 31, 2012 187 pages (eBook) XXV, 169 pages (Paper book)	Actors in Scala Concurrent programming for the multi-core era by Philipp Haller and Frank Sommers Actors in Scala is the authoritative guide to programming with the actors framework of Scala's standard library, co-written by the creator and lead maintainer, Philipp Haller. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the actor model of concurrency and shows how Scala's actors enable you to build efficient, scalable, and robust concurrent software for the JVM.
First Edition Published March 25, 2011 228 pages (eBook) XXIII,213 pages (Paper Book)	Agile Hiring Transform how you hire software professionals by Sean Landis Hiring software professionals is a difficult problem, but few books exist on this specific topic. This book presents a fresh approach that is tested by fire: developed by the author in over twenty years of experience hiring software professionals at both small companies and large. Drawing on principles from the "agile" software movement, this book offers a different way to think about hiring. This book will provide principles and techniques that will help you to hire the best software professionals.
First Edition Published August 14, 2010 295 pages (eBook) XVI, 288 pages (Paper Book)	Flex 4 Fun Graphics and animation for better user interfaces by Chet Haase This book is the authoritative guide to graphics and animation in Flex 4: the fun stuff! Written by Chet Haase, an engineer on the Adobe Flex team and coauthor of Filthy Rich Clients, this book will teach you the graphical and animation technologies in Flex 4 that enable better user experiences.
Published March 17, 2011 258 pages	Presentation Materials: C++ and Beyond 2010 by Andrei Alexandrescu, Scott Meyers, and Herb Sutter An examination of issues related to C++ and its application in high-performance (typically highly concurrent) systems, as well as related technologies of likely interest to C++ programmers.
Last revised April 23, 2010 347 pages	Presentation Materials: Effective C++ in an Embedded Environment by Scott Meyers An in-depth examination of C++, its costs compared to C, and how it can be effectively applied in embedded systems.
Last revised October 25, 2011 364 pages	Presentation Materials: Overview of the New C++ (C++11) by Scott Meyers This PDF document contains the presentation materials from Scott Meyers' three-day training course on C++11, the latest major version of C++. It provides an incisive overview of the most important new language and library features in the remarkably wide-reaching revision of C++ that compiler vendors have already started to support.
Second Edition Published December 13, 2010 883 pages (eBook) LI, 852 pages (Paper book)	Programming in Scala, 2nd Edition A comprehensive step-by-step guide by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, and Bill Venners This book is the authoritative tutorial on the Scala programming language, co-written by the language's designer, Martin Odersky. This second edition provides more than 100 pages of new material that covers new features in Scala 2.8. This book will be published in early 2011 and is available now as a PrePrint™ (early access) Edition PDF.