Book Reviews

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Programming Computer Vision with Python by Jan Erik Solem, review by Christopher Lee-Messer — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Sep 09, 2012 01:48 AM

Computer vision is a fascinating subject and in recent years it has gone from being an academic pursuit to a practical everyday technology. Anyone who does Google searches or uses a smartphone likely makes use of computer vision algorithms on a regular basis, perhaps without even knowing it. Computer vision plays key roles in a broad range of fields from law enforcement, manufacturing, biology, and medicine to social media and gaming.

Review of Coders At Work by Stephen Seibel review by Bryce Verdier — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Sep 03, 2012 02:55 PM

I just finished reading the book Coders at Work by Peter Seibel. This wonderful book is filled with interviews with prominent programmers: Joe Armstrong, Simon Peyton Jones, Donald Knuth, among others. My review isn't going to be the standard book review. Instead I'm going to talk about some of the specific ideas I picked up while reading the book and discuss those ideas, rather than the book itself.

Programming Computer Vision With Python by Jan Erik Solem, review by John Wegis — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Aug 28, 2012 03:21 AM

The first 226 pages of content are split across ten chapters with the remaining 21 pages making up the Appendix, References, and Index. I found the PDF version very readable on a 15" laptop in two-page mode.

Programming Computer Vision With Python by Jan Erik Solem, review by Patrick Mihelich — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Aug 28, 2012 03:10 AM —

• oreilly

Opening the table of contents, I was immediately impressed by the selection of topics. Computer vision is a broad field, and PCVwP manages to cover plenty of ground.

RabbitMQ In Action by Alvaro Videla and Jason J.W. Williams Review by Ryan Balfanz — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Jun 16, 2012 11:25 PM —

• manning

I started reading "RabbitMQ in Action" having already used it in production. That said, I was still a bit unclear about some aspects of messaging in general: AMPQ and RabbitMQ, specifically. My previous experience included deploying RabbitMQ on AWS and using it to offload the job of sending many e-mails from my main application. For that I used django-celery.

Arduino Cookbook 2nd Edition by Michael Margolis, review by Tony Cappellini — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Mar 19, 2012 12:00 AM

At 700 pages, the Arduino Cookbook 2nd Edition is just slightly thicker than the first edition. The recipes, recipe count, layout, format are very similar.

The Python Standard Library by Example, written by Doug Hellman, Review by Tony Cappellini — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Sep 24, 2011 11:20 PM

This review was written on the printed version of the book. Another review of this publication was done using the ebook version and can be found elsewhere on this site. Doug Hellman is probably best known for the Python Module Of The Week website (PyMOTW). This site has been de-mystifying Python modules for many users. The Python Standard Library by Example takes that idea to the next level.

Scaling CouchDB by Bradley Holt, review by Luke Gotszling — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Sep 18, 2011 05:55 PM

CouchDB, while tolerant of failure during writes and supporting replication, suffers a bit in that it's not designed from start for more sophisticated clustering (including failover and sharding).

The Python Standard Library by Example, written by Doug Hellman, Review by Ryan Balfanz — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Aug 05, 2011 04:25 AM

If you have ever worked with Python, you have probably come across Python Module of the Week (PyMOTW) or virtualenvwrapper. Both are the work of Doug Hellmann.

Algorithms, 4th edition by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne review by Raj Jammalamadaka — by Tony Cappellini — posted on Apr 27, 2011 05:50 AM

This is an excellent book for learning the most important algorithms and data structures in computer science.

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