Even if you’ve never created a pivot table before, this book will help you leverage all their amazing flexibility and analytical power. In early chapters, learn how to generate complex pivot reports complete with drill-down capabilities and accompanying charts. Then discover how to build a comprehensive, dynamic pivot table reporting system for any business task or function.

Subtitled "Automate Anything with BDD Tools and Techniques" has over forty practical recipes for testing desktop, web, mobile, and server applications across a variety of platforms,  giving you tools that you can use to automate any system that you encounter.

Analyzes project management methodology, explaining why it creates problems for software development projects by describing 12 ways in which software projects are different from other kinds of projects. Also analyzes the project management to discover 10 hidden assumptions that are invalid in the context of software projects.

For programmers at all levels of C# experience provides comprehensive coverage of the entire language, showing how to write C# code that is simple, powerful, robust, secure, and maintainable. Updated to reflect new features and programming patterns introduced with C# 5.0 and .NET  The previous edition was Ian Elliot's choice of Best Book for 2010.

Hands-on guide to Spring-based messaging and integration. After addressing the core messaging patterns, such as those used in transformation and routing, the book turns to the adapters that enable integration with external systems, presenting real-world enterprise integration scenarios.

Demand for operations-specific material has skyrocketed now that Hadoop is becoming the de facto standard for truly large-scale data processing in the data center. Covers  the particulars of running Hadoop in production, from planning, installing, and configuring the system to providing ongoing maintenance.

Be prepared for your next job interview with tried–and–true advice. Competition for programming jobs is hotter than ever. This third edition o includes new code examples, information on the latest languages, new chapters on sorting and design patterns, tips on using LinkedIn, and a downloadable app to help prepare applicants for the interview.

With this "Complete Starter Kit" you'll learn core techniques like flow control and error handling, construct complete solutions with Visual Studio, use advanced features like attributes and dynamic types, and even build engaging, immersive Windows Store apps. 

This classic guide to Windows architecture is fully updated for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2-and now presents its coverage in two volumes. In Part 2 examine core subsystems for I/O, storage, memory management, cache manager, and file systems with knowledge you can apply to improve application design, debugging, system performance, and support.

Anybody can start building simple apps for the Android platform, and this book will show you how!  Recently updated to include Android Jelly Bean, this second edition takes you through the process of getting your first Android apps up and running using practical examples.

A guide for anyone new to computer programming, including children and students, through setting up and programming their new Raspberry Pi. How to use Scratch to animate sprites and Python to create games and Tkinter for windowed  apps.

A practical, example-driven guide to working with text in real applications covering useful techniques like full-text search, proper name recognition, clustering, tagging, information extraction, and summarization. Examples are in Java, but the concepts can be applied in any language.