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Motorola Xoom is the first tablet to rival the iPad, and no wonder with all of the great features packed into this device. But learning how to use everything can be tricky-and Xoom doesn't come with a printed guide. That's where this Missing Manual comes in.

Now that Apple has introduced the GameKit framework to its iOS SDK, you can integrate Game Center features directly into your iPhone and iPad apps. This concise cookbook shows you how it's done, with 18 targeted recipes for adding leaderboards, user authentication, achievements, multiplayer games, and many other features.How do you display players' scores and achievements? How do you create Game Center accounts and add friends? Each recipe in this book includes a simple code solution you can put to work immediately, along with a detailed discussion that offers insight into why and how the recipe works.Recipes include techniques to:Set up Game Center for an iOS AppUse block objects and Grand Central Dispatch to write Game Center appsAuthenticate a local player in Game CenterUse iTunes Connect to create leaderboards and achievementsRetrieve leaderboard and achievement information programmaticallyHandle players' state changes in multiplayer games

This concise introduction to Sphinx shows you how to use this free software to index an enormous number of documents and provide fast results to both simple and complex searches. Written by the creator of Sphinx, this authoritative book is short and to the point.Understand the particular way Sphinx conducts searchesInstall and configure Sphinx, and run a few basic testsIssue basic queries to Sphinx at the application levelLearn the syntax of search text and the effects of various search optionsGet strategies for dealing with large data sets, such as multi-index searchingApply relevance and ranking guidelines for presenting best results to the user

With the recipes in this book, you'll take full advantage of the vast collection of community-contributed modules that make the Drupal web framework useful and unique. Learn how to combine modules in interesting ways to develop a variety of community-driven websites.

In the crowded field of customer relationship management (CRM) systems, SugarCRM stands outnot only for its modular design, but also for the ease with which you can develop, customize, and extend your CRM applications. This concise book provides a thorough overview of the development tools and APIs available in SugarCRM 6.2, showing both developers and nondevelopers alike how to use them to build a sample application step-by-step.You'll learn how to bend and twist SugarCRMs extensible MVC framework to create custom applications, including solutions for automating your business that go beyond traditional CRMs.Learn how SugarCRM modules interact with one another through data relationshipsBuild your CRM application with SugarCRMs GUI developer toolswithout touching codeUse built-in design templates with Module Builder to design new CRM modulesCustomize modules with the Studio tool to add new fields or additional relationships between modulesAutomate common and tedious tasks within your application, using custom PHP code with SugarCRM's powerful APIIntegrate external applications into your CRM solution through SugarCRM's web services API

With this concise book, youll learn the art of building hypermedia APIs that dont simply run on the Web, but that actually exist in the Web. Youll start with the general principles and technologies behind this architectural approach, and then dive hands-on into three fully-functional API examples.Too many APIs rely on concepts rooted in desktop and local area network patterns that dont scale wellcostly solutions that are difficult to maintain over time. This book shows system architects and web developers how to design and implement human- and machine-readable web services that remain stable and flexible as they scale.Learn the H-Factors for representing application metadata across all media types and formatsUnderstand the four basic design elements for authoring hypermedia typesConvert a simple read-only XML-based media type into a successful API designExamine the challenges and advantages of designing a hypermedia type with JSONUse HTML5s rich set of hypermedia controls in the API design processLearn the details of documenting, publishing, and registering media type designs and link-relation types

If youre an app developer with a solid foundation in Objective-C, this book is an absolute mustchances are very high that your companys iOS applications are vulnerable to attack. Thats because malicious attackers now use an arsenal of tools to reverse-engineer, trace, and manipulate applications in ways that most programmers arent aware of.This guide illustrates several types of iOS attacks, as well as the tools and techniques that hackers use. Youll learn best practices to help protect your applications, and discover how important it is to understand and strategize like your adversary.Examine subtle vulnerabilities in real-world applicationsand avoid the same problems in your appsLearn how attackers infect apps with malware through code injectionDiscover how attackers defeat iOS keychain and data-protection encryptionUse a debugger and custom code injection to manipulate the runtime Objective-C environmentPrevent attackers from hijacking SSL sessions and stealing trafficSecurely delete files and design your apps to prevent forensic data leakageAvoid debugging abuse, validate the integrity of run-time classes, and make your code harder to trace

BioCoder is a quarterly newsletter for DIYbio, synthetic bio, and anything related. You'll discover: Articles about interesting projects and experiments, such as the glowing plant Articles about tools, both those you buy and those you build Visits to DIYbio laboratories Profiles of key people in the community Announcements of events

This book, co-authored by littleBits founder Ayah Bdeir, along with top-selling author Matt Richardson (Getting Started with Raspberry Pi), teaches you just enough electronics to start making things with littleBits and takes you on up through connecting littleBits to the cloud and programming with its Arduino-compatible module.

"Make a Mind Controlled Arduino Robot" shows you how to build your own. You learn to measure attention level with a NeuroSky headband and send this information into Arduino. You will also build a line-avoiding system into the bot. And, of course, you will build the chassis of your robot from scratch.

Walk through the basics of Tornado, the high-performance web server known for its speed, simplicity, and scalability on projects large and small. With this hands-on guide, youll learn how to use Tornados acclaimed features by working with several example applications. You also get best practices for using Tornado in the real world.Are you interested in creating a scalable social application, real-time analytics engine, or RESTful APIall with the power and simplicity of Python? This book shows you why Tornado is fantastic choice for writing powerful applications that are simple to create, extend, and deploy.Learn how to use Tornados lightweight and flexible templating languageExtend templates to repurpose headers, footers, layout grids, and other contentUse persistent storage like MongoDB to store, serve, and edit dynamic contentExplore Tornados ability to make asynchronous web requestsSecure your application against cookie and request vulnerabilitiesAuthenticate with external services, using Tornados auth moduleAdopt deployment strategies that help harden your application and increase request throughput

Take advantage of iPhone and iPad sensors and advanced geolocation technologies to build state-of-the-art location applications. In this concise hands-on guide, author Alasdair Allan (Learning iOS Programming) takes you deep inside Apples Core Location framework, Map Kit, and other iOS tools, using illustrative examples and sample Objective-C code. Learn how to build location-aware apps for both iPhones and iPads, using code that detects hardware features and then adjusts your apps behavior.If youre a programmer with iOS experience, or a Mac developer familiar with Objective-C, this book helps you get off to a solid start in location-based app development.Youll learn about:Core Location: Understand the significant-change location service and geo-fencing capabilitiesMap Kit: Embed maps into your applications viewsMagnetometer: Use the on-board sensor as a digital compassGeocoding capabilities: Translate geographic coordinates into place names, and vice versaHeat maps: Get a code walkthrough for displaying these maps on top of a standard MapKit viewThird-party SDKs: Add unique geo-location capabilities to your app from SkyHook Wireless, MapBox, and other providers

CouchDB is a new breed of database for the Internet, geared to meet the needs of todays dynamic web applications. With this concise introduction, youll learn how CouchDBs simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data makes it ideal for the type of data and rapid response users now demand from your applicationsand how easy CouchDB is to set up, deploy, maintain, and scale.The code-packed examples in this book will help you learn how to work with documents, populate a simple database, replicate data from one database to another, and a host of other tasks.Install CouchDB on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, or (if you must) from the source codeInteract with data through CouchDBs RESTful API, and use standard HTTP operations, such as PUT, GET, POST, and DELETEUse FutonCouchDBs web-based interface to manage databases and documents, and to configure replicationsLearn how to create, update, and delete documents in JSON format, and how to create and delete databasesWork with design documents to get the formatting and indexing your application requires

Go beyond layer 2 broadcast domains with this in-depth tour of advanced link and internetwork layer protocols, and learn how they enable you to expand to larger topologies. An ideal follow-up to Packet Guide to Core Network Protocols, this concise guide dissects several of these protocols to explain their structure and operation.This isnt a book on packet theory. Author Bruce Hartpence built topologies in a lab as he wrote this guide, and each chapter includes several packet captures. Youll learn about protocol classification, static vs. dynamic topologies, and reasons for installing a particular route.This guide covers:Host routingProcess a routing table and learn how traffic starts out across a networkStatic routingBuild router routing tables and understand how forwarding decisions are made and processedSpanning Tree ProtocolLearn how this protocol is an integral part of every network containing switchesVirtual Local Area NetworksUse VLANs to address the limitations of layer 2 networksTrunkingGet an indepth look at VLAN tagging and the 802.1Q protocolRouting Information ProtocolUnderstand how this distance vector protocol works in small, modern communication networksOpen Shortest Path FirstDiscover why convergence times of OSPF and other link state protocols are improved over distance vectors

Does your startup rely on social network analysis? This concise guide provides a statistical framework to help you identify social processes hidden among the tons of data now available.Social network analysis (SNA) is a discipline that predates Facebook and Twitter by 30 years. Through expert SNA researchers, you'll learn concepts and techniques for recognizing patterns in social media, political groups, companies, cultural trends, and interpersonal networks. You'll also learn how to use Python and other open source toolssuch as NetworkX, NumPy, and Matplotlibto gather, analyze, and visualize social data. This book is the perfect marriage between social network theory and practice, and a valuable source of insight and ideas.Discover how internal social networks affect a companys ability to performFollow terrorists and revolutionaries through the 1998 Khobar Towers bombing, the 9/11 attacks, and the Egyptian uprisingLearn how a single special-interest group can control the outcome of a national electionExamine relationships between companies through investment networks and shared boards of directorsDelve into the anatomy of cultural fads and trendsoffline phenomena often mediated by Twitter and Facebook

If you're a solo website designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, this concise guide will get you started. Drupals learning curve has thrown off many experienced designers, particularly the way it handles design challenges. This book shows you the lifecycle of a typical Drupal project, with emphasis on the early stages of site planning. Learn how to efficiently estimate and set up your own project, so you can focus on ways to make your vision a reality, rather than let project management details constantly distract you.Plan and estimate your project by discovering your clients goals and audience perceptionsDiscover how Drupal works under the hood, and learn basic DrupalSpeakFrame the UX design challenge through a deeper understanding of your sites intended usersGet real content for your project as early as possiblebefore you start prototypingChoose the right modules for your project, and learn about several go-to modulesUnderstand how to walk clients through the Drupal design and development process

With IPv4 network addresses close to depletion, moving to IPv6 is now business critical. This concise book helps you plan for IPv6 integration by providing a high-level overview of the technical and non-technical steps involved.

Behind Google's deceptively simple interface is immense power for both market and competitive researchif you know how to use it well. Sure, basic searches are easy, but complex searches require specialized skills. This concise book takes you through the full range of Google's powerful search-refinement features, so you can quickly find the specific information you need. Learn techniques ranging from simple Boolean logic to URL parameters and other advanced tools, and see how they're applied to real-world market research examples.Incorporate advanced search operators such as filetype:, intitle:, daterange:, and others into your queriesUse Google filtering tools, including Search Within Results, Similar Pages, and SafeSearch, among othersExplore the breadth of Google through auxiliary search services like Google News, Google Books, Google Blog Search, and Google ScholarAcquire advanced Google skills that result in more effective search engine optimization (SEO)

Several client-side storage options are available to web applications, but one area that's been lacking until now is file I/Othe ability to organize binary data into a true hierarchy of folders. That has changed with the advent of HTML5. With this book, you'll learn how to provide your applications with a file system that enables them to create, read, and write files and folders in a sandboxed section of the user's local filesystem.Author Eric Bidelman, a Senior Developer Programs Engineer on the Google Chrome team, provides several techniques and complete code examples for working with the HTML5 Filesystem API.Learn common operations for working with files and directoriesBecome familiar with HTML5's storage use cases and security considerationsUnderstand the storage options available, including temporary, persistent, and unlimitedWrite text or append data to an existing user fileImport files into your application by accessing a user's hard driveGet techniques for using a file with filesystem, blob, or data URLsUse the synchronous version of the HTML5 Filesystem API within a Web Worker context

Google App Engine makes it easy to create a web application that can serve millions of people as easily as serving hundreds, with minimal up-front investment. With Programming Google App Engine, Google engineer Dan Sanderson provides practical guidance for designing and developing your application on Googles vast infrastructure, using App Engines scalable services and simple development model.Through clear and concise instructions, youll learn how to get the most out of App Engines nearly unlimited computing power. This second edition is fully updated and expanded to cover Python 2.7 and Java 6 support, multithreading, asynchronous service APIs, and the use of frameworks such as Django 1.3 and webapp2.Understand how App Engine handles web requests and executes application codeLearn about new datastore features for queries and indexes, transactions, and data modelingCreate, manipulate, and serve large data files with the BlobstoreUse task queues to parallelize and distribute computation across the infrastructureEmploy scalable services for email, instant messaging, and communicating with web servicesTrack resource consumption, and optimize your application for speed and cost effectiveness

If youre a programmer new to regular expressions, this easy-to-follow guide is a great place to start. Youll learn the fundamentals step-by-step with the help of numerous examples, discovering first-hand how to match, extract, and transform text by matching specific words, characters, and patterns.Regular expressions are an essential part of a programmers toolkit, available in various Unix utlilities as well as programming languages such as Perl, Java, JavaScript, and C#. When youve finished this book, youll be familiar with the most commonly used syntax in regular expressions, and youll understand how using them will save you considerable time.Discover what regular expressions are and how they workLearn many of the differences between regular expressions used with command-line tools and in various programming languagesApply simple methods for finding patterns in text, including digits, letters, Unicode characters, and string literalsLearn how to use zero-width assertions and lookaroundsWork with groups, backreferences, character classes, and quantifiersUse regular expressions to mark up plain text with HTML5

If you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop Android applications. Now updated for HTML5, the second edition of this hands-on guide shows you how to use open source web standards to design and build apps that can be adapted for any Android device.Youll learn how to create an Android-friendly web app on the platform of your choice, and then use Adobes free PhoneGap framework to convert it to a native Android app. Discover why device-agnostic mobile apps are the wave of the future, and start building apps that offer greater flexibility and a much broader reach.Convert a website into a web application, complete with progress indicators and other featuresAdd animation with JQTouch to make your web app look and feel like a native Android appMake use of client-side data storage with apps that run when the Android device is offlineUse PhoneGap to hook into advanced Android features, including the accelerometer, geolocation, and alertsTest and debug your app on the Web with real users, and submit the finished product to the Android Market

Get started with Spring Integration, the lightweight Java-based framework that makes designing and developing message-oriented architectures a breeze. Through numerous examples, youll learn how to use this open source frameworks basic building blocks to work with both inter- and intra-application programming models.If youre a Java developer familiar with the Spring framework (perhaps through OReillys Just Spring tutorial) and want to advance your skills with Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) patterns, and messaging systems in particular, this book is ideal.Learn Spring Integration fundamentals, including channels, endpoints, and messagesUse message channels to decouple applications, separating producers from consumersDiscover how common endpoint patterns separate a messaging applications business logic from integration detailsCreate a seamless integration between the endpoints, using TransformersImplement Spring Integrations flow components to design your messaging applications business flowConfigure the frameworks File, FTP, JMS, and JDBC adapters to integrate with external systems

If youre considering a Mac OS X server for your small business, school, nonprofit, or home network, this easy-to-follow guide will help you get up and running in no time. Youll learn how to share files, mail, and calendar information on your desktops, iPads, iPhones, and other devices, whether youre new to Mac OS X servers or need to update your skills for the Lion edition.Discover how to configure your network to include multiple operating systemsincluding Mac, iOS, and Windowsand set up servers for wikis, websites, and podcasts with relative ease.Plan your installation to make sure you have the right server hardwareControl data access with permissions, and use Apples Time Machine to back up your networkShare contacts, schedules, and instant messaging with groupwareManage wikis, blogs, and websites with Lions web serviceBuild an email server and protect it against spam and malwareHandle preferences for the networks Apple computers and iOS devicesDeploy new Apple computers to the network with disk imaging

If youre considering R for statistical computing and data visualization, this book provides a quick and practical guide to just about everything you can do with the open source R language and software environment. Youll learn how to write R functions and use R packages to help you prepare, visualize, and analyze data. Author Joseph Adler illustrates each process with a wealth of examples from medicine, business, and sports.Updated for R 2.14 and 2.15, this second edition includes new and expanded chapters on R performance, the ggplot2 data visualization package, and parallel R computing with Hadoop.Get started quickly with an R tutorial and hundreds of examplesExplore R syntax, objects, and other language detailsFind thousands of user-contributed R packages online, including BioconductorLearn how to use R to prepare data for analysisVisualize your data with Rs graphics, lattice, and ggplot2 packagesUse R to calculate statistical fests, fit models, and compute probability distributionsSpeed up intensive computations by writing parallel R programs for HadoopGet a complete desktop reference to R

Online communities provide a wide range of opportunities for supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or building open source software. The Art of Community helps you recruit members, motivate them, and manage them as active participants. Author Jono Bacon offers experiences and observations from his 14-year effort to build and manage communities, including his current position as manager for Ubuntu.Discover how your community can become a reliable support network, a valuable source of new ideas, and a powerful marketing force. This expanded edition shows you how to keep community projects on track, make use of social media, and organize collaborative events. Interviews with 12 community management leaders, including Linus Torvalds, Tim OReilly, and Mike Shinoda, provide useful insights.Develop specific objectives and goals for building your communityBuild processes to help contributors perform tasks, work together, and share successesProvide tools and infrastructure that enable members to work quicklyCreate buzz around your community to get more people involvedHarness social media to broadcast information, collaborate, and get feedbackUse several techniques to track progress on community goalsIdentify and manage conflict, such as dealing with divisive personalities

If you're involved in deploying wireless networking services, you need to keep up with the state of the art. 802.11n is a 100 Mbps wireless protocol that's the successor to 802.11g. This ebook tells you everything you need to know about this important new protocol.

Now you can overcome the vexing, real-life issues you confront when creating apps for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. By making use of more than 100 new recipes in this updated cookbook, youll quickly learn the steps necessary for writing complete iOS apps, whether theyre as simple as a music player or feature a complex mix of animations, graphics, multimedia, a database, and iCloud storage.If youre comfortable with iOS SDK, this cookbook will teach you how to use hundreds of iOS techniques. Each recipe provides a clear solution with sample code that you can use right away.Use different approaches to construct a user interfaceDevelop location-aware appsGet working examples for implementing gesture recognizersPlay audio and video files and access the iPod libraryRetrieve contacts and groups from the Address BookDetermine camera availability and access the Photo LibraryCreate multitasking-aware appsMaintain persistent storage in your appsUse Event Kit to manage calendars and eventsLearn capabilities of the Core Graphics frameworkAccess the accelerometer and gyroscopeTake advantage of the iCloud service

If youre an experienced programmer interested in crunching data, this book will get you started with machine learninga toolkit of algorithms that enables computers to train themselves to automate useful tasks. Authors Drew Conway and John Myles White help you understand machine learning and statistics tools through a series of hands-on case studies, instead of a traditional math-heavy presentation.Each chapter focuses on a specific problem in machine learning, such as classification, prediction, optimization, and recommendation. Using the R programming language, youll learn how to analyze sample datasets and write simple machine learning algorithms. Machine Learning for Hackers is ideal for programmers from any background, including business, government, and academic research.Develop a nave Bayesian classifier to determine if an email is spam, based only on its textUse linear regression to predict the number of page views for the top 1,000 websitesLearn optimization techniques by attempting to break a simple letter cipherCompare and contrast U.S. Senators statistically, based on their voting recordsBuild a whom to follow recommendation system from Twitter data