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iOS 8 for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach with Swift, 3rd Edition

Build a Tip Calculator App in iOS 8 Using Swift

Learn how to build a tip calculator in iOS 8, with an introduction to Swift, Text Fields, Sliders, Outlets, Actions, View Controllers, Event Handling, NSDecimalNumber, NSNumberFormatter and Automatic Reference Counting, in this chapter from iOS 8 for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach with Swift, 3rd Edition.

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Video: Predictive Analytics with Excel: Smoothing Constant and Exponentiation
In this excerpt from Predictive Analytics with Excel LiveLessons (Video Training), Downloadable Video: Exponential Smoothing and Autoregression, Conrad Carlberg takes a look a exponential smoothing.
By Conrad Carlberg - Jan 23, 2015
A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux: The Shell
This chapter from A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux, 4th Edition takes a close look at the shell and explains how to use some of its features. It discusses command-line syntax and describes how the shell processes a command line and initiates execution of a program. This chapter also explains how to redirect input to and output from a command, construct pipelines and filters on the command line, and run a command in the background. The final section covers filename expansion and explains how you can use this feature in your everyday work.
By Mark G. Sobell - Jan 22, 2015
Getting Started with the Apple WatchKit
Buzz keeps growing around the Apple Watch, scheduled for release in early 2015. Will your apps be ready? Grab Apple's new WatchKit (released November 18) and speed-read Wei-Meng Lee's instructions on using these new tools to gear up your programming as the time winds down to arrival of the Watch.
By Wei-Meng Lee - Jan 22, 2015
CCNP Routing and Switching Portable Command Guide: Configuration of Redistribution
This chapter from CCNP Routing and Switching Portable Command Guide provides information about redistribution topics.
By Scott Empson, Patrick Gargano, Hans Roth - Jan 21, 2015
iOS Internationalization: Characters and Encoding
Languages use different characters with accent marks and pronunciation marks to accentuate or provide meaning. In this chapter from iOS Internationalization: The Complete Guide, Shawn E. Larson talks about what's involved in creating characters, things like diacritics and surrogate pairs and ligatures, and storing those characters (encoding and code points).
By Shawn E. Larson - Jan 21, 2015
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Windows 7: How To Delete Item Not Found Using CMD

Every operating system contains errors. One of the more common errors found within Windows OS's is the "item not found" or the "file not found" error. The error typically shows itself when a user tries to delete a file only to find it cannot be deleted when prompted with the following error message: "Could Not Find This Item: This Is No Longer Location in {insert_directory_here}. Verify the item's location and try again."

Well, for those of you who want to delete the file without verifying the item location, below is a quick video tutorial showing you how to delete the item in question. 

By Brad Yale - Jan 22, 2015 - Home & Office Computing, Information Technology, Operating Systems, Server, Process Improvement, Microsoft Applications, Microsoft Servers, Microsoft Windows Desktop, Microsoft Windows Desktop, Microsoft Windows Server
How to Browse the Web Privately Using a Secure SSH SOCKS Tunnel

There are times when you want to browse the web but you want to do it privately, without being traced. Sure, you could go ahead and utilize the incognito feature built into most major web browsers however to truly browse in anonymity, there is nothing better than utilizing a secure SSH SOCKS Tunnel. In this quick "how-to", we are going to show you how to set up a secure SSH Socks Tunnel enabling you to route all your web traffic through your host.  

By Brad Yale - Jan 16, 2015 - Home & Office Computing, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Desktop, Operating Systems, Server, Networking, Open Source, Security, General Security and Privacy, Home Networking, Home Networking, Linux/UNIX/Open Source, Network Administration & Management, Network Design & Architecture, Network Security, Routing & Switching
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