The Provider Cookbook


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2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST — COOKBOOKS: GENERAL “An ideal culinary resource replete with kitchen cook recipes for palate pleasing and appetite satisfying recipes…” —Midwest Book Review Innovative wild game, fish, and fowl recipes for modern-day Providers: those who hunt, garden, cook, and live off the land In our modern ways of cooking and eating, we’ve gotten out of touch with Mother Nature. Those who hunt, fish, and enjoy wild game know that we should always respect and cherish our food and where it comes from. For hunter/chef Chad Belding and MMA star Chad Mendes, hunting and ethical farming are crucial ways to reinforce our connection to nature. In The Provider Cookbook, Belding and Mendes share recipes and stories to celebrate this way of life and keep it alive for generations to come. Here you’ll find everything from comfort-food classics to more refined cuisine, including: Wild Game Stroganoff Bear Bourguignon Elk Pizza Meatballs Korean Barbecue Venison Street Tacos Wild Turkey and Dumplings Mossy Pond’s Smother-Fried Quail Duck Egg Rolls Pulled Goose Barbecue Sandwiches Seared Tuna Medallions Cajun Fried Catfish Sandwiches Brian’s Coconut Curry Halibut They also share tips for properly storing food, plus recipes for domestic meats and their favorite vegetable sides and sauces. Accompanied by gorgeous food and landscape photography, the recipes and stories in The Provider Cookbook will take you on a journey from field and farm to table.




Terraform Cookbook


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Cloud services and SaaS software permeate every company's IT landscape, requiring a shift from manually provisioned services to a more structured approach, with codification at its core. Terraform provides tools to manage the lifecycle of your IT landscape across thousands of different cloud providers and SaaS platforms. By defining your infrastructure as code you can safely and predictably make changes, modularize crucial building blocks, and create reusable service components. Each recipe in this cookbook addresses a specific problem and prefaces the solution with detailed insights into the "how" and "why". If you're just starting with Terraform and codified infrastructure, this book will help you create a solid foundation, on which you can build for years to come. If you're an advanced user, this guide will help you reaffirm your knowledge and take it to the next level, as you challenge yourself with more complex infrastructure, spread across multiple providers. Recipes include: Strategies on how to use Terraform with Version Control Systems Validation and testing patterns for Terraform-managed infrastructure Methods for importing pre-existing resources Transforming infrastructure services into reusable components Integrating Terraform with other HashiCorp tools Deploying Containerized Workloads




The Personal Finance Cookbook


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A fun and straightforward approach to learning personal finance and budgeting In The Personal Finance Cookbook, Certified Financial PlannerTM certificant and celebrated social media creator Nick Meyer delivers a fun and engaging toolkit for a variety of personal finance tasks, including budgeting, investing, and buying a house. In the book, you'll find a cookbook-style collection of “recipes” detailing the steps you need to take to complete various common and important money-related tasks. You'll learn how to avoid the “paralysis by analysis” that often traps people into doing very little about their personal finances before it's too late. You'll also discover how to take meaningful, concrete steps toward change and positive action. The book includes: Strategies for household budgeting and how to start investing your money The best ways to start saving for your first home and your first car The steps you should take before and while applying for your first credit card and strategies for building your credit rating An invaluable resource for young families, new professionals just beginning their career journeys, and people starting to get ready for retirement, The Personal Finance Cookbook is the perfect book for everyone hoping to get a strong grip of their money situation once and for all.




Azure Networking Cookbook


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Learn to distribute network traffic, optimize application delivery, and defend network-level threats. Key FeaturesQuickly get up and running with Azure networking solutionsLevel-up your cloud networking skills by planning, implementing, configuring, and securing your infrastructure network with AzureLeverage Azure networking services to provide applications highly available and fault tolerant environment Book Description Microsoft provides organizations with an effective way of managing their network with Azure's networking services. No matter the size of your organization, Azure provides a way to highly reliable performance and secure connectivity with its networking services. The book starts with an introduction to the Azure networking like creating Azure virtual networks, designing address spaces and subnets. Then you will learn to create and manage network security groups, application security groups, and IP addresses in Azure. Gradually, we move on to various aspects like S2S, P2S, and Vnet2Vnet connections, DNS and routing, load balancers and traffic manager. This book will cover every aspect and function required to deliver practical recipes to help readers learn from basic cloud networking practices to planning, implementing, and securing their infrastructure network with Azure. Readers will not only be able to upscale their current environment but will also learn to monitor, diagnose, and ensure secure connectivity. After learning to deliver a robust environment readers will also gain meaningful insights from recipes on best practices. By the end of this book, readers will gain hands-on experience in providing cost-effective solutions that benefit organizations. What you will learnLearn to create Azure networking servicesUnderstand how to create and work on hybrid connectionsConfigure and manage Azure network servicesLearn ways to design high availability network solutions in AzureDiscover how to monitor and troubleshoot Azure network resourcesLearn different methods of connecting local networks to Azure virtual networksWho this book is for This book is targeted towards cloud architects, cloud solution providers, or any stakeholders dealing with networking on the Azure cloud. Some prior understanding of Microsoft Azure will be a plus point.




WildFly Cookbook


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With the increasing demand for distributed systems for Java applications, WildFly offers a robust platform on which to deploy and manage your services. As a matter of fact, WildFly 9 is a fully certified Java EE 7 platform and provides remote management tools, such as the redesigned Admin Console and the new and powerful Command Line Interface (CLI). With practical and accessible material, you will begin by learning to set up your WildFly runtime environment, and progress to selecting appropriate operational models, managing subsystems, and conquering the CLI. You will then walk through the different balancing and clustering techniques, simultaneously learning about role-based access control and then developing applications targeting WildFly and Docker.




Ruby Cookbook


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Why spend time on coding problems that others have already solved when you could be making real progress on your Ruby project? This updated cookbook provides more than 350 recipes for solving common problems, on topics ranging from basic data structures, classes, and objects, to web development, distributed programming, and multithreading. Revised for Ruby 2.1, each recipe includes a discussion on why and how the solution works. You’ll find recipes suitable for all skill levels, from Ruby newbies to experts who need an occasional reference. With Ruby Cookbook, you’ll not only save time, but keep your brain percolating with new ideas as well. Recipes cover: Data structures including strings, numbers, date and time, arrays, hashes, files and directories Using Ruby’s code blocks, also known as closures OOP features such as classes, methods, objects, and modules XML and HTML, databases and persistence, and graphics and other formats Web development with Rails and Sinatra Internet services, web services, and distributed programming Software testing, debugging, packaging, and distributing Multitasking, multithreading, and extending Ruby with other languages




SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook


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If you are a business analyst, BI developer, or an IT professional who wants to learn the A to Z of how to work with Web Intelligence reporting tools and different types of data, then this book is for you. The only thing you need is a basic understanding of what Business Intelligence is and data concepts.




Lift Cookbook


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Annotation If you need help building web applications with the Lift framework, this cookbook provides scores of concise, ready-to-use code solutions. Youll find recipes for everything from setting up a coding environment to creating REST web services and deploying your application to production. Built on top of the Scala JVM programming language, Lift takes a differentyet ultimately easierapproach to development than MVC frameworks such as Rails. Each recipe in this book includes a discussion of how and why each solution works, not only to help you complete the task at hand, but also to illustrate how Lift works. Set up an environment and run your first Lift applicationGenerate HTML, using Lifts View First approachSubmit forms and work with form elementsBuild REST web services with the frameworks RestHelper traitTake advantage of Lifts support for Ajax and CometGet examples for modifying Lifts request pipelineConvert Scala classes into tables, rows, and columns in a relational databaseSend email, call URLs, and schedule tasks from your applicationPackage and deploy your application to various hosted services.




The Diabetes Code Cookbook


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The ultimate companion cookbook to The Diabetes Code from the New York Times-bestselling author and pioneer of intermittent fasting, Dr. Jason Fung. Dr. Jason Fung helped thousands of people lose weight with his breakout bestseller The Obesity Code. Next, he helped prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes with his groundbreaking book The Diabetes Code. Now, The Diabetes Code Cookbook makes it even easier to follow Dr. Fung’s proven advice for preventing and reversing type 2 diabetes through intermittent fasting and a low carb/high-fat diet. This cookbook features full-color photographs and includes: 100 simple and delicious recipes to help manage insulin and aid in weight loss Intermittent fasting schedules and plans (16, 24, 30, and 26-hour fasts) Grocery shopping lists A new intro from Dr. Fung with up-to-date information on insulin resistance and its connection to weight gain and type 2 diabetes Readers will come away with knowledge of their health and an arsenal of mouthwatering meals—because eating for type 2 diabetes doesn’t have to be bland!




Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook


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This cookbook is full of immediately useable recipes showing you how to develop service and message-oriented (integration) applications on the Oracle Service Bus. In addition to its cookbook style, which ensures the solutions are presented in a clear step-by-step manner, the explanations go into great detail, which makes it good learning material for everyone who has experience in OSB and wants to improve. Most of the recipes are designed in such a way that each recipe is presented as a separate, standalone entity and reading of prior recipes is not required. The finished solution of each recipe is also made available electronically. If you are an intermediate SOA developer who is using Oracle Service Bus to develop service and message-orientated applications on the Oracle Service Bus, then this book is for you. This book assumes that you have a working knowledge of fundamental SOA concepts and Oracle Service Bus.