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QGIS equivalent to ArcPy is PyQGIS, so you can write scripts and plugins.

https://docs.qgis.org/2.2/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/

Book by Gary Sherman (who founded the QGIS project)

And a YouTube video about the new QGIS plug-in builder

I transferred 16 Gb of data in 7 databases from my laptop to PC but between PostgreSQL installations, via the pgAdmin GUI (backup and restore command). It didn't take long, about an hour to restore everything.

Yes, ogr2ogr is used to migrate ESRI databases to PostgreSQL....

http://www.bostongis.com/PrinterFriendly.aspx?content_name=ogr_cheatsheet

(ogr2ogr comes with GDAL that installs with QGIS, so there's no need to install FW Tools).

By the way, QGIS / GDAL now supports ESRI File/(Personal) Geodatabases via the OpenFileGDB driver. So there's a possibility you can import GDB files straight into QGIS and from there import data into PostgreSQL. GDAL supports GDBs saved from ArcGIS 9 and above. It used to be finicky but since GDAL version 1.11, the current version, its reliability has improved.

http://www.gdal.org/drv_openfilegdb.html

p.s. By the way, last week someone was asking for help as ArcMap was very slow georectifying 60 Mb aerial photos or maps. Here's a guide for how to georectify in QGIS. The image size is 588 Mb. Welcome to QGIS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYBhhAW7QEk

You should definitely check out Git (a version control program). Ry's Git Tutorial is available for free on Kindle (you can use Kindle Cloud Reader if you don't have a Kindle). There are other versions available as well.

Pro Git is also a great resource for Git, although a bit more involved.

GitHub is an excellent way of managing your repositories among multiple machines.

If you're looking to get into programming, Java is a good starting language. It's relatively easy to pick up and does a lot of things for you that C++ doesn't. A good book to start learning with is Java Software Solutions by Lewis and Loftus. Another book for a little more theoretical and advanced learning is Effectiv Java by Joshua Bloch.

Edit: Book links

Java Software Solutions: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0132760770/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=1535523722&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0321465881&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=07GGH53RVK0D4GZY11KX

Effective Java: http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-Edition-Joshua-Bloch/dp/0321356683

GitHub desktop? If so its crap and you should learn the command line version of git. Here is a tutorial, and here is a link to a free ebook on the subject. Git is an incredibly valuable tool and the GUI version of GitHub does not do git, or GitHub justice. As a bonus, people won't take you seriously using the Desktop version, so learning the command line version will make people take you more seriously.

I learned the command line version when my GitHub desktop install ran into a similar error, never looked back. Think of the software failure as a good thing, the command line never crashes :)

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As someone who is a long time but intermittent Java developer myself I'd suggest focusing on Java 8 and in particular how the arrival of lambdas is influence the language and ecosystem. As an experienced OO developer I'd guess most other aspects won't present the same learning curve. Superficially even lambdas can appear as a method to reduce boiler plating, but the implications of this trend toward supporting an increased functional programming style run much much deeper I feel. With that in mind I would suggest either the book Java 8 in Action or Functional Programming in Java.

These really helped me...

A Smarter Way To Learn HTML and A Smarter Way To Learn Javascript

Computer security is a very deep field. AES-256 and the like would fall under cryptography (which isn't exclusive to computing), but I highly recommend the book Hacking, which came out towards the end of the last year.

This book recently covered holes in my git knowledge. I wish I had this book when I first started using git. It’s also free.

Yeah I have read around 70%-80% of all YDKJS books combined .

By the way just in any case you find anything interesting and helpful (but for also copy pasting this list in the future) here are the books-site tutorials-docs that I am reading-have read-plan to read-follow :

web dev road map

htmldog

www.javascript.info

css in depth (manning)

eloquent js

YDKJS (all books)

HTML5 for masterminds

dom enlightenment

high performance images

web performance in action

reliable javascript

building progressive web apps

http: the definitive guide

learning http 2

cracking the coding interview

javascript data structure and algorithms (be careful,not a good choice, it has a lot of mistakes but I find it concise)

professional git

vs code docs

Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5

Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

refactoring ui

figma docs

react docs

redux docs

vue docs

webpack docs

clean code

design patterns

web components in action

Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program

and many more to come .

Don't feel compelled to use Git. Just know it and the existence of its commands. I'd recommend this great free tutorial. http://www.amazon.com/Rys-Git-Tutorial-Ryan-Hodson-ebook/dp/B00QFIA5OC If you follow that from cover to cover and take brief notes then you'll know and remember Git even if its been a while since you used it. The problem with other tutorials is that they make you issue a command once and then that's it. You have to issue them multiple times to really ingrain them and practice the idea behind them. This tutorial does that. Definitely look into it.

https://www.amazon.com/Functional-Programming-Java-Harnessing-Expressions/dp/1937785467
https://www.amazon.com/Java-Concurrency-Practice-Brian-Goetz/dp/0321349601

First book deals with Functional Programming in Java, which is another way of doing things compared to the Object-Oriented Paradigm.

Second book deals with Concurrency, which is a really important topic imo.

Emacs 24 Reference Manual page 141 "Accessing Compressed Files" http://www.amazon.com/dp/9881327717

BSc + PhD Computer science (Java was the main language we used)

I've lectured at King's College London on Software of Internet Applications /Java EE (undergraduate level) and Web Infrastructure (MSc level) and run Introduction to Programming tutorials / labs (undergraduate level).

I also co-authored a book on Android development.

Edit. I should also add I made the following apps when working in industry as an Android developer and then Senior Android developer:

• ASOS
  
  
• [NET-A-PORTER] (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nap)

I follow a similar style with another book https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DH1H8GJ

There isn't one. CMake purposefully don't host good documentation so that you buy their shitty book

I highly recommend the DevOps Toolkit series of books.


I'd start here: https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-2-3-Toolkit-highly-available-fault-tolerant-ebook/dp/B07BSRNHSS
It goes over basic k8s stuff, 2.4 goes over monitoring and stuff, 2.5 is deployment. It's a bit expensive for some text books but at the end you should have a decent project (full k8s cluster, deployment pipeline, alerting & monitoring, EFK stack & cloudwatch logs).


Biggest cons are the price and that it's slightly out of date. No PodSecurityPolicy, no PodDisruptionBudget, no NetworkingPolicy, etc