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Modern PHP
New Features and Good Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
PHP is experiencing a renaissance, though it may be difficult to tell with all of the outdated PHP tutorials online. With this practical guide, you’ll learn how PHP has become a full-featured, mature language with object-orientation, namespaces, and a growing collection of reusable component libraries.
Author...
Excel Hacks
100 Industrial Strength Tips and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2004
If you think that getting creative with Excel means the underhanded tweaking of numbers, think again. Excel Hacks shows even the most experienced users how to do things with Excel they might never have thought of doing--and lets them have a little fun while they're at it.Microsoft Excel is not just...
Essential ActionScript 3.0
ActionScript 3.0 Programming Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2007
ActionScript 3.0 is a huge upgrade to Flash's programming language. The enhancements to ActionScript's performance, feature set, ease of use, cleanliness, and sophistication are considerable. Essential ActionScript 3.0 focuses on the core language and object-oriented programming, along with the Flash...
by Rich Tretola
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2011
Ready to put your ActionScript 3 skills to work on mobile apps? This hands-on book walks you through the process of creating an Adobe AIR application for Blackberry Tablets from start to finish, using the Flex 4.5 framework. Move quickly from a basic Hello World application to complex interactions...
Functional JavaScript
Introducing Functional Programming with Underscore.js
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
How can you overcome JavaScript language oddities and unsafe features? With this book, you’ll learn how to create code that’s beautiful, safe, and simple to understand and test by using JavaScript’s functional programming support. Author Michael Fogus shows you how to apply functional-style...
Programming Scala
Scalability = Functional Programming + Objects
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Get up to speed on Scala, the JVM language that offers all the benefits of a modern object model, functional programming, and an advanced type system. Packed with code examples, this comprehensive book shows you how to be productive with the language and ecosystem right away, and explains why Scala...
Programming Hive
Data Warehouse and Query Language for Hadoop
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Need to move a relational database application to Hadoop? This comprehensive guide introduces you to Apache Hive, Hadoop’s data warehouse infrastructure. You’ll quickly learn how to use Hive’s SQL dialect—HiveQL—to summarize, query, and analyze large datasets stored in Hadoop’s distributed...
Thinking with Data
How to Turn Information into Insights
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Many analysts are too concerned with tools and techniques for cleansing, modeling, and visualizing datasets and not concerned enough with asking the right questions. In this practical guide, data strategy consultant Max Shron shows you how to put the why before the how, through an often-overlooked...
GDB Pocket Reference
Debugging Quickly & Painlessly with GDB
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2005
Many Linux and Unix developers are familiar with the GNU debugger (GBD), the invaluable open source tool for testing, fixing, and retesting software. And since GDB can be ported to Windows, Microsoft developers and others who use this platform can also take advantage of this amazing free software...
Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
A Brain Friendly Guide to OOA&D
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2006
"Head First Object Oriented Analysis and Design is a refreshing look at subject of OOAD. What sets this book apart is its focus on learning. The authors have made the content of OOAD accessible, usable for the practitioner."
Ivar Jacobson, Ivar Jacobson Consulting
"I just...
Head First Data Analysis
A learner's guide to big numbers, statistics, and good decisions
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
Today, interpreting data is a critical decision-making factor for businesses and organizations. If your job requires you to manage and analyze all kinds of data, turn to Head First Data Analysis, where you'll quickly learn how to collect and organize data, sort the distractions from the truth, find...
Introduction to Machine Learning with Python
A Guide for Data Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Machine learning has become an integral part of many commercial applications and research projects, but this field is not exclusive to large companies with extensive research teams. If you use Python, even as a beginner, this book will teach you practical ways to build your own machine learning solutions....
Packet Guide to Routing and Switching
Exploring the Network Layer
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Go beyond layer 2 broadcast domains with this in-depth tour of advanced link and internetwork layer protocols, and learn how they enable you to expand to larger topologies. An ideal follow-up to Packet Guide to Core Network Protocols, this concise guide dissects several of these protocols to explain...
by Nicholas C. Zakas
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Many features inspired by popular JavaScript libraries are now available as native JavaScript APIs in today’s powerful browsers. While that may seem convenient given all of the JavaScript you need to write, relying on these APIs will only make code maintenance more difficult in the long run.In...