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Mark Beckner, “The Coder’s Path to Wealth and Independence”
2014 | ISBN-10: 1484204220 | 250 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Developers, programmers, technical architects, and consultants: You are highly skilled and have deep commitment to your craft as well as the motivation to excel. It’s time to step away from the perceived security of a full-time salaried position, or a marginally successful solo business, and step into a world of freedom, independence, and wealth. With your current technical skills, and an open mind, you can rapidly build a highly successful and ethical business-and on your own terms.

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Edward Crookshanks, “Practical Software Development Techniques: Tools and Techniques for Building Enterprise Software”
2014 | ISBN-10: 1484207297 | 212 pages | PDF | 7 MB

This book provides an overview of tools and techniques used in enterprise software development, many of which are not taught in academic programs or learned on the job. This is an ideal resource containing lots of practical information and code examples that you need to master as a member of an enterprise development team.

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David Hows, Peter Membrey, “MongoDB Basics”
2014 | ISBN-10: 148420896X | 144 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Need a quick and easy to understand introduction to MongoDB and NoSQL databases? MongoDB Basics, from The Definitive Guide to MongoDB, 2E, shows you how a document-oriented database system differs from a relational database, and how to install and get started using it. You’ll also learn MongoDB design basics, including geospatial indexing, how to navigate, view, and query your database, and how to use GridFS with a bit of Python.

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Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft, and the Battle for the Internet [Audiobook] by Charles Arthur
English | January 21, 2013 | ASIN: B00B3Y2FQO | MP3@96 kbps | 11 hrs 2 mins | 455 MB
Narrator: Stephen Rashbrook | Genre: Business/Technology

Digital Wars starts in 1998, when the Internet and computing business was about to be upended – by an antitrust case, a tiny start-up and a former giant rebuilding it. Charles Arthur here examines the differing strategies of the three best-known tech companies in their battle to win control of the exploding network connecting the world. Microsoft was a giant – soon to become the highest-valued company in the world – while Apple was a minnow and Google just a start-up. By February 2012, Apple was worth more than both Microsoft and Google combined. Through the voices of former and current staff, Arthur looks at the tumultuous battle between the three companies and what their various successes meant for us.

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Photography Basics: Learn Digital Photography Basics by Robin Cob
English | December 8, 2014 | ASIN: B00QSFAFNI | 52 pages | EPUB/MOBI/AZW3 | 4 MB

A digital camera takes light and focuses it via the lens onto a sensor made out of silicon. It is made up of a grid of tiny photosites that are sensitive to light. Each photosite is usually called a pixel, a contraction of “picture element”. There are millions of these individual pixels in the sensor of a DSLR camera.

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Using Galaxy Tab: An Android Tablet By Marziah Karch
2014 | 100 Pages | ISBN: 1484206339 | PDF | 4 MB

Learn to use your Galaxy Tab with ease, no jargon. Clear, concise, short and to the point… Using Galaxy Tab is the essential guide to getting around Samsung’s flagship and best selling Android-based tablet and e-book reader. This book explores setting up your new Tab and registering; navigating around the interface and what all the buttons, lists and icons are for; configuring your WiFi; setting up, sending and receiving emails using Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail and your Exchange account; and browsing the web.

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tmux Taster By Mark McDonnell
2014 | 96 Pages | ISBN: 1484207769 | PDF | 2 MB

tmux Taster is your short, concise volume to learn about tmux, the terminal multiplexer that allows you to multiplex several virtual consoles. With tmux you can access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session, and do so much more.

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Thinking in LINQ: Harnessing the power of functional programing in .NET applications By Sudipta Mukherjee
2014 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 143026845X | PDF | 9 MB

LINQ represents a paradigm shift for developers used to an imperative/object oriented programming style, because LINQ draws on functional programming principles. Thinking in LINQ addresses the differences between these two by providing a set of succinct recipes arranged in several groups, including:

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Introducing Maven By Balaji Varanasi
2014 | 120 Pages | ISBN: 1484208420 | PDF | 4 MB

Introducing Maven is your quick start-up primer guide on Maven. This fully packed mini-book includes the new features and enhancements found in the latest version of Maven.

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Foundation ActionScript 3, 2nd edition By Paul Milbourne, Darren Richardson
2014 | 556 Pages | ISBN: 1484205855 | PDF | 11 MB

ActionScript 3 is a full-fledged programming language, with complete object-oriented capabilities, event handling, sound and video support, drawing capabilities, support for regular expressions, and much more.

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Experimenting with AVR Microcontrollers By Alan Trevennor
2014 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1484209028 | PDF | 6 MB

AVR is the brain that runs Arduino, but you don’t need the whole Arduino board to do fun projects. Experimenting with AVR Microcontrollers, from Practical AVR Microcontrollers, shows you how to create a spiffy set of projects that you can build to learn more about electronics, about AVR, and just to generate new ideas for your own projects.

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Create Web Charts with jqPlot By Fabio Nelli
2014 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 1484208633 | PDF | 8 MB

Create Web Charts with jqPlotshows how to convert your data into eye-catching, innovative, animated, and highly interactive browser-based charts. This book is suitable for developers of all experience levels and needs: for those who love fast and effective solutions, you can use the jqPlot library to generate charts with amazing effects and animations using only a few lines of code.

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Create Web Charts with D3 By Fabio Nelli
2014 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 1484208668 | PDF | 9 MB

Create Web Charts with D3 shows how to convert your data into eye-catching, innovative, animated, and highly interactive browser-based charts. This book is suitable for developers of all experience levels and needs: if you want power and control and need to create data visualization beyond traditional charts, then D3 is the JavaScript library for you.

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Swift by Tutorials: A Hands-On Approach By Colin Eberhardt, Matt Galloway
2014 | 257 Pages | ISBN: 0989675181 | PDF + code | 114 MB

Learn Apple’s brand new programming language, Swift, the quick and easy way: via hands-on tutorials! Through a series of real-world, practical examples you will bring your Swift knowledge from beginner to master.

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iOS 8 by Tutorials: Learning the New iOS 8 APIs with Swift By Soheil Azarpour, Ricardo Rendon Cepeda and more
2014 | 718 Pages | ISBN: 0989675173 | PDF | 286 MB

Learn the New iOS 8 APIs!
At WWDC, Tim Cook declared iOS 8 the most significant change for iOS developers since the introduction of the original iPhone OS SDK.

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Sign Painters by Faythe Levine, Sam Macon
2012 | ISBN: 1616890835 | English | 184 pages | PDF | 72 MB

There was a time-as recently as the 1980s-when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of quicker and cheaper. The resulting proliferation of computer-designed, die-cut vinyl lettering and inkjet printers has ushered a creeping sameness into our visual landscape. Fortunately, there is a growing trend to seek out traditional sign painters and a renaissance in the trade. In 2010 filmmakers Faythe Levine, coauthor of Handmade Nation, and Sam Macon began documenting these dedicated practitioners, their time-honored methods, and their appreciation for quality and craftsmanship. Sign Painters, the first anecdotal history of the craft, features stories and photographs of more than two dozen sign painters working in cities throughout the United States.

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Swift in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself (Sams Teach Yourself – Hours) by BJ Miller
English | December 6, 2014 | ISBN: 067233724X | 448 pages | EPUB/MOBI/AZW3 | 27 MB

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself Swift in 24 Hours helps you build next-generation OS X and iOS apps with Apple’s new Swift programming language.

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Swift for Beginners: Develop and Design by Boisy G. Pitre
English | December 25, 2014 | ISBN: 0134044703 | 304 pages | EPUB/MOBI/AZW3 | 31 MB

LEARNING A NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE can be daunting. With Swift, Apple has lowered the barrier of entry for developing iOS and OS X apps by giving developers an innovative new programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch.

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GoPro: Professional Guide to Filmmaking [covers the HERO4 and all GoPro cameras] by Bradford Schmidt
English | November 28, 2014 | ISBN: 0321934164 | 312 pages | EPUB/MOBI/AZW3 | 45 MB

WHERE INSPIRATION MEETS TECHNICAL CRAFT, this guide to professional filmmaking with a GoPro is packed with hundreds of beautiful photos and interactive links to videos created by professional athletes, filmmakers, and inspired GoPro users around the world.

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