Book Watch Archive


The Afterlife of Data (University of Chicago Press)
Friday, 31 May 2024

Sooner than we think, the dead will outnumber the living on Facebook. In this thought-provoking book, subtitled "What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care", Carl Öhman explores the increasingly urgent question of what we should do with all this data and whether our digital afterlives are really our own—and if not, who should have the right to decide what happens to our data.

<ASIN:0226828220 >

 
Web Development with Blazor, 3rd Ed (Packt)
Wednesday, 29 May 2024

This is a guide to building and deploying interactive web applications in C# without relying on JavaScript. Updated for .NET 8, Jimmy Engström takes you through the end-to-end development of an example app, with coverage of Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly. This edition introduces flexible hosting models, allowing you to mix and match hosting approaches to create flexible and scalable Blazor applications. It also presents the new Blazor templates, which provide ready-made solutions to simplify and expedite development.

<ASIN: 1835465919>

 
Kotlin in Action, 2nd Ed (Manning)
Monday, 27 May 2024

This guide to the Kotlin language is aimed at readers familiar with Java or another OO language. Sebastian Aigner et al are all core Kotlin language developers and Kotlin team members, and share their insights, along with practical techniques and hands-on examples. This new second edition is fully updated to include the latest innovations, and it adds new chapters dedicated to coroutines, flows, and concurrency.

<ASIN:161729960X >

 
Rethinking Cyber Warfare (Oxford University Press)
Friday, 24 May 2024

Spanning disciplines, David Edelman provides a fresh understanding of the role that digital disruption plays in contemporary international security. Focusing on the critical phenomenon of major cyberattacks against wired societies, the book reconsiders central tenets that shaped global powers' policies and explains what forces in the international system might durably restrain their use. It explores how deterrence, international law, and normative taboos operate today to shape whether and how states think about causing this kind of disruption.

<ASIN:0197509681>

 
Django 5 By Example, 5th Ed (Packt)
Wednesday, 22 May 2024

In this book, Antonio Mele walks the reader through planning and creation of Python web applications, solving common problems, and implementing best practices using a step-by-step approach. The book covers a wide range of web application development topics through four different projects: a blog application, a social website, an e-commerce application, and an e-learning platform. This edition is updated with Django 5 features, detailed app planning, improved tooling, and GPT prompts for extending projects

<ASIN:1805125451>

 
SQL All-in-One, 4th Ed (For Dummies)
Monday, 20 May 2024

Now updated for SQL:2023, this 800-page tome that is a compilation of seven shorter books, begins by getting started with the SQL programming language, and takes the reader through to advanced applications. Allen G. Taylor covers creating databases, accessing and editing data, protecting data from corruption, and integrating SQL with other languages in a programming environment.

<ASIN:1394242298>

 
Your AI Survival Guide (Wiley)
Friday, 17 May 2024

In this book, subtitled "Scraped Knees, Bruised Elbows, and Lessons Learned", Sol Rashidi delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to deploy artificial intelligence in your company. Having helped IBM launch Watson in 2011, Sol has first-hand knowledge of the ups, downs, and change management intricacies that can help you with a successful deployment beyond all the AI hype.

<ASIN:1394272634 >

 
Programming Large Language Models with Azure Open AI (Microsoft Press)
Wednesday, 15 May 2024

In this book Francesco Esposito illustrates several scenarios for which a LLM is effective: crafting sophisticated business solutions, shortening the gap between humans and software-equipped machines, and building powerful reasoning engines. The book looks at prompting and conversational programming with specific techniques for patterns and frameworks. Concrete end-to-end demonstrations, featuring Python and ASP.NET Core, showcase versatile patterns of interaction between existing processes, APIs, data, and human input.

<ASIN: 0138280371>

 
Elixir In Action, 3rd Ed (Manning)
Monday, 13 May 2024

Fully updated to Elixir 1.15, in this third edition Saša Juric reveals how Elixir tackles problems of scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability. This edition contains new coverage of working with application configuration and the latest OTP releases. It teaches the underlying principles and functional concepts of Elixir, and how each piece fits into the bigger picture of building production-ready systems with Elixir, Erlang, and the OTP framework.

<ASIN:1633438511 >

 
The Ordinal Society (Harvard University Press)
Friday, 10 May 2024

This book sets out the case that we now live in an “ordinal society.” Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy argue that technologies of information management, fueled by the abundance of personal data and the infrastructure of the internet, transform how we relate to ourselves and to each other through the market, the public sphere, and the state.

<ASIN:0674971140 >

 
Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++, 3rd Ed (Addison-Wesley Professional)
Wednesday, 08 May 2024

In this book Bjarne Stroustrup, the designer and original implementer of C++, lays out the fundamental principles of programming and the practical skills needed for programming in the real world. This book is written to help you to understand what it means for code to be beautiful, to help you to master the principles of creating such code, and to build up the practical skills to create it.

<ASIN:0138308683 >

 
Agile Retrospectives, 2nd Ed (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Monday, 06 May 2024

Subtitled "A Practical Guide for Catalyzing Team Learning and Improvement", this book sets out to improve the results gained from holding team retrospectives. Esther Derby, Diana Larsen and David Horowitz provide practical advice, techniques, and real-life examples to improve retrospectives whether your team is co-located, hybrid, or remote.

<ASIN:B0CSJG5SXY>

 
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