Do you think the programmers who work at your office are magical wizards who hold special powers that manipulate your computer? Believe it or not, anyone can learn how to write programs, and it doesnt take a higher math and science education to start.
As a development team, you want to be productive. You want to write flexible, maintainable web applications. You want to use Ruby and Rails. But can you justify the move away from established platforms such as J2EE? Bruce Tate’s From Java to Ruby has the answers, and it expresses them in a language that’ll help persuade managers and executives who’ve seen it all. See when and where the switch makes sense, and see how to make it.
Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use , the way Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby , Prawn (prawn.majesticseacreature.com), this concise book explains how to , beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages, work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive, write code that’s readable and expressive, and much more. It’s the perfect companion to The Ruby Programming Language.
Go beyond simple queries and get the inside track on how to write system , scripts with , Management Instrumentation (WMI) – straight from a , scripting expert. With labs and lessons you complete at your own pace, this definitive tutorial helps you build your scripting expertise and provides the professional guidance you need to automate Windows administrative tasks.
PowerShell is both a language and an administrative , with which you can control and automate nearly every aspect of Windows. It accepts and executes commands immediately, and you can write scripts to manage most , servers like Exchange, IIS, and SharePoint.,
This book is a tutorial designed for busy administrators. Just set aside one hour a day for a month and you’ll learn all the practical techniques you need to make your job easier and your day shorter. This totally revised second edition covers new , 3 features designed for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
Bill Karwin has helped thousands of people write better , and build stronger relational databases. Now he’s sharing his collection of antipatterns the most common errors he’s identified in those thousands of requests for help.,
Most developers aren’t SQL experts, and most of the SQL that gets used is inefficient, hard to maintain, and sometimes just plain wrong. This book shows you all the common mistakes, and then leads you through the best fixes. What’s more, it shows you what’s behind these fixes, so you’ll learn a lot about relational databases along the way.
