“…This book aggregates many of these "on the job" tools and techniques into a concise format and presents them as both discussion topics and with code examples. The reader will not only get an overview of these tools and techniques, but also several discussions concerning operational aspects of enterprise software development and how it differs from smaller development efforts. …”

“…Introductory essays provide important background. The reader will find on these pages an Islamic society that worked closely with Christians and Jews, deeply committed to advancing knowledge and applying it to health and wellbeing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Qumrán y sitios afines9.1 Instrumentos para la investigación; 9.2 Discoveries in the Judaean Desert; 9.3 The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader; 9.4 Textos de Qumrán en castellano; 10. Textos rabínicos; 10.1 Obras introductivas; 10.2 La Misná; 10.3 La Tosefta; 10.4 El Talmud; 10.4.1 El Talmud de Jerusalén; 10.4.2 El Talmud de Babilonia; 10.5 Midrasim; 11. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The OpenFaaS UI and store -- Prometheus -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Serverless Considerations -- Security best practices -- Securing Kubernetes -- Securing serverless services -- OpenFaaS -- Kubeless -- Funktion -- Apache OpenWhisk -- Fission -- Conclusions -- Monitoring Kubernetes -- The dashboard -- Google Cloud -- Microsoft Azure -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Running Serverless Workloads -- Evolving software and platforms -- Kubernetes -- Serverless tools -- Kubeless -- Apache OpenWhisk -- Fission -- OpenFaaS -- Funktion -- Future developments -- Why Functions as a Service on Kubernetes -- Fixed points -- Databases -- Storage -- Summary -- Other Books You May Enjoy -- Leave a review - let other readers know what you think -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Readers' Guide -- Conventions -- Executive summary -- References -- 1 New perspectives on global inequality throughout history -- Introduction -- Aim of this report -- Practical issues -- Introduction to individual chapters -- References -- Notes -- 2 The long view on economic growth: New estimates of GDP -- Introduction -- Description of the concepts used -- Gross Domestic Product per capita -- The Income approach to measuring GDP -- The Expenditure approach to measuring GDP -- The Production approach to measuring GDP -- Relative prices -- Historical GDP Benchmarks -- Historical sources and data quality -- Long-run global developments in per capita GDP: Comparing the three approaches -- The first test: Subsistence income -- Analysing the accuracy of backward projections through comparisons with historical GDP benchmarks -- Incorporating important historical benchmarks of GDP per capita -- The world in 1820 -- Developments since 1820 -- Priorities for future research -- References -- Notes -- 3 The working week in manufacturing since 1820 -- Introduction -- Description of the concepts used -- Historical sources -- Data quality -- Main highlights of historical trends in working hours -- Holidays and annual working time -- Correlation with GDP per capita -- Priorities for future research -- References -- Notes -- 4 Social spending and the welfare state -- Introduction -- Description of the concepts used -- Historical sources and data quality -- Main highlights of social spending trends -- Social spending under, and since, communism -- Correlation with GDP per capita and related social indicators -- Priorities for future research -- References -- Annex 4.A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Stolper, Bongshin Lee, Nathalie Henry Riche, and John Stasko / Analysis method and process ; Visualization-driven storytelling techniques : Communicating narrative and explaining data; Linking separated story elements; Enhancing structure and navigation; Providing controlled exploration ; Discussion and future work : Composing multiple techniques; Opportunities for authoring tools : Controlled reader interaction and experience; Smart, dynamic, data-driven annotations; Navigation through scrolling; Effectiveness-informed authoring -- Narrative design patterns for data-driven storytelling / Benjamin Bach, Moritz Stefaner, Jeremy Boy, Steven Drucker, Lyn Bartram, Jo Wood, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Yuri Engelhardt, Ulrike Köppen, and Barbara Tversky : Narrative patterns : Patterns for: Argumentation; Flow; Framing the narrative; Empathy and emotion; Engagement ; Use cases : U.S. debt visualized; Can you live on the minimum wage?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Programming WCF Services; Preface; Some Assumptions About the Reader; What You Need to Use This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari® Enabled; Acknowledgments; 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 8- Continuing with Intelligent Enemies -- Chapter 9- Entering Virtual Reality -- Chapter 10- Completing the VR Game -- Other Books You May Enjoy -- Leave a review - let other readers know what you think -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Master your mindset -- Why your mindset matters -- Establishing your leadership philosophy -- Good followers: the other side of leadership -- The smartest one in the room -- Trust and integrity -- Staying grounded -- There are no soft skills -- Leaders are readers -- Summary -- References and further reading -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Chapter 0 Guide for Readers and Instructors -- 0.1 Outline of the Book -- 0.2 A Roadmap for Readers and Instructors -- 0.3 Internet and Web Resources -- 0.4 Standards -- Unit One Fundamentals -- Part One Overview -- Chapter 1 Data Communications, Data Networks, and the Internet -- 1.1 Data Communications and Networking for Today's Enterprise -- 1.2 A Communications Model -- 1.3 Data Communications -- 1.4 Networks -- 1.5 The Internet -- 1.6 An Example Configuration -- Chapter 2 Protocol Architecture, TCP/IP, and Internet-Based Applications -- 2.1 The Need for a Protocol Architecture -- 2.2 A Simple Protocol Architecture -- 2.3 The TCP/IP Protocol Architecture -- 2.4 Standardization within a Protocol Architecture -- 2.5 Traditional Internet-Based Applications -- 2.6 Multimedia -- 2.7 Sockets Programming -- 2.8 Recommended Reading and Animation -- 2.9 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- 2.10 Sockets Programming Assignments -- Appendix 2A The Trivial File Transfer Protocol -- Part Two Data Communications -- Chapter 3 Data Transmission -- 3.1 Concepts and Terminology -- 3.2 Analog and Digital Data Transmission -- 3.3 Transmission Impairments -- 3.4 Channel Capacity -- 3.5 Recommended Reading -- 3.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Appendix 3A Decibels and Signal Strength -- Chapter 4 Transmission Media -- 4.1 Guided Transmission Media -- 4.2 Wireless Transmission -- 4.3 Wireless Propagation -- 4.4 Line-of-Sight Transmission -- 4.5 Recommended Reading -- 4.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Chapter 5 Signal Encoding Techniques -- 5.1 Digital Data, Digital Signals -- 5.2 Digital Data, Analog Signals -- 5.3 Analog Data, Digital Signals -- 5.4 Recommended Reading and Animations -- 5.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Chapter 6 Error Detection and Correction -- 6.1 Types of Errors -- 6.2 Error Detection -- 6.3 Parity Check -- 6.4 The Internet Checksum -- 6.5 Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) -- 6.6 Forward Error Correction -- 6.7 Recommended Reading and Animations -- 6.8 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Chapter 7 Data Link Control Protocols -- 7.1 Flow Control -- 7.2 Error Control -- 7.3 High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) -- 7.4 Recommended Reading and Animations -- 7.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Chapter 8 Multiplexing -- 8.1 Frequency-Division Multiplexing -- 8.2 Synchronous Time-Division Multiplexing -- 8.3 Cable Modem -- 8.4 Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line -- 8.5 xDSL -- 8.6 Multiple Channel Access -- 8.7 Recommended Reading and Animations -- 8.8 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Part Three Wide Area Networks -- Chapter 9 WAN Technology and Protocols -- 9.1 Switched Communications Networks -- 9.2 Circuit-Switching Networks -- 9.3 Circuit-Switching Concepts -- 9.4 Softswitch Architecture -- 9.5 Packet-Switching Principles -- 9.6 Asynchronous Transfer Mode -- 9.7 Recommended Reading -- 9.8 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Chapter 10 Cellular Wireless Networks -- 10.1 Principles of Cellular Networks -- 10.2 Cellular Network Generations -- 10.3 LTE-Advanced -- 10.4 Recommended Reading -- 10.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Part Four Local Area Networks -- Chapter 11 Local Area Network Overview -- 11.1 Bus and Star Topologies -- 11.2 LAN Protocol Architecture -- 11.3 Bridges -- 11.4 Hubs and Switches -- 11.5 Virtual LANs -- 11.6 Recommended Reading and Animations -- 11.7 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Chapter 12 Ethernet -- 12.1 Traditional Ethernet -- 12.2 High-Speed Ethernet -- 12.3 IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Standard -- 12.4 Recommended Reading and Animations -- 12.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Appendix 12A Digital Signal Encoding for LANs -- Appendix 12B Scrambling -- Chapter 13 Wireless LANs -- 13.1 Overview -- 13.2 IEEE 802.11 Architecture and Services -- 13.3 IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control -- 13.4 IEEE 802.11 Physical Layer -- 13.5 Gigabit Wi-Fi -- 13.6 IEEE 802.11 Security Considerations -- 13.7 Recommended Reading -- 13.8 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Part Five Internet and Transport Protocols -- Chapter 14 The Internet Protocol -- 14.1 Principles of Internetworking -- 14.2 Internet Protocol Operation -- 14.3 Internet Protocol -- 14.4 IPv6 -- 14.5 Virtual Private Networks and IP Security -- 14.6 Recommended Reading and Animations -- 14.7 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Chapter 15 Transport Protocols -- 15.1 Connection-Oriented Transport Protocol Mechanisms -- 15.2 TCP -- 15.3 UDP -- 15.4 Recommended Reading and Animations -- 15.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Unit Two A dvanced Topics in Data Communications and Networking -- Part Six Data Communications and Wireless Networks -- Chapter 16 Advanced Data Communications Topics -- 16.1 Analog Data, Analog Signals -- 16.2 Forward Error-Correcting Codes -- 16.3 ARQ Performance Issues -- 16.4 Recommended Reading and Animations -- 16.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Chapter 17 Wireless Transmission Techniques -- 17.1 MIMO Antennas -- 17.2 OFDM, OFDMA, and SC-FDMA -- 17.3 Spread Spectrum -- 17.4 Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum -- 17.5 Code Division Multiple Access -- 17.6 Recommended Reading -- 17.7 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Chapter 18 Wireless Networks -- 18.1 Fixed Broadband Wireless Access -- 18.2 WiMAX/IEEE 802.16 -- 18.3 Bluetooth Overview -- 18.4 Bluetooth Radio Specification -- 18.5 Bluetooth Baseband Specification -- 12.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Appendix 12A Digital Signal Encoding for LANs -- Appendix 12B Scrambling -- Chapter 13 Wireless LANs -- 13.1 Overview -- 13.2 IEEE 802.11 Architecture and Services -- 13.3 IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control -- 13.4 IEEE 802.11 Physical Layer -- 13.5 Gigabit Wi-Fi -- 13.6 IEEE 802.11 Security Considerations -- 13.7 Recommended Reading -- 13.8 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Part Five Internet and Transport Protocols -- Chapter 14 The Internet Protocol -- 14.1 Principles of Internetworking -- 14.2 Internet Protocol Operation -- 14.3 Internet Protocol -- 14.4 IPv6 -- 14.5 Virtual Private Networks and IP Security -- 14.6 Recommended Reading and Animations -- 14.7 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Chapter 15 Transport Protocols -- 15.1 Connection-Oriented Transport Protocol Mechanisms -- 15.2 TCP -- 15.3 UDP -- 15.4 Recommended Reading and Animations -- 15.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Unit Two A dvanced Topics in Data Communications and Networking -- Part Six Data Communications and Wireless Networks -- Chapter 16 Advanced Data Communications Topics -- 16.1 Analog Data, Analog Signals -- 16.2 Forward Error-Correcting Codes -- 16.3 ARQ Performance Issues -- 16.4 Recommended Reading and Animations -- 16.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Chapter 17 Wireless Transmission Techniques -- 17.1 MIMO Antennas -- 17.2 OFDM, OFDMA, and SC-FDMA -- 17.3 Spread Spectrum -- 17.4 Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum -- 17.5 Code Division Multiple Access -- 17.6 Recommended Reading -- 17.7 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Chapter 18 Wireless Networks -- 18.1 Fixed Broadband Wireless Access -- 18.2 WiMAX/IEEE 802.16 -- 18.3 Bluetooth Overview -- 18.4 Bluetooth Radio Specification -- 18.5 Bluetooth Baseband Specification -- 24.3 Web Access and HTTP -- 24.4 Recommended Reading and Animations -- 24.5 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems -- Chapter 25 Internet Multimedia Support -- 25.1 Real-Time Traffic -- 25.2 Voice Over IP -- 25.3 Session Initiation Protocol -- 25.4 Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) -- 25.5 Recommended Reading -- 25.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 7: Building a Shopping Cart Using Application State -- Technical requirements -- Introducing the application state -- Understanding DI -- DI containers -- Service lifetimes -- Singleton -- Scoped -- Transient -- Creating the shopping cart project -- Project overview -- Creating the shopping cart project -- Installing Bootstrap -- Adding a Store component -- Adding a Product class -- Finishing the Store component -- Demonstrating that the application state has been lost -- Creating the the ICartService interface -- Creating the CartService class -- Registering CartService in the DI container -- Injecting CartService into the Store component -- Adding the cart total to all the pages -- Using the OnChange method -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 8: Building a Kanban Board Using Events -- Technical requirements -- Event handling -- Lambda expressions -- Preventing default actions -- Focusing an element -- Attribute splatting -- Arbitrary parameters -- Creating the Kanban board project -- Project overview -- Create the Kanban board project -- Install Bootstrap -- Add the classes -- Create the Dropzone component -- Add a stylesheet -- Create the Kanban board -- Create the NewTask component -- Use the NewTask component -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 9: Uploading and Reading an Excel File -- Technical requirements -- Uploading files -- Resizing images -- Handling multiple files -- Using virtualization -- Rendering Local Data -- Rendering Remote Data -- Reading Excel files -- Creating the Excel reader project -- Project overview -- Create the Excel reader project -- Install the Open XML SDK -- Add the Medals class -- Upload the Excel file -- Read the Excel file -- Populate the medals collection -- Render the Medals collection -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Removable Media -- Objective 9.01 Floppy Drives -- Installing Floppy Drives -- Inserting Ribbon Cables -- Power -- CMOS -- Objective 9.02 Flash Memory -- USB Thumb Drives -- Flash Cards -- Card Readers -- Maintaining and Troubleshooting Flash Media -- Objective 9.03 Optical Drives -- Capacity -- Speed -- Installing Optical Drives -- Blu-ray Disc Drive Considerations -- ISO Files -- Troubleshooting Optical Drives and Discs -- Objective 9.04 Tape Drives -- Objective 9.05 External Drives -- Connection Types -- Uses for External Drives -- Checkpoint -- Review Questions -- Review Answers -- 10. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Const String Interpolation -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 16: File Handling -- File Handling -- An Overview of File Handling -- File Class -- Writing to a File -- WriteAllText() -- WriteAllLines() -- WriteAllBytes() -- Reading from a File -- ReadAllText() -- ReadAllLines() -- ReadAllBytes() -- Copy a File -- Copy() -- Delete a File -- Delete() -- StreamReader Class -- Stream -- Synchronous and Asynchronous -- StreamReader Class Methods -- StreamWriter Class -- Reading from a Stream -- Writing to a Stream -- Async Methods and Asynchronous Programming -- WriteLineAsync -- FileStream -- FileModes -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 17: Exception Handling -- Exceptions -- What Is an Exception? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Sharing Authentic Stories -- Helping Authors Get Published -- Writing for Your Readers -- Keeping the Momentum -- The Making of a Best-selling Book -- Overcoming Challenges -- Tips from Her Experience -- Get Noticed by Being You -- Chapter Fourteen: What is Adjacent Marketing? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Additional resources -- Chapter 6: Go Packages and Functions -- Go packages -- About go get and go install -- Functions -- Anonymous functions -- Functions that return multiple values -- The return values of a function can be named -- Functions that accept other functions as parameters -- Functions can return other functions -- Variadic functions -- The defer keyword -- Big O complexity -- Developing your own packages -- The init() function -- Order of execution -- Using GitHub to store Go packages -- A package for working with SQLite -- Working with SQLite3 and Go -- Storing the Go package -- The design of the Go package -- The implementation of the Go package -- Testing the Go package -- Modules -- Creating better packages -- Generating documentation -- Workspaces -- Versioning utilities -- Summary -- Exercises -- Additional resources -- Chapter 7: Telling a UNIX System What to Do -- stdin, stdout, and stderr -- UNIX processes -- File I/O -- The io.Reader and io.Writer interfaces -- Using and misusing io.Reader and io.Writer -- Buffered and unbuffered file I/O -- Reading text files -- Reading a text file line by line -- Reading a text file word by word -- Reading a text file character by character -- Reading from /dev/random -- Reading a specific amount of data from a file -- Writing to a file -- Working with JSON -- Using Marshal() and Unmarshal() -- Structures and JSON -- Reading and writing JSON data as streams -- Pretty printing JSON records -- The viper package -- Using command line flags -- Reading JSON configuration files -- The cobra package -- A utility with three commands -- Adding command line flags -- Creating command aliases -- Creating subcommands -- Important Go features -- Embedding files -- ReadDir and DirEntry -- The io/fs package -- Updating the statistics application -- The slog package -- Sending logs to io.Discard…”

“…The main objective of this book is to offer the reader the Proceedings of the International Conference McLuhan Galaxy Barcelona 2011 in which McLuhan's ideas are recovered and confronted with the current media ecosystem. …”

“…"This title provides many of the most important and though-provoking articles by the leading business forecasting practitioners and academics. It exposes the reader to many of the best minds (and most provocative ideas) in the forecasting profession, with thorough referencing to related material for further reading. …”