Informatyka
User Training for Busy Programmers. Develop effective software training classes quickly and easily
William Rice, William Rice
If you need to write a successful software training course and are unsure of how to start, then this book gets right to the point with clear, concise directions for developing an end-user software course. This step-by-step job aid walks you through the process of developing a successful, instructor-led software class. There are many good books on training theory. This book takes a more practical, condensed approach for when you don't have time to learn training theory. It is based on fifteen years of technical writing and training experience. In under 100 pages, the book guides you through the process of developing an end-user software course using a method that is tested, proven, and based upon sound instructional theory.
Joseph Murray, Brian P Shaughnessy, Dave Greenberg
CiviCRM is a web-based, open source CRM system, designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental organizations. Elected officials, professional/trade associations, political campaigns and parties, government agencies, and other similar organizations are among its growing number of enthusiastic users. This book shows you how to harness CiviCRM’s impressive array of possibilities as you develop and execute performance-critical CRM strategies.This book will help you become familiar with the structure and main functions of CiviCRM. It will guide you in developing and successfully implementing a CRM strategy for your organization using detailed explanations and practical examples.Using CiviCRM walks you through developing a CRM Implementation Plan that is suited to your organization's size, culture, and needs. Readers will take away many constituent relationship management best practices and the knowledge of how to implement them with CiviCRM. Benefits of Using CiviCRM will be felt across your organization, and help it better achieve its mission.Overall, your organization will interact with constituents more effectively and handle staff growth and transitions by tracking all contacts and interactions with them in a system shared across the organization. Gathering and analyzing data about your constituents and their interactions with your organization will better inform your decisions.If your organization fundraises, you’ll be able to raise more money and reduce costs by identifying qualified prospects for targeted fundraising initiatives. We show how to attract new prospects and convert them to donors using online, direct mail, telemarketing and direct contact channels Using CiviCRM. You’ll learn why and how to set up and then grow your monthly donor program, as well as improve the frequency, average donation amounts, and retention rates of your donor base.With this book you’ll be able to reduce the burden on administrative resources by providing online payments and self-service options for event registrations and membership renewals. You can increase the likelihood your existing subscribers will become more involved with your organization, ensure more of your members show up to volunteer, identify potential leaders and steward their volunteer activitiesFinally, you'll be making relevant information easily available that quantifies what a great job you've been doing, including the number of hours that volunteers gave to your organization last year, the number of cases managed, or the number of new viral signups from your latest urgent action e-mail.
Andrew Zhu (Shudong Zhu), Matthew Fisher
Stable Diffusion is a game-changing AI tool that enables you to create stunning images with code. The author, a seasoned Microsoft applied data scientist and contributor to the Hugging Face Diffusers library, leverages his 15+ years of experience to help you master Stable Diffusion by understanding the underlying concepts and techniques.You’ll be introduced to Stable Diffusion, grasp the theory behind diffusion models, set up your environment, and generate your first image using diffusers. You'll optimize performance, leverage custom models, and integrate community-shared resources like LoRAs, textual inversion, and ControlNet to enhance your creations. Covering techniques such as face restoration, image upscaling, and image restoration, you’ll focus on unlocking prompt limitations, scheduled prompt parsing, and weighted prompts to create a fully customized and industry-level Stable Diffusion app. This book also looks into real-world applications in medical imaging, remote sensing, and photo enhancement. Finally, you'll gain insights into extracting generation data, ensuring data persistence, and leveraging AI models like BLIP for image description extraction.By the end of this book, you'll be able to use Python to generate and edit images and leverage solutions to build Stable Diffusion apps for your business and users.
Usługi Microsoft Azure Programowanie aplikacji
Zbigniew Fryźlewicz, Łukasz Leśniczek
Microsoft Azure to jedna z wielu platform chmurowych, które powstały w ciągu kilku ostatnich lat i zdobyły znaczącą pozycję na rynku usług IT w skali globalnej. Każda z tych platform oferuje gotowe do subskrypcji i użycia własne aplikacje chmurowe - usługi w modelu SaaS - a także dostęp do usług w modelach IaaS i PaaS. Platforma chmurowa Microsoft Azure zapewnia także usługi w każdym z trzech wymienionych modeli. Platforma Azure bardzo dynamicznie się rozwija. Oferuje coraz więcej specjalizowanych usług poczynając od, w różnym stopniu prekonfigurowanych, maszyn wirtualnych, poprzez usługi mobilne, multimedialne, integracyjne, aż po różne rodzaje usług danych, czy usługi wspierające przetwarzanie Big Data. W książce autorzy przedstawiają najpierw różne kategorie usług dostępnych w chmurze Azure. Następnie przechodzą do demonstracji praktycznego wykorzystania rozmaitych usług chmury Azure poprzez budowanie czterech "z życia wziętych" aplikacji. Pokazana została zarówno konfiguracja składników działających w chmurze, jak i tworzenie właściwego kodu. Dr inż. Zbigniew Fryźlewicz jest adiunktem w Katedrze Informatyki na Wydziale Informatyki i Zarządzania Politechniki Wrocławskiej. W działalności naukowej i dydaktycznej zajmuje się technologiami internetowymi, usługami webowymi i programowaniem współbieżnym. Mgr inż. Łukasz Leśniczek jest programistą specjalizującym się w technologiach opartych na platformie Microsoft .NET Framework. Zajmuje się projektowaniem, implementowaniem i wdrażaniem aplikacji webowych zarówno w warstwie front-end, jak i back-end.
Usługi Microsoft Azure Programowanie aplikacji
Zbigniew Fryźlewicz, Łukasz Leśniczek
Microsoft Azure to jedna z wielu platform chmurowych, które powstały w ciągu kilku ostatnich lat i zdobyły znaczącą pozycję na rynku usług IT w skali globalnej. Każda z tych platform oferuje gotowe do subskrypcji i użycia własne aplikacje chmurowe - usługi w modelu SaaS - a także dostęp do usług w modelach IaaS i PaaS. Platforma chmurowa Microsoft Azure zapewnia także usługi w każdym z trzech wymienionych modeli. Platforma Azure bardzo dynamicznie się rozwija. Oferuje coraz więcej specjalizowanych usług poczynając od, w różnym stopniu prekonfigurowanych, maszyn wirtualnych, poprzez usługi mobilne, multimedialne, integracyjne, aż po różne rodzaje usług danych, czy usługi wspierające przetwarzanie Big Data. W książce autorzy przedstawiają najpierw różne kategorie usług dostępnych w chmurze Azure. Następnie przechodzą do demonstracji praktycznego wykorzystania rozmaitych usług chmury Azure poprzez budowanie czterech "z życia wziętych" aplikacji. Pokazana została zarówno konfiguracja składników działających w chmurze, jak i tworzenie właściwego kodu. Dr inż. Zbigniew Fryźlewicz jest adiunktem w Katedrze Informatyki na Wydziale Informatyki i Zarządzania Politechniki Wrocławskiej. W działalności naukowej i dydaktycznej zajmuje się technologiami internetowymi, usługami webowymi i programowaniem współbieżnym. Mgr inż. Łukasz Leśniczek jest programistą specjalizującym się w technologiach opartych na platformie Microsoft .NET Framework. Zajmuje się projektowaniem, implementowaniem i wdrażaniem aplikacji webowych zarówno w warstwie front-end, jak i back-end.
UX Design for Mobile. Design apps that deliver impressive mobile experiences
Pablo Perea, Pau Giner
User experience (UX) design provides techniques to analyze the real needs of your users and respond to them with products that are delightful to use. This requires you to think differently compared to traditional development processes, but also to act differently. In this book, you will be introduced to a pragmatic approach to exploring and creating mobile app solutions, reducing risks and saving time during their construction. This book will show you a working process to quickly iterate product ideas with low and high fidelity prototypes, based on professional tools from different software brands. You will be able to quickly test your ideas early in the process with the most adequate prototyping approach. You will understand the pros and cons of each approach, when you should use each of them, and what you can learn in each step of the testing process. You will also explore basic testing approaches and some more advanced techniques to connect and learn from your users. Each chapter will focus on one of the general steps needed to design a successful product according to the organization goals and the user needs. To achieve this, the book will provide detailed hands-on pragmatic techniques to design innovative and easy to use products. You will learn how to test your ideas in the early steps of the design process, picking up the best ideas that truly work with your users, rethinking those that need further refinement, and discarding those that don’t work properly in tests made with real users.By the end of the book, you will learn how to start exploring and testing your design ideas, regardless the size of the design budget.
UX for Enterprise ChatGPT Solutions. A practical guide to designing enterprise-grade LLMs
Richard H. Miller, Jeff Johnson
Many enterprises grapple with new technology, often hopping on the bandwagon only to abandon it when challenges emerge. This book is your guide to seamlessly integrating ChatGPT into enterprise solutions with a UX-centered approach.UX for Enterprise ChatGPT Solutions empowers you to master effective use case design and adapt UX guidelines through an engaging learning experience. Discover how to prepare your content for success by tailoring interactions to match your audience’s voice, style, and tone using prompt-engineering and fine-tuning. For UX professionals, this book is the key to anchoring your expertise in this evolving field. Writers, researchers, product managers, and linguists will learn to make insightful design decisions. You’ll explore use cases like ChatGPT-powered chat and recommendation engines, while uncovering the AI magic behind the scenes. The book introduces a and feeding model, enabling you to leverage feedback and monitoring to iterate and refine any Large Language Model solution. Packed with hundreds of tips and tricks, this guide will help you build a continuous improvement cycle suited for AI solutions.By the end, you’ll know how to craft powerful, accurate, responsive, and brand-consistent generative AI experiences, revolutionizing your organization’s use of ChatGPT.
UX for Enterprise ChatGPT Solutions. A practical guide to designing enterprise-grade LLMs
Richard H. Miller, Jeff Johnson
Many enterprises grapple with new technology, often hopping on the bandwagon only to abandon it when challenges emerge. This book is your guide to seamlessly integrating ChatGPT into enterprise solutions with a UX-centered approach.UX for Enterprise ChatGPT Solutions empowers you to master effective use case design and adapt UX guidelines through an engaging learning experience. Discover how to prepare your content for success by tailoring interactions to match your audience’s voice, style, and tone using prompt-engineering and fine-tuning. For UX professionals, this book is the key to anchoring your expertise in this evolving field. Writers, researchers, product managers, and linguists will learn to make insightful design decisions. You’ll explore use cases like ChatGPT-powered chat and recommendation engines, while uncovering the AI magic behind the scenes. The book introduces a and feeding model, enabling you to leverage feedback and monitoring to iterate and refine any Large Language Model solution. Packed with hundreds of tips and tricks, this guide will help you build a continuous improvement cycle suited for AI solutions.By the end, you’ll know how to craft powerful, accurate, responsive, and brand-consistent generative AI experiences, revolutionizing your organization’s use of ChatGPT.
UX for the Web. Build websites for user experience and usability
Marli Ritter, Cara Winterbottom
If you want to create web apps that are not only beautiful to look at, but also easy to use and fully accessible to everyone, including people with special needs, this book will provide you with the basic building blocks to achieve just that. The book starts with the basics of UX, the relationship between Human-Centered Design (HCD), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and the User-Centered Design (UCD) Process; it gradually takes you through the best practices to create a web app that stands out from your competitors. You’ll also learn how to create an emotional connection with the user to increase user interaction and client retention by different means of communication channels. We’ll guide you through the steps in developing an effective UX strategy through user research and persona creation and how to bring that UX strategy to life with beautiful, yet functional designs that cater for complex features with micro interactions. Practical UX methodologies such as creating a solid Information Architecture (IA), wireframes, and prototypes will be discussed in detail. We’ll also show you how to test your designs with representative users, and ensure that they are usable on different devices, browsers and assistive technologies. Lastly, we’ll focus on making your web app fully accessible from a development and design perspective by taking you through the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
