The revised edition maintains the lucid flow and continuity which has been the strength of the book.

    Siracusa's overview, wrap-up, and critique of everything new in OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

    Abandoned by her drug addicted mother and absentee father, nine-year-old Aneesah is forced to live with her foster family in Ardmore, PA. Behind the picket fence in this middle class suburb, lies a dark secret of child abuse and neglect, until one day Aneesah befriends Capree Johnson who saves Aneesah from that nightmare. Life is sweet living with the Johnson family, led by music tycoon Kevin “KJ” Johnson founder of iLLADELPHIA Records. Going from rags to riches overnight, Aneesah is thrust into the glamourous life of a pampered princess, until she is faced with a life changing blow. Betrayed by the one person she thought would never hurt her, Aneesah journeys out into the world on her own where she meets James Hennessey aka Nyce, and is instantly intoxicated by his love. However, secrets, lies, broken bonds, and deceit continue to follow her, interrupting her seemingly picture perfect life and plaguing her relationship with Nyce who follows a strict code of Living Anonymous.

    He has the body and the winning streak to prove it. He trains like a mad man, with more discipline than a monk. But even he can't keep his attention in the ring when a brunette distraction shows up in his boxing gym.Ava Young had it all. The fancy house on a hill, a successful businessman father, an adorably decorated dorm room, and a group of fun-loving college friends. That is, until her father's company is exposed for embezzling. She has no place to turn but her childhood best friend's couch and a new, strange life filled with underground fighters. Including the intimidatingly sexy, Rhett Jaggar.These two opposites may come to find that they have more in common than they realize...but will it be a harmless attraction or a dangerous addiction?

    You could spend years discovering solutions to them all, step by step as you encounter them. Or you can just look in here. All successful database applications are destined to eventually run into issues scaling up their performance. Peek into the future of your PostgreSQL database's problems today. Know the warning signs to look for, and how to avoid the most common issues before they even happen. Surprisingly, most PostgreSQL database applications evolve in the same way: Choose the right hardware. Tune the operating system and server memory use. Optimize queries against the database, with the right indexes. Monitor every layer, from hardware to queries, using some tools that are inside PostgreSQL and others that are external. Using monitoring insight, continuously rework the design and configuration. On reaching the limits of a single server, break things up; connection pooling, caching, partitioning, and replication can all help handle increasing database workloads. The path to a high performance database system isn't always easy. But it doesn't have to be mysterious with the right guide. This book is a clear, step-by-step guide to optimizing and scaling up PostgreSQL database servers. - Publisher.

    This book is for anyone who has an interest in SQL Server 2012 and wants to understand its capabilities, including database administrators, application developers, and technical decision makers.

    This book offers numerous examples to help you avoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-new database designers. Through the help of use cases and class diagrams modeled in the UML, youll learn how to discover and represent the details and scope of the problem in question.Database design is not an exact science, and solid database design principles and examples help demonstrate the consequences of simplifications and pragmatic decisions. The rationale is to try to keep it simple, but allow room for development as situations change or resources permit. The book also features an introduction for implementing the final design in a relational database.

    It follows an interesting life of a princess, Rotshidzwa, who doesn’t believe in love but is given an ultimatum to get married to a prince in order to access her father’s estate. The princess was wild and needed a tame, hence her father left a condition on his will – a condition which she did not want fulfil. Forced by her kind of lifestyle, she agreed to fake a marriage in the hope of receiving her portion of the estate and getting divorced afterwards. The prince agreed to enter into a fake marriage, provided that he gets a share of the money. Things did not go to plan as she was expected to prove the legitimacy of her marriage. In the process of proving the legitimacy of the marriage, she ends up falling in love with the prince and complicating his relationship with his partner named Adelaide. Their relationship ended up into a complicate love triangle.

    This hands-on guide provides invaluable insight for creating successful test-driven development processes. With source code and examples featured in both C# and .NET, the book walks you through the TDD methodology and shows how it is applied to a real-world application. You'll witness the application built from scratch and details each step that is involved in the development, as well as any problems that were encountered and the solutions that were applied.Clarifies the motivation behind test-driven development (TDD), what it is, and how it works Reviews the various steps involved in developing an application and the testing that is involved prior to implementing the functionality Discusses unit testing and refactoring Professional Test-Driven Development with C# shows you how to create great TDD processes right away.

    Brought me into their world and taught me not all is as it seems.They're ruthless. They're beasts. Incapable of love.Yet these corrupt kings live to grant my every wish and desire, but I have only one.Yet they refuse to give me my freedom. To let me go.And the deeper I fall into their corrupt world the more I learn I’m not the only one wearing a mask. There are secrets and shadows much deadlier than the men whispering possessive promises to me in the dark. Four powerful, feared men want me as their queen of the underworld and I’m afraid I won’t refuse their wishes much longer.Question is, will I follow through with my plan, or will I let my enemies claim me as their queen of the underworld?Dark Mafia Queen is the second and final book of the Dark Mafia Reverse Harem Romance Duet and should be read after Dark Mafia Kings. *An age gap mafia reverse harem romance. Fans of Lee Savino, Zoe Blake, Renee Rose will devour this slow burn dark mafia romance packed with a thrilling, seductive, intensely bold story of anguish, betrayal and love!

    And this book will teach you all you need to know to be immediately productive with MySQL. By working through 30 highly focused hands-on lessons, your MySQL Crash Course will be both easier and more effective than you'd have thought possible. Learn how to: Retrieve and sort data Filter data using comparisons, regular expressions, full text search, and much more Join relational data Create and alter tables Insert, update, and delete data Leverage the power of stored procedures and triggers Use views and Cursors Manage transactional processing Create user accounts and manage security via access control Ben Forta is Macromedia's Senior Technical Evangelist, and has almost 20 years of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and product marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (now in its third edition, and translated into over a dozen languages), ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, and Advanced ColdFusion Development (both published by Que Publishing), Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes, as well as books on SQL, Flash, JSP, HomeSite, WAP, Windows 2000, and other subjects.

     I am an independent mobile app entrepreneur just like you, and I wrote this book to teach you all my strategies for how to: - Get 1,000,000+ downloads from mobile app store marketing - Save money by doing your own ASO (search engine optimization SEO for Android and the Apple App stores) better than most consultants you might consider hiring - Create an app marketing strategy outside the app stores by getting press coverage and learning how to promote an app using social media and social sharing - Make money with effective app store monetization to help you maximize your app revenue with subscriptions, in-app purchases, publishing effective ads, selling affiliate products and other strategies used by successful mobile app businesses - Create a successful mobile app business I wrote this book with all my heart and soul. The book draws on my own years of experience building top apps in my niche, promoting apps, making money with my apps, and coaching other app entrepreneurs on how they can make turn their mobile apps into successful businesses. You will be getting the best of all worlds. First, I have very deep hands on experience building and growing my own apps. Second, I have a wealth of experience coaching and observing other app entrepreneurs whose experiences and aspirations are probably very similar to yours. In this book you get all the insights from me making my own apps a success, and the insights of the cumulative experiences of the people I've coached. This is a very to the point book with many actionable tips and strategies for how to promote your mobile app (iPhone or Android), make money from your smartphone applications, and generally treat it as a real business. All suggestions in this book are based on my own experiences promoting my own problemio.com business apps which at the point of latest revision of this book have cumulative 1,000,000+ downloads, and insights of me having coached over 100 other app entrepreneurs. I am an independent mobile application developer and mobile application entrepreneur just like you. I am not a multi-million dollar app development studio or a big company. If you are an independent app developer just like me, you can use the mobile application marketing strategies that I outline in this book. Many of the strategies are simple and effective, and you can begin working on them as early as today. The book contains over 20 strategies to promote your apps. They all worked for my apps and they will help you grow your app to its highest potential. After growing your app, you will be able to make good money from your app, and achieve the goals that you have for your app business. Get the book now, and become a pro at app store marketing (app store SEO which is otherwise known as ASO), and start increasing your app downloads and revenue today!

    You’ll learn how to apply MongoDB design patterns to several challenging domains, such as ecommerce, content management, and online gaming. Using Python and JavaScript code examples, you’ll discover how MongoDB lets you scale your data model while simplifying the development process.Many businesses launch NoSQL databases without understanding the techniques for using their features most effectively. This book demonstrates the benefits of document embedding, polymorphic schemas, and other MongoDB patterns for tackling specific big data use cases, including:Operational intelligence: Perform real-time analytics of business dataEcommerce: Use MongoDB as a product catalog master or inventory management systemContent management: Learn methods for storing content nodes, binary assets, and discussionsOnline advertising networks: Apply techniques for frequency capping ad impressions, and keyword targeting and biddingSocial networking: Learn how to store a complex social graph, modeled after Google+Online gaming: Provide concurrent access to character and world data for a multiplayer role-playing game

    Proud and certain, he strides forth from Ashoka, intent on glory and the protection of his home. Karma, though, proves a fickle fiend, and Rukh stumbles straight into the heart of disaster. Discoveries are made. Buried truths and blatant lies are exposed, and secrets hidden away for centuries can no longer be ignored.These secrets shatter Rukh’s future, tear asunder his Caste-driven society, and eventually leave him banished from Ashoka. Forced to journey into the unknown, the vast and deadly Wildness, his only companion is the agent of his downfall, a beautiful woman whose very existence should be anathema. There, in those hidden depths beyond civilization's toehold, he seeks salvation, not just for himself, but for all of Humanity.For looming over the world like a storm waiting to break is Suwraith, the Sorrow Bringer, the demon who ended the mythical First World over two millennia ago. Her work is not yet done, though, for She seeks Humanity’s utter extinction. And She has a plan: Ashoka is to be shattered.This is The Castes and the OutCastes, the complete award-winning epic fantasy trilogy in one volume with over 1600 pages of magic, murder, romance, and world-shattering events.

    Addy only knows the countryside of Wyoming. The religious commune where she lives with her mother and sister in a log cabin at the back of her grandfather's property. Prayer. Penance. And Servitude, are the cornerstone of her existence. Until a set of unforeseen circumstances sends her fleeing from everything she has ever known into a world that is totally unlike her own--and like it always does, trouble also finds her there. In the form of the most handsome, sexy man she has ever set her eyes on. Too bad he's a Jackass with a capital J, who's accusing her of something she hasn't done, and is determined to hate her at every turn. Ajax James is as rich and powerful as he is ruthless--and he thinks Addy is responsible for harming someone in his family. He takes her captive with the intention of torturing the truth from her innocent flesh. Yet, something in those big amber-colored eyes staring back at him stays his hand. Still, he plans on keeping her securely under his thumb until he can figure things out. What he doesn't plan on is how much she will get under his skin. It obviously wasn't love at first sight. Instead, it was dislike at first glance. Yet, after months of being his captive, Addy began feeling something for her captor. Something that had her breathless, yearning, and needy, despite not being able to stand the man. And before she knew it, he had sunk his hooks so deeply into her; she had more than fallen in lust. However, with a man like Ajax James, love is never easy--and heartbreak is guaranteed. And after he's shattered her into pieces, will he be able to put her back together again, or will it be too late? The girl from the backwoods of Wyoming will have to stumble her way through a world that is entirely different from the one she grew up in. While the heartless playboy discovers that, despite the walls, he's placed around his heart, she absolutely fascinates him. And when hatred has turned into passion, and passion becomes love-- She'll have to exchange her flip-flops for Louboutins and her homemade dresses for expensive ball gowns. Because, with a man like Ajax James on her arm, Addy will have to learn how to navigate High Society.  *Warning--This books starts off slow, but picks up after approximately 15% in, and becomes Unputdownable.