Shane Willerton06/16/13
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Review of Database Design for Mere Mortals, 3rd Ed.

Disclaimer: I have to admit being biased towards this book. I read the first edition of Database for Mere Mortals when I was just starting my career in database application development 15 years ago...

Siva Prakash06/14/13
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JIRA 5.2 Essentials

JIRA 5 introduces new features and enhancements. This book contains real-life examples and step-by-step instructions. It starts with setting up your own JIRA installation, workflow, time tracking,...

Marco Gatti06/14/13
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Instant Nagios Starter

This is a small book stuffed with a lot of details on how to install (compiling the sources) a recent version of Nagios (3.5.0) and start using this powerful monitoring tool within hours. It...

color zhang06/12/13
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Getting Started with Oracle Event Processing 11g

You maybe have read CQL paper of Stanford STREAM research project. You may be inspired by the ideas of the latest ACM DEBS conference. It’s time to build and implement EDA applications to leverage...

Pierluigi Riti06/07/13
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Review "Instant Net 4.5 Extension Methods how-to"

The book to be discussed today is "Instant NET 4.5 Extension Methods How-To"; as all the books of the same necklace looks faster and easier to read and in my opinion is one book useful for any...

Mike Miller06/05/13
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Getting Started with NoSQL

Overview Unless you've been living under a rock, you have at the very least, heard of NoSQL. You may not know much about it, what types of NoSQL databases exists, what the functionalities they...

Petros Multi05/31/13
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Instant HTML5 Local Storage how-to

Packt Publishing, published a new book titled “Instant HTML5 Local Storage how-to”, by Alex Libby. It’s a very well and clear written book, which provides an easy to understand introduction to...

Shaju Mathew05/31/13
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Review of Android NDK Cookbook from packt

Here's my drilldown: Chapters 1 & 2 are the obligatory introductions(to setup and JNI). The JNI reference(Chapter 2) is detailed - covering JNI caching, optimized array return strategies, clear...

Mark Jensen05/30/13
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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with Sure Step 2012

Having 14 years of ERP experience I was excited to learn more about Dynamics AX. I was expecting a deeply technical book on implementing the application but instead found a logical, straightforward...

Farzan Mohajerani05/29/13
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Instant EaselJS Starter

EaselJS is a great library to work with HTML5 Canvas feature. Especially for flash developers who had experience with Actionscript programming language. Instant EaselJS Starter, as the title...

Ben Wilcock05/29/13
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Book review: SOA Made Simple

Packt Publishing’s latest SOA book: ‘SOA Made Simple‘, claims to lay bare the fundamental strategies, goals, principals, benefits and impacts of service oriented architecture in a way that is easily accessible. In this review we’ll see if these claims are justified.

Juha Ylitalo05/28/13
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Instant Cucumber BDD How-to

Instant Cucumber BDD How-to is a good jumpstart into how cucumber works and how to use it on web sites. Even if you've used cucumber before you might learn trick or two about how to streamline your...

Fabio Radin05/26/13
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Android Native Development Kit Cookbook

The book gives a very detailed and exhaustive description of entry-level, intermediate and advanced techniques that could be used with Android NDK. All chapters, that are more or less independent...

Romain Manni-bucau05/23/13
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Puppet 3 Starter

The book is divided in 4 main parts: What's puppet Its installation Quick start Tips The first part is short but show you with a very simple sample why puppet is important and what...

Romain Manni-bucau05/23/13
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Instant Cucumber BDD How To

Instant Cucumber BDD How to The book is divided in 8 main parts which will drive you from the understanding of the BDD to the advanced usage of Cucumber without forgetting to teach you how to get...