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Social Media Security
Social networks, particularly public ones, have become part of the fabric of how we communicate and collaborate as a society. With value from micro-level personal networking to macro-level outreach, social networking has become pervasive in people’s lives and is now becoming a significant driving force in business. These new platforms have provided new approaches to many critical enterprise functions, including identifying, communicating, and gathering feedback with customers (e.g., Facebook, Ning); locating expertise (e.g., LinkedIn); providing new communication platforms (e.g., Twitter); and collaborating with a community, small or large (e.g., wikis). However, many organizations have stayed away from potential benefits of social networks because of the significant risks associated with them. This book will help an organization understand the risks present in social networks and provide a framework covering policy, training and technology to address those concerns and mitigate the risks presented to leverage social media in their organization. The book also acknowledges that many organizations have already exposed themselves to more risk than they think from social networking and offers strategies for "dialing it back" to retake control.
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Python: The Not-So-Secret Tool for Productivity
If you could have just one tool in your programming arsenal, odds are it would be Python. With a gentle learning curve, Python is readable, writeable, and endlessly powerful. From data analysis to web development, penetration testing, and much more, Python can handle the job. Whether you're a Python pro or just starting out, get what you need to fortify your Python skills at shop.oreilly.com.
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Agile Data Science
Mining big data requires a deep investment in people and time. How can you be sure you’re building the right models? With this hands-on book, you’ll learn a flexible toolset and methodology for building effective analytics applications with Hadoop.
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Microsoft Lync 2013 Unified Communications: From Telephony to Real-Time Communication in the Digital Age
Unified Communications brings all relevant types of communication technology and modalities together: telephony, chat, availability information, video, sharing, and the integration into line of business software.
"Microsoft Lync 2013 Unified Communications: From Telephony to Real Time Communication in the Digital Age" is a business and technology book combined into one about Unified Communications and it shares everything you need to know: how to evaluate and integrate a Unified Communications project in your own company and how you plan, design, and implement the technology itself. Additionally you get to know current innovations and available technologies for social networking, collaboration, cloud services, contact centers, and also enhanced collaboration for mobile devices. This book also offers a real business case of a transformational project from traditional telecommunications to Unified Communications and what business case you can realize for all business sizes.
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Hone Your Soft Skills for Success
Your career success relies on a number of elements, not just the fact that you write incredible code and have best practices nailed down. You also need to communicate well, motivate others, negotiate differences, and persuade. If you're feeling rusty on any of these points—or others—don't despair.
For one week only, SAVE 50% on soft skills ebooks from shop.oreilly.com, and then your people skills will be every bit as good as your programming skills.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Administration
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SQL Server expert Tom Carpenter teaches you skills to help you excel in your job as a SQL Server 2012 database administrator. From designing and implementing database solutions with SQL Server 2012 to querying, repairing data, maintaining high availability, and managing always-on technology, he explores the real-world tasks and scenarios you'll face as a SQL Server database administrator and shows you how to handle them. This book also serves as an ideal resource for those preparing for their MCSA: SQL Server 2012 certification.
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Ask, Measure, Learn: Using Social Media Analytics to Understand and Influence Customer Behavior
You can measure practically anything in the age of social media, but if you don’t know what you’re looking for, collecting mountains of data won’t yield a grain of insight. This non-technical guide shows you how to extract significant business value from big data with Ask-Measure-Learn, a system that helps you ask the right questions, measure the right data, and then learn from the results.
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March Top 10 Ebooks and Videos
Do you know what other people found irresistible last month? We do! Here are the top ten bestselling ebooks and videos on shop.oreilly.com. Don't miss out on what's hot and trending—and possibly important to your career—so we're bringing them to your attention now. Stock up today and save 50% on March's top ten.
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Windows Azure Programming Patterns for Start-ups
Leverage different Windows Azure components together with your existing Microsoft .NET skills to fully take advantage of the power of Windows Azure. Use this book to start small and end big by creating and using storage, cloud services, sql databases, networking, caching and other innovative technology to realize your first top-class Windows Azure service!
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Microsoft Virtualization Secrets
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Insider Tips - Expert advice to help you optimize performance•
Valuable Insights - Eye-opening descriptions of poorly documented or undocumented features and procedures•
Unbeatable Advice - Real-world workarounds and little-known tips and techniquesWhen you open this book, you'll feel as though you're sitting down with an expert who is disclosing rare information about Microsoft virtualization. 11-time Microsoft MVP John Savill shares knowledge garnered from his years of experience so that you can benefit from his tactics, strategies, and secrets for implementing the right Microsoft virtualization solutions for your company. Covering all aspects of the various technologies in an easy-to-follow format, this book reveals helpful and advanced insight on machine virtualization, application and user virtualization, private cloud implementations, VDI integrations, and much more.
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Head First JavaScript Programming
This brain-friendly guide teaches you everything from JavaScript language fundamentals to advanced topics, including objects, functions, and the browser’s document object model. You won’t just be reading—you’ll be playing games, solving puzzles, pondering mysteries, and interacting with JavaScript in ways you never imagined. And you’ll write real code, lots of it, so you can start building your own web applications. Prepare to open your mind as you learn (and nail) key topics including:
•The inner details of JavaScript
•How JavaScript works with the browser
•The secrets of JavaScript types
•Using arrays
•The power of functions
•How to work with objects
•Making use of prototypes
•Understanding closures
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Computers as Components, 3rd Edition
Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design, 3e , presents essential knowledge on embedded systems technology and techniques. Updated for today's embedded systems design methods, this edition features new examples including digital signal processing, multimedia, and cyber-physical systems. Author Marilyn Wolf covers the latest processors from Texas Instruments, ARM, and Microchip Technology plus software, operating systems, networks, consumer devices, and more.
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Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook
Visual Studio 2013 is the premier tool for developers targeting the Microsoft platform. Learning how to effectively use this technology can enhance your productivity while simplifying your most common tasks, allowing you more time to focus on your project.
Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook will introduce you to all the new areas of Visual Studio and how they can quickly be put to use to improve your everyday development tasks. With this book, you will learn not only what VS2013 offers, but what it takes to put it to work for your projects.
Updated and expanded for VS2013, this book begins by introducing you to the interface changes to Visual Studio and then moves on to demonstrate how VS2013 can be used for developing desktop, mobile, and web applications. This book provides a comprehensive overview of all areas of Visual Studio. This practical approach will benefit you greatly if you are a newcomer but also if you want a tour of what the latest edition of Visual Studio has to offer. The recipes in this book provide useful examples of VS2013 which can help you whether you are targeting the Web, mobile devices, or the traditional Windows desktop.
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Advance from Developer to Software Architect: For one week only, save 50–60% on new training videos
"Software Architect" frequently lands in the top 10 in annual surveys of best jobs, yet no clear path exists to move from Developer to Architect. The new video series by Neal Ford and Mark Richards can help you make the transition. They cover a vast array of subjects, grounded in the common theme of architecture, with each installment covering topics in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Learn at your own pace and advance your career today.
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MCTS) Microsoft BizTalk Server (70-595) Certification and Assessment Guide: Second Edition
Microsoft BizTalk Server is an integration and connectivity server solution that enables organizations to easily connect disparate systems.
Developing Business Process and Integration Solutions by Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) is the certification exam for professionals who need to integrate multiple disparate systems, applications, and data, as well as automate business processes using BizTalk Server. The Microsoft Partner Network BizTalk Technical Competency Assessment for Application Integration is part of the requirements for individuals employed at partners seeking the Silver or Gold Application Integration competency.
Microsoft BizTalk Server (70-595) Certification and Assessment Guide: Second Edition will show you how to prepare for and pass the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) exam and become a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010. This book will also help you if you are a Microsoft partner wanting to achieve the Silver or Gold Application Integration competency requirements.
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Raspberry Pi Robotic Projects
Robotics development is accelerating, and an amazing array of new hardware and software capabilities are available to anyone with an interest in the area. Robots will soon be a part of our everyday life, and it will soon be as important to know how they work as it is to know how a computer works. Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized, fully capable PC that can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, such as spreadsheets, word processing, and games.
This book starts with the essentials of turning on the basic hardware. It provides the capability to interpret your commands and have your robot initiate actions. By the time you are through, you’ll have robots that can speak, listen, and move in a number of amazing ways.
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Windows Server 2012: Up and Running
Upgrading, Installing, and Optimizing Windows Server 2012your organization plans to move to a cloud infrastructure from a LAN or WAN, this book shows you how to do it efficiently with Windows Server 2012. Experienced Windows administrators will learn how to deploy, configure, and manage the server’s expanded capabilities and features step-by-step, using clear examples and numerous screen shots. You’ll also discover how to integrate employees’ private mobile devices into your corporate network.
Whether you intend to take your infrastructure to a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment, Windows Server 2012 provides the virtualization technology to get you there. This book helps you put it to work.
•Control your entire Windows infrastructure from the Server Manager console
•Learn how Active Directory Domain Services provide more centralized network administration
•Use Dynamic Access Control to manage data and user permissions
•Provide data integrity and fault tolerance with Storage Spaces and ReFS
•Gain robust management of virtual environments with Hyper V R3
•Master networking tools such as IPAM to help you move to the cloud
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Client-Server Web Apps with JavaScript and Java: Rich, Scalable, and RESTful
As a Java programmer, how can you tackle the disruptive client-server approach to web development? With this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn how today’s client-side technologies and web APIs work with various Java tools. Author Casimir Saternos provides the big picture of client-server development, and then takes you through many practical client-server architectures. You’ll work with hands-on projects in several chapters to get a feel for the topics discussed.
User habits, technologies, and development methods have drastically altered web app design in recent years. But the Web itself hasn’t changed. This book shows you how to build apps that conform to the web’s underlying architecture.
•Learn the advantages of using separate client and server tiers, including code organization and speedy prototyping
•Explore the major tools, frameworks, and starter projects used in JavaScript development
•Dive into web API design and REST style of software architecture
•Understand Java’s alternatives to traditional packaging methods and application server deployment
•Build projects with lightweight servers, using jQuery with Jython, and Sinatra with Angular
•Create client-server web apps with traditional Java web application servers and libraries
