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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops

XP 2021 Workshops, Virtual Event, June 14–18, 2021, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Peggy Gregory, Philippe Kruchten ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This open access book constitutes papers from the 5 research workshops, the poster presentations, as well as two panel discussions which were presented at XP 2021, the 22nd International Conference on Agile Software Development, which was held online during June 14-18, 2021.XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a unique forum where agile ... Read more

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This open access book constitutes papers from the 5 research workshops, the poster presentations, as well as two panel discussions which were presented at XP 2021, the 22nd International Conference on Agile Software Development, which was held online during June 14-18, 2021.XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a unique forum where agile
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C++ Memory Management

Write leaner and safer C++ code using proven memory-management techniques

by Patrice Roy ...

Harness the power of C++ to build smaller, faster, safer, and more predictable programs using the latest techniques and best practices to optimize performance and ensure reliability in your software development projects Get With Your Book: PDF Copy, AI Assistant, and Next-Gen Reader FreeKey FeaturesUse contemporary C++ features to enhance code safety and reliabilityDevelop a deeper understanding ... Read more

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Harness the power of C++ to build smaller, faster, safer, and more predictable programs using the latest techniques and best practices to optimize performance and ensure reliability in your software development projects Get With Your Book: PDF Copy, AI Assistant, and Next-Gen Reader FreeKey FeaturesUse contemporary C++ features to enhance code safety and reliabilityDevelop a deeper understanding
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Practical Vim

Edit Text at the Speed of Thought

by Drew Neil ...

Vim is a fast and efficient text editor that will make you a faster and more efficient developer. It's available on almost every OS, and if you master the techniques in this book, you'll never need another text editor. In more than 120 Vim tips, you'll quickly learn the editor's core functionality and tackle your trickiest editing and writing tasks. This beloved bestseller has been revised and ... Read more

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Vim is a fast and efficient text editor that will make you a faster and more efficient developer. It's available on almost every OS, and if you master the techniques in this book, you'll never need another text editor. In more than 120 Vim tips, you'll quickly learn the editor's core functionality and tackle your trickiest editing and writing tasks. This beloved bestseller has been revised and
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Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD

Design, build, and test OpenSCAD programs to bring your ideas to life using 3D printers

by Colin Dow ...

A step-by-step full-color guide to OpenSCAD that makes 3D printing easier than everKey FeaturesLearn more about 3D printing technology and the software used to design your objectsDiscover the various FDM slicer programs used to create G-code for 3D printer jobsUse a slicer program to create G-code to run your 3D printer jobBook DescriptionWant to bring your 3D designs to life with OpenSCAD, but ... Read more

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A step-by-step full-color guide to OpenSCAD that makes 3D printing easier than everKey FeaturesLearn more about 3D printing technology and the software used to design your objectsDiscover the various FDM slicer programs used to create G-code for 3D printer jobsUse a slicer program to create G-code to run your 3D printer jobBook DescriptionWant to bring your 3D designs to life with OpenSCAD, but
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Pro ASP.NET Web API

HTTP Web Services in ASP.NET

by Ali Uurlu, Alexander Zeitler, Ali Kheyrollahi ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Pro ASP.NET Web API shows you how to build flexible, extensible web services that run seamlessly on a range of operating systems and devices, from desktops to tablets to smart phones—even the ones we don’t know today.ASP.NET Web API is a new framework designed to simplify web service architecture. So if you're tired of interoperability issues between inflexible web services and clients tied to ... Read more

$95.99 CAD

Pro ASP.NET Web API shows you how to build flexible, extensible web services that run seamlessly on a range of operating systems and devices, from desktops to tablets to smart phones—even the ones we don’t know today.ASP.NET Web API is a new framework designed to simplify web service architecture. So if you're tired of interoperability issues between inflexible web services and clients tied to
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The App Store Playbook

Discover How 10 Successful iPhone App Developers Hit It Big Selling Games On The App Store

by Shane Lee ...

**Insights from iPhone Game Developers who consistently find Success on the App Store**Have you ever wondered about iPhone game development or even just how to create an app?What separates the world's most successful iOS game developers from the vast majority of App Store failures?There are currently more than 700,000 apps on the App Store. It's only a matter of time before the number of apps ... Read more

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**Insights from iPhone Game Developers who consistently find Success on the App Store**Have you ever wondered about iPhone game development or even just how to create an app?What separates the world's most successful iOS game developers from the vast majority of App Store failures?There are currently more than 700,000 apps on the App Store. It's only a matter of time before the number of apps
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Release It!

Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software

by Michael T. Nygard ...

A single dramatic software failure can cost a company millions of dollars - but can be avoided with simple changes to design and architecture. This new edition of the best-selling industry standard shows you how to create systems that run longer, with fewer failures, and recover better when bad things happen. New coverage includes DevOps, microservices, and cloud-native architecture. Stability ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

A single dramatic software failure can cost a company millions of dollars - but can be avoided with simple changes to design and architecture. This new edition of the best-selling industry standard shows you how to create systems that run longer, with fewer failures, and recover better when bad things happen. New coverage includes DevOps, microservices, and cloud-native architecture. Stability
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Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems

Queueing Theory in Action

by Mor Harchol-Balter ...

Tackling the questions that systems designers care about, this book brings queueing theory decisively back to computer science. The book is written with computer scientists and engineers in mind and is full of examples from computer systems, as well as manufacturing and operations research. Fun and readable, the book is highly approachable, even for undergraduates, while still being thoroughly ... Read more

$97.99 CAD

Tackling the questions that systems designers care about, this book brings queueing theory decisively back to computer science. The book is written with computer scientists and engineers in mind and is full of examples from computer systems, as well as manufacturing and operations research. Fun and readable, the book is highly approachable, even for undergraduates, while still being thoroughly
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PHP Solutions

Dynamic Web Design Made Easy

by David Powers ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
This is the third edition of David Powers' highly-respected PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy. This new edition has been updated by David to incorporate changes to PHP since the second edition and to offer the latest techniques—a classic guide modernized for 21st century PHP techniques, innovations, and best practices.You want to make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, ... Read more

$63.99 CAD

This is the third edition of David Powers' highly-respected PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy. This new edition has been updated by David to incorporate changes to PHP since the second edition and to offer the latest techniques—a classic guide modernized for 21st century PHP techniques, innovations, and best practices.You want to make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form,
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Beginning Java 8 Fundamentals

Language Syntax, Arrays, Data Types, Objects, and Regular Expressions

by Kishori Sharan ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Beginning Java 8 Fundamentals provides a comprehensive approach to learning the Java programming language, especially the object-oriented fundamentals necessary at all levels of Java development.Author Kishori Sharan provides over 90 diagrams and 240 complete programs to help beginners and intermediate level programmers learn the topics faster. Starting with basic programming concepts, the author ... Read more

$47.99 CAD

Beginning Java 8 Fundamentals provides a comprehensive approach to learning the Java programming language, especially the object-oriented fundamentals necessary at all levels of Java development.Author Kishori Sharan provides over 90 diagrams and 240 complete programs to help beginners and intermediate level programmers learn the topics faster. Starting with basic programming concepts, the author
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ARM System Developer's Guide

Designing and Optimizing System Software

by Andrew Sloss, Dominic Symes, Chris Wright ...

Series series The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design
Over the last ten years, the ARM architecture has become one of the most pervasive architectures in the world, with more than 2 billion ARM-based processors embedded in products ranging from cell phones to automotive braking systems. A world-wide community of ARM developers in semiconductor and product design companies includes software developers, system designers and hardware engineers. To date ... Read more

$82.99 CAD

Over the last ten years, the ARM architecture has become one of the most pervasive architectures in the world, with more than 2 billion ARM-based processors embedded in products ranging from cell phones to automotive braking systems. A world-wide community of ARM developers in semiconductor and product design companies includes software developers, system designers and hardware engineers. To date
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OpenID Connect

End-user Identity for Apps and APIs

by Matthias Biehl ...

Series Book 6 - API-University Series
Signup and login with a Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft account can be found in more and more web and mobile apps. One login used by many, freeing the end-user from the burden of managing many accounts and passwords. Signup and login to a new app become so smooth and convenient, that end-users are much more likely to try a new app.For us developers of web and mobile apps, these signup and login ... Read more

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Signup and login with a Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft account can be found in more and more web and mobile apps. One login used by many, freeing the end-user from the burden of managing many accounts and passwords. Signup and login to a new app become so smooth and convenient, that end-users are much more likely to try a new app.For us developers of web and mobile apps, these signup and login
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Professional Microsoft IIS 8

by Kenneth Schaefer, Jeff Cochran, Scott Forsyth, Dennis Glendenning, Benjamin Perkins ...

Stellar author team of Microsoft MVPs helps developers and administrators get the most out of Windows IIS 8If you're a developer or administrator, you'll want to get thoroughly up to speed on Microsoft's new IIS 8 platform with this complete, in-depth reference. Prepare yourself to administer IIS 8 in not only commercial websites and corporate intranets, but also the mass web hosting market with ... Read more

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Stellar author team of Microsoft MVPs helps developers and administrators get the most out of Windows IIS 8If you're a developer or administrator, you'll want to get thoroughly up to speed on Microsoft's new IIS 8 platform with this complete, in-depth reference. Prepare yourself to administer IIS 8 in not only commercial websites and corporate intranets, but also the mass web hosting market with
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Computer Aided Verification

30th International Conference, CAV 2018, Held as Part of the Federated Logic Conference, FloC 2018, Oxford, UK, July 14-17, 2018, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Hana Chockler, Georg Weissenbacher ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This open access two-volume set LNCS 10980 and 10981 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2018, held in Oxford, UK, in July 2018.The 52 full and 13 tool papers presented together with 3 invited papers and 2 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 215 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics and ... Read more

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This open access two-volume set LNCS 10980 and 10981 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2018, held in Oxford, UK, in July 2018.The 52 full and 13 tool papers presented together with 3 invited papers and 2 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 215 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics and
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Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook

Become a pro Power Apps maker by applying practical use cases to solve ever-evolving business challenges

by Eickhel Mendoza ...

Find our new updated edition to get the latest industry knowledge at your disposalKey FeaturesBook DescriptionMicrosoft Power Apps Cookbook is a complete resource filled with meticulously crafted recipes to help you build customized business apps that meet ever-changing enterprise demands. You will learn how to design modern apps with the low-code approach in a rapid application development ... Read more

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Find our new updated edition to get the latest industry knowledge at your disposalKey FeaturesBook DescriptionMicrosoft Power Apps Cookbook is a complete resource filled with meticulously crafted recipes to help you build customized business apps that meet ever-changing enterprise demands. You will learn how to design modern apps with the low-code approach in a rapid application development
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The Accidental CIO

A Lean and Agile Playbook for IT Leaders

by Scott Millett ...

An indispensable guide showing IT leaders the way to balance the needs of innovation and exploration with exploitation and operational reliabilityMany books on modern IT leadership focus solely on supporting innovation and disruption. In practice these must be balanced with the need to support waste reduction in existing processes and capabilities while keeping the foundation operational, secure, ... Read more

$31.99 CAD

An indispensable guide showing IT leaders the way to balance the needs of innovation and exploration with exploitation and operational reliabilityMany books on modern IT leadership focus solely on supporting innovation and disruption. In practice these must be balanced with the need to support waste reduction in existing processes and capabilities while keeping the foundation operational, secure,
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WordPress

Pushing the Limits

by Rachel McCollin ...

Series series Pushing the Limits
Take WordPress beyond its comfort zoneAs the most popular open source blogging tool, WordPress is being used to power increasingly advanced sites, pushing it beyond its original purpose. In this unique book, the authors share their experiences and advice for working effectively with clients, manage a project team, develop with WordPress for larger projects, and push WordPress beyond its limits so ... Read more

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Take WordPress beyond its comfort zoneAs the most popular open source blogging tool, WordPress is being used to power increasingly advanced sites, pushing it beyond its original purpose. In this unique book, the authors share their experiences and advice for working effectively with clients, manage a project team, develop with WordPress for larger projects, and push WordPress beyond its limits so
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Managing and Leading Software Projects

by Richard E. Fairley ...

The book is organized around basic principles of software project management: planning and estimating, measuring and controlling, leading and communicating, and managing risk.Introduces software development methods, from traditional (hacking, requirements to code, and waterfall) to iterative (incremental build, evolutionary, agile, and spiral).Illustrates and emphasizes tailoring the development ... Read more

$139.99 CAD

The book is organized around basic principles of software project management: planning and estimating, measuring and controlling, leading and communicating, and managing risk.Introduces software development methods, from traditional (hacking, requirements to code, and waterfall) to iterative (incremental build, evolutionary, agile, and spiral).Illustrates and emphasizes tailoring the development
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Bridging the Gap Between AI and Reality

Third International Conference on Bridging the Gap between AI and Reality, AISoLA 2025, Rhodes, Greece, November 1–5, 2025, Selected Papers

Edited by Bernhard Steffen ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This open access book constitutes selected papers of the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bridging the Gap between AI and Reality, AISoLA 2025, which took place in Rhodes, Greece, in November 2025.The papers included in this book focus on the following topics: AI assisted programming; digital humanities; approaches of using formal methods and ai in health care; models for ... Read more

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This open access book constitutes selected papers of the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bridging the Gap between AI and Reality, AISoLA 2025, which took place in Rhodes, Greece, in November 2025.The papers included in this book focus on the following topics: AI assisted programming; digital humanities; approaches of using formal methods and ai in health care; models for
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Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Powering the Agentic Era

by Jason Yip, Nikhil Gupta, Marcin Wojtyczka ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Unlock the full potential of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform in this fully updated second edition—your definitive guide to building enterprise-ready Generative AI (GenAI) solutions, managing complex data workflows, and deploying intelligent applications at scale. Whether you're a data engineer, AI developer, data scientist, or technology leader, this book empowers you to transform your ... Read more

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Unlock the full potential of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform in this fully updated second edition—your definitive guide to building enterprise-ready Generative AI (GenAI) solutions, managing complex data workflows, and deploying intelligent applications at scale. Whether you're a data engineer, AI developer, data scientist, or technology leader, this book empowers you to transform your
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Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives

by Ben Linders, Luis Goncalves ...

Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives helps you and your teams to do retrospectives effectively and efficiently. It's a toolbox with many exercises for facilitating retrospectives, supported with the "what" and "why" of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they bring, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives.If you are a Scrum master, agile coach, project manager ... Read more

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Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives helps you and your teams to do retrospectives effectively and efficiently. It's a toolbox with many exercises for facilitating retrospectives, supported with the "what" and "why" of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they bring, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives.If you are a Scrum master, agile coach, project manager
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Software Requirements Essentials

Core Practices for Successful Business Analysis

by Karl Wiegers, Candase Hokanson ...

20 Best Practices for Developing and Managing Requirements on Any ProjectSoftware Requirements Essentials presents 20 core practices for successful requirements planning, elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and management. Leading requirements experts Karl Wiegers and Candase Hokanson focus on the practices most likely to deliver superior value for both traditional and agile projects ... Read more

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20 Best Practices for Developing and Managing Requirements on Any ProjectSoftware Requirements Essentials presents 20 core practices for successful requirements planning, elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and management. Leading requirements experts Karl Wiegers and Candase Hokanson focus on the practices most likely to deliver superior value for both traditional and agile projects
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The Rules of Programming

How to Write Better Code

by Chris Zimmerman ...

This philosophy-of-programming guide presents a unique and entertaining take on how to think about programming. A collection of 21 pragmatic rules, each presented in a standalone chapter, captures the essential wisdom that every freshly minted programmer needs to know and provides thought-provoking insights for more seasoned programmers.Author Chris Zimmerman, cofounder of the video game studio ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

This philosophy-of-programming guide presents a unique and entertaining take on how to think about programming. A collection of 21 pragmatic rules, each presented in a standalone chapter, captures the essential wisdom that every freshly minted programmer needs to know and provides thought-provoking insights for more seasoned programmers.Author Chris Zimmerman, cofounder of the video game studio
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Google Chrome and Chrome OS

by Paul McFedries ...

A nontechnical manual for groundbreaking technologyThe Complete Idiot's Guide® to Google Chrome OS presents readers with a clear overview of Google's free operating system—targeting users of netbook computers and allowing them to work primarily on the web—including how to send email, work with pictures, save and manage files, use common office applications as well as more specialized programs, and ... Read more

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A nontechnical manual for groundbreaking technologyThe Complete Idiot's Guide® to Google Chrome OS presents readers with a clear overview of Google's free operating system—targeting users of netbook computers and allowing them to work primarily on the web—including how to send email, work with pictures, save and manage files, use common office applications as well as more specialized programs, and
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