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Review of the book "Getting started with Gulp"

Review of the book “Getting started with Gulp”

Hey readers,

I was asked to review the book “Getting started with Gulp“.  Ironically i was interested in reading it as we have an opensource project called Gulpd => https://github.com/megamsys/gulp.git

To give you guys a background at https://www.megam.io  we have built nodejs and angularjs projects (https://github.com/megamsys/nilavu.git, https://github.com/megamsys/tap.git)

Chapter 1

It started…

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Simply the Best!

Testing and Securing Android Studio Applications

What an amazing book, securing applications is so important and yet I find games that are exploitable because they don't follow security practices which result in a terrible experience. There are zero day hacks for many games on both the iOS and Android markets, and this book would be the holy grail for developers for securing their applications. The book was practical and very easy to follow. I enjoyed the coverage over each authentication method, and I was delighted to find out about the HTTPS utilization in applications, I figured it was the de facto standard, boy was I wrong.

If you're developing applications then you should pickup a copy of this book, it is a real eye opener. Before I conclude this review it is highly noteworthy to mention the coverage on unit testing, I find many books ignore this completely and shouldn't. I'm very glad this book included it and didn't leave it out!

Publisher Link: https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/testing-and-securing-android-studio-applications

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Pentaho - The Fearless Approach!

Pentaho Business Analytics Cookbook

Publisher Link: http://bit.ly/1usjMmg

Pentaho is more a less a love hate relationship, I've reviewed a few of these publications to date and I've never seemed to fully understand how it all worked or functioned. Sure the examples were good and plentiful but I always felt like I had to resort to them for things that most found trivial. I'm pleased to say this book changed that for me, it was clear, concise, detailed, and organized in a fashion to which I was easily able to read and follow along. If you're going to get into Pentaho you'd be very happy to have this book as your companion. This book walks you along from start to finish, I'd highly recommend this book to anyone starting out with Pentaho or even if you're a seasoned vet looking for a refresher or reference book.