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Welcome to the practical guide to decoding CAPTCHA's. Everything you need to start decoding CAPTCHA's is contained within. Although there is a heavy emphasis on decoding you can consider it a general guide to CAPTCHA's in general. Although mostly focussed on algorithmic methods of decoding CAPTCHA's this will also briefly cover paid/human services, history and anechdotes.

¿A que dedica el tiempo el programador? Parece una pregunta para el capitán obvio. El programador dedicará la mayor parte de su tiempo a programar, ¿no? En cierta medida esa afirmación es cierta. De hecho, si no dedicara tiempo a programar no sería un programador. Sería otra cosa. Pero ...

This is the uncomplicated and practical guide, to building real asynchronous PHP applications, that you've been waiting for.

Are you a C# or Java developer curious about the awesome things happening in the JavaScript world? Would you like to build super rich web apps, mobile apps, backend services or even robots? Does JS frustrate you?Then this is the book for you! Learn the basics, OOP, FP, async, ES6, TS, tooling, testing, Angular & more!And it has wizards!

Are you already using TDD, measuring test coverage, and running static code analysison your code? Maybe you're wondering whether there's a “next level” in code quality? If so, you should check out this book and learn about mutation testing. Mutation testing changes your source code and then checks back whether your unit tests can catch the changes, just like they should catch bugs. Can they? Find out how it works, and why it works in this book.

Ceylon is powerful programming language and platform with a modern SDK designed from scratch with a high modularity core that prioritises readability and predictability controlling the complexity with clarity while providing killer tools.

A robust framework for provisioning servers with Chef and deploying reliably with Capistrano 3, including example code templates you can use directly.

A primordial Lisp described in detail.

Production Go is the book about creating and maintaining modern production applications written in Go. It assumes prior programming knowledge, and is recommended for professional programmers.

"Learn Java the Hard Way" teaches you how to code by having you type in short, simple programs and getting them to work. The exercises and explanations in this book are distilled from my nearly two decades of experience teaching programming to ordinary students. Over 2,000 students have taken my classes and nine months later almost all of them knew how to code - at least a little! If you have ever bought another Java book for "beginners" and been lost by page 10, then my book is for you!

This book help you learn about LiveCode best practices and advanced application architecture. With the techniques contained in it you will build applications that are easier to maintain and adapt leading to a more fun and profitable future.

Scoring Sound covers the basic approaches to sound synthesis, algorithmic composition and instrument design in SuperCollider. This tutorial has been used in workshops around the world for over a decade, and was included in the MIT Press SuperCollider Book.

Use HTML and CSS to create templates for your PDF files. In this book, we'll learn how to use the iText 7 add-on pdfHTML. IMPORTANT: vouchers to get a free copy of this book will be available on the iText web site soon!