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Amazon Web Services in Action
Amazon Web Services in Action introduces you to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. The book will teach you about the most important services on AWS. Amazon Web Services in Action introduces you to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. Overview of cloud concepts and patterns Manage servers on EC2 for cost-effectiveness Infrastructure automation with Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation) Deploy applications on AWS Store data on AWS: SQL, NoSQL, object storage and block storage Integrate Amazon's pre-built services Architect highly available and fault tolerant systems. A simple example: WordPress in five minutes PART 2 BUILDING VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE WITH SERVERS AND NETWORKING Using virtual servers: EC2 Programming your infrastructure: the command line, SDKs, and CloudFormation Automating deployment: CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and OpsWorks Securing your system: IAM, security groups, and VPC PART 3 STORING DATA IN THE CLOUD Storing your objects: S3 and Glacier Storing your data on hard drives: EBS and instance store Using a relational database service: RDS Programming for the NoSQL database service: DynamoDB PART 4 ARCHITECTING ON AWS Achieving high availability: availability zones, auto-scaling, and CloudWatch Decoupling your infrastructure: ELB and SQS Designing for fault-tolerance Scaling up and down: auto-scaling and CloudWatch. Today he runs a business with a focus on consulting and developing of AWS and web technologies together with his brother, Andreas.
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"I have used Microsoft Azure before but not AWS and was looking learn AWS also. This was not enough for me to rate the book 4 stars though as the content is very good, and this is the first substantial book on AWS available. If you are looking to learn AWS or expand your knowledge of your existing AWS setup this book is a solid choice."
"You end up having a general idea about what a certain element does but since it is described so superficially you never really get to command the knowledge required in order for you to actually use it when designing an architecture on your own. At the end I decided to give it 3 stars because it did what I wanted it to do (although on a very basic level, as I said) and apparently it's also the most up to date book on the topic right now. I just found one notable difference on chapter 5, if there were more I didn't notice, meaning they were small enough that I could guide myself on the site without needing further instructions from the book."
"The book won't make you a certified AWS DevOps Engineer, but will get you well on your way to moving you infrastructure to AWS, or spinning up particular services as you need them for day-to-day work."
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Laravel: Up and Running: A Framework for Building Modern PHP Apps
Blade, Laravel's powerful, custom templating tool Tools for gathering, validating, normalizing, and filtering user-provided data Laravel's Eloquent ORM for working with the application's databases The Illuminate request object, and its role in the application lifecycle PHPUnit, Mockery, and PHPSpec for testing your PHP code Laravel's tools for writing JSON and RESTful APIs Interfaces for file system access, sessions, cookies, caches, and search Tools for implementing queues, jobs, events, and WebSocket event publishing Laravel's specialty packages: Scout, Passport, Cashier, Echo, Elixir, Valet, and Socialite. "Not only is Matt one of the most knowledgable members of the Laravel community, he is also a fantastic teacher.
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"As a long time half-assed PHP developer with no framework experience prior to Laravel, I decided to take the plunge."
"Lots of details, but I found the layout a bit inconvenient."
"Most of the explanations in thia book are very good, detailed and straightforward."
"Well written book, and great supplement to the online docs,very informative yet easy to understand."
"A thorough overview of the Laravel PHP framework."
"Excellent intro to Laravel."
"Well written, clear and concise, and covered everything needed to learn Laravel!"
"Generally speaking, O`Reily books have been wonderful books - in my opinion; however, I'm sadly disappointed in this book."
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Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
Learn the real secrets of creating Web pages, and why everything your boss told you about HTML tables is probably wrong (and what to do instead). Most importantly, hold your own with your co-worker (and impress cocktail party guests) when he casually mentions how his HTML is now strict, and his CSS is in an external style sheet. With Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML , you'll avoid the embarrassment of thinking web-safe colors still matter, and the foolishness of slipping a font tag into your pages. Using the latest research in neurobiology, cognitive science, and learning theory, this book will load HTML, CSS, and XHTML into your brain in a way that sticks. Praise "Elegant design is at the core of every chapter here, each concept conveyed with equal doses of pragmatism and wit." "If you've ever had a family member who wanted you to design a website for them, buy them Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML. Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML explains the fundamentals of HTML, XHTML, topics like web color, and CSS properties. For those of you who have no interest in the mechanics of web pages, there are lots of programs out there, like Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Expression, that will help you create a web page without having to know how HTML and CSS really work. But if you want to know what's happening under the covers so you can learn about how web pages really work, and eventually write some JavaScript and do more advanced programming, I definitely recommend writing your own HTML and CSS from scratch. Another advantage to writing HTML and CSS yourself is that you can always write your web pages using the most current standards. HTML 5 will be more strict than HTML 4 was, but it's designed to be backwards compatible with older browsers, so you will be able to convert your HTML 4 pages to HTML 5 web pages without worrying too much about breaking them in older browsers.
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"I don't ever plan or expect to program professionally, just learn something, build a few batch file systems, a few quick link programs and learn why things work the way they do."
"I have many other Kindle books on my iPad that just won't let me enlarge the pages but this book does. Also what I find really cool with this book on an iPad with Kindle software is the way it displays a bottom scrollable display of page icons with page numbers when you tap the top of the page to navigate."
"Not only will they give you helpful information (especially for beginners) and practices to further your understanding, but it also include "tests" (of sorts). The Kindle Paperwhite will not allow you to enter information into the crossword puzzles (because it treats them as images) so unless you want to recreate a large crossword puzzle layout yourself, this avenue of learning is hindered due to the limitations of a digital media."
"Concepts that are similar to each other are often compared using a device called the "Fireside Chat" where CSS and HTML each explain their strengths, what they can do that the other can't. It has held up to my use for over two years, and I see student books that are still in good shape after passing through 2 or 3 owners."
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Best Web Services

Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, Streams, and functional-style programming
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. It also explains other major Java 8 features including default methods, Optional, CompletableFuture, and the new Date and Time API. How to use Java 8's powerful new features Writing effective multicore-ready applications Refactoring, testing, and debugging Adopting functional-style programming Quizzes and quick-check questions. Passing code with behavior parameterization Lambda expressions PART 2 FUNCTIONAL-STYLE DATA PROCESSING Introducing streams Working with streams Collecting data with streams Parallel data processing and performance PART 3 EFFECTIVE JAVA 8 PROGRAMMING Refactoring, testing, and debugging Default methods Using Optional as a better alternative to null CompletableFuture: composable asynchronousprogramming New Date and Time API PART 4 BEYOND JAVA 8 Thinking functionally Functional programming techniques Blending OOP and FP: comparing Java 8 and Scala Conclusions and where next for Java APPENDIXES Miscellaneous language updates Miscellaneous library updates Performing multiple operations in parallelon a stream Lambdas and JVM bytecode. Raoul-Gabriel Urma has worked as a software engineer for Oracle's Java Platform Group, Google's Python team, Ebay, and Goldman Sachs as well as for several startup projects.
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"Lots of useful info on the new features of Lambdas and Streams."
"An excellent but verbose companion book to the also excellent but terse "Java 8 for the Seriously Impatient", by Cay Horstman."
"I have read many programming books as a Java Hobbyist, this has to be one of the best I have read."
"I am almost half way through this book."
"One of the best book to go through features of java 8."
"Very useful book, coming back to it every time I need to recall some details."
"Perfect book and delivered on time."
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Best Mobile Device Programming

iOS 11 Programming Fundamentals with Swift: Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa Basics
Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode 9 IDE, Cocoa Touch, and the latest version of Apple’s acclaimed programming language, Swift 4. Matt Neuburg started programming computers in 1968, when he was 14 years old, as a member of a literally underground high school club, which met once a week to do time-sharing on a bank of PDP-10s by way of primitive Teletype machines.
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"Finally someone wrote an iOS programming book that isn't half useless space-wasting screenshots of dialogue boxes in Xcode!"
"This is my second week in Swift 4 and all of the questions I had about Cocoa and the general app architecture have all been resolved after spending hours skimming sites and videos trying to get a clear, high level picture."
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Best COM, DCOM & ATL Programming

Essential COM
Written by a leading COM authority, this unique book reveals the essence of COM, helping developers to truly understand the why, not just the how, of COM. Nonetheless, if you're a C++ programmer and you want your skills to continue to be relevant in a PC market dominated by Windows 95 and Windows NT, you need to get going down the path toward your own COM enlightenment. Endorsed by object-orientation guru Grady Booch and Microsoft COM expert Charlie Kindel, Box's book takes the reader from an elucidating discussion of why a demand exists for COM and how it fits into the progression of C++ technology to a cool exhibition of some COM programs he's written.
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"Even the latest technologies like Windows Runtime (Metro) or Media Foundation are COM-based APIs. The book doesn't contain whole listing of source codes, nor step-by-step examples (showing how to create COM servers - for instance). But if you have basics of COM, the book is the great tool that will extend your knowledge. I compiled samples (my own, not from companion source) under Visual Studio 2010 for x64 CPU, and there were only minor changes I had to do (ProxyStub DLL for standard marshaler is linked with other LIB and you have to set x64 flag for MIDL compiler)."
"This is a great book and delivers exactly what the jacket says."
"If you want to learn COM, start here."
"But if you want to make a product with Win32 dll that needs to be binary compatible with products built using different compilers without COM then books explains you very well on how to do it in the very first chapter of Why COM?"
"However, even after the fact, this book is a great read."
"If you have good understanding of C++ concepts and Windows programming, this is a great book for learning COM technology."
"I've been learning COM for a while starting out with VB, and then realizing the real COM developement is done with C++."
"This is a great book if you already have some experience with COM."
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Best Online Internet Searching

Howl's Moving Castle
To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. In a career spanning four decades, award-winning author Diana Wynne Jones (1934‒2011) wrote more than forty books of fantasy for young readers.
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"This is an easy read for any age, but not because it's light on story - DWJ writes with an understated imagination that creates a rich world while making it look effortless."
"The characters and story line are complex and keep you guessing."
"This is a fantasy tale about a witch and a magician and the little girl who gets caught in the middle of their struggle to the death."
"The Story Goes... Actual rating: 4.5 stars. Three words to describe this book; Whimsical, hilarious, magical. I really really loved this book, it was magical and funny and adorable and it had such an oddly cute romance, I just feel like gushing about it on and on but I will attempt to hold myself back. One day will working in her hat shop Sophie is cursed by the Witch Of The Waste and turned into an old lady...yeah."
"Some of the characters were removed or combined to make the movie flow better, I guess, but I really like Michael, the eternal gentleman that just kind of became Howl's apprentice on a whim and the sisters that are more elaborated upon."
"I am a HUGE Miyazaki fan so I love the Studio Ghibli movie Howl's Moving Castle."
"I was very happy to stumble upon this while browsing through possible books to buy for my daughter."
"As we read the story, he liked how Howl could make different places appear by turning the knob and opening the door."
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Best Podcasts & Webcasts

Vlog Like a Boss: How to Kill It Online with Video Blogging
This complete guide will show you how to: - overcome the 3 major fears that hold many people back from making videos - create your most engaging vlog every time with the Authority Video Formula - achieve your on-camera talent (and no, you don't need to be a natural!). "Mastering the art of the 'jab' through vlogging means learning from Amy Schmittauer. "Amy Schmittauer is the most authoritative voice in the how-to vlogging space. "The art of vlogging looks deceptively simple, but Amy does a masterful job of navigating through the many, many subtleties that turn a decent vlog into a great one." "With Vlog Like a Boss, Amy has served up a slice of vlogging reality for both beginners and experienced vloggers that'll help anyone take their online video strategy to the next level. Amy breaks down topics in marketing, blogging and video well enough to have a five-year-old vlogging like a boss in no time!" In this book, YouTube sensation Amy Schmittauer unpacks the precise steps she herself followed to conquer online video so that you can do the same. "When I need help vlogging, Amy is the first one I contact. "Amy combines 9 years of video experience with 30-ish years of being a human into the ultimate resource for anyone looking to start vlogging or any business looking to increase their online presence with video. "Amy's ability to create engaging videos that deliver a polished message while being fun has transformed my video creation process.
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"I know he'll not only enjoy reading this book, but will walk away with so much more, than just how to be a better video blogger."
"Amy always delivers...yep, I'm one of those who watches one video after another on her YouTube channel---1. because she has SO many. VLAB was so comprehensive, that I feel 100% confident in starting my vlogging journey!"
"Amy is a Boss."
"Such a great how-to guide!"
"Thank you Amy for writing a book in a fun, informative, actionable format."
"I am completely new to vlogging so didn't have any idea what the process was."
"Thank you, Amy for such a great book :)."
"Amy walks you through the in's & out's of getting started with vlogging."
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Best Blogging & Blogs

How To Blog For Profit: Without Selling Your Soul
With wit, wisdom, and the insight of someone who’s been there, Ruth Soukup shares how she grew her own blog, Living Well Spending Less, to over one million monthly visitors, earns a full time income, and still is able to write about the things she truly cares about. •Improve your productivity, learning to work smarter not harder, and take concrete steps to transform your blog into a business. Since launching in 2010, Living Well Spending Less has become one of the most popular personal finance blogs on the net, receiving more than one million visitors per month.
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"Many are common sense - such as "write awesome content" and "determine your main theme..." The chapter on social media was extremely helpful. Meaning, no awesome techniques or ideas that haven't already been talked about by 100 other authors in 100 other blogging ebooks. The bulk of my traffic has always come from search engines and, while social media is changing how we use the internet, I don't think enough emphasis can be put on the importance of search engines as a source of traffic for most blogs. I'd highly suggest spending your time reading stuff written by those whose sole purpose is teaching better blogging techniques...like the Smart Passive Income blog by Pat Flynn or ProBlogger with Darren Rowse."
"This isn't just a book you read through and say "oh, that was nice" its more like a manual that you can keep at your desk and refer back to you over and over again as you work through implementing all of the incredible strategies."
"This book is fantastic - I appreciated the straight forward, simplistic and easy to understand approach."
"I have found great ideas in this book that have really helped my blog."
"The information is so generic that it could apply to most anything."
"I found the book to be very helpful."
"If you start constructing your blog through wordpress.COM, you will likely spend a lot of time picking a theme and starting to write and organize your posts, only to discover that wordpress.COM does NOT support any ways to monetize your site. You will also waste a lot of time trying to move your site off of wordpress.com afterwards."
"I have been blogging for 18 months and there wasn't anything I didn't already know from just reading other blogs on blogging for free."
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Best eBay

eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies
A complete update of the bestselling eBay business guide Covers getting the necessary eBay selling tools, how to do product research and set up payment systems, and tips on setting prices, creating good listings, and organizing sales Helps you find things to sell at prices that will make a profit, create listings that get attention, take great merchandise photos, and promote your items on social media sites Offers advice on providing customer service, safely storing and shipping your merchandise, and handling necessary bookkeeping and tax chores Includes how to analyze data and establish the needed resources to become a Power Seller. Billions of dollars flow from buyers to sellers through eBay, and this book's complete guidance shows you how to get your share! — discover great places to find deals on merchandise and learn which ones to be wary of Show off your stuff — design a killer website and showcase your merchandise with professional-looking photos How to survive shipping — tips on organizing, packing, shipping, and insuring what you've sold Feel the power — see how to attain PowerSeller and Top Rated Seller status Keep it legal — with records that make business and tax reporting easier.
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"I found out that there's a lot to do for an ebay, but the book was very helpful."
"Perfect book to get off and running with selling on eBay."
"Well written book with a good index for finding stuff."
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Best Computer Hacking

Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
And as such, I know what it's like to be asked to whip up brilliant algorithms on the spot and then write flawless code on a whiteboard. Learn how to uncover the hints and hidden details in a question, discover how to break down a problem into manageable chunks, develop techniques to unstick yourself when stuck, learn (or re-learn) core computer science concepts, and practice on 189 interview questions and solutions. Extensive coverage of essential topics, such as big O time, data structures, and core algorithms. At Google, she interviewed hundreds of software engineers and evaluated thousands of hiring packets on the hiring committee.
Reviews
"The DP solutions in this book are not actually tabular DP formulations--I recommend looking at the problems here http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~bcdean/dp_practice/ (Brian Dean's Dynamic Programming Practice Problems)."
"The main reason I bought the book is that it closely reflects the status quo of the technical interviews in large tech companies. For many of the problems, unless you know the solutions beforehand, there is no way you can code up a decent one within an hour. The book mentions an example, a good candidate whom the author knows very well but just cannot pass the coding interviews. I am guessing the assumption is that the coding problems we do nowadays on the interviews somehow achieve minimal number of false positives. One solution reduces the problem to checking for substrings. The author claims the time complexity is O(m+n), which I believe for Java is actually O(mn). Overall this is good book for preparing for coding interviews."
"I've been writing software for a long time, and I'm competent at my job. Because the presence of books like these create a vicious cycle: prep book gets written; interviewees study/memorize answers; interviewers make questions "harder" to compensate; new book gets written! The grinder continues to turn, and whereas ten years ago you could get a good job with some string or linked-list manipulation questions, now you've got people who consider whiteboard coding of topcoder elite questions to be the baseline measurement of programmer competency. You'll even run into lazy interviewers who take questions directly from this book, which is the ultimate in stupidity: if "good" candidates have prepared from the book, and you ask questions directly from the book, what are you really accomplishing, other than a test of memorization skills? I've seen it myself."
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Best E-Commerce

Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain
The second edition includes: A broad introduction to bitcoin--ideal for non-technical users, investors, and business executives An explanation of the technical foundations of bitcoin and cryptographic currencies for developers, engineers, and software and systems architects Details of the bitcoin decentralized network, peer-to-peer architecture, transaction lifecycle, and security principles New developments such as Segregated Witness, Payment Channels, and Lightning Network Improved explanations of keys, addresses and wallets User stories, analogies, examples, and code snippets illustrating key technical concepts. With experience ranging from hardware and electronics to high level business and financial systems technology consulting and years as CTO/CIO/CSO in many companies — he combines authority and deep knowledge with an ability to make complex subjects easy to understand. His expertise includes Bitcoin, crypto-currencies, Information Security, Cryptography, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Linux, Open Source and robotics software development.
Reviews
"Deep complex book for programmers."
"This is an outstanding introduction to the technology behind Bitcoin and cryptocurrency."
"Good technical introduction to bitcoin."
"Fantastic book if you want to learn what Bitcoin is and how it works."
"detailed, comprehensive, and masterful."
"great book very technical."
"He also tackles ways one might lose their bitcoins, and the ideas that are quite different from the centralized payment systems and banks we've become familiar with: one of these being the transference back to the asset owner of the responsibility for security--with suggestions as to how to go about securing them, even providing ways of leaving them to the family even in the event of death of the owner."
"One of the best technical books about blockchain technology I have ever come across."
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Best Social Media Guides

The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions
You will see the powerful and deceptive methods of manipulation that affect us all, as numerous organizations and political activists cunningly plot to have their stories seen, heard, and believed by as many people as possible. The depths of lies, distortions, and omissions from traditional mainstream media will shock you; and now they’re colluding with the top tech companies trying to maintain their information monopolies. Mark's YouTube channel has over 1 million subscribers and more than 400 million views, and his viral videos have been mentioned on the Fox News Channel, CNN, the Drudge Report, TMZ, the New York Daily News , the Washington Times , and other media outlets around the world.
Reviews
"I believe a person that is not ready to be awakened may experience severe soul pain and Mark forgot to put "Trigger warning" on the cover but still I believe for awakened people this is going to be great laugh and joy to read pages and see how death of media complex is unravelling and humanity awakening while people that still caught in nets of news manipulators may feel really bad but after few weeks I believe healing effects of truth will be refreshing."
"The book mentions how our leftists media is trying to persuade us to accept insanity like there being more than 2 genders, and how the media is pushing fake hate crimes committed by leftists in attempt to frame Trump supporters as Nazis,white Supremacists,KKK members, and racist."
"A lot of people don't know history and how much the media has been involved with the CIA and FBI and the rest of our federal gov't to create stories, manipulate events, etc."
"The news media has become so untrustworthy, the majority of sane Americans have seen this before even reading Marks book!"
"Great book and well written!!!!"
"Excellent book; this will not disappoint."
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