Tuesday, 29 November 2016 |
"Infrastructure as Code" has emerged alongside the DevOps movement as a label for approaches that merge concepts like source control systems, Test Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI) with infrastructure management. With a subtitle of Managing Servers in the Cloud, this book by Kief Morris explains how to take advantage of technologies like cloud, virtualization, and configuration automation to manage IT infrastructure using tools and practices from software development.
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Monday, 28 November 2016 |
This guide, co-authored by Eben Upton the designer of the Raspberry Pi, helps you understand the components of this innovative and widely used computer, showing how it works and how to access all of its hardware and software capabilities. It explains what each and every hardware component does, how they relate to one another, and how they correspond to the components of other computing systems.
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Thursday, 24 November 2016 |
This book has a subtitle of Teach an Arduino to Fly, and author David McGriffy aims to help the widest possible audience understand how drones work by providing several DIY drone projects based on the world's most popular robot controller--the Arduino. The book shows Makers how to build better drones and be better drone pilots. As a side benefit it the techniques will have applications in almost any robotics project.
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Wednesday, 23 November 2016 |
Reactive programming promises to help you write code that's more reliable, easier to scale, and better-performing. This practical book is aimed at Java developers, showing first how to view problems in the reactive way, and then build programs that make use of the best features of reactive programming. Authors Tomasz Nurkiewicz and Ben Christensen include examples that use the RxJava library to solve real-world performance issues on Android devices as well as the server.
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Monday, 21 November 2016 |
Manuel Bernhardt argues that the emerging reactive model is ideal for high-performance web applications that need to manage the unpredictably-bursty behavior of the web, along with the potential instability of running on networks not fully controlled.
<ASIN:163343009X>
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Thursday, 17 November 2016 |
Programming an Android app is an attractive proposition, as Android increasingly dominates the global smartphone market, meaning many potential users. In Android Programming: Starting With An App Mike James shows you how common tasks are done in Android, and explains why they are done in a particular way. This book is based on Android Adventures, a series that first appeared on I Programmer now fully revised in book format.
<ASIN:1871962471>
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Tuesday, 15 November 2016 |
Rails 5 and Ruby 2.2 bring many improvements, including new APIs and substantial performance enhancements, and the fifth edition of Sam Ruby's book is now updated with coverage of Action Cable, and completely updated code for Rails 5.
<ASIN:1680501712>
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Monday, 14 November 2016 |
This is volume 1 of the updated third edition of a book that has been popular for more than a decade for systems and network management. In this new edition, authors Thomas Limoncelli, Christina Hogan and Strata Chalup have updated the text to add coverage of new topics such as managing BYOD and implementing new security approaches.
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Thursday, 10 November 2016 |
This is a set of 'recipes' in which Makoto Hashimoto and Nicolas Modrzyk look at the problems you might encounter in the world of Clojure programming, and in each case give you a recipe for how to solve it. The recipes cover a wide variety of practical cases and real world techniques, with the aim of resolving the everyday issues you face with a functional mindset using Clojure.
<ASIN:1785885030>
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Wednesday, 09 November 2016 |
With a subtitle of "Be More Than Just A Code Monkey", Greg Brown argues that writing code is the easy part of a software developer's work. He sets out to explore the other 90% of the job, from requirements discovery and rapid prototyping to business analysis and designing for maintainability.
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Monday, 07 November 2016 |
Coding with Scratch is intuitive, versatile, and suited for visual learners, making it a popular first step for aspiring programmers. In Al Sweigart's book introducing this drag-and-drop language, readers follow step-by-step directions to make familiar games like Fruit Slicer, Asteroids, Snake, and even a game inspired by Super Mario Bros.
<ASIN:1593277628>
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Thursday, 03 November 2016 |
Picking up where his classic Java Performance (co-authored with Binu John) left off, in this book Charlie Hunt (along with Monica Beckwith, Poonam Parhar, and Bengt Rutisson concentrate in detail on two key elements of the Java platform: the Garbage First (G1) garbage collector and the HotSpot VM Serviceability Agent.
<ASIN:0133796825>
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