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High Performance Drupal: Fast and Scalable Designs

Jeff Sheltren · O'Reilly Media
Format: Paperback

How can you help your Drupal website continue to perform at the highest level as it grows to meet demand? This comprehensive guide provides best practices, examples, and in-depth explanations for solving several performance and scalability issues. You’ll learn how to apply coding...
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Web Scraping with Python: Collecting More Data from the Modern Web

Ryan E Mitchell · O'Reilly Media
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback

If programming is magic then web scraping is surely a form of wizardry. By writing a simple automated program, you can query web servers, request data, and parse it to extract the information you need. The expanded edition of this practical book not only introduces you web scraping, but also...
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Beyond Bullet Points: Using PowerPoint to tell a compelling story that gets results

CLIFF ATKINSON · Microsoft Press
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Unlock the amazing story buried in your presentation-and forget boring, bullet-point-riddled slides forever! Guided by communications expert Cliff Atkinson, you'll walk through an innovative, three-step methodology for increasing the impact of your presentation. Discover how to combine...
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Office 2016 in Easy Steps

Michael Price · In Easy Steps
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Office 2016 in Easy Steps guides you through Microsoft's latest version of Office, so you can soon master its new features.It concentrates on the most useful and productive elements of Office 2016, covering the basics of Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.Aimed at both new and experienced...
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Quicken 2016 The Official Guide

Bobbi Sandberg · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

Fully authorized by Intuit, this practical volume has been revised to cover the latest release of the #1 bestselling personal finance software. You will learn how to manage finances, save money, and find current balances -- even via mobile devices. The book provides professional advice...
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3D Printing for Artists, Designers and Makers

Stephen Hoskins · Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback

Fully revised and with a new chapter and international case studies, this second edition of the best-selling book traces how artists and designers continue to adapt and incorporate 3D printing technology into their work and explains how the creative industries are directly interfacing with...
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Get Programming: Learn to code with Python

Ana Bell · Manning Publications
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Whether readers want to become a professional software developer, create web sites, analyze scientific data, or just automate tedious business tasks, learning to program is the first step. Fortunately, learning to program doesn't have to be difficult. Get Programming: Learn to code...
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PostgreSQL: Up and Running: A Practical Introduction to the Advanced Open Source Database

Regina O. Obe · O'Reilly Media; 2 edition
Format: Book

Thinking of migrating to PostgreSQL? This clear, fast-paced introduction helps you understand and use this open source database system. Not only will you learn about the enterprise class features in versions 9.2, 9.3, and 9.4, you'll also discover that PostgeSQL is more than a database...
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HTML5 Games: Novice to Ninja

Earle Castledine · Sitepoint
Pages: 350
Format: Print book

Start developing your own browser-based HTML5 games! This fun book will show you how it's possible for anyone to build impressive, fast games using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and open web technologies; games that would have previously only been possible with the help of proprietary plugins...
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The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz · The New Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In his too-short life, Aaron Swartz reshaped the Internet, questioned our assumptions about intellectual property, and touched all of us in ways that we may not even realize. His tragic suicide in 2013 at the age of twenty-six after being aggressively prosecuted for copyright infringement...
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Raspberry Pi User Guide

Gareth Halfacree · Wiley; 3 edition
Format: Paperback

The unofficial official guide to the Raspberry Pi, complete with creator insight Raspberry Pi User Guide, 3rdEdition contains everything you need to know to get up and running with Raspberry Pi. This book is the go-to guide for Noobs who want to dive right in. This updated third edition...
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Crash Override: How Gamergate

Zoe? Quinn · PublicAffairs
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

You've heard the stories about the dark side of the internet--hackers, #gamergate, anonymous mobs attacking an unlucky victim, and revenge porn--but they remain just that: stories. Surely these things would never happen to you.Zoe Quinn used to feel the same way. She is a video game developer...
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The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence

AMIR HUSAIN · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Michio Kaku's The Future of the Mind, acclaimed technologist and inventor Amir Husain answers the universal question of how we can live amidst the coming age of sentient machines and artificial intelligence - and not only survive, but thrive.The future is now. Artificial...
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CEH: Certified Ethical Hacker Version 8 Study Guide

Sean-Philip Oriyano · Sybex; 1 edition
Format: Book

Prepare for the new Certified Ethical Hacker version 8 exam with this Sybex guideSecurity professionals remain in high demand. The Certified Ethical Hacker is a one-of-a-kind certification designed to give the candidate a look inside the mind of a hacker. This study guide provides a concise,...
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Head First Android Development

Dawn Griffiths · O'Reilly Media
Pages: 734
Format: Paperback

What will you learn from this book?If you have an idea for a killer Android app, this book will help you build your first working application in a jiffy. You'll learn hands-on how to structure your app, design interfaces, create a database, make your app work on various smartphones...
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