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Adil Zafar, Dharma Alturi, Sanket Taur, Mihir...
If you’re unsure whether adopting SAP S/4HANA is the right move for your enterprise, then this book is for you. This practical and comprehensive guide will help you determine your next steps toward building a business case, while preparing you for all the possible scenarios and enabling you to make informed decisions during implementation. RISEwith SAP toward a Sustainable Enterprise is packed with clear and detailed advice, including a run-through of what it takes to design the landscape using RISE with SAP. As you go through the chapters, you’ll get a solid understanding of precisely what services are available (such as Process Discovery, data migration, the fit-to-standard approach), and which scope items on RISE with SAP should be considered, allowing you to make the most of RISE with the SAP-based model. Finally, you’ll get an overview of different industry-based use cases and how they can be brought to reality with the platform that’s set up on the RISE with SAP offering. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build a detailed business case to determine if RISE with SAP is the right transformation engine for you, along with a clear idea of optimized landscape design on RISE with SAP that addresses the pain points for your implementation and support activities.
Robot Framework Test Automation. Create test suites and automated acceptance tests from scratch
Sumit Bisht
Testing has traditionally been a part of software development, and has always involved a lot of manual effort. It can be automated with Robot Framework, which offers numerous benefits from cost saving to increased quality assurance in the software delivery. This book will help you to start designing test suites and Automated Acceptance Tests.Helping you to get started with automating acceptance tests, this book will provide a detailed overview of acceptance test management practices and principles. You will also be introduced to advanced techniques that you can use to customize the test suite, along with helpful tips and tricks to extend and leverage it in a wide variety of scenarios.Starting with a detailed explanation of the need for automated acceptance test driven development, this guide will help you with an empty test project creation and execution for proof of concept, and validation of installation. This book will also cover the Robot Framework in detail, and will help you test desktop applications using Java Swing. You will gain an in-depth knowledge of tricky activities, such as setting up a test environment and using it with Selenium.You will also learn about other popular libraries, and how to test network protocols, web services, and databases. This book will cover the entire Robot Framework with real- world practical material to make its content informative and interesting.By the end of this book you will be able to write acceptance tests for desktop and web applications, as well as know how to extend acceptance testing in other scenarios that are commonly devoid of tests, and present the results appropriately.
Danny Staple
The field of robotics is expanding, and this is the perfect time to learn how to create robots at home for different purposes. This book will help you take your first steps in planning, building, and programming a robot with Raspberry Pi Pico, an impressive controller bursting with I/O capabilities. After a quick tour of Pico, you’ll begin designing a robot chassis in 3D CAD. With easy-to-follow instructions, shopping lists, and plans, you’ll start building the robot. Further, you’ll add simple sensors and outputs to extend the robot, reinforce your design skills, and build your knowledge in programming with CircuitPython. You’ll also learn about interactions with electronics, standard robotics algorithms, and the discipline and process for building robots. Moving forward, you’ll learn how to add more complicated sensors and robotic behaviors, with increasing complexity levels, giving you hands-on experience. You’ll learn about Raspberry Pi Pico’s excellent features, such as PIO, adding capabilities such as avoiding walls, detecting movement, and compass headings. You’ll combine these with Bluetooth BLE for seeing sensor data and remotely controlling your robot with a smartphone. Finally, you’ll program the robot to find its location in an arena.By the end of this book, you’ll have built a robot at home, and be well equipped to build more with different levels of complexity.
Rick Waldron, Backstop Media (lista współautorów w...
Powszechnie JavaScript uważa się za doskonałe narzędzie do programowania aplikacji internetowych. To jednak nie wszystko: ten język świetnie nadaje się również do programowania robotów. Umożliwia zaprojektowanie zachowania robota, określenie, w jaki sposób będzie on zmierzał do celu, reagował na sygnały z otoczenia, oczekiwał na instrukcje czy omijał przeszkody. Bardzo wygodnym narzędziem do programowania robotów jest platforma Johnny-Five. Umożliwia ona programowanie robotów zbudowanych z płytek Arduino, Raspberry Pi i BeagleBone. Dzięki tej książce można nauczyć się budowania i programowania robotów o najrozmaitszej funkcjonalności i wielu zastosowaniach. Do jej napisania Rick Waldron zaprosił czternastu mistrzów JS — inżynierów, nauczycieli, popularyzatorów i liderów. Dowiesz się od nich, w jaki sposób zbudować poszczególne elementy robota, jakie części zastosować i jak napisać potrzebny kod. Podpowiedzą Ci, jak przygotować sobie warsztat pracy oraz zdobyć potrzebne materiały. Znajdziesz tu mnóstwo wskazówek pomocnych przy planowaniu, budowie i testowaniu już istniejących projektów. Poszczególne zadania zostały tak dobrane, aby po ich wykonaniu można było zabrać się za trudniejsze projekty, o wyższym stopniu złożoności. Zbuduj i zaprogramuj: roboty kroczące, piszące, pływające, a nawet tańczące domowy zegar słoneczny robota sterowanego głosem robota do sterowania oświetleniem system monitoringu robota ze sztuczną inteligencją robota delta interaktywne buty
Danny Staple
Dziedzina robotyki rozrasta się i mamy teraz idealny moment, aby nauczyć się, jak tworzyć w domu roboty o różnym przeznaczeniu. Książka ta pomoże w podjęciu pierwszych kroków do planowania, budowy i programowania robota za pomocą Raspberry Pi Pico, robiącym wrażenie kontrolerze o ogromnym potencjale wejścia/wyjścia (I/O). Po krótkim przeglądzie Pico zaczniemy projektować korpus robota za pomocą narzędzia CAD 3D. Mając do dyspozycji proste do śledzenia instrukcje, listę zakupów i plany, zaczniecie budowę robota. Następnie dodacie proste czujniki i wyjścia, aby rozszerzyć działanie robota, podbudować swoje umiejętności projektowania i zdobyć wiedzę o programowaniu w języku CircuitPython. Dowiecie się także o interakcji z elektroniką, standardowych algorytmów robotyki oraz dyscypliny i procedur budowy robotów. Przechodząc dalej dowiecie się, jak dodawać bardziej skomplikowane czujniki i zachowania robota, na coraz wyższych poziomach złożoności, uzyskując praktyczne doświadczenia. Poznacie wspaniałe cechy Raspberry Pi Pico, jak PIO, dodawanie takich możliwości, jak unikanie ścian, wykrywanie ruchu i zrozumienie nagłówków. Połączycie to z Bluetooth BLE, aby oglądać dane z czujników i zdalnie kontrolować robota za pomocą smartfonu. Wreszcie zaprogramujecie robota, aby znajdować jego położenie na arenie. Kończąc tę książkę będziecie mieli zbudowanego samodzielnie robota i będziecie dobrze przygotowani do budowy innych o różnym stopniu złożoności. Czego się nauczycie? Interfejsu Raspberry Pi Pico z motorem do poruszania częściami Projektowania w CAD 3D za pomocą Free CAD Budowy prostego robota i rozszerzania na coraz bardziej złożone projekty Interfejsu Raspberry Pi Pico z czujnikami Bluetooth BLE Wizualizacji danych z pracy robota za pomocą MatPliotlib Algorytmów robotyki pozwalających na inteligentne zachowanie
Marcio Morales
Windows applications are everywhere, from basic intranet applications to high-traffic public APIs. Their prevalence underscores the importance of combining the same tools and experience for managing a modern containerized application with existing critical Windows applications to reduce costs, achieve outstanding operational excellence, and modernize quickly. This comprehensive guide to running and managing Windows containers on AWS looks at the best practices from years of customer interactions to help you stay ahead of the curve.Starting with Windows containers basics, you’ll learn about the architecture design that powers Amazon ECS, EKS, and AWS Fargate for Windows containers. With the help of examples and best practices, you’ll explore in depth how to successfully run and manage Amazon ECS, EKS, and AWS Fargate clusters with Windows containers support. Next, the book covers day 2 operations in detail, from logging and monitoring to using ancillary AWS tools that fully containerize existing legacy .NET Framework applications into containers without any code changes. The book also covers the most common Windows container operations, such as image lifecycle and working with ephemeral hosts.By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered how to run Windows containers on AWS and be ready to start your modernization journey confidently.
Maxwell Flitton
Are safety and high performance a big concern for you while developing web applications?With this practical Rust book, you’ll discover how you can implement Rust on the web to achieve the desired performance and security as you learn techniques and tooling to build fully operational web apps.In this second edition, you’ll get hands-on with implementing emerging Rust web frameworks, including Actix, Rocket, and Hyper. It also features HTTPS configuration on AWS when deploying a web application and introduces you to Terraform for automating the building of web infrastructure on AWS. What’s more, this edition also covers advanced async topics. Built on the Tokio async runtime, this explores TCP and framing, implementing async systems with the actor framework, and queuing tasks on Redis to be consumed by a number of worker nodes. Finally, you’ll go over best practices for packaging Rust servers in distroless Rust Docker images with database drivers, so your servers are a total size of 50Mb each.By the end of this book, you’ll have confidence in your skills to build robust, functional, and scalable web applications from scratch.
Karen Fredricks, Roy Laudenslager
Sage ACT! is the top selling CRM software application, and it helps businesses to centralize contact information, organize their calendars and notes, and ultimately maximize contact relationships to optimize business efficiency and profitability. In ACT! 2011, a variety of new dashboards and reports are available for producing graphical representations of client information and for measuring the success of your sales force.This cookbook is full of practical and immediately applicable recipes that will take you from being an ACT! report and dashboard novice to a report-writing pro in no time. The recipes will show you how to create custom dashboards and reports, as well as utilize the new templates available in recent ACT! versions. You will learn to use ACT!'s Report Editor and Dashboard Designer so that you will be able to easily view important information about your business and your sales force.The recipes begin by covering the most basic elements of the ACT! reports and continue to include several recipes that will guide you through creating brand-new reports. If you have an ACT! database, you need to be able to access it quickly and logically; this book will help you do just that.
Alan Mark Berg, Ian Dolphin, Sakai Foundation,...
Sakai is a Collaboration and Learning environment that provides the means to manage users, courses, instructors, and facilities, as well as a spectrum of tools including assessment, grading, and messaging. Sakai is loaded with many handy features and tools, which make it uniquely the Learning system of the present as well as the future.This book is the officially endorsed Sakai guide and is an update to the previous book, Sakai Courseware Management: The Official Guide. From setting up and running Sakai for the first time to creatively using its tools and features, this book delivers everything you need to know.Written by Alan Berg, a Sakai fellow and former Quality Assurance Director of the Sakai Foundation and Ian Dolphin the Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation with significant contributions from the Sakai community, Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide is a comprehensive study of how Sakai CLE should be used, managed, and maintained, with real world examples and practical explanations.The book opens with an overview of Sakai, its history and how to set up a demonstration version. Next, the underlying structures and tools are described. In using Sakai for Teaching and Collaboration, there is a detailed discussion of how to structure online courses for teaching and collaboration between groups of students, from creating course sites to understanding their use in different organizations around the world.
Kristian Margaryan Jorgensen, Tameem Bahri
With ever-growing digital transformation programs involving Salesforce, there is a greater need for a comprehensive overview of the phases and activities specific to Salesforce implementations. This book will act as a detailed guide for your Salesforce implementation journey, including common issues and pitfalls to mitigate and prevent errors.The Salesforce End-to-End Implementation Handbook starts with the pre-development phase. Here you’ll understand how to define the vision and nature of your project, determine your change management strategy and delivery methodology, learn to build a business case for your project, get insights on engaging with Salesforce and implementation partners, and learn to establish a governance framework.As you progress, you’ll gain insights on the necessary activities, milestones, and common issues faced in Salesforce implementation, along with strategies to mitigate them. At the end of each section, you’ll find evaluation checklists to assess the state of your Salesforce implementation.By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to set up Salesforce projects and programs effectively and deliver maximum ROI.
Sebastian Kiek
Na wielu forach internetowych znajdziemy wpisy o tematyce: Pomocy! Mój laptop nie działa! Co robić ! Niniejsza publikacja zawiera wskazówki pozwalające na samodzielną diagnostykę, a w wielu przypadkach także sposoby naprawy nie wymagające specjalistycznego sprzętu. Nie znajdziesz tu porad typu „włóż płytę do piekarnika”, „potraktuj chip opalarką lub palnikiem”. Tego typu metody popularne np. na YouTube często powodują nieodwracalne uszkodzenia płyty głównej. Nawet jeśli taka „naprawa” przyniesie skutek – będzie on krótkotrwały. Nie wszystkie naprawy mogą być wykonywane bez specjalistycznego sprzętu. Często jednak wystarczą podstawowe narzędzia. W niniejszej publikacji omawiane będą przede wszystkim takie przypadki. Usterki płyty głównej zostały szerzej omówione w ebooku: „Diagnostyka i naprawa płyt głównych laptopów. Podstawy, metody, przykłady”. Osoby zainteresowane tym tematem zapraszam do lektury. Dla kogo przeznaczona jest ta książka? Zarówno dla osób chcących poznać podstawy budowy, diagnostyki i naprawy laptopów, jak i rozwiązać konkretny problem ze swoim laptopem.
Wolfgang Niefert
SAP Business ONE brings the power of the SAP ERP platform to small and mid-size companies. It offers fast-growing companies the same ERP capabilities used in world-wide conglomerates and major corporations. SAP Business ONE is powerful, and to fully harness it takes careful planning.This book will provide you with a guide to install and implement SAP B1 in your business. It starts with the basic tasks of installing and configuring, but moves at a fast pace and goes on to cover topics such as advanced CRM, e-commerce, and modern Distribution Center configurations for inventory optimization and Warehouse Management.The book is divided into two main sections. The case study starts out in section one with an ad-hoc implementation of a simple Lemonade Stand business. This section is focused on getting SAP B1 up and running quickly. In the second section the Ad-Hoc Implementation is taken to the next level , and we professionally expand this idea and develop a Beverage Distribution Center with outsourced production. This includes advanced inventory optimization. The workflow is optimized using existing functionality and also using Add-Ons to expand the standard functionality and transform the generic SAP Business ONE business engine into an Industry Solution.The book is full of examples with detailed step-by-step explanations. We will be implementing a complete SAP Business System including add-ons as part of a case study.Finally we connect SAP to the Web and introduce a solution that presents SAP features in a web interface with real-time integration. The book is completed with a chapter focusing on growth. Franchise architecture for SAP Business ONE is introduced and applied to the case study to help you learn how to get started with this.Each chapter has a section that assists you with applying knowledge for your own project. You will have your business set up and ready to go by the time you complete this book.
Xavier Jean-Marie Hacking, David Lai, XJ Hacking
Xcelsius 2008 was recently included in SAP’s BusinessObjects 4.0 family, rebranding “Xcelsius Enterprise” as “SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0”. With features like flexible design and what-if scenarios, the powerful dashboarding software allows enterprises to make business decisions at a glance, and this book allows you to go far beyond the basics of these techniques. This cookbook full of practical and applicable recipes will enable you to use the full latest capabilities of Dashboard Design to visually transform your business data. A wide range of recipes will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to perform tasks like configuring charts, creating drill- downs, making component colors dynamic, using alerts in maps, building pop-up screens, setting up What-If scenarios, and many more.The recipes begin by covering best practices for using the Dashboard Design spreadsheet, the data-model, and the connection with the components on the canvas, later moving on to some from-the-trenches tricks for using Excel within Dashboard Design. The book then guides you through the exploration of various data visualization components and dashboard interactivity, as well as offering recipes on using alerts, dashboard connectivity, and making the most of the aesthetics of the dashboard. Finally, the recipes conclude by considering the most important add-ons available for Dashboard Design and enabling you to perform relevant and useful tasks straight away.
Scala Design Patterns. Write efficient, clean, and reusable code with Scala
Ivan Nikolov
Scala has become increasingly popular in many different IT sectors. The language is exceptionally feature-rich which helps developers write less code and get faster results. Design patterns make developer’s lives easier by helping them write great software that is easy to maintain, runs efficiently and is valuable to the company or people concerned.You will learn about the various features of Scala and be able to apply well-known, industry-proven design patterns in your work. The book starts off by focusing on some of the most interesting features of Scala while using practical real-world examples. We will also cover the popular Gang of Four design patterns and show you how to incorporate functional patterns effectively. By the end of this book, you will have enough knowledge and understanding to quickly assess problems and come up with elegant solutions.
Vytautas Jancauskas
Scala is a statically typed, Java Virtual Machine (JVM)-based language with strong support for functional programming. There exist libraries for Scala that cover a range of common scientific computing tasks – from linear algebra and numerical algorithms to convenient and safe parallelization to powerful plotting facilities. Learning to use these to perform common scientific tasks will allow you to write programs that are both fast and easy to write and maintain.We will start by discussing the advantages of using Scala over other scientific computing platforms. You will discover Scala packages that provide the functionality you have come to expect when writing scientific software. We will explore using Scala's Breeze library for linear algebra, optimization, and signal processing. We will then proceed to the Saddle library for data analysis. If you have experience in R or with Python's popular pandas library you will learn how to translate those skills to Saddle. If you are new to data analysis, you will learn basic concepts of Saddle as well. Well will explore the numerical computing environment called ScalaLab. It comes bundled with a lot of scientific software readily available. We will use it for interactive computing, data analysis, and visualization. In the following chapters, we will explore using Scala's powerful parallel collections for safe and convenient parallel programming. Topics such as the Akka concurrency framework will be covered. Finally, you will learn about multivariate data visualization and how to produce professional-looking plots in Scala easily. After reading the book, you should have more than enough information on how to start using Scala as your scientific computing platform
Michael Badger, Lifelong Kindergarten Group
If you have the imaginative power to design complex multimedia projects but can't adapt to programming languages, then Scratch 1.4: Beginner's Guide is the book for you. Imagine how good you'll feel when you drag-and-drop your way to interactive games, stories, graphic artwork, computer animations, and much more using Scratch even if you have never programmed before.This book provides teachers, parents, and new programmers with a guided tour of Scratch's features by creating projects that can be shared, remixed, and improved upon in your own lesson plans. Soon you will be creating games, stories, and animations by snapping blocks of code together.When you program you solve problems. In order to solve problems, you think, take action, and reflect upon your efforts. Scratch teaches you to program using a fun, accessible environment that's as easy as dragging and dropping blocks from one part of the screen to another.In this book you will program games, stories, and animations using hands-on examples that get you thinking and tinkering. For each project, you start with a series of steps to build something. Then you pause to put our actions into context so that you can relate our code to the actions on Scratch's stage. Throughout each chapter, you'll encounter challenges that encourage you to experiment and learn.One of the things you're really going to love is that, as you begin working through the examples in the book, you won't be able to stop your imagination and the ideas will stream as fast as you can think of them. Write them down. You'll quickly realize there are a lot of young minds in your home, classroom, or community group that could benefit from Scratch's friendly face. Teach them, please.