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Documenting Software Architectures

Views and Beyond

by Paul Clements, Felix Bachmann, Len Bass, David Garlan, James Ivers, Reed Little, Paulo Merson, Robert Nord, Judith Stafford ...

Software architecture—the conceptual glue that holds every phase of a project together for its many stakeholders—is widely recognized as a critical element in modern software development. Practitioners have increasingly discovered that close attention to a software system’s architecture pays valuable dividends. Without an architecture that is appropriate for the problem being solved, a project ... Read more

$75.99 CAD

Software architecture—the conceptual glue that holds every phase of a project together for its many stakeholders—is widely recognized as a critical element in modern software development. Practitioners have increasingly discovered that close attention to a software system’s architecture pays valuable dividends. Without an architecture that is appropriate for the problem being solved, a project
... Read more
Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

Design and build functional and user-friendly GUI applications, 2nd Edition

by Alan D. Moore ...

Transform your evolving user requirements into feature-rich Tkinter applicationsKey FeaturesExtensively revised with new content on RESTful networking, classes in Tkinter, and the Notebook widgetTake advantage of Tkinter's lightweight, portable, and easy-to-use featuresBuild better-organized code and learn to manage an evolving codebaseBook DescriptionTkinter is widely used to build GUIs in Python ... Read more

$43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Transform your evolving user requirements into feature-rich Tkinter applicationsKey FeaturesExtensively revised with new content on RESTful networking, classes in Tkinter, and the Notebook widgetTake advantage of Tkinter's lightweight, portable, and easy-to-use featuresBuild better-organized code and learn to manage an evolving codebaseBook DescriptionTkinter is widely used to build GUIs in Python
... Read more
Mastering Software Project Management

Best Practices, Tools and Techniques

by Murali Chemuturi, Thomas M. Cagley Jr. ...

This unique guide explains software project management from the standpoint of a software project manager working in a professional software development organization. It covers the subject of software project management in its entirety, including project acquisition and execution with backward linkages to concepts that play a facilitation role in successful project management, such as general ... Read more

$31.99 CAD

This unique guide explains software project management from the standpoint of a software project manager working in a professional software development organization. It covers the subject of software project management in its entirety, including project acquisition and execution with backward linkages to concepts that play a facilitation role in successful project management, such as general
... Read more
Android Studio Development Essentials

Android 6 Edition

by Neil Smyth ...

Fully updated for Android 6, the goal of this book is to teach the skills necessary to develop Android based applications using the Android Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and the Android 6 Software Development Kit (SDK).Beginning with the basics, this book provides an outline of the steps necessary to set up an Android development and testing environment. An overview of Android ... Read more

$13.73 CAD

Fully updated for Android 6, the goal of this book is to teach the skills necessary to develop Android based applications using the Android Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and the Android 6 Software Development Kit (SDK).Beginning with the basics, this book provides an outline of the steps necessary to set up an Android development and testing environment. An overview of Android
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iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual

by Craig Hockenberry ...

Anyone with programming experience can learn how to write an iPhone app. But if you want to build a great app, there's a lot more to it than simple coding: you also need to know how design and market your creation. This easy-to-follow guide walks you through the entire process, from sketching out your idea to promoting the finished product.Get to know the tools for developing your iPhone appDesign ... Read more

$28.79 CAD

Anyone with programming experience can learn how to write an iPhone app. But if you want to build a great app, there's a lot more to it than simple coding: you also need to know how design and market your creation. This easy-to-follow guide walks you through the entire process, from sketching out your idea to promoting the finished product.Get to know the tools for developing your iPhone appDesign
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The Software Engineer's Guidebook

Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups

by Gergely Orosz ...

In my first few years as a developer I assumed that hard work was all I needed. Then I was passed over for a promotion and my manager couldn’t give me feedback on what areas to improve, so I could get to the senior engineer level. I was frustrated; even bitter: not as much about missing the promotion, but because of the lack of guidance.By the time I became a manager, I was determined to support ... Read more

$27.78 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

In my first few years as a developer I assumed that hard work was all I needed. Then I was passed over for a promotion and my manager couldn’t give me feedback on what areas to improve, so I could get to the senior engineer level. I was frustrated; even bitter: not as much about missing the promotion, but because of the lack of guidance.By the time I became a manager, I was determined to support
... Read more
MapReduce Design Patterns

Building Effective Algorithms and Analytics for Hadoop and Other Systems

by Donald Miner, Adam Shook ...

Until now, design patterns for the MapReduce framework have been scattered among various research papers, blogs, and books. This handy guide brings together a unique collection of valuable MapReduce patterns that will save you time and effort regardless of the domain, language, or development framework you’re using.Each pattern is explained in context, with pitfalls and caveats clearly identified ... Read more

$32.79 CAD

Until now, design patterns for the MapReduce framework have been scattered among various research papers, blogs, and books. This handy guide brings together a unique collection of valuable MapReduce patterns that will save you time and effort regardless of the domain, language, or development framework you’re using.Each pattern is explained in context, with pitfalls and caveats clearly identified
... Read more
How the Internet Happened

From Netscape to the iPhone

by Brian McCullough ...

A Library Journal Best Book of the YearTech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it changed everything.The internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology. In How the Internet Happened, he chronicles the whole fascinating ... Read more

$29.59 CAD

A Library Journal Best Book of the YearTech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it changed everything.The internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology. In How the Internet Happened, he chronicles the whole fascinating
... Read more
Advanced Software Testing - Vol. 2, 2nd Edition

Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager

by Rex Black ...

This book teaches test managers what they need to know to achieve advanced skills in test estimation, test planning, test monitoring, and test control. Readers will learn how to define the overall testing goals and strategies for the systems being tested.This hands-on, exercise-rich book provides experience with planning, scheduling, and tracking these tasks. You'll be able to describe and ... Read more

$51.99 CAD

This book teaches test managers what they need to know to achieve advanced skills in test estimation, test planning, test monitoring, and test control. Readers will learn how to define the overall testing goals and strategies for the systems being tested.This hands-on, exercise-rich book provides experience with planning, scheduling, and tracking these tasks. You'll be able to describe and
... Read more
Software Architecture in Practice

by Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman ...

Series series SEI Series in Software Engineering
The Definitive, Practical, Proven Guide to Architecting Modern Software--Fully Updated with New Content on Mobility, the Cloud, Energy Management, DevOps, Quantum Computing, and MoreUpdated with eleven new chapters, Software Architecture in Practice, Fourth Edition, thoroughly explains what software architecture is, why it's important, and how to design, instantiate, analyze, evolve, and manage it ... Read more

$57.99 CAD

The Definitive, Practical, Proven Guide to Architecting Modern Software--Fully Updated with New Content on Mobility, the Cloud, Energy Management, DevOps, Quantum Computing, and MoreUpdated with eleven new chapters, Software Architecture in Practice, Fourth Edition, thoroughly explains what software architecture is, why it's important, and how to design, instantiate, analyze, evolve, and manage it
... Read more
Seeking SRE

Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale

by David N. Blank-Edelman ...

Organizations big and small have started to realize just how crucial system and application reliability is to their business. Theyâ??ve also learned just how difficult it is to maintain that reliability while iterating at the speed demanded by the marketplace. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a proven approach to this challenge.SRE is a large and rich topic to discuss. Google led the way with ... Read more

$51.19 CAD

Organizations big and small have started to realize just how crucial system and application reliability is to their business. Theyâ??ve also learned just how difficult it is to maintain that reliability while iterating at the speed demanded by the marketplace. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a proven approach to this challenge.SRE is a large and rich topic to discuss. Google led the way with
... Read more
Agile Testing

How to Succeed in an Extreme Testing Environment

by John Watkins ...

In an IT world in which there are differently sized projects, with different applications, differently skilled practitioners, and on-site, off-site, and off-shored development teams, it is impossible for there to be a one-size-fits-all agile development and testing approach. This book provides practical guidance for professionals, practitioners, and researchers faced with creating and rolling out ... Read more

$71.99 CAD

In an IT world in which there are differently sized projects, with different applications, differently skilled practitioners, and on-site, off-site, and off-shored development teams, it is impossible for there to be a one-size-fits-all agile development and testing approach. This book provides practical guidance for professionals, practitioners, and researchers faced with creating and rolling out
... Read more
Microsoft Project 2019 For Dummies

by Cynthia Snyder Dionisio ...

Keep projects on trackMicrosoft Project 2019 is a powerhouse project management, portfolio management, and resource management tool. Whether you’re a full-time project manager or manage projects as part of a larger set of duties, Microsoft Project 2019 For Dummies will get you thinking and operating at the level of a project management guru.Written by a noted project management pro, this book ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

Keep projects on trackMicrosoft Project 2019 is a powerhouse project management, portfolio management, and resource management tool. Whether you’re a full-time project manager or manage projects as part of a larger set of duties, Microsoft Project 2019 For Dummies will get you thinking and operating at the level of a project management guru.Written by a noted project management pro, this book
... Read more
Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns

by Vladimir Khorikov ...

"This book is an indispensable resource." - Greg Wright, Kainos Software Ltd.Radically improve your testing practice and software quality with new testing styles, good patterns, and reliable automation.Key FeaturesA practical and results-driven approach to unit testingRefine your existing unit tests by implementing modern best practicesLearn the four pillars of a good unit testSafely aut... ... Read more

$65.99 CAD

"This book is an indispensable resource." - Greg Wright, Kainos Software Ltd.Radically improve your testing practice and software quality with new testing styles, good patterns, and reliable automation.Key FeaturesA practical and results-driven approach to unit testingRefine your existing unit tests by implementing modern best practicesLearn the four pillars of a good unit testSafely aut...
... Read more
Agile Retrospectives, Second Edition

A Practical Guide for Catalyzing Team Learning and Improvement

by Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, David Horowitz ...

In an uncertain and complex world, learning is more important than ever before. In fact, it can be a competitive advantage. Teams and organizations that learn rapidly deliver greater IPSer value faster and more reliably. Furthermore, those teams are more engaged, more productive, and more satisfied. The most effective way to enable teams to learn is by holding regular retrospectives. Unfortunately ... Read more

$46.39 CAD

In an uncertain and complex world, learning is more important than ever before. In fact, it can be a competitive advantage. Teams and organizations that learn rapidly deliver greater IPSer value faster and more reliably. Furthermore, those teams are more engaged, more productive, and more satisfied. The most effective way to enable teams to learn is by holding regular retrospectives. Unfortunately
... Read more
Software Systems Architecture

Working with Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives

by Nick Rozanski, Eóin Woods ...

***Software Systems Architecture, Second Edition***is a highly regarded, practitioner-oriented guide to designing and implementing effective architectures for information systems. It is both a readily accessible introduction to software architecture and an invaluable handbook of well-established best practices.With this book you will learn how toDesign and communicate an architecture that reflects ... Read more

$71.99 CAD

***Software Systems Architecture, Second Edition***is a highly regarded, practitioner-oriented guide to designing and implementing effective architectures for information systems. It is both a readily accessible introduction to software architecture and an invaluable handbook of well-established best practices.With this book you will learn how toDesign and communicate an architecture that reflects
... Read more
Practical Test-Driven Development using C# 7

Unleash the power of TDD by implementing real world examples under .NET environment and JavaScript

by John Callaway, Clayton Hunt ...

Develop applications for the real world with a thorough software testing approachKey FeaturesDevelop a thorough understanding of TDD and how it can help you develop simpler applications with no defects using C\# and JavaScriptAdapt to the mindset of writing tests before code by incorporating business goals, code manageability, and other factorsMake all your software units and modules pass tests by ... Read more

$47.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Develop applications for the real world with a thorough software testing approachKey FeaturesDevelop a thorough understanding of TDD and how it can help you develop simpler applications with no defects using C\# and JavaScriptAdapt to the mindset of writing tests before code by incorporating business goals, code manageability, and other factorsMake all your software units and modules pass tests by
... Read more
Building Mobile Apps at Scale

39 Engineering Challenges

by Gergely Orosz ...

While there is a lot of appreciation for backend and distributed systems challenges, there tends to be less empathy for why mobile development is hard when done at scale.This book collects challenges engineers face when building iOS and Android apps at scale, and common ways to tackle these. By scale, we mean having numbers of users in the millions and being built by large engineering teams.For ... Read more

$23.19 CAD

While there is a lot of appreciation for backend and distributed systems challenges, there tends to be less empathy for why mobile development is hard when done at scale.This book collects challenges engineers face when building iOS and Android apps at scale, and common ways to tackle these. By scale, we mean having numbers of users in the millions and being built by large engineering teams.For
... Read more
Mining the Social Web

Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Other Social Media Sites

by Matthew A. Russell ...

Want to tap the tremendous amount of valuable social data in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+? This refreshed edition helps you discover who’s making connections with social media, what they’re talking about, and where they’re located. You’ll learn how to combine social web data, analysis techniques, and visualization to find what you’ve been looking for in the social haystack—as well as ... Read more

$35.19 CAD

Want to tap the tremendous amount of valuable social data in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+? This refreshed edition helps you discover who’s making connections with social media, what they’re talking about, and where they’re located. You’ll learn how to combine social web data, analysis techniques, and visualization to find what you’ve been looking for in the social haystack—as well as
... Read more
Istio: Up and Running

Using a Service Mesh to Connect, Secure, Control, and Observe

by Lee Calcote, Zack Butcher ...

You did it. You successfully transformed your application into a microservices architecture. But now that you’re running services across different environments—public to public, private to public, virtual machine to container—your cloud native software is beginning to encounter reliability issues.How do you stay on top of this ever-increasing complexity? With the Istio service mesh, you’ll be able ... Read more

$45.59 CAD

You did it. You successfully transformed your application into a microservices architecture. But now that you’re running services across different environments—public to public, private to public, virtual machine to container—your cloud native software is beginning to encounter reliability issues.How do you stay on top of this ever-increasing complexity? With the Istio service mesh, you’ll be able
... Read more
Regular Expression Pocket Reference

Regular Expressions for Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, C, Java and .NET

by Tony Stubblebine ...

This handy little book offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as a quick reference, Regular Expression Pocket Reference covers the regular expression APIs for Perl 5.8, Ruby (including some upcoming 1.9 features), Java, PHP, .NET and C#, Python, vi, JavaScript, and the PCRE regular ... Read more

$22.39 CAD

This handy little book offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as a quick reference, Regular Expression Pocket Reference covers the regular expression APIs for Perl 5.8, Ruby (including some upcoming 1.9 features), Java, PHP, .NET and C#, Python, vi, JavaScript, and the PCRE regular
... Read more
100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

by Teiva Harsanyi ...

Spot errors in your Go code you didn’t even know you were making and boost your productivity by avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls.100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them shows you how to:Dodge the most common mistakes made by Go developersStructure and organize your Go applicationHandle data and control structures efficientlyDeal with errors in an idiomatic mannerImprove your concurrency ... Read more

$77.99 CAD

Spot errors in your Go code you didn’t even know you were making and boost your productivity by avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls.100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them shows you how to:Dodge the most common mistakes made by Go developersStructure and organize your Go applicationHandle data and control structures efficientlyDeal with errors in an idiomatic mannerImprove your concurrency
... Read more
Lean Architecture

for Agile Software Development

by Gertrud Bjørnvig, James O. Coplien ...

More and more Agile projects are seeking architectural roots as they struggle with complexity and scale - and they're seeking lightweight ways to do itStill seeking? In this book the authors help you to find your own pathTaking cues from Lean development, they can help steer your project toward practices with longstanding track recordsUp-front architecture? Sure. You can deliver an architecture as ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

More and more Agile projects are seeking architectural roots as they struggle with complexity and scale - and they're seeking lightweight ways to do itStill seeking? In this book the authors help you to find your own pathTaking cues from Lean development, they can help steer your project toward practices with longstanding track recordsUp-front architecture? Sure. You can deliver an architecture as
... Read more
Head First Software Development

A Learner's Companion to Software Development

by Dan Pilone, Russ Miles ...

Even the best developers have seen well-intentioned software projects fail -- often because the customer kept changing requirements, and end users didn't know how to use the software you developed. Instead of surrendering to these common problems, let Head First Software Development guide you through the best practices of software development. Before you know it, those failed projects will be a ... Read more

$32.79 CAD

Even the best developers have seen well-intentioned software projects fail -- often because the customer kept changing requirements, and end users didn't know how to use the software you developed. Instead of surrendering to these common problems, let Head First Software Development guide you through the best practices of software development. Before you know it, those failed projects will be a
... Read more

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