Advanced Rails Recipes

Now in print and shipping

Advanced Rails Recipes is a collection of practical recipes for spicing up your web application without a lot of prep and cleanup. You’ll learn how the pros have solved the tough problems using the most up-to-date Rails 2.0 techniques so you can deliver your stunning web app quicker and easier.
Desktop GIS

Now in Beta

Desktop GIS shows you how to assemble and use an Open Source GIS toolkit. You’ll find strategies for choosing a platform, selecting the right tools, integration, managing change, and getting support. You’ll get a good introduction to using the many tools available so you can visualize, digitize, and analyze your own mapping data.
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Advanced Rails Recipes: 84 New Ways to Build Stunning Rails Apps is now in print and shipping. Advanced Rails Recipes keeps you on the cutting edge of Rails 2.0 development and continues to turn the fast-paced Rails framework to your advantage. This book is filled with pragmatic recipes you’ll use on every Rails project. And by taking the code in these recipes and slipping it into your application you’ll not only deliver your application quicker, you’ll do so with the confidence that it’s done right.

Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools is now available in Beta. From Google Maps to iPhone apps, geographic data and visualization is quickly becoming a standard part of life. This book will give you an understanding of the Open Source GIS landscape, along with a detailed look at the major desktop applications, including GRASS, Quantum GIS, uDig, spatial databases, GMT, and other command line tools. Finally, the book exposes you to scripting in the OSGIS world, using Python, shell, and other languages to visualize, digitize, and analyze your data.

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