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1. |  By: Mark Lutz Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 24-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 17-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learning Python, 5th Edition Get a comprehensive, in-depth introduction to the core Python language with this hands-on book. Based on author Mark Lutz’s popular training course, this updated fifth edition will help you quickly write efficient, high-quality code with Python. It’s an ideal way to begin, whether you’re new to programming or a professional developer versed in other languages....
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2. | Rough Cuts  By: Simon St. Laurent; J. David Eisenberg Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-DEC-2013 Insert Date: 15-JUN-2013 | Overview: Introducing Elixir Elixir is smooth, powerful, and small, an excellent place for newcomers to learn about functional programming. Elixir combines the robust functional programming of Erlang with an approach that looks more like Ruby. Going well beyond simplifying some of Erlang's odder corners, Elixir reaches toward metaprogramming with poweful macro features....
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3. | Rough Cuts  By: Neil Middleton; Richard Schneeman Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-AUG-2013 Insert Date: 15-JUN-2013 | Overview: Heroku: Up and Running Build, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud with Heroku, one of the first PaaS platforms to offer sophisticated hosting and development services. You’ll learn how to use Heroku’s Cedar runtime stack, a polyglot platform with native support for several languages and frameworks....
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4. | Rough Cuts  By: Stephen Wendel Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-JAN-2014 Insert Date: 14-JUN-2013 | Overview: Designing for Behavior Change This book provides step-by-step instruction for designers and product managers in Behavioral Design: the use of behavioral economics and psychology within products to help people change their daily routines and behavior.
The problem that many designers and product managers face is how to put their new knowledge of psychology to work in an actual product, especially when the behavioral goals of that product extend beyond having the user click on a particular link. Instead of another list of cognitive biases or another model of behavior, they need practical guidance. This book fills that gap:...
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5. |  By: Patrick Niemeyer; Daniel Leuck Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 25-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 14-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learning Java, 4th Edition If you’re new to Java, the fourth edition of this bestselling guide provides an example-driven introduction to the latest language features and APIs in Java 6 and 7. Advanced Java developers will be able to take a deep dive into areas such as concurrency and JVM enhancements....
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6. |  By: Harlan Harris; Sean Murphy; Marck Vaisman Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 14-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 13-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Analyzing the Analyzers There has been intense excitement in recent years around activities labeled "data science," "big data," and "analytics." However, the lack of clarity around these terms and, particularly, around the skill sets and capabilities of their practitioners has led to inefficient communication between "data scientists" and the organizations requiring their services. This lack of clarity has frequently led to missed opportunities. To address this issue, we surveyed several hundred practitioners via the Web to explore the varieties of skills, experiences, and viewpoints in the emerging data science...
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7. |  Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual By: Lesa Snider Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 21-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 11-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual Photoshop CC is truly amazing, but it can also be overwhelming if you’re just getting started. This book makes learning Photoshop as easy as possible by explaining things in a friendly, conversational style—without technical jargon. After a thorough introduction to the program, you’ll delve deep into Photoshop’s secrets with expert tips and practical editing advice you can use every day....
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8. |  By: Kit Seeborg; Andrea Meyer Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 12-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 09-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Present Yourself With the success of SlideShare and other online presentation sites, slide presentations have become the language of business. This practical book demonstrates how you can use this visual language to make the story of your organization, brand, or initiative effective and entertaining—and how social sharing networks like SlideShare, Prezi, and Scribd can present your story to a worldwide audience....
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9. |  Introduction to Online Payments Risk Management By: Ohad Samet Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 13-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 08-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introduction to Online Payments Risk Management If you’ve been tasked with building a team to handle risk management for online payments (RMP), this practical introduction provides a framework for choosing the technologies and personnel you need. Author and financial services executive Ohad Samet explains the components of payments risk management, and presents a coherent strategy and operational approach....
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10. |  By: Lars Schulten Publisher: O'Reilly Verlag Publication Date: 30-APR-2013 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Objective C kurz & gut Knapp, übersichtlich und gut: Wer einen kompakten Überblick über die Strukturen und Syntaxelemente von Objective-C sucht, findet in dieser Kurzreferenz alle Features der Sprache zum schnellen Nachschlagen. Das Bändchen eignet sich für alle Programmierer, die bereits mit anderen Sprachen wie C, Java oder C# vertraut sind und jetzt für den Mac, das iPhone oder das iPad programmieren möchten: Ihnen vermittelt das Buch die Sprachgrundlagen, erläutert ausführlich die Features der NSObject-Schnittstelle und gibt einen knappen Überblick über Compiler und Runtimes. Das Buch bietet darüber hinaus eine...
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11. |  By: Michael Fogus Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 11-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Functional JavaScript While some web developers dismiss JavaScript as a flawed language, this succinct book shows you how to make the best of it by practicing a functional style of JavaScript programming. Written by a core contributor to Clojure and ClojureScript, and author of The Joy of Clojure, this book is packed with not only the how of functional programming, but also the why....
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12. |  Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 12-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Vagrant: Up and Running How does Vagrant boosts the productivity of companies such as Mozilla, RackSpace, LivingSocial, and others? This comprehensive guide shows you how to create and distribute virtualized development environments with this powerful open source tool....
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13. | Rough Cuts  By: Bob DuCharme Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-AUG-2013 Insert Date: 01-JUN-2013 | Overview: Learning SPARQL, 2nd Edition Get hands-on experience with SPARQL, the RDF query language. With this concise book, you will learn how to use the latest version of this W3C standard to retrieve and manipulate the increasing amount of public and private data available via SPARQL endpoints. Several open source and commercial tools already support SPARQL, and this introduction gets you started right away. Substantially expanded and updated to reflect SPARQL 1.1. Recommendation version of specifications....
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14. |  By: Alistair Croll Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 04-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 01-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Propose, Prepare, Present Every year, tens of thousands of companies—from industry giants to aspiring upstarts—apply to speak at conferences. What does it take to be chosen to speak, and to rock the mic when given the chance? This book takes you behind-the-scenes of the conference process, showing you how to submit, plan, and deliver a talk that matters....
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15. |  By: Matt Richardson; Shawn Wallace Publisher: O'Reilly Verlag Publication Date: 15-APR-2013 Insert Date: 31-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Raspberry Pi für Einsteiger Was können Sie mit dem Raspberry Pi machen – einem kreditkartengroßen Computer zum Preis von 35 Euro? Alles! Wenn Sie programmieren lernen oder neue Elektronikprojekte umsetzen möchten, wird Ihnen dieser praktische Ratgeber extrem nützlich sein. Dieses Buch führt Sie Schritt für Schritt durch die unterhaltsamen und lehrreichen Möglichkeiten der Mikrocontroller-Plattform Raspberry Pi. Greifen Sie auf vorinstallierte Programmiersprachen zurück. Nutzen Sie den Raspberry Pi zusammen mit dem Arduino. Erstellen Sie Projekte, die mit dem Internet verbunden sind. Geben Sie Multimedia-Dateien wieder....
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16. |  By: Florian Rudt; Andy Artmann Publisher: O'Reilly Verlag Publication Date: 17-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 28-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Das Buch zu E-Books Das Buch zu E-Books bietet einen kompakten und verständlichen Einstieg in die Welt der digitalen Bücher. Die Autoren unterstützen Sie mit praktischen Anleitungen und Tipps bei Ihren ersten Schritten: beim Auswählen des für Sie passenden Geräts, mit welchen Apps Sie E-Books lesen können, wo und wie Sie kostenpflichtige und kostenlose E-Books finden u.v.m. Technische Aspekte - etwa wie sich EPUBs von PDFs unterscheiden oder warum es häufig Probleme mit DRM gibt - werden verständlich erklärt....
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17. | Rough Cuts  By: Khaled El Emam; Luk Arbuckle Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-OCT-2013 Insert Date: 24-MAY-2013 | Overview: Anonymizing Health Data Clinical and research organizations increasingly want to share patient data, and robust de-identification is crucial to meet legal obligations and or ethical reasons. This book, written by two leading experts in de-identification, explains how to adhere to regulations in a defensible way to protect sensitive patient data. Numerous case studies are included from settings that range from typical clinical treatment to disease registries....
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18. |  Office 2013: The Missing Manual By: Nancy Conner; Matthew MacDonald Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 04-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 24-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Office 2013: The Missing Manual Microsoft Office is the most widely used productivity software in the world, but most people just know the basics. This helpful guide gets you started with the programs in Office 2013, and provides lots of power-user tips and tricks when you’re ready for more. You’ll learn about Office’s new templates and themes, touchscreen features, and other advances, including Excel’s Quick Analysis tool....
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19. | Rough Cuts  By: Yakov Fain; Victor Rasputnis; Anatole Tartakovsky; Viktor Gamov Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-FEB-2014 Insert Date: 24-MAY-2013 | Overview: Enterprise Web Development How do you make your enterprise applications or sites available on an assortment of mobile devices as well as the desktop? This hands-on guide shows you how to build HTML5 applications that will satisfy both requirements....
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20. |  By: Tom Stuart Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 24-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 24-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Understanding Computation Finally, you can learn computation theory and programming language design in an engaging, practical way. Understanding Computation explains theoretical computer science in a context you’ll recognize, helping you appreciate why these ideas matter and how they can inform your day-to-day programming....
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