Books

Making your own ice cream is a lot easier than you might think. This a set of simple recipes to get you under way.

Queer Privacy is a collection of essays about community, family, coming out, dating, domestic violence, activism, sex work and suicide. We will talk about problems, we won't always have solutions, and not all the stories have happy endings. After all, this is real life and we are building it together - one step at a time.

Are you a beginner or an intermediate learner who has been struggling through the maze of OOP and Design Patterns concepts of PHP and you also want to learn the cool new features of PHP 7?Then this book is for you.

The Inclusive Collaboration campaign - co-founded by Dr. Sallyann Freudenberg and Katherine Kirk - aims to promote, embrace and celebrate neurodiversity in tech. This short book contains a set of experiments to help teams, divisions and companies think about how to escape the mediocrity of monoculture, and truly benefit from the incredible talents that individuals hold.

This book contains answers to the most common questions regarding arc42 - the pragmatic template for communicating software architectures.

This book starts with the basics of PowerShell and uses a step-by-step approach to build up to complex concepts. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, this book will help you become more proficient with PowerShell. By the time you finish this book, your skills will be as well-integrated as the seamless components in the cover artwork.

the international best-selling Internet security book that reached its fifth edition. 

This book teaches you to design, analyze, and draw meaningful conclusions from experiments and observational studies.  Experiments such as A/B testing and observational data obtained by scraping the web, are commonly encountered in data science.  Many examples are also included from the sciences and social sciences.

An extensive glossary of software architecture (and development) terminology. Explains the terms used and referenced in the iSAQB foundation and advanced level curricula.

A no-nonsense introduction to relational databases for use as a textbook or for self-study.

Actionable Microservices implementation & architecture advice that will get your applications to production faster in days! not weeks or months

Just Enough Nagios aims at getting you started using Nagios on a Raspberry Pi and provides backgound to the setup and processes involved.

The software landscape is more crowed than ever! New frameworks seem to arrive weekly.  There are tons of books out there about mastering specific frameworks, but here is one to help you master the one constant factor, no matter where you are:  constructing the source code. Build great things in any programming notation; the rules are inside...

What Intel, Google, Zynga, Linkedin, and Sears have in common? OKRs. OKRs translate a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures. The three layers of goals: Dreams, OKRs, and To dos, offer a balance between long-term goals and short-term planning, between outcomes that are desired by the organization and actual performance KPIs that drive these outcomes, between harder and softer performance measures. Francisco Mello, founder of Qulture.Rocks, takes you through the history of using goals for management, from MBOs to OKRs, and presents OKRs with a constant focus on its key differences from older frameworks such as MBOs.

You know next to nothing about ASP.NET Core but need to start coding your next application within a week. Don't worry: this book has you covered.