Packt Publishing is offering a buy one, get one free deal on eBooks until March 26th. What I like about Packt is that they have some very niche books, like a book on Gnucash! I was curious about what other books they had and I made a list of my favorites below.
BeagleBone
Packt has three books on the BeagleBone listed below. They all look a good source for BeagleBone project ideas if you are looking for a next project.
- BeagleBone Home Automation
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Building a Home Security System with BeagleBone: I wrote a review of this book. It contains a writeup of a complete home security system, from the sensors to the control center.
Raspberry Pi
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Raspberry Pi for Secret Agents: This looks like a fun book. There’s a chapter on sending your Pi on remote missions and having it tweet statuses back.
Security / Networking
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CISSP in 21 Days: During breaks in my graduate program1, when I haven’t had a test for a while, I sometimes feel the urge to take a test and this one is usually on the list.
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Traffic Analysis with Tshark How-to: Wireshark rocks; Tshark is wireshark on the command line, which rocks more.
Functional Programming
Packt seems to have a number of books on Clojure2 and the following looked interesting:
Misc
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Learning Shell Scripting with Zsh: The reward of learning one’s shell is well worth the investment. I’ve switched over to
zshwith oh-my-zsh and the built-in search is very handy.3 -
Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting: Beginner’s Guide: I’ve been using Gnucash for years and this is one of the few books on the topic.
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LaTeX Beginner’s Guide:
is great. WordPress even supports it. Most of the books are a bit dated so it’s nice to see someone put a fresh spin on the typesetting system. 4
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Only one class left! ↩
- I actually searched “lisp”, but I’ll take Clojure. ↩
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I can never remember the
findsyntax. I do use zsh’secho **/*.patterna lot. ↩ -
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