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The Author's Code... with Pedro Sena
Pedro Henrique Lobato Sena talks about his experience co-authoring “Leadership Paradigms for Remote Agile Development: How to lead your Team Remotely” with Benjamin Jakobus and Claudio Souza. Pedro shares some very candid insights about his motivation and writing process—including how he managed to balance writing this book along with his day job and the duties of family and fatherhood.
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The Author's Code... with Benjamin Jakobus
Benjamin Jakobus talks about his experience co-authoring “Leadership Paradigms for Remote Agile Development: How to lead your Team Remotely” with Pedro Henrique Lobato Sena and Claudio Souza. Benjamin shared some terrific insights about his motivation and writing process, along with tips for overcoming writer’s block. He also has quite a collection of favorite authors.
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The Author's Code... with Miguel Figueiredo
Miguel Figueiredo is the author of SAP HANA Cloud in a Nutshell: Design, Develop, and Deploy Data Models using SAP HANA Cloud. Miguel talks with Apress about what shaped his author journey and what his goals are for the readers of his book. Mostly, he’s passionate about making a contribution to his professional community.
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The Author's Code... with Phil Japikse
Phil Japikse is the author of Pro C# 10 with .NET 6: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming. Phil talks about his journey to becoming the co-author on this comprehensive foundational guide and his passion for sharing his .NET programming knowledge and experience with others. He also answers why he thinks this book—now in its eleventh edition!—has remained relevant for so long, as well as offering some valuable career advice for aspiring .NET developers.
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The Author's Code... with David Rendon
David Rendon the author of Building Applications with Azure Resource Manager (ARM): Leverage IaC to Vastly Improve the Life Cycle of Your Applications and an eight-time awarded Microsoft MVP currently working as a Solutions Architect at Kemp Technologies. David talks about his career in the Microsoft ecosystem, his motivation for writing this book & how he chose this particular topic, along with the challenges and successes that he encountered during the writing process.
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The Author's Code... with Corey Marie Green
Corey Marie Green is the author of The Podcaster's Audio Handbook: A Technical Guide for Creative People. Her aim in writing the book was to bring audio engineering information to a wide audience so that readers can express themselves through the medium of podcasting. Corey Marie Green is the author of The Podcaster's Audio Handbook: A Technical Guide for Creative People. Her aim in writing the book was to bring audio engineering information to a wide audience so that readers can express themselves through the medium of podcasting.
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The Author's Code... with Ben Herzberg and Yoav Cohen
Apress authors Ben Herzberg and Yoav Cohen talk about their experience writing this book together and what challenges they faced—and how they overcame them—when combined with work/life responsibilities.
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Integrating React Hook Form & Redux-Toolkit
When I'm coding forms with react, I prefer using react-hook-form. I find it simple but yet powerful enough. In one of the projects I was working on, the initial form's data was pulled from a redux store.
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The Author's Code... with Iuliana Cosmina
Apress author Iuliana Cosmina talks about her experience writing books and how she makes it work (*spoiler alert* she makes a bout with insomnia productive).
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Are Video Games Hackable? A Cybersecurity Story
It can be achieved through concrete, concise, and precise theoretical information.
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Using Vaadin to Build Web User Interfaces in Java
Vaadin is a web framework that enables you to write server-side Java and get web user interfaces without having to use JavaScript or HTML.
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Designing the Metaverse
The Metaverse has an image problem. It is not associated with a livable, sustainable, equal, and accessible future.
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Protective Security: Building BRIDGES
The defense of the digital business is not about the number of shiny security tools they have but, more importantly, knowing how well these security tools and your employees work cohesively to defend your business valued assets.
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Is the Cloud a Utility or a Supermarket?
It can be achieved through concrete, concise, and precise theoretical information.
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Teaching C and C++
It can be achieved through concrete, concise, and precise theoretical information.
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Learning Cybersecurity Through Teaching, Presenting, and Writing
Teaching requires us to master our skills to be able to instruct others.
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Azure Arc-Enabled Data Services: Azure Data Anywhere
Azure Arc-enabled data services get you the full benefits of a managed cloud service without the hardware or cloud-vendor lock-in.
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Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
The dilemma of when to explore and when to exploit is the core recurring theme of Reinforcement Learning algorithms.
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The 3 Creative Coding Challenges That Never Get Mentioned
We struggle to turn an idea from our imagination into something visual, moving, and interactive.
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Quantum Computing Solutions: Solving Real-World Problems Using Quantum Computing and Algorithms
The main challenge in quantum computing is the lack of a well-documented and clear-cut developing platform.