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Building a Virtual Assistant for Raspberry Pi
The practical guide for constructing a voice-controlled virtual assistant
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Build a voice-controlled virtual assistant using speech-to-text engines, text-to-speech engines, and conversation modules. This book shows you how to program the virtual assistant to gather data from the internet (weather data, data from Wikipedia, data mining); play music; and take notes. Each chapter...
University Startups and Spin-Offs
Guide for Entrepreneurs in Academia
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
University Startups and Spin-Offs teaches university students, researchers, and educators the most effective strategies and tactics for launching their own startups from academic platforms with the backing of school programs, public grants, incubators, seed accelerators, and private partnerships in...
The Innovative CIO
How IT Leaders Can Drive Business Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
“Does your organization fumble when it comes to innovation? ‘The Innovative CIO’ presents a pragmatic guide to overcoming the 10 ‘innovation killers’ within your company.” --Dennis McCafferty “CIO Insight”, 1/23/2013 (www.cioinsight.com/it-management/innovation/slideshows/ten-ways-to-kill-innovation/)
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Practical Salesforce.com Development Without Code
Customizing Salesforce on the Force.com Platform
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Are you facing a challenging Salesforce.com problem--say, relating to automation, configuration, formulation, or reporting--that you can't quite crack? Or maybe you are hoping to infuse some creativity into your solution design strategy to solve problems faster or make solutions more efficient? Practical...
From Techie to Boss
Transitioning to Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2013
From Techie to Boss teaches technical people who are making or mulling the transition from team player to team leader all the management techniques and soft leadership skills they never needed before—but need now, pronto. Veteran team lead and project manager Scott Cromar lays out the classical...
by Jody Kerr, Jon Stephens, Andy Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Just menus? Yes. This book focuses on a single, vitally important task that confronts everyone who builds web sites for use by people: how to code and present menus that are easy to understand and use, that convey what users need to know about the many paths they can take to get to the information...
The Handbook of Professionally Managed Assets
A Definitive Guide to Profiting from Alternative Investments
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This practical guide provides a comprehensive overview of professionally managed assets, or investments in which all portfolio decisions and rebalancing are delegated to a fund manager or third-party advice service. Savvy investors looking to achieve a better understanding of the nuances, benefits,...
It's Splitsville
Surviving Your Divorce
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Thinking about divorce? Already in the process of divorce? You need this book. Divorce is complex, and complications are not what you need when you are facing its emotional and financial pressures.
In It's Splitsville: Surviving Your Divorce, veteran divorce attorney James J. Gross breaks down...
Introduction to Social Media Marketing
A Guide for Absolute Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Easily understand the most important tools and skills in social media marketing. You'll be exposed to Facebook pages and ads, work with Twitter and LinkedIn, save time with Hootsuite, and learn social media monitoring. If you are completely new to social media marketing and you want to learn the...
by Mark Beckner
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Developers, programmers, technical architects, and consultants: You are highly skilled and have deep commitment to your craft as well as the motivation to excel. It’s time to step away from the perceived security of a full-time salaried position, or a marginally successful solo business, and step...
Mastering Structured Data on the Semantic Web
From HTML5 Microdata to Linked Open Data
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
A major limitation of conventional web sites is their unorganized and isolated contents, which is created mainly for human consumption. This limitation can be addressed by organizing and publishing data, using powerful formats that add structure and meaning to the content of web pages and link related...
Good Habits for Great Coding
Improving Programming Skills with Examples in Python
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Improve your coding skills and learn how to write readable code. Rather than teach basic programming, this book presumes that readers understand the fundamentals, and offers time-honed best practices for style, design, documenting, testing, refactoring, and more.
Taking an informal, conversational...
Healthy SQL
A Comprehensive Guide to Healthy SQL Server Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
"Robert Pearl, a well-known DBA in the SQL community, explains his holistic vision of a database instance that needs regular check-ups and gives the tools, scripts, and best practices he has collected over the years." Alberto Bolchini, Computing Reviews, May 9, 2016
Healthy SQL is...
by Deepak Vohra
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Learn the fundamental foundations and concepts of the Apache HBase (NoSQL) open source database. It covers the HBase data model, architecture, schema design, API, and administration.
Apache HBase is the database for the Apache Hadoop framework. HBase is a column family based NoSQL database...