O Reilly: 1860 books
by Scott Berkun
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
How do we know if a hot new technology will succeed or fail? Most of us, even experts, get it wrong all the time. We depend more than we realize on wishful thinking and romanticized ideas of history. In the new paperback edition of this fascinating book, a book that has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, Slashdot.org,...
CSS Cookbook
Quick Solutions to Common CSS Problems
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Learn how to solve the real problems you face with CSS. This cookbook offers hundreds of practical examples for using CSS to format your web pages, and includes code samples you can use right away. You'll find exactly what you need, from the basics to complex hacks and workarounds.
Each recipe...
Bioinformatics Programming Using Python
Practical Programming for Biological Data
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Powerful, flexible, and easy to use, Python is an ideal language for building software tools and applications for life science research and development. This unique book shows you how to program with Python, using code examples taken directly from bioinformatics. In a short time, you'll be using sophisticated...
Programming Amazon Web Services
S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Building on the success of its storefront and fulfillment services, Amazon now allows businesses to "rent" computing power, data storage and bandwidth on its vast network platform. This book demonstrates how developers working with small- to mid-sized companies can take advantage of Amazon...
Think Stats
Exploratory Data Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
If you know how to program, you have the skills to turn data into knowledge, using tools of probability and statistics. This concise introduction shows you how to perform statistical analysis computationally, rather than mathematically, with programs written in Python.
By working with a single...
Even Faster Web Sites
Performance Best Practices for Web Developers
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today's web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable...
Complete Web Monitoring
Watching your visitors, performance, communities, and competitors
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Do you really understand your online presence? Are you confident that visitors can use your website? Do you know their motivations? How do online communities perceive your company? To innovate and adapt your business quickly, you must know the answers to these questions.
Complete Web Monitoring...
Wikipedia Reader's Guide: The Missing Manual
The Missing Manual
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
You don't have to understand how to edit Wikipedia in order to find the information you need and join the conversation. This booklet gives you just what you need to know in friendly, concise form so you can research any subject without getting lost in Wikipedia's labyrinth. With it, you'll be able...
Programming Elastic MapReduce
Using AWS Services to Build an End-to-End Application
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Although you don’t need a large computing infrastructure to process massive amounts of data with Apache Hadoop, it can still be difficult to get started. This practical guide shows you how to quickly launch data analysis projects in the cloud by using Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), the hosted Hadoop...
XMPP: The Definitive Guide
Building Real-Time Applications with Jabber Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
This practical book provides everything you need to know about the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). This open technology for real-time communication is used in many diverse applications such as instant messaging, Voice over IP, real-time collaboration, social networking, microblogging,...
Articulating Design Decisions
Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Talking to people about your designs might seem like a basic skill, but it can be difficult to do efficiently and well. And, in many cases, how you communicate about your work with stakeholders, clients, and other non-designers is more critical than the designs themselves—simply because the most...
Excel 2003: The Missing Manual
The Missing Manual
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2004
Whether you are an Excel neophyte, a sophisticate who knows the program inside out, or an intermediate-level plodder eager to hone your skills, Excel: The Missing Manual is sure to become your go-to resource for all things Excel. Covering all the features of Excel 2002 and 2003, the most recent versions...
AI for Game Developers
Creating Intelligent Behavior in Games
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2004
Advances in 3D visualization and physics-based simulation technology make it possible for game developers to create compelling, visually immersive gaming environments that were only dreamed of years ago. But today's game players have grown in sophistication along with the games they play. It's no...
Site Reliability Engineering
How Google Runs Production Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The overwhelming majority of a software system’s lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems?
In this collection of essays and articles,...