Data & IT

In The Platform Society, Van Dijck, Poell and De Waal offer a comprehensive analysis of an online world where platforms have penetrated the heart of societies. The book analyzes intense struggles in four sectors-news, urban transport, health, and education-asking who is responsible for anchoring public values and the common good in a platform society?

From the authors of the fascinating The Age of Cryptocurrency, comes the definitive work on the Internet's next big thing: the blockchain.

Currently used at many colleges, universities, and high schools, this hands-on introduction to computer science is ideal for people with little or no programming experience. The goal of this concise book is not just to teach you Java, but to help you think like a computer scientist.

Extended and enhanced version of: The C++ programming language, Fourth edition.

Design a complete Voice over IP (VoIP) or traditional PBX system with Asterisk, even if you have only basic telecommunications knowledge. This bestselling guide makes it easy, with a detailed roadmap that shows you how to install and configure this open source software, whether you're upgrading your existing phone system or starting from scratch.

Get the essential information you need to implement CSS effectively with this concise yet comprehensive quick reference. Ideal for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers, this 4th edition is revised and updated for CSS3, the latest version of the Cascading Style Sheet specification.

By exploring the fundamental theory behind design choices, this practical guide helps you gain a deeper understanding of Python's implementation. You'll learn how to locate performance bottlenecks and significantly speed up your code in high-data-volume programs

Users demand applications that are well behaved, good-looking, and easy to use. This bestselling book captures UI best practices and reusable ideas as design patterns -- solutions to common design problems, tailored to the situation at hand.

In this book, bestselling author Williams expands her focus to explain the four fundamental principles of good presentation design and the logic behind those principles. She also guides the fledgling speaker through the entire process of creating a presentation from choosing the right software to organizing ideas.

A practical guide that addresses the problems and difficult choices which professional compositors face on a daily basis. It presents you with tips, techniques, and solutions for dealing with badly shot elements, color artifacts, mismatched lighting and other commonly faced compositing obstacles.

Shares the six key principles of site design and support practices: simplicity, clarity, generality, automation, communication, and basics first. This book provides advice on topics which include the key elements your networks/systems need that will make all other services run better, and building and running reliable, scalable services.

Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management delivers the infrastructure to allow businesses to achieve growth and make better decisions using scalable and contemporary ERP system tools. With more than 100 practical, self-contained tutorials, this book helps you to create and extend real-world solutions using Dynamics 365 Finance and ...

Have you ever wondered what happens during a swipe of a credit card? Every major tech company will become a payments company. Yet, not many people understand how payment systems in the US work. Those that do "get it" are unlocking multi-billion dollar opportunities. If you've ever wondered what happens when you actually swipe/dip/tap your credit card or debit card then The Anatomy of the Swipe breaks down the details in the simplest manner possible. Here are some questions answered within these pages: How does money move from my credit card to my favorite coffee shop? How can I build a neo-bank? How can I build my own debit or credit card? How can I accept card based payments? The Anatomy of the Swipe speaks to software developers and entrepreneurs who are looking at implementing card-based payments for the first time, merchants who want to be able to accept payments for a website or store, or those who want to issue their own debit/credit card. This book walks beginners through modern innovations created because of card-based payments, as well as the motivations and revenue models of each party in the payments ecosystem.

With the murder case closed and the true killer apprehended, Soji Seta prepares to leave Inaba. But as the full truth about the Midnight Channel is revealed, the Investigation Team discovers they have one final challenge to face. It's the grand finale of the Persona 4 manga!

The true murderer has been revealed, and the Investigation Team must return to the Midnight Channel to finally bring the case to an end. Based the Persona 4 video game!

Metasploit 5.x for Beginners will provide a good starting point to perform penetration testing and identify threats and vulnerabilities to secure your IT environment. You will be able to analyze, identify, and exploit threats and vulnerabilities to secure your IT environment.

Show your PC who's bossNothing's more annoying than a tech malfunction, especially when it's your PC--with the exception of perhaps wading through reams of random, unreliable theories online looking for a solution, or paying an expensive tech geek to show up to perform a five-minute fix. The latest edition of Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies puts all this frustration behind you and gets you straight to work solving the problem yourself!In his straightforward, friendly style, Dan Gookin--bestselling tech author and all-round Mr. Fixit--packs everything you need to know into 5-books-in-1, giving you the knowledge and process to hit on the right solution, fast. From identifying common problems to methodically narrowing down to the correct fix, you'll save hours of frustrating research--and experience the sweet, righteous satisfaction of having achieved it all yourself.* Pick up quick fixes* Understand and reconnect networks* Restore memory* Boost your PC's performanceEvery problem has a solution and PCs are no different: get this book and you'll never catch yourself shouting at your monitor or frustrated with the motherboard again--well, maybe not quite so often.

Now that there's software in everything, how can you make anything secure? Understand how to engineer dependable systems with this newly updated classicIn Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, Third Edition Cambridge University professor Ross Anderson updates his classic textbook and teaches readers how to design, implement, and test systems to withstand both error and attack.This book became a best-seller in 2001 and helped establish the discipline of security engineering. By the second edition in 2008, underground dark markets had let the bad guys specialize and scale up; attacks were increasingly on users rather than on technology. The book repeated its success by showing how security engineers can focus on usability.Now the third edition brings it up to date for 2020. As people now go online from phones more than laptops, most servers are in the cloud, online advertising drives the Internet and social networks have taken over much human interaction, many patterns of crime and abuse are the same, but the methods have evolved. Ross Anderson explores what security engineering means in 2020, including:* How the basic elements of cryptography, protocols, and access control translate to the new world of phones, cloud services, social media and the Internet of Things* Who the attackers are - from nation states and business competitors through criminal gangs to stalkers and playground bullies* What they do - from phishing and carding through SIM swapping and software exploits to DDoS and fake news* Security psychology, from privacy through ease-of-use to deception* The economics of security and dependability - why companies build vulnerable systems and governments look the other way* How dozens of industries went online - well or badly* How to manage security and safety engineering in a world of agile development - from reliability engineering to DevSecOpsThe third edition of Security Engineering ends with a grand challenge: sustainable security. As we build ever more software and connectivity into safety-critical durable goods like cars and medical devices, how do we design systems we can maintain and defend for decades? Or will everything in the world need monthly software upgrades, and become unsafe once they stop?

Django 3 By Example, Third Edition, explores key Django features and best practices that every Python web developer should be aware of. This third edition is fully updated for Django 3 and a new chapter on Django Channels for real-time features has been added. Much more than just a reference guide, this book shows you how Django works in the ...