Your Pragmatic Catalog
Rails, Angular, Postgres, and Bootstrap
Powerful, Effective, and Efficient Full-Stack Web Development
As a Rails developer, you care about user experience and performance,
but you also want simple and maintainable code. Achieve all that by
embracing the full stack of web development, from styling with
Bootstrap, building an interactive user interface with AngularJS, to
storing data quickly and reliably in PostgreSQL. Take a holistic view of
full-stack development to create usable, high-performing applications,
and learn to use these technologies effectively in a Ruby on Rails
environment.
$45.00
Ruby Performance Optimization
Why Ruby Is Slow, and How to Fix It
You don’t have to accept slow Ruby or Rails performance. In this
comprehensive guide to Ruby optimization, you’ll learn how to write
faster Ruby code—but that’s just the beginning. See exactly what makes
Ruby and Rails code slow, and how to fix it. Alex Dymo will guide you
through perils of memory and CPU optimization, profiling, measuring,
performance testing, garbage collection, and tuning. You’ll find that
all those “hard” things aren’t so difficult after all, and your code
will run orders of magnitude faster.
$46.00
Seven Mobile Apps in Seven Weeks
Native Apps, Multiple Platforms
Answer the question “Can we build this for ALL the devices?” with a
resounding YES. This book will help you get there with a real-world
introduction to seven platforms, whether you’re new to mobile or an
experienced developer needing to expand your options. Plus, you’ll find
out which cross-platform solution makes the most sense for your needs.
$26.00
