FREE EBOOK - Rethinking the Internet of Things 
by Francis daCosta
Over the next decade, most devices connected to the Internet will not be used by people in the familiar way that personal computers, tablets and smart phones are. Billions of interconnected devices will be monitoring the environment, transportation systems, factories, farms, forests, utilities, soil and weather conditions, oceans and resources.Many of these sensors and actuators will be networked into auton...
Price: $5.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
FREE EBOOK - Computer Vision Metrics
by Scott Krig
Computer Vision Metrics provides an extensive survey and analysis of over 100 current and historical feature description and machine vision methods, with a detailed taxonomy for local, regional and global features. This book provides necessary background to develop intuition about why interest point detectors and feature descriptors actually work, how they are designed, with observations about tuning the me...
Price: $32.79 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Automation through Chef Opscode
by Navin Sabharwal, Manak Wadhwa
Automation through Chef Opscode provides an in-depth understanding of Chef, which is written in Ruby and Erlang for configuration management, cloud infrastructure management, system administration, and network management.Targeted at administrators, consultants, and architect, the book guides them through the advanced features of the tool which are necessary for infrastructure automation, devops automation, ...
Price: $52.17 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Beginning HTML5 Games with CreateJS
by Brad Manderscheid
Beginning HTML5 Games with CreateJS provides a hands-on approach to get you up and running with the most comprehensive tools available for HTML5 Canvas game development. Whether you are brand new to making games or an experienced game developer, you'll learn to fully utilize the CreateJS suite to bring your new or existing game techniques to desktop and mobile devices.This book covers everything from c...
Price: $34.75 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Running Mainframe z on Distributed Platforms
by Kenneth Barrett, Stephen Norris
Running Mainframe z on Distributed Platforms reveals alternative techniques not covered by IBM for creatively adapting and enhancing multi-user IBM zPDT environments so that they are more friendly, stable, and reusable than those envisaged by IBM. The enhancement processes and methodologies taught in this book yield multiple layers for system recovery, 24x7 availability, and superior ease of updating and up...
Price: $51.63 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services
by Brian Beach
Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services is written specifically for Windows professionals who already know PowerShell and want to learn to host Windows workloads in the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) cloud service. The cloud offers information technology workers significant cost savings and agility unimaginable even just a few years ago. Tasks that traditionally took weeks of work, costing thousands of d...
Price: $56.16 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Mohammad Rahman
C# Deconstructed answers a seemingly simply question: Just what is going on, exactly, when you run C# code on the .NET Framework?To answer this question we will dig ever deeper into the structure of the C# language and the onion-skin abstraction layers of the .NET Framework that underpins it. We'll follow the execution thread downwards, first to MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language) then down through ...
Price: $56.64 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your 3D Printer
by Charles Bell
Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your 3D Printer by Charles Bell is your guide to keeping your 3D printer running through preventive maintenance, repair, and diagnosing and solving problems in 3D printing. If you've bought or built a 3D printer such as a MakerBot only to be confounded by jagged edges, corner lift, top layers that aren't solid, or any of a myriad of other problems that plague 3D pri...
Price: $42.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
MySQL High Availability, 2nd Edition
by Charles Bell, Mats Kindahl, Lars Thalmann
Server bottlenecks and failures are a fact of life in any database deployment, but they don't have to bring everything to a halt. This practical book explains replication, cluster, and monitoring features that can help protect your MySQL system from outages, whether it's running on hardware, virtual machines, or in the cloud.Written by engineers who designed many of the tools covered, this book re...
Price: $42.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
WordPress: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
by Matthew MacDonald
Whether you're a budding blogger or seasoned Web designer, WordPress is a brilliant tool for creating websites, once you know how to tap its impressive features. The latest edition of this jargon-free Missing Manual shows you how to use WordPress 3.9's themes, widgets, plug-ins, and souped-up editing and multimedia tools to build just about any kind of site....
Price: $7.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014