Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- What to Do with Old Computers -- Disposing of a geezer desktop PC -- Discarding that old laptop -- A Final Thing to Remember -- Chapter 2 The PC Tour -- The Many Shapes of PC -- Around the Desktop PC -- Exploring a typical computer system -- Finding interesting things on the box's front -- Stuff found on a desktop PC's rump -- The I/O panel -- Laptop Exploration -- Chapter 3 Setup, Connections, and Power -- Desktop PC Assembly -- Finding a place for the computer box -- Setting the monitor -- Laptop Setup -- The Plug-In Guide -- Plugging in the monitor -- Attaching the keyboard and mouse to a desktop PC -- Connecting to a wired network -- Hooking up a printer -- Adding audio stuff -- It Must Have Power -- Plugging everything into a power strip -- Taking advantage of a UPS -- Using the UPS (a short play) -- Chapter 4 To Turn On a Computer -- Turn On the Computer -- Powering on a desktop PC -- Turning on a laptop -- Here Comes Windows -- Identifying yourself -- Staring at the desktop -- Working the taskbar -- Accessing the Start menu -- Settings and Controls…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Customer-Facing Managers Must Be Part of the Team, and Recognize That Data Is an Asset -- Cyber Resilience as Part of Risk Management -- Cyber War Games: Continuously Testing Prevention Systems -- Security Technology: An Integral Element of the IT Architecture -- Protection Levels: Not All Data Needs the Same Level of Protection -- Active Defense, Preferably Before an Attack -- 6.4 Embedded Software: Machines and Equipment Go Digital -- Strategy: Focusing on What Creates Value -- Implementation: Recruiting Talent and Expertise -- 6.5 The Chief Digital Officer: A Steve Jobs for Every Company -- The CDO Must Break Up Silos -- Developing Internal Talent -- 6.6 The Digital Organization: All Power to the Multifunctional Teams -- How Do Agile Organizations Work? -- Many Employees Have to Take on New Roles -- 6.7 Talent Management: Everyone Wants Digital Natives -- Companies Fighting for Digital Talent -- What Can Established Companies Do to Become Attractive for Digital Talent? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Connecting the 74HC595N shift register to control many LEDs -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Chapter 7: Controlling the Hardware -- Introduction -- Integrating voltage translators with the RPZ -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Controlling a stepper motor using a RPZ and motor drivers -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Connecting a DC motor and controlling its speed and direction -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Controlling high power AC load using relays -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Controlling high power DC load using MOSFETs -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Controlling a buzzer with an RPZ -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Monitoring the physical health of the RPZ hardware…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating Entities -- ApplicationUser -- Quiz -- Question -- Answer -- Result -- Defining relationships -- The one-to-many EF Lazy-Load pattern -- Setting up the DbContext -- Database initialization strategies -- Choosing the Database Engine -- Updating the appsettings.json file -- Creating the Database -- Updating Startup.cs -- Adding the Initial Migration -- The "No executable found matching command dotnet-ef" error -- Understanding Migrations -- Implementing a Data Seed strategy -- Creating a DbSeeder class -- Adding the DbSeeder to Startup.cs -- Seeding the Database -- Updating the QuizController -- Introducing Mapster -- Installation -- Basic usage -- Updating the QuizController -- Testing the Data Provider -- Suggested topics -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Client-Server Interactions -- Add, update, and delete quizzes -- Updating QuizController -- Adapting the client -- Adding QuizEditComponent -- Activating the Edit mode -- Event handlers versus router links -- Adding the Edit route -- Implementing the Delete feature -- A word on Observables -- First client-server test -- The client-server workflow -- Questions, answers, and results -- Server-side tasks -- QuestionController -- AnswerController -- ResultController -- BaseApiController -- Implementing BaseApiController -- Client-side tasks -- Adding the interfaces -- QuestionListComponent -- Introducing ngOnChanges() -- Why bother? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1.3.4 GitHub -- 1.3.5 Branch, Edit, Commit, Merge -- 1.4 Deploying -- 1.4.1 Heroku Setup -- 1.4.2 Heroku Deployment, Step One -- 1.4.3 Heroku Deployment, Step Two -- 1.4.4 Heroku Commands -- 1.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 A Demo App -- 2.1 Planning the Application -- 2.1.1 Modeling Users -- 2.1.2 Modeling Microposts -- 2.2 The Users Resource -- 2.2.1 A User Tour -- 2.2.2 MVC in Action -- 2.2.3 Weaknesses of This Users Resource -- 2.3 The Microposts Resource -- 2.3.1 A Micropost Microtour -- 2.3.2 Putting the Micro in Microposts -- 2.3.3 A User has_many Microposts -- 2.3.4 Inheritance Hierarchies -- 2.3.5 Deploying the Demo App -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Mostly Static Pages -- 3.1 Static Pages -- 3.1.1 Truly Static Pages -- 3.1.2 Static Pages with Rails -- 3.2 Our First Tests -- 3.2.1 Testing Tools -- 3.2.2 TDD: Red, Green, Refactor -- 3.3 Slightly Dynamic Pages -- 3.3.1 Testing a Title Change -- 3.3.2 Passing Title Tests -- 3.3.3 Instance Variables and Embedded Ruby -- 3.3.4 Eliminating Duplication with Layouts -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 3.5 Exercises -- Chapter 4 Rails-Flavored Ruby -- 4.1 Motivation -- 4.1.1 A title Helper -- 4.1.2 Cascading Style Sheets -- 4.2 Strings and Methods -- 4.2.1 Comments -- 4.2.2 Strings -- 4.2.3 Objects and Message Passing -- 4.2.4 Method Definitions -- 4.2.5 Back to the title Helper…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Elasticities of Demand and Supply -- The Residual Demand Curve of Price Takers -- Efficiency and Welfare -- Efficiency -- Welfare -- Entry and Exit -- Restrictions on Entry -- Competition with Few Firms-Contestability -- Definition of Barriers to Entry -- Identifying Barriers to Entry -- The Size of Entry Barriers by Industry -- Externalities -- Limitations of Perfect Competition -- The Many Meanings of Competition -- Summary -- Problems -- EXAMPLE 3.1 Are Farmers Price Takers? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…SGUIL: TUNING GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT RULES, ALERTS, AND RESPONSES -- Identifying Nuisance Rules -- Understanding the Enterprise Log Search and Archive Database Structure -- Too Many Alerts! -- Modifying Signatures -- Anatomy of a Snort Rule -- Theory -- 12. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 2.6 Detailing waits -- 2.7 iDoctor for iSeries Job Watcher -- 2.8 Waiting point groupings (wait buckets) -- 2.8.1 Do wait buckets defeat the purpose of many block points? -- 2.8.2 Job Watcher wait points (ENUMs) and wait buckets -- 2.9 LIC queuing primitives and more granular wait points -- 2.9.1 Disclaimer -- 2.9.2 Bucket 1: Dispatched Time (previously referred to as CPU) -- 2.9.3 Bucket 2: CPU queuing -- 2.9.4 Bucket 3: Total block time -- 2.9.5 Bucket 4: Reserved -- 2.9.6 Bucket 5: DASD (page faults) -- 2.9.7 Bucket 6: DASD (non-fault reads) -- 2.9.8 Bucket 7: DASD space usage contention…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Projects versus streams -- Special-purpose streams -- Slightly-parallel development -- Physical VOB definition -- Baseline naming conventions -- Integrating ClearQuest with UCM -- UCM with and without ClearQuest -- Customizing the change management lifecycle -- ClearQuest UCM policy customization -- Defining parent-child activities -- ClearQuest security control -- Multiple user databases -- ClearQuest design constraints -- UCM watch list of common design problems -- Moving to private streams too early -- Moving to private streams too late -- Too many UCM projects -- Letting streams go stale -- Over-complicated state models -- Using substreams or new projects -- UCM infrastructure -- Administrative considerations for UCM -- Managing UCM datasets -- Manage old views -- Project creation process -- Managing old objects -- Getting started: setting up a UCM playground -- Playground overview -- Step 1-Infrastructure setup -- Set up an account on developerWorks -- Collect installation prerequisites -- Download the latest ClearCase software -- Turn off any virus scanning software -- Install the Microsoft Loopback Adapter -- Install ClearCase -- Step 2-Establish UCM repositories and components -- Create storage locations for VOBs and views -- Create a VOB, view, and a couple of components -- Step 3-Create a UCM project -- Step 4-Walk through the standard UCM development lifecycle -- Step 5-Install ClearQuest and create a data set -- Fetch ClearQuest software and license -- Install the Rational license server and ClearQuest -- Create a ClearQuest data set -- Set the code page for the data set -- Document the ClearQuest database definitions -- Step 6-Integrate the UCM project with ClearQuest -- Converting activity records to UCM -- Creating activities in a ClearQuest-enabled project -- Next steps -- Additional information -- Chapter 11. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Efficient File Processing, Regular Expressions, and Filename Matching -- Efficient File Processing -- Binary I/O and Qualified Imports -- Text I/O -- Filename Matching -- Regular Expressions in Haskell -- The Many Types of Result -- More About Regular Expressions -- Mixing and Matching String Types -- Other Things You Should Know -- Translating a glob Pattern into a Regular Expression -- An important Aside: Writing Lazy Functions -- Making Use of Our Pattern Matcher -- Handling Errors Through API Design -- Putting Our Code to Work -- Chapter 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Operating System Fundamentals -- Introduction to Windows Operating Systems -- The Purpose of Operating Systems -- The Many Flavors of Windows -- Exercise 2-1: Viewing the Windows Version, Edition, and Service Pack Information -- Microsoft Support Lifecycle -- Considerations for Installing or Upgrading Windows -- System Requirements -- Application and Hardware Compatibility -- Exercise 2-2: Running Upgrade Advisor -- Running Old Applications in Windows -- Clean Install versus an Upgrade -- Upgrade Paths -- Migrating Data and Settings -- The Windows User Interface -- The Windows Desktop -- Security Tools -- Two-Minute Drill -- Self Test -- Self Test Answers -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 'Tis volley -- Keep the dream alive -- Slash and burn! -- The many faces of keep-up -- Creating the ball and the hitter -- Time for action - create the Ball -- What just happened - that's all there is to it? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Introduction to NumPy -- Introduction to SciPy -- Introduction to matplotlib -- How to install matplotlib -- Several graphical presentations using matplotlib -- Introduction to statsmodels -- Introduction to pandas -- Python modules related to finance -- Introduction to the pandas_reader module -- Two financial calculators -- How to install a Python module -- Module dependency -- Exercises -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Time Value of Money -- Introduction to time value of money -- Writing a financial calculator in Python -- Definition of NPV and NPV rule -- Definition of IRR and IRR rule -- Definition of payback period and payback period rule -- Writing your own financial calculator in Python -- Two general formulae for many functions -- Appendix A - Installation of Python, NumPy, and SciPy -- Appendix B - visual presentation of time value of money -- Appendix C - Derivation of present value of annuity from present value of one future cash flow and present value of perpetuity -- Appendix D - How to download a free financial calculator written in Python -- Appendix E - The graphical presentation of the relationship between NPV and R -- Appendix F - graphical presentation of NPV profile with two IRRs -- Appendix G - Writing your own financial calculator in Python…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…How Backgrounds Relate to the Content and the Page -- Applying a Background Image to An Id -- Background Images and the Box Model -- Stacking Order Means You Can Pile Your Images -- Using Images As List Bullets -- Importing Adobe Photoshop Files -- Summary -- Q&A -- Workshop -- Quiz -- Answers -- Exercise -- Hour 14 Harnessing the Power of Css Layouts -- Introduction -- Starting With Pen and Paper -- Build the Framework From Boxed Parts -- Employing Css Reset -- Updating the Id Names -- Styling the Layout Boxes -- Understanding Positioning -- Position: Absolute -- -- Position: Fixed -- -- Position: Relative -- -- Position: Static -- -- Position: Inherit -- Applying the Framework to Existing Pages -- Apply the New Framework to the Page -- Summary -- Q&A -- Workshop -- Quiz -- Answers -- Exercise -- Hour 15 Buttons, Buttons, Buttons -- Introduction -- Buttons: A Brief Definition -- Creating Interactive Buttons Using Expression Web 4 -- Make An Interactive Button -- Saving and Editing Interactive Buttons -- Creating Buttons From Scratch Using Css -- Creating a Basic Box Button -- Creating An Advanced Box Button With Images -- Create Text-Free Buttons With Sliding Doors -- Summary -- Q&A -- Workshop -- Quiz -- Answers -- Exercise -- Hour 16 Using Behaviors -- Introduction -- Behaviors: An Introduction -- Creating a Swap-Image Behavior -- Modifying Behaviors -- The Many Behaviors of Expression Web 4 -- Call Script -- Change Property -- Change Property Restore -- Go to Url -- Jump Menu -- Jump Menu Go -- Open Browser Window -- Play Sound -- Popup Message -- Preload Images -- Set Text -- Summary -- Q&A -- Workshop -- Quiz -- Answer -- Exercise -- Hour 17 Frames and Layers -- Introduction -- Frames: An Introduction -- Editing Individual Frames -- Making Framed Navigation -- Creating and Modifying Inline Frames -- Set Text of Frame Behavior…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Exercise 4.01: Maintaining Order within a List -- Queues -- Stacks -- HashSets -- Dictionaries -- Exercise 4.02: Using a Dictionary to Count the Words in a Sentence -- LINQ -- Query Operators -- Query Expressions -- Deferred Execution -- Standard Query Operators -- Projection Operations -- Select -- Anonymous Types -- SelectMany -- Filtering Operations -- Sorting Operations -- OrderBy and OrderByDescending -- ThenBy and ThenByDescending -- Exercise 4.03: Filtering a List of Countries by Continent and Sorting by Area -- Partitioning Operations -- Grouping Operations -- Exercise 4.04: Finding the Most Commonly Used Words in a Book -- Aggregation Operations -- Quantifier Operations -- Join Operations -- Using a let Clause in Query Expressions -- Activity 4.01: Treasury Flight Data Analysis -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Concurrency: Multithreading Parallel and Async Code -- Introduction -- Running Asynchronous Code Using Tasks -- Creating a New Task -- Using Task.Factory.StartNew -- Using Task.Run -- Exercise 5.01: Using Tasks to Perform Multiple Slow-Running Calculations -- Coordinating Tasks -- Waiting for Tasks to Complete -- Exercise 5.02: Waiting for Multiple Tasks to Complete Within a Time Period -- Continuation Tasks -- Using Task.WhenAll and Task.WhenAny with Multiple Tasks -- Exercise 5.03: Waiting for All Tasks to Complete -- Asynchronous Programming -- Async Lambda Expressions -- Canceling Tasks -- Exercise 5.04: Canceling Long-Running Tasks -- Exception Handling in Async/Await Code -- Exercise 5.05: Handling Async Exceptions -- The AggregateException Class -- IAsyncEnumerable Streams -- Parallel Programming -- Data Parallelism -- Task Parallelism -- The Parallel Class -- Parallel.For and Parallel.ForEach -- Activity 5.01: Creating Images from a Fibonacci Sequence -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Entity Framework with SQL Server -- Introduction…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Introduction to Microsoft Office for Mac -- Chapter 1 Overview from 10,000 Feet -- The Many Faces of Office for Mac -- Installing Office -- Getting a Microsoft account -- Downloading and installing Office -- Keeping Your Apps Up-to-Date -- Chapter 2 A Sweet Suite: Introducing the Office Apps -- What's New and Good -- The suite life -- Word -- PowerPoint -- Excel -- Outlook -- What's New but Bad -- Together, They're Better -- Chapter 3 Common Features in All Office Apps -- Using Menus in Office Apps -- Toolbars, Ribbons, and Panes: Think "Visual" Menus -- The Quick Access toolbar -- Reveling in the ribbon -- Panes are anything but a pain -- Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar, Ribbon Tabs, and Keyboard Shortcuts -- Customize the Quick Access toolbar -- Customize ribbon tabs and menus -- Creating ribbon tabs and tab groups -- Customizing keyboard shortcuts -- Creating and Saving Documents -- Using the gallery to open templates or recent documents -- Saving a document -- Saving and Using Documents in the Cloud -- Saving a file on a OneDrive or SharePoint location -- Sharing a file you've saved using OneDrive or SharePoint -- Opening a file you've saved on your OneDrive or SharePoint location -- Understanding App Preferences -- App preferences: Why? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- No One is Truly Qualified to Be a Startup Executive Before They've Done It Before -- What Qualifications and Skills are Essential on the Job as a Startup Leader -- Many Scaling Startups Bring in Leaders from Big Companies -- Executive Coach and Former Microsoft North America CFO John Rex: Advice for Scaling Startup Leaders -- Scaling is Hard in Both Directions -- Learn To Delegate with Capable Talent as you Scale -- Early-Stage Startup Vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Understanding Why LLCs Are Awesome -- Protecting your personal assets -- Taking charge of charging order protection -- How charging orders work -- Economic rights versus other rights -- Enjoying the flexibility of management and ownership rules -- No ownership restrictions -- No management restrictions -- Choosing your own tax status -- Making your selection -- Distributing profits at your whim -- Taking a Look at a Few Wrinkles -- Membership can be a bit tricky -- Rules governing LLCs vary among states -- Discovering the LLC's Many Variations -- The Professional LLC -- Simply wearing a suit doesn't make you a professional -- Different liability protection -- Restrictions on ownership -- Restrictions on business activities -- Forming a professional LLC -- The Series LLC -- Segregating your assets in a Series LLC -- When a Series LLC might work for you -- Forming a Series LLC -- Maintaining a Series LLC -- Series LLC Taxation -- The family LLC -- The Benefit LLC -- The single-member LLC -- Chapter 3 Determining Whether an LLC Is Right for You…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating valid variable names -- Creating variables in code -- Manipulating variables -- Saving your work -- Running your Python app in VS Code -- Understanding What Syntax Is and Why It Matters -- Book 2 Understanding Python Building Blocks -- Chapter 1 Working with Numbers, Text, and Dates -- Calculating Numbers with Functions -- Still More Math Functions -- Formatting Numbers -- Formatting with f-strings -- Showing dollar amounts -- Formatting percent numbers -- Making multiline format strings -- Formatting width and alignment -- Grappling with Weirder Numbers -- Binary, octal, and hexadecimal numbers -- Complex numbers -- Manipulating Strings -- Concatenating strings -- Getting the length of a string -- Working with common string operators -- Manipulating strings with methods -- Uncovering Dates and Times -- Working with dates -- Working with times -- Calculating timespans -- Accounting for Time Zones -- Working with Time Zones -- Chapter 2 Controlling the Action -- Main Operators for Controlling the Action -- Making Decisions with if -- Adding else to your if logic -- Handling multiple else statements with elif -- Ternary operations -- Repeating a Process with for -- Looping through numbers in a range -- Looping through a string -- Looping through a list -- Bailing out of a loop -- Looping with continue -- Nesting loops -- Looping with while -- Starting while loops over with continue -- Breaking while loops with break -- Chapter 3 Speeding Along with Lists and Tuples -- Defining and Using Lists -- Referencing list items by position -- Looping through a list -- Seeing whether a list contains an item -- Getting the length of a list -- Adding an item to the end of a list -- Inserting an item into a list -- Changing an item in a list -- Combining lists -- Removing list items -- Clearing out a list -- Counting how many times an item appears in a list…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part 3: Key Strategies for Architecting Top-Notch Solutions -- Chapter 9: User and Project Management in GCP -- Technical requirements -- Understanding IAM in GCP -- Planning a GCP project structure -- Understanding the GCP organization, folder, and project hierarchy -- Deciding how many projects we should have in a GCP organization -- Controlling user access to our data warehouse -- Use-case scenario - planning BigQuery ACLs on an eCommerce organization -- Practicing the concept of IaC using Terraform -- Exercise - creating and running basic Terraform scripts -- Self-exercise - managing a GCP project and resources using Terraform -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Data Governance in GCP -- Technical requirements -- Introduction to data governance -- A deeper understanding of data usability -- Exercise - implementing metadata tagging using Dataplex -- A deeper understanding of data security -- Example - BigQuery data masking -- Exercise - finding PII using SDP -- A deeper understanding of being accountable -- Clear traceability -- Clear data ownership -- Data lineage -- Clear data quality process -- Exercise - practicing data quality using Dataform -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Cost Strategy in GCP -- Technical requirements -- Estimating the cost of your end-to-end data solution in GCP -- Comparing BigQuery on-demand and editions -- An example - an estimating data engineering use case -- Tips to optimize BigQuery using partitioned and clustered tables -- Partitioned tables -- Clustered tables -- An exercise - optimizing BigQuery on-demand cost -- Summary -- Chapter 12: CI/CD on GCP for Data Engineers -- Technical requirements -- An introduction to CI/CD -- Understanding the data engineer's relationship with CI/CD practices -- Understanding CI/CD components with GCP services -- Exercise - implementing CI using Cloud Build…”