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Testing Cloud Services How to Test SaaS, PaaS & IaaS Kees Blokland, Jeroen Mengerink and Martin Pol (Rocky Nook – paperback, Kindle) Cloud computing now affects almost all of us, at least indirectly. But some of us have to deal directly with one or more “clouds” on a regular basis. We select or implement particular … Continue reading Testing Cloud Services – How to Test SaaS, PaaS and IaaS – #cloud #bookreview
The Practice of Network Security Monitoring Understanding Incident Detection and Response Richard Bejtlich (No Starch Press – paperback, Kindle) Security expert Richard Bejtlich’s focus in his new book is not on “the planning and defense phases of the security cycle.” Instead, he emphasizes how to handle “systems that are already compromised or that are on … Continue reading The Practice of Network Security Monitoring – You’re compromised, so deal with it. #security #bookreview
Getting Started with Mule Cloud Connect Ryan Carter (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) In a digital world increasingly cluttered with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms, Open APIs, and social networks, complexity quickly can get out of hand. “It all starts,” Ryan Carter writes in his new book, “with a simple API that publishes somebody’s status to Facebook, sends a Tweet, or updates a … Continue reading Getting Started with Mule Cloud Connect – To help sort out the chaos of Internet services – #bookreview
Enterprise Games: Using Game Mechanics to Build a Better Business Michael Hugos (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Can 21st-century games and gamers attack and destroy the top-down, assembly-line thinking that still keeps many businesses firmly rooted in the previous century? Michael Hugos’ compelling new book makes a solid case that they can. Game mechanics, he argues, can … Continue reading Enterprise Games – How to build a better 21st-century business with game mechanics – #business #bookreview
Understanding IPv6, 3rd Edition Joseph Davies (Microsoft Press, paperback, list price $49.99; Kindle edition, list price $39.99) The Internet can now expand into a much bigger realm than was possible before the worldwide launch of IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) on June 6, 2012. The web most of us use has long relied on IPv4, … Continue reading Understanding IPv6, 3rd Edition – Welcome to the new, improved & BIGGER Internet – #bookreview #microsoft #windows
Introducing Windows Server® 2012 Mitch Tulloch with the Microsoft Server Team (Microsoft Press, paperback, list price $14.99; Kindle edition, list price $0.00) The anticipated release date for the new version of Microsoft Server® is sometime between the third quarter of 2012 and early 2013. And this book’s introduction hails it as “probably the most significant release … Continue reading Introducing Windows Server 2012 – A guide to what’s coming in a much-anticipated release – #bookreview #microsoft
Learning iOS Programming, 2nd Edition By Alasdair Allan (O’Reilly, paperback, list price $34.99; Kindle edition, list price $27.99) Alasdair Allan’s popular iOS programming book recently has been updated to cover iOS 5. And it has a new name. (The first edition was titled Learning iPhone Programming.) “The changes made in this second edition reflect the fact that … Continue reading Learning iOS Programming, 2nd Ed. – Updated to cover iOS 5, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch – #programming #bookreview
These two books reflect some of the wide-ranging changes that the Internet and mobile devices are bringing to the ways databases are structured, accessed, updated, stored and maintained. Getting Started with CouchDB By MC Brown (O’Reilly, paperback, list price $24.99; Kindle edition, list price $14.99) “Databases are no longer isolated, single systems,” writes MC Brown. “Whether you want a … Continue reading Not your father’s database: Getting Started with CouchDB & with Fluidinfo – #bookreview #in #programming
Understanding PaaS By Michael P. McGrath (O’Reilly, paperback, list price $11.99; Kindle edition, list price $8.99) Ready to get your head in the cloud? Understanding PaaS is a well-written and straightforward guide to understanding one of the three primary areas of cloud computing: Platform as a Service (PaaS). The other two primary areas, described briefly in … Continue reading Understanding PaaS – Get your head in the cloud – #bookreview #cloud #programming
SharePoint 2010 for Project Management, 2nd Edition By Dux Raymond Sy (O’Reilly, paperback, list price $44.99; Kindle edition, list price $34.99) Project management now provides the top use of Microsoft SharePoint 2010, and this updated edition quickly jumps straight into using SharePoint to create and run a Project Management Information System (PMIS). The book is written and … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 for Project Management, 2nd Edition – #bookreview
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