Every file you have ever opened was a handful of bytes on a disk, plus a filesystem that knew where to find them. This book shows you how that works by having you build one yourself. FAT12 is the filesystem DOS started with, and it's the best one to learn on. You can hold the whole thin...
Dear Software and AI Architects, What does it really mean to be an architect in the age of AI? The role is changing. Yet the day-to-day reality of architecting intelligent systems is still taking shape. With a foreword by Grady Booch, UML co-creator, Dear Software and AI Architect bring...
The job you were hired into changed while you were in it. Your agent writes the migration, the validation and the glue faster than you would, at any hour. So most of the code you are accountable for this year is code you read rather than code you wrote. That is a different skill from th...
For forty years, use cases have been the best tool we have for describing what a system must do. Ivar Jacobson invented them, Alistair Cockburn taught a generation to write them well, and Use-Case 3.0 connected them to modern agile delivery. All of that work assumed one thing: the reade...
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Solutions of the Cahn–Hilliard Equations The Cahn–Hilliard equations play a central role in the mathematical modeling of phase separation, interfacial phenomena, and diffuse-interface problems arising in materials science, fluid mechanics, and related fields. Their nonlinear, higher-ord...
Complete Guide to Self-Hosted WordPress on AWS is a hands-on, command-by-command manual for standing up a production-grade WordPress site on Amazon EC2 and running it the way a hosting provider would: hardened, monitored, backed up, and maintained. It is not a book about writing posts o...
Learn the engineering skills behind one of software’s most valuable emerging fields AI engineering is rapidly becoming one of the most commercially valuable areas of software development. Companies are moving beyond simple chatbot prototypes and looking for engineers who can build relia...
One strategic decision every self-published author has to make is: Should I publish my books on one platform, or on many?
This book is the Windows edition of Assembly Arithmetic Algorithms. The first book was for 16-bit DOS programming using Assembly. The second book was for 32-bit Linux programming using the same assembly language for Intel machines. But this book is very different than those because it i...
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In 1021 AD, most of Europe and some of its neighboring territories was secretly under the dominion of a supernatural cabal that calls itself the Council. Now that cabal finds itself threatened by someone who seeks technology from a lost civilization, and they've dispatched a Hunting par...