Beyond Bullet Points. Magia ukryta w Microsoft PowerPoint. Oczaruj słuchaczy i porwij ich do działania. Wydanie III

Cliff Atkinson

Po co tworzysz prezentacje multimedialne? Co planujesz przekazać? Co zamierzasz osiągnąć? Wyrzuć do kosza nudne, przegadane slajdy i wypełnij swoje wystąpienia pasją, werwą oraz genialnymi pomysłami, a Twoja publiczność Cię pokocha! Porzućcie skupione na lewej półkuli mózgu slajdy, od których pustoszeją sale konferencyjne - wykorzystajcie książkę Atkinsona, by zmienić swoją prezentację w PowerPoincie w arcydzieło. Daniel H. Pink Zamień PowerPoint w maszynkę do hipnotyzowania słuchaczy PowerPoint to potężne narzędzie, pomagające tworzyć prezentacje, motywować ludzi do działania, a nawet zmieniać ich sposób myślenia. A jednak większość prelegentów nie korzysta z tych niesamowitych możliwości - tworzą nudne, przegadane slajdy, na których prym wiodą niekończące się punktowane listy. Chcesz wyjść przed szereg i nauczyć się, jak tworzyć fascynujące prezentacje, o których ludzie będą rozmawiać jeszcze przez długie tygodnie? Czas na przekroczenie magicznej granicy, pozwalającej Ci zostawić daleko za sobą konkurencję, dzielącą włos na czworo i rozprawiającą godzinami przed rzędami znudzonych, zaspanych słuchaczy. Poznaj genialną metodę realizowania porywających wystąpień, która zrewolucjonizuje sposób używania Microsoft PowerPointa. Metoda BBP (Beyond Bullet Points, dosłownie "coś więcej niż podpunkty") przydaje się w najrozmaitszych sytuacjach. Pomoże Ci zorganizować oraz ułatwi rozmowę z publicznością. Wyjaśni też, jak, gdzie i dlaczego warto używać PowerPointa. Pokaże Ci, jak myśleć o czymś więcej niż podpunkty - i zwiększać skuteczność przekazu. Trzecie wydanie tej popularnej książki rzuca światło na innowacyjną metodologię krok po kroku. Wydobądź wreszcie niesamowitą historię, ukrytą w Twoich slajdach. Specjalista od komunikacji, Cliff Atkinson pokazuje, jak zastosować klasyczne zasady opowiadania historii i praktyczne, sprawdzone naukowo metody pracy z PowerPointem, aby stworzyć zapadający w pamięć, wymowny przekaz. Zmień swoje podejście - i uzyskaj zupełnie nowe rezultaty! Odkryj sztukę kierowania uwagą słuchaczy Prezentuj swoje treści na ścianie, laptopie i tablecie Motywuj słuchaczy i apeluj do ich emocji Naucz się planować kanały wizualny i werbalny Zobacz, kiedy i jak stosować elementy graficzne Przyciągaj uwagę za pomocą słowa Cliff Atkinson - to ceniony autor, popularny prelegent i niezależny konsultant, współpracujący z czołowymi prawnikami oraz firmami z listy Fortune 500. Zaprojektował "przerażająco potężne" (według magazynu "Fortune") prezentacje, które przekonały przysięgłych do przyznania wartego 253 miliony dolarów odszkodowania powódce w pierwszej rozprawie dotyczącej leku Vioxx w roku 2005. Bestseller Beyond Bullet Points został okrzyknięty najlepszą książką roku 2007 przez redaktorów Amazon.com i doczekał się trzech wydań oraz tłumaczeń na kilkanaście języków, w tym chiński, koreański i rosyjski. Książka ta rozwija podejście komunikacyjne, którego autor uczył w wielu krajach, najlepszych firmach prawniczych, agencjach rządowych, szkołach biznesowych i korporacjach, takich jak Sony, Toyota, Nestlé, Nokia, Deloitte, Facebook, Intel, GE, Amerykańskie Stowarzyszenie Prawników czy Międzynarodowy Trybunał Karny ONZ.

Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II. Maximize the potential of Bootstrap for faster and more responsive web applications

Matt Lambert

Bootstrap is the most popular open source project on GitHub today. With a little bit of know-how, this massively popular CSS framework can leveraged for any type of complex web application or website. Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II will teach you to build these types of projects in an easy-to-understand fashion.The key to any complex Bootstrap project is a strong development foundation for your project. The book will first teach you how to build a Bootstrap development environment using Harp.js, Node, and Less. In the next chapters, we’ll build on this foundation by creating restaurant and mobile-first aggregator projects. Once you’re warmed up, we’ll move on to more complex projects such as a wiki, a new magazine, a dashboard, and finally a social networking website. Whether you are brand new to Bootstrap or a seasoned expert, this book will provide you with the skills you need to successfully create a number of popular web applications and websites.

Buduję swoją pierwszą drukarkę 3D

Szymon Terczyński, Damian Gąsiorek, Marek Smyczek, Grzegorz Kądzielawski

Książka Buduję swoją pierwszą drukarkę 3D skierowana jest dla osób, które chcą poglądowo zapoznać się z technologiami przyrostowymi, a w szczególności technologią FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling), poznać historię technologii przyrostowych na świecie, a także dowiedzieć się jak można zbudować własną i tanią drukarkę 3D. Nie jest to podręcznik teoretyczny, skupiający się na szczegółowym opisie każdej technologii czy też współczesnej drukarki. Stanowi natomiast pełny, praktyczny przewodnik, opisujący proces budowy i użytkowania drukarek 3D na przykładzie modelu Prusa i3. Zawiera także instrukcję montażu niecodziennego projektu drukarki 3D z odzyskanych, starych napędów CD ROM.   Książka ta, to również dowód i przykład jak obecnie wygląda współpraca uczelni wyższej z wybranymi szkołami średnimi (Zespół Szkół Nr1 z Piekar Śląskich oraz Śląskie Techniczne Zakłady Naukowe z Katowic). Współpraca szkół średnich z pracownikami Politechniki Śląskiej to dowód na wspieranie młodych talentów, a owocem tego jest między innymi budowa własnych drukarek, czyli urządzeń mechatronicznych, łączących konstrukcję, napędy i sterowanie. Tematyka związana z drukiem 3D jest jednym z filarów przemysłu 4.0 i coraz więcej firm poszukuje osób, które potrafią drukować modele przestrzenne. Autorzy tej książki to zespół międzypokoleniowy i interdyscyplinarny. Utalentowany uczeń Śląskich Technicznych Zakładów Naukowych z Katowic, Szymon Terczyński i jego nauczyciel mgr inż. Marek Smyczek. Pracownik Politechniki Śląskiej, również mentor i opiekun naukowy Szymona, dr hab. inż. Damian Gąsiorek prof. PŚ. Ważnym ogniwem łączącym przemysł z edukacją jest otoczenie społeczno gospodarcze, które reprezentuje wiceprezes zarządu Grupy Azoty S.A. dr Grzegorz Kądzielawski.

Building AI Applications with ChatGPT APIs. Master ChatGPT, Whisper, and DALL-E APIs by building ten innovative AI projects

Martin Yanev

Combining ChatGPT APIs with Python opens doors to building extraordinary AI applications. By leveraging these APIs, you can focus on the application logic and user experience, while ChatGPT’s robust NLP capabilities handle the intricacies of human-like text understanding and generation.This book is a guide for beginners to master the ChatGPT, Whisper, and DALL-E APIs by building ten innovative AI projects. These projects offer practical experience in integrating ChatGPT with frameworks and tools such as Flask, Django, Microsoft Office APIs, and PyQt.Throughout this book, you’ll get to grips with performing NLP tasks, building a ChatGPT clone, and creating an AI-driven code bug fixing SaaS application. You’ll also cover speech recognition, text-to-speech functionalities, language translation, and generation of email replies and PowerPoint presentations. This book teaches you how to fine-tune ChatGPT and generate AI art using DALL-E APIs, and then offers insights into selling your apps by integrating ChatGPT API with Stripe. With practical examples available on GitHub, the book gradually progresses from easy to advanced topics, cultivating the expertise required to develop, deploy, and monetize your own groundbreaking applications by harnessing the full potential of ChatGPT APIs.

Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce. Transform your WordPress website into a fully-featured e-commerce store with the power of WooCommerce - Second Edition

Robbert Ravensbergen

Building an online store is often considered to be a difficult, complex task. Using the combination of WordPress and the WooCommerce plugin, this is no longer the case. WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce platform for WordPress and is being rapidly developed by WooThemes. It provides a strong e-commerce solution to set up your own online store in just a couple of hours.This easy and practical book will help you make the most of WooCommerce to be able to set up and run your online store yourself. Installing WooCommerce is an easy task, but this book will explain in detail all the possible settings. After that you'll be adding products, different payment methods, and shipping solutions to your store. You will then customize your store by adding themes to change the look and feel. Once your store is running, you'll learn how to use discount coupons, process your orders, look at reports, and even expand the functionality further with additional plugins.By the end of the book, you will learn everything you need to add a fully functional online store to you WordPress website and start running an online business.

Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero. Click here to enter text

Marco Schwartz

The release of the Raspberry Pi Zero has completely amazed the tech community. With the price, form factor, and being high on utility—the Raspberry Pi Zero is the perfect companion to support home automation projects and makes IoT even more accessible.With this book, you will be able to create and program home automation projects using the Raspberry Pi Zero board. The book will teach you how to build a thermostat that will automatically regulate the temperature in your home. Another important topic in home automation is controlling electrical appliances, and you will learn how to control LED Lights, lamps, and other electrical applications. Moving on, we will build a smart energy meter that can measure the power of the appliance, and you’ll learn how to switch it on and off. You’ll also see how to build simple security system, composed of alarms, a security camera, and motion detectors. At the end, you will integrate everything what you learned so far into a more complex project to automate the key aspects of your home.By the end, you will have deepened your knowledge of the Raspberry Pi Zero, and will know how to build autonomous home automation projects.

ChatGPT Prompts Book - Precision Prompts, Priming, Training & AI Writing Techniques for Mortals. Crafting Precision Prompts and Exploring AI Writing with ChatGPT

Oliver Theobald

The course embarks on an enlightening journey through the world of ChatGPT, starting from the very basics of understanding what ChatGPT is, to delving deep into the mechanics of crafting precision prompts that unlock its full potential. From the outset, you'll be introduced to the foundational elements that make ChatGPT an indispensable tool for a wide range of applications, setting the stage for a comprehensive exploration of its capabilities.As we progress, the course meticulously unfolds the layers of prompt writing techniques, priming strategies, and training methodologies that are designed to enhance your interaction with AI. You'll learn how to craft prompts for common use cases, navigate the nuances of content creation, translation tasks, and personalized tutoring, all while leveraging ChatGPT's advanced AI art capabilities.The course culminates by focusing on practical applications and exploring advanced prompt training and role prompting techniques. This final stretch is designed to solidify your understanding and empower you with the confidence to employ ChatGPT across various scenarios, from professional content writing to creative explorations.

Chef: Powerful Infrastructure Automation. Deploy software, manage hosts, and scale your infrastructure with Chef

Matthias Marschall, John Ewart, Earl Waud

Chef is a configuration management tool that turns IT infrastructure into code. Chef provides tools to manage systems at scale. This learning path takes you on a comprehensive tour of Chef's functionality, ranging from its core features to advanced development. You will be brought up to speed with what's new in Chef and how to set up your own Chef infrastructure for individuals, or small or large teams. You will learn to use the basic Chef command-line tools. We will also take you through the core concepts of managing users, applications, and your entire cloud infrastructure. You will learn the techniques of the pros by walking you through a host of step-by-step guides to solve real-world infrastructure automation challenges.You will learn to automate and document every aspect of your network, from the hardware to software, middleware, and all your containers. You will become familiar with the Chef'sProvisioning tool. By the end of this course, you will be confident in how to manage your infrastructure, scale using the cloud, and extend the built-in functionality of Chef itself.The books used in this Learning Path are:1) Chef Essentials2)Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook – Second Edition3)Mastering Chef Provisioning

Clean Code in PHP. Expert tips and best practices to write beautiful, human-friendly, and maintainable PHP

Carsten Windler, Alexandre Daubois

PHP is a beginner-friendly language, but also one that is rife with complaints of bad code,;yet no clean code books are specific to PHP. Enter Clean Code in PHP. This book is a one-stop guide to learning the theory and best practices of clean code specific to real-world PHP app development environments.This PHP book is cleanly split to help you navigate through coding practices and theories to understand and adopt the nuances of the clean code paradigm. In addition to covering best practices, tooling for code quality, and PHP design patterns, this book also presents tips and techniques for working on large-scale PHP apps with a team and writing effective documentation for your PHP projects.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to write human-friendly PHP code, which will fuel your PHP career growth and set you apart from the competition.

Cloud Forensics Demystified. Decoding cloud investigation complexities for digital forensic professionals

Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Mansoor Haqanee

As organizations embrace cloud-centric environments, it becomes imperative for security professionals to master the skills of effective cloud investigation. Cloud Forensics Demystified addresses this pressing need, explaining how to use cloud-native tools and logs together with traditional digital forensic techniques for a thorough cloud investigation. The book begins by giving you an overview of cloud services, followed by a detailed exploration of the tools and techniques used to investigate popular cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Progressing through the chapters, you’ll learn how to investigate Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and containerized environments such as Kubernetes. Throughout, the chapters emphasize the significance of the cloud, explaining which tools and logs need to be enabled for investigative purposes and demonstrating how to integrate them with traditional digital forensic tools and techniques to respond to cloud security incidents. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to handle security breaches in cloud-based environments and have a comprehensive understanding of the essential cloud-based logs vital to your investigations. This knowledge will enable you to swiftly acquire and scrutinize artifacts of interest in cloud security incidents.

Cocos2d Cross-Platform Game Development Cookbook. Develop games for iOS and Android using Cocos2d with the aid of over 70 step-by-step recipes - Second Edition

Siddharth Shekar, Raydelto Hernandez

Cocos2d is the world’s leading game development framework for developing iOS games. With the introduction of Swift and Spritebuilder, it has become easier than ever to develop the games of your dreams without much effort. With Cocos2d, you can also deploy the game on Android, thereby maximizing profit and reducing development and porting costs.The book starts off with a detailed look at how to implement sprites and animations into your game to make it livelier. You will then learn to add scenes to the game such as the gameplay scene and options scene and create menus and buttons in these scenes, as well as creating transitions between them. From there on, you will get an understanding of how to program user interactions such as tapping, holding, and swiping. You’ll then add accelerometer inputs and physics to the scene, and make objects respond back to the inputs. A game is practically incomplete without audio being added, so this will be covered next. The next section will include ways to add Artificial Intelligence to enemies in the game, allowing them to patrol, chase, and shoot in a projectile manner. You will then learn to use NSUserDefault to save and load game progress, and create and access files using JSON, Plist, and XML files for custom storage and retrieval of data. Then you will learn to add dynamic lighting to your game and will use industry-wide tools such as Texture Packer, Glyph Designer, Physics Editor, Particle Designer, and Sprite Illuminator to create more visually appealing and performance-optimized games.Towards the end of the book, we dive into Apple’s latest programming language—Swift, highlighting the major differences between Objective C and Swift. The book culminates with taking your existing game developed for iOS and porting it to Android, showing you how to install the Android Xcode plugin as well.

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook. Practical recipes to harness the power of Drupal for building digital experiences and dynamic websites - Third Edition

Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen

This new and improved third edition cookbook is packed with the latest Drupal 10 features such as a new, flexible default frontend theme - Olivero, and improved administrative experience with a new theme - Claro. This comprehensive recipe book provides updated content on the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing experience, improved core code performance, and code cleanup.Drupal 10 Development Cookbook begins by helping you create and manage a Drupal site. Next, you’ll get acquainted with configuring the content structure and editing content. You’ll also get to grips with all new updates of this edition, such as creating custom pages, accessing and working with entities, running and writing tests with Drupal, migrating external data into Drupal, and turning Drupal into an API platform. As you advance, you’ll learn how to customize Drupal’s features with out-of-the-box modules, contribute extensions, and write custom code to extend Drupal.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create and manage Drupal sites, customize them to your requirements, and build custom code to deliver your projects.

Drupal 10 Module Development. Develop and deliver engaging and intuitive enterprise-level apps - Fourth Edition

Daniel Sipos

Embark on a journey of Drupal module development with the latest edition of this must-have guide written by Daniel Sipos – a Drupal community member! This fourth edition is meticulously revised to cover the latest Drupal 10 enhancements that will help you build custom Drupal modules with an understanding of code deprecations, changing architecture, data modeling, multilingual ecosystem, and so on.You’ll begin with understanding the core components of Drupal 10 architecture, discovering its subsystems and unlocking the secrets of creating your first Drupal module. Further, you'll delve into Drupal logging and mailing systems, creating theme hooks, and rendering a layout. As you progress, you'll work with different types of data storage, custom entities, field types, and work with Database APIs for lower-level database queries. You'll learn to reap the power of JavaScript and ensure that your code works seamlessly on multilingual sites. You'll also learn to create custom views, automate tests for your functionalities, and write secure code for your Drupal apps.By the end of this book, you'll have gained confidence in developing complex modules that can solve even the most complex business problems and might even become a valuable contributor to the Drupal community!

Drupal 7 Multi Sites Configuration. Run multiple websites from a single instance of Drupal 7 with this book and

Matt Butcher

Drupal is one of the most powerful PHP Content Management Systems there is. However, why would you install a CMS for every site you build? With just one copy of Drupal you can host several sites. Drupal has long had multi-site support, and Drupal 7's support is even better than previous versions. Drupal 7 Multi-Sites Configuration will teach you how to host several websites on a single copy of Drupal. You will learn how to create different sites, each with its own domain, content, and theme. This valuable information will help you to save time by managing modules and sharing them across several sites as well as administering your sites all in one place.This book will show you how to configure a system for multi-site, and then install several sites on one copy of Drupal, all with their own domain name and database. Learn how to install and share modules and themes, configure Apache, PHP, and MySQL for multi-site, and then manage the site. Once your site system is successfully set up, discover some of the advanced configurations possible with Drupal multi-site, as well as how to upgrade and maintain your sites.

Drupal 8: Enterprise Web Development. Build, manage, extend, and customize Drupal 8 websites

Matt Glaman, Richard Jones, Chaz Chumley, Nick Abbott

This Drupal 8 course takes you through the journey of building, extending, and customizing websites to build highly scalable and enterprise-ready websites.The first part—Learning Drupal 8—takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. You will start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then we move on to image and media handling and extending Drupal modules. This section will help you get to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and you’ll learn how to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. After learning to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal 8, you’ll start exploring different techniques to take advantage of the new Drupal 8 features. The next module—Drupal 8 Development Cookbook—is your go-to guide to experimenting with all of Drupal 8’s features through helpful recipes. You will explore techniques to customize and configure the Drupal environment, create blocks and custom modules, as well as make your web apps responsive by harnessing the mobile-first feature of Drupal 8. This module will also show you how to incorporate multilingual facilities in your sites, use web services and third-party plugins with your applications from inside Drupal 8, and test and deploy your apps. In the third part—Drupal 8 Theming with Twig—you will master Drupal 8’s new Twig templating engine to customize the look and feel of your website. This section will walk you through a real-world project to create a Twig theme from concept to completion while adopting best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. You will see just how quick and easy it is to create beautiful, responsive Drupal 8 websites while avoiding the common mistakes that many front-end developers make. By the end, you will have learned how to develop, manage, extend, and customize an enterprise-level website.This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: • Learning Drupal 8 by Nick Abbott and Richard Jones • Drupal 8 Development Cookbook by Matt Glaman• Drupal 8 Theming with Twig by Chaz Chumley

Drupal 8 Theming with Twig. Master Drupal 8’s new Twig templating engine to create fun and fast websites with simple steps to help you move from concept to completion

Chaz Chumley

Drupal 8 is an open source content management system and powerful framework that helps deliver great websites to individuals and organizations, including non-profits, commercial, and government around the globe. This new release has been built on top of object-oriented PHP and includes more than a handful of improvements such as a better user experience, cleaner HTML5 markup, a new templating engine called Twig, multilingual capabilities, new configuration management, and effortless content authoring. Drupal 8 will quickly become the new standard for deploying content to both the web and mobile applications. However, with so many new changes, it can quickly become overwhelming knowing where to start and how to quickly.Starting from the bottom up, we will install, set up, and configure Drupal 8. We’ll navigate the Admin interface so you can learn how to work with core themes and create new custom block layouts. Walk through a real-world project to create a Twig theme from concept to completion while adopting best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. We will see just how quick and easy it is to create beautiful, responsive Drupal 8 websites while avoiding the common mistakes that many front-end developers make.