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Book Tweak it  Second Ed

Download or read book Tweak it Second Ed written by Edward Caplan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for educators and facilitators of experiential education. This includes anyone utilizing experiences as a tool for leaning. From the outdoors, to the classroom to, to the board room. Explore how your intentionality can foster stronger initiatives leading to greater learning for your participants. Tweaking is the modification of an initiative, with the intent to adapt the initiative to better meet the group's goals. This is done through metaphor, language, and rule changes.

Book Docker in Action  Second Edition

Download or read book Docker in Action Second Edition written by Jeffrey Nickoloff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary Docker in Action, Second Edition teaches you the skills and knowledge you need to create, deploy, and manage applications hosted in Docker containers. This bestseller has been fully updated with new examples, best practices, and a number of entirely new chapters. About the technology The idea behind Docker is simple—package just your application and its dependencies into a lightweight, isolated virtual environment called a container. Applications running inside containers are easy to install, manage, and remove. This simple idea is used in everything from creating safe, portable development environments to streamlining deployment and scaling for microservices. In short, Docker is everywhere. About the book Docker in Action, Second Edition teaches you to create, deploy, and manage applications hosted in Docker containers running on Linux. Fully updated, with four new chapters and revised best practices and examples, this second edition begins with a clear explanation of the Docker model. Then, you go hands-on with packaging applications, testing, installing, running programs securely, and deploying them across a cluster of hosts. With examples showing how Docker benefits the whole dev lifecycle, you’ll discover techniques for everything from dev-and-test machines to full-scale cloud deployments. What's inside Running software in containers Packaging software for deployment Securing and distributing containerized applications About the reader Written for developers with experience working with Linux. About the author Jeff Nickoloff and Stephen Kuenzli have designed, built, deployed, and operated highly available, scalable software systems for nearly 20 years.

Book Tweak It

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cali Williams Yost
  • Publisher : Center Street
  • Release : 2013-01-08
  • ISBN : 1455517860
  • Pages : 147 pages

Download or read book Tweak It written by Cali Williams Yost and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the demands of work grow more intense, personal life can get shoved to the side. But resolving the job-versus-life conflict doesn't require the kind of big, disruptive, scary transformation that so many time-management "experts" recommend. In Tweak it, Cali Williams Yost proves that a comfortable work+life fit can be achieved through making small, consistent, everyday changes -- tweaks -- that, cumulatively, will optimize job performance and well-being. This engaging, practical book, filled with case studies of people who've tweaked their way to professional success and personal satisfaction, guides readers through an easy-to-implement program that can be tailored to suit any individual's life, both on off the job.

Book Ubersleep  Nap Based Sleep Schedules and the Polyphasic Lifestyle   Second Edition

Download or read book Ubersleep Nap Based Sleep Schedules and the Polyphasic Lifestyle Second Edition written by Pure Doxyk and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Edition of the comprehensive book on Polyphasic Sleep, including descriptions of the different schedules, how-to's and detailed adjustment planning, and considerations of the polyphasic lifestyle by a long-term polyphasic sleeper.

Book Assessment of Addictive Behaviors  Second Edition

Download or read book Assessment of Addictive Behaviors Second Edition written by Dennis M. Donovan and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive clinical resource and text is grounded in cutting-edge knowledge about the biopsychosocial processes involved in addictive behaviors. Presented are research-based, eminently practical strategies for assessing the treatment needs and ongoing clinical outcomes of individuals who have problems with substance use and nonchemical addictions. From leading contributors, the book shows how to weave assessment through the entire process of care, from the initial screening to intervention, relapse prevention, and posttreatment monitoring.

Book The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything  Second Edition

Download or read book The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything Second Edition written by Amy D. Bernstein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the wisdom of "The New York Times" experts in every field is packed into one comprehensive volume that has been completely revised and updated. Illustrations throughout.

Book Understanding Records  Second Edition

Download or read book Understanding Records Second Edition written by Jay Hodgson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised edition of Understanding Records explains the musical language of recording practice in a way any interested reader and student can easily understand. Drawing on readily available hit records produced since 1945, each section of this book explains a handful of core production and engineering techniques in chronological record-making sequence, elucidates how those techniques work, what they sound like, how they function musically, where listeners can hear them at work in the broader Top 40 soundscape, and where they fit within the broader record-making process at large. As the only book to introduce music production and its practical elements with no assumed prior knowledge, the revised edition includes: · Exclusive print and video interviews with emerging and established recordists, including: Alex Chuck Krotz (Drake, Three Days Grace, Mother Mother); Kevin O' Leary (Shawn Mendes, The Glorious Sons, Monster Truck); Alastair Sims (Rush, The Tragically Hip, Barenaked Ladies); Matt Shelvock (kingmobb, san holo, bitbird, DROLOE); and Russ Hepworth-Sawyer (Billy Ray Cyrus, Steve Earle, Amadou & Miriam) · Numerous “real word” audio examples, organized into easily accessible streaming playlists, culled from Juno-nominated sessions the author himself worked on, and numerous other professional sources. · Easy to understand explanations of each facet of the record production process, which avoid technical jargon and clarify terminology. · Information on new developments in recording practice and updated musical references. Completely reworked and expanded sections on mixing and audio mastering.

Book Advanced R  Second Edition

Download or read book Advanced R Second Edition written by Hadley Wickham and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced R helps you understand how R works at a fundamental level. It is designed for R programmers who want to deepen their understanding of the language, and programmers experienced in other languages who want to understand what makes R different and special. This book will teach you the foundations of R; three fundamental programming paradigms (functional, object-oriented, and metaprogramming); and powerful techniques for debugging and optimising your code. By reading this book, you will learn: The difference between an object and its name, and why the distinction is important The important vector data structures, how they fit together, and how you can pull them apart using subsetting The fine details of functions and environments The condition system, which powers messages, warnings, and errors The powerful functional programming paradigm, which can replace many for loops The three most important OO systems: S3, S4, and R6 The tidy eval toolkit for metaprogramming, which allows you to manipulate code and control evaluation Effective debugging techniques that you can deploy, regardless of how your code is run How to find and remove performance bottlenecks The second edition is a comprehensive update: New foundational chapters: "Names and values," "Control flow," and "Conditions" comprehensive coverage of object oriented programming with chapters on S3, S4, R6, and how to choose between them Much deeper coverage of metaprogramming, including the new tidy evaluation framework use of new package like rlang (http://rlang.r-lib.org), which provides a clean interface to low-level operations, and purr (http://purrr.tidyverse.org/) for functional programming Use of color in code chunks and figures Hadley Wickham is Chief Scientist at RStudio, an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and the University of Auckland, and a member of the R Foundation. He is the lead developer of the tidyverse, a collection of R packages, including ggplot2 and dplyr, designed to support data science. He is also the author of R for Data Science (with Garrett Grolemund), R Packages, and ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis.

Book  MCTS  Microsoft BizTalk Server  70 595  Certification and Assessment Guide  Second Edition

Download or read book MCTS Microsoft BizTalk Server 70 595 Certification and Assessment Guide Second Edition written by Johan Hedberg and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hands-on certification guide with practical examples and sample questions and answers to help BizTalk developers pass the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) exam. If you are an intermediate level BizTalk developer who wants to pass the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) exam, then this book is for you. A working knowledge of fundamental BizTalk concepts around the core messaging engine and building business processes using orchestrations is assumed but not required. In addition, core knowledge of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and a basic understanding of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is recommended.

Book R Primer  Second Edition

Download or read book R Primer Second Edition written by Claus Thorn Ekstrom and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newcomers to R are often intimidated by the command-line interface, the vast number of functions and packages, or the processes of importing data and performing a simple statistical analysis. The R Primer provides a collection of concise examples and solutions to R problems frequently encountered by new users of this statistical software. This new edition adds coverage of R Studio and reproducible research.

Book Lion Rampant  Second Edition

Download or read book Lion Rampant Second Edition written by Daniel Mersey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded edition of the Origins Award-nominated Lion Rampant, featuring new rules, scenarios, and sample armies. Take to the battlefield as Richard the Lionheart, Joan of Arc or William Wallace – or forge your own legend – with Lion Rampant: Second Edition. From the Dark Ages to the Hundred Years' War, raids, skirmishes, and clashes between small retinues were a crucial part of warfare, and these dramatic small-scale battles are at the heart of this easy-to-learn but tactically rewarding wargame. Lion Rampant: Second Edition is a new, updated version of the hit Osprey Wargames series title, and retains the core gameplay while also incorporating a wealth of new rules and updates from several years' worth of player feedback and development. Whether they are looking to recreate historical encounters or tell their own stories, the varied scenarios, unit types, and sample retinue lists found in this volume provide everything players need to face each other in quick, exciting, and, above all, fun tabletop battles.

Book Mastering Apache Cassandra   Second Edition

Download or read book Mastering Apache Cassandra Second Edition written by Nishant Neeraj and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is aimed at intermediate developers with an understanding of core database concepts who want to become a master at implementing Cassandra for their application.

Book Clinical Work with Substance Abusing Clients  Second Edition

Download or read book Clinical Work with Substance Abusing Clients Second Edition written by Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely adopted text offers practical guidance for working with substance abusers and their families in a variety of clinical contexts. Expert contributors present major assessment and treatment approaches together with detailed recommendations for intervening with specific substances and meeting the needs of different populations. Throughout, helpful case vignettes illustrate how to translate the ideas presented into practice and overcome common stumbling blocks. Practitioners and students will find all the information needed to stay current in the field in this authoritative, comprehensive, and highly accessible work.

Book Elasticsearch in Action  Second Edition

Download or read book Elasticsearch in Action Second Edition written by Madhusudhan Konda and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build powerful, production-ready search applications using the incredible features of Elasticsearch. In Elasticsearch in Action, Second Edition you will discover: Architecture, concepts, and fundamentals of Elasticsearch Installing, configuring, and running Elasticsearch and Kibana Creating an index with custom settings Data types, mapping fundamentals, and templates Fundamentals of text analysis and working with text analyzers Indexing, deleting, and updating documents Indexing data in bulk, and reindexing and aliasing operations Learning search concepts, relevancy scores, and similarity algorithms Elasticsearch in Action, Second Edition teaches you to build scalable search applications using Elasticsearch. This completely new edition explores Elasticsearch fundamentals from the ground up. You’ll deep dive into design principles, search architectures, and Elasticsearch’s essential APIs. Every chapter is clearly illustrated with diagrams and hands-on examples. You’ll even explore real-world use cases for full text search, data visualizations, and machine learning. Plus, its comprehensive nature means you’ll keep coming back to the book as a handy reference! Foreword by Shay Banon. About the technology Create fully professional-grade search engines with Elasticsearch and Kibana! Rewritten for the latest version of Elasticsearch, this practical book explores Elasticsearch’s high-level architecture, reveals infrastructure patterns, and walks through the search and analytics capabilities of numerous Elasticsearch APIs. About the book Elasticsearch in Action, Second Edition teaches you how to add modern search features to websites and applications using Elasticsearch 8. In it, you’ll quickly progress from the basics of installation and configuring clusters, to indexing documents, advanced aggregations, and putting your servers into production. You’ll especially appreciate the mix of technical detail with techniques for designing great search experiences. What's inside Understanding search architecture Full text and term-level search queries Analytics and aggregations High-level visualizations in Kibana Configure, scale, and tune clusters About the reader For application developers comfortable with scripting and command-line applications. About the author Madhusudhan Konda is a full-stack lead engineer, architect, mentor, and conference speaker. He delivers live online training on Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack. Table of Contents 1 Overview 2 Getting started 3 Architecture 4 Mapping 5 Working with documents 6 Indexing operations 7 Text analysis 8 Introducing search 9 Term-level search 10 Full-text searches 11 Compound queries 12 Advanced search 13 Aggregations 14 Administration 15 Performance and troubleshooting

Book Stage Lighting Second Edition

Download or read book Stage Lighting Second Edition written by Richard E. Dunham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 1103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stage Lighting: The Fundamentals is written specifically for introductory stage lighting courses. The book begins with an examination of the nature of light, perception, and color, then leads into a conversation of stage lighting equipment and technicians. Lamps, luminaries, controls/dimming, and electricity form the basis of these chapters. The book also provides a detailed explanation and overview of the lighting design process for the theatre and several other traditional forms of entertainment. Finally, the book explores a variety of additional areas where lighting designers can find related future employment, such as concert and corporate lighting, themed design, architectural and landscape lighting, and computer animation. New for this edition: enlarged full-color illustrations, photographs, light plots and examples of lighting design; updated information on LED lighting and equipment; expanded discussion of the practical use of color as a designer; expanded discussion of psychological/perceptual effects of color; new discussion of color mixing through light sources that make use of additive mixing; expanded discussion of industry professions; expanded discussion and illustrations relating to photometrics; expanded discussion and examples of control protocols and new equipment; and updated designer profiles along with the addition of still more designer profiles.

Book Discrete Chaos  Second Edition

Download or read book Discrete Chaos Second Edition written by Saber N. Elaydi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While maintaining the lucidity of the first edition, Discrete Chaos, Second Edition: With Applications in Science and Engineering now includes many recent results on global stability, bifurcation, chaos, and fractals. The first five chapters provide the most comprehensive material on discrete dynamical systems, including trace-determinant stability, bifurcation analysis, and the detailed analysis of the center manifold theory. This edition also covers L-systems and the periodic structure of the bulbs in the Mandelbrot set as well as new applications in biology, chemistry, and physics. The principal improvements to this book are the additions of PHASER software on an accompanying CD-ROM and the MapleTM and Mathematica® code available for download online. Incorporating numerous new topics and technology not found in similar texts, Discrete Chaos, Second Edition presents a thorough, up-to-date treatment of the theory and applications of discrete dynamical systems.

Book Tweak It and Freak It

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul McFedries
  • Publisher : Pearson Education
  • Release : 2009-03-27
  • ISBN : 0768686717
  • Pages : 729 pages

Download or read book Tweak It and Freak It written by Paul McFedries and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-03-27 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tweak It and Freak It A Killer Guide to Making Windows Run Your Way Hundreds of millions of people use Windows every day, and it’s a safe bet that some of them would not describe themselves as happy campers. Regardless of skill level, most people have something they dislike about Windows, and they often have a whole laundry list of Windows gripes. “Why can’t Windows do this rather than that?” “Why does Windows do X instead of Y?” “Wouldn’t it be great if Windows could do Z?” Most people think Windows is set in stone, but it isn’t! Strip off that veneer and a whole world comes into view, one that’s hackable, moddable, tweakable, customizable, and personalizable. This book shows you the tools and technologies that anyone can use to hack almost every aspect of Windows, from startup to shutdown, from the interface to the Internet, from security to scripting. • Speed up your tired PC with a fistful of easy-to-do, but oh so powerful tweaks! • Tired of looking at the same old Windows day in and day out? So are we! That’s why we show you how to give Windows a makeover! • Want to be more productive at work or home? This book is full of productivity tweaks that not only make Windows more fun to use, but also save you tons of time. • Create custom backup routines that safeguard your precious data. • Tighten the security of your PC and your network to stop would-be thieves in their tracks. • Dual-boot Windows XP and Vista on the same machine, or dare we say it, run MacOS on your PC! We won’t tell. Paul McFedries is a passionate computer tinkerer and Windows expert. He is the author of more than 60 computer books that have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. His recent titles include the Sams Publishing books Windows Vista Unleashed, Second Edition, and Windows Home Server Unleashed, and the Que Publishing books Build It. Fix It. Own It. : Networking with Windows Vista, Formulas and Functions with Microsoft Excel 2007, Tricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus, and Microsoft Access 2007 Forms, Reports, and Queries. Paul is also the proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com), a website devoted to tracking new words and phrases as they enter the English language. CATEGORY: Windows Operating System COVERS: Windows Vista and XP USER LEVEL: Beginning-Intermediate