Selasa, 18 Juni 2013

Wow! eBook: Practical Raspberry Pi - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Practical Raspberry Pi - 5 new eBooks

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Practical Raspberry Pi

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 09:10 AM PDT

Book Description

Practical Raspberry Pi takes you quickly through the hardware and software basics of the Raspberry Pi. Author Brendan Horan then gets you started on a series of fun and practical projects, including a simple temperature sensor, a media center, a real-time clock, and even a security monitoring device, all of which require minimal programming experience.

Along with these projects, you’ll learn all about the Raspberry Pi hardware, including how it can be so powerful and still so small and inexpensive, why it’s so suitable as a video player, and how you can customize it for different tasks, including running different operating systems on it, including Android and RISC OS.

The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive but relatively powerful little computer. It was designed to get kids interested in computing and programming, but it’s also a great platform for hardware hackery. The projects in this book will get you deep into the hardware to show you what the Raspberry Pi can really do.

What you'll learn

  • An overview of Raspberry Pi hardware
  • How to get your Pi up and running with Linux
  • How to use your Pi for sensing temperature and driving a simple character LCD
  • How to create a media player with your Raspberry Pi
  • How to use your Pi as a serial console server
  • How to set up your Pi to be a security monitoring device
  • Other operating systems for your Pi, including Gentoo, Android, and RISC OS

Who this book is for
Electronics enthusiasts who want to try out the Raspberry Pi, Linux fans who want to create useful projects with the Pi, or anyone interested in learning more about computing, electronics, and networking with this inexpensive and fun little computer.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Hardware Overview
Chapter 2. Installing Fedora
Chapter 3. A Simple Temperature Sensor
Chapter 4. Driving a Simple Character LCD
Chapter 5. Security Monitoring Device
Chapter 6. Cross Compile Environment
Chapter 7. Mini Media Center
Chapter 8. Adding an RTC
Chapter 9. Serial Server
Chapter 10. Controlling a Mains Device
Chapter 11. Other Operating Systems

Book Details

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430249714
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430249719
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LEGO Technic Robotics

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 09:05 AM PDT

Book Description

Building robots is a snap with LEGO Technic Robotics! This book shows you how to use LEGO bricks and Power Functions components such as motors and remote controls to create all kinds of robots. Best of all, you don't have to learn any programming. You just need your imagination and the expert building principles that you'll find inside LEGO Technic Robotics.

Author Mark Rollins teaches you the hows and whys of Technic project design. You're not just snapping pieces here and there; with LEGO Technic Robotics you're actively learning the fundamentals of good design so you can go on to create truly spectacular LEGO robot creations.

From robots that run on wheels, walk on two or four legs, or move and function in ways that only you can dream up, this book will help you create your own robot army. Turn to LEGO Technic Robotics and build with real power!

After you've mastered the techniques in this book, if you're looking to build more creations, check out Practical LEGO Technics, also written by Mark Rollins, and discover how to build vehicles that can roll, run, and more.

What you'll learn

  • Create a wheeled base for a LEGO Technic robot
  • Construct a walking LEGO Technic robot
  • Control the hands and arms on your robot
  • Attach motors and a remote control your robot

Who this book is for
LEGO or robotics enthusiasts, or anyone who wants to make fun robots with LEGO Technic.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Where to Begin with Your LEGO Technic Robot Kit
Chapter 2. Creating a Robot Body
Chapter 3. Bring Your LEGO Technic Robots to Life with Power Functions
Chapter 4. Designing a Robot Arm
Chapter 5. Creating Robots with Extensions
Chapter 6. The Robot Head
Chapter 7. Enabling a LEGO Technic Robot to Walk

Appendix A. Parts List

Book Details

  • Paperback: 300 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430249803
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430249801
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Compensating Your Employees Fairly

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 09:01 AM PDT

Book Description

Compensation fairness is a universal preoccupation in today's workplace, from whispers around the water cooler to kabuki in the C-suite. Gender discrimination takes center stage in discussions of internal pay equity, but many other protected characteristics may be invoked as grounds for alleging discrimination: age, race, disability, physical appearance, and more. This broad range of vulnerability to discrimination charges is often neglected in corporate assessments of how well compensation systems comply with the law and satisfy employee norms of fairness. Blind spots in general equity constitute a serious threat to organizational performance and risk management. In Compensating Your Employees Fairly, a respected practitioner and consultant lays out in practical terms everything you need to know to protect your company along the full spectrum of internal pay equity issues, including all the technical methods you need to optimize compliance and minimize risk.

Compensating Your Employees Fairly is a timely survey and comprehensive handbook for compensation specialists, HR professionals, EEO compliance officers, and in-house counsel. It provides all the information you need to ensure that compensation systems are equitable, auditable, internally consistent, and externally compliant with equal employment opportunity laws and regulations. The author presents technical information—both legal and statistical—in common-sense terms. Her non-technical breakdown of complex statistical concepts distills just as much as practitioners need to know in order to effectively deploy and interpret the standard applications of statistical analysis to internal pay equity. The focus throughout the book is on real-world application, current examples, and up-to-the-minute information on recent and pending wrinkles in the evolving legal landscape.

Readers of Compensating Your Employees Fairly will learn:

  • Why internal equity in compensation matters
  • How to detect intentional and non-intentional discrimination in compensation
  • The basics of statistical inference and multiple regression analysis
  • The essentials of data availability, measurability, and collection
  • The criteria for assessing compensation systems for internal equity
  • How to investigate potential problems and react to formal complaints and actions
  • How to avoid litigation and put in place ongoing measures for proactive self-auditing

What you'll learn
Readers of Compensating Your Employees Fairly will learn:

  • Why internal equity in compensation matters
  • How to detect intentional and non-intentional discrimination in compensation
  • How to investigate potential problems and react to formal complaints and actions
  • How to avoid litigation and put in place ongoing measures for proactive self-auditing

Who this book is for
HR professionals, compensation specialists, EEO compliance officers, in-house counsel, and employment attorneys will find invaluable the expert author's non-technical treatment of the technical issues that are essential to understanding all facets of internal pay equity. Without a working understanding of how to make their data tell a clear story, these various professionals cannot ensure that their compensation systems are equitable, auditable, and demonstrably compliant with equal employment opportunity laws and regulations.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Why Equity in Compensation Matters
Chapter 2. Types of Discrimination in Compensation
Chapter 3. Multiple Regression Analysis
Chapter 4. The Data
Chapter 5. Regression Models of Equal Pay
Chapter 6. Other Tests of Equal Pay
Chapter 7. Analysis Follow-Up
Chapter 8. The Changing Landscape of Pay Equity Enforcement
Chapter 9. Causes of the Gender Pay Gap
Chapter 10. Litigation Avoidance and Proactive Self-Analysis

Appendix. The Basics of Statistical Inference

Book Details

  • Paperback: 308 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430250402
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430250401
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From Techie to Boss

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 08:57 AM PDT

Book Description

From Techie to Boss teaches technical people who are making or mulling the transition from team player to team leader all the management techniques and soft leadership skills they never needed before—but need now, pronto. Veteran team lead and project manager Scott Cromar lays out the classical management training course, but stripped down to precisely the essentials that techies need to start managing on the fly. He gets it that a front-line techie getting a field promotion to team leader just doesn't have the time to wade through an MBA textbook bulging with irrelevant material.

The author appreciates how you got to the place where you need this book. Management tapped you instead of some experienced manager from the outside because you know the technical challenges, company culture, and team players better than anyone else: you're ready to hit the ground running. But the skills that make you an excellent techie are not sufficient to make you a successful manager. The rules of your world have abruptly changed. You will now be judged not by your puzzle-solving elegance but by how effectively your team contributes to the organization's bottom line.

From Techie to Boss shows you how to translate and adapt the analytic skills that made you an outstanding techie to your new responsibilities as a technical manager. Even more crucially, this book teaches you a whole new set of interpersonal, organizational, and metrical skills you never needed before, but without which you cannot succeed as a manager.

What you'll learn
The new skills you'll learn for leading technical teams include:

  • Techniques and tips for all aspects of management—project, time, scope, risk, dependency, earned value, quality, team roles, distributed team, global team, and conflict management
  • 90-day plan pointers, such as managing your boss, selecting early wins, defining scope, gathering requirements, developing a WBS, documenting procedures, and compliance
  • Troubleshooting techniques such as Current Reality Tree and Ishikawa diagrams
  • Project scheduling methods, including work breakdown structures and dependency management with GANTT and PERT charts
  • Requirements analysis using UML and Agile

Who this book is for
This book teaches management-caliber techies the skills they'll need to make the jump to being successful project managers and multifunctional operational team leaders, on their way to becoming senior project managers, system and network administrators, and program managers.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Moving into Management
Chapter 2. Your Transition Plan
Chapter 3. Time Management
Chapter 4. Project Management
Chapter 5. Documenting Policies and Procedures
Chapter 6. Building Your Team
Chapter 7. Resolving Conflicts
Chapter 8. Budgets
Chapter 9. Root Cause Analysis
Chapter 10. Influence Networks
Chapter 11. Managing a Dispersed Team
Chapter 12. Managing Software Development Teams
Chapter 13. Visualizing Requirements
Chapter 14. Integrating Third-Party Software
Chapter 15. Managing Outside Your Specialty
Chapter 16. Taking Care of Yourself

Appendix A. GanttProject
Appendix B. PERT and Gantt Analysis

Book Details

  • Paperback: 260 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430259329
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430259329
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Control Your Retirement Destiny

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 08:53 AM PDT

Book Description

“It is a rare pleasure to read a book on personal finance with which I agree completely. Dana Anspach has produced one. I am usually turned off by the chapter on investing, which is typically false and misleading. Investing should always start from the safest strategy to achieve one’s goals. Dana Anspach gets it right and expresses it in entertaining prose that anyone can understand and enjoy.”
—Zvi Bodie, Professor of Economics, Boston University

People in their fifties start to wonder: When should I retire? Once I do, when should I take Social Security? Do I need to buy an annuity to make sure I have enough money to last my whole life? Should I move everything into Treasury Bills and other "safe" investments? In short, what do I need to do now to ensure a comfortable retirement in five or ten years?

Control Your Retirement Destiny: Achieving Financial Security Before the Big Transition provides practical, how-to knowledge on what you need to do to get your finances in order to prepare for a transition out of the workforce. While never easy, retirement investing in your 20s to your early 50s has been straightforward. But as you get closer to the big event—retirement—it takes a different kind of planning to align investments, retirement accounts, taxes, Social Security, and pension decisions, all for a single objective: providing reliable, life-long income. Control Your Retirement Destiny teaches you how each part works, how one decision affects another, and–most importantly–how to focus on the items you can control rather than on the items you can't. When you put it all together in a plan that works for you, you'll have more choices and a greater sense of security about the financial decisions you are making.

Transitioning out of work is scary. Control Your Retirement Destiny equips you with the knowledge you'll need to make sure you've thought of everything. When your finances and your future intersect, you'll be ready. This book:

  • Covers all the major topics in retirement planning—investments, Social Security, annuities, taxes, healthcare, part-time work, and more.
  • Illustrates which items you can control, and how to focus on them.
  • Provides examples of how planning decisions can result in a more secure outcome when they are coordinated.
  • Provides actionable knowledge about important money decisions faced by upcoming retirees.

Control Your Retirement Destiny enables you to take charge of your financial future right now to ensure a happy, financially secure retirement.

What you'll learn
You will be able to:

  • Apply an improved and coordinated process to make better financial decisions
  • Focus on items within your control like tax management, risk management, and developing and sticking with a plan
  • Determine how much investment risk you should take
  • Decide if you need guaranteed income, and if so, how to buy it
  • Choose investments that are best suited to meet your future income needs
  • Avoid big retirement planning mistakes
  • Find sources of reliable information

Who this book is for
Control Your Retirement Destiny: Achieving Financial Security Before the Big Transition is for men and women who are 50-plus, have money in 401(k)s and IRAs and other assets, and are beginning to think about when and how they might transition out of regular, full-time work. They are wondering when to start Social Security, how to choose investments that will provide security, how to account for medical costs and taxes in retirement, and most importantly, how to put all of these things together into a plan that ensures financial security. Readers will be in the top 50% of the population in terms of income and assets, age 50+, do-it-yourself investors, index investors, or investors who aren't getting the answers they need from their current broker, advisor, or mutual fund company.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Your Finances
Chapter 2. Starting with Planning Basics
Chapter 3. Social Security
Chapter 4. Investing
Chapter 5. Taxes
Chapter 6. Insurance, Life, and Disability
Chapter 7. Using Your Company Benefits
Chapter 8. Should You Buy an Annuity?
Chapter 9. Real Estate and Mortgages
Chapter 10. Managing Health Care Costs in Retirement
Chapter 11. Working Before and During Retirement
Chapter 12. Whom to Listen To

Book Details

  • Paperback: 328 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430250224
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430250227
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