Senin, 10 September 2012

Wow! eBook: Getting Started with Storm - 6 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Getting Started with Storm - 6 new eBooks

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Getting Started with Storm

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:58 AM PDT

Getting Started with Storm

Book Description

Even as data is turning the world upside down, the next revolution is taking shape: realtime data . Data tools like are batch-oriented; they’re good at taking a set of data, analyzing it, and giving you the result later. But these tools are not particularly good at handling streaming data: data that is constantly arriving, and results that are changing as fast as the data arrives. Storm is a new tool that solves that problem. This book gets you started with it.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Basics
Chapter 2. Getting Started
Chapter 3. Topologies
Chapter 4. Spouts
Chapter 5. Bolts
Chapter 6. A Real-Life Example
Chapter 7. Using Non- Languages with Storm
Chapter 8. Transactional Topologies

Appendix A. Installing the Storm Client
Appendix B. Installing Storm
Appendix . Real Life Example Setup

Book Details

  • Paperback: 104 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly (August 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449324010
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449324018
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The Accessibility Handbook

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:50 AM PDT

The Accessibility Handbook

Book Description

Get practical guidelines for making your accessible to people with disabilities. With this , you'll learn or develop a site that conforms to Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act—and in the process you'll discover provide a better user experience for everyone.

The Accessibility introduces you to several audiences that have difficulty using today's complex websites, including people with blindness, hearing loss, physical disabilities, and cognitive disorders. Learn support assistive technologies, and understand which fonts, colors, page layouts, and other elements work best—without having to exclude advanced functions, hire outside help, or significantly increase overhead.

Develop solutions that accommodate:

  • Complete blindness. Create a logical document flow to support screen readers
  • Low vision and color blindness. Optimize images and color schemes, and ensure your site enlarges gracefully
  • Hearing impairment. Provide captions and visual alerts for interactive features
  • Physical disabilities. Make forms, popups, and navigation easier to use
  • Cognitive disorders. Adapt fonts and text styles for dyslexic users, and design consistent, well-organized pages for people with ADHD

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Complete Blindness
Chapter 2. Visual Accessibility—Other Types
Chapter 3. Accessibility
Chapter 4. Physical Accessibility
Chapter 5. Cognitive Disabilities
Chapter 6. Selling Accessibility
Chapter 7. Additional Resources

Book Details

  • Paperback: 100 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly (August 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449322859
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449322854
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The Connected Company

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:45 AM PDT

The Connected Company

Book Description

The future of work is already here.

Customers are adopting disruptive technologies faster than your company can adapt. When your customers are delighted, they can amplify your message in ways that were never before possible. But when your company's runs short of what you've promised, customers can seize control of your brand message, spreading their disappointment and frustration faster than you can keep up.

To keep pace with today's connected customers, your company must become a connected company. That means deeply engaging with workers, partners, and customers, changing how work is done, how you measure success, and how is rewarded. It requires a new way of thinking about your company: less like a machine to be controlled, and more like a complex, dynamic system that can learn and adapt over time.

Connected companies have the advantage, because they learn and move faster than their competitors. While others work in isolation, they link into rich networks of possibility and expand their influence.

Connected companies around the world are aggressively acquiring customers and disrupting the competition. In The Connected Company, we examine what they're doing, how they're doing it, and why it works. And we show you how your company can use the same principles to adapt—and thrive—in today's ever-changing global marketplace.

Table of Contents
Part I: Why change?
Chapter 1. The connected customer
Chapter 2. The service economy
Chapter 3. Everything is a service
Chapter 4. Services are complex
Chapter 5. How companies lose touch
Chapter 6. Structural change is necessary
Chapter 7. Complexity changes the

Part II: What is a connected company?
Chapter 8. Connected companies learn
Chapter 9. Connected companies have a purpose
Chapter 10. Connected companies get customer feedback
Chapter 11. Connected companies experiment

Part III: How does a connected company work?
Chapter 12. Wrangling complexity
Chapter 13. The future is podular
Chapter 14. Pods have control of their own fate
Chapter 15. Pods need platforms
Chapter 16. How connected companies learn
Chapter 17. Power and control in networks

Part IV: How do you lead a connected company?
Chapter 18. Strategy as a Pool of Experiments
Chapter 19. Leading the connected company
Chapter 20. Managing the connected company

Part V: How do you get there from here?
Chapter 21. The Risks of Connectedness
Chapter 22. Starting the journey

Appendix A. Bibliography
Appendix B. Discussion Questions

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly (August 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 144931905X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449319052
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Shipping Greatness

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:37 AM PDT

Shipping Greatness

Book Description

Need a shortcut to a degree in shipping great software? Successful team leaders must have an extremely broad skill set to find the right product, work through a complex and ever-changing process, and do it all incredibly quickly. In this guide, Chris Vander Mey provides a simplified, no-BS approach to the entire software , distilled from lessons he learned as a manager at and .

In the first part of the book, you'll learn a step-by-step shipping process used by many of the best teams at and . Part II shows you the techniques, best practices, and skills you need to face an array of challenges in product, program, , and engineering .

  • Clearly define your product and develop your mission and strategy
  • Assemble your team and understand enough about systems to communicate with them
  • Create a beautiful, intuitive, and simple user experience
  • Track your team's deliverables and closely manage the process
  • Communicate clearly to gracefully handle requests, senior- interactions, and feedback from various sources
  • Build metrics to track progress, spot problems, and celebrate success
  • Stick to your launch checklist and plan for marketing and

Table of Contents
Part I: The Shipping Greatness Process
Chapter 1. Build a Great Mission and Strategy
Chapter 2. Define a Great Product
Chapter 3. How to Build a Great User Experience
Chapter 4. How to Achieve Management Greatness on a Budget
Chapter 5. How to Do a Great Job
Chapter 6. How to Measure Greatness
Chapter 7. How to Have a Great Launch

Part II: The Shipping Greatness Skills
Chapter 8. How to Build a Shipping-Ready Team
Chapter 9. How to Build Great, Shippable Technology
Chapter 10. How to Be a Great Shipping Communicator
Chapter 11. How to Make Great Decisions
Chapter 12. How to Stay a Great Person While Shipping
Chapter 13. That Was Great; Let's Do It Again

Appendix A. 10 Principles of Shipping
Appendix B. Essential Artifacts Your Team Needs
Appendix . References and Further Reading
Appendix D. How to Contact Us

Book Details

  • Paperback: 228 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly (August 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449336574
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449336578
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Surviving Orbit the DIY Way

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:32 AM PDT

Surviving Orbit the DIY Way

Book Description

Is your picosatellite ready for launch? Can it withstand rocket thrusts and the vacuum of space? This do-it-yourself guide helps you conduct a series of hands-on tests designed to check your satellite's readiness. Learn precisely what the craft and its components must endure if they're to function properly in Low Earth Orbit.

The perfect follow-up to Satellite Platforms (our primer for and building a picosatellite), this book also provides an overview of what space is like and how orbits work, enabling you to set up the launch and orbit support you'll need.

  • Go deep into the numbers that describe conditions your satellite will face
  • Learn mitigate the risks of radiation in the ionosphere
  • Pick up enough formal systems engineering to understand what the tests are all about
  • Build a thermal vacuum chamber for mimicking environment of space
  • Simulate the rocket launch by building and running a vibration shake test
  • Use a homebuilt centrifuge to conduct high G-force tests
  • Get guidelines on scheduling tests and choosing an appropriate lab or clean room

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Life as a Satellite
Chapter 2. The Measure of Space
Chapter 3. Space Radiation Environment
Chapter 4. Formalism
Chapter 5. Thermal Vacuum Chamber
Chapter 6. Launch Tests
Chapter 7. G-Force
Chapter 8. Good Test Procedures

Book Details

  • Paperback: 92 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly / Make (August 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449310621
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449310622
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Illustrated Guide to Home Forensic Science Experiments

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:29 AM PDT

Illustrated Guide to Home Forensic Science Experiments

Book Description

Have you ever wondered whether the forensic science you've seen on TV is anything like the real thing? There's no better way to find out than to roll up your sleeves and do it yourself. This full-color book offers advice for setting up an inexpensive home lab, and includes more than 50 hands-on lab sessions that deal with forensic science experiments in , chemistry, and . You'll learn the practical skills and fundamental knowledge needed to pursue forensics as a lifelong hobby—or even a career.

The forensic science procedures in this book are not merely educational, they're the real deal. Each chapter includes one or more lab sessions devoted to a particular topic. You'll find a complete list of equipment and chemicals you need for each session.

  • Analyze soil, hair, and fibers
  • Match glass and plastic specimens
  • Develop latent fingerprints and reveal blood traces
  • Conduct drug and toxicology tests
  • Analyze gunshot and explosives residues
  • Detect forgeries and fakes
  • Analyze impressions, such as tool marks and footprints
  • Match pollen and diatom samples
  • Extract, isolate, and visualize samples

Through their company, The Home Scientist, LLC (thehomescientist.com/forensics), the authors also offer inexpensive custom kits that provide specialized equipment and supplies you'll need to complete the experiments. Add a microscope and some common household items and you're good to go.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly / Make (August 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449334512
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449334512
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