Learn how to use Solidity and the Ethereum project – second only to Bitcoin in market capitalization. Blockchain protocols are taking the world by storm, and the Ethereum project, with its Turing-complete scripting language Solidity, has rapidly become a front-runner. This bookpresents the blockchain phenomenon in context; then situates Ethereum in a world pioneered by Bitcoin.See why professionals and non-professionals alike are honing their skills in smart contract patterns and d...

Learn how to take your existing knowledge of Ethereum and Solidity to the next level. Hone your development skills and become more familiar with the syntax of the Solidity language by working through well-tested, well-documented intermediate-level sample projects.You will begin by covering the basics of Ethereum, Solidity, and gaming theory. From there, you will move onto sample projects that use smart contract engineering to create fun casino-style games that you can deploy and te...

What others in the trenches say about The Pragmatic Programmer...“The cool thing about this book is that it’s great for keeping the programming process fresh. The book helps you to continue to grow and clearly comes from people who have been there.”— Kent Beck, author of Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change“I found this book to be a great mix of solid advice and wonderful analogies!”— Marti...

Want to tap the power behind search rankings, product recommendations, social bookmarking, and online matchmaking? This fascinating book demonstrates how you can build Web 2.0 applications to mine the enormous amount of data created by people on the Internet. With the sophisticated algorithms in this book, you can write smart programs to access interesting datasets from other web sites, collect data from users of your own applications, and analyze and understand the data once you've found ...

This book aims to give you a brief understanding of Blockchain. It also explains you the Bitcoin, one of the most buzzing words of financial technology. This is a quick book for everyone who is interested in understanding Blockchain and its baby Bitcoin.You will learn about Blockchain and how it works technically. You will also get to know about the applications and platforms working in Blockchain space. Surprisingly it's much more than Bitcoins. You will get an understanding of Bi...

Have you, like the rest of the world, speculated as to the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, anonymous creator of Bitcoin? The world's first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin went online in 2009 and has since revolutionized our concepts of currency and money. Not supported by any government or central bank, completely electronic, Bitcoin is a virtual currency based on advanced cryptographic systems. Like the currency he created, the identity of Bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto is virtual, existing onl...

If you’re an experienced programmer interested in crunching data, this book will get you started with machine learning—a toolkit of algorithms that enables computers to train themselves to automate useful tasks. Authors Drew Conway and John Myles White help you understand machine learning and statistics tools through a series of hands-on case studies, instead of a traditional math-heavy presentation.Each chapter focuses on a specific problem in machine learning, such as classificat...

If your team is investigating ways to design applications for the cloud, this concise book introduces 11 architecture patterns that can help you take advantage of cloud-platform services. You’ll learn how each of these platform-agnostic patterns work, when they might be useful in the cloud, and what impact they’ll have on your application architecture. You’ll also see an example of each pattern applied to an application built with Windows Azure.The patterns are organized into four ...

We are at the beginning of the era of the true adoption of digital currency. We will cycle through many bubbles over the next few years as this currency becomes understood, used, and more widely accepted. However, I see signs that lead me to believe that we are at the tipping point for digital currency, just like the onset of the Internet was in the 1990s. After telling a few friends about my success with Bitcoin, they asked to get involved and I started helping, which ultimately turned in...

Master Oracle Hyperion Financial ManagementConsolidate financial data and maintain a scalable compliance framework with expert instruction from an Oracle ACE. Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Tips & Techniques provides advanced, time-saving procedures not documented in user manuals or help files. Find out how to configure Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, import and reconcile data, deliver dynamic business reports, and automate administrative tasks. Stragegies fo...

Big Data Analytics with R and Hadoop is a tutorial style book that focuses on all the powerful big data tasks that can be achieved by integrating R and Hadoop.This book is ideal for R developers who are looking for a way to perform big data analytics with Hadoop. This book is also aimed at those who know Hadoop and want to build some intelligent applications over Big data with R packages. It would be helpful if readers have basic knowledge of R.

Original annotated and commented edition of the masterpiece of the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin, the digital currency on everyone’s lips.However, few noticed that the innovative power of Bitcoin is not strictly financial, but it fundamentally impacts the creation of political consensus, by transforming it into a technological mechanism.Exactly for this reason, the present edition is enriched by a critical apparatus that should make possible, even for the l...