Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Web Developer's Cookbook -- About the Author -- Other Web Development Books by Robin Nixon -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What this Book Provides -- Includes CSS3 and HTML5 Features -- About the Recipes -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Getting Started -- Downloading and Installing Web Browsers -- Choosing a Program Editor -- Installing a PHP Server -- Older Versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer -- Emulating Earlier Internet Explorer Versions -- The Companion Web Site -- Chapter 2: Using the Recipes -- Inserting the PHP Recipes -- Inserting the JavaScript Recipes -- Inserting the CSS Recipes -- A Quick Refresher on the DOM -- How the DOM Works -- Accessing the DOM from JavaScript -- About Cascading Style Sheets -- Importing a Style Sheet from Within HTML -- Importing a Style Sheet from Another Style Sheet -- Local Style Settings -- About IDs and Classes -- Summary -- Part II: PHP Recipes -- Chapter 3: Text Processing -- Recipe 1: WrapText() -- About the Recipe -- Variables, Arrays, and Functions -- How It Works -- How to Use It -- The Recipe -- Recipe 2: CapsControl() -- About the Recipe -- Variables, Arrays, and Functions -- How It Works -- How to Use It -- The Recipe -- Recipe 3: FriendlyText() -- About the Recipe -- Variables, Arrays, and Functions -- How It Works -- How to Use It -- The Recipe -- Recipe 4: StripWhitespace() -- About the Recipe -- How It Works -- How to Use It -- The Recipe -- Recipe 5: WordSelector() -- About the Recipe -- Variables, Arrays, and Functions -- How It Works -- How to Use It -- The Recipe -- Recipe 6: CountTail() -- About the Recipe -- Variables, Arrays, and Functions -- How It Works -- How to Use It -- The Recipe -- Recipe 7: TextTruncate() -- About the Recipe -- Variables, Arrays, and Functions -- How It Works -- How to Use It -- The Recipe -- Recipe 8: SpellCheck()…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Varying animation behavior -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 16: Working with WebSockets -- Technical requirements -- Designing a WebSocket interaction -- The sharing workflow -- The new UI elements -- Splitting apart the saga -- Test-driving a WebSocket connection -- Streaming events with redux-saga -- Updating the app -- Summary -- Exercises -- Further reading -- Part 4 - Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber -- Chapter 17: Writing Your First Cucumber Test -- Technical requirements -- Integrating Cucumber and Puppeteer into your code base -- Writing your first Cucumber test -- Using data tables to perform setup -- Summary -- Chapter 18: Adding Features Guided by Cucumber Tests -- Technical requirements -- Adding Cucumber tests for a dialog box -- Fixing Cucumber tests by test-driving production code -- Adding a dialog box -- Updating sagas to a reset or replay state -- Avoiding timeouts in test code -- Adding HTML classes to mark animation status -- Updating step definitions to use waitForSelector -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 19: Understanding TDD in the Wider Testing Landscape -- Test-driven development as a testing technique -- Best practices for your unit tests -- Improving your technique -- Manual testing -- Demonstrating software -- Testing the whole product -- Exploratory testing -- Debugging in the browser -- Automated testing -- Integration tests -- System tests and end-to-end tests -- Acceptance tests -- Property-based and generative testing -- Snapshot testing -- Canary testing -- Not testing at all -- When quality doesn't matter -- Spiking and deleting code -- Summary -- Further reading -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…An element and its unitary class -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Anorectics and the mirror -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Performance Measurement Process -- The Purpose of This Book -- The Role of Performance Analysts -- Book Structure -- 2 The Asset Management Industry -- Asset Classes -- Public Equities -- Bonds (or Fixed Income) -- Cash (and near cash) -- Private Assets -- Real estate -- Private equity -- Private debt -- Infrastructure -- Natural resources -- Commodities -- Derivatives -- Futures -- Forwards -- Swaps -- Options -- Option price sensitivity (the Greeks) -- Warrants -- Convertible bonds -- Contracts for difference (CFDs) -- Overlay strategies -- Currency -- Hedge Funds -- Asset Allocation -- Strategic asset allocation -- Tactical asset allocation -- 3 The Mathematics of Portfolio Return -- Simple Return -- Continuously Compounded (or Logarithmic) Returns -- Money‐weighted Returns (MWRs) -- Internal rate of return (IRR) -- Ex‐ante internal rate of return -- Simple internal rate of return -- Ex‐post internal rate of return -- Simple Dietz -- ICAA method -- Modified Dietz -- Time‐weighted Returns (TWRs) -- True time‐weighted -- Unit price method -- Unit price method with distributions -- Time‐weighted versus Money‐weighted Rates of Return -- Approximations to the Time‐weighted Return -- Index substitution -- Regression method (or β method) -- Analyst's test -- Hybrid Methodologies -- Linked modified Dietz -- BAI method (or linked IRR) -- Which Method to Use? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 3: Integrating Application Protocols -- Technical requirements -- Installing Mosquitto -- Installing Client for URL (cURL) -- Application protocols and they fit into the picture -- The different types of application protocols -- An exercise to create a pub/sub MQTT broker -- Requirements for application protocols -- Reliability -- Power usage -- Security -- Integrating application protocols into the design -- A simple integration into the smart thermostat network -- A cloud scenario -- Multiple clients -- Practical - creating an MQTT pub and sub communication between an ESP32 and a Raspberry Pi -- Setting up Mosquitto as the broker on Raspberry Pi -- Subscribing and publishing from MQTTX -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Examining Communication and Connectivity Technologies -- Technical requirements -- The role of short- and long-range protocols within IoT -- Design factors -- Long-range communication protocols -- Allocating resources -- Infrastructure protocols -- Mesh networking, RFID, and Bluetooth -- RFID -- Mesh networking -- Bluetooth -- Examining edge cases for protocol selection and operation -- Understanding the fundamental rules of architecting for different areas -- A look at a water utility IoT network -- Practice forming more networks -- Practical scenario - working with multiple communication protocols with ESP32 -- Making the connections -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 2: Developing and Optimizing IoT Systems for Smart Environments -- Chapter 5: Realizing Wireless Sensor Networks within Smart Spaces -- Technical requirements -- Choosing between different sensor technologies -- Classes of sensor networks -- Routing for WSNs -- Design considerations -- Architecting the hardware and software -- Managing APIs -- How they integrate within the system -- Types of APIs -- Evaluating WSNs -- Metrics…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…VPC networks -- Network connectivity products -- Basic Google Cloud networking services -- Cloud DNS -- Cloud Armor -- Cloud CDN -- Network Service Tiers -- Sample architecture -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 9: Time-Saving Google Cloud Services -- Cloud Storage for object storage and retrieval -- Introducing Cloud Storage -- Bucket locations and storage classes -- Cloud Tasks for asynchronous task execution -- Firestore in Datastore mode for high-performance NoSQL storage -- Cloud Workflows for service orchestration -- Pub/Sub for inter-service messaging -- Secret Manager for storing sensitive data -- Cloud Scheduler for running jobs at the right time -- A hands-on exercise -- Reading the list of cities -- Getting weather information for each city -- Storing weather information in a central location -- Updating the weather web page -- The end-to-end workflow for our weather solution -- Updating our web page every 30 minutes -- What's next? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Considering the Art of Feature Creation -- Defining feature creation -- Combining variables -- Understanding binning and discretization -- Using indicator variables -- Transforming distributions -- Performing Operations on Arrays -- Using vectorization -- Performing simple arithmetic on vectors and matrices -- Performing matrix vector multiplication -- Performing matrix multiplication -- Part 3 Visualizing Information -- Chapter 10 Getting a Crash Course in Matplotlib -- Starting with a Graph -- Defining the plot -- Drawing multiple lines and plots -- Saving your work to disk -- Setting the Axis, Ticks, and Grids -- Getting the axes -- Formatting the axes -- Adding grids -- Defining the Line Appearance -- Working with line styles -- Using colors -- Adding markers -- Using Labels, Annotations, and Legends -- Adding labels -- Annotating the chart -- Creating a legend -- Chapter 11 Visualizing the Data -- Choosing the Right Graph -- Creating comparisons with bar charts -- Showing distributions using histograms -- Depicting groups using boxplots -- Seeing data patterns using scatterplots -- Creating Advanced Scatterplots -- Depicting groups -- Showing correlations -- Plotting Time Series -- Representing time on axes -- Plotting trends over time -- Plotting Geographical Data -- Using an environment in Notebook -- Using Cartopy to plot geographic data -- Avoiding outdated libraries: The Basemap Toolkit -- Visualizing Graphs -- Developing undirected graphs -- Developing directed graphs -- Part 4 Wrangling Data -- Chapter 12 Stretching Python's Capabilities -- Playing with Scikit-learn -- Understanding classes in Scikit-learn -- Defining applications for data science -- Using Transformative Functions -- Chaining estimators -- Transforming targets -- Composing features -- Handling heterogeneous data -- Considering Timing and Performance…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 8 Four Areas of Board Failure -- Chapter 9 Risks and Ensuring the Right Board Risk Philosophy -- Chapter 10 A Board Member's Practical Guide to Risk Thinking -- The Physical Health Check: Technical Risks -- Identify your Risks -- Assess your Risks -- Manage your Risks -- Structure your Risks -- The Mental Health Check: Behaviours -- The Strategic Risk Check -- Typical Strategies -- Strategic Risk Assessment -- The Governance Risk Check -- Chapter 11 Elements of Advanced Risk Techniques for Board Members: From Quants to Cyber -- The Why and How of Quantitative Risk Assessment for Boards -- Classical Quantitative Techniques -- Integration of Risks -- The Outcome of Risk Assessment -- Cyber Risk -- Chapter 12 Crisis Management -- Crisis as a Turning Point -- There is Work to be Done in Peaceful Times -- Communication Principles -- Another Powerful Weapon: Gathering Information -- A Crisis Will Shed Light on Boardroom Fissures -- Procedure vs Authenticity -- Communicate Your Way to Rebuilding Trust -- Chapter 13 The Four Tiers of Conflicts of Interest -- Tier-I Conflicts: Individual Directors vs Company -- Tier-II Conflicts: Directors vs Stakeholders -- The Institutional Loyalty of Board Directors -- The Influence of Domineering Board Members on Others -- Board Directors Organised as a Self-interested Stakeholder Group -- Tier-III Conflicts: Stakeholders vs Other Stakeholders -- Conflicts of Interest between Stakeholders and the Company -- Conflicts of Interest between Different Classes of Stakeholders -- Conflicts of Interest within a Group of Stakeholders -- Tier-IV Conflicts: Company vs Society -- Chapter 14 High-level Fraud and Active Board Oversight -- Why Does High-level Fraud Happen? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Implementing k-means from scratch -- Implementing k-means with scikit-learn -- Choosing the value of k -- Clustering newsgroups dataset -- Clustering newsgroups data using k-means -- Describing the clusters using GPT -- Discovering underlying topics in newsgroups -- Topic modeling using NMF -- Topic modeling using LDA -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 9: Recognizing Faces with Support Vector Machine -- Finding the separating boundary with SVM -- Scenario 1 - identifying a separating hyperplane -- Scenario 2 - determining the optimal hyperplane -- Scenario 3 - handling outliers -- Implementing SVM -- Scenario 4 - dealing with more than two classes -- One-vs-rest -- One-vs-one -- Multiclass cases in scikit-learn -- Scenario 5 - solving linearly non-separable problems with kernels -- Choosing between linear and RBF kernels -- Classifying face images with SVM -- Exploring the face image dataset -- Building an SVM-based image classifier -- Boosting image classification performance with PCA -- Estimating with support vector regression -- Implementing SVR -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 10: Machine Learning Best Practices -- Machine learning solution workflow -- Best practices in the data preparation stage…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Confidence intervals for any parameter -- A confidence interval code example -- What we learned -- Type I and Type II errors, and power -- What we learned -- Summary -- Exercises -- Notes and further reading -- Chapter 8: Model Complexity -- Technical requirements -- Generalization, overfitting, and the role of model complexity -- Overfitting -- Why overfitting is bad -- Overfitting increases the variability of predictions -- Underfitting is also a problem -- Measuring prediction error -- What we learned -- The bias-variance trade-off -- Proof of the bias-variance trade-off formula -- Double descent - a modern twist on the generalization error diagram -- What we learned -- Model complexity measures for model selection -- Selecting between classes of models -- Akaike Information Criterion -- Bayesian Information Criterion -- What we learned -- Summary -- Notes and further reading -- Chapter 9: Function Decomposition -- Technical requirements -- Why do we want to decompose a function? …”

“…Discover how to: Implement arrays, associative arrays, stacks, linked lists, and other collection types Apply built in .NET collection classes by learning their methods and properties Add enumerator, dictionary, and other .NET collection interfaces to your classes Query collections by writing simple to complex Microsoft LINQ statements Synchronize data across threads using built in .NET synchronization classes Enhance your custom collection classes with serialization support Use simple data binding to display collections in Windows Forms, Microsoft Silverlight, and Windows Presentation Foundation…”