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Surviving in the Hi-Tech World

by Ernie Dainow ...

"Surviving in the Hi-Tech World" follows the many ups and downs of my years as a software developer in the high-tech industry. It provides a window into what it is like to work in the computer field. I worked for many different organizations, from academia and large companies to medium sized companies and several startups. The stories weave my work experience with explanations of the technology of ... Read more

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"Surviving in the Hi-Tech World" follows the many ups and downs of my years as a software developer in the high-tech industry. It provides a window into what it is like to work in the computer field. I worked for many different organizations, from academia and large companies to medium sized companies and several startups. The stories weave my work experience with explanations of the technology of
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20 Recipes for Programming MVC 3

Faster, Smarter Web Development

by Jamie Munro ...

There's no need to reinvent the wheel every time you run into a problem with ASP.NET's Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework. This concise cookbook provides recipes to help you solve tasks many web developers encounter every day. Each recipe includes the C# code you need, along with a complete working example of how to implement the solution. Learn practical techniques for applying user ... Read more

$13.09 USD

There's no need to reinvent the wheel every time you run into a problem with ASP.NET's Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework. This concise cookbook provides recipes to help you solve tasks many web developers encounter every day. Each recipe includes the C# code you need, along with a complete working example of how to implement the solution. Learn practical techniques for applying user
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Programmers at Work

Interviews with 19 programming visionaries who ignited the PC software revolution

by Susan Lammers ...

"Programmers at Work… does for budding software writers what the Paris Review interviews did for would-be fiction writers. It provides comfort, inspiration, and a sense of community with those who have already succeeded in the field…it is not to be missed.” - Erik Sandberg-Diment, The New York TimesThey had 64 kilobytes. They built the world.At the outset of personal computing, the engineers who ... Read more

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"Programmers at Work… does for budding software writers what the Paris Review interviews did for would-be fiction writers. It provides comfort, inspiration, and a sense of community with those who have already succeeded in the field…it is not to be missed.” - Erik Sandberg-Diment, The New York TimesThey had 64 kilobytes. They built the world.At the outset of personal computing, the engineers who
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Programming Android with Kotlin

Achieving Structured Concurrency with Coroutines

by Pierre-Olivier Laurence, Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez, G. Blake Meike, Mike Dunn ...

Developing applications for the Android mobile operating system can seem daunting, particularly if it requires learning a new programming language: Kotlin, now AndroidÃ¢??s officialdevelopment language. With this practical book, Android developers will learn how to make the transition from Java to Kotlin, including how Kotlin provides a true advantage for gaining control over asynchronous ... Read more

$41.99 USD

Developing applications for the Android mobile operating system can seem daunting, particularly if it requires learning a new programming language: Kotlin, now AndroidÃ¢??s officialdevelopment language. With this practical book, Android developers will learn how to make the transition from Java to Kotlin, including how Kotlin provides a true advantage for gaining control over asynchronous
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Team Topologies

Organisation von Business- und IT-Teams für einen schnellen Arbeitsfluss. Inkl. Interaktionen in verteilten Teams - Workbook. Team-Topologies-Patterns für eine produktivere Zusammenarbeit

by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais ...

Translated by Michael Plöd ...

Mit gut geplanten Teamstrukturen die Softwareentwicklung nachhaltig beschleunigenInternational richtungsweisende Methode, um leistungsfähige Teams zu formenAnwendbares Praxiswissen: Wie Sie funktionierende Teamgrenzen bestimmen und Team-APIs entwerfenKombiband: Enthält neben dem Hauptwerk »Team Topologies« das Workbook zur Interaktion verteilt arbeitender Teams.Effektive Softwareteams sind für ... Read more

$40.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Mit gut geplanten Teamstrukturen die Softwareentwicklung nachhaltig beschleunigenInternational richtungsweisende Methode, um leistungsfähige Teams zu formenAnwendbares Praxiswissen: Wie Sie funktionierende Teamgrenzen bestimmen und Team-APIs entwerfenKombiband: Enthält neben dem Hauptwerk »Team Topologies« das Workbook zur Interaktion verteilt arbeitender Teams.Effektive Softwareteams sind für
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The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide

Challenges Every Scrum Team Faces and How to Overcome Them

by Stefan Wolpers ...

Series series The Professional Scrum Series
Unlock Scrum success for beginners and experts alike with The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide, your key to understanding and elevating Scrum practices.Scrum is simple to understand but difficult to master. As a framework, Scrum is particularly challenging as there is no formal education tailored to these roles and no comprehensive set of practices readily available to those interested in applying it. ... Read more

$34.19 USD

Unlock Scrum success for beginners and experts alike with The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide, your key to understanding and elevating Scrum practices.Scrum is simple to understand but difficult to master. As a framework, Scrum is particularly challenging as there is no formal education tailored to these roles and no comprehensive set of practices readily available to those interested in applying it.
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Passion and Play

A Guide to Designing Sexual Content in Games

by Michelle Clough ...

Hoping to add some steam and sex to your next game? Then this book is for you. This practical guide provides you with the foundational tools needed to write, design, and create healthy sexual content in video games in ways that are narratively compelling, varied, and hot! Challenging the assumptions that sex in games is superfluous, exploitative, or only of interest to straight guys, this book ... Read more

$58.99 USD

Hoping to add some steam and sex to your next game? Then this book is for you. This practical guide provides you with the foundational tools needed to write, design, and create healthy sexual content in video games in ways that are narratively compelling, varied, and hot! Challenging the assumptions that sex in games is superfluous, exploitative, or only of interest to straight guys, this book
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iOS App Development For Dummies

by Jesse Feiler ...

If you’ve got incredible iOS ideas, get this book and bring them to life!iOS 7 represents the most significant update to Apple’s mobile operating system since the first iPhone was released, and even the most seasoned app developers are looking for information on how to take advantage of the latest iOS 7 features in their app designs. That’s where iOS App Development For Dummies comes in! Whether ... Read more

$24.00 USD

If you’ve got incredible iOS ideas, get this book and bring them to life!iOS 7 represents the most significant update to Apple’s mobile operating system since the first iPhone was released, and even the most seasoned app developers are looking for information on how to take advantage of the latest iOS 7 features in their app designs. That’s where iOS App Development For Dummies comes in! Whether
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Building Mobile Apps at Scale

39 Engineering Challenges

by Gergely Orosz ...

While there is a lot of appreciation for backend and distributed systems challenges, there tends to be less empathy for why mobile development is hard when done at scale.This book collects challenges engineers face when building iOS and Android apps at scale, and common ways to tackle these. By scale, we mean having numbers of users in the millions and being built by large engineering teams.For ... Read more

$21.89 USD

While there is a lot of appreciation for backend and distributed systems challenges, there tends to be less empathy for why mobile development is hard when done at scale.This book collects challenges engineers face when building iOS and Android apps at scale, and common ways to tackle these. By scale, we mean having numbers of users in the millions and being built by large engineering teams.For
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Domain-Driven Design with Golang

Use Golang to create simple, maintainable systems to solve complex business problems

by Matthew Boyle ...

Understand the concept of Domain-driven design and build two DDD systems from scratch that can be showcased as part of your portfolioKey FeaturesExplore Domain-driven design as a timeless concept and learn how to apply it with GoBuild a domain-driven monolithic application and a microservice from scratchLeverage patterns to make systems scalable, resilient, and maintainableBook DescriptionDomain ... Read more

$32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Understand the concept of Domain-driven design and build two DDD systems from scratch that can be showcased as part of your portfolioKey FeaturesExplore Domain-driven design as a timeless concept and learn how to apply it with GoBuild a domain-driven monolithic application and a microservice from scratchLeverage patterns to make systems scalable, resilient, and maintainableBook DescriptionDomain
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Git Essentials

Create, merge, and distribute code with Git, the most powerful and flexible versioning system available

by Ferdinando Santacroce ...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionIf you are a software developer with little or no experience of versioning systems, or are familiar with other centralized versioning systems, then this book is for you. If you have some experience working with command lines or using Linux admin or just using Unix and want to know more about Git, then this book is ideal for you.What you will learnCreate, branch, and ... Read more

$21.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionIf you are a software developer with little or no experience of versioning systems, or are familiar with other centralized versioning systems, then this book is for you. If you have some experience working with command lines or using Linux admin or just using Unix and want to know more about Git, then this book is ideal for you.What you will learnCreate, branch, and
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Programming Razor

Tools for Templates in ASP.NET MVC or WebMatrix

by Jess Chadwick ...

Take Razor for a test drive and discover first hand how this scripting syntax simplifies the way you create dynamic, data-driven websites. With this concise guide, you’ll work with Razor syntax by building example websites with Microsoft WebMatrix and ASP.NET MVC. You'll quickly learn how Razor lets you combine code and content in a fluid and expressive manner on Windows-based servers.Programming ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Take Razor for a test drive and discover first hand how this scripting syntax simplifies the way you create dynamic, data-driven websites. With this concise guide, you’ll work with Razor syntax by building example websites with Microsoft WebMatrix and ASP.NET MVC. You'll quickly learn how Razor lets you combine code and content in a fluid and expressive manner on Windows-based servers.Programming
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The Art of Application Performance Testing

From Strategy to Tools

by Ian Molyneaux ...

Because performance is paramount today, this thoroughly updated guide shows you how to test mission-critical applications for scalability and performance before you deploy them—whether it’s to the cloud or a mobile device. You’ll learn the complete testing process lifecycle step-by-step, along with best practices to plan, coordinate, and conduct performance tests on your applications.Set realistic ... Read more

$28.09 USD

Because performance is paramount today, this thoroughly updated guide shows you how to test mission-critical applications for scalability and performance before you deploy them—whether it’s to the cloud or a mobile device. You’ll learn the complete testing process lifecycle step-by-step, along with best practices to plan, coordinate, and conduct performance tests on your applications.Set realistic
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Programming WPF

Building Windows UI with Windows Presentation Foundation

by Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths ...

If you want to build applications that take full advantage of Windows Vista's new user interface capabilities, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This new edition, fully updated for the official release of .NET 3.0, is designed to get you up to speed on this technology quickly. By page 2, you'll be writing a simple WPF application. By the end of Chapter 1, you'll ... Read more

$28.79 USD

If you want to build applications that take full advantage of Windows Vista's new user interface capabilities, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This new edition, fully updated for the official release of .NET 3.0, is designed to get you up to speed on this technology quickly. By page 2, you'll be writing a simple WPF application. By the end of Chapter 1, you'll
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Refactoring at Scale

by Maude Lemaire ...

Making significant changes to large, complex codebases is a daunting task--one that's nearly impossible to do successfully unless you have the right team, tools, and mindset. If your application is in need of a substantial overhaul and you're unsure how to go about implementing those changes in a sustainable way, then this book is for you.Software engineer Maude Lemaire walks you through the ... Read more

$41.09 USD

Making significant changes to large, complex codebases is a daunting task--one that's nearly impossible to do successfully unless you have the right team, tools, and mindset. If your application is in need of a substantial overhaul and you're unsure how to go about implementing those changes in a sustainable way, then this book is for you.Software engineer Maude Lemaire walks you through the
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Effective Unit Testing

A guide for Java developers

by Lasse Koskela ...

SummaryEffective Unit Testing is written to show how to write good tests—tests that are concise and to the point, expressive, useful, and maintainable. Inspired by Roy Osherove's bestselling The Art of Unit Testing, this book focuses on tools and practices specific to the Java world. It introduces you to emerging techniques like behavior-driven development and specification by example, and shows ... Read more

$49.99 USD

SummaryEffective Unit Testing is written to show how to write good tests—tests that are concise and to the point, expressive, useful, and maintainable. Inspired by Roy Osherove's bestselling The Art of Unit Testing, this book focuses on tools and practices specific to the Java world. It introduces you to emerging techniques like behavior-driven development and specification by example, and shows
... Read more
Generative AI Design Patterns

Solutions to Common Challenges When Building GenAI Agents and Applications

by Valliappa Lakshmanan, Hannes Hapke ...

Generative AI enables powerful new capabilities, but they come with some serious limitations that you'll have to tackle to ship a reliable application or agent. Luckily, experts in the field have compiled a library of 32 tried-and-true design patterns to address the challenges you're likely to encounter when building applications using LLMs, such as hallucinations, nondeterministic responses, and ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Generative AI enables powerful new capabilities, but they come with some serious limitations that you'll have to tackle to ship a reliable application or agent. Luckily, experts in the field have compiled a library of 32 tried-and-true design patterns to address the challenges you're likely to encounter when building applications using LLMs, such as hallucinations, nondeterministic responses, and
... Read more
Get SAFe Now : A Lightning Introduction to the Most Popular Scaling Framework on Agile

by Mohammed Musthafa Soukath Ali ...

The Agile Teams have proven to be promising alternatives to traditional software development team structures. However, when the big enterprises tried to apply agile frameworks such as Scrum and Extreme Programming for large efforts where hundreds of cross functional teams were working on a group of dependent products and services, several questions arose. The questions involved many aspects of the ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Agile Teams have proven to be promising alternatives to traditional software development team structures. However, when the big enterprises tried to apply agile frameworks such as Scrum and Extreme Programming for large efforts where hundreds of cross functional teams were working on a group of dependent products and services, several questions arose. The questions involved many aspects of the
... Read more
Gamestorming 2.0

An Updated Playbook for Innovators, Rule Breakers, and Changemakers

by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown ...

In today's environment of partial attention and isolating remote work, few things are more satisfying than group experiences that produce powerful, meaningful connections and output. But this kind of enlivening, collective work doesn't happen by chance. It must be consciously designed and purposefully activated--;in a team, an organization, and a culture. The good news is that making space for ... Read more

$30.99 USD

In today's environment of partial attention and isolating remote work, few things are more satisfying than group experiences that produce powerful, meaningful connections and output. But this kind of enlivening, collective work doesn't happen by chance. It must be consciously designed and purposefully activated--;in a team, an organization, and a culture. The good news is that making space for
... Read more
La catedral de Turing

Los orígenes del universo digital

by George Dyson ...

Translated by Francisco José Ramos Mena ...

La reveladora historia de cómo surgió el universo digital tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial.«Es posible inventar una sola máquina que pueda utilizarse para computar cualquier secuencia computable», anunció en 1936 un joven Alan Turing de veinticuatro años.En los años 40 y 50 un reducido grupo de hombres y mujeres, liderado por John von Neumann, se reunió en Princeton, New Jersey, para comenzar la ... Read more

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La reveladora historia de cómo surgió el universo digital tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial.«Es posible inventar una sola máquina que pueda utilizarse para computar cualquier secuencia computable», anunció en 1936 un joven Alan Turing de veinticuatro años.En los años 40 y 50 un reducido grupo de hombres y mujeres, liderado por John von Neumann, se reunió en Princeton, New Jersey, para comenzar la
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Java I/O

Tips and Techniques for Putting I/O to Work

by Elliotte Rusty Harold ...

All of Java's Input/Output (I/O) facilities are based on streams, which provide simple ways to read and write data of different types. Java provides many different kinds of streams, each with its own application. The universe of streams is divided into four largecategories: input streams and output streams, for reading and writing binary data; and readers and writers, for reading and writing ... Read more

$34.59 USD

All of Java's Input/Output (I/O) facilities are based on streams, which provide simple ways to read and write data of different types. Java provides many different kinds of streams, each with its own application. The universe of streams is divided into four largecategories: input streams and output streams, for reading and writing binary data; and readers and writers, for reading and writing
... Read more
Practical Binary Analysis

Build Your Own Linux Tools for Binary Instrumentation, Analysis, and Disassembly

by Dennis Andriesse ...

Stop manually analyzing binary! Practical Binary Analysis is the first book of its kind to present advanced binary analysis topics, such as binary instrumentation, dynamic taint analysis, and symbolic execution, in an accessible way.As malware increasingly obfuscates itself and applies anti-analysis techniques to thwart our analysis, we need more sophisticated methods that allow us to raise that ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Stop manually analyzing binary! Practical Binary Analysis is the first book of its kind to present advanced binary analysis topics, such as binary instrumentation, dynamic taint analysis, and symbolic execution, in an accessible way.As malware increasingly obfuscates itself and applies anti-analysis techniques to thwart our analysis, we need more sophisticated methods that allow us to raise that
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Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL

by Benedict Gaster, Lee Howes, Perhaad Mistry, Dana Schaa, David R. Kaeli ...

Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL teaches OpenCL and parallel programming for complex systems that may include a variety of device architectures: multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and fully-integrated Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) such as AMD Fusion technology. Designed to work on multiple platforms and with wide industry support, OpenCL will help you more effectively program for a heterogeneous ... Read more

$62.99 USD

Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL teaches OpenCL and parallel programming for complex systems that may include a variety of device architectures: multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and fully-integrated Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) such as AMD Fusion technology. Designed to work on multiple platforms and with wide industry support, OpenCL will help you more effectively program for a heterogeneous
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Fixing Your Scrum

Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems

by Ryan Ripley, Todd Miller ...

A Scrum Master's work is never done. The Development team needs your support, the Product Owner is often lost in the complexities of agile product management, and your managers and stakeholders need to know what will be done, by when, and for how much. Learn how experienced Scrum Masters balance the demands of these three levels of servant leadership while removing organizational impediments and ... Read more

$28.79 USD

A Scrum Master's work is never done. The Development team needs your support, the Product Owner is often lost in the complexities of agile product management, and your managers and stakeholders need to know what will be done, by when, and for how much. Learn how experienced Scrum Masters balance the demands of these three levels of servant leadership while removing organizational impediments and
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