apress aug 2017 (24 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Master continuous integration, deployment and automated testing for Android apps. Yoüll see how to set up and tear down sandbox environments to test the end-user experience, where yoüll learn how to manage a mobile device in addition to the build machine. Android Continuous Integration applies a real-world CI pattern that has been thoroughly tested and implemented.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Learn how to use stories throughout the agile software development lifecycle. Through lessons and examples, Agile UX Storytelling demonstrates to product owners, customers, scrum masters, software developers, and designers how to craft stories to facilitate communication, identify problems and patterns, refine collaborative understanding, accelerate delivery, and communicate the business value of deliverables. Rebecca Baker applies the techniques of storytelling to all facets of the software development lifecycle¿planning, requirements gathering, internal and external communication, design, and testing¿and shows how to use stories to improve the delivery process.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Reduce the time spent analyzing infrastructure modules while lowering your cost and resources in the process. Most software project teams that develop custom software build the systems from scratch. With limited budgets and time, they often concentrate on the business functionality and try to minimize or ignore the infrastructure functionality. This book shows you how to develop flexible and and reusable modules that can be enhanced over time.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Build clustered and scalable Java-based, real-time applications using Spring Framework, Boot, WebSocket, Cassandra, Redis and RabbitMQ. In this book, you'll tie all this together with a dive-in case study, a real-time scalable chat application under differing scenarios. Pro Java Clustering and Scalability also discusses how to horizontally scale the WebSocket chat application using a full STOMP broker such as RabbitMQ.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Read 25 in-depth, candid interviews with notable project managers. Discover how project managers work, what they do, how they adapt and make decisions, how they inspire and motivate others, what career lessons and advice they can share, and how they landed their current jobs either as project managers or in more senior positions thanks to their success as project managers. Most of the project managers featured in this book¿together with a selection of program managers, executives, entrepreneurs, and CEOs with project management backgrounds and responsibilities¿work in the technology sector, but many work in other industries, including banking and financial services, consulting, aerospace, energy, and transportation.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Get introduced to the world of artificial intelligence with this accessible and practical guide. Build applications that make intelligent use of language and user interaction to better compete in today¿s marketplace. Discover how your application can deeply understand and interpret content on the web or a user¿s machine, intelligently react to direct user interaction through speech or text, or make smart recommendations on products or services that are tailored to each individual user.With Microsoft Cognitive Services, you can do all this and more utilizing a set of easy-to-use APIs that can be consumed on the desktop, web, or mobile devices. Developers normally think of AI implementation as a tough task involving writing complex algorithms. This book aims to remove the anxiety by creating a cognitive application with a few lines of code. There is a wide range of Cognitive Services APIs available. This book focuses on some of the most useful and powerful ways that your application can make intelligent use of language.Artificial Intelligence for .NET: Speech, Language, and Search will show you how you can start building amazing capabilities into your applications today.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Learn Docker 'infrastructure as code' technology to define a system for performing standard but non-trivial data tasks on medium- to large-scale data sets, using Jupyter as the master controller.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 284 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Quickly ramp up your practical knowledge of Apache JMeter for software performance testing and focus on actual business problems. This step-by-step guide covers what you will need to know to write and execute test scripts, and verify the results.Pro Apache JMeter covers almost every aspect of Apache JMeter in detail and includes helpful screenshots and a case study. A performance primer chapter provides a high-level summary of terms used in performance testing on a day-to-day basis that also is useful for non-technical readers.A sample web application Digital Toys has been developed and test scripts are provided for you to try while progressing through the chapters.What You'll LearnCreate and execute an Apache JMeter test planInterpret the results of your test planUnderstand distributed testing using Apache JMeterUse Apache JMeter advanced features such as JDBC, REST, FTP, AJAX, SOAP, and mobile performance testingRead a sample case study covering end-to-end planning and execution of a performance testing projectGenerate and analyze a performance dashboardWho This Book Is ForSoftware performance testing professionals, quality assurance professionals, architects, engineers, project managers, product managersAPress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 364 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Carry out the pre-planning, design, and programming of role playing games (RPGs) using the popular GameMaker: Studio in this very practical and fun book. Author Ben Tyers teaches you how to create a story or plotline for the RPG, apply aesthetics, and develop core and extended gameplay.Using Learn RPGs in GameMaker: Studio, you can design and build your own RPG using the GameMaker: Studio platform. Build your first game application and deploy in an app store, on Facebook, or just on a PC. Maybe, even, make a few bucks.What You'll LearnUse the GameMaker: Studio platform to design and build a role playing gameCreate a story for game design purposes, using a plot line and defining charactersDiscover the impact of aesthetics on art style, character separation, scene development, sound design and viewsMaster core gameplay elements such as battles, exploration, scoring, and endingsWork with extended gameplay elements such as collectibles, quirks, management, and savingEmploy the various core and extended gameplay elements as appropriate to your RPGWho This Book Is ForGame designers or developers looking to design and build their first role playing game using the GameMaker: Studio platform.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Missy Maker is a middle school girl who loves math and fashion. She sees math in everything she does. She tries to hide this from her friends, because she thinks it's too geeky. Missy hears that the school math club needs more members, but she's worried about what her friends will think if she joins, and she's already committed to joining the fashion club.After an epic internal struggle and with the support of her peers and her quirky, loving family, Missy finds that she can be both a Mathlete and a Fashionista. Missy figures out how to bring the two clubs together to help both groups win. In the process, she discovers that she can openly excel in math and science and still be popular with her peers. She also learns how her math and science skills can help her artistic endeavors.Gain an inside perspective on what it's like when you love math and science and happen to be a girl. Fashion Figures highlights the societal and internal pressures preteen and early-teen girls often face when they excel in these subjects, and it shows strategies for overcoming barriers to being themselves and doing what they love while still fitting in socially.What You'll LearnGirls can have a passion for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects and still be coolGirls can be great at mathMath skills are important in non-STEM centered subject areas like fashion and artMath can be funWho This Book Is For Pre-teen and early-teen girls (9-14 years old) 109 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Master continuous integration, deployment and automated testing for Android apps. You'll see how to set up and tear down sandbox environments to test the end-user experience, where you'll learn how to manage a mobile device in addition to the build machine. Android Continuous Integration applies a real-world CI pattern that has been thoroughly tested and implemented.This book starts with continuous integration concepts and the tools and code needed to become proficient in continuous integration for Android apps. You'll also follow acceptance test driven development (ATDD) best practice, giving you all the skills you need to become a better, more effective developer. Finally, you'll learn about the Appium mobile automation library and the Jenkins continuous integration tool.What You Will LearnUnderstand how to build an Android mobile app from source Set up a development or debugging environment for mobile appsIntegrate with the Nexus dependency management and application release toolWork with the SonarQube code quality analyzerUse debugging tools in AndroidWho This Book Is ForProduct owners/business analysts, QA/test engineers, developers and build/deploy engineers. 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Learn the basic principles of modular design, and then put them into action to create sites that are easy to use, look great, and can be adapted within the context of your business needs.With author James Cabrera-one of the thought leaders in the modular-design movement-you'll create a single, scalable project for a sample nameplate site and then adapt that same project to work successfully as a portfolio site, an e-commerce site, and finally as a news/publishing content site. Along the way, you'll learn the scientific approach to devising a sound and scalable design strategy, followed by establishing a basic foundation using various criteria relevant to that type of site. As each chapter progresses, you'll add new concepts appropriate for the project type. Modular web and app design isn't just for so-called 'creatives.' It's a teachable science with principles that can be replicated in a creative manner. This approach makes the design decision making process for businesses much easier (and easier to live with). And modular design is a powerful tool for software designers to replicate effective successful designs across a spectrum of needs.What You'll LearnExamine the design process in a modular wayAdapt yourHTML code to create different types of applicationsEstablish your own modular framework for your specific site's goalsDesign for scaleDevelop a strong foundation skeleton for designWho This Book Is ForUserexperience designers, user interface designers, information architects, developers with an interest in design, developers who want to create their own design frameworks. 86 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Get up to speed with Clojure in this quick and practical primer. You'll learn the nuts and bolts of functional programming, data structures, sequences, destructuring, pattern matching, polymorphism, concurrency, conventions, and more. Author Mark McDonnell talks about organization with namespaces; how to change the language via macros; object-oriented programming; and creating command-line apps. Finally, he shows you how to write Clojure from shell languages and interfaces such as Vim. After reading and using Quick Clojure, you'll come away with first-hand knowledge and advice on how to quickly adopt, use, and apply Clojure without all the theoretical baggage that bigger books can sometimes bring.What You'll LearnWork with data structures and their syntax Discover OOP in Clojure with patterns, polymorphisms, pattern matching, and concurrency Use conventions, organization, and namespaces in ClojureCreate command-line apps Build various Clojure projects with the Leiningen IDE tool and frameworkWho This Book Is For Programmers with experience. A Java background would be helpful, but not required. 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Learn how to use stories throughout the agile software development lifecycle. Through lessons and examples, Agile UX Storytelling demonstrates to product owners, customers, scrum masters, software developers, and designers how to craft stories to facilitate communication, identify problems and patterns, refine collaborative understanding, accelerate delivery, and communicate the business value of deliverables. Rebecca Baker applies the techniques of storytelling to all facets of the software development lifecycle-planning, requirements gathering, internal and external communication, design, and testing-and shows how to use stories to improve the delivery process.What You'll LearnCraft stories to facilitate communication within the project team and with stakeholdersLeverage stories to identify problems and patterns, accelerate delivery, and communicate business valueApply storytelling techniques to all stages of the SDLCMarshal user stories to focus requirements gathering and ensure a consistent messageWho This Book Is ForAll SDLC and UX roles: product owners, customers, scrum masters, software developers, and UX designers 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Apply the Processing language to tasks involved in computer vision--tasks such as edge and corner detection, recognition of motion between frames in a video, recognition of objects, matching of feature points and shapes in different frames for tracking purposes, and more. You will manipulate images through creative effects, geometric transformation, blending of multiple images, and so forth. Examples are provided.Pro Processing for Images and Computer Vision with OpenCV is a step-by-step training tool that guides you through a series of worked examples in linear order. Each chapter begins with a basic demonstration, including the code to recreate it on your own system. Then comes a creative challenge by which to engage and develop mastery of the chapter's topic. The book also includes hints and tips relating to visual arts, interaction design, and industrial best practices.This book is intended for any developer ofartistic and otherwise visual applications, such as in augmented reality and digital effects, with a need to manipulate images, and to recognize and manipulate objects within those images. The book is specifically targeted at those making use of the Processing language that is common in artistic fields, and to Java programmers because of Processing's easy integration into the Java programming environment. What You'll LearnMake use of OpenCV, the open source library for computer vision in the Processing environmentCapture live video streams and examine them frame-by-frame for objects in motionRecognize shapes and objects through techniques of detecting lines, edges, corners, and moreTransform images by scaling, translating, rotating, and additionally through various distortion effectsApply techniques such as background subtraction to isolate motion of objects in live video streamsDetect and track human faces and other objects by matching feature points in different images or video framesWho This Book Is ForMedia artists, designers, and creative coders 293 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Build clustered and scalable Java-based, real-time applications using Spring Framework, Boot, WebSocket, Cassandra, Redis and RabbitMQ. In this book, you'll tie all this together with a dive-in case study, a real-time scalable chat application under differing scenarios. Pro Java Clustering and Scalability also discusses how to horizontally scale the WebSocket chat application using a full STOMP broker such as RabbitMQ. Although this is a programming book, it also discusses many interesting infrastructure topics and tips about continuous delivery, Docker, NoSQL (Cassandra and Redis) and other related technologies. What You Will LearnHandle clustering and scalability using various open source Java, microservices, and web services tools and technologiesUse Spring Framework, Boot, and other Spring technologiesIntegrate with Redis, RabbitMQ, Cassandra, NoSQL, and much moreTest the case study code under various scenarios and stressesWho This Book Is ForExperienced Java developers with at least some prior experience with Java, especially Spring Framework, Boot and other tools, and some web services. 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Read 25 in-depth, candid interviews with notable project managers. Discover how project managers work, what they do, how they adapt and make decisions, how they inspire and motivate others, what career lessons and advice they can share, and how they landed their current jobs either as project managers or in more senior positions thanks to their success as project managers. Most of the project managers featured in this book-together with a selection of program managers, executives, entrepreneurs, and CEOs with project management backgrounds and responsibilities-work in the technology sector, but many work in other industries, including banking and financial services, consulting, aerospace, energy, and transportation.Bruce Harpham, PMP-a project management career advisor and journalist-has chosen intervieweeswho range across the spectrum of company size and maturity and of individual career stages-from CEOs who were formerly project managers (such as Mavenlink's Ray Grainger); to founders of project management consulting firms (such as Tramore's Tom Atkins); to project managers at the world's leading tech giants (such as IBM's Bob Tarne, Google's Michael Lubrano, Apple's Seth J. Gillespie, and Cisco's Hassan Osman), in the space industry (such as NASA's David Woerner, Canadian Space Agency's Isabelle Tremblay and EUMETSAT's Hilary Wilson), in financial services (such as TD Bank's Ilana Sprongl and Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System's Annette Lyjak), and at transportation companies (such as Amtrak's Sarina Arcari).What You'll LearnPracticing project managers and engineers and graduates who aspire to become project managers will learn from the mouths of seasoned exponents at the top of their profession:Break into project management, cultivate leadership skills, and influence higher-upsWin assignments to manage career-advancing projects and ace deliveriesAvoid pitfalls and recover from operational failures and managerial mistakesManage the distractions and pressures of project work successfully while maintaining high moraleDiscover the books, courses, and development strategies they used to make it to the topWho This Book Is ForPracticing project managers-including the half million PMI members required to pursue continuing education to maintain certification. The secondary readership is engineers, career-changers, and recent graduates who aspire to become project managers. 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Develop applications in Microsoft Kinect 2 using gesture and speech recognition, scanning of objects in 3D, and body tracking. Create motion-sensing applications for entertainment and practical uses, including for commercial products and industrial applications.Beginning Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0 is dense with code and examples to ensure that you understand how to build Kinect applications that can be used in the real world. Techniques and ideas are presented to facilitate incorporation of the Kinect with other technologies.What You Will LearnSet up Kinect 2 and a workspace for Kinect application developmentAccess audio, color, infrared, and skeletal data streams from KinectUse gesture and speech recognitionPerform computer vision manipulations on image data streamsDevelop Windows Store apps and Unity3D applications with Kinect 2Take advantage of Kinect Fusion (3D object mapping technology) and Kinect Ripple (Kinect projector infotainment system)Who This Book Is ForDevelopers who want to include the simple but powerful Kinect technology into their projects, including amateurs and hobbyists, and professional developers 297 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Learn Docker 'infrastructure as code' technology to define a system for performing standard but non-trivial data tasks on medium- to large-scale data sets, using Jupyter as the master controller.It is not uncommon for a real-world data set to fail to be easily managed. The set may not fit well into access memory or may require prohibitively long processing. These are significant challenges to skilled software engineers and they can render the standard Jupyter system unusable. As a solution to this problem, Docker for Data Science proposes using Docker. You will learn how to use existing pre-compiled public images created by the major open-source technologies-Python, Jupyter, Postgres-as well as using the Dockerfile to extend these images to suit your specific purposes. The Docker-Compose technology is examined and you will learn how it can be used to build a linked system with Python churning data behind the scenes and Jupyter managing these background tasks. Best practices in using existing images are explored as well as developing your own images to deploy state-of-the-art machine learning and optimization algorithms.What You'll Learn Master interactive development using the Jupyter platformRun and build Docker containers from scratch and from publicly available open-source imagesWrite infrastructure as code using the docker-compose tool and its docker-compose.yml file typeDeploy a multi-service data science application across a cloud-based systemWho This Book Is ForData scientists, machine learning engineers, artificial intelligence researchers, Kagglers, and software developers 284 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Quickly ramp up your practical knowledge of Apache JMeter for software performance testing and focus on actual business problems. This step-by-step guide covers what you will need to know to write and execute test scripts, and verify the results.Pro Apache JMetercovers almost every aspect of Apache JMeter in detail and includes helpful screenshots and a case study. A performance primer chapter provides a high-level summary of terms used in performance testing on a day-to-day basis that also is useful for non-technical readers.A sample web application Digital Toys has been developed and test scripts are provided for you to try while progressing through the chapters.What You'll Learn Create and execute an Apache JMeter test plan Interpret the results of your test plan Understand distributed testing using Apache JMeter Use Apache JMeter advanced features such as JDBC, REST, FTP, AJAX, SOAP, and mobile performance testing Read a sample case study covering end-to-end planning and execution of a performance testing projectGenerate and analyze a performance dashboard Who This Book Is ForSoftware performance testing professionals, quality assurance professionals, architects, engineers, project managers, product managers 364 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Get up to speed with Clojure in this quick and practical primer. You'll learn the nuts and bolts of functional programming, data structures, sequences, destructuring, pattern matching, polymorphism, concurrency, conventions, and more. Author Mark McDonnell talks about organization with namespaces; how to change the language via macros; object-oriented programming; and creating command-line apps. Finally, he shows you how to write Clojure from shell languages and interfaces such as Vim.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Carry out the pre-planning, design, and programming of role playing games (RPGs) using the popular GameMaker: Studio in this very practical and fun book. Author Ben Tyers teaches you how to create a story or plotline for the RPG, apply aesthetics, and develop core and extended gameplay. UsingLearn RPGs in GameMaker: Studio, you can design and build your own RPG using the GameMaker: Studio platform. Build your first game application and deploy in an app store, on Facebook, or just on a PC. Maybe, even, make a few bucks. What You'll Learn Use the GameMaker: Studio platform to design and build a role playing game Create a story for game design purposes, using a plot line and defining characters Discover the impact of aesthetics on art style, character separation, scene development, sound design and views Master core gameplay elements such as battles, exploration, scoring, and endings Work with extended gameplay elements such as collectibles, quirks, management, and saving Employ the various core and extended gameplay elements as appropriate to your RPG Who This Book Is ForGame designers or developers looking to design and build their first role playing game using the GameMaker: Studio platform. 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Apply the Processing language to tasks involved in computer vision--tasks such as edge and corner detection, recognition of motion between frames in a video, recognition of objects, matching of feature points and shapes in different frames for tracking purposes, and more. You will manipulate images through creative effects, geometric transformation, blending of multiple images, and so forth. Examples are provided.Pro Processing for Images and Computer Vision with OpenCV is a step-by-step training tool that guides you through a series of worked examples in linear order. Each chapter begins with a basic demonstration, including the code to recreate it on your own system. Then comes a creative challenge by which to engage and develop mastery of the chapter's topic. The book also includes hints and tips relating to visual arts, interaction design, and industrial best practices.This book is intended for any developer ofartistic and otherwise visual applications, such as in augmented reality and digital effects, with a need to manipulate images, and to recognize and manipulate objects within those images. The book is specifically targeted at those making use of the Processing language that is common in artistic fields, and to Java programmers because of Processing's easy integration into the Java programming environment. What You'll LearnMake use of OpenCV, the open source library for computer vision in the Processing environmentCapture live video streams and examine them frame-by-frame for objects in motionRecognize shapes and objects through techniques of detecting lines, edges, corners, and moreTransform images by scaling, translating, rotating, and additionally through various distortion effectsApply techniques such as background subtraction to isolate motion of objects in live video streamsDetect and track human faces and other objects by matching feature points in different images or video framesWho This Book Is ForMedia artists, designers, and creative coders.