

Finding Stories in Spreadsheets deals with a variety of techniques and formulae for getting data to give you answers to your questions, while The Data Journalist Heist is all about getting a quick insight into data using pivot tables and filters. The two work together perfectly - and are available as a bundle for a discounted price

Get both a complete setup guide for Chef with Rails or other Ruby web applications and the PHP supplement to deploy Wordpress with PostgreSQL.- Using Knife solo with Chef to deploy by IP address, without needing a separate Chef server (or Puppetmaster)- Fetching your Rails app from Github.- Using the figaro gem to keep your passwords and other...

Unveil the power of Ansible and Vagrant with this bundle at a special price. You'll have everything you need to get started with Vagrant - learn the basics and how to create your virtual development environments, using Ansible as provisioner! About Vagrant Cookbook Vagrant Cookbook is a complete guide to get started with Vagrant and create your...

Get the data through scraping - and then turn it into stories with a quick heist! Buy both Scraping for Journalists and The Data Journalist Heist together for a discounted price.

This is a bundle of all 'Practical' books published by Dinis cruz

Ever wondered why [0] == 0? Why "true" == true returns false? What about the other oddities in JavaScript? Why is JavaScript so WTF worthy? These books explain the above, and more. They're originally the same book, but was split into two after an A/B test of the titles. Whilst the content of both books are similar, the focus of the books are...

In this bundle, you get a complete introduction to the NetBeans Platform APIs, together with many exercises, in the form of "NetBeans Platform for Beginners". This book is done and has been reviewed and is over 350 pages in length. It will continue to grow as more content is added over time. There will be monthly updates, with new sections,...


If you read the tech press, everyone knows they need an API but most aren't really sure what it is. They treat it as another checkbox like "Web 2.0" was a few years ago or a mobile app was most recently. In fact, there’s an entire “API-first” movement in development circles that most people don’t understand or even realize why. In this book,...

Compre Zend Framework 2 na prática e o Doctrine na prática e tire maior proveito destes dois frameworks que se complementam para criar um ambiente de desenvolvimento poderoso para PHP

Le meilleur des chroniques du blog Humeurs Mondialisées L'économie et les mutations La Tunisie

Most developers know, deep down, that they should be provisioning environments for their development work to match their staging and production environements. Sometimes when working on a basic website that runs a FooCMS installation it is easy to just ignore it and run a basic LAMP stack or a MAMP/XAMP/WAMP alternative, but when you're building...

This bundle includes everything* you need to know about Java and polyglot JVM programming. "Modern Java" covers the best practices of today's Java developer (including Java 1.7 and the whole Java ecosystem), and "What's New in Java 8" covers the new features of Java 8, including lambda expressions and Nashorn. *okay, maybe not everything, but...

Includes Dataflow and Reactive Programming Systems and TPL Dataflow by Example