
The Alpha Book Program
Want to get an early look at our titles? Try an Alpha Book! An Alpha Book is a pre-release, still-in-development version of an Apress title. When you purchase an Alpha Book, you get the opportunity to review its content as it advances through the production process. Alpha Book files are updated on a regular basis in your account as new material is completed, all the way through final publication. Following is our current roster of Alpha Books:
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Create amazing LEGO gadgets controlled by the easy-to-program Arduino.
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Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Game Development
Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Game Development gives you everything you need to maximize your creativity and produce fantastic games that will run on any Windows 8 device.
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Navin Sabharwal, Prashant Wali
Cloud Capacity Management helps readers in understanding what the cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS are, how they relate to capacity planning and management and which stakeholders are involved in delivering value. It explains the role of capacity management for creators, aggregators, and consumers of cloud services.
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Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development
Create amazing 3D games with Unity 4 and customize them for iOS devices.
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Big Data Imperatives, focuses on resolving the key questions on everyones mind: 'Which data matters? Do you have enough data volume to justify the usage? How do you want to process this amount of data? How long do you really need to keep it active for your analysis, marketing, and BI applications?
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In Invest Like an Institution, Michael C. Schlachter reveals that investors looking to boost their returns without taking on added portfolio risk can do so if they adapt the strategies of one of the few categories of players in the investment arena that consistently outperforms the market: large institutional investors.
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Real World Windows 8 App Development with JavaScript
Edward Moemeka, Elizabeth Moemeka
Learn from the new set of cutting-edge Windows 8 expert developers, and get the low-down from an author with experience from the front line of Windows 8 app development. Real World Windows 8 App Development with JavaScript dives into the topics that are essential for making the most of this new platform for application development. -
Beginning Java EE 7 is one of the first tutorials written with definitive expertise on the Java EE 7 platform. Step by step and easy to follow, this book describes the Java EE 7 features and how to use them.
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Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax
Practical but comprehensive, Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax is an essential guide for modern JavaScript programming. The book begins with a JavaScript overview, and then builds up your JavaScript toolkit. This completely updated second edition is an indispensable JavaScript resource.
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Theres never been a better time to learn how to use ASP.NETMVC 4. The technology will speed your development times, reduce theverbosity of your code and simplify your application designs all at once. Takethe first step towards ASP.NET MVC mastery with Beginning ASP.NET MVC 4.
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Pro Data Visualization using R and JavaScript
Pro Data Visualization using R and JavaScript makes the R language approachable, and promotes the idea of data gathering and analysis. You'll see how to use R to interrogate and analyze your data, and then use the D3 JavaScript library to format and display that data in an elegant, informative, and interactive way.
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Pro Hibernate and MongoDB shows you how to use and integrate Hibernate and MongoDB together as a complete out of the box persistence and database application solution. More specifically, this book guides you through bootstrap, queries and mappings for an enterprise application and then migrating to the Cloud.







