Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef demonstrates a radical approach to developing web infrastructure that combines the powerful Chef configuration management framework with Cucumber, the leading Behavior-driven development (BDD) tool. Learn how to deliver real business value by developing infrastructure code test-first.
Get a concise introduction to Spring, the increasingly popular open source framework for building lightweight enterprise applications on the Java platform. This example-driven book for Java developers delves into the framework's basic features, as well as advanced concepts such as containers. You'll learn how Spring makes...
Ad hoc and sensor networks continue to have a growing impact
on communication. These cost-effective wireless networks provide
location independent computing in environments ranging from
military battlefields to in-home patient monitoring systems. However,
having real-time connectivity to critical information over an open...
In 1862, the gardener James Bateman sent several specimens of the Christmas
orchid to Charles Darwin. This orchid was first planted in Britain in 1855 and it did
not blossom until 1857. It had been discovered several decades before by the
French botanist Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars in Madagascar in 1822. The
most significant...
You may be reading this book for many reasons. It could be because you heard all about
Hadoop and what it can do to crunch petabytes of data in a reasonable amount of time.
While reading into Hadoop you found that, for random access to the accumulated data,
there is something called HBase. Or it was the hype that is prevalent these days...
This book is designed to help you prepare for the Cisco VPN certification exam. The
VPN exam is one in a series of exams required for the Cisco Certified Network
Professional - Security (CCNP - Security) certification. This exam focuses on the application
of security principles with regard to Cisco IOS routers,...
The modern world offers lots of readily available online resources for learning. Wikipedia,
Google, news sources, millions of Web sites and blogs, even YouTube, offer access to
information in nearly any subject that triggers your curiosity and interest. Nonetheless, I
continue to believe that for deep understanding of something, nothing...
Programmers may spend a good part of their careers scripting code to conform to commercial
statistics packages, visualization tools, and domain-specific third-party software.
The same tasks can force end users to spend countless hours in copy-paste purgatory,
each minor change necessitating another grueling round of formatting tabs and...
We are all familiar with the time-honored idea of a Virtual Machine that is neutral
with respect to computer architecture and can be used to execute a high-level
language, after its translation to the VM byte-code. This approach can be found in
several successful mono-language systems, that support popular languages such as
Java or...
AutoCAD, developed by Autodesk Inc., is the most popular PC-CAD system available in
the market. Today, over 7 million people use AutoCAD and other AutoCAD based design
products. 100% of the Fortune 100 firms are Autodesk customers and 98% of the Fortune
500 firms are Autodesk customers. AutoCAD's open architecture has allowed...
Expert PL/SQL Practices is a book of collected wisdom on PL/SQL programming from some of the best and the brightest in the field. Each chapter is a deep-dive into a specific problem, technology, or feature set that you’ll face as a PL/SQL programmer. Each author has chosen their topic out of the strong belief that what they...
Welcome dear reader to this Magento theming book. In this book, we are going to discover
how to modify or create Magento themes from scratch. As you are reading this book, I
assume you already know how great a tool this open source solution is. Though we will go
through some of the basics, like installing and some theoretical concepts,...
