CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook. Over 70 great recipes for developing, maintaining, and deploying web applications

Mariano Iglesias, Cake Software Foundation, Inc.

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying web applications. While the framework has a lot of documentation and reference guides available for beginners, developing more sophisticated and scalable applications require a deeper knowledge of CakePHP features, a challenge that proves difficult even for well established developers.The recipes in this cookbook will give you instant results and help you to develop web applications, leveraging the CakePHP features that allow you to build robust and complex applications. Following the recipes in this book you will be able to understand and use these features in no time. We start with setting up authentication on a CakePHP application. One of the most important aspects of a CakePHP application: the relationship between models, also known as model bindings. Model binding is an integral part of any application's logic and we can manipulate it to get the data we need and when we need. We will go through a series of recipes that will show us how to change the way bindings are fetched, what bindings and what information from a binding is returned, how to create new bindings, and how to build hierarchical data structures. We also define our custom find types that will extend the three basic ones, allowing our code to be even more readable and also create our own find type, with pagination support. This book also has recipes that cover two aspects of CakePHP models that are fundamental to most applications: validation, and behaviors.

Mastering Git. Attain expert-level proficiency with Git by mastering distributed version control features - Second Edition

Jakub Narębski

Developers often feel overwhelmed by complex version control issues, especially when managing large repositories. This updated second edition of our Git guide empowers you to tackle these challenges head-on and emerge as a Git pro. The book gets you up to speed with the latest Git version, its features, and advanced branching techniques, helping you master complex development scenarios. A new chapter on tackling challenges while managing large repositories has been added, providing invaluable strategies for efficient version control with Git. The book goes beyond the basics to take you through Git’s architecture, behavior, and best practices in depth. The chapters help you develop a clear understanding of customizing workflows, creating unique solutions, and tackling any version control hurdle. As you advance, you’ll explore a wide range of functionalities, from examining project history to collaborating seamlessly with teammates. Detailed descriptions guide you through managing your work, collaborating with others, administering Git, and navigating project history. By the end of this book, you’ll have become a Git pro and be confident enough to handle advanced branching, manage large repositories, customize workflows, collaborate effectively, and troubleshoot any version control issues.

BeagleBone Robotic Projects. Developer or hobbyist, you'll love the way this book helps you turn the BeagleBone Black into a working robot. From listening and speaking to seeing and moving, we'll show you how – step by step

Richard Grimmett

Thanks to new, inexpensive microcontrollers, robotics has become far more accessible than it was in the past. These microcontrollers provide a whole new set of capabilities to allow even the most inexperienced users to make amazingly complicated projects. Beaglebone is effectively a small, light, cheap computer in a similar vein to Raspberry Pi and Arduino. It has all of the extensibility of today's desktop machines, but without the bulk, expense, or noise. This project guide provides step-by-step instructions to allow anyone to use this new, low cost platform in some fascinating robotics projects. By the time you are finished, your projects will be able to see, speak, listen, detect their surroundings, and move in a variety of amazing ways. The book begins with unpacking and powering up the components.This will include guidance on what to purchase and how to connect it all successfully–and a primer on programming the BeagleBone Black. Chapter by chapter, we will add additional software functionality available from the open source community, including how to make the system see using a webcam, how to hear using a microphone, and how to speak using a speaker. We then add hardware to make your robots move–including wheeled and legged examples–as well as covering how to add sonar sensors to avoid or find objects, plus wireless control to make your robot truly autonomous. Adding GPS allows the robot to find itself. Finally the book covers how to integrate all of this functionality so that it can all work together, before developing the most impressive robotics projects: those that can sail, fly, and explore underwater.

Ionic 2 Cookbook. The rich flavors of Ionic at your disposal - Second Edition

Hoc Phan

Developing real-time apps is the need of the hour, and apps that deal with humongous amounts of user data and real-time information that needs to be updated frequently are in high demand. Currently, one of the most popular frameworks for this task is Ionic Framework, which is undergoing a major makeover.This book will get you started with Ionic and help you create Angular 2 components that interact with templates. From there, you’ll work with Ionic components and find out how to share data efficiently between them. You’ll discover how to make the best use of the REST API to handle back-end services and then move on to animating the application to make it look pretty. You’ll learn to add in a local push notification in order to test the app. You’ll work with Cordova to support native functionalities on both iOS and Android. From there, you’ll get to grips with using the default themes for each platform as well as customizing your own. Finally, you’ll see how best to deploy your app to different platforms.This book will solve all your Ionic-related issues through dedicated recipes that will help you get the best out of Ionic.

jMonkeyEngine 3.0 Cookbook. Over 80 practical recipes to expand and enrich your jMonkeyEngine skill set with a close focus on game development

Rickard Eden

LLVM Techniques, Tips, and Best Practices Clang and Middle-End Libraries. Design powerful and reliable compilers using the latest libraries and tools from LLVM

Min-Yih Hsu

Every programmer or engineer, at some point in their career, works with compilers to optimize their applications. Compilers convert a high-level programming language into low-level machine-executable code. LLVM provides the infrastructure, reusable libraries, and tools needed for developers to build their own compilers. With LLVM’s extensive set of tooling, you can effectively generate code for different backends as well as optimize them.In this book, you’ll explore the LLVM compiler infrastructure and understand how to use it to solve different problems. You’ll start by looking at the structure and design philosophy of important components of LLVM and gradually move on to using Clang libraries to build tools that help you analyze high-level source code. As you advance, the book will show you how to process LLVM IR – a powerful way to transform and optimize the source program for various purposes. Equipped with this knowledge, you’ll be able to leverage LLVM and Clang to create a wide range of useful programming language tools, including compilers, interpreters, IDEs, and source code analyzers.By the end of this LLVM book, you’ll have developed the skills to create powerful tools using the LLVM framework to overcome different real-world challenges.

Mastering Python Design Patterns. Start learning Python programming to a better standard by mastering the art of Python design patterns

Sakis Kasampalis

Learning WebRTC. Develop interactive real-time communication applications with WebRTC

Daniel M. Ristic

YARN Essentials. A comprehensive, hands-on guide to install, administer, and configure settings in YARN

Amol Fasale, Nirmal Kumar

Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity. Implement smart AI systems for preventing cyber attacks and detecting threats and network anomalies

Alessandro Parisi

Today's organizations spend billions of dollars globally on cybersecurity. Artificial intelligence has emerged as a great solution for building smarter and safer security systems that allow you to predict and detect suspicious network activity, such as phishing or unauthorized intrusions.This cybersecurity book presents and demonstrates popular and successful AI approaches and models that you can adapt to detect potential attacks and protect your corporate systems. You'll learn about the role of machine learning and neural networks, as well as deep learning in cybersecurity, and you'll also learn how you can infuse AI capabilities into building smart defensive mechanisms. As you advance, you'll be able to apply these strategies across a variety of applications, including spam filters, network intrusion detection, botnet detection, and secure authentication.By the end of this book, you'll be ready to develop intelligent systems that can detect unusual and suspicious patterns and attacks, thereby developing strong network security defenses using AI.

Domain-Driven Refactoring. A hands-on DDD guide to transforming monoliths into modular systems and microservices

Alessandro Colla, Alberto Acerbis, Xin Yao

As software development continues to grow, mastering domain-driven design (DDD) will help transform your approach to complex systems. Filled with actionable insights and practical examples, this book is your essential guide to implementing DDD principles, covering its key concepts and practical applications in modern architecture.Alessandro, an eCommerce specialist and DDD expert with 30 years of experience, and Alberto, a dedicated backend developer, tap into their extensive expertise to help you refactor your monolith into a modular structure, whether it be evolving into microservices or enhancing a maintainable monolith, resulting in a system that adapts to changing business needs and non-functional requirements.You’ll explore vital DDD patterns like strategic design with bounded contexts and ubiquitous language, improving communication between technical and domain experts. The chapters take you through modeling techniques to manage complexity and increase flexibility, while also addressing microservices integration, including inter-service communication, transaction management, and data strategies.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to decompose a monolith and refine its architecture for adaptability, all while ensuring business logic remains central to your software design and development.

Smart Internet of Things Projects. Discover how to build your own smart Internet of Things projects and bring a new degree of interconnectivity to your world

Agus Kurniawan

Internet of Things (IoT) is a groundbreaking technology that involves connecting numerous physical devices to the Internet and controlling them. Creating basic IoT projects is common, but imagine building smart IoT projects that can extract data from physical devices, thereby making decisions by themselves.Our book overcomes the challenge of analyzing data from physical devices and accomplishes all that your imagination can dream up by teaching you how to build smart IoT projects. Basic statistics and various applied algorithms in data science and machine learning are introduced to accelerate your knowledge of how to integrate a decision system into a physical device.This book contains IoT projects such as building a smart temperature controller, creating your own vision machine project, building an autonomous mobile robot car, controlling IoT projects through voice commands, building IoT applications utilizing cloud technology and data science, and many more. We will also leverage a small yet powerful IoT chip, Raspberry Pi with Arduino, in order to integrate a smart decision-making system in the IoT projects.

Implementing Multifactor Authentication. Protect your applications from cyberattacks with the help of MFA

Marco Fanti

MFA has emerged as an essential defense strategy in the wide-ranging landscape of cybersecurity. This book is a comprehensive manual that assists you in picking, implementing, and resolving issues with various authentication products that support MFA. It will guide you to bolster application security without sacrificing the user experience.You'll start with the fundamentals of authentication and the significance of MFA to familiarize yourself with how MFA works and the various types of solutions currently available. As you progress through the chapters, you'll learn how to choose the proper MFA setup to provide the right combination of security and user experience. The book then takes you through methods hackers use to bypass MFA and measures to safeguard your applications. After familiarizing yourself with enabling and managing leading cloud and on-premise MFA solutions, you’ll see how MFA efficiently curbs cyber threats, aided by insights from industry best practices and lessons from real-world experiences. Finally, you’ll explore the significance of innovative advancements in this domain, including behavioral biometrics and passkeys.By the end of the book, you'll have the knowledge to secure your workforce and customers, empowering your organization to combat authentication fraud.

Extending Power BI with Python and R. Perform advanced analysis using the power of analytical languages - Second Edition

Luca Zavarella

With this updated second edition, you'll not only learn how to configure the Power BI environment to run Python and R scripts at peak performance—you'll also become familiar with the appropriate solutions to the most common problems you may encounter. Extending Power BI with Python and R explores data ingestion and data transformation extensions before moving on to focus on data enrichment and data visualization. You'll learn how to ingest data larger than available memory, import data from external sources, and transform data using complex algorithms, as well as implementing personal data de-identification methods such as pseudonymization, anonymization, and masking in Power BI. You'll find out how to call external APIs to enrich your data much faster, and address I/O performance issues using Python and R. Next, you'll learn advanced Python and R techniques to perform in-depth analysis and extract valuable information using statistics and machine learning. You'll also get to grips with the key statistical features of data sets by plotting multiple visual graphs in the process of building a machine learning model. Your knowledge will be tested through questions and answers at the end of each chapter.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to enrich your Power BI data models and unlock valuable insights using Python and R.

Django 5 By Example. Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch - Fifth Edition

Antonio Melé, Paolo Melchiorre

If you want to learn Django by doing, this book is for you.Django 5 By Example is the fifth edition of the best-selling franchise that helps you build real-world web apps. This book will walk you through planning and creation, solving common problems, and implementing best practices using a step-by-step approach.You’ll cover a wide range of web application development topics through four different projects: a blog application, a social website, an e-commerce application, and an e-learning platform. Pick up what’s new in Django 5 as you build end-to-end Python web apps, follow detailed project plans, and understand the hows and whys of Django.This is a practical and approachable book that will have you creating web apps quickly.

Data Science Projects with Python. A case study approach to successful data science projects using Python, pandas, and scikit-learn

Stephen Klosterman

Data Science Projects with Python is designed to give you practical guidance on industry-standard data analysis and machine learning tools, by applying them to realistic data problems. You will learn how to use pandas and Matplotlib to critically examine datasets with summary statistics and graphs, and extract the insights you seek to derive. You will build your knowledge as you prepare data using the scikit-learn package and feed it to machine learning algorithms such as regularized logistic regression and random forest. You’ll discover how to tune algorithms to provide the most accurate predictions on new and unseen data. As you progress, you’ll gain insights into the working and output of these algorithms, building your understanding of both the predictive capabilities of the models and why they make these predictions.By then end of this book, you will have the necessary skills to confidently use machine learning algorithms to perform detailed data analysis and extract meaningful insights from unstructured data.