Kamis, 31 Oktober 2013

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Humbug on the Hudson

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 06:20 AM PDT

Humbug on the Hudson by Robert Brucde Stewart

Humbug on the Hudson

by Robert Brucde Stewart

Part mystery, part parody, Humbug on the Hudson is the first Harry Reese short story. In August 1900, Harry is sent upstate to Glens Falls, where he’s to help investigate a major fire. But he has a second mission: to make sure the investigation doesn’t uncover any shady doings that ‘the right people’ would prefer kept quiet. Harry encounters a variety of surprises, not the least of which involves his wife, Emmie. But that the chief arson suspect is found dead in a canal comes as no surprise at all.

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Inspirational Lessons From Inspirational People

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 06:15 AM PDT

Inspirational Lessons From Inspirational People by Mohammad Kassem

Inspirational Lessons From Inspirational People

by Mohammad Kassem

This eBook highlight the individuals that have really made a difference with their own way in the world, hopefully forth their messages will supply mighty reminders of faith, humanity and peace in your life.

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Improper Improvisations 2

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 06:11 AM PDT

Improper Improvisations 2 by Aussiescribbler

Improper Improvisations 2

by Aussiescribbler

Sweet, saucy tales to tickle more than just your funny bone. Meet : Hester the nude life-saver; Lara, who has a therapeutic need to orally pleasure men; Henrietta the lesbian would-be Houdini; and Wild West whore Kitty Sweet whose customers include Liberty Valance and Jesse James. Join the food fun with two celebrity chefs. And dip into the Horny Planet Guide to Global Bonking. All this and more.

An interesting phenomena of the on-line erotica writing community has been the writing challenge in which one blogger provides a prompt word on a particular day each week and others produce a piece of writing in response.

These eight short stories and one poem were improvised in response to such prompt words. A simple everyday word went into Aussiescribbler’s brain and out came a raunchy romp filled with playful sex, plentiful puns and often pointed parody.

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Selasa, 29 Oktober 2013

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The Cat at Light’s End

Posted: 29 Oct 2013 06:20 AM PDT

The Cat at Light's End by Charlie Dickinson

The Cat at Light’s End

by Charlie Dickinson

A family lives out of a beater van with an inspirational cat.

Software engineer Nelse pursues barista CaraJo, only to be hoisted on his lookist petard.

An errant husband discovers his true love in a high-tech tweaking of the familiar December-May adultery story.

These, plus eleven other stories, all first posted online at Amarillo Bay, Mississippi Review, Southern Cross Review, and other literary e-zines, are brought together in this story collection, The Cat at Light’s End.

Characters in The Cat at Light’s End range from fourteen weeks to one hundred two years, and yet the story of each offers up another slice of timeless human experience.

‘Clarity of thought, deepness of emotion, wisdom and compassion, all embedded in well-wrought, surprising, affecting sentences.’ – Paul Di Filippo, author of The Steampunk Trilogy

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Dead Energy – An Alex Cave adventure (Episode 1)

Posted: 29 Oct 2013 06:15 AM PDT

Dead Energy - An Alex Cave adventure (Episode 1) by James M. Corkill

Dead Energy – An Alex Cave adventure (Episode 1)

by James M. Corkill

Alex Cave is leisurely cruising his sailboat in Puget Sound when a hysterical voice on an oil tanker begs for help on the radio. He sees the behemoth ship through his binoculars an instant before it is engulfed in a brilliant flash of white light. He responds to the mayday and arrives before the coast Guard, and discovers the crew and 80,000 tons of crude oil have mysteriously vanished without a trace.

Alex Cave is just a geophysics teacher for a university in the town of Bozeman, Montana, USA, but he is also ex-CIA. The Director of National Security, Martin Donner, is his friend, and asks him to help the coast guard in solving what starts out as a small problem of stolen crude oil.

Initial thoughts are of a major oil leak, but none is found. When the bodies of the crew are found frozen to death on a mountain top one-hundred and fifty miles away, Alex realizes there is more going on than just stealing oil.

Things go from bad to worse as more tankers are attacked and their crews killed. The few witnesses all claim to see a bright light and a rainbow effect surrounding the tankers, but don’t know how it happened. The Alaska pipeline and west coast refineries are suddenly empty, and Transportation of basic necessities cannot reach the cities. Chaos reigns and common citizens turn to primal instincts to survive. Panic grips the nation as more oil disappears.

Alex teams up with the supervisor for the All Alaska oil Company in Valdez Alaska, a man affectionately known as Bull by his crew, and Christa Avery, a Physicist working with oil samples from the Alaska pipeline. Together they try to discover why all the oil is disappearing, and the mastermind behind the theft and murders. The only clue the trio has is a strange crystal that was found in the hold of one of the empty oil tankers. Under closer inspection, it seems the crystal is alive.

Meanwhile, people in the northwestern states are trying to survive, which has now become the one rule. The AOS, Army of Survival, initially recruits people who wish to learn the skill of survival. Now that skill is becoming a fact of life, and the army starts keeping people against their wills, and training them to become soldiers. John Everex, the new leader, is a man on a mission. He rules without compassion and kills without Mercy. As one would expect, Everex and Alex’s paths cross, with dire consequences for one of them.

Harold Woolley is a meek man, with a demanding wife and two teen age children. He becomes caught up in the struggle to survive, and mistakenly ends up at the AOS camp. When his lack of courage threatens his family, he tries to become the brave man needed to get them out of their desperate situation, but after being a coward his entire life, he doesn’t think he can change.

Dead Energy has many different characters, and many different parts of the basic story, which all come together in the conclusion. Each episode has one common thread tying each story into a series, but each episode is a new story, and can stand alone. Dead energy was originally published in 2002, and this second edition was rewritten to be the first in the series of Alex Cave adventures, and rEPUBlished 2013.

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The Hardest Word

Posted: 29 Oct 2013 06:11 AM PDT

The Hardest Word by Paul Samael

The Hardest Word

by Paul Samael

Does the banking crisis make you feel angry, frustrated and powerless? Perhaps it’s time you did something about that feeling. You could, for example, kidnap a banker. On second thoughts, don’t do that – try reading this short story instead.

‘[A] fast-moving, tense and compelling drama’ – Tom Lichtenberg.

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Rabu, 23 Oktober 2013

Wow! eBook: Testing Cloud Services - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Testing Cloud Services - 5 new eBooks

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Testing Cloud Services

Posted: 23 Oct 2013 09:16 AM PDT

Book Description

Everybody is confronted with cloud computing. Whether you are a user, designer, programmer, project manager, or tester, sooner or later the cloud affects your work. If you are involved in selecting or implementing services from the cloud, or in keeping them up and running, this book will prove to be an invaluable resource.

Testing Cloud Services covers an extensive list of risks that arise when implementing cloud computing, including some traditional risks and some completely new ones, and provides strategies for avoiding these risks and solving problems. Every risk is connected to existing, updated, and new test measures. It is necessary to start testing during the selection of cloud services, and continue end-to-end testing even after going live, as continuity risks arise all the time.

With this book in hand, you will save a lot of time and discover an effective approach to testing that can be applied in practice immediately!

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. What is Cloud Computing?
Chapter 3. Role of the Test Manager
Chapter 4. From Risk to Test
Chapter 5. Test Measures
Chapter 6. Completion

Book Details

  • Paperback: 184 pages
  • Publisher: Rocky Nook (September 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1937538389
  • ISBN-13: 978-1937538385
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Mastering the Nikon D7100

Posted: 23 Oct 2013 09:13 AM PDT

Book Description

Mastering the Nikon D7100 by Darrell Young provides a wealth of experience-based information and insights for owners of the new D7100 camera. Darrell is determined to help the user navigate past the confusion that often comes with complex and powerful professional camera equipment.

This book explores the features and capabilities of the camera in a way that far surpasses the user’s manual. It guides readers through the camera features with step-by-step setting adjustments; color illustrations; and detailed how, when, and why explanations for each option. Every button, dial, switch, and menu configuration setting is explored in a user-friendly manner, with suggestions for setup according to various shooting styles.

Darrell’s friendly and informative writing style allows readers to easily follow directions, while feeling as if a friend dropped in to share his knowledge. The learning experience for new D7100 users goes beyond just the camera itself and covers basic photography technique.

Table of Contents

  • Camera Body Reference
  • Colors and Wording Legend
  • Basic Camera Setup
  • Playback Menu
  • Shooting Menu
  • Custom Setting Menu
  • Setup Menu
  • Retouch Menu
  • My Menu and Recent Settings
  • Metering, Exposure Modes, and Histogram
  • White Balance
  • Autofocus, AF-Area, and Release Modes
  • Live View Photography
  • Movie Live View
  • Speedlight Flash

Book Details

  • Paperback: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Rocky Nook (September 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 193753832X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1937538323
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Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Network, 3rd Edition

Posted: 23 Oct 2013 09:05 AM PDT

Book Description

Make your network fast, reliable, and secure! (Updated August 29, 2013)

Updated for Apple’s latest 802.11ac AirPort base stations (and yes, the title of this book will have to change soon)!

Find real-world advice from Wi-Fi wizard Glenn Fleishman on setting up a wireless network using Apple’s 802.11n- and 802.11ac-enabled AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express, and Time Capsule base stations. The ebook is packed with directions for enhancing an AirPort network, whether you’re replacing an old base station, adding another base station to extend your range, improving your security, connecting a USB-attached printer or drive, or setting up a guest network.

You’ll find the answers to questions that may otherwise frustrate you, such as how to choose the best band and channel, set up complex Internet addressing, solve a variety of connection problems, and much more.

Glenn explains how to configure an 802.11n and/or 802.11ac AirPort network using AirPort Utility 6 or AirPort Utility for iOS. (AirPort Utility 6 runs only in 10.7 Lion and later.) The ebook includes a free download of the previous edition (version 2.0), which describes using AirPort Utility 5. (AirPort Utility 5 runs on 10.5 Leopard – 10.7 Lion, as well as on Windows computers.)

“This Take Control book is a must-have for anyone who needs to quickly and easily set up an AirPort network.” –Phil Kearney, “father” of Apple’s AirPort product line

If you’re trying to solve a particular problem, you can jump in and read the topics in this ebook in any order, but if you start at the beginning, you’ll learn how Apple’s 802.11n and 802.11ac gear fits into the world of Wi-Fi networking.

With that background, you’ll learn where to position and how to set up base stations, with diagrams showing common network scenarios–see two examples above–and with step-by-step instructions for configuring key Internet sharing and security options and connecting client computers. For those who have funky Internet connections or tricky IP addressing needs, Glenn provides extended advice for creating a working Wi-Fi network.

Glenn provides real-world directions for important scenarios, including how to:

Create a basic (or not so basic) Wi-Fi network, using Apple’s base stations:

  • Set up a wireless network with a single base station, or with multiple base stations – whether you want to extend a network with Ethernet or a wireless connection (or a mix of the two), Glenn examines your options and provides configuration steps. He also touches briefly on powerline connections.
  • Keep your existing network, but replace an older or broken base station with a new one.
  • Export your base station’s configuration, either to make a backup or to create a model configuration to use on other base stations.
  • Connect Macs (10.5 Leopard and later), iOS devices, and Windows 7 and 8 computers to your network.
  • Set up reliable and relevant security for your network. Also, add a guest network that gives your guests Internet access while restricting their access to local resources.

Attach peripherals to your network:

  • Add a Wi-Fi or USB-connected printer, and connect to the printer from Mac and Windows computers.
  • Add a USB-attached drive to a Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme, and configure client access.
  • Connect a 2nd- or 3rd-generation Apple TV to your network

Do more networking:

  • Set up a Time Machine backup to a Time Capsule base station.
  • Expand the capabilities of an AirPort Express by setting up audio streaming, trying Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil media streaming utility, or extending your network with ProxySTA.
  • Share files conveniently and wirelessly between Macs with the AirDrop file-transfer feature, plus understand the type of networking that AirDrop uses.
  • Put computers more directly on the Internet with port mapping or a default host.
  • Set up Back to My Mac with iCloud in order to access an AirPort or Time Capsule drive remotely, or to configure your base station remotely.
  • Set up a Software Base Station or do ad-hoc networking.

Understand what’s going on and solve problems:

  • Find out what the icon on your Wi-Fi menu means, and discover what the colored light on your base station is trying to tell you.
  • Learn what a MAC address is, plus how to find it. (Hint, 1 Infinite Loop is not the MAC address that you seek.)
  • Read background information about the bands and channels used with Wi-Fi networking, understand how Apple’s Wi-Fi gear fits into the picture, and get ideas for how to create an optimal network that avoids interference problems.
  • Understand the differences among AirPort Utility 6 (for Mac), AirPort Utility for iOS, and AirPort Utility 5 (for Mac and Windows). Find a free download link for the previous edition of this ebook, which covers AirPort Utility 5.
  • Learn how to update the firmware in your base station, and how to revert to an older version of your firmware, if necessary.

“If anyone knows about real-world Wi-Fi, it’s Glenn Fleishman.” –Mark Frauenfelder, co-founder of bOING bOING

Book Details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: TidBITS Publishing, Inc. (September 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1615424059
  • ISBN-13: 978-1615424054
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Take Control of Your Digital Photos on a Mac

Posted: 23 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Book Description

Build a digital workflow to import, tag, rate, and organize your photos!

Why bother taking photos if you can’t find them later? If you want to be able to lay your hands on any given photo in your ever-expanding library, digital photography expert Jeff Carlson has developed a simple system you can use to make your photo collection browsable, searchable, and generally navigable!

Jeff leads off by helping you understand the strengths and weaknesses of the four most popular photo-management applications: iPhoto and Aperture from Apple, and Lightroom and Photoshop Elements from Adobe. Once you’ve picked the app that’s right for you (and there’s a chapter on migrating photos), you’ll learn how to create a custom workflow for importing, evaluating, keywording, and tagging your photos so they are quickly sorted into logical groups. For each of these essential aspects of your workflow, Jeff provides step-by-step instructions for each of the four covered applications. And since it’s all too easy to lose everything if you don’t have backups, Jeff discusses the best way to back up and archive your photos to protect your irreplaceable photographic memories.

In the process of creating your custom digital photo workflow, you’ll find expert advice about each of these photo-management topics:

  • Shooting smarter: Make sure your camera is set to the correct time (and time zone), choose a file format, and think about capturing geolocation data while you’re out taking photos.
  • Choosing the right app: Learn about the pros and cons of the most popular photo-management applications–iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, and Photoshop Elements–and find directions for how to migrate your photos from iPhoto to Aperture or Lightroom, or from Aperture to Lightroom.
  • Importing photos: Make your Mac apply keywords and other tags in a batch during import, and make sure you’re storing files in a place that makes sense going forward.
  • Judging photos: Get time-tested tips for rating individual photos and learn how to deal with bad photos, whether you want to delete them, hide them, or leave them be.
  • Assigning metadata: Once your camera and your computer have assigned as much metadata as possible automatically, you’ll need to do the final bits yourself. Jeff describes how to think about this process, and he gives you specific steps for how to proceed efficiently.
  • Putting photos in albums: With your metadata successfully applied, it’s time to enjoy the fruits of your labor! Learn how to set up smart albums to collect and display your photos automatically.
  • Planning for the future: Digital photos can’t be damaged by water or tossed accidentally when cleaning house, but at the same time, a hard disk failure could destroy every photo you own. And what about preserving them for your kids? Jeff discusses how you can back up your precious photos and archive them for future generations.

Bonus! Includes a 20% off coupon for SizzlPix! , high-def photographic prints infused onto an aluminum base. These hand-crafted prints are largely free of glare, are waterproof (some are installed in showers and pools), and have an ultra-hard coating that renders them virtually scratch-proof.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 135 pages
  • Publisher: TidBITS Publishing, Inc. (September 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1615424261
  • ISBN-13: 978-1615424269
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Take Control of Your Online Privacy

Posted: 23 Oct 2013 08:57 AM PDT

Book Description

Learn what’s private online (not much)–and what to do about it!

Do you have anything to hide? Whether or not you think you do, your online activities are certainly tracked — and not just by well-meaning sites who want to keep you logged in or by marketing firms who want to show you targeted ads for products that you likely want to buy.

In the full book, Joe helps you gain perspective on what is reasonable to expect about online privacy and develop a sensible online privacy strategy, customized for your needs. He then explains how to enhance the privacy of your Internet connection, Web browsing, email messages, online chatting, social media interactions, and file sharing. To bring home the most important privacy no-nos, Joe also encourages you to take The Pledge (OK, it’s tongue-in-cheek, though it would have saved numerous politicians from ridicule and career-ending gaffes). Plus, parents will find important riinders about how your online actions can affect your children, far into the future.

Whether you have a Mac or PC, iOS or Android device, set-top box, cell phone, or some other network-enabled gadget, Take Control of Your Online Privacy has the advice that ordinary people need to handle common privacy needs (secret agents should really look elsewhere). You’ll receive savvy advice about:

  • Why worry? Learn about who wants your private data, and, more important, why they want it. Even if you don’t believe you have anything to hide, you almost certainly do, in the right context. Would you give just anyone your financial records or medical history? Didn’t think so.
  • Set your privacy meter: Develop your own set of personal privacy rules — everyone has different privacy buttons, and it’s important to figure out which are important to you.
  • Manage your Internet connection: Understand privacy risks, prevent snoops, and take key precautions to keep your data from leaking out.
  • Browse and search the Web: Learn what information is revealed about you when you use the Web. Avoid bogus Web sites, connect securely where possible, control your cookies and history, block ads, browse and search anonymously, and find out who is tracking you. Also, learn how to protect your passwords and credit card data.
  • Send and receive email: Find out how your email could be intercepted, consider when you want email to be extra private (such as when communicating with a doctor or lawyer), find out why Joe doesn’t recommend email encryption as a solution to ordinary privacy needs (but find pointers for how to get started if you want to try it — or just encrypt an attachment, which is easier), get tips for sending email anonymously, and read ideas for alternatives to email.
  • Talk and chat online: Consider to what extent any phone call, text message, or online chat is private and find tips for enhancing your privacy when using these channels.
  • Watch your social media sharing: Social media is by definition social, so there’s a limit to how private it can be. Understand the risks and benefits of sharing personal information online, tweak your settings, and consider common-sense precautions.
  • Share files: What if you want to share (or collaborate on) a contract, form, or other document that contains confidential or personal information? Find out about the best ways to share files via file server, email attachment, cloud-based file sharing service, peer-to-peer file sharing, or private cloud.
  • Help your children: As a parent, you know a lot about your children and you have access to lots of photos of thi. But that doesn’t mean you should share everything without a thought to your children’s privacy needs, either now or in the future, since data never disappears from the Internet. Find a few key tips to keep in mind before you tell all.

If I don’t live in the United States, does this book pertain to me?

Many of the examples in this book are taken from the United States. Although laws and policies vary from country to country, nearly everything in this book is applicable in some fashion to anyone in the world.

I am a journalist and need to protect my sources. Plus, I think a few governments are tracking my movements. Will this ebook help me to ensure my privacy?

This book could be a good start if you are unfamiliar with these matters, but it does not have the depth of technical detail that you require. The intention of this ebook is to help ordinary people address ordinary privacy concerns, within the scope of a short book.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 118 pages
  • Publisher: TidBITS Publishing, Inc. (September 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1615424253
  • ISBN-13: 978-1615424252
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Selasa, 22 Oktober 2013

Wow! eBook: SharePoint 2013 Branding and User Interface Design - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: SharePoint 2013 Branding and User Interface Design - 5 new eBooks

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SharePoint 2013 Branding and User Interface Design

Posted: 22 Oct 2013 01:16 PM PDT

Book Description

Plan, design, and launch a brand in SharePoint

If you are planning, designing, and launching your brand using SharePoint, this book and author trio will walk you through everything you need to know in an understandable and approachable way. From specific technologies such as master pages, page layouts, and CSS to offering best-practices and real-world experience for creating successful branding projects through SharePoint 2013, you will learn how to approach your branding project in effective new ways. This visual book provides step-by-step instructions in a simple and striking format that focuses on each of the tasks you will face in your own branding project.

  • Explains the various approaches to SharePoint branding and methodologies for creating an engaging UI.
  • Guides you through planning for branding and using the Design Manager to start a design.
  • Addresses implementing modern web techniques such as HTML5, jQuery, and mobile responsive design into SharePoint.
  • Explores creating SharePoint branding for public facing websites as well as internal intranets, including a deep dive into how custom SharePoint branding is created from scratch. Provides coverage on designing apps for SharePoint.

Table of Contents
Part 1: The Basics
Chapter 1. What is SharePoint Branding and UI Design?
Chapter 2. SharePoint Overview
Chapter 3. Working with the SharePoint 2013 User Interface

Part 2: Planning a Design and Getting Started
Chapter 4. Planning for Branding
Chapter 5. Using the Design Manager to Start a Design in SharePoint
Chapter 6. Cascading Style Sheets and SharePoint

Part 3: Advanced SharePoint Branding
Chapter 7. Creating Custom Master Pages and Page Layouts
Chapter 8. Advanced SharePoint Branding Tasks
Chapter 9. Creating Content Rollups with SharePoint WCM
Chapter 10. Composed Looks and Custom Branding

Part 4: Other Branding Concepts
Chapter 11. Modern Web Design and SharePoint
Chapter 12. Designing Apps

Book Details

  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Wrox (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118495675
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118495674
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Professional Hadoop Solutions

Posted: 22 Oct 2013 01:13 PM PDT

Book Description

The go-to guidebook for deploying Big Data solutions with Hadoop

Today’s enterprise architects need to understand how the Hadoop frameworks and APIs fit together, and how they can be integrated to deliver real-world solutions. This book is a practical, detailed guide to building and implementing those solutions, with code-level instruction in the popular Wrox tradition. It covers storing data with HDFS and Hbase, processing data with MapReduce, and automating data processing with Oozie. Hadoop security, running Hadoop with Amazon Web Services, best practices, and automating Hadoop processes in real time are also covered in depth.

With in-depth code examples in Java and XML and the latest on recent additions to the Hadoop ecosystem, this complete resource also covers the use of APIs, exposing their inner workings and allowing architects and developers to better leverage and customize them.

  • The ultimate guide for developers, designers, and architects who need to build and deploy Hadoop applications
  • Covers storing and processing data with various technologies, automating data processing, Hadoop security, and delivering real-time solutions
  • Includes detailed, real-world examples and code-level guidelines
  • Explains when, why, and how to use these tools effectively
  • Written by a team of Hadoop experts in the programmer-to-programmer Wrox style

Professional Hadoop Solutions is the reference enterprise architects and developers need to maximize the power of Hadoop.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Big Data and the Hadoop Ecosystem
Chapter 2. Storing Data in Hadoop
Chapter 3. Processing Your Data with MapReduce
Chapter 4. Customizing MapReduce Execution
Chapter 5. Building Reliable MapReduce Apps
Chapter 6. Automating Data Processing with Oozie
Chapter 7. Using Oozie
Chapter 8. Advanced Oozie Features
Chapter 9. Real-Time Hadoop
Chapter 10. Hadoop Security
Chapter 11. Running Hadoop Applications on AWS
Chapter 12. Building Enterprise Security Solutions for Hadoop Implementations
Chapter 13. Hadoop's Future

Book Details

  • Paperback: 504 pages
  • Publisher: Wrox (September 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118611934
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118611937
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Windows Azure Web Sites

Posted: 22 Oct 2013 01:09 PM PDT

Book Description

A no-nonsense guide to maintaining websites in Windows Azure

If you’re looking for a straightforward, practical guide to get Azure websites up and running, then this is the book for you. This to-the-point guide provides you with the tools you need to move and maintain a website in the cloud. You’ll discover the features that most affect developers and learn how they can be leveraged to work to your advantage. Accompanying projects enhance your learning experience and help you to walk away with a thorough understanding of Azure’s supported technologies, site deployment, and management tools and how to monitor and scale their application.

  • Addresses the creation, deployment, and scaling of applications
  • Looks at supported project types and technologies
  • Reviews source control integration and release management
  • Walks you through scaling, configuring, and monitoring your site
  • Provides a project built on the ASP.NET MVC framework that demonstrates many core features of Windows Azure websites

Windows Azure Websites is an ideal resource for anyone who develops web applications and wants to move them to the cloud.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Windows Azure and Fundamental Concepts
Chapter 2. Moving an Application to the Cloud
Chapter 3. Managing Deployments via Source Control
Chapter 4. Managing Windows Azure Web Sites from the Console
Chapter 5. Working with Other Flavors of Windows Azure Web Sites
Chapter 6. Using Peripheral Features with Windows Azure Web Sites
Chapter 7. Scaling, Configuring, and Monitoring Your Site
Chapter 8. Deploying and Configuring a Cloud Application

Book Details

  • Paperback: 120 pages
  • Publisher: Wrox (July 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118678524
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118678527
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Windows Azure Hybrid Cloud

Posted: 22 Oct 2013 01:06 PM PDT

Book Description

An essential resource for implementing and managing a cloud infrastructure in Azure

Serving as a critical resource for anyone responsible for strategizing, architecting, implementing or managing a cloud infrastructure, this book helps you understand what is hybrid IT and how it’s applicable (and inevitable) in today’s world of emerging cloud. The team of authors focus on the Microsoft concept of a private/public cloud, deploying a private cloud fabric, deploying services, and building a private cloud, as well as integrating it with Microsoft’s public cloud to create a cross-premises or public cloud.

  • Looks at why hybrid IT is important to a business and what benefits a business can expect by adopting hybrid cloud
  • Examines a cloud management platform and discusses why it is necessary
  • Walks you through the different kinds of solutions for IT problems that may arise
  • Places a focus on considerations for ensuring resiliency, availability, and scalability when designing hybrid solutions to prevent system failure and data loss
  • Covers optimizing the performance of the hybrid cloud as well as using tools that help you monitor and manage the performance of the hybrid cloud

Windows Azure Hybrid Cloud helps you gain a better understanding of the hybrid IT environments, why those clouds should be implemented, and how they impact business.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. What is Hybrid IT?
Chapter 2. Why Is the Hybrid Cloud Important to My Business?
Chapter 3. Project Planning
Chapter 4. What You Need to Know About Windows Azure As a Platform
Chapter 5. Private Cloud Components and Services That Help to Build Hybrid Clouds
Chapter 6. Hybrid Options in Windows Azure
Chapter 7. Designing for Resiliency and Scalability
Chapter 8. Optimizing for Performance
Chapter 9. Monitoring and Management for Successful Operations
Chapter 10. Final Hybrid Cloud Considerations

Book Details

  • Paperback: 120 pages
  • Publisher: Wrox (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118708679
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118708675
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Excel VBA 24-Hour Trainer

Posted: 22 Oct 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Book Description

Increase your productivity and save time and effort with Excel VBA

This unique book-and-DVD package prepares you to get more out of Excel by using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to automate your routine or labor-intensive Excel tasks. Microsoft Excel MVP and author Tom Urtis walks through a series of lessons while the accompanying DVD provides demos to complement each lesson. Urtis takes an in-depth look at how manual tasks in Excel can be programmed with VBA for greater speed, efficiency, and accuracy. You’ll learn how to use VBA to manipulate Excel in ways you may never have thought possible.

Excel VBA 24-Hour Trainer:

  • Introduces you to VBA and discusses topics including object oriented programming, variable declaration, objects and collections, and arrays
  • Teaches you how to write your own macros for programming loops, events, charts, pivot tables and pivot charts, and user-defined functions
  • Shows you how to customize the look and feel of Excel with User Forms, Input Boxes, Message Boxes, and embedded controls
  • Examines advanced topics including class modules, add-ins, and retrieving external data with ADO and SQL
  • Demonstrates how to interact with other Office Applications from Excel, including Word, Access®, PowerPoint®, and Outlook®

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Note: As part of the print version of this title, video lessons are included on DVD. For e-book versions, video lessons can be accessed at wrox.com using a link provided in the interior of the e-book.

Table of Contents
Section I: Understanding the BASICs
Lesson 1. Introducing VBA
Lesson 2. Getting Started with Macros
Lesson 3. Introducing the Visual Basic Editor
Lesson 4. Working in the VBE

Section II: Diving Deeper into VBA
Lesson 5. Object-oriented Programming — An Overview
Lesson 6. Variables, Data Types, and Constants
Lesson 7. Understanding Objects and Collections
Lesson 8. Making Decisions with VBA

Section III: Beyond the Macro Recorder.  Writing Your Own Code
Lesson 9. Repeating Actions with Loops
Lesson 10. Working with Arrays
Lesson 11. Automating Procedures with Worksheet Events
Lesson 12. Automating Procedures with Workbook Events
Lesson 13. Using Embedded Controls
Lesson 14. Programming Charts
Lesson 15. Programming PivotTables and PivotCharts
Lesson 16. User Defined Functions
Lesson 17. Debugging Your Code

Section IV: Advanced Programming Techniques
Lesson 18. Creating UserForms
Lesson 19. UserForm Controls and Their Functions
Lesson 20. Advanced UserForms
Lesson 21. Class Modules
Lesson 22. Add-Ins
Lesson 23. Managing External Data
Lesson 24. Data Access with ActiveX Data Objects
Lesson 25. Not Gone, Not Forgotten

Section V: Interacting with Other Office Applications
Lesson 26. Overview of Office Automation from Excel
Lesson 27. Working with Word from Excel
Lesson 28. Working with Outlook from Excel
Lesson 29. Working with Access from Excel
Lesson 30. Working with PowerPoint from Excel

Book Details

  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Wrox (May 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 047089069X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470890691
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