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This sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army: the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee. General Lee's Army takes listeners across the Rebel landscape, from campfires to battlefields to their homes, as it portrays a world of life, death, healing, and hardship.

Execute Your Tech Idea applies to all technology projects, including apps, portals, Software as a Service, software tools, smart devices, the Internet of Things, and many more.

Get the details, examples, and best practices you need to build generative AI applications, services, and solutions using the power of Azure OpenAI Service. Microsoft AI specialist Adrián González Sánchez examines the integration and utilization of Azure OpenAI Service within the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform.

There is no wasting time in this book, unlike other e-books that talk about other things before discussing the main topics, this book teaches you how to resolve the most annoying errors when developing in ASP.Net Core, C#, Entity Framework, and hosting in Docker Container. The book is arranged in a Question and Answer format, it is simple to understand. The book is derived from the Authors personal experience developing in Asp.Net Core and EF Core. Why do you need to read this book? you need to read this book if you know that the Search Engine Algorithm is always changing, and content that ...

This audiobook is the first part of a trilogy to follow Software Wasteland. In Software Wasteland, we detailed the current poor state of application software development. We offered some tactical advice for reducing some of the worse of the excess. This is the first book in the "what to do instead" trilogy. From the age of punched cards to today's internet-driven systems, one thing has stayed fairly constant: software vendors and their implementers have been driving the enterprise IT industry. This is changing.

Twice a year in the heart of Silicon Valley, a small investment firm called Y Combinator selects an elite group of young entrepreneurs from around the world for three months of intense work and instruction. Their brand-new two- or three-person start-ups are given a seemingly impossible challenge: to turn a raw idea into a viable business, fast.

In Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring.

Otis the pigman jockey tells his tale! Otis is a baby zombie pigman who has lots of pig friends. But, the pigs don't know what it is like to be a baby zombie pigman and cannot help Otis learn how to be a baby zombie pigman. Still, Otis has fun with his pig friends until tragedy strikes. Then, he must set out on a quest for shelter in the Overworld. And that is when things really start to get interesting.

Lack of science in this area has created a lag in the ability to coach cognition. Language research reveals a secret that can accelerate the cognitive process. Capology is the football language of the R4 system. Specifically, it is the language and lens of leverage in football. Capology will take you on a journey on how to build, apply and implement a coding language to read the reality in the game. This book is for a coach, scout, or player that longs to attain an expert lens into the passing game of football.

This book is dedicated to helping JavaScript Full Stack Developers interview for new positions, capture the job offer of their dreams and move up the career ladder. It is primarily geared toward "Full Stack front-end" developers. Along with answering technical JavaScript questions, the book also covers other front-end languages such as Angular, Express, MongoDB, Node.js, and more.

Veteran software developer and GitHub community hero Kurt Dowswell delivers an insightful and hands-on exploration of GitHub's powerful, new AI coding assistant, Copilot. In the book, you'll discover how to use the tool's capabilities to push the boundaries of what you thought was possible in programming. Even if you've used autocomplete tools-like VS Code's TabNine extension—before, you'll be floored by GitHub Copilot's potential to transform the way you code.

100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them puts a spotlight on common errors in Go code you might not even know you’re making. You’ll explore key areas of the language such as concurrency, testing, data structures, and more—and learn how to avoid and fix mistakes in your own projects.

How do some organizations maintain 24-7 internet-scale operations? How can organizations integrate security while deploying new features? How do organizations increase security within their DevOps processes? This practical guide helps you answer those questions. Steve Suehring provides unique content to help practitioners and leadership successfully implement DevOps and DevSecOps. Learning DevSecOps emphasizes prerequisites that lead to success through best practices and then takes you through some of the tools and software used by successful DevSecOps-enabled organizations.

Thoroughly reviewed and eagerly anticipated by the agile community, User Stories Applied offers a requirements process that saves time, eliminates rework, and leads directly to better software. The best way to build software that meets users' needs is to begin with "user stories": simple, clear, brief descriptions of functionality that will be valuable to real users. In User Stories Applied, Mike Cohn provides you with a front-to-back blueprint for writing these user stories and weaving them into your development lifecycle.

Start learning what AI is and what it is not. Gain unique knowledge on why computers will never become conscious. Understand how technology and AI impact human activities by mimicking, replicating, and augmenting tasks. Learn about what can make AI beneficial for all and what can make it detrimental. Finally, learn how you can harness AI to improve your life. You have AI in your pocket. If you have a smartphone, you are interacting with AI applications. But you have little say in what type of AI will be built. Your only leverage is voting with your dollars about what AI-built technology you...

R in Action, Second Edition teaches you how to use the R language by presenting examples relevant to scientific, technical, and business developers. Focusing on practical solutions, the book offers a crash course in statistics, including elegant methods for dealing with messy and incomplete data. You'll also master R's extensive graphical capabilities for exploring and presenting data visually. And this expanded second edition includes new chapters on forecasting, data mining, and dynamic report writing.

Reactive Design Patterns is a clearly written guide for building message-driven distributed systems that are resilient, responsive, and elastic. In this book you'll find patterns for messaging, flow control, resource management, and concurrency, along with practical issues like test-friendly designs. All patterns include concrete examples using Scala and Akka.

Skip the iPhone, the iPod, and the Macintosh. If you want to understand how Apple Inc. became an industry behemoth, look no further than the 1977 Apple II. The Apple II was a versatile piece of hardware, but its most compelling story isn't found in the feat of its engineering, the personalities of Apple's founders, or the way it set the stage for the company's multibillion-dollar future. Instead, historian Laine Nooney shows, what made the Apple II iconic was its software.

Listen to Quality Assurance to discover everything you need to know about testing and software quality, step by step to increase your software skill set. Learn how to dominate computer systems. All your basic knowledge in one purchase!

Untangle the mesh of complex data with this user-friendly manual to SQL. Imagine a world overflowing with data – numbers, stats, facts, all buzzing around, waiting to tell a story. There's one common element that can help you navigate this vast sea of data – Structured Query Language (SQL).