Ivan Idris's Blog, page 4
September 9, 2014
Giveaway of Advanced Quantitative Finance with C++
Win Free Copies of “Advanced Quantitative Finance with C++” Readers would be pleased to know that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing to organize a Giveaway of the book Advanced Quantitative Finance with C++ Three lucky winners stand a … Continue reading →
August 19, 2014
Review of Advanced Quantitative Finance with C++
Sunitha P. from Packt Publishing provided me with an e-book copy of “Advanced Quantitative Finance with C++” by Alonso Pena PhD. The book takes a do it yourself approach to pricing different types of options. Chapter 1 “What is Quantitative … Continue reading →
August 6, 2014
Review of Mastering Object Oriented Python
Today I give a somewhat overdue review of “Mastering Object-oriented Python” by Steven Lott, an active contributor to the StackOverflow forum. The book is on the long side with more than 600 pages. This is an excellent advanced to intermediate … Continue reading →
July 7, 2014
Learning NumPy Giveaway
Goodreads Book Giveaway Learning Numpy Array by Ivan Idris Giveaway ends August 06, 2014. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win
June 30, 2014
Packt Ten Year Party
The previous announcement wasn’t complete, so here follows the proper text from the marketing executive: “I am pleased to inform you about the Publication of “Learning NumPy Array <http://bit.ly/UyKBJ1>” by Ivan Idris. This book is a step-by-step guide which gives … Continue reading →
June 23, 2014
Learning Numpy To Be Published
Priandke (priyankabudkuley@packtpub.com) from Packt asked me to help marketing a book that is to be published by July 13 th. In order to ensure that the book is promoted correctly and as effectively as possible, I’d be really grateful if … Continue reading →
June 22, 2014
Review of Learning Objective-C by developing iPhone Games
Learning Objective-C by developing iPhone Games let’s you kickoff with an elementary memory game, followed by Alien Invaders and increasingly difficult games such as Simon Says, Mini Golf and Galaxy. By making the games we learn about collision detection, state … Continue reading →
June 14, 2014
Review of Penetration Testing with the Bash Shell
A marketer from Packt Publishing has asked me to quickly review Penetration Testing with the Bash Shell. The book was released in May, has 150 pages and it’s topic is security techniques and related tools in the context of the … Continue reading →
June 8, 2014
Review of Webmin Administrator’ Cookbook
Webmin Administrator’s Cookbook is about configuring server software with web-based software called Webmin. The book is mainly Linux oriented, but pointers for Mac and Windows users are also given. Software that we learn to configure with Webmin include: Linux firewall … Continue reading →
June 1, 2014
Review of Java EE 7 with GlassFish 4 Application Server
Java EE 7 with GlassFish 4 Application Server is the third edition of a book about JEE and Glassfish. The book gives an overview of JSF (webdevelopment), JPA (ORM), JAX-RS (REST), JMS (messaging), EJB, JSON-P and Websockets. “Java EE 7 … Continue reading →
