by John | Oct 1, 2018 | Programming
This book is aimed primarily at IT professionals who want to get up to speed quickly on F#. A working knowledge of the .NET Framework and some knowledge of either C# or Visual Basic would be nice, but it’s not necessary. All you really need is some experience...
by John | Sep 29, 2018 | Computers and Technology
This is a book about Free Software, also known as Open Source Software, and is meant for anyone who wants to understand the cultural significance of Free Software. Two Bits explains how Free Software works and how it emerged in tandem with the Internet as both a...
by John | Sep 29, 2018 | Computers and Technology, Programming
The author wanted a text that would bring together the ideas behind many of the more recent distributed systems – systems such as Amazon’s Dynamo, Google’s BigTable and MapReduce, Apache’s Hadoop and so on. In this text he has tried to provide...
by John | Sep 29, 2018 | Computers and Internet
For all its warts, OpenSSL is one of the most successful and most important open source projects. It’s successful because it’s so widely used; it’s important because the security of large parts of the Internet infrastructure relies on it. The project...