Now in its sixth edition this definitive guide describes the features and capabilities of PL/SQL up through Oracle Database 12c Release 1. With extensive code examples and a lively sense of humor, this book explains language fundamentals, explores advanced coding techniques, and offers best practices to help you solve real-world problems.

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Brian Carter has updated his step-by-step Facebook sales and marketing plan that helps companies realize online sales and profits to reflect new Facebook features and tools, share all-new examples and experiences, and deliver actionable new insights about Facebook’s users. Carter focuses on techniques proven to pay off and steers you away from expensive techniques that no longer work.

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Subtitled "75 Recommendations for Reliable and Secure Programs" this guide provides expert security advice for protecting against both deliberate attacks and other unexpected events. For each guideline conformance requirements are specified; for most, noncompliant code examples and compliant solutions are also offered.

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Scratch is a language traditionally reserved for teaching kids how to code using visual blocks instead of typed commands. However, this surprisingly powerful programming language can make computer science approachable for anyone. Majed Marji highlights the unexpected power of this simple but fun language as readers learn how to code without getting in over their heads.

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Hands-on project book in which Samarth Brahmbhatt shows you how to get the best results from OpenCV, the open-source computer vision library. Computer vision is key to technologies like object recognition, shape detection, and depth estimation. OpenCV is an open-source library with over 2500 algorithms that you can use to do all of these, as well as track moving objects, extract 3D models, and overlay augmented reality.

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SonarQube is a powerful open source tool for continuous inspection, a process that makes code quality analysis and reporting an integral part of the development lifecycle. The book presents its Seven Axes of Quality: design/architecture, duplications, comments, unit tests, complexity, potential bugs, and coding rules.

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Covering Drupal versions 7 and 8, this comprehensive guide provides best practices, examples, and in-depth explanations for solving several performance and scalability issues. Learn how to apply coding and infrastructure techniques to Drupal internals, application performance, databases, web servers, and performance analysis.

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Rails has evolved over the years, and this book has evolved along with it. Rails 4 introduces a number of user-facing changes, and this edition has been updated to match all the latest changes and new best practices in Rails. This includes full support for Ruby 2.0, controller concerns, Russian Doll caching, strong parameters, Turbolinks, new test and bin directory layouts..

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Revised and updated by  Matthew Helmke, this 9th edition reflects changes in Ubuntu 13.10 and 14.04. He covers all you need to know about Ubuntu installation, configuration, productivity, multimedia, development, system administration, server operations, networking, virtualization, security, DevOps, and presents intermediate-to-advanced techniques.

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Based on Big Nerd Ranch's Objective-C Bootcamp, this guide by Aaron Hillegass and Mikey Ward covers C, Objective-C, and the common programming idioms that enable developers to make the most of Apple technologies. Compatible with Xcode 5, iOS 7, and OS X Mavericks (10.9), it features short chapters and an engaging style to keep you motivated and moving forward.

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