It's Labor Day weekend in the US, our annual excuse to light the barbecue, pour a cold drink, and complain about how hard we work. At Manning, we recognize the unique challenges you face as software developers, and we do everything we can to create books that make your labors a little less laborious. In the spirit of the holiday, we want to make it easy to add a few new books to your collection. Save up to 50% on any purchase through midnight ET Monday, September 2, including these new MEAPs.

Our newest MEAPs

The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Second Edition » Thoroughly updated to cover Ruby 2.0! Author David Black offers a from-the-ground-up tutorial that emphasizes language fundamentals. You'll learn best practices and idiomatic Ruby coding by working through numerous small examples. Written for readers with beginner-level skills in another programming language, this book assumes no prior knowledge of Ruby. [read more]

MongoDB in Action, Second Edition » This new edition introduces MongoDB and the document-oriented database model. It provides the big picture you'll need as a developer along with enough low-level detail to satisfy a system engineer. Numerous examples will help you develop confidence in the crucial area of data modeling. This book is especially useful for developers of internet applications and technology teams adopting MongoDB. [read more]

Elasticsearch in Action » Busy administrators and developers love the Elasticsearch real-time search and analytics engine because they can install it, make a few tweaks, and go on with their work. This hands-on guide teaches you to build scalable search applications. It focuses on Elasticsearch's REST API via HTTP. Code is mostly in bash using curl, which makes it easily translatable to other languages. [read more]

The Programmer's Guide to Apache Thrift » Apache Thrift is a communication framework that enables cross-language remote procedure calls and serialization. This book gives you a developer's-eye view of Thrift, including its support for embedded, mobile, web, and server environments. Packed with complete code examples and pragmatic discussion, this book lays out the best practices for multi-language distributed development. [read more]

iOS in Action » There's never been a better time to learn how to create amazing native iOS apps. In this entirely new book, you'll dive into key topics by exploring real-world code examples you can expand and reuse. Learn about collection views, storyboarding, Twitter integration, Passbook, Airplay, and more. This Early Access manuscript covers iOS 6. All examples will be updated to cover iOS 7 before it releases. [read more]

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