Building a Virtual Assistant for Raspberry Pi 
by Tanay Pant
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 covers building a mini project/module to make the virtual assistant better. You'll develop the softwa...
Price: $29.68 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016
by Rob Aley
This concise book shows you how to create PHP Command Line Interface (CLI) scripts, including user interaction and scripts to automate and assist your workflow. Learn to quickly create useful and effective Command Line software and scripts using the world's most popular web scripting language, PHP. Enjoy the benefits of writing CLI scripts in PHP: Save money by redeploying existing skills, not learning...
Price: $22.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016
by Kief Morris
Virtualization, cloud, containers, server automation, and software-defined networking are meant to simplify IT operations. But many organizations adopting these technologies have found that it only leads to a faster-growing sprawl of unmanageable systems. This is where infrastructure as code can help. With this practical guide, author Kief Morris of ThoughtWorks shows you how to effectively use principles, ...
Price: $38.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Siraj Raval
Take advantage of Bitcoin's underlying technology, the blockchain, to build massively scalable, decentralized applications known as dapps. In this practical guide, author Siraj Raval explains why dapps will become more widely used - and profitable - than today's most popular web apps. You'll learn how the blockchain's cryptographically stored ledger, scarce-asset model, and peer-to-peer ...
Price: $15.65 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy
The overwhelming majority of a software system's lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems?In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google's Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle...
Price: $13.28 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Chris Dawson, Ben Straub
For your next project on GitHub, take advantage of the service's powerful API to meet your unique development requirements. This practical guide shows you how to build your own software tools for customizing the GitHub workflow. Each hands-on chapter is a compelling story that walks you through the tradeoffs and considerations for building applications on top of various GitHub technologies.If you'...
Price: $14.97 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Michael Nash, Wade Waldron
When it comes to big data processing, we can no longer ignore concurrency or try to add it in after the fact. Fortunately, the solution is not a new paradigm of development, but rather an old one. With this hands-on guide, Java and Scala developers will learn how to embrace concurrent and distributed applications with the open source Akka toolkit. You'll learn how to put the actor model and its associa...
Price: $19.07 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
Raspberry Pi Cookbook, 2nd Edition
by Simon Monk
With millions of new users and several new models, the Raspberry Pi ecosystem continues to expand - along with a lot of new questions about the Pi's capabilities. The second edition of this popular cookbook provides more than 240 hands-on recipes for running this tiny low-cost computer with Linux, programming it with Python, and hooking up sensors, motors, and other hardware - including Arduino and the...
Price: $8.76 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
Algorithms in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
by George T. Heineman, Gary Pollice, Stanley Selkow
Creating robust software requires the use of efficient algorithms, but programmers seldom think about them until a problem occurs. This updated edition of Algorithms in a Nutshell describes a large number of existing algorithms for solving a variety of problems, and helps you select and implement the right algorithm for your needs - with just enough math to let you understand and analyze algorithm performan...
Price: $43.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
FREE EBOOK - Migrating SQL Server Databases to Azure
by Carl Rabeler
SQL Server is Microsoft's relational database management system (RDBMS). SQL Server can now be hosted entirely in Microsoft Azure, either in a hosted virtual machine (VM) or as a hosted service. Hosting a virtual machine in Azure is known as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and hosting a service in Azure is known as platform as a service (PaaS). Microsoft's hosted version of SQL Server is known...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2016