The tools we use play a critical role in how effective we are. In today’s ever-changing world of technology, we tend to focus on the latest and greatest solutions and overlook the simple tools that are available. Constant improvement of tools is an important aspect of the DevOps movement, but improvement doesn’t always warrant replacement.The tools presented in 5 Unsung Tools of DevOps provide insight into or control over a DevOps environment--and they require minimal installation ...

Solving Equations with MATLAB provides a concise, practical introduction to solving algebraic equations using MATLAB. Taken from Peter I. Kattan's bestselling book MATLAB for Beginners: A Gentle Approach, this approximately twenty-page tutorial guides readers through the numerical and symbolic solution of linear, quadratic, and highly nonlinear equations, as well as systems of simultaneous linear and nonlinear equations. Using clear solved examples, the ebook show...

This concise article of twenty pages takes you on a short tour of MATLAB. The article covers briefly some selected MATLAB commands. The presentation is made in the form of solved examples showing the exact MATLAB commands used and the output. At the end of the article, there are about 19 unsolved exercises for students to practice. The solutions to all the exercises are also provided. This article is taken form the bestselling book "MATLAB for Beginners: A Gentle Approach."

Excel macros. Everybody wants to learn them. You're not a programmer though. How is a non technical user going to learn how to program? You do want to use macros to make your work easier but are you really going to sit down with a huge programming textbook and work your way through every. single. boring. page? Like most people, you'll start with great enthusiasm and vigor but after a few chapters, the novelty wears off. It gets boring.I'm going to try and change that and make learn...

Big data has more disruptive potential than any information technology developed in the past 40 years. As author Jeffrey Needham points out in this revealing book, big data can provide unprecedented visibility into the operational efficiency of enterprises and agencies.Disruptive Possibilities provides an historically-informed overview through a wide range of topics, from the evolution of commodity supercomputing and the simplicity of big data technology, to the ways conve...

A book providing in depth details about the components required to build a gaming computer and directions on how to assemble the parts.

Pi is the controlling constant for circles, globes, orbits, the inverse square power distribution and many of the other fundamental aspects of our universe. This ebook is an effort to put forward the idea that a better understanding of pi is required. The entire knowledge base of our understanding of science could be greatly changed with additional efforts in the study of pi.

Starling is an ActionScript 3 2D framework developed on top of the Stage3D APIs (available on desktop in Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3). Starling is mainly designed for game development, but could be used for many other use cases. Starling makes it possible to write fast GPU accelerated applications without having to touch the low-level Stage3D APIs.Most Flash developers want to be able to leverage GPU acceleration (through Stage3D) without the need to write such higher-level fra...

This short technical paper describes a technology method for restoring old buildings at very low cost. These restored structures can be used to provide housing for the homeless. It implies a method for architectural preservation for any structure. An example structure is provided along with the basic calculations. Each reader must comprehend that our universe literally blinks, off and on, more than 1 trillion times each second.

This short technical note describes an approximate mathematical solution for Time Travel involving relativity and very brief time intervals. Limitations of the solution are discussed including possible error sources. Assumptions are made for small changes in the speed of light and for the Lighthouse Frequency, which has been described in previous papers. Each reader must comprehend that our universe blinks, off and on, approximately 1.1 trillion times every second. Equation is solved by us...

This book provides a broad overview on the different aspects of solar energy, with a focus on photovoltaics, which is the technology that allows light energy to be converted into electric energy.Renewable energy sources have become increasingly popular in recent years, and solar is one of the most adaptable and attractive types – from solar farms to support the National Grid to roof panels/tiles used for solar thermal heating systems, and small solar garden lights....

The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll. This book has all the illustrations of the original.The Game of Logic, described by Lewis Carroll—author of Alice in Wonderland—in 1887 consists of discussing the meaning of propositions like "Some fresh cakes are sweet," and is an instructive introduction to the concepts of logic. The game takes place in a world divided into four quadrants. In the northwest quadrant, the cakes are fresh and sweet, in the northeast, they are fresh and not-sweet, ...