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Ahmed Sherif, Amrith Ravindra, Michal Malohlava, Adnan...
Organizations these days need to integrate popular big data tools such as Apache Spark with highly efficient deep learning libraries if they’re looking to gain faster and more powerful insights from their data. With this book, you’ll discover over 80 recipes to help you train fast, enterprise-grade, deep learning models on Apache Spark.Each recipe addresses a specific problem, and offers a proven, best-practice solution to difficulties encountered while implementing various deep learning algorithms in a distributed environment. The book follows a systematic approach, featuring a balance of theory and tips with best practice solutions to assist you with training different types of neural networks such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). You’ll also have access to code written in TensorFlow and Keras that you can run on Spark to solve a variety of deep learning problems in computer vision and natural language processing (NLP), or tweak to tackle other problems encountered in deep learning.By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to train and deploy state-of-the-art deep learning models on Apache Spark.
Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook. Solve real-world analytical problems
Padma Priya Chitturi
Spark has emerged as the most promising big data analytics engine for data science professionals. The true power and value of Apache Spark lies in its ability to execute data science tasks with speed and accuracy. Spark’s selling point is that it combines ETL, batch analytics, real-time stream analysis, machine learning, graph processing, and visualizations. It lets you tackle the complexities that come with raw unstructured data sets with ease. This guide will get you comfortable and confident performing data science tasks with Spark. You will learn about implementations including distributed deep learning, numerical computing, and scalable machine learning. You will be shown effective solutions to problematic concepts in data science using Spark’s data science libraries such as MLLib, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, and more. These simple and efficient recipes will show you how to implement algorithms and optimize your work.
Alex Liu
There's a reason why Apache Spark has become one of the most popular tools in Machine Learning – its ability to handle huge datasets at an impressive speed means you can be much more responsive to the data at your disposal. This book shows you Spark at its very best, demonstrating how to connect it with R and unlock maximum value not only from the tool but also from your data.Packed with a range of project blueprints that demonstrate some of the most interesting challenges that Spark can help you tackle, you'll find out how to use Spark notebooks and access, clean, and join different datasets before putting your knowledge into practice with some real-world projects, in which you will see how Spark Machine Learning can help you with everything from fraud detection to analyzing customer attrition. You'll also find out how to build a recommendation engine using Spark's parallel computing powers.
Shrey Mehrotra, Akash Grade
Apache Spark is a ?exible framework that allows processing of batch and real-time data. Its unified engine has made it quite popular for big data use cases. This book will help you to get started with Apache Spark 2.0 and write big data applications for a variety of use cases.It will also introduce you to Apache Spark – one of the most popular Big Data processing frameworks. Although this book is intended to help you get started with Apache Spark, but it also focuses on explaining the core concepts. This practical guide provides a quick start to the Spark 2.0 architecture and its components. It teaches you how to set up Spark on your local machine. As we move ahead, you will be introduced to resilient distributed datasets (RDDs) and DataFrame APIs, and their corresponding transformations and actions. Then, we move on to the life cycle of a Spark application and learn about the techniques used to debug slow-running applications. You will also go through Spark’s built-in modules for SQL, streaming, machine learning, and graph analysis.Finally, the book will lay out the best practices and optimization techniques that are key for writing efficient Spark applications. By the end of this book, you will have a sound fundamental understanding of the Apache Spark framework and you will be able to write and optimize Spark applications.
Tanuj Khare
Apache Tomcat (or simply Tomcat) is an open source servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The latest major stable release, Apache Tomcat version 7 implements the Servlet 3 and JavaServer Pages 2 specifications from the Java Community Process, and includes many additional features that make it a useful platform for developing and deploying web applications and web services.Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials follows a practical approach to teach installing, configuring, and maintaining Tomcat. It helps you to understand the middle architecture for hosting multiple websites and also provides the confidence to implement middleware support. It imparts to you the capacity to resolve migration issues and also provides regular maintenance solutions. This is the first and only book to cover upgrading to Tomcat 7 from previous versions.The journey of the reader starts at the beginner level and ends at the expert level. The content is designed in such a way that it balances the theory and practical approach for understanding concepts related to handling middle ware and web issues.In this book, you will go through a three-phase life cycle. The first cycle consists of installation, configuration of Tomcat 7 on different OS, and other configurations related to JDBC, port, deployment etc. The second phase deals with the building of enterprise application setup and high availability architecture (clustering load balancing). The third and critical phase will teach you to handle critical issues, performance tuning, and best practices for various environment stacks like dev/QA/stage/production.This book gives you a wider vision of using Tomcat 7 in web technologies and the skill to optimize their performance using Apache Tomcat 7.
Anshul Verma, Jitendra Zaa
Apex is an on-demand programming language providing a complete set of features for building business applications – including data models and objects to manage data. Apex being a proprietor programming language from Salesforce to be worked with multi tenant environment is a lot different than traditional OOPs languages like Java and C#. It acts as a workflow engine for managing collaboration of the data between users, a user interface model to handle forms and other interactions, and a SOAP API for programmatic access and integration.Apex Design Patterns gives you an insight to several problematic situations that can arise while developing on Force.com platform and the usage of Design patterns to solve them. Packed with real life examples, it gives you a walkthrough from learning design patterns that Apex can offer us, to implementing the appropriate ones in your own application. Furthermore, we learn about the creational patterns that deal with object creation mechanism and structural patterns that helps to identify the relationship between entities. Also, the behavioural and concurrency patterns are put forward explaining the communication between objects and multi-threaded programming paradigm respectively. We later on, deal with the issues regarding structuring of classes, instantiating or how to give a dynamic behaviour at a runtime, with the help of anti-patterns. We learn the basic OOPs principal in polymorphic and modular way to enhance its capability. Also, best practices of writing Apex code are explained to differentiate between the implementation of appropriate patterns. This book will also explain some unique patterns that could be applied to get around governor limits. By the end of this book, you will be a maestro in developing your applications on Force.com for Salesforce
API Analytics for Product Managers. Understand key API metrics that can help you grow your business
Deepa Goyal
APIs are crucial in the modern market as they allow faster innovation. But have you ever considered your APIs as products for revenue generation?API Analytics for Product Managers takes you through the benefits of efficient researching, strategizing, marketing, and continuously measuring the effectiveness of your APIs to help grow both B2B and B2C SaaS companies. Once you've been introduced to the concept of an API as a product, this fast-paced guide will show you how to establish metrics for activation, retention, engagement, and usage of your API products, as well as metrics to measure the reach and effectiveness of documentation—an often-overlooked aspect of development.Of course, it's not all about the product—as any good product manager knows; you need to understand your customers’ needs, expectations, and satisfaction too. Once you've gathered your data, you’ll need to be able to derive actionable insights from it. This is where the book covers the advanced concepts of leading and lagging metrics, removing bias from the metric-setting process, and bringing metrics together to establish long- and short-term goals.By the end of this book, you'll be perfectly placed to apply product management methodologies to the building and scaling of revenue-generating APIs.
API nowoczesnej strony WWW. Usługi sieciowe w PHP
Lorna Jane Mitchell
Twój klucz do doskonałego API! Za sukcesem i siłą najpopularniejszych serwisów w sieci często stoi decyzja o szerokim udostępnieniu API (ang. Application Programming Interface). Dzięki temu programiści z całego świata mogą tworzyć rozwiązania oparte na istniejących usługach, integrować różne systemy oraz tworzyć rozszerzenia. Sięgnij po tę książkę, naucz się korzystać z udostępnionego API i zbuduj własne. Poznaj tajniki budowania przyjaznego interfejsu API. Ta książka pomoże Ci zorientować się, jak działa protokół HTTP, jakie metody udostępnia oraz jakie informacje możesz znaleźć w nagłówkach. Po opanowaniu podstaw przejdziesz do najpopularniejszych formatów wymiany informacji pomiędzy systemami — JSON oraz XML. Zaznajomisz się też z usługami SOAP, RPC i REST. Na sam koniec dowiesz się, jak projektować niezawodne usługi oraz obsługiwać błędy. Jeżeli chcesz, żeby Twoje API zainteresowało innych programistów, musisz zadbać o jego dobrą dokumentację. Zdobądź niezbędną wiedzę o PHP! Poznasz protokół HTTP, czasowniki cyklu żądań i odpowiedzi oraz nagłówki i ciasteczka. Dowiesz się, kiedy lepiej jest użyć formatu JSON, a kiedy XML. Nauczysz się tworzyć usługi typu RPC, SOAP i RESTful. Poznasz wiele narzędzi i technik diagnozowania usług sieciowych HTTP. Nauczysz się wybierać najlepszy rodzaj usługi dla swoich aplikacji i dowiesz się, jak tworzyć niezawodne usługi sieciowe. Nauczysz się dokumentować swoje interfejsy API — oraz projektować w nich mechanizmy obsługi błędów. Zbuduj API zgodne z oczekiwaniami innych programistów!
Confidence Staveley, Christopher Romeo
APIs have evolved into an essential part of modern applications, making them an attractive target for cybercriminals. Written by a multi-award-winning cybersecurity leader , this comprehensive guide offers practical insights into testing APIs, identifying vulnerabilities, and fixing them.With a focus on hands-on learning, this book guides you through securing your APIs in a step-by-step manner. You'll learn how to bypass authentication controls, circumvent authorization controls, and identify vulnerabilities in APIs using open-source and commercial tools. Moreover, you'll gain the skills you need to write comprehensive vulnerability reports and recommend and implement effective mitigation strategies to address the identified vulnerabilities. This book isn't just about hacking APIs; it's also about understanding how to defend them. You'll explore various API security management strategies and understand how to use them to safeguard APIs against emerging threats.By the end of this book, you'll have a profound understanding of API security and how to defend against the latest threats. Whether you're a developer, security professional, or ethical hacker, this book will ensure that your APIs are secure and your organization's data is protected.
Confidence Staveley, Christopher Romeo
APIs have evolved into an essential part of modern applications, making them an attractive target for cybercriminals. Written by a multi-award-winning cybersecurity leader , this comprehensive guide offers practical insights into testing APIs, identifying vulnerabilities, and fixing them.With a focus on hands-on learning, this book guides you through securing your APIs in a step-by-step manner. You'll learn how to bypass authentication controls, circumvent authorization controls, and identify vulnerabilities in APIs using open-source and commercial tools. Moreover, you'll gain the skills you need to write comprehensive vulnerability reports and recommend and implement effective mitigation strategies to address the identified vulnerabilities. This book isn't just about hacking APIs; it's also about understanding how to defend them. You'll explore various API security management strategies and understand how to use them to safeguard APIs against emerging threats.By the end of this book, you'll have a profound understanding of API security and how to defend against the latest threats. Whether you're a developer, security professional, or ethical hacker, this book will ensure that your APIs are secure and your organization's data is protected.
Dave Westerveld
Postman is an invaluable tool for exploration and testing of web APIs and helping testers and developers figure out how an API works. With Postman, you can create effective test automation for any APIs, and this guide will help you unleash its full potential.API Testing and Development with Postman is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to create a good quality API, but isn't sure how to go about it. This guide will help you unleash the full potential of Postman’s test automation capabilities.A combination of theory coupled with real-world examples will help you learn how to use Postman to create well-designed, documented, and tested APIs. After you’ve familiarized yourself with the theory, you’ll move on to hands-on projects that will teach you how to add test automation to an existing API. You’ll also learn some of the new and powerful features that Postman has that can help you avoid introducing bugs.This second, fully updated edition features new chapters on workflow testing, creating and using mock servers, API security testing, and performance testing. The new and expanded information in this edition will help you future-proof your APIs.By the end of this book, you'll be able to use Postman to set up and run API tests for any API that you are working with.
Aplikacje 3D. Przewodnik po HTML5, WebGL i CSS3
Tony Parisi
Twój przewodnik po grafice 3D w HTML! Do niedawna wywietlanie zaawansowanej grafiki 3D w przeglądarce internetowej wymagało zainstalowania dodatkowych wtyczek oraz poznawania nowych narzędzi. Dzięki HTML5 i WebGL te czasy powoli odchodzą w niepamięć! Teraz możesz wykorzystać niesamowite możliwoci tego duetu, by zaskoczyć użytkowników atrakcyjnymi efektami 3D! Ta wyjątkowa książka została w całoci powięcona włanie zagadnieniom związanym z grafiką 3D w przeglądarce internetowej. Sięgnij po nią i przekonaj się, jak wykorzystać API WebGL do renderowania trójwymiarowej grafiki w czasie rzeczywistym. W kolejnych rozdziałach poznasz bibliotekę języka JavaScript Three.js, która w znaczący sposób ułatwia życie programisty. Informacje zawarte w dalszych rozdziałach pozwolą Ci skorzystać z zaawansowanych efektów w CSS3 i tworzyć animacje trójwymiarowe. Zaznajomisz się też z detalami tworzenia aplikacji dla urządzeń mobilnych. Twoją uwagę z pewnocią przykuje przegląd narzędzi do tworzenia trójwymiarowych modeli i animacji zarówno tych klasycznych, jak i tych online. Książka ta jest doskonałą lekturą dla wszystkich deweloperów chcących wzbogacić swój warsztat o elementy grafiki 3D. Dzięki tej książce: zapoznasz się z podstawami teorii dla grafiki 3D poznasz API WebGL wykorzystasz bibliotekę Three.js w codziennej pracy odkryjesz narzędzia przydatne w codziennej pracy jeszcze bardziej uatrakcyjnisz Twoją stronę Poznaj potencjał HTML5 w zakresie grafiki 3D! "Tony Parisi od samego początku wiedzie prym w dziedzinie rewolucyjnych rozwiązań pozwalających zagościć interaktywnym aplikacjom trójwymiarowym w internecie. Jego nowa książka zawiera dogłębne informacje na temat tych technologii oraz tworzenia najnowocześniejszych trójwymiarowych aplikacji naprawdę działających w aktualnie dostępnych przeglądarkach". - Neil Trevett, wiceprezes ds. treści mobilnej w firmie NVIDIA i prezes organizacji Khronos Group
Aplikacje 3D. Przewodnik po HTML5, WebGL i CSS3
Tony Parisi
Twój przewodnik po grafice 3D w HTML! Do niedawna wywietlanie zaawansowanej grafiki 3D w przeglądarce internetowej wymagało zainstalowania dodatkowych wtyczek oraz poznawania nowych narzędzi. Dzięki HTML5 i WebGL te czasy powoli odchodzą w niepamięć! Teraz możesz wykorzystać niesamowite możliwoci tego duetu, by zaskoczyć użytkowników atrakcyjnymi efektami 3D! Ta wyjątkowa książka została w całoci powięcona włanie zagadnieniom związanym z grafiką 3D w przeglądarce internetowej. Sięgnij po nią i przekonaj się, jak wykorzystać API WebGL do renderowania trójwymiarowej grafiki w czasie rzeczywistym. W kolejnych rozdziałach poznasz bibliotekę języka JavaScript Three.js, która w znaczący sposób ułatwia życie programisty. Informacje zawarte w dalszych rozdziałach pozwolą Ci skorzystać z zaawansowanych efektów w CSS3 i tworzyć animacje trójwymiarowe. Zaznajomisz się też z detalami tworzenia aplikacji dla urządzeń mobilnych. Twoją uwagę z pewnocią przykuje przegląd narzędzi do tworzenia trójwymiarowych modeli i animacji zarówno tych klasycznych, jak i tych online. Książka ta jest doskonałą lekturą dla wszystkich deweloperów chcących wzbogacić swój warsztat o elementy grafiki 3D. Dzięki tej książce: zapoznasz się z podstawami teorii dla grafiki 3D poznasz API WebGL wykorzystasz bibliotekę Three.js w codziennej pracy odkryjesz narzędzia przydatne w codziennej pracy jeszcze bardziej uatrakcyjnisz Twoją stronę Poznaj potencjał HTML5 w zakresie grafiki 3D! "Tony Parisi od samego początku wiedzie prym w dziedzinie rewolucyjnych rozwiązań pozwalających zagościć interaktywnym aplikacjom trójwymiarowym w internecie. Jego nowa książka zawiera dogłębne informacje na temat tych technologii oraz tworzenia najnowocześniejszych trójwymiarowych aplikacji naprawdę działających w aktualnie dostępnych przeglądarkach". - Neil Trevett, wiceprezes ds. treści mobilnej w firmie NVIDIA i prezes organizacji Khronos Group
Krzysztof Masłowski
Google, czyli współczesny świat Konkretnie - świat wirtualny. Wyszukiwarka pod adresem google.com wystartowała w roku 1997. Osiągnęła spektakularny sukces, ponieważ jej twórcy zaprojektowali algorytm, który pozwolił nie tylko wyszukiwać strony www zawierające poszukiwane przez użytkownika treści, ale także sam je selekcjonował. Od najbardziej do najmniej wartościowych. Oczywiście - "zdaniem" algorytmu, ale i tak faktem jest, że Google ułatwił życie osobom korzystającym z internetu w celu odnalezienia konkretnych informacji. A że liczba stron i bitów danych, jakie zawiera sieć stale rośnie, to i popularność wyszukiwarki google.com staje się większa i większa. Inne wyszukiwarki mogą jedynie "pomarzyć" o takim statusie - np. w Polsce aż 97% bywalców internetu korzysta z Google. Jednak uniwersum firmy Google to o wiele więcej, niż tylko maszyna do selekcjonowania danych z sieci. Firma zawiadująca marką stale pracuje nad tym, by dostarczyć klientom nowych, co ciekawe - najczęściej nieodpłatnych narzędzi, ułatwiających funkcjonowanie w obecnym, coraz mocniej "wirtualnym" świecie. I tak, Google na dziś to m.in.: Tłumacz, pozwalający zrozumieć teksty i słowa w kilkudziesięciu językach Mapy, dzięki którym nie zgubimy się w żadnym niemal kraju świata Bardzo przyjazna w użytkowaniu poczta Gmail Konto i dysk Google, gdzie można bezpiecznie zapisywać zdjęcia i inne pliki Z oferty Google korzystać można za pośrednictwem komputera i telefonu. Jest on zatem z nami właściwie wszędzie - gdziekolwiek się udamy. Wszędzie i zawsze gotów jest służyć nam pomocą. O ile oczywiście poznamy jego aplikacje i nauczymy się ich używać. Najszybciej i najskuteczniej - dzięki tej książce, napisanej prostym, przystępnym językiem, bez informatycznej nowomowy i nadmiaru niepotrzebnych informacji. Właściwa selekcja danych - to podstawa!
Aplikacje internetowe z Django. Najlepsze receptury
Aidas Bendoraitis
Ponad 70 praktycznych gotowych rozwiązań do tworzenia wielojęzykowych, responsywnych i skalowalnych witryn internetowych przy użyciu systemu Django Django to szkielet napisany w języku Python, pozwalający na błyskawiczne tworzenie zaawansowanych aplikacji internetowych. Dostarcza on wielu narzędzi, które przyśpieszają i znacząco ułatwiają pracę programisty. Wśród nich znajdziesz system szablonów, system mapowania obiektowo-relacyjnego oraz automatyczny interfejs do zarządzania treścią. Ale to nie wszystko! Przekonaj się, co jeszcze potrafi Django. Ta książka jest doskonałym źródłem informacji na temat tego systemu. Wiedza, którą za chwilę zdobędziesz, przedstawiona jest w formie receptur. Kolejne rozdziały to świetne przepisy na: zarządzanie zależnościami, tworzenie struktury bazy danych, projektowanie formularzy i przetwarzanie pozyskanych z nich danych oraz korzystanie z systemów szablonów. Dowiesz się stąd, jak tworzyć własne filtry i znaczniki w szablonach, modelować panel administracyjny oraz korzystać z Django CMS. Poznasz także system mapowania obiektowo-relacyjnego oraz wdrożysz aplikację na serwerze. Dzięki tym znakomitym przepisom możesz błyskawicznie nauczyć się pracować z Django oraz uruchomić swoją pierwszą aplikację napisaną z jego wykorzystaniem! Z książki tej nauczysz się: Prawidłowo konfigurować projekty Django Budować strukturę bazy danych z domieszek modelowych wielokrotnego użytku Zarządzać strukturami hierarchicznymi przy użyciu algorytmu MPTT Wykorzystywać skrypty JavaScript w responsywnych szablonach Tworzyć filtry i znaczniki szablonowe nadające się do wykorzystania w każdym projekcie Konfigurować panel administracyjny Rozszerzać system Django CMS o własne składniki Poznaj moc języka Python w tworzeniu aplikacji internetowych!
Aplikacje w Delphi. Przykłady. Wydanie III
Teresa Pamuła
Projektuj wspaniałe aplikacje z pomocą środowiska Delphi 2010! Wygląd i podstawowe funkcje aplikacji, czyli od czego zacząć pracę Wprowadzanie danych i okienka komunikatów, czyli zapewnianie dialogu między programem a użytkownikiem Tworzenie nowych komponentów, czyli jak nadać aplikacji niepowtarzalny styl Środowisko Delphi służy do szybkiego tworzenia aplikacji działających w systemie Windows. Zawiera bogate biblioteki komponentów, mechanizmy Plug and Play oraz Code Insight, a także palety komponentów i narzędzia ułatwiające ich wyszukiwanie. Dzięki Delphi IDE można w prosty sposób zaprojektować interfejs użytkownika nowej aplikacji, określić jej wygląd oraz sposób działania w oparciu o istniejące kontrolki i biblioteki klas, w dużym stopniu zdając się na automatyczne generowanie kodu. Jeśli chcesz poznać, dogłębnie zrozumieć i wykorzystać do swoich celów sposób działania Delphi 2010, powinieneś koniecznie sięgnąć po książkę "Aplikacje w Delphi. Przykłady". Znajdziesz tu wszelkie informacje na temat obsługi samego środowiska, podstawowych składników każdej tworzonej aplikacji, wprowadzania i formatowania danych, list, tabel, grupowania i projektowania nowych komponentów, wykorzystania technologii OLE do zapisu i modyfikacji danych w formatach .doc i .xls, możliwości graficznej prezentacji danych, ich drukowania i współpracy Twojej aplikacji z multimediami. Wszystko to oraz wiele innych zagadnień pokazano tu na praktycznych, konkretnych przykładach, ułatwiających zrozumienie i gotowych do zastosowania w Twoich własnych projektach. Podstawowe składniki aplikacji, menu główne i podręczne, pasek narzędzi Wprowadzanie danych, formatowanie i wyświetlanie na ekranie Okienka komunikatów i okienka dialogowe z karty Dialogs Listy wyboru i prosty edytor Grupowanie i dynamiczne tworzenie komponentów Komponenty do wyboru daty i czasu, odmierzanie czasu Zakładki TTabControl i TPageControl Grafika w Delphi i wyświetlanie obrazów Tabelaryzacja danych i ich graficzna prezentacja danych Współpraca programu z plikami dyskowymi Drukowanie w Delphi i programy z wieloma oknami Posługiwanie się wieloma komponentami tego samego typu Definiowanie nowych klas komponentów i wykorzystanie mechanizmu OLE Podstawowe operacje na bazach danych Delphi i multimedia Odkryj fantastyczne możliwości Delphi!
Darren Paul Cope
Appcelerator Titanium is the leading method for creating native cross-platform apps. This book guides you from the initial stages with the language right through to the submission of your app to the marketplace/app store. Specially crafted examples cover the most common requirements of an app programmer. This book will be your companion as you progress with the language.Appcelerator Titanium Application Development by Example Beginner's Guide will guide you through the process of designing cross-platform apps using Titanium. It covers all areas of the language from installation through development to submission to the store. This book will take a hands-on approach in teaching you how to write cross-platform apps using Titanium, as well as exploring the new features of Titanium 3. Each chapter will show you how to overcome specific challenges using Titanium. You will learn how to design your apps using MVC principles and Alloy, use the cloud to your advantage, develop apps that work on tablets and phones, use the phone gadgets like the accelerometer, integrate social media, record usage using analytics, and monetise your app. All tasks from installation to deployment to the store are covered and backed by examples. The book will be your companion from your first steps with Titanium to successful live deployment.
Nicholas Harauz
Let's face it, people like images that move. Whether you see images on a moving billboard, walk into a bank with an LCD screen, watch TV, or surf the Web, motion graphics are everywhere. With an even greater demand to integrate motion graphics in just about every type of video or interactive content there is, this book will help you get there with Motion 5. It's all about creating eye-catching titles, transitions, and effects!Apple Motion 5 Cookbook contains exercises for the beginner and seasoned motion graphics user. You will learn how to navigate Motion's interface and quickly grasp the tools available to you while creating sophisticated and sleek animations in both 2D and 3D environments. Not forgetting visual effects, we will also explore motion tracking and green screen techniques that will help you composite like a pro. Let's launch the application, grab a cup of coffee, and get started on this exciting journey!The exercises will take you right from creating your very first Motion project through to export. You will learn how to navigate quickly and efficiently through Motion's complex interface and toolsets so that you can focus oncreating your masterpiece!You will learn how to create a new project and import material into that project from the File Browser and Motion's vast and rich content library. From there, you will learn to manipulate and animate these source files using Motion's behaviors, classic keyframing techniques, adding filters, and master the built-in tools such as particle systems that will knock your socks off! Last but not least, you will export your projects to a variety of different formats including DVD, as a Final Cut Pro generator, and the Web.The Apple Motion 5 Cookbook contains downloadable content for each chapter and is packed with screenshots and illustrations. After reading this book, you'll be creating motion graphics and visual effects in no time!
Ernest Bruce
Apple Pay, one of the most talked about offerings of the latest iOS 9 release, is a digital wallet and electronic payment system developed by Apple Inc. Paying in stores or within apps has never been easier or safer. Gone are the days of searching for your wallet, and the wasted moments finding the right card! Now you can use your credit cards and rewards cards with just a touch. It allows payment to merchants, using Near field Communication (NFC), and within iOS apps. Implementing Apple Pay within apps for payment is a bit tricky, but our book solves this problem for you.Whether you are a brand new iOS app developer or a seasoned expert, this book arms you with necessary skills to successfully implement Apple Pay in your online-payment workflow.Whether you are a brand new iOS app developer or a seasoned expert, this book arms you with the necessary skills to successfully implement Apple Pay. We start off by teaching you how to obtain the certificates necessary to encrypt customers’ payment information. We will use Xcode and Objective C for the interface and Node.js for server side code. You will then learn how to determine whether the customer can use Apple Pay, and how to create payment requests. You will come to grips with designing a payment-processor program to interact with the payment gateway. Finally, we take a look at a business-focused view of Apple Pay protocols and classes. By the end of this book, you will be able to build a fully functional Apple Pay-integrated iOS app
Salil Ahuja, Swami Chandrasekaran
By adopting an SOA approach in Business Process Management (BPM), you can make your application flexible, reusable, and adaptable to new developments. The SOA approach also gives you the potential to lower costs (from reuse), and increase revenue (from adaptability and flexibility). However, integrating basic SOA constructs (such as Process, Business Services, and Components) and core building blocks of BPM (such as Process Modeling and Enterprise Service Bus) in a real-world application can be challenging.This book introduces basic concepts of Business Integration, SOA Fundamentals, and SOA Programming Model and implements them in numerous examples. It guides you to building an Order Management application from scratch using the principles of Business Process Management and Service Oriented Architecture and using WebSphere Process Server (WPS) and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WESB). The various detailed aspects, features, and capabilities of the product are conveyed through examplesWe begin with essential concepts on Business Integration, SOA Fundamentals and SOA Programming Model. Then we set up the development environment to build your first Hello Process and Hello Mediation applications.Gradually, we build an SOA-based Order Management Application. We cover important aspects and functions of WPS and WESB with numerous practical examples. We show how to analyze your application's business requirements and check if an SOA approach is appropriate for your project. Then you do a top-down decomposition of your application and identify its use cases, business processes, and services. Having built the SOA Application, we introduce you to various non-functional topics, including: Administration, Governance, Management, Monitoring, and Security. We also discuss deployment topologies for WPS and WESB, performance tuning, and recommended practices.
Application Development in iOS 7
Kyle Begeman
A hybrid between informative overview and step-by-step instruction, this book is the ultimate guide to iOS 7 application development. If you are an iOS developer who is looking to understand the new features within iOS 7 and Xcode 5, then this book is for you. In order to fully understand the concepts in this book, it is recommended you have at least some experience with previous versions of iOS.
Hossam Ghareeb
After years of using Objective-C for developing apps for iOS/Mac OS, Apple now offers a new, creative, easy, and innovative programming language for application development, called Swift. Swift makes iOS application development a breeze by offering speed, security and power to your application development process. Swift is easy to learn and has awesome features such as being open source, debugging,interactive playgrounds, error handling model, and so on. Swift has simplified its memory management with Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) and it is compatible with Objective-C.This book has been created to provide you with the information and skills you need to use the new programming language Swift. The book starts with an introduction to Swift and code structure. Following this, you will use playgrounds to become familiar with the language in no time. Then the book takes you through the advanced features offered by Swift and how to use them with your old Objective-C code or projects. You will then learn to use Swift in real projects by covering APIs such as HealthKit, Metal, WatchKit, and Touch ID in each chapter. The book's easy to follow structure ensures you get the best start to developing applications with Swift.
Richard Seroter, Ewan Fairweather
Every day, architects and developers are asked to solve specific business problems in the most efficient way possible using a broad range of technologies. Packed with real-world examples of how to use the latest Microsoft technologies, this book tackles over a dozen specific use case patterns and provides an applied implementation with supporting code downloads for every chapter.In this book, we guide you through thirteen architectural patterns and provide detailed code samples for the following technologies: Windows Server AppFabric, Windows Azure Platform AppFabric, SQL Server (including Integration Services, Service Broker, and StreamInsight), BizTalk Server, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). This book brings together – and simplifies – the information and methodology you need to make the right architectural decisions and use a broad range of the Microsoft platform to meet your requirements. Throughout the book, we will follow a consistent architectural decision framework which considers key business, organizational, and technology factors.The book is broken up into four sections. First, we define the techniques and methodologies used to make architectural decisions throughout the book. In Part I, we provide a set of primers designed to get you up to speed with each of the technologies demonstrated in the book. Part II looks at messaging patterns and includes use cases which highlight content-based routing, workflow, publish/subscribe, and distributed messaging. Part III digs into data processing patterns and looks at bulk data processing, complex events, multi-master synchronization, and more. Finally, Part IV covers performance-related patterns including low latency, failover to the cloud, and reference data caching.
Sofía De Jesús, Dayrene Martinez
Computational thinking helps you to develop logical processing and algorithmic thinking while solving real-world problems across a wide range of domains. It's an essential skill that you should possess to keep ahead of the curve in this modern era of information technology. Developers can apply their knowledge of computational thinking to solve problems in multiple areas, including economics, mathematics, and artificial intelligence.This book begins by helping you get to grips with decomposition, pattern recognition, pattern generalization and abstraction, and algorithm design, along with teaching you how to apply these elements practically while designing solutions for challenging problems. You’ll then learn about various techniques involved in problem analysis, logical reasoning, algorithm design, clusters and classification, data analysis, and modeling, and understand how computational thinking elements can be used together with these aspects to design solutions. Toward the end, you will discover how to identify pitfalls in the solution design process and how to choose the right functionalities to create the best possible algorithmic solutions.By the end of this algorithm book, you will have gained the confidence to successfully apply computational thinking techniques to software development.
Alex Galea, Luis Capelo
Taking an approach that uses the latest developments in the Python ecosystem, you’ll first be guided through the Jupyter ecosystem, key visualization libraries and powerful data sanitization techniques before you train your first predictive model. You’ll then explore a variety of approaches to classification such as support vector networks, random decision forests and k-nearest neighbors to build on your knowledge before moving on to advanced topics.After covering classification, you’ll go on to discover ethical web scraping and interactive visualizations, which will help you professionally gather and present your analysis. Next, you’ll start building your keystone deep learning application, one that aims to predict the future price of Bitcoin based on historical public data. You’ll then be guided through a trained neural network, which will help you explore common deep learning network architectures (convolutional, recurrent, and generative adversarial networks) and deep reinforcement learning. Later, you’ll delve into model optimization and evaluation. You’ll do all this while working on a production-ready web application that combines TensorFlow and Keras to produce meaningful user-friendly results.By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to tackle and develop your own real-world deep learning projects confidently and effectively.
David S. Jordan
Data scientists, when presented with a myriad of data, can often lose sight of how to present geospatial analyses in a meaningful way so that it makes sense to everyone. Using Python to visualize data helps stakeholders in less technical roles to understand the problem and seek solutions. The goal of this book is to help data scientists and GIS professionals learn and implement geospatial data science workflows using Python.Throughout this book, you’ll uncover numerous geospatial Python libraries with which you can develop end-to-end spatial data science workflows. You’ll learn how to read, process, and manipulate spatial data effectively. With data in hand, you’ll move on to crafting spatial data visualizations to better understand and tell the story of your data through static and dynamic mapping applications. As you progress through the book, you’ll find yourself developing geospatial AI and ML models focused on clustering, regression, and optimization. The use cases can be leveraged as building blocks for more advanced work in a variety of industries.By the end of the book, you’ll be able to tackle random data, find meaningful correlations, and make geospatial data models.