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	Deploying Rails: Automate, Deploy, Scale, Maintain, and Sleep at Night by Tom Copeland and Anthony Burns Today’s modern Rails applications have lots of moving parts. Make sure your next production deployment goes smoothly with this hands-on book, which guides you through the entire production process. You’ll set up scripts to install and configure all the software your servers need, including your application code. Once you’re in production, you’ll learn how to set up systems to monitor your application’s health, gather metrics so you can stop problems before they start, and fix things when they go wrong.
	iOS SDK Development by Chris Adamson and Bill Dudney Welcome to the new state of the art development for iOS, with the radically overhauled Xcode 4 toolchain and iOS 5 SDK. With this book you’ll accelerate your development for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. You will learn the new tools like Storyboards, practice on new APIs like the Twitter framework and use the latest features of the Objective-C 2.0 programming language.
	Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement by Eric Redmond and Jim R. Wilson Data is getting bigger and more complex by the day, and so are your choices in handling it. From traditional RDBMS to newer NoSQL approaches, Seven Databases in Seven Weeks takes you on a tour of some of the hottest open source databases today. In the tradition of Bruce A. Tate’s Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, this book goes beyond your basic tutorial to explore the essential concepts at the core of each technology.
	Rails Recipes: Rails 3 Edition by Chad Fowler Thousands of developers have used the first edition of Rails Recipes to solve the hard problems. Now, five years later, it’s time for the Rails 3.1 edition of this trusted collection of solutions, completely revised by Rails master Chad Fowler.
	Programming Clojure (2nd edition) by Stuart Halloway and Aaron Bedra If you want to keep up with the significant changes in this important language, you need the second edition of Programming Clojure. Stu and Aaron describe the modifications to the numerics system in Clojure 1.3, explain new Clojure concepts such as Protocols and Datatypes, and teach you how to think in Clojure.
	Programming Your Home: Automate with Arduino, Android, and Your Computer by Mike Riley Take control of your home! Programmatically interact with indoor and outdoor lighting, remotely monitor and take charge of your home’s security, react to changes in room lighting and temperature by autonomously opening and closing curtains, and much more. Learn how to program Android smartphones and Arduino microcontrollers to remotely manage your home’s environment. Step-by-step instructions tell you all you need to know about how to obtain, build, program, use, and extend these innovative services.
	Technical Blogging: Turn Your Expertise into a Remarkable Online Presence by Antonio Cangiano Technical Blogging is the first book to specifically teach programmers, technical people, and technically-oriented entrepreneurs how to become successful bloggers. There is no magic to successful blogging; with this book you’ll learn the techniques to attract and keep a large audience of loyal, regular readers and leverage this popularity to achieve your goals.
	Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby: Control Your Computer, Simplify Your Life by David Bryant Copeland Speak directly to your system. With its simple commands, flags, and parameters, a well-formed command-line application is the quickest way to automate a backup, a build, or a deployment and simplify your life.
	The Developer's Code: What Real Programmers Do by Ka Wai Cheung You’re already a great coder, but awesome coding chops aren’t always enough to get you through your toughest projects. You need these 50+ nuggets of wisdom. Veteran programmers: reinvigorate your passion for developing web applications. New programmers: here’s the guidance you need to get started. With this book, you’ll think about your job in new and enlightened ways.