This hands-on book shares our experience in getting Semaphore to web scale without ever losing control of the codebase. The best part? These techniques will work both in new projects and large Ruby on Rails applications.
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This is a book about prime numbers, congruences, secret messages, and elliptic curves that you can read cover to cover. It grew out of undergraduate courses that the author taught at Harvard, UC San Diego, and the University of Washington.
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A guide to using the libsodium PHP extension for modern, secure, and fast cryptography. Developers can now develop fast, secure, and reliable applications without needing to know what a stream cipher even is.
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This book is devoted to the theory of probabilistic information measures and their application to coding theorems for information sources and noisy channels.
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An extensive article on multithreading in C#. This tackles difficult issues such as thread safety, when to use Abort, Wait Handles vs Wait and Pulse, the implications of Apartment Threading in Windows Forms, using Thread Pooling, Synchronization Contexts, Memory Barriers and non-blocking synchronization constructs.
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The free Scratch programming environment gives everyone an easy way to learn programming skills. This book guides you through creating several video games in Scratch.
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Communicating Sequential Processes, or CSP, is a language for describing patterns of interaction. It is supported by an elegant, mathematical theory, a set of proof tools, and an extensive literature. The book Communicating Sequential Processes was first published in 1985 by Prentice Hall International (who have kindly released the copyright); it is an excellent introduction to the language, and also to the mathematical theory.
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Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities takes on the challenge of imagining new stories at the intersection of public and private—narratives that use the economic and social history of exploration, as well as current technical and scientific research, to inform scenarios for the future of the ‘new space’ era.
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