• Build highly efficient applications with the Eloquent ORM using an expressive syntax
• Get to grips with the power of relationships and how Eloquent handles them
• Go beyond simple...

• Learn the Apache Solr conceptual framework for robust search application creation.
• Customize your search applications to meet your project specifications.
• A fast paced guide that...

The ability to create and understand financial models that assess the valuation of a company, the projects it undertakes, and its future earnings/profit projections is one of the most valued skills in corporate finance. However, while many business professionals are familiar with financial statements and accounting reports, few are truly...

• Discover what the cloud is, tear through the marketing jargon, and go right to the...

Jump Start Rails provides you with a fun and yet practical introduction to Rails, an incredibly popular framework that makes it possible to quickly develop incredibly powerful web applications with Ruby. This short book covers Rails 4, the latest version of the framework, and while it's not intended to be a completely comprehensive Rails...

SketchUp is both simple and intuitive; there is no doubt about that. It usually takes a couple of hours to get grips on it and to create your first 3D models. But when you are using it for a professional project – with all the attendant time and quality constraints – you have to get a few things straight first to avoid the...

• Perform high performance calculations with clean and efficient NumPy code
• Analyze large data sets with statistical functions
• Execute...