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Author: Tom White

Ready to unlock the power of your data? With this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn how to build and maintain reliable, scalable, distributed systems with Apache Hadoop. This book is ideal for programmers looking to analyze datasets of any size, and for administrators who want to set up and run Hadoop clusters.

You’ll find illuminating case studies that demonstrate how Hadoop is used to solve specific problems. This third edition covers recent changes to Hadoop, including material on the new MapReduce API, as well as MapReduce 2 and its more flexible execution model (YARN).

Store large datasets with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
Run distributed computations with MapReduce
Use Hadoop’s data and I/O building blocks for compression, data integrity, serialization (including Avro), and persistence
Discover common pitfalls and advanced features for writing real-world MapReduce programs
Design, build, and administer a dedicated Hadoop cluster—or run Hadoop in the cloud
Load data from relational databases into HDFS, using Sqoop
Perform large-scale data processing with the Pig query language
Analyze datasets with Hive, Hadoop’s data warehousing system
Take advantage of HBase for structured and semi-structured data, and ZooKeeper for building distributed systems

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CSS3: The Missing Manual

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Author: David Sawyer McFarland

CSS3 lets you create professional-looking websites, but learning its finer points can be tricky—even for seasoned web developers. This Missing Manual shows you how to take your HTML and CSS skills to the next level, with valuable tips, tricks, and step-by-step instructions. You’ll quickly learn how to build web pages that look great and run fast on devices and screens of all sizes.

The important stuff you need to know:

Start with the basics. Write CSS3-friendly HTML, including the HTML5 tags recognized by today’s browsers.
Apply real-world design. Format text, create navigation tools, and enhance pages with graphics.
Make your pages lively. Create eye-catching animations and give your visitors attractive tables and forms.
Take control of page layouts. Use professional design techniques such as floats and positioning.
Look great on any device. Craft websites that adapt to desktop, tablet, and mobile browsers.
Get advanced techniques. Use CSS3 more effectively and efficiently, and ensure that your web pages look good when printed.

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C# 5.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference

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Author: Joseph Albahari

When you have a question about C# 5.0 or the .NET CLR, this bestselling guide has precisely the answers you need. Uniquely organized around concepts and use cases, this updated fifth edition features a reorganized section on concurrency, threading, and parallel programming—including in-depth coverage of C# 5.0’s new asynchronous functions.

Shaped by more than 20 expert reviewers, including Microsoft’s Eric Lippert, Stephen Toub, Chris Burrows, and Jon Skeet, this book has all you need to stay on track with C# 5.0. It’s widely known as the definitive reference on the language.

Get up to speed on C# language basics, including syntax, types, and variables
Explore advanced topics such as unsafe code and type variance
Dig deep into LINQ via three chapters dedicated to the topic
Learn about code contracts, dynamic programming, and parallel programming
Work with .NET features, including reflection, assemblies, memory management, security, I/O, XML, collections, networking, and native interoperability

"C# 5.0 in a Nutshell is one of the few books I keep on my desk as a quick reference."

—Scott Guthrie, Microsoft

"Whether you’re a novice programmer or an expert who wants to improve your knowledge of modern asynchronous programming techniques, this book has the information you need to get the job done in C#."

—Eric Lippert, Microsoft

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Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites

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Author: Robin Nixon

If you're familiar with HTML, using the information in Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and CSS, you will quickly learn how to build interactive, data-driven websites with the powerful combination of PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and CSS - the top technologies for creating modern sites. This hands-on guide explains each technology separately, shows you how to combine them, and introduces valuable web programming concepts such as objects, XHTML, cookies, and session management.

Carefully paced for non-programmers, this second edition of the top-selling guide to web development now also provides an extensive introduction to CSS, and benefits from reader questions and suggestions about the first edition, making the new edition even easier to follow and more information-packed than ever.

Plus, to ensure your have understood all the main points, you'll practice what you've learned with review questions at the end of each chapter, and there's even a sample social networking platform built with the elements introduced in this book.

Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and CSS will enable you to:

Understand PHP up to an intermediate level, including the basics of object-oriented programming
Master MySQL, from database structure to complex queries
Create web pages with PHP and MySQL by integrating forms and other HTML features
Learn about JavaScript, from functions and event handling to accessing the Document Object Model
Pick up the basics of CSS (and CSS3) and learn how to use it to create compelling and dynamic web pages.
Find out how to manipulate CSS properties directly from JavaScript
Make Ajax calls and turn your website into a highly interactive environment
Upload and manipulate files and images, validate user input, and secure your applications
Bring all these technologies together to create a social networking site

Features:

Understand PHP essentials
Object-oriented programming
Create web pages with PHP and MySQL
Make Ajax Calls

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Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series)

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Author: Ash Maurya

We live in an age of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. We're building more products than ever before, but most of them fail--not because we can't complete what we set out to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product.
What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. That's the promise of Running Lean.

In this inspiring book, Ash Maurya takes you through an exacting strategy for achieving a "product/market fit" for your fledgling venture, based on his own experience in building a wide array of products from high-tech to no-tech. Throughout, he builds on the ideas and concepts of several innovative methodologies, including the Lean Startup, Customer Development, and bootstrapping.

Running Lean is an ideal tool for business managers, CEOs, small business owners, developers and programmers, and anyone who's interested in starting a business project.

Find a problem worth solving, then define a solution
Engage your customers throughout the development cycle
Continually test your product with smaller, faster iterations
Build a feature, measure customer response, and verify/refute the idea
Know when to "pivot" by changing your plan's course
Maximize your efforts for speed, learning, and focus
Learn the ideal time to raise your "big round" of funding

"If you are starting a company, or want to adopt the Lean Startup approach, Running Lean is a must read."

- Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundary Group

Exclusive Interview with Ash Maurya, Author of Running Lean

Q. Why is your book "Running Lean" especially important now?
We live at a time where we have so much power at our fingertips, where we are building more products than ever before. But the odds of building successful products haven't gone up. We're simply building more stuff nobody wants. What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting and building successful products. That is the promise of "Running Lean."

Q. What is the top reason startups fail?
Most startups fail, not because they fail to build the product they want to build, but they fail to find a market for their product before running out of resources.

Q. What reason do you attribute for this failure?
Entrepreneurs are typically most passionate about their solution and often spend a disproportionate amount of time perfecting their solution only to find they were optimizing something nobody wanted.

Q. What do founders need to start doing now in order to achieve success?
The first step is shifting their mindset. The "true product" of a startup is not the solution, but the business model. Once founders start thinking of the business model as "the product," they start prioritizing risks differently. The key to building a successful product is maximizing learning about what's riskiest per unit time. Sometimes that's the underlying solution, but often times it's not.

Q. Describe the top tactical technique for systematically building a startup in today's economy?
A core part of the process is identifying what's riskiest and then doing the smallest thing possible to test that risk. From this principle you can derive specific tactics to fit your particular product. For instance, in the book I argue that you can initially test a lot of what's risky without building the product first using proxies like customer interviews, mockups, and videos.

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AngularJS

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Author: Brad Green

Develop smaller, lighter web apps that are simple to create and easy to test, extend, and maintain as they grow. This hands-on guide introduces you to AngularJS, the open source JavaScript framework that uses Model–view–controller (MVC) architecture, data binding, client-side templates, and dependency injection to create a much-needed structure for building web apps.

Guided by two engineers who worked on AngularJS at Google, you’ll walk through the framework’s key features, and then build a working AngularJS app—from layout to testing, compiling, and debugging. You’ll learn how AngularJS helps reduce the complexity of your web app.

Dive deep into Angular’s building blocks and learn how they work together
Gain maximum flexibility by separating logic, data, and presentation responsibilities with MVC
Assemble your full app in the browser, using client-side templates
Use AngularJS directives to extend HTML with declarative syntax
Communicate with the server and implement simple caching with the $http service
Use dependency injection to improve refactoring, testability, and multiple environment design
Get code samples for common problems you face in most web apps

Q&A with Brad Green, author of "AngularJS"

Q. What makes this book important right now?

A. Angular's popularity has increased dramatically this year. It's gone from being used by early adopters to mainstream deployments at big companies like Netflix, HBO, Morgan Stanley, Salesforce.com, Intuit, eBay, and, of course, Google. We're hoping this book makes widespread adoption easier for individuals and whole teams wanting to experience the benefits of Angular.

Q. What information do you hope that readers of your book will walk away with?

A. We've focused the book on Angular's core concepts like data binding, dependency injection, and directives and explained how to use them to eliminate boilerplate, organize your code, and extend HTML's syntax to succinctly express the intent of your application. We also hope that we've shown how Angular makes it trivial to write and run tests as a core part of your development process.

Q: What's the most exciting thing happening in your space?

A. In general, we're excited that web development is moving from the wild west of hand-built applications to getting huge productivity gains by using a framework. In addition to the incredible apps folks are developing, we're very excited about the many developer tools and libraries created to work with Angular. Yeoman.io has AngularJS generators to automate your dependency management. Salesforce.com released an Angular-specific mobile development pack. BreezeJS provides rich database management capabilities. AngularUI , KendoUI , Wijmo, and many others have rich component libraries. We're excited to see what comes next.

Q. Can you give us a few tips to get us started with AngularJS?

Get used to writing tests early! We've made it easy and built the fastest test runner on the planet so you get instant feedback on changes to code.
AngularJS apps are structured differently from what you might be used to in jQuery. In Angular, you drive all UI updates by changing model data and binding part of your template appropriately. This includes hiding and showing parts of your app, switching views, and displaying any data.
For the best user experience, make sure you use ng-href, ng-src, and ng-img instead of href, src, and img in your templates. Without these, you may see side effects while the page is loading.
In Angular, there is no main method. Angular takes care of all application bootstrapping and assembling your application based on your specifications the template. If you find you really need to execute a function on load, you can do this through your application module's run() function. For example: var app = angular.module('myApp', []); app.run(function() { // your initialization code... }

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R Cookbook (O'Reilly Cookbooks)

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Author: Paul Teetor

With more than 200 practical recipes, this book helps you perform data analysis with R quickly and efficiently. The R language provides everything you need to do statistical work, but its structure can be difficult to master. This collection of concise, task-oriented recipes makes you productive with R immediately, with solutions ranging from basic tasks to input and output, general statistics, graphics, and linear regression.

Each recipe addresses a specific problem, with a discussion that explains the solution and offers insight into how it works. If you’re a beginner, R Cookbook will help get you started. If you’re an experienced data programmer, it will jog your memory and expand your horizons. You’ll get the job done faster and learn more about R in the process.

Create vectors, handle variables, and perform other basic functions
Input and output data
Tackle data structures such as matrices, lists, factors, and data frames
Work with probability, probability distributions, and random variables
Calculate statistics and confidence intervals, and perform statistical tests
Create a variety of graphic displays
Build statistical models with linear regressions and analysis of variance (ANOVA)
Explore advanced statistical techniques, such as finding clusters in your data

"Wonderfully readable, R Cookbook serves not only as a solutions manual of sorts, but as a truly enjoyable way to explore the R language—one practical example at a time." —Jeffrey Ryan, software consultant and R package author

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Learning Perl

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Author: Randal L. Schwartz

If you're just getting started with Perl, this is the book you want—whether you're a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Nicknamed "the Llama" by two generations of users, this bestseller closely follows the popular introductory Perl course taught by the authors since 1991. This 6th edition covers recent changes to the language up to version 5.14.

Perl is suitable for almost any task on almost any platform, from short fixes to complete web applications. Learning Perl teaches you the basics and shows you how to write programs up to 128 lines long—roughly the size of 90% of the Perl programs in use today. Each chapter includes exercises to help you practice what you've just learned. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer.

Topics include:

Perl data and variable types
Subroutines
File operations
Regular expressions
String manipulation (including Unicode)
Lists and sorting
Process management
Smart matching
Use of third party modules

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Version Control with Git: Powerful tools and techniques for collaborative software development

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Author: Jon Loeliger

Get up to speed on Git for tracking, branching, merging, and managing code revisions. Through a series of step-by-step tutorials, this practical guide takes you quickly from Git fundamentals to advanced techniques, and provides friendly yet rigorous advice for navigating the many functions of this open source version control system.

This thoroughly revised edition also includes tips for manipulating trees, extended coverage of the reflog and stash, and a complete introduction to the GitHub repository. Git lets you manage code development in a virtually endless variety of ways, once you understand how to harness the system’s flexibility. This book shows you how.

Learn how to use Git for several real-world development scenarios
Gain insight into Git’s common-use cases, initial tasks, and basic functions
Use the system for both centralized and distributed version control
Learn how to manage merges, conflicts, patches, and diffs
Apply advanced techniques such as rebasing, hooks, and ways to handle submodules
Interact with Subversion (SVN) repositories—including SVN to Git conversions
Navigate, use, and contribute to open source projects though GitHub

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Getting Started with Raspberry Pi (Make: Projects)

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Author: Matt Richardson

What can you do with the Raspberry Pi, a $35 computer the size of a credit card? All sorts of things! If you’re learning how to program, or looking to build new electronic projects, this hands-on guide will show you just how valuable this flexible little platform can be.

This book takes you step-by-step through many fun and educational possibilities. Take advantage of several preloaded programming languages. Use the Raspberry Pi with Arduino. Create Internet-connected projects. Play with multimedia. With Raspberry Pi, you can do all of this and more.

Get acquainted with hardware features on the Pi’s board
Learn enough Linux to move around the operating system
Pick up the basics of Python and Scratch—and start programming
Draw graphics, play sounds, and handle mouse events with the Pygame framework
Use the Pi’s input and output pins to do some hardware hacking
Discover how Arduino and the Raspberry Pi complement each other
Integrate USB webcams and other peripherals into your projects
Create your own Pi-based web server with Python

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