Month: December 2013
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O’Reilly Media book: Industrial Internet
Industrial Internet: Consumer networks have revolutionized the way companies understand and reach their customers, making possible intricate measurement and accurate prediction at every step of every transaction. The same revolution is underway in our infrastructure, where new generations of sensor-laden power plants, cars and medical devices will generate vast quantities of data that could bring…
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XML Press: DITA for Print
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781937434274.do: DITA for Print takes you step-by-step through the process of building a print customization plugin for the DITA Open Toolkit that will give you control over your PDF output. A tutorial introduction to the DITA Open Toolkit FO/PDF stylesheets.
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“Getting Started with Java SE Embedded on the Raspberry Pi” (by Bill Courington and Gary Collins)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/raspberrypi-1704896.html by Bill Courington and Gary Collins It includes a lot of useful Linux tweaks, that you may want to apply apart from installing Java SE anyway. Resize the SD Card Partitions: About half the card’s space is unallocated. The biggest chunk of free space follows the /dev/sdb3 partition. To add this space to /dev/sdb2 (the…
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf: The Dream Team Nightmare
The Dream Team Nightmare: This first-ever interactive Agile Adventure is the gripping tale of an experienced team struggling with agile adoption. In this unique mashup of a business novel written in the gamebook format, you’ll overcome common yet daunting challenges that come from using agile methods. As Jim, the agile coach, you’ll learn to apply…
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Rocky Nook book: Improving the Test Process – Implementing Improvement and Change – A Study Guide for the ISTQB Expert Level Module
Improving the Test Process: This book covers the syllabus for the Improving the Test Process module of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Expert Level exam. To obtain certification as a professional tester at the Expert Level, candidates may choose to take a course given by an ISTQB accredited training provider and then sit…
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf: Pomodoro Technique Illustrated: The Easy Way to Do More in Less Time
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
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O’Reilly Media book: ZooKeeper – Distributed Process Coordination
ZooKeeper: Building distributed applications is difficult enough without having to coordinate the actions that make them work. This practical guide shows how Apache ZooKeeper helps you manage distributed systems, so you can focus mainly on application logic. Even with ZooKeeper, implementing coordination tasks is not trivial, but this book provides good practices to give you…
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf: The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | The Agile Samurai
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O’Reilly Media book: Heroku: Up and Running
Heroku: Up and Running: Take full advantage of Heroku’scloud-based hosting services. This guide takes you through theinner workings of this PaaS platform and delivers practical advicefor architecting your application to work as efficiently aspossible. You’ll learn best practices for improving speedand throughput, solving latency issues, locating and fixingproblems if your application goes down, and ensuring…
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O’Reilly Media book: HTML5: The Missing Manual
HTML5: The Missing Manual: HTML5 is more than a markup language—it’s a dozen independent web standards all rolled into one. Until now, all it’s been missing is a manual. With this thorough, jargon-free guide, you’ll learn how to build web apps that include video tools, dynamic drawings, geolocation, offline web apps, drag-and-drop, and many other…