Author › Simon Allardice

Create more reliable, maintainable software by using test-driven development.

Take existing code and make it better—more readable, efficient, understandable, and updateable—with refactoring.

Bring your existing iOS development skills—and your own applications—up to speed with the new options in iOS 6 SDK.

Discover how a database can benefit both you and your architecture, whatever the programming language, operating system, or application type you use.

Discover how to create, manage, and deliver interactive reports—not just to print, but to dynamically explore enterprise-level data—with Reporting Services in SQL Server.

Introduces the concepts behind Core Data, the object persistence framework used to manipulate and store data in iOS and OS X applications.

Covers every major feature of this popular language for application development for the Mac and iOS devices, with instructions for building basic applications using Objective-C and Xcode 4.

Build desktop applications for the Mac OS X by exploring the many frameworks and essential design patterns in Cocoa.

Introduces object-oriented terms like abstraction and inheritance and shows how to define requirements and use cases and create a conceptual model of your application.

Shows how to develop, debug, and deploy applications for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch using iOS SDK 5 and Xcode 4.

Edit and customize web sites created with the SharePoint 2010 platform.

Provides the core knowledge to begin programming in any language, using JavaScript to explore the syntax of a programming language, and shows how to write and execute your first application and understand what's going on under the hood.

Use JavaScript to add new features and a richer, more compelling user interface on web pages.

Use SharePoint Designer to create rich, highly visual web pages in SharePoint that connect, read, and even update information stored externally.

Explores all the major features of SQL Server 2008, beginning with core concepts.

Shows developers how to apply their existing knowledge of Xcode, Objective-C and the iPhone SDK to create applications for the iPad.

Demonstrates the full feature set in SharePoint 2010.

Walks through the first few hours a new user will spend with SharePoint working with Web sites, communities, content, and search.

Highlights the new tools and user interface enhancements Microsoft includes in the 2010 version of SharePoint Server.

Explores using SharePoint Designer 2007 to alter the default appearance of SharePoint web sites.

Breaks down the process of becoming an iPhone developer, from getting started with the tools and the language to testing and debugging applications.

Shows Dreamweaver users how to utilize UltraDev to create database-driven web sites.