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  • Becoming Functional

    Steps for Transforming Into a Functional Programmer

    If you have an imperative (and probably object-oriented) programming background, this hands-on book will guide you through the alien world of functional programming. Author Joshua Backfield begins slowly by showing you how to apply the most useful implementation concepts before taking you further into functional-style concepts and practices.In each chapter, you’ll learn a functional concept and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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    42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14

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  • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

    Collective Wisdom from the Experts

    by Kevlin Henney ...
    Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every programmer should know, no matter what language you use. With the 97 short and extremely useful tips for programmers in this book, you'll expand your skills by adopting new approaches to old problems, learning appropriate best practices, and honing your craft through sound advice.With contributions from some of the most experienced and respected ... Read more

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  • Mastering Regular Expressions

    Understand Your Data and Be More Productive

    Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data. They are now standard features in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language using the .NET Framework), PHP, and MySQL.If you don't use regular expressions yet, you will discover in this book a whole new world of mastery over your data. If you ... Read more

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  • Regular Expression Pocket Reference

    Regular Expressions for Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, C, Java and .NET

    This handy little book offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as a quick reference, Regular Expression Pocket Reference covers the regular expression APIs for Perl 5.8, Ruby (including some upcoming 1.9 features), Java, PHP, .NET and C#, Python, vi, JavaScript, and the PCRE regular ... Read more

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  • Java 8 Lambdas

    Pragmatic Functional Programming

    If you’re a developer with core Java SE skills, this hands-on book takes you through the language changes in Java 8 triggered by the addition of lambda expressions. You’ll learn through code examples, exercises, and fluid explanations how these anonymous functions will help you write simple, clean, library-level code that solves business problems.Lambda expressions are a fairly simple change to ... Read more

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  • Mobile Design and Development

    Practical concepts and techniques for creating mobile sites and web apps

    by Brian Fling ...
    Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide, yet little information is available for designing and developing mobile applications. Mobile Design and Development fills that void with practical guidelines, standards, techniques, and best practices for building mobile products from start to finish. With this book, you'll learn basic design and development principles ... Read more

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  • RESTful Java with JAX-RS 2.0

    Designing and Developing Distributed Web Services

    by Bill Burke ...
    Learn how to design and develop distributed web services in Java, using RESTful architectural principles and the JAX-RS 2.0 specification in Java EE 7. By focusing on implementation rather than theory, this hands-on reference demonstrates how easy it is to get started with services based on the REST architecture.With the book’s technical guide, you’ll learn how REST and JAX-RS work and when to use ... Read more

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  • Enterprise Service Bus

    Theory in Practice

    Large IT organizations increasingly face the challenge of integrating various web services, applications, and other technologies into a single network. The solution to finding a meaningful large-scale architecture that is capable of spanning a global enterprise appears to have been met in ESB, or Enterprise Service Bus. Rather than conform to the hub-and-spoke architecture of traditional ... Read more

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  • Hadoop Application Architectures

    Designing Real-World Big Data Applications

    Get expert guidance on architecting end-to-end data management solutions with Apache Hadoop. While many sources explain how to use various components in the Hadoop ecosystem, this practical book takes you through architectural considerations necessary to tie those components together into a complete tailored application, based on your particular use case.To reinforce those lessons, the book’s ... Read more

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    The Definitive Guide

    by Tom White ...
    Hadoop: The Definitive Guide helps you harness the power of your data. Ideal for processing large datasets, the Apache Hadoop framework is an open source implementation of the MapReduce algorithm on which Google built its empire. This comprehensive resource demonstrates how to use Hadoop to build reliable, scalable, distributed systems: programmers will find details for analyzing large datasets, ... Read more

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  • Learning Scala

    Practical Functional Programming for the JVM

    by Jason Swartz ...
    Why learn Scala? You don’t need to be a data scientist or distributed computing expert to appreciate this object-oriented functional programming language. This practical book provides a comprehensive yet approachable introduction to the language, complete with syntax diagrams, examples, and exercises. You’ll start with Scala's core types and syntax before diving into higher-order functions and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD