SimpleDB is a highly scalable, simple-to-use, and inexpensive database in the cloud from Amazon Web Services. But in order to use SimpleDB, you really have to change your mindset. This isn’t a traditional relational database; in fact it’s not relational at all. For developers who have experience working with relational databases, this may lead to misconceptions as to how SimpleDB works.

Adobe Certified Instructor Todd Perkins makes ActionScript fun in ActionScript 3.0 Projects: Game Development . He explains the principles of game design and development, then shows how to overcome game-making challenges to create all kinds of games. Todd teaches developers how to deal with case sensitivity, create dynamically moving enemies, add event listeners, determine a win or loss in a game, and add additional features and artificial intelligence. Each set of tutorials covers how to build a game from scratch. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Sublime Text 2 is a cross-platform text and code editor for OS X, Windows, and Linux with many innovative features and a thriving ecosystem of add-on packages. This course reveals some of the basic, not-so-basic, and downright hidden features of the editor, and shows you how to become a more productive developer. Author Kevin Yank shows how to write and edit basic code, tweak the editing configuration to your preference, and automate code creation with macros and snippets. He also surveys a dozen of the best add-on packages for Sublime Text, which speed up some of the more tedious programming tasks.

This course covers the Amazon Web Services offerings for compute, storage, databases, messaging and administration. Each module includes a series of demonstrations that show how to interact with AWS services through the Management Console, native API and .NET SDK. The course covers classic AWS services like EC2 as well as brand new services like DynamoDB.

Find out how to build and package native device applications using Adobe PhoneGap and web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and javascript. This course shows how to access the sensors and other capabilities of mobile devices through javascript coding, and build applications that reuse most of their code for deployment to iOS, Android, BlackBerry 6, and other mobile operating systems. Author Ryan Stewart shows how to get started with PhoneGap, including installing and setting up the software development kit (SDK), building a simple application from templates, using the most popular APIs like Geolocation and Storage, integrating jQuery Mobile and other javascript frameworks, and testing and debugging your app.

This training kit is for .NET developers to learn the development features of Dynamics CRM and help them build applications using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and CRM Online. Microsoft Dynamics CRM uses familiar components such as WCF & oData web service endpoints, javascript, Silverlight, .NET 4, Workflow Foundation 4, SQL reporting and more; making it a general purpose framework for line-of-business applications.

UDEMY:Become a Web Developer from Scratch!
With "Become A Web Developer From Scratch", you will learn everything about Web Development, even if you've never programmed before!

Images are a central part of virtually every web site. Learn the various types of images and when each is appropriate. Review some useful jQuery plugins and CSS 3 features related to images. Study the performance impact of images and how to use the most efficiently. Learn how to use images with responsive web design techniques and high pixel density displays.

The Well-Grounded Java Developer offers a fresh and practical look at new Java 7 features, new JVM languages, and the array of supporting technologies you need for the next generation of Java-based software.