Do you want to push Ruby to its limits? The Ruby Cookbook is the most comprehensive problem-solving guide to today's hottest programming language. It gives you hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and thousands of lines of code you can use in your own projects. From data structures and algorithms, to integration with cutting-edge technologies, the Ruby Cookbook has something for every programmer. Beginners and advanced Rubyists alike will learn how to program with: <ul>
<li>Strings and numbers</li>
<li>Arrays and hashes</li>
<li>Classes, modules, and namespaces</li>
<li>Reflection and metaprogramming</li>
<li>XML and HTML processing</li>
<li>Ruby on Rails (including Ajax integration)</li>
<li>Databases</li>
<li>Graphics</li>
<li>Internet services like email, SSH, and BitTorrent</li>
<li>Web services</li>
<li>Multitasking</li>
<li>Graphical and terminal interfaces</li>
</ul> If you need to write a web application, this book shows you how to get started with Rails. If you're a system administrator who needs to rename thousands of files, you'll see how to use Ruby for this and other everyday tasks. You'll learn how to read and write Excel spreadsheets, classify text with Bayesian filters, and create PDF files. We've even included a few silly tricks that were too cool to leave out, like how to blink the lights on your keyboard. The Ruby Cookbook is the most useful book yet written about Ruby. When you need to solve a problem, don't reinvent the wheel: look it up in the Cookbook.

Ruby Cookbook

Computers & Technology

Carlson, Lucas

Richardson, Leonard

Web Development & Design

O'Reilly Media

How to launch a successful startup without embarrassing mistakes
What if you could learn more from my failures than from all of Elon Musk's successes combined? Imagine if you could spare yourself years of heartache and self-loathing pounding your head against mistakes I've already made for you. 
Amazon bestselling author, Lucas Carlson, presents an entrepreneurship book unlike any other out there. Most startup books focus on the successes of famous founders, but that success is riddled with egomaniacs and survivorship bias. For every one Steve Jobs there were thousands of geeks just like him who did everything the same as Steve Jobs but never started Apple. So following in Steve Jobs's footsteps might never again lead to success. 
For that reason, Nassim Taleb and many others say that learning from mistakes is more robust than learning from successes because almost everyone makes the same mistakes. The problem is, most people aren't willing to be open, honest, and totally candid about their mistakes. 
In this book, you'll learn: 
<ul>
<li>How to use bayesian statistics to pick startup ideas</li>
<li>The startup killing problem with most mission statements</li>
<li>7 things most founders wish someone had told them at the start</li>
<li>How to manage the difficult conversations</li>
<li>How to make a marriage survive a startup</li>
<li>How to think through splitting up equity in a company</li>
<li>BONUS: How to manage founder psychology (some reviewers say this is the most important chapter in the book)</li>
<li>BONUS: A philosophy of entrepreneurship that can add depth and meaning to your work</li>
</ul>
Buy this book to find out how to start a business and not make the most egregious errors that plague most founders. 
Pick up your copy today by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page!

Finding Success In Failure: True Confessions From 10 Years of Startup Mistakes (The Craftsman Founder's Guide)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Craftsman Founder

"This book is a fantastic Entrepreneurship 101 course. If you are serious about building a company, this is where to start." ~Tucker Max, New York Times #1 Bestselling Author and Entrepreneur Want to make millions (or even billions) as an entrepreneur in just 18 months? So did I. And I used to read anything that promised it. It was a constant disappointment. Time after time I would read these books feeling like I couldn't apply or reproduce their efforts. But after 10 years of struggling, something finally clicked. I signed up over 100,000 users for what started out as just a side project, raised almost $10 million, and ended up having my company acquired. So what did I do differently? The real question you should be asking is what I DIDN'T do to find success in failure. In every field, from chess to gymnastics, we can make bigger gains by reducing mistakes than by making winning moves. This is especially true in business. We study the greats, trying to extract valuable lessons, when avoiding a few key blunders would be more valuable. Fortunately, advice on what not to do is universally applicable. The ways to fall down the mountain are shared by all climbers, no matter which path they've chosen. This book is here to teach you how NOT to fall down the mountain. How can you be an entrepreneur that beats the odds? How do you build a successful business that not only changes the world for the better, but creates generational wealth for you and your family? You simply need to avoid mistakes -- and this book will show you how.

Finding Success in Failure: True Confessions From 10 Years of Startup Mistakes

“This book is a fantastic Entrepreneurship 101 course. If you are serious about building a company, this is where to start." ~Tucker Max, New York Times #1 Bestselling Author and Entrepreneur Want to make millions (or even billions) as an entrepreneur in just 18 months? That's what I wanted too. And I used to read anything that promise it. It was a constant disappointment. Time after time I would read these books feeling like I couldn't apply or reproduce their efforts. But after 10 years of struggling, something finally clicked. I signed up over 100,000 users for what started out as just a side project, raised almost $10 million, and ended up having my company acquired. So what did I do differently? The real question you should be asking is what I DIDN'T do to find success in failure. In every field, from chess to gymnastics, we can make bigger gains by reducing mistakes than by making winning moves. This is especially true in business. We study the greats, trying to extract valuable lessons, when avoiding a few key blunders would be more valuable. Fortunately, advice on what not to do is universally applicable. The ways to fall down the mountain are shared by all climbers, no matter which path they’ve chosen. This book is here to teach you how NOT to fall down the mountain. How can you be an entrepreneur that beats the odds? How do you build a successful business that not only changes the world for the better, but creates generational wealth for you and your family? You simply need to avoid mistakes -- and this book will show you how.

The Term Sheet: A Startup Thriller Novel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

AN AMAZON #1 BESTSELLER CYBERPUNKIf you think artificial intelligence is dangerous, then you don’t know the real threat to humanity’s future… Luna Valencia is the founder of the hottest big data and artificial intelligence startup in history. She’s about to become incredibly rich and powerful. But just when she’s about to take her company public, her world begins to fall apart. 
 On the day of her startup’s IPO, a stock exchange shooter plummets Luna into a downward spiral toward a threat more menacing than she ever imagined possible. Faced with losing her company, her entire world, Luna searches for answers to a series of terrifying accusations. Failing to uncover the truth could destroy her company… but success would get her killed. 
Big Data is a fresh approach to the artificial intelligence sci-fi thriller. If you like fast-paced action, heart-stopping tension, and tech-filled worlds set in the near future, then you’ll love Lucas Carlson’s latest novel. 
Buy Big Data to discover the AI twist today!

Big Data: A Startup Thriller Novel

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is gaining serious traction among web and mobile developers, but as new PaaS providers emerge and existing vendors upgrade their features, it’s hard to keep track of what PaaS has to offer. This thorough introduction takes you through the PaaS model from a developer’s point of view, and breaks down the types of services that Google App Engine, Windows Azure, Heroku, Cloud Foundry, and others deliver.
Whether you’re an entrepreneur or part of a large enterprise development team, this book shows you how PaaS can help you focus on innovative applications, rather than spend your time worrying about technical operations.
<ul>
<li>Track the cloud’s evolution from IaaS and DevOps to PaaS</li>
<li>Learn how PaaS combines the simplicity of shared web hosting with the control of dedicated hosting</li>
<li>Explore the benefits of both portable and non-portable PaaS options</li>
<li>Apply best practices for moving legacy apps to PaaS—and understand the challenges involved</li>
<li>Write new applications for PaaS from scratch with RESTful meta-services</li>
<li>Use PaaS to build mobile apps with backend services that scale</li>
<li>Examine the core services that each major provider currently offers</li>
<li>Learn the situations in which PaaS might not be advantageous</li>
</ul>

Programming for PaaS: A Practical Guide to Coding for Platform-as-a-Service

Why spend time on coding problems that others have already solved when you could be making real progress on your Ruby project? This updated cookbook provides more than 350 recipes for solving common problems, on topics ranging from basic data structures, classes, and objects, to web development, distributed programming, and multithreading.
Revised for Ruby 2.1, each recipe includes a discussion on why and how the solution works. You’ll find recipes suitable for all skill levels, from Ruby newbies to experts who need an occasional reference. With Ruby Cookbook, you’ll not only save time, but keep your brain percolating with new ideas as well.
Recipes cover:
<ul>
<li>Data structures including strings, numbers, date and time, arrays, hashes, files and directories</li>
<li>Using Ruby’s code blocks, also known as closures</li>
<li>OOP features such as classes, methods, objects, and modules</li>
<li>XML and HTML, databases and persistence, and graphics and other formats</li>
<li>Web development with Rails and Sinatra</li>
<li>Internet services, web services, and distributed programming</li>
<li>Software testing, debugging, packaging, and distributing</li>
<li>Multitasking, multithreading, and extending Ruby with other languages</li>
</ul>

Ruby Cookbook: Recipes for Object-Oriented Scripting

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Ruby Cookbook

Finding Success In Failure: True Confessions From 10 Years of Startup Mistakes (The Craftsman Founder's Guide)

Finding Success in Failure: True Confessions From 10 Years of Startup Mistakes

The Term Sheet: A Startup Thriller Novel

Big Data: A Startup Thriller Novel

Big Data: A Startup Thriller Novel

Programming for PaaS: A Practical Guide to Coding for Platform-as-a-Service

Ruby Cookbook: Recipes for Object-Oriented Scripting