by Jeffrey Needham
In Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything, Jeffrey Needham enlightens Fortune 500 enterprises about the Big Data ecosystem as they begin to channel their data from stranded silos into an accessible reservoir of possibility and discovery. This book explains where commercial supercomputing came from, as well as its impact on the future of computing....
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Terry Jones, Nicholas H. Tollervey
Orchestrating asynchronous function calls in JavaScript often leads to callback hell, but there is a reliable way to avoid this painful state of affairs. With this concise and simple guide, you'll learn how to use jQuery deferreds and promises, an elegant approach for managing asynchronous calls in both client and server applications.This book contains 18 examples that use deferreds to solve progressiv...
Price: $24.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Arun Gupta
Get up to speed on the principal technologies in the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7, and learn how the latest version embraces HTML5, focuses on higher productivity, and provides functionality to meet enterprise demands. Written by Arun Gupta, a key member of the Java EE team, this book provides a chapter-by-chapter survey of several Java EE 7 specifications, including WebSockets, Batch Processing, RES...
Price: $36.93 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Introduction to Online Payments Risk Management 
by Ohad Samet
If you've been tasked with building a team to handle risk management for online payments (RMP), this practical introduction provides a framework for choosing the technologies and personnel you need. Author and financial services executive Ohad Samet explains the components of payments risk management, and presents a coherent strategy and operational approach.You'll learn the answers to questions y...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Allen B. Downey
If you know how to program with Python and also know a little about probability, you're ready to tackle Bayesian statistics. With this book, you'll learn how to solve statistical problems with Python code instead of mathematical notation, and use discrete probability distributions instead of continuous mathematics. Once you get the math out of the way, the Bayesian fundamentals will become clearer...
Price: $13.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Bob DuCharme
Gain hands-on experience with SPARQL, the RDF query language that's bringing new possibilities to semantic web, linked data, and big data projects. This updated and expanded edition shows you how to use SPARQL 1.1 with a variety of tools to retrieve, manipulate, and federate data from the public web as well as from private sources.Author Bob DuCharme has you writing simple queries right away before pro...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Eric A. Meyer
From custom fonts to ad-hoc font families you assemble out of a variety of individual faces, CSS 3 gives you more typographic options than ever before. This concise guide shows you how to use CSS properties to gain a fine-grained and wide-ranging influence over how you display fonts on the Web.Short and sweet, this book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you pu...
Price: $6.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Windows 8.1: The Missing Manual
by David Pogue
Windows 8.1 continues the evolution of the most radical redesign in Microsoft's history. It combines the familiar Windows desktop with a new, touchscreen-friendly world of tiles and full-screen apps. Luckily, David Pogue is back to help you make sense of it - with humor, authority, and 500 illustrations....
Price: $4.82 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Harlan Harris, Sean Murphy, Marck Vaisman
There has been intense excitement in recent years around activities labeled "data science," "big data," and "analytics." However, the lack of clarity around these terms and, particularly, around the skill sets and capabilities of their practitioners has led to inefficient communication between "data scientists" and the organizations req...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef, 2nd Edition
by Stephen Nelson-Smith
Since Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef first appeared in mid-2011, infrastructure testing has begun to flourish in the web ops world. In this revised and expanded edition, author Stephen Nelson-Smith brings you up to date on this rapidly evolving discipline, including the philosophy driving it and a growing array of tools. You'll get a hands-on introduction to the Chef framework, and a recommended ...
Price: $29.55 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013