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Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann & Chris Riccomini Cover Art

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Designing Data-Intensive Applications The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann & Chris Riccomini

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there's an overwhelming variety of systems, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, data warehouses, and data lakes. There are cloud services, on-premises services, and embedded databases. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords? In this second edition, authors Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini build on the foundation laid in the acclaimed first edition, integrating new technologies and emerging trends. You'll be guided through the maze of decisions and trade-offs involved in building a modern data system, learn how to choose the right tools for your needs, and understand the fundamentals of distributed systems. Peer under the hood of the systems you already use, and learn to use them more effectively Make informed decisions by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of different tools Learn how major cloud services are designed for scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency Understand the core principles upon which modern databases are built

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Take Control of Notes, Second Edition - Glenn Fleishman Cover Art

Take Control of Notes, Second Edition

Take Control of Notes, Second Edition by Glenn Fleishman

Unlock the potential of Apple’s Notes app! Version 2.1, updated September 29, 2025 This book tells you everything you need to know about Apple's Notes app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and the web, from basic features like formatting text and creating lists to advanced features like scanning documents, protecting notes with passwords, making sketches, and managing attachments. Apple’s Notes has come a long way since it was first introduced with the iPhone as a simple note-taking app, but many users are still unaware of its expanded capabilities. Now available on iPhones, iPads, and Macs, and on the web at iCloud.com, Notes has become a surprisingly powerful tool for writing, sketching, organizing, and sharing information of all kinds. Take Control of Notes offers a thorough grounding in this deceptively simple app, showing you how to master its many tools—and avoid or work around its limitations. This version is updated for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26, but also includes working with previous iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15 Sequoia. Learn the basics of Notes • Use the Quick Note feature to start a note from anywhere, or start a note from your iPhone/iPad Lock Screen • Apply and modify character-level and paragraph-level formatting in a note • Move text around with keystrokes • Add highlighting to emphasize portions of a note • Share notes with other users, and add @-mentions Get advanced insight into formatting and creating rich entries: • Make lists (including checklists and lists with multiple levels of indentation) • Create collapsible sections within a note • Work with tables • Add photos, videos, audio, maps, and other documents to your notes • Scan printed documents into Notes and save them as PDF attachments • Draw and sketch using your finger or an Apple Pencil • Perform simple or complex math in Notes simply by typing • Clean up handwritten text to look more legible (iPad only) • Use Apple Intelligence to turn a sketch or description into a complete image Understand organizational and system features, like how to: • Organize your notes into folders, tag notes, and search their contents • Use the system password/passcode or a separate password to lock your notes, keeping them encrypted and private • Choose where to store notes (iCloud, IMAP, or a device) and whether or how they sync • Import notes from other apps and services • Create internal references to link notes together • Record audio and transcribe a phone call from the Phone app

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FileMaker Pro 14: The Missing Manual - Susan Prosser & Stuart Gripman Cover Art

FileMaker Pro 14: The Missing Manual

FileMaker Pro 14: The Missing Manual by Susan Prosser & Stuart Gripman

You don’t need a technical background to build powerful databases with FileMaker Pro 14. This crystal-clear, objective guide shows you how to create a database that lets you do almost anything with your data so you can quickly achieve your goals. Whether you’re creating catalogs, managing inventory and billing, or planning a wedding, you’ll learn how to customize your database to run on a PC, Mac, web browser, or iOS device. The important stuff you need to know: Dive into relational data. Solve problems quickly by connecting and combining data from different tables. Create professional documents. Publish reports, charts, invoices, catalogs, and other documents with ease. Access data anywhere. Use FileMaker Go on your iPad or iPhone—or share data on the Web. Harness processing power. Use new calculation and scripting tools to crunch numbers, search text, and automate tasks. Run your database on a secure server. Learn the high-level features of FileMaker Pro Advanced. Keep your data safe. Set privileges and allow data sharing with FileMaker’s streamlined security features.

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How to excel in Apple Numbers - Michal Čihař Cover Art

How to excel in Apple Numbers

How to excel in Apple Numbers by Michal Čihař

More than 300 pages, well over 75 thousand words, almost half a million characters… The book How to excel in Apple Numbers is an ultimate guide and manual that covers all areas currently available in Apple Numbers. Written by Apple Certified Pro , it lists basically all functions and features that are available in Numbers for Mac. It details the description of the application, its internal workings but, most importantly, using concrete procedures and examples , it shows how to achieve the desired results. Together with the description of the features, functions, user interface, etc., the book also offers many tips on how to simplify work and highlights facts that might not be apparent to most users. Further on, where applicable, it points out the differences between Numbers and Excel . In the book, the following topics are covered (list absolutely not exhaustive): • User interface • Tables • Data formats • Formatting cells and objects • Conditional formatting • Filters and sorting • Categories • Pivot tables • Functions & formulas • Smart functions • Charts and their formatting • Shapes, images, and other objects • Arranging and working with objects • Sheets and documents • Speech • Templates • Document sharing and collaboration • and many more…

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Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book 2026 Release - Brian Wood Cover Art

Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book 2026 Release

Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book 2026 Release by Brian Wood

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book 2026 Release contains 17 lessons that use real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Unleash your creativity with 17 hands-on projects—from bold logos and sleek illustrations to stunning posters and expressive digital art Dive in with quick, step-by-step lessons that build real Illustrator skills fast Master selections, shapes, colors, and edits—then push your style further with Generative AI, gradients, layers, artistic brushes, effects, sharing, and much more Every project helps you create something eye-catching, original, and portfolio-ready Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does – an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book’s “Getting Started” section to unlock access to: Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step What you need to use this book: Adobe Illustrator 2026 Release software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)

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Vibe Coding - Gene Kim, Steve Yegge & Dario Amodei Cover Art

Vibe Coding

Vibe Coding Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond by Gene Kim, Steve Yegge & Dario Amodei

GenAI is fundamentally changing the world of software development like nothing since the internet. Vibe Coding is a first-of-its-kind, groundbreaking book that shows developers how to embrace this new frontier. Science fiction is now reality. Programmers no longer need to toil over code and syntax. They can now describe what they want and watch it materialize instantly. Welcome to the future—Vibe Coding. In this groundbreaking book, industry veterans Steve Yegge (Google, Amazon, Sourcegraph) and WSJ bestselling author Gene Kim ( The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook ) reveal how vibe coding is transforming software development as we know it. By leveraging the power of AI assistance—where intent and flow matter more than syntax—developers can achieve unprecedented levels of productivity, creativity, and joy. Drawing from decades of combined experience in software engineering and developer productivity, Yegge and Kim demonstrate how Vibe Coding enables developers to: • Transform complex programming challenges into fluid conversations with GenAI. • Build more ambitious projects faster while maintaining code quality you can be proud of. • Achieve incredible things yourself that otherwise would require a team. • Master the art of co-creating with your AI companion. • Break free from traditional programming constraints such as syntax and setup. • Build confidently in multiple programming languages and frameworks you've never used before. But this isn't just about coding faster—it's about fundamentally changing how we approach software development. The authors share practical strategies for implementing GenAI-powered development in real-world scenarios, from small projects to enterprise-scale applications, while maintaining the engineering excellence that modern systems demand. Whether you're a seasoned developer looking to stay ahead of the AI revolution, a technical leader guiding your team through this transformation, a former coder returning after a break, or someone just starting their career, this handbook provides the roadmap you need to thrive in the new era of software development. Don't get left behind in the biggest transformation our industry has seen since the internet revolution. Learn how to harness the power of vibe coding and unlock your full potential as a developer.

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Claude Code for Beginners: A Step by Step Guide to Coding With Claude AI - Taylor Brooks Cover Art

Claude Code for Beginners: A Step by Step Guide to Coding With Claude AI

Claude Code for Beginners: A Step by Step Guide to Coding With Claude AI by Taylor Brooks

Claude Code for Beginners is a calm, practical guide for people who want to work with code using Claude AI but feel unsure how to start or how to make sense of what the tool gives back. It is written for beginners, non-programmers, and early-stage builders who feel blocked by unfamiliar syntax, unclear errors, or the feeling that coding tools are designed for people with more experience. Many people try using Claude AI for coding and quickly feel confused or frustrated. They paste in a problem, receive a block of code, and are not sure what it does, whether it is correct, or how to safely use it. This book focuses on that everyday experience and explains why it happens. It helps readers understand how Claude responds to prompts, why vague instructions lead to inconsistent results, and how small changes in how you ask questions can dramatically improve clarity. Rather than teaching programming theory, the book focuses on practical interaction. It shows how to use Claude AI for coding step by step, starting with simple tasks and gradually building confidence. Readers learn how to generate basic code, ask Claude to explain code in plain language, fix common errors, and break larger tasks into smaller, manageable pieces. The emphasis is on understanding what is happening, not memorizing rules or copying solutions blindly. Throughout the book, real-world examples demonstrate how beginners actually use Claude Code in everyday situations. Simple frameworks help readers decide what to ask, how to review the output, and how to test changes without feeling overwhelmed. Reflective prompts encourage readers to notice patterns in their own usage, such as overloading a single prompt or skipping the review step, which often leads to confusion. The book also addresses common mental blocks around coding, including fear of breaking something, uncertainty about trusting AI-generated code, and the pressure to "do it right" on the first attempt. By slowing the process down and focusing on clarity, readers learn how to use Claude AI as a supportive coding assistant rather than a source of stress. Inside, you will explore topics such as : • How Claude AI generates and explains code • Beginner-friendly ways to prompt Claude Code • How to understand code without prior experience • Step-by-step approaches to fixing and improving code • Using Claude AI for everyday coding tasks and small projects This guide avoids technical jargon, medical or diagnostic language, and unrealistic promises. It is designed to support understanding and skill-building at a comfortable pace. By the end, readers should feel more oriented, more confident, and better equipped to use Claude AI for coding in a way that feels manageable and practical.

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The Staff Engineer's Path - Tanya Reilly Cover Art

The Staff Engineer's Path

The Staff Engineer's Path by Tanya Reilly

For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well--or the engineer. The staff engineer's path allows engineers to contribute at a high level as role models, driving big projects, determining technical strategy, and raising everyone's skills. This in-depth book shows you how to understand your role, manage your time, master strategic thinking, and set the standard for technical work. You'll read about how to be a leader without direct authority, how to plan ahead to make the right technical decisions, and how to make everyone around you better, while still growing as an expert in your domain. By exploring the three pillars of a staff engineer's job, Tanya Reilly, a veteran of the staff engineer track, shows you how to: Take a broad, strategic view when thinking about your workDive into practical tactics for making projects succeedDetermine what "good engineering" means in your organization

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Microsoft Power Platform For Dummies - Jack A. Hyman Cover Art

Microsoft Power Platform For Dummies

Microsoft Power Platform For Dummies by Jack A. Hyman

Build business intelligence with insight from a professional Microsoft Power Platform For Dummies covers the essentials you need to know to get started with Microsoft Power Platform, the suite of business intelligence applications designed to make your enterprise work smarter and more efficiently. You'll get a handle on managing and reporting data with Power BI, building no-code apps with Power Apps, creating simple web properties with Power Pages, and simplifying your day-to-day work with Power Automate. Written by a business consultant who's helped some of the world's largest organizations adopt, manage, and get work done with Power Platform, this book gets you through your work without working too hard to figure things out. Discover the tools that come with Power Platform and how they can help you build business intelligence Manage data, create apps, automate routine tasks, create web pages, and beyond Learn the current best practices for launching Power Platform in an organization Get step-by-step instructions for navigating the interface and setting up your tools This is a great quick-start guide for anyone who wants to leverage Power Platform's BI tools.

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APPLE INTELLIGENCE - Brain carson Cover Art

APPLE INTELLIGENCE

APPLE INTELLIGENCE Clear Text Walkthroughs and Smart Tips to Make Apple Intelligence Effortless for Everyone by Brain carson

Unlock the full potential of your Apple devices with “Apple Intelligence “ This beginner-friendly guide makes iPhone, iPad, and Apple Pencil easy to understand, offering step-by-step instructions, smart tips, and practical advice for everyday use. Learn how to boost productivity, manage tasks, stay organized, and enjoy entertainment with personalized Apple Intelligence features. Explore hidden tools, automation, and creative functions that simplify your daily life. Whether you’re new to technology, a senior, or a seasoned user, this book helps you navigate your devices confidently. Maximize efficiency, protect your privacy, and discover tips that save time and enhance your experience. Transform the way you work, learn, and play with Apple’s smartest features at your fingertips. This edition is designed with a fixed layout for consistent page structure across all devices. Whether you’re reading on a tablet, desktop, or large-screen laptop, every page appears exactly as intended—perfect for users who prefer a traditional manual-style experience with stable formatting and predictable navigation. 📌 Prefer flexible reading? Try the Mobile Edition.

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Diseño gráfico de productos editoriales multimedia - Daniel Santo Orcero Cover Art

Diseño gráfico de productos editoriales multimedia

Diseño gráfico de productos editoriales multimedia ARGN0110 by Daniel Santo Orcero

- Desarrollar los bocetos del diseño gráfico para un producto editorial multimedia a partir de su documento de especificaciones. - Determinar los principios de diseño gráfico aplicables a los productos editoriales multimedia considerando las características específicas de cada uno de ellos: páginas web, e-book, cursos de formación on-line, recursos digitales educativos, aplicaciones para móviles, u otros. - Definir la estructura gráfica de las pantallas de un producto editorial multimedia de acuerdo con el boceto desarrollado y su documento de especificaciones. - Ebook ajustado al certificado de profesionalidad de Desarrollo de productos editoriales multimedia: ARG293_3, UC0936_3, MF0936_3, UF1583 CONTENIDO FORMATIVO:  Fundamentos creativos del diseño gráfico de productos editoriales multimedia Principios de asociación psicológica. Principios de composición. El contraste de tono y de escala. Bases de la síntesis visual La imagen como elemento de comunicación. Teoría del color. El color. Simbolismo asociado a los colores. Proceso de diseño de productos editoriales multimedia Producto editorial multimedia: qué es y cómo se desarrolla. Especificaciones sobre los productos multimedia editoriales. Tipos y plataformas. La gestión del proyecto editorial multimedia. Adaptación y nuevos parámetros. Innovación y conceptos concretos respecto a los procesos editoriales tradicionales. El trabajo en equipo: creación del grupo de trabajo. Fases del proyecto: de la idea al usuario. Derechos de autor del proyecto editorial multimedia Bocetos de productos editoriales multimedia. Comunicación del equipo editorial con el equipo de desarrollo de contenidos multimedia. Presentación de los rasgos generales específicos del producto. La navegación en productos editoriales multimedia. Estándares de calidad. Accesibilidad Normativa de seguridad, salud y protección ambiental. Diseño gráfico de pantallas Espacios gráficos de las pantallas. Fases del diseño: idea, desarrollo e integración. La organización del trabajo. Creación de elementos gráficos y texturales. Utilización de bancos de imágenes. Utilización del color en el diseño. El texto y su codificación. Lenguaje básico sobre tipografía. La tipografía. Estilos y características específicas del medio. Características técnicas y de legibilidad de las tipografías digitales Aplicación del diseño gráfico en el desarrollo de pantallas. La importancia del guion previo. Uso de herramientas informáticas de diseño gráfico multimedia Software más habitual. Aplicaciones de software libre. Uso de herramientas informáticas para la edición de tipografías. Aplicaciones para el diseño y creación de imágenes. Aplicaciones de tratamiento de fotografía digital. Trabajar con escáneres. Utilización de cámaras digitales. Software de dibujo vectorial. Aplicaciones de retoque de imágenes y efectos 2D y 3D. Aplicaciones para crear animaciones y clips de vídeo. Librerías de efectos y objetos. Herramientas de retoque, ajustes de color, tamaño, filtros, conversión entre formatos, compresión u otros. Software de maquetación: integración de imágenes y textos Realidad virtual.

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AI Engineering - Chip Huyen Cover Art

AI Engineering

AI Engineering Building Applications with Foundation Models by Chip Huyen

Recent breakthroughs in AI have not only increased demand for AI products, they've also lowered the barriers to entry for those who want to build AI products. The model-as-a-service approach has transformed AI from an esoteric discipline into a powerful development tool that anyone can use. Everyone, including those with minimal or no prior AI experience, can now leverage AI models to build applications. In this book, author Chip Huyen discusses AI engineering: the process of building applications with readily available foundation models. The book starts with an overview of AI engineering, explaining how it differs from traditional ML engineering and discussing the new AI stack. The more AI is used, the more opportunities there are for catastrophic failures, and therefore, the more important evaluation becomes. This book discusses different approaches to evaluating open-ended models, including the rapidly growing AI-as-a-judge approach. AI application developers will discover how to navigate the AI landscape, including models, datasets, evaluation benchmarks, and the seemingly infinite number of use cases and application patterns. You'll learn a framework for developing an AI application, starting with simple techniques and progressing toward more sophisticated methods, and discover how to efficiently deploy these applications. Understand what AI engineering is and how it differs from traditional machine learning engineeringLearn the process for developing an AI application, the challenges at each step, and approaches to address themExplore various model adaptation techniques, including prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, agents, and dataset engineering, and understand how and why they workExamine the bottlenecks for latency and cost when serving foundation models and learn how to overcome themChoose the right model, dataset, evaluation benchmarks, and metrics for your needs Chip Huyen works to accelerate data analytics on GPUs at Voltron Data. Previously, she was with Snorkel AI and NVIDIA, founded an AI infrastructure startup, and taught Machine Learning Systems Design at Stanford. She's the author of the book Designing Machine Learning Systems, an Amazon bestseller in AI. AI Engineering builds upon and is complementary to Designing Machine Learning Systems (O'Reilly).

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User Story Mapping - Jeff Patton & Peter Economy Cover Art

User Story Mapping

User Story Mapping Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product by Jeff Patton & Peter Economy

User story mapping is a valuable tool for software development, once you understand why and how to use it. This insightful book examines how this often misunderstood technique can help your team stay focused on users and their needs without getting lost in the enthusiasm for individual product features. Author Jeff Patton shows you how changeable story maps enable your team to hold better conversations about the project throughout the development process. Your team will learn to come away with a shared understanding of what you’re attempting to build and why. Get a high-level view of story mapping, with an exercise to learn key concepts quicklyUnderstand how stories really work, and how they come to life in Agile and Lean projectsDive into a story’s lifecycle, starting with opportunities and moving deeper into discoveryPrepare your stories, pay attention while they’re built, and learn from those you convert to working software

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering - Joe Reis & Matt Housley Cover Art

Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis & Matt Housley

Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scientists, and analysts looking for a comprehensive view of this practice. With this practical book, you'll learn how to plan and build systems to serve the needs of your organization and customers by evaluating the best technologies available through the framework of the data engineering lifecycle. Authors Joe Reis and Matt Housley walk you through the data engineering lifecycle and show you how to stitch together a variety of cloud technologies to serve the needs of downstream data consumers. You'll understand how to apply the concepts of data generation, ingestion, orchestration, transformation, storage, and governance that are critical in any data environment regardless of the underlying technology. This book will help you: Get a concise overview of the entire data engineering landscapeAssess data engineering problems using an end-to-end framework of best practicesCut through marketing hype when choosing data technologies, architecture, and processesUse the data engineering lifecycle to design and build a robust architectureIncorporate data governance and security across the data engineering lifecycle

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The Microsoft Office 365 Bible - James Holler Cover Art

The Microsoft Office 365 Bible

The Microsoft Office 365 Bible The Most Updated and Complete Guide to Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, OneDrive, Teams, Access, and Publisher from Beginners to Advanced by James Holler

⭐ This book includes 4 COMPLETELY FREE EBOOKS! Find out how to download them inside the book ⭐ NOW! Stop wasting time and money trying to figure out everything yourself and master all the functions of the Office Suite! If you are a fan of PC and use it for work, entertainment, or anything else, mastering main Microsoft Programs is a MUST. I can’t tell you enough how many people I see not just struggling to use a program like EXCEL, WORD, POWERPOINT, ONE NOTE, ONE DRIVE, OUTLOOK, TEAMS, ACCESS, PUBLISHER, and others, but also… wasting so much time doing things that should take minutes and even seconds instead of hours and days. On top of that, on average most people use less than 5% of programs’ full potential at any given time. For this exact reason, I created this amazing, in-depth book – to help you master these programs in no time, even if you don’t have any experience. Here is what’s inside: ✅ BOOK #1 – EXCEL ✅ BOOK #2 – WORD ✅ BOOK #3 – POWERPOINT ✅ BOOK #4 – ONE NOTE ✅ BOOK #5 – ONE DRIVE ✅ BOOK #6 – OUTLOOK ✅ BOOK #7 – TEAMS ✅ BOOK #8 – ACCESS ✅ BOOK #9 – PUBLISHER As you can see, this book covers the majority of the most important Microsoft Office programs and helps you understand: ✅ Ins and Outs of each program ✅ How to learn the fundamentals fast and use main functions effectively ✅ Different kinds of shortcuts and tips for smart use and speed ✅ Differences between them and when you should choose which program for a specific task ✅ Unique elements and functions you have to be aware of but probably have never used ✅ So much more! And even if you don’t have any experience whatsoever, or just bought your PC a few days ago and now you are wondering what the best and simplest way to master Microsoft Office is, this book is for you! Scroll Back Up and Get Your Copy to Learn Everything you NEED to Master Microsoft Office 365!

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Write Great Code, Volume 1, 2nd Edition

Write Great Code, Volume 1, 2nd Edition Understanding the Machine by Randall Hyde

Understanding the Machine , the first volume in the landmark Write Great Code series by Randall Hyde, explains the underlying mechanics of how a computer works. This, the first volume in Randall Hyde's Write Great Code series, dives into machine organization without the extra overhead of learning assembly language programming. Written for high-level language programmers, Understanding the Machine fills in the low-level details of machine organization that are often left out of computer science and engineering courses. Learn: How the machine represents numbers, strings, and high-level data structures, so you'll know the inherent cost of using them.How to organize your data, so the machine can access it efficiently.How the CPU operates, so you can write code that works the way the machine does.How I/O devices operate, so you can maximize your application's performance when accessing those devices.How to best use the memory hierarchy to produce the fastest possible programs. Great code is efficient code. But before you can write truly efficient code, you must understand how computer systems execute programs and how abstractions in programming languages map to the machine's low-level hardware. After all, compilers don't write the best machine code; programmers do. This book gives you the foundation upon which all great software is built. NEW IN THIS EDITION, COVERAGE OF: Programming languages like Swift and JavaCode generation on modern 64-bit CPUsARM processors on mobile phones and tabletsNewer peripheral devicesLarger memory systems and large-scale SSDs

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Write Great Code, Volume 3

Write Great Code, Volume 3 Engineering Software by Randall Hyde

Engineering Software , the third volume in the landmark Write Great Code series by Randall Hyde, helps you create readable and maintainable code that will generate awe from fellow programmers. The field of software engineering may value team productivity over individual growth, but legendary computer scientist Randall Hyde wants to make promising programmers into masters of their craft. To that end, Engineering Software --the latest volume in Hyde's highly regarded Write Great Code series--offers his signature in-depth coverage of everything from development methodologies and strategic productivity to object-oriented design requirements and system documentation. You'll learn: Why following the software craftsmanship model can lead you to do your best workHow to utilize traceability to enforce consistency within your documentationThe steps for creating your own UML requirements with use-case analysisHow to leverage the IEEE documentation standards to create better software This advanced apprenticeship in the skills, attitudes, and ethics of quality software development reveals the right way to apply engineering principles to programming. Hyde will teach you the rules, and show you when to break them. Along the way, he offers illuminating insights into best practices while empowering you to invent new ones. Brimming with resources and packed with examples, Engineering Software is your go-to guide for writing code that will set you apart from your peers.

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Microsoft 365 Office All-in-One For Dummies - Paul McFedries & Peter Weverka Cover Art

Microsoft 365 Office All-in-One For Dummies

Microsoft 365 Office All-in-One For Dummies by Paul McFedries & Peter Weverka

Supercharge your productivity at the office and at home Looking to familiarize yourself with the world's most popular and effective productivity apps? Then look no further than the latest edition of Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies, packed with 9 mini-books covering each of the super-apps included in the famous productivity suite from Microsoft. In the books, you'll get a handle on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Access, and more. This convenient and authoritative collection will walk you through how to create and edit text documents in Word, make new spreadsheets in Excel, and set up virtual meetings in Teams. You'll also learn how to: Use pro-level keyboard shortcuts and speed techniques to accelerate your productivity Use Microsoft's new AI-powered Copilot to get help and even write and edit your documents Leverage SharePoint and OneDrive to share documents and collaborate remotely with colleagues Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies is the first and last resource you'll need to reach for when you've got a question about Microsoft's ubiquitous productivity tools. It's perfect for newbies looking to get started and power users looking for fresh tips on the latest features. Grab your copy today!

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iBooks Author: The Definitive Guide

iBooks Author: The Definitive Guide by Trailer Park Inc.

Unlock the full power and potential of iBooks Author with our #1 Bestselling interactive manual! Built using iBooks Author by experienced designers and developers, our book will get you up and running in no time. Through interactive galleries, video demonstrations, and invaluable professional tips and tricks, "iBooks Author: The Definitive Guide" gives you everything needed to quickly learn and master this innovative digital publishing application. Topics Include: • Template Overview • Creating Table of Contents and Glossary • Adding Text, Images and Interactive Content • Working with HTML5 Widgets and 3D Objects • Previewing and Publishing • Professional Tips & Tricks

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Excel 2010 All-in-One For Dummies

Excel 2010 All-in-One For Dummies by Greg Harvey

A comprehensive, up-to-date, user-friendly guide to Excel 2010 Excel is the standard for spreadsheet applications and is used worldwide, but it's not always user-friendly. That makes it a perfect For Dummies topic, and this handy all-in-one guide covers all the essentials, the new features, how to analyze data with Excel, and much more. Eight minibooks address Excel basics, worksheet design, formulas and functions, worksheet collaboration and review, charts and graphics, data management, data analysis, and Excel and VBA. Excel is the leading spreadsheet/data analysis software and is used throughout the world; the newest revision includes upgraded tools and a redesigned interface For Dummies books are the bestselling guides to Excel, with more than three million copies sold Excel 2010 All-in-One For Dummies covers the changes in the newest version as well as familiar tasks, such as creating and editing worksheets, setting up formulas, and performing statistical functions Eight self-contained minibooks cover the basics, worksheet design, formulas and functions, worksheet collaboration, presenting data in charts and graphics, data management, data analysis, and creating macros with VBA. Newcomers to Excel as well as veterans who just want to learn the latest version will find Excel 2010 All-in-One For Dummies has everything they need to know.

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Numbers for iPad (2015 Edition) (Vole Guides) - Sean Kells Cover Art

Numbers for iPad (2015 Edition) (Vole Guides)

Numbers for iPad (2015 Edition) (Vole Guides) by Sean Kells

A newer edition of this book is available: "Numbers for iPad & iPad Pro (Vole Guides)" by Sean Kells. This handy guide covers all of Numbers for iOS, Apple's chart-topping spreadsheet app tuned to work with your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. If you're coming from Numbers for Mac or Microsoft Excel, you'll find all the steps needed to transfer your spreadsheets and make a painless transition from point-and-click to tap-and-drag. • Use just your fingers to create spreadsheets with tables, charts, graphics, and media. • Create spreadsheets based on Apple's professionally designed templates or your own custom templates. • Store spreadsheets in iCloud or third-party cloud locations such as Dropbox or Google Drive. • Use Handoff to pass spreadsheets seamlessly between your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. • Organize your spreadsheets into folders. • Restrict access to your spreadsheets by password-protecting them. • Add multiple sheets and tables to your spreadsheets. • Print spreadsheets wirelessly from an AirPrint-capable printer. • Edit and format cells and use the built-in editing tools. • Enter data with sliders, steppers, pop-up menus, checkboxes, star ratings, and intelligent keyboards. • Add comments and highlights to your work. • Cut, copy, paste, merge, fill, and sort cells. • Use forms to edit lists easily. • Enter, copy, move, and troubleshoot formulas. • Choose from more than 250 built-in functions and operators to build formulas. • Chart your data to reveal trends and relationships. • Embellish your spreadsheets with photos, videos, text boxes, arrows, lines, and shapes. • Export Numbers, Excel, PDF, or CSV files. • Import Numbers, Excel, or CSV files. • Send copies of spreadsheets via email, Messages, or AirDrop. • Transfer spreadsheets via remote server. • Use iCloud to store, share, sync, or collaborate on spreadsheets online. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with Numbers 2. Spreadsheet Basics 3. Entering Data 4. Formulas and Functions 5. Charts 6. Media, Text Boxes, and Shapes 7. Sharing and Converting Spreadsheets About the Author Sean Kells is a human-interface designer based in Seattle, Washington. When he's not pushing pixels, Sean paints foreboding seascapes, plays backgammon for blood, and takes his dog surfing. Sean has written guides to Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and iBooks.

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The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition

The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick Brooks Jr.

Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month . With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects. These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive software system. Now, 20 years after the initial publication of his book, Brooks has revisited his original ideas and added new thoughts and advice, both for readers already familiar with his work and for readers discovering it for the first time. The added chapters contain (1) a crisp condensation of all the propositions asserted in the original book, including Brooks' central argument in The Mythical Man-Month: that large programming projects suffer management problems different from small ones due to the division of labor; that the conceptual integrity of the product is therefore critical; and that it is difficult but possible to achieve this unity; (2) Brooks' view of these propositions a generation later; (3) a reprint of his classic 1986 paper "No Silver Bullet"; and (4) today's thoughts on the 1986 assertion, "There will be no silver bullet within ten years."

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How To Setup Find My iPhone

How To Setup Find My iPhone Animated Audiobook by Mobility

How to Setup Find my iPhone animated audiobook by Mobility shows you how to setup the feature Find My iPhone through a simple and easy to follow sequence of 06 animated audio steps. You do not need to read any manual or setup guide anymore. "How to setup find my iPhone" uses JavaScript to synchronize the animation and audio to present the material in a way that is easy to learn and execute the instructions.

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Clean Code

Clean Code A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert Martin

Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship . Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code “on the fly” into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer–but only if you work at it. What kind of work will you be doing? You’ll be reading code–lots of code. And you will be challenged to think about what’s right about that code, and what’s wrong with it. More importantly, you will be challenged to reassess your professional values and your commitment to your craft. Clean Code is divided into three parts. The first describes the principles, patterns, and practices of writing clean code. The second part consists of several case studies of increasing complexity. Each case study is an exercise in cleaning up code–of transforming a code base that has some problems into one that is sound and efficient. The third part is the payoff: a single chapter containing a list of heuristics and “smells” gathered while creating the case studies. The result is a knowledge base that describes the way we think when we write, read, and clean code. Readers will come away from this book understanding How to tell the difference between good and bad code How to write good code and how to transform bad code into good code How to create good names, good functions, good objects, and good classes How to format code for maximum readability How to implement complete error handling without obscuring code logic How to unit test and practice test-driven development This book is a must for any developer, software engineer, project manager, team lead, or systems analyst with an interest in producing better code.

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iPad 3 & iOS 6

iPad 3 & iOS 6 Tech 102 by Chris Kennedy

Perfect for new and experienced users, this no-fluff guide to the Apple iPad is packed with details on settings, apps, documents, and iCloud. You'll also find step-by-step instructions for dictating, networking, sharing, troubleshooting, going online, and using Siri. New features covered include Siri, Maps, Privacy, Shared Photo Streams, Do Not Disturb, Facebook integration, Clock, Guided Access, Safari and Mail improvements, and remodeled stores. • Master the Home screen and multitouch gestures. • Secure your data from thieves, snoops, and rogue apps. • Work with onscreen or wireless keyboards. • Get instant search results for documents, pictures, music, mail, apps, contacts, and more. • Ask Siri to find nearby businesses, set alarms, search the web, and more. • Dictate anywhere that you can type. • Connect to wireless networks with a couple of taps. • Set up cellular, Bluetooth, and VPN connections. • Mirror your iPad's screen to your TV wirelessly via AirPlay. • Back up your data to iCloud or iTunes. • Use iCloud to store and access the latest versions of your documents online. • Sync your documents, mail, contacts, appointments, reminders, notes, and messages wirelessly across your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac. • See all your notifications in one place. • Browse the web with Safari. • Send, receive, and manage your email with Mail. • Chat with family and friends with Messages or FaceTime. • Post to Twitter or Facebook right from the app you're using. • Manage your day-to-day life with Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Reminders, and Clock. • Find your way with Maps. • Download and install apps and updates from the App Store. • Read books, magazines, and newspapers with iBooks and Newsstand. • Play games on Game Center, Apple's online multiplayer social gaming network. • Play music, movies, TV shows, and other media downloaded from the iTunes Store. • Capture, edit, and share photos and videos with Camera, Photos, and Photo Booth. • Care for your iPad and troubleshoot problems. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and workarounds. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with Your iPad 2. Touring Your iPad 3. Securing Your iPad 4. Typing, Editing & Searching 5. Dictation & Siri 6. Wireless & Network Connections 7. iCloud, iTunes & Notifications 8. Browsing the Web 9. Email, Messaging & Video Calls 10. Organizing Your Life 11. Shopping in the App Store 12. Reading Books, Newspapers & Magazines 13. Playing Games 14. Downloading and Playing Music & Videos 15. Shooting, Viewing & Managing Photos 16. iPad Care & Troubleshooting About the Author Chris Kennedy is a technical writer based in Boulder, Colorado. When he's not planting power-user tips on blogs, Chris climbs rocks, revises his screenplays, and reads the journals of polar explorers.

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FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual

FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual by Susan Prosser & Stuart Gripman

This hands-on, friendly guide shows you how to harness FileMaker's power to make your information work for you. With a few mouse clicks, the FileMaker Pro 11 database helps you create and print corporate reports, manage a mailing list, or run your entire business. FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual helps you get started, build your database, and produce results, whether you're running a business, pursuing a hobby, or planning your retirement. It's a thorough, accessible guide for new, non-technical users, as well as those with more experience. Start up: Get your first database up and running in minutes Catalog your data: Organize contacts, to-do items, and product information with speedy data-entry and sorting tools Create professional documents: Publish reports, invoices, and more, with ease Add visual power and clarity: Create colorful charts to illustrate and summarize your data Harness processing power: Crunch numbers and search text with dozens of built-in formulas Learn advanced topics: Explore the high-level features of FileMaker Pro Advanced and FileMaker Server

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Pragmatic Programmer, The

Pragmatic Programmer, The Your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition by David Thomas & Andrew Hunt

“One of the most significant books in my life.” –Obie Fernandez, Author, The Rails Way “Twenty years ago, the first edition of The Pragmatic Programmer completely changed the trajectory of my career. This new edition could do the same for yours.” –Mike Cohn, Author of Succeeding with Agile , Agile Estimating and Planning , and User Stories Applied “. . . filled with practical advice, both technical and professional, that will serve you and your projects well for years to come.” –Andrea Goulet, CEO, Corgibytes, Founder, LegacyCode.Rocks “. . . lightning does strike twice, and this book is proof.” –VM (Vicky) Brasseur, Director of Open Source Strategy, Juniper Networks The Pragmatic Programmer is one of those rare tech books you’ll read, re-read, and read again over the years. Whether you’re new to the field or an experienced practitioner, you’ll come away with fresh insights each and every time. Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. These lessons have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development, independent of any particular language, framework, or methodology, and the Pragmatic philosophy has spawned hundreds of books, screencasts, and audio books, as well as thousands of careers and success stories. Now, twenty years later, this new edition re-examines what it means to be a modern programmer. Topics range from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse. Read this book, and you’ll learn how to: Fight software rot Learn continuously Avoid the trap of duplicating knowledge Write flexible, dynamic, and adaptable code Harness the power of basic tools Avoid programming by coincidence Learn real requirements Solve the underlying problems of concurrent code Guard against security vulnerabilities Build teams of Pragmatic Programmers Take responsibility for your work and career Test ruthlessly and effectively, including property-based testing Implement the Pragmatic Starter Kit Delight your users Written as a series of self-contained sections and filled with classic and fresh anecdotes, thoughtful examples, and interesting analogies, The Pragmatic Programmer illustrates the best approaches and major pitfalls of many different aspects of software development. Whether you’re a new coder, an experienced programmer, or a manager responsible for software projects, use these lessons daily, and you’ll quickly see improvements in personal productivity, accuracy, and job satisfaction. You’ll learn skills and develop habits and attitudes that form the foundation for long-term success in your career. You’ll become a Pragmatic Programmer. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

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iBooks for iPad (2015 Edition) (Vole Guides)

iBooks for iPad (2015 Edition) (Vole Guides) by Sean Kells

A newer edition of this book is available: "iBooks for iPad & iPad Pro (Vole Guides)" by Sean Kells. This handy guide covers all of iBooks, Apple's chart-topping ebook reader tuned to work with your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac. If you're coming from the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook, you'll find the steps needed to make a smooth transition to iBooks. • Use just your fingers to page through books, read PDF files, interact with multimedia textbooks, create bookmarks, and highlight and annotate passages. • Use built-in search and navigation features to find words or phrases anywhere in a book and quickly jump to specific pages. • Share quotes from books via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook. • Adjust screen brightness for ambient light and change a book's text size, font, and layout to suit your eyesight and reading speed. • Stock and organize your library by buying books from the iBooks Store, downloading free (and DRM-free) books from the internet, and converting books to EPUB format. • Sync your library across all your iOS devices automatically. • Subscribe to magazines and newspapers or buy single issues. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with iBooks 2. Stocking Your Library 3. Organizing Your Library 4. Reading Books 5. Reading PDFs 6. Newsstand 7. Interactive Textbooks About the Author Sean Kells is a human-interface designer based in Seattle, Washington. When he's not pushing pixels, Sean paints foreboding seascapes, plays backgammon for blood, and takes his dog surfing. Sean has written guides to Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and iBooks.

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Pages for iPad (2015 Edition) (Vole Guides)

Pages for iPad (2015 Edition) (Vole Guides) by Sean Kells

A newer edition of this book is available: "Pages for iPad & iPad Pro (Vole Guides)" by Sean Kells. This handy guide covers all of Pages for iOS, Apple's chart-topping word processor tuned to work with your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. If you're coming from Pages for Mac or Microsoft Word, you'll find all the steps needed to transfer your documents and make a painless transition from point-and-click to tap-and-drag. • Use just your fingers to create documents with text, lists, footnotes, tables, charts, graphics, and media. • Create documents based on Apple's professionally designed templates or your own custom templates. • Store documents in iCloud or third-party cloud locations such as Dropbox or Google Drive. • Use Handoff to pass documents seamlessly between your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. • Organize your documents into folders. • Restrict access to your documents by password-protecting them. • Set the paper size and adjust page margins. • Insert repeating headers and footers. • Number pages automatically. • Use watermarks to stamp your documents with a logo or mark them as confidential. • Print documents wirelessly from an AirPrint-capable printer. • Edit and format text and use the built-in editing tools. • Add comments and highlights to your work. • Track changes in your documents. • Use paragraph and character styles to maintain a consistent look. • Create bulleted, lettered, or numbered lists. • Flow text into multiple columns. • Change the line spacing and alignment of paragraphs. • Set paragraph margins and first-line indents. • Use tab stops to align columns of text or numbers. • Insert manual page, column, or line breaks. • Insert footnotes or endnotes. • Embellish your documents with photos, videos, text boxes, arrows, lines, and shapes. • Wrap text around objects. • Organize, format, and sort text or numbers in tables. • Chart your data to show trends and relationships. • Export Pages, Word, PDF, or ePub files. • Import Pages, Word, or text files. • Send copies of documents via email, Messages, or AirDrop. • Transfer documents via remote server. • Use iCloud to store, share, sync, or collaborate on documents online. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with Pages 2. Document Basics 3. Editing Text 4. Formatting Text 5. Media, Text Boxes, and Shapes 6. Tables 7. Charts 8. Sharing and Converting Documents About the Author Sean Kells is a human-interface designer based in Seattle, Washington. When he's not pushing pixels, Sean paints foreboding seascapes, plays backgammon for blood, and takes his dog surfing. Sean has written guides to Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and iBooks.

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ZAG

ZAG The #1 Strategy of High-Performance Brands by Marty Neumeier

"When everybody zigs, zag," says Marty Neumeier in this fresh view of brand strategy. ZAG follows the ultra-clear "whiteboard overview" style of the author’s first book, THE BRAND GAP, but drills deeper into the question of how brands can harness the power of differentiation. The author argues that in an extremely cluttered marketplace, traditional differentiation is no longer enough—today companies need “radical differentiation” to create lasting value for their shareholders and customers. In an entertaining 3-hour read you’ll learn: - why me-too brands are doomed to fail - how to "read" customer feedback on new products and messages - the 17 steps for designing “difference” into your brand - how to turn your brand’s “onliness” into a “trueline” to drive synergy - the secrets of naming products, services, and companies - the four deadly dangers faced by brand portfolios - how to “stretch” your brand without breaking it - how to succeed at all three stages of the competition cycle From the back cover: In an age of me-too products and instant communications, keeping up with the competition is no longer a winning strategy. Today you have to out-position, out-maneuver, and out-design the competition. The new rule? When everybody zigs, zag. In his first book, THE BRAND GAP, Neumeier showed companies how to bridge the distance between business strategy and design. In ZAG, he illustrates the number-one strategy of high-performance brands—radical differentiation. ZAG is an AIGA Design Press book, published under Peachpit's New Riders imprint in partnership with AIGA. For a quick peek inside ZAG, go to www.zagbook.com.

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Essential Scrum

Essential Scrum A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process by Kenneth Rubin

A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process The Single-Source, Comprehensive Guide to Scrum for All Team Members, Managers, and Executives If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers, Essential Scrum is the complete, single-source reference you’ve been searching for. Leading Scrum coach and trainer Kenny Rubin illuminates the values, principles, and practices of Scrum, and describes flexible, proven approaches that can help you implement it far more effectively. Whether you are new to Scrum or years into your use, this book will introduce, clarify, and deepen your Scrum knowledge at the team, product, and portfolio levels. Drawing from Rubin’s experience helping hundreds of organizations succeed with Scrum, this book provides easy-to-digest descriptions enhanced by more than two hundred illustrations based on an entirely new visual icon language for describing Scrum’s roles, artifacts, and activities. Essential Scrum will provide every team member, manager, and executive with a common understanding of Scrum, a shared vocabulary they can use in applying it, and practical knowledge for deriving maximum value from it.

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Clean Architecture

Clean Architecture A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design by Robert Martin

Practical Software Architecture Solutions from the Legendary Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”) By applying universal rules of software architecture, you can dramatically improve developer productivity throughout the life of any software system. Now, building upon the success of his best-selling books Clean Code and The Clean Coder, legendary software craftsman Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”) reveals those rules and helps you apply them. Martin’s Clean Architecture doesn’t merely present options. Drawing on over a half-century of experience in software environments of every imaginable type, Martin tells you what choices to make and why they are critical to your success. As you’ve come to expect from Uncle Bob, this book is packed with direct, no-nonsense solutions for the real challenges you’ll face–the ones that will make or break your projects. Learn what software architects need to achieve–and core disciplines and practices for achieving it Master essential software design principles for addressing function, component separation, and data management See how programming paradigms impose discipline by restricting what developers can do Understand what’s critically important and what’s merely a “detail” Implement optimal, high-level structures for web, database, thick-client, console, and embedded applications Define appropriate boundaries and layers, and organize components and services See why designs and architectures go wrong, and how to prevent (or fix) these failures Clean Architecture is essential reading for every current or aspiring software architect, systems analyst, system designer, and software manager–and for every programmer who must execute someone else’s designs. Register your product for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available.

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Excel 2010 Pivot Tables

Excel 2010 Pivot Tables Tech 102 by Tim Hill

The jargon associated with Microsoft Excel's pivot tables ("n-dimensional cross tabulations") makes them look complex, but they're really no more than an easy way to build concise, flexible summaries of long lists of raw values. If you're working with hundreds (or hundreds of thousands) of rows, then pivot tables are the best way to look at the same information in different ways, summarize data on the fly, and spot trends and relationships. This handy guide teaches you how to use Excel's most powerful feature to crunch large amounts of data, without having to write new formulas, copy and paste cells, or reorganize rows and columns. You can download the sample workbook to follow along with the author's examples. • Create pivot tables from worksheet databases. • Rearrange pivot tables by dragging, swapping, and nesting fields. • Customize pivot tables with styles, layouts, totals, and subtotals. • Combine numbers, dates, times, or text values into custom groups. • Calculate common statistics or create custom formulas. • Filter data that you don't want to see. • Create and customize pivot charts. • Unlink a pivot table from its source data. • Control references to pivot table cells. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Pivot Table Basics 2. Nesting Fields 3. Grouping Items 4. Calculations and Custom Formulas 5. Filtering Data 6. Charting Pivot Tables 7. Tricks with Pivot Tables About the Author Tim Hill is a statistician living in Boulder, Colorado. He holds degrees in mathematics and statistics from Stanford University and the University of Colorado. Tim has written self-teaching guides for Algebra, Trigonometry, Geometry, Precalculus, Advanced Precalculus, Permutations & Combinations, Mathematics of Money, Excel Loan & Mortgage Formulas, and Excel Pivot Tables. When he's not crunching numbers, Tim climbs rocks, hikes canyons, and avoids malls.

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Non-Designer's Design Book, The

Non-Designer's Design Book, The by Robin Williams

A lot has happened in the world of digital design since the first edition of this title was published, but one thing remains true: There is an ever-growing number of people attempting to design pages with no formal training. This book is the one place they can turn to find quick, non-intimidating, excellent design help from trusted design instructor Robin Williams. This revised classic--now in full color--includes a new section on the hot topic of Color itself. In The Non-Designer's Design Book, 3rd Editio n, Robin turns her attention to the basic principles that govern good design. Readers who follow her clearly explained concepts will produce more sophisticated and professional pages immediately. Humor-infused, jargon-free prose interspersed with design exercises, quizzes, and illustrations make learning a snap--which is just what audiences have come to expect from this best-selling author.

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Succeeding with Agile

Succeeding with Agile Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn

Proven, 100% Practical Guidance for Making Scrum and Agile Work in Any Organization This is the definitive, realistic, actionable guide to starting fast with Scrum and agile–and then succeeding over the long haul. Leading agile consultant and practitioner Mike Cohn presents detailed recommendations, powerful tips, and real-world case studies drawn from his unparalleled experience helping hundreds of software organizations make Scrum and agile work. Succeeding with Agile is for pragmatic software professionals who want real answers to the most difficult challenges they face in implementing Scrum. Cohn covers every facet of the transition: getting started, helping individuals transition to new roles, structuring teams, scaling up, working with a distributed team, and finally, implementing effective metrics and continuous improvement. Throughout, Cohn presents “Things to Try Now” sections based on his most successful advice. Complementary “Objection” sections reproduce typical conversations with those resisting change and offer practical guidance for addressing their concerns. Coverage includes Practical ways to get started immediately–and “get good” fast Overcoming individual resistance to the changes Scrum requires Staffing Scrum projects and building effective teams Establishing “improvement communities” of people who are passionate about driving change Choosing which agile technical practices to use or experiment with Leading self-organizing teams Making the most of Scrum sprints, planning, and quality techniques Scaling Scrum to distributed, multiteam projects Using Scrum on projects with complex sequential processes or challenging compliance and governance requirements Understanding Scrum’s impact on HR, facilities, and project management Whether you've completed a few sprints or multiple agile projects and whatever your role–manager, developer, coach, ScrumMaster, product owner, analyst, team lead, or project lead–this book will help you succeed with your very next project. Then, it will help you go much further: It will help you transform your entire development organization.

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Excel 2019 All-in-One For Dummies

Excel 2019 All-in-One For Dummies by Greg Harvey

Make Excel work for you   Excel 2019 All-In-One For Dummies offers eight books in one!! It is completely updated to reflect the major changes Microsoft is making to Office with the 2019 release. From basic Excel functions, such as creating and editing worksheets, to sharing and reviewing worksheets, to editing macros with Visual Basic, it provides you with a broad scope of the most common Excel applications and functions—including formatting worksheets, setting up formulas, protecting worksheets, importing data, charting data, and performing statistical functions.     The book covers importing data, building and editing worksheets, creating formulas, generating pivot tables, and performing financial functions, what-if scenarios, database functions, and Web queries. More advanced topics include worksheet sharing and auditing, performing error trapping, building and running macros, charting data, and using Excel in conjunction with Microsoft Power BI (Business Intelligence) to analyze, model, and visualize vast quantities of data from a variety of local and online sources.   Get familiar with Worksheet design Find out how to work with charts and graphics Use Excel for data management, analysis, modeling, and visualization Make sense of macros and VBA If you’re a new or inexperienced user looking to spend more time on your projects than trying to figure out how to make Excel work for you, this all-encompassing book makes it easy!

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Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation by Jez Humble & David Farley

Winner of the 2011 Jolt Excellence Award ! Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process. This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration between developers, testers, and operations, delivery teams can get changes released in a matter of hours— sometimes even minutes–no matter what the size of a project or the complexity of its code base. Jez Humble and David Farley begin by presenting the foundations of a rapid, reliable, low-risk delivery process. Next, they introduce the “deployment pipeline,” an automated process for managing all changes, from check-in to release. Finally, they discuss the “ecosystem” needed to support continuous delivery, from infrastructure, data and configuration management to governance. The authors introduce state-of-the-art techniques, including automated infrastructure management and data migration, and the use of virtualization. For each, they review key issues, identify best practices, and demonstrate how to mitigate risks. Coverage includes • Automating all facets of building, integrating, testing, and deploying software • Implementing deployment pipelines at team and organizational levels • Improving collaboration between developers, testers, and operations • Developing features incrementally on large and distributed teams • Implementing an effective configuration management strategy • Automating acceptance testing, from analysis to implementation • Testing capacity and other non-functional requirements • Implementing continuous deployment and zero-downtime releases • Managing infrastructure, data, components and dependencies • Navigating risk management, compliance, and auditing Whether you’re a developer, systems administrator, tester, or manager, this book will help your organization move from idea to release faster than ever—so you can deliver value to your business rapidly and reliably.

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Excel 2010 Bible

Excel 2010 Bible by John Walkenbach

A comprehensive reference to the newest version of the world’s most popular spreadsheet application: Excel 2010 John Walkenbach's name is synonymous with excellence in computer books that decipher complex technical topics. Known as "Mr. Spreadsheet," Walkenbach shows you how to maximize the power of all the new features of Excel 2010. An authoritative reference, this perennial bestseller proves itself indispensable no matter your level of skill, from Excel beginners and intermediate users to power users and potential power users everywhere. Fully updated for the new release, this latest edition provides comprehensive, soup-to-nuts coverage, delivering over 900 pages of Excel tips, tricks, and techniques you won’t find anywhere else. Excel guru and bestselling author John Walkenbach ("Mr. Spreadsheet") guides you through every aspect of Excel Delivers essential coverage of all the newest features of Excel 2010 Presents material in a clear, concise, logical format that is ideal for all levels of Excel experience Includes a CD that contains all the templates and worksheets used in the book plus John Walkenbach's award-winning Power Utility Pak Excel 2010 Bible serves as an excellent resource on all things Excel! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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Domain-Driven Design

Domain-Driven Design Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans

Domain-Driven Design fills that need. This is not a book about specific technologies. It offers readers a systematic approach to domain-driven design, presenting an extensive set of design best practices, experience-based techniques, and fundamental principles that facilitate the development of software projects facing complex domains. Intertwining design and development practice, this book incorporates numerous examples based on actual projects to illustrate the application of domain-driven design to real-world software development. Readers learn how to use a domain model to make a complex development effort more focused and dynamic. A core of best practices and standard patterns provides a common language for the development team. A shift in emphasis–refactoring not just the code but the model underlying the code–in combination with the frequent iterations of Agile development leads to deeper insight into domains and enhanced communication between domain expert and programmer. Domain-Driven Design then builds on this foundation, and addresses modeling and design for complex systems and larger organizations.Specific topics covered include: With this book in hand, object-oriented developers, system analysts, and designers will have the guidance they need to organize and focus their work, create rich and useful domain models, and leverage those models into quality, long-lasting software implementations.

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Photoshop Compositing Secrets

Photoshop Compositing Secrets Unlocking the Key to Perfect Selections and Amazing Photoshop Effects for Totally Realistic Composites by Matt Kloskowski

Unlocking the Key to Perfect Selections and Amazing Photoshop Effects for Totally Realistic Composites Compositing is one of the hottest trends in Photoshop and photography today for portrait photographers, designers of all walks of life, and even retouchers. Everywhere you look, from group photos, to school graduation or sports portraits, to magazines, movie posters, and DVD covers, chances are, you’ve seen compositing. In Photoshop Compositing Secrets , Matt Kloskowski takes you through the entire process behind creating convincing, well-executed, and captivating composites. You’ll see how to create images that run the gamut from real-world portraits for corporate, graduation, or group photos to sports portraits, templates, and collages, and even the surreal, dramatic composites that clients clamor for. You'll learn: One of the most important secrets to compositing: how to master selections in Photoshop (yes, even wispy hair), What background color, and camera and lighting setups work best for compositing, How to move a subject from one background to another, and the Photoshop lighting and shadowing techniques to make it look real, And all the Photoshop tips, tricks, and special effects you need to pull off a convincing, professional composite. No matter if you're a professional, an aspiring professional, or a hobbyist, Photoshop Compositing Secrets will sharpen your skills and open up a whole new avenue of photographic expression in an easy-to-understand way that will have you creating your own composites in no time.

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The Algorithm Design Manual - Steven S. Skiena Cover Art

The Algorithm Design Manual

The Algorithm Design Manual Second Edition by Steven S. Skiena

....The most comprehensive guide to designing practical and efficient algorithms!.... The Algorithm Design Manual, Second Edition "...the book is an algorithm-implementation treasure trove, and putting all of these implementations in one place was no small feat. The list of implementations [and] extensive bibliography make the book an invaluable resource for everyone interested in the subject." --ACM Computing Reviews "It has all the right ingredients: rich contents, friendly, personal language, subtle humor, the right references, and a plethora of pointers to resources."  -- P. Takis Metaxas, Wellesley College "This is the most approachable book on algorithms I have." -- Megan Squire, Elon University, USA This newly expanded and updated second edition of the best-selling classic continues to take the "mystery" out of designing algorithms, and analyzing their efficacy and efficiency. Expanding on the first edition, the book now serves as the primary textbook of choice for algorithm design courses while maintaining its status as the premier practical reference guide to algorithms for programmers, researchers, and students. The reader-friendly Algorithm Design Manual provides straightforward access to combinatorial algorithms technology, stressing design over analysis. The first part, Techniques , provides accessible instruction on methods for designing and analyzing computer algorithms. The second part, Resources , is intended for browsing and reference, and comprises the catalog of algorithmic resources, implementations and an extensive bibliography. NEW to the second edition: • Doubles the tutorial material and exercises over the first edition • Provides full online support for lecturers, and a completely updated and improved website component with lecture slides, audio and video • Contains a unique catalog identifying the 75 algorithmic problems that arise most often in practice, leading the reader down the right path to solve them • Includes several NEW "war stories" relating experiences from real-world applications • Provides up-to-date links leading to the very best algorithm implementations available in C, C++, and Java ADDITIONAL Learning Tools: • Exercises include "job interview problems" from major software companies • Highlighted take-home lesson boxes emphasize essential concepts • Provides comprehensive references to both survey articles and the primary literature • Exercises point to relevant programming contest challenge problems • Many algorithms presented with actual code (written in C) as well as pseudo-code • A full set of lecture slides and additional material available at www.algorist.com Written by a well-known algorithms researcher who received the IEEE Computer Science and Engineering Teaching Award, this new edition of The Algorithm Design Manual is an essential learning tool for students needing a solid grounding in algorithms, as well as a special text/reference for professionals who need an authoritative and insightful guide. Professor Skiena is also author of the popular Springer text, Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual .

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Tapworthy

Tapworthy Designing Great iPhone Apps by Josh Clark

So you've got an idea for an iPhone app -- along with everyone else on the planet. Set your app apart with elegant design, efficient usability, and a healthy dose of personality. This accessible, well-written guide shows you how to design exceptional user experiences for the iPhone and iPod Touch through practical principles and a rich collection of visual examples. Whether you're a designer, programmer, manager, or marketer, Tapworthy teaches you to "think iPhone" and helps you ask the right questions -- and get the right answers -- throughout the design process. You'll explore how considerations of design, psychology, culture, ergonomics, and usability combine to create a tapworthy app. Along the way, you'll get behind-the-scenes insights from the designers of apps like Facebook, USA Today , Twitterrific, and many others. Develop your ideas from initial concept to finished designBuild an effortless user experience that rewards every tapExplore the secrets of designing for touchDiscover how and why people really use iPhone appsLearn to use iPhone controls the Apple wayCreate your own personality-packed visuals

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Excel 2010 For Dummies

Excel 2010 For Dummies by Greg Harvey

Crunch numbers, create spreadsheets, and get up to speed on Excel 2010! This friendly book gets you started with the basics of Excel 2010, such as creating a spreadsheet from scratch, selecting commands from the Ribbon, customizing the Quick Access toolbar, creating simple formulas, moving and copying data with drag and drop, using the AutoCorrect and AutoFill features, and more. Navigate effectively — see how the Ribbon interface and the Backstage View give you access to all the tools you need for every task Be a mover and a shaker — move and copy data with cut, copy, and paste or drag and drop Summing up — total columns and rows of numbers with the AutoSum button Making it pretty — format data tables, adjust column widths and row heights, hide columns and rows, and format with Styles or the Format Painter Safety net — save your work and recover spreadsheets after a computer crash Open the book and find: What's new in Excel 2010 How to surf an Excel 2010 worksheet and workbook Instructions for entering data in a worksheet Tips for keeping your data secure How to enter and edit formulas with built-in functions Tips for undoing or deleting data entry mistakes Learn to: Get comfortable with Excel 2010 and Backstage View Create and edit spreadsheets Format cells, create formulas, and fix data entry errors Copy, cut, move, paste, or delete data

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Robert C. Martin Clean Code Collection, The

Robert C. Martin Clean Code Collection, The by Robert C. Martin

The Robert C. Martin Clean Code Collection consists of two bestselling eBooks: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship by Robert C. Martin The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers by Robert C. Martin In Clean Code , legendary software expert Robert C. Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code "on the fly" into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer—but only if you work at it. You will be challenged to think about what's right about that code and what's wrong with it. More important, you will be challenged to reassess your professional values and your commitment to your craft. In The Clean Coder , Martin introduces the disciplines, techniques, tools, and practices of true software craftsmanship. This book is packed with practical advice—about everything from estimating and coding to refactoring and testing. It covers much more than technique: It is about attitude. Martin shows how to approach software development with honor, self-respect, and pride; work well and work clean; communicate and estimate faithfully; face difficult decisions with clarity and honesty; and understand that deep knowledge comes with a responsibility to act. Readers of this collection will come away understanding How to tell the difference between good and bad codeHow to write good code and how to transform bad code into good codeHow to create good names, good functions, good objects, and good classesHow to format code for maximum readabilityHow to implement complete error handling without obscuring code logicHow to unit test and practice test-driven developmentWhat it means to behave as a true software craftsmanHow to deal with conflict, tight schedules, and unreasonable managersHow to get into the flow of coding and get past writer’s blockHow to handle unrelenting pressure and avoid burnoutHow to combine enduring attitudes with new development paradigmsHow to manage your time and avoid blind alleys, marshes, bogs, and swampsHow to foster environments where programmers and teams can thriveWhen to say "No"—and how to say itWhen to say "Yes"—and what yes really means

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User Stories Applied

User Stories Applied For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn

Thoroughly reviewed and eagerly anticipated by the agile community, User Stories Applied offers a requirements process that saves time, eliminates rework, and leads directly to better software. The best way to build software that meets users' needs is to begin with "user stories": simple, clear, brief descriptions of functionality that will be valuable to real users. In User Stories Applied , Mike Cohn provides you with a front-to-back blueprint for writing these user stories and weaving them into your development lifecycle. You'll learn what makes a great user story, and what makes a bad one. You'll discover practical ways to gather user stories, even when you can't speak with your users. Then, once you've compiled your user stories, Cohn shows how to organize them, prioritize them, and use them for planning, management, and testing. User role modeling: understanding what users have in common, and where they differ Gathering stories: user interviewing, questionnaires, observation, and workshops Working with managers, trainers, salespeople and other "proxies" Writing user stories for acceptance testing Using stories to prioritize, set schedules, and estimate release costs Includes end-of-chapter practice questions and exercises User Stories Applied will be invaluable to every software developer, tester, analyst, and manager working with any agile method: XP, Scrum... or even your own home-grown approach.

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Amazon Web Services For Dummies

Amazon Web Services For Dummies by Bernard Golden

Create dynamic cloud-based websites with Amazon Web Services and this friendly guide! As the largest cloud computing platform in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides one of the most popular web services options available. This easy-to-understand guide is the perfect introduction to the Amazon Web Services platform and all it can do for you. You'll learn about the Amazon Web Services tool set; how different web services (including S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon Flexible Payments) and Glacier work; and how you can implement AWS in your organization. Explains how to use Amazon Web Services to store objects, take payments, manage large quantities of data, send e-mails, deploy push notifications, and more from your website Details how AWS can reduce costs, improve efficiency, increase productivity, and cut down on expensive hardware investments - and administrative headaches - in your organization Includes practical examples and helpful step-by-step lists to help you experiment with different AWS features and create a robust website that meets your needs Amazon Web Services For Dummies is exactly what you need to get your head in the cloud with Amazon Web Services!

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Keynote for iPad (2015 Edition) (Vole Guides) - Sean Kells Cover Art

Keynote for iPad (2015 Edition) (Vole Guides)

Keynote for iPad (2015 Edition) (Vole Guides) by Sean Kells

A newer edition of this book is available: "Keynote for iPad & iPad Pro (Vole Guides)" by Sean Kells. This handy guide covers all of Keynote for iOS, Apple's chart-topping presentation app tuned to work with your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. If you're coming from Keynote for Mac or Microsoft PowerPoint, you'll find all the steps needed to transfer your presentations and make a painless transition from point-and-click to tap-and-drag. • Use just your fingers to create presentations with text, lists, tables, charts, graphics, and media. • Create presentations and slides based on Apple's professionally designed themes or your own custom themes. • Store presentations in iCloud or third-party cloud locations such as Dropbox or Google Drive. • Use Handoff to pass presentations seamlessly between your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. • Organize your presentations into folders. • Restrict access to your presentations by password-protecting them. • Use the slide navigator to skim through your presentation and manage slides. • Reorder slides individually or in groups. • Show or hide slide numbers. • Skip slides that you don't want to show. • Zoom slides for detail work. • Print presentations wirelessly from an AirPrint-capable printer. • Edit and format text and use the built-in editing tools. • Add comments and highlights to your work. • Use paragraph and character styles to maintain a consistent look. • Create bulleted, lettered, or numbered lists. • Embellish your presentations with photos, videos, text boxes, arrows, lines, and shapes. • Add a soundtrack to your presentation. • Organize, format, and sort text or numbers in tables. • Chart your data to show trends and relationships. • Enliven your presentations with animations and special effects. • Play a presentation on your iPad or stream it to an external display or projector. • Drag your finger to simulate a laser pointer. • Use Keynote Remote to control presentation playback from your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. • Add presenter notes to any slide to remind you what to say. • Create autoplay slideshows and viewer-guided slideshows for kiosks. • Export Keynote, PowerPoint, or PDF files. • Import Keynote or PowerPoint files. • Send copies of presentations via email, Messages, or AirDrop. • Transfer presentations via remote server. • Use iCloud to store, share, sync, or collaborate on presentations online. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with Keynote 2. Presentation and Slide Basics 3. Editing Text 4. Formatting Text 5. Media, Text Boxes, and Shapes 6. Tables 7. Charts 8. Animating Presentations 9. Playing Presentations 10. Sharing and Converting Presentations About the Author Sean Kells is a human-interface designer based in Seattle, Washington. When he's not pushing pixels, Sean paints foreboding seascapes, plays backgammon for blood, and takes his dog surfing. Sean has written guides to Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and iBooks.

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Peopleware

Peopleware Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco & Tim Lister

Few books in computing have had as profound an influence on software management as Peopleware . The unique insight of this longtime best seller is that the major issues of software development are human, not technical. They’re not easy issues; but solve them, and you’ll maximize your chances of success. “ Peopleware has long been one of my two favorite books on software engineering. Its underlying strength is its base of immense real experience, much of it quantified. Many, many varied projects have been reflected on and distilled; but what we are given is not just lifeless distillate, but vivid examples from which we share the authors’ inductions. Their premise is right: most software project problems are sociological, not technological. The insights on team jelling and work environment have changed my thinking and teaching. The third edition adds strength to strength.” — Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., Kenan Professor of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Author of The Mythical Man-Month and The Design of Design “ Peopleware is the one book that everyone who runs a software team needs to read and reread once a year. In the quarter century since the first edition appeared, it has become more important, not less, to think about the social and human issues in software develop¿ment. This is the only way we’re going to make more humane, productive workplaces. Buy it, read it, and keep a stock on hand in the office supply closet.” —Joel Spolsky, Co-founder, Stack Overflow “When a book about a field as volatile as software design and use extends to a third edition, you can be sure that the authors write of deep principle, of the fundamental causes for what we readers experience, and not of the surface that everyone recognizes. And to bring people, actual human beings, into the mix! How excellent. How rare. The authors have made this third edition, with its additions, entirely terrific.” —Lee Devin and Rob Austin, Co-authors of The Soul of Design and Artful Making For this third edition, the authors have added six new chapters and updated the text throughout, bringing it in line with today’s development environments and challenges. For example, the book now discusses pathologies of leadership that hadn’t previously been judged to be pathological; an evolving culture of meetings; hybrid teams made up of people from seemingly incompatible generations; and a growing awareness that some of our most common tools are more like anchors than propellers. Anyone who needs to manage a software project or software organization will find invaluable advice throughout the book.

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Business Intelligence For Dummies

Business Intelligence For Dummies by Swain Scheps

You're intelligent, right? So you've already figured out that Business Intelligence can be pretty valuable in making the right decisions about your business. But you’ve heard at least a dozen definitions of what it is, and heard of at least that many BI tools. Where do you start? Business Intelligence For Dummies makes BI understandable! It takes you step by step through the technologies and the alphabet soup, so you can choose the right technology and implement a successful BI environment. You'll see how the applications and technologies work together to access, analyze, and present data that you can use to make better decisions about your products, customers, competitors, and more. You’ll find out how to: Understand the principles and practical elements of BI Determine what your business needs Compare different approaches to BI Build a solid BI architecture and roadmap Design, develop, and deploy your BI plan Relate BI to data warehousing, ERP, CRM, and e-commerce Analyze emerging trends and developing BI tools to see what else may be useful Whether you’re the business owner or the person charged with developing and implementing a BI strategy, checking out Business Intelligence For Dummies is a good business decision.

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Coaching Agile Teams

Coaching Agile Teams A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition by Lyssa Adkins

The Provocative and Practical Guide to Coaching Agile Teams As an agile coach, you can help project teams become outstanding at agile, creating products that make them proud and helping organizations reap the powerful benefits of teams that deliver both innovation and excellence. More and more frequently, ScrumMasters and project managers are being asked to coach agile teams. But it’s a challenging role. It requires new skills—as well as a subtle understanding of when to step in and when to step back. Migrating from “command and control” to agile coaching requires a whole new mind-set. In Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring. Coverage includes Understanding what it takes to be a great agile coach Mastering all of the agile coach’s roles: teacher, mentor, problem solver, conflict navigator, and performance coach Creating an environment where self-organized, high-performance teams can emerge Coaching teams past cooperation and into full collaboration Evolving your leadership style as your team grows and changes Staying actively engaged without dominating your team and stunting its growth Recognizing failure, recovery, and success modes in your coaching Getting the most out of your own personal agile coaching journey Whether you’re an agile coach, leader, trainer, mentor, facilitator, ScrumMaster, project manager, product owner, or team member, this book will help you become skilled at helping others become truly great. What could possibly be more rewarding?

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