Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed

Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed

If you are making decisions about the look and feel of a website, you are making decisions that directly impact the performance of that site, even if your job title doesn’t include the word designer. Performance is a responsibility that can and should be shared across disciplines, as everyone at an organization impacts it.

Practical UNIX Manuals

Practical UNIX Manuals

This is a guide for writing UNIX manuals in the mdoc language. If you’re new to writing UNIX manuals, or you want to learn about best practises for high-quality manuals, this book may benefit your work.

Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, 4th Edition

Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, 4th Edition

Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python teaches you how to program in the Python language. Each chapter gives you the complete source code for a new game, and then teaches the programming concepts from the examples.

4 Free eBooks on Learning Ruby on Rails Framework

4 Free eBooks on Learning Ruby on Rails Framework

Ruby on Rails can be deceiving in terms of being easy to learn, but it is nonetheless one of the nicest frameworks when it comes to building functional web applications. The Rails framework helps developers to build websites and applications, because it abstracts and simplifies common repetitive tasks.

4 Free Engineering Course Notes by Prof Bruce Hajek

4 Free Engineering Course Notes by Prof Bruce Hajek

Bruce Hajek is a professor of the department of electrical and computer engineering, research professor of coordinated science laboratory and hoeft chair of college of engineering at University of Illinois. His research interests include Communication Networks, Auction Theory (e.g. combinatorial auctions for sale of spectrum licenses), Stochastic Analysis, Combinatorial Optimization, Machine Learning, Information Theory and Bioinformatics.

10 Free Ebooks on Computers, Internet and Programming by Manning Publications

10 Free Ebooks on Computers, Internet and Programming by Manning Publications

Manning is an independent publisher of computer books and video courses for software developers, engineers, architects, system administrators, managers and all who are professionally involved with the computer business. They also publish for students and young programmers, including occasionally for children.