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If you’re just getting started with Perl, this is the book you want—whether you’re a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Nicknamed “the Llama” by two generations of users, this best seller closely follows the popular introductory Perl course taught by the authors since 1991. This eighth edition covers recent changes to the language up to version 5.34.

Perl is suitable for almost any task on almost any platform, from short fixes to complete web applications. Learning Perl teaches you the basics and shows you how to write simple, single-file programs—roughly 90% of the Perl programs in use today. And each chapter includes exercises to help you practice what you’ve just learned. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer.

Topics include:

Perl data and variable types Subroutines File operations Regular expressions String manipulation (including Unicode) Lists and sorting Process management Use of third-party modules

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O’Reilly Media; 8th edition (September 21, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 395 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1492094951
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1492094951
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1 x 9 inches

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Now in its third edition, this classic guide to software requirements engineering has been fully updated with new topics, examples, and guidance. Two leaders in the requirements community have teamed up to deliver a contemporary set of practices covering the full range of requirements development and management activities on software projects.

Describes practical, effective, field-tested techniques for managing the requirements engineering process from end to end.Provides examples demonstrating how requirements “good practices” can lead to fewer change requests, higher customer satisfaction, and lower development costs.Fully updated with contemporary examples and many new practices and techniques.Describes how to apply effective requirements practices to agile projects and numerous other special project situations.Targeted to business analysts, developers, project managers, and other software project stakeholders who have a general understanding of the software development process.Shares the insights gleaned from the authors’ extensive experience delivering hundreds of software-requirements training courses, presentations, and webinars.

New chapters are included on specifying data requirements, writing high-quality functional requirements, and requirements reuse. Considerable depth has been added on business requirements, elicitation techniques, and nonfunctional requirements. In addition, new chapters recommend effective requirements practices for various special project situations, including enhancement and replacement, packaged solutions, outsourced, business process automation, analytics and reporting, and embedded and other real-time systems projects.

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Benefits This Book Provides

Of all the software process improvements you could undertake, improved requirements practices are among the most beneficial.

Our objective is to help you improve the processes you use for eliciting and analyzing requirements, writing and validating requirements specifications, and managing the requirements throughout the software product development cycle. The techniques we describe are pragmatic and realistic. Both of us have used these very techniques many times, and we always get good results when we do.

Who Should Read This Book

Business analysts or requirements engineers on a development project.

The technical team members who are creating and reviewing effective requirements.

Marketers and product managers specifying the features and attributes.

Project managers planning and tracking the project’s requirements activities and deal with requirements changes.

Includes practical, proven techniques that can help you to Write high-quality requirements from the outset of a project Deliver high-quality information systems and commercial products Manage scope creep and requirements changes Satisfy customers with the products they want Reduce maintenance, enhancement, and support costs

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Microsoft Press; 3rd edition (August 15, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 672 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0735679665
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0735679665
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.42 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 1.31 x 8.9 inches

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In almost every book on Design Patterns, from the famous Gang of Four book to modern titles, whether about programming or not, the basic definition of a pattern has remained unchanged, unchallenged, and quite wrong.
Wherever you see the claim design patterns are common solutions to repeating problems you know you have found another example of a misconception embedded in the minds of the vast majority. When you encounter a text claiming design patterns are general or reusable solutions to common problems, you can be sure they won’t have provided the information you need to use them in their most potent form.
While validated by evidence of the damage design patterns caused, sceptics of patterns have remained powerless to correct the fault. More than twenty years later, the forces driving their decline persist, but the general defeat remains unresolved.

Proponents see value in patterns and strive to teach others but still refer to a book older than DevOps and Git. For a title explicitly calling out the need for patterns to evolve, it’s quite the contradiction. It would be an unacceptable state of affairs for us to be left wanting for an update to the book or a living repository of the currently accepted patterns, but this is also unresolved.
Further forces are at play, restricting the efficiency and effectiveness of our teams. Those striving to bring agile development practices to their organisations will recognise some but not others. These hidden forces remain unchallenged, affecting our productivity and health while they remain hidden.
This book attempts to answer open questions about what happened, why they faltered, what will happen next, and how we can avoid it. It will provide the necessary tools to elevate your capacity to refactor your software design using patterns while also attending to the problems found beyond the source code.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Richard Fabian (February 29, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 491 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1916478727
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1916478725
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.81 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.11 x 9 inches