For developing web-based and database driven high-performance, dynamic Web applications at express speed, PHP (powerful scripting language) and MySQL (quick and reliable database) are absolutely the only pair of best partners. Tutorials about them, I came close to forget this classic bible-level PHP and MySQL Web Development, Fourth Edition (although a bit old without involving the newest features).

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WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is Microsoft's user interface development framework based on Windows, belongs to part of the .Net Framework. It provides a unified programming model, languages and frameworks, indeed makes the interface design and the development work separate. Plus, WPF supports a brand-new multimedia interactive graphics user interface. As a major change in the Windows operating system, unlike the early GDI/GDI+, WPF is based on the DirectX engine that supports both software rendering and GPU hardware acceleration at the same time.

Unity Game Development in 24 Hours, Second Edition may be currently the best tutorial book written for absolute beginners to the Unity game engine who want to learn it from scratch and step by step.

Programming in Objective-C is a concise and meticulous bestseller in the field of Objective-C programming, which covers the latest information on Xcode, Mac OS X Mavericks, and iOS. It detailedly introduces the Objective-C language and the object-oriented programming mode on Apple's iOS and Mac OS X platforms.