With practical and self-contained examples, Julian Gamble illuminates Clojure’s key features and best practices, showing how to solve real-world problems one step at a time. Focusing on Clojure 1.7 he covers recent enhancements that ensure you’re getting the most up-to-date code for your project. First you go through the essential steps required to set up your Clojure development environment, from setting up the Leiningen build tool to packaging Clojure for Java EE environments. Then you arte shown how to build both basic and advanced REST servers, before turning to a wide range of increasingly sophisticated applications.

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Start building apps for iOS 9 with Apple’s Swift programming language. If you’re grounded in the basics of Xcode and the Cocoa framework, Matt Neuberg provides a structured explanation of all essential real-world iOS app components. Through deep exploration and copious code examples, you’ll learn how to create views, manipulate view controllers, and use iOS frameworks for adding features such as audio and video, access to user calendars and photos, and tracking the device’s location. Covers iOS9, Xcode 7 and Swift 2.0.

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Vim is a fast, efficient text editor that will make you a faster and more efficient developer that is available on almost every OS. Drew Neil provides more than 120 Vim tips helping you quickly learn the editor's core functionality and tackle the trickiest editing and writing tasks. This new edition,  updated to Vim 7.4 includes two new tips and five fully revised ones.

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Jay McGavren teaches you the Ruby language in a concrete way that gets your neurons zapping and helps you become a Ruby rock star. You'll enter at Ruby's language basics and work through progressively advanced Ruby features such as blocks, objects, methods, classes, and regular expressions. As your Ruby skills grow, you'll tackle deep topics such as exception handling, modules, mixins, and metaprogramming.

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If you want to learn to program, Python is an excellent way to start. This hands-on guide takes you through the language one step at a time, beginning with basic programming concepts before moving on to functions, recursion, data structures, and object-oriented design. This updated second edition has a more direct focus on Python 3 and added coverage of list comprehensions and additional data structures.

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People are happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with. Self-selecting teams give people that choice. With this case study of how New Zealand's biggest e-commerce company completely restructured its business through self-selection discover hoe to build well-designed and efficient teams to get the most out of your organization, with step-by-step instructions on how to set up teams quickly and efficiently. 

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In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with AngularJS in your Microsoft .NET environment. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on your .NET skills and knowledge, helping you quickly learn the essentials of AngularJS, and use it to streamline any web development project. Q&A sections, quizzes, and exercises help you build and test your knowledge.

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Is your organization rapidly accumulating more information than you know how to manage? This updated edition, written for business managers, IT managers, and information professionals can maximize the value of corporate information and data assets, helps you create an enterprise search solution based on more than just technology. Martin White shows you how to plan and implement a managed search environment that meets the needs of  business.

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In just 24 lessons of one hour or less discover how to harness Hadoop’s power on a flexible, scalable cloud platform using Microsoft’s newest business intelligence, visualization, and productivity tools. With a straightforward, step-by-step approach Manpreet Singh and Arshad Ali help show you how to provision, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot HDInsight and use Hadoop cloud services to solve real analytics problems. You’ll gain more of Hadoop’s benefits, with less complexity even if you’re completely new to Big Data analytics.

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Sets out to teach you the basics quickly so that you can solve problems, make things, and do cool stuff. In each chapter, Eric Matthes explains a new programming concept and includes a set of exercises to help reinforce your new knowledge.  Three hands-on projects, a simple video game, using data visualization techniques to make interactive graphs and charts, and a simple Web application put your new programming skills into practice, so it's not just syntax and theory. 

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The Intel Edison is a crowning achievement of Intel's adaptation of its technology into maker-friendly products. They've packed the dual-core power of the Atom CPU, combined it with a sideboard microcontroller brain, and added in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy, and a generous amount of RAM (1GB) and flash storage (4GB). Stephanie Moyerman, a research scientist with Intel's Smart Device Innovation Team, teaches you everything you need to know to get started making things with Edison, the compact and powerful Internet of Things platform.

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Django is a powerful system for creating modern, dynamic websites. In this step-by-step, beginner-friendly guide, Django consultant and trainer Andrew Pinkham reveals how websites operate; how Django makes building websites easy; how to write Python code that leverages its immense capabilities; and how to build solutions that are robust, reliable, and secure. You’ll start simply and learn to solve increasingly challenging problems: mastering new features and understanding how Django’s architecture shapes their behavior, and gaining essential knowledge for working with any web framework, not just Django.

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