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Scala in Depth

Manning Publications, 2012

In fall 2010 Michael Stephens from Manning contacted me about writing a Scala Book. I was working for a small virtualization/security startup where I had been learning Scala and applying it to our codebase. During that first conversation Michael and I discussed the Scala ecosystem and what kind of a book would best...

Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide

Packt Publishing, 2012

Penetration testers are faced with a combination of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, host-based protection, hardened systems, and teams of knowledgeable analysts that pour over data collected by their security information management systems. In an environment such as this, simply running automated tools will typically...

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

O'Reilly, 2012

Hadoop got its start in Nutch. A few of us were attempting to build an open source web search engine and having trouble managing computations running on even a handful of computers. Once Google published its GFS and MapReduce papers, the route became clear. They’d devised systems to solve precisely the...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Upgrading and Repairing PCs (5th Edition) (Complete Idiot's Guides)

Alpha, 2002

This is a book about maintaining the single most complex, unfathomable, and overhyped appliance you will ever own. Upgrading and maintaining your computer is a difficult and bewildering task, and yet you are the most qualified person to handle it. The main reason is because you are perhaps the only person you can trust entirely to...

Digital Television, Second Edition: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and Principles of the DVB System

Focal Press, 2002

Written as an authoritative introduction, this text describes the technology of digital television broadcasting. It gives a thorough technical description of the underlying principles of the DVB standard following the logical progression of signal processing steps, as well as COFDM modulation, source and channel coding, MPEG compression and...

Lessons in IT Transformation: Technology Expert to Business Leader

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Why should I read this book? Be honest—that’s what you are really trying to figure out before you decide to invest the time and money required to read any book. There are thousands of books available on the topic of leadership. Why is this book different, and why should you care? Here are a few answers to your...

Irrlicht 1.7 Realtime 3D Engine Beginner's Guide

Packt Publishing, 2011

The Irrlicht Engine is a cross-platform high-performance real-time 3D engine written in C++. It features a powerful high-level API for creating complete 3D and 2D applications such as games or scientific visualizations.

Irrlicht 1.7.1 Realtime 3D Engine Beginner's Guide will teach you to master all that is required to create 2D and...

Understanding Complex Datasets: Data Mining with Matrix Decompositions

CRC Press, 2007

Many data-mining algorithms were developed for the world of business, for example for customer relationship management. The datasets in this environment, although large, are simple in the sense that a customer either did or did not buy three widgets, or did or did not fly from Chicago to Albuquerque.

In contrast,...

Automated Physical Database Design and Tuning (Emerging Directions in Database Systems and Applications)

CRC Press, 2011

Relational database systems have evolved significantly since their inception over 30 years ago. New applications are now more complex than ever, and tuning a production system for performance has become a critical yet time-consuming activity. Due to the increasing complexity in both application workloads and query engines, even...

Cfengine 3 Beginner's Guide

Packt Publishing, 2011

This book starts off with step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring the CFEngine server and clients, and then moves on to configuring systems using CFEngine scripts. The author then walks you through the policy decision flow as well as conducting system and security audits.

This is followed by...

Financial Simulation Modeling in Excel, + Website: A Step-by-Step Guide (Wiley Finance)

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Regardless of where I work, simulation has crept into my financial career. After nearly a decade of working with it in many capacities I’ve found it to be a mixed blessing. In many investment companies when the term simulation is simply brought up there are a variety of reactions. The two most visible camps of thought...

Professional Workflow in SharePoint 2010: Real World Business Workflow Solutions

Wrox Press, 2011

SharePoint workfl ow comes in many shapes and fl avors, yet to the average SharePoint user it is a master magician’s art learned through a formidable journey. Why is it that one of the most important aspects of SharePoint is also one of the hardest to comprehend and learn? SharePoint default workfl ows, SharePoint Designer...

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