Book Watch Archive


The Reign of Botnets (Wiley)
Monday, 05 August 2024

In this book, subtitled "Defending Against Abuses, Bots and Fraud on the Internet", David Sénécal delivers a presentation of the contemporary bot threat landscape and the latest defense strategies used by leading companies to protect themselves. Readers are told how attackers think, what motivates them, how their strategies have evolved over time, and how website owners have changed their own behaviors to keep up with their adversaries. 

<ASIN:1394262418 >

 
Siliconned (Applied Maths)
Friday, 02 August 2024

Subtitled "How the tech industry solves fake problems, hoards idle workers, and makes doomed bets with other people's money", this book argues that the tech industry has a tendency to go crazy. Emmanuel Maggiori decodes tech’s hysteria and explains why we all pay the price for it.

<ASIN:183833727X >

 
Django for Beginners, 5th Ed (Still River Press)
Wednesday, 31 July 2024

In this guide to building real-world web applications with Python, William Vincent,a former Django Software Foundation Board member, takes a practical approach, introducing concepts through six projects designed to simulate real-world scenarios. From a Hello World website to a message board application, a blogging platform, and a newspaper CRM, readers learn about Django's architecture and how to add new functionality step-by-step.

<ASIN:173546726X >

 
Data Management Strategy at Microsoft (Packt)
Monday, 29 July 2024

This book examines Microsoft's data innovation and investment, including change management, aligning with business needs, enhancing data value, and cultivating a data-driven culture.  Aleksejs Plotnikovs highlights the importance of prioritizing genuine business needs to propel necessary modernizations through change management practices, and looks at how data-driven innovation does not solely reside within central IT engineering teams but also among the data's business owners.

<ASIN:‎ 1835469183 >

 
Programming ESP32 (MonkMakes)
Friday, 26 July 2024

Subtitled "Learn MicroPython Coding and Electronics", this book will teach you Python programming and some basic electronics without assuming any prior knowledge of either subject. Simon Monk initially focusses on Python programming, building up a Morse Code example. The book is suitable for most ESP32 boards, but concentrates on the most popular ESP32 Lite and the ESP32 DevKit 1. In the chapters on electronics, breadboard layouts are provided for both of these boards.

<ASIN:1739487451>

 
Core Java, Volume I: Fundamentals 13th Ed (Oracle Press)
Wednesday, 24 July 2024

Written for experienced programmers looking for in-depth coverage of the Java language and platform, this revised and updated edition now covers Java 21. Cay S. Horstmann's sample programs demonstrate almost every language and library feature, as well as the newest capabilities introduced in Java 21. This first of two volumes offers a detailed treatment of fundamental Java programming topics, including object-oriented programming, reflection and proxies, interfaces and inner classes, exception handling, generics, collections, lambda expressions, concurrency, annotations, and the Java Platform Module System.

<ASIN:0135328373 >

 
Refactoring with C++ (Packt)
Monday, 22 July 2024

This book is a guide to implementing SOLID principles and refactor legacy code using the modern features and approaches of C++, the standard library, Boost library collection, and Guidelines Support Library by Microsoft. Dmitry Danilov begins by describing the essential elements of writing clean code and discussing object-oriented programming in C++. He then explores the design principles of software testing with examples of using unit testing frameworks such as Google Test. The book also guides you through applying automated tools for static and dynamic code analysis using Clang Tools.

<ASIN:‎ 1837633770 >

 
Make: Radio: Hands-On (Make Community)
Friday, 19 July 2024

This book demystifies the world of radio through a dozen innovative projects, enabling readers to build inexpensive radio circuits such as transmitters and receivers, remote controls, and a working metal detector. Fredrik Jansson and Charles Platt also adapt radio concepts for the Raspberry Pi Pico, updating classic concepts with contemporary tools for accuracy and power.

<ASIN:1680456776 >

 
High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails (Pragmatic)
Wednesday, 17 July 2024

In this book, Andrew Atkinson looks at how to build faster, more reliable Rails apps by taking the best advanced PostgreSQL and Active Record capabilities. He shows how to work with multi-terabyte databases, and with complex Active Record, SQL, and specialized Indexes, using dozens of practical and hands-on exercises based on PostgreSQL databases and Ruby on Rails applications.

<ASIN:B0CX876RLY >

 
Reactive Patterns with RxJS and Angular Signals (Packt)
Monday, 15 July 2024

This book provides a step-by-step guide to learning RxJS and reactivity. Lamis Chebbi considers reactive patterns, efficient data management, and the streamlined implementation of common features with minimal code. This second edition has been reworked in light of the latest version of Angular, introducing new reactive patterns based on Angular Signals, which play a pivotal role in enabling fine-grained reactivity within Angular and enhancing change detection and user interface rendering.

<ASIN:1835087701>

 
Crypto Confidential (Portfolio)
Friday, 12 July 2024

Nat Eliason wanted to make as much money as possible in the six months before his first child was born, and chose the crypto sector. Within a year, he'd made millions writing code holding hundreds of millions of dollars of other people's money. He'd been hacked. He'd sold a picture of a monkey for two hundred grand. He'd become an influencer. This book, subtitled "Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance", is his account of the unregulated world being built on the blockchain.

<ASIN:‎0753561239>

 
C++ Brain Teasers (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Wednesday, 10 July 2024

In this book Anders Schau Knatten explores some of C++'s most interesting quirks through 25 puzzles, from the useful to the outright weird. How does initialization actually work? Do temporaries even exist? Why is +!!""  a valid expression in C++? As he works through each puzzle, he peels off some of the layers of complexity of C++, providing a fundamental understanding of how the language works.

<ASIN:B0D251HBV9>

 
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