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Healthy SQL : A Comprehensive Guide to Healthy SQL Server Performance
Author Robert Pearl
Healthy SQL is about ensuring the ongoing performance health of a SQL Server database. An unhealthy database is not just an inconvenience; it can bring a business to its knees. And if you are the database administrator, the health of your SQL Server implementation c....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Advances in Heavy Tailed Risk Modeling: A Handbook of Operational Risk
Author Pavel V. Shevchenko , Gareth W. Peters
A cutting-edge guide for the theories, applications, and statistical methodologies essential to heavy tailed risk modelingFocusing on the quantitative aspects of heavy tailed loss processes in operational risk and relevant insurance analytics, Advances in Heavy Tai....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Structural Integrity and Durability of Advanced Composites
Author Alma Hodzic , Constantinos Soutis , Peter Beaumont
Structural Integrity and Durability of Advanced Composites: Innovative Modelling Methods and Intelligent Design presents scientific and technological research from leading composite materials scientists and engineers that showcase the fundamental issues and practic....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Author Matteo Pescarin
Embrace 360-degree testing on your Yii 2 projects using CodeceptionIn DetailTesting your application often and early is a key consideration in modern web development. PHP developers using the high-performance PHP framework Yii have access to Codeception, a testing s....
Release Date 2015/04 -
Make a 2D RPG in a Weekend: With RPG Maker VX Ace
Author Darrin Perez
Make a 2D RPG in a Weekend shows you how to create your very own dungeon crawler game in RPG Maker VX Ace in a single weekend. The entire process, from start to finish, is covered within this book. You will see a variety of dungeon maps and events, all broken down f....
Release Date 2015/04 -
Getting a Networking Job For Dummies
Author Bill Hughes , Peter H. Gregory
Everything you need to start your career in computer networkingLooking to land that computer networking position? Look no further! Getting a Networking Job For Dummies offers all the tools and step-by-step guidance you need to stand out from the crowd, get your foot....
Release Date 2015/04 -
How to Connect with Your iTeen
Author Linda Perlman Gordon , Susan Morris Shaffer
Bullying, gangs, social media, smartphones, reality TV . . . meet the real-life firewall for keeping teens safeHow To Connect With Your iTeen is the lifeline every Twenty-First century parent or educator needs. This realistic guide shows adults how to reopen commun....
Release Date 2015/04 -
Building Machine Learning Systems with Python - Second Edition
Author Luis Pedro Coelho , Willi Richert
Get more from your data through creating practical machine learning systems with PythonIn DetailUsing machine learning to gain deeper insights from data is a key skill required by modern application developers and analysts alike. Python is a wonderful language to de....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Storm Applied: Strategies for real-time event processing
Author Sean T. Allen , Matthew Jankowski , and Peter Pathirana
SummaryStorm Applied is a practical guide to using Apache Storm for the real-world tasks associated with processing and analyzing real-time data streams. This immediately useful book starts by building a solid foundation of Storm essentials so that you learn how to ....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Handbook of Public Administration, 3rd Edition
Author James L. Perry , Robert K. Christensen
The fundamentals of public administration, from the world's leading practitionersHandbook of Public Administration is the classic, comprehensive guide to the field, featuring original writings from the world's foremost public administration thought leaders and pra....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Peter Drucker's Five Most Important Questions
Author Joan Snyder Kuhl , Frances Hesselbein , Peter F. Drucker
Enduring Management Wisdom for Today's Leaders From Peter F. Drucker.Peter Drucker's Five Most Important Questions provides insightful guidance and stirring inspiration for today's leaders and entrepreneurs. By applying Drucker's leadership framework in the pre....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Social Security For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Author Jonathan Peterson
Praise for Social Security For Dummies:"Social Security for Dummies is a must read for people of any age who want a comfortable retirement. Jonathan Peterson does a great job of explaining this complicated system and helps you understand how to get the most from the....
Release Date 2015/03 -
The Telecommunications Handbook: Engineering Guidelines for Fixed, Mobile and Satellite Systems
Author Jyrki T. J. Penttinen
This practical handbook and reference provides a complete understanding of the telecommunications field supported by descriptions and case examples throughoutTaking a practical approach, The Telecommunications Handbook examines the principles and details of all of t....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, 5th Edition
Author David K. Irving , Peter Rea
Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Fifth Edition is the definitive book on the subject for the serious film student or beginning filmmaker. Its unique two-fold approach looks at filmmaking from the perspectives of both the producer and director, and c....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Author Francis Perea
Enter the world of Arduino and its peripherals and start creating interesting projectsIn DetailThe Arduino is an open source microcontroller built on a single circuit board that is capable of receiving sensory input from its environment and controlling interactive p....
Release Date 2015/02 -
Xamarin Cross-platform Application Development - Second Edition
Author Jonathan Peppers
Develop production-ready applications for iOS and Android using XamarinIn DetailDeveloping a mobile application for just one platform is becoming a thing of the past. Companies expect their apps to be supported on both iOS and Android, while leveraging the best nati....
Release Date 2015/02 -
Author Paulo A Pereira
Unleash the full power of programming in Elixir with over 60 incredibly effective recipesIn DetailThis book is a set of recipes grouped by topic that acts as a good reference to get ideas from or to quickly search for a solution to a problem. You will begin by launc....
Release Date 2015/02 -
Author Nick Pentreath
Create scalable machine learning applications to power a modern data-driven business using SparkIn DetailApache Spark is a framework for distributed computing that is designed from the ground up to be optimized for low latency tasks and in-memory data storage. It is....
Release Date 2015/02 -
Author Luís Miguel Costa Perestrelo , Rui Santos
The definitive, easy-to-use guide to the popular BeagleBone boardBeagleBone For Dummies is the definitive beginner's guide to using the popular BeagleBone board to learn electronics and programming. Unlike other books that require previous knowledge of electronics....
Release Date 2015/02 -
Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics: A Handbook of Operational Risk
Author Marcelo G. Cruz , Gareth W. Peters , Pavel V. Shevchenko
A one-stop guide for the theories, applications, and statistical methodologies essential to operational riskProviding a complete overview of operational risk modeling and relevant insurance analytics, Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics: ....
Release Date 2015/02 -
Author Marie Perkins
The latest book based on the popular Print & Pattern website, Print & Pattern: Geometric celebrates beautiful surface designs, patterns, and motifs made from geometric shapes such as circles, triangles, hexagons, etc. The patterns included reflect current tr....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Author John A. Pearce , Cornelius de Kluyver
Organizational success crucially depends on having a superior strategy and effectively implementing it. Companies that outperform their rivals typically have a better grasp of what customers value, who their competitors are, and how they can create an enduring compe....
Release Date 2015/01 -
The Community Managers Playbook:How to Build Brand Awareness and Customer Engagement
Author Lauren Perkins
Savvy companies recognize the value of a strong community. Think of Nike and its community of runners, Nike+, and you’ll quickly understand that creating and fostering an online community around a product or brand is a powerful way to boost marketing efforts, ga....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Automated Data Collection with R: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining
Author Dominic Nyhuis , Peter Meissner , Christian Rubba , Simon Munzert
A hands on guide to web scraping and text mining for both beginners and experienced users of RIntroduces fundamental concepts of the main architecture of the web and databases and covers HTTP, HTML, XML, JSON, SQL.Provides basic techniques to query web documents and....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Getting Started with IBM InfoSphere Optim Workload Replay for DB2
Author John Vonau , Tom Toomire , Patrick Titzler , Leif Pedersen , Hassi Norlen , Nisanti M
This IBM® Redbooks® publication will help you install, configure, and use IBM InfoSphere® Optim™ Workload Replay (InfoSphere Workload Replay), a web-based tool that lets you capture real production SQL workload data and then replay the workload data in a pre-product....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Author Charles Pearson
Leverage the power of NGUI for Unity to create stunning mobile and PC games and user interfacesIn DetailNGUI is a robust UI system both powerful and optimized. It is an effective plugin for Unity, which gives you the power to create beautiful and complex user interf....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists: Creating music with ChucK
Author Ajay Kapur , Perry Cook , Spencer Salazar , and Ge Wang
SummaryProgramming for Musicians and Digital Artists: Creating Music with ChucK offers a complete introduction to programming in the open source music language ChucK. In it, you'll learn the basics of digital sound creation and manipulation while you discover the C....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Author Eelco Plugge , Peter Membrey , David Hows
Need a quick and easy to understand introduction to MongoDB and NoSQL databases? MongoDB Basics, from The Definitive Guide to MongoDB, 2E, shows you how a document-oriented database system differs from a relational database, and how to install and get started using ....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Author Darrin Perez
Beginning RPG Maker VX Ace takes you through the process of using the RPG Maker VX Ace game development engine to create your very own role playing game. The book has been designed with the complete beginner in mind who has little to no experience with the engine. T....
Release Date 2014/12