Unity 5.x By Example. An example-based practical guide to get you up and running with Unity 5.x

Alan Thorn

Unity is an exciting and popular engine in the game industry. Throughout this book, you’ll learn how to use Unity by making four fun game projects, from shooters and platformers to exploration and adventure games.Unity 5 By Example is an easy-to-follow guide for quickly learning how to use Unity in practical context, step by step, by making real-world game projects. Even if you have no previous experience of Unity, this book will help you understand the toolset in depth. You'll learn how to create a time-critical collection game, a twin-stick space shooter, a platformer, and an action-fest game with intelligent enemies. In clear and accessible prose, this book will present you with step-by-step tutorials for making four interesting games in Unity 5 and explain all the fundamental concepts along the way. Starting from the ground up and moving toward an intermediate level, this book will help you establish a strong foundation in making games with Unity 5.

Oracle Goldengate 11g Complete Cookbook. Dig deep into administering Oracle Goldengate 11g using this comprehensive cookbook. From the very basics of installation to advanced features like migration, you'll learn the practical way through code scripts and examples

Ankur Gupta

Oracle Goldengate 11g Complete Cookbook is your complete guide to all aspects of Goldengate administration. The recipes in this book will teach you how to setup Goldengate configurations for simple and complex environments requiring various filtering and transformations. It also covers various aspects of tuning and troubleshooting the replication setups using exception handling, custom fields, and logdump utility.The book begins by explaining some basic tasks like Installation and Process groups setup. You will then be introduced to some further topics including DDL replication and various options to perform Initial Loads. You will then learn some advanced administration tasks such as Multi Master replication setup and conflict resolution. Further recipes, contain the cross platform replication and high availability options for Goldengate.

Learn D3.js. Create interactive data-driven visualizations for the web with the D3.js library

Helder da Rocha

This book is a practical hands-on introduction to D3 (Data-driven Documents): the most popular open-source JavaScript library for creating interactive web-based data visualizations. Based entirely on open web standards, D3 provides an integrated collection of tools for efficiently binding data to graphical elements. If you have basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript you can use D3.js to create beautiful interactive web-based data visualizations.D3 is not a charting library. It doesn’t contain any pre-defined chart types, but can be used to create whatever visual representations of data you can imagine. The goal of this book is to introduce D3 and provide a learning path so that you obtain a solid understanding of its fundamental concepts, learn to use most of its modules and functions, and gain enough experience to create your own D3 visualizations. You will learn how to create bar, line, pie and scatter charts, trees, dendograms, treemaps, circle packs, chord/ribbon diagrams, sankey diagrams, animated network diagrams, and maps using different geographical projections. Fundamental concepts are explained in each chapter and then applied to a larger example in step-by-step tutorials, complete with full code, from hundreds of examples you can download and run. This book covers D3 version 5 and is based on ES2015 JavaScript.

Mastering NetScaler VPX. Learn how to deploy and configure all the available Citrix NetScaler features with the best practices and techniques you need to know

Rick Roetenberg, Marius Sandbu, Andy Paul

Citrix NetScaler is one of the best Application Delivery Controller products in the world. The Application Delivery Controllers are commonly used for load balancing purposes, to optimize traffic, and to perform extra security settings.This book will give you an insight into all the available features that the Citrix NetScaler appliance has to offer. The book will start with the commonly used NetScaler VPX features, such as load balancing and NetScaler Gateway functionality. Next, we cover features such as Responder, Rewrite, and the AppExpert templates, and how to configure these features. After that, you will learn more about the other available Citrix technologies that can interact with Citrix NetScaler. We also cover troubleshooting, optimizing traffic, caching, performing protection using Application Firewall, and denying HTTP DDoS attacks for web services.Finally, we will demonstrate the different configuration principles real-world Citrix NetScaler deployment scenarios.

Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints. Written by an Agile enthusiast, this comprehensive guide to GreenHopper will help you track and manage your projects in a way that achieves the best value for your team. Excellent reading for everybody from stakeholders to scrum masters

Jaibeer Malik

Agile methodologies like Scrum focus on customer values in an incremental way. Regular planning, tracking, reporting, and improving can become equally challenging from a project management perspective. GreenHopper is a tooling support for JIRA that offers easy adoption of agile practices through rich interfaces for effective team collaboration and project management.Agile Project Management with GreenHopper 6 Blueprints is a step-by-step guide that teaches you how to manage agile projects using the GreenHopper tooling system. With easy adoption using pre-sets for Scrum & Kanban, the rich interface focuses on the work at hand, increasing team productivity. Executing sprints, tracking sprints, and reporting on agile projects has never been so easy. The integration with different development environments helps teams to focus on collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement. This book covers agile project management concepts using GreenHopper.You will learn about backlog management for your agile team, how to create projects and boards for your agile team, and how to create new backlog items, prioritize items, estimate backlog items, create sprints, and update technical task status and report on the same.You will learn everything you need to know about managing an agile project using GreenHopper and how to achieve the best value for your team.

PHP 5 CMS Framework Development. For professional PHP developers, this is the perfect guide to web-oriented frameworks and content management systems. Covers all the critical design issues and programming techniques in an easy-to-follow style and structure

Martin Brampton

If you want an insight into the critical design issues and programming techniques required for a web oriented framework in PHP5, this book will be invaluable. Whether you want to build your own CMS style framework, want to understand how such frameworks are created, or simply want to review advanced PHP5 software development techniques, this book is for you.As a former development team leader on the renowned Mambo open-source content management system, author Martin Brampton offers unique insight and practical guidance into the problem of building an architecture for a web oriented framework or content management system, using the latest versions of popular web scripting language PHP.The scene-setting first chapter describes the evolution of PHP frameworks designed to support web sites by acting as content management systems. It reviews the critical and desirable features of such systems, followed by an overview of the technology and a review of the technical environment.Following chapters look at particular topics, with:‚Ģ A concise statement of the problem ‚Ģ Discussion of the important design issues and problems faced ‚Ģ Creation of the framework solutionAt every point, there is an emphasis on effectiveness, efficiency and security ‚Äì all vital attributes for sound web systems. By and large these are achieved through thoughtful design and careful implementation.Early chapters look at the best ways to handle some fundamental issues such as the automatic loading of code modules and interfaces to database systems. Digging deeper into the problems that are driven by web requirements, following chapters go deeply into session handling, caches, and access control.New for this edition is a chapter discussing the transformation of URLs to turn ugly query strings into readable strings that are believed to be more ‚Äúsearch engine friendly‚Äù and are certainly more user friendly. This topic is then extended into a review of ways to handle ‚Äúfriendly‚Äù URLs without going through query strings, and how to build RESTful interfaces.The final chapter discusses the key issues that affect a wide range of specific content handlers and explores a practical example in detail.

Data Science for Marketing Analytics. A practical guide to forming a killer marketing strategy through data analysis with Python - Second Edition

Mirza Rahim Baig, Gururajan Govindan, Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali

Unleash the power of data to reach your marketing goals with this practical guide to data science for business.This book will help you get started on your journey to becoming a master of marketing analytics with Python. You'll work with relevant datasets and build your practical skills by tackling engaging exercises and activities that simulate real-world market analysis projects.You'll learn to think like a data scientist, build your problem-solving skills, and discover how to look at data in new ways to deliver business insights and make intelligent data-driven decisions.As well as learning how to clean, explore, and visualize data, you'll implement machine learning algorithms and build models to make predictions. As you work through the book, you'll use Python tools to analyze sales, visualize advertising data, predict revenue, address customer churn, and implement customer segmentation to understand behavior.By the end of this book, you'll have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to implement data science and machine learning techniques to better understand your marketing data and improve your decision-making.

PhantomJS Cookbook. Over 70 recipes to help boost the productivity of your applications using real-world testing with PhantomJS

Rob Friesel

MySQL Admin Cookbook LITE: Replication and Indexing. Make your database quicker, more efficient, and better organized with replication and indexing

Udo Schwedt, Daniel Schneller

Tableau Certified Data Analyst Certification Guide. Ace the Tableau Data Analyst certification exam with expert guidance and practice material

Harry Cooney, Daisy Jones

The Tableau Certified Data Analyst certification validates the essential skills needed to explore, analyze, and present data, propelling your career in data analytics. Whether you're a seasoned Tableau user or just starting out, this comprehensive resource is your roadmap to mastering Tableau and achieving certification success.The book begins by exploring the fundamentals of data analysis, from connecting to various data sources to transforming and cleaning data for meaningful insights. With practical exercises and realistic mock exams, you'll gain hands-on experience that reinforces your understanding of Tableau concepts and prepares you for the challenges of the certification exam.As you progress, expert guidance and clear explanations make it easy to navigate complex topics as each chapter builds upon the last, providing a seamless learning experience—from creating impactful visualizations to managing content on Tableau Cloud.Written by a team of experts, this Tableau book not only helps you pass the certification exam but also equips you with the skills and confidence needed to excel in your career. It is an indispensable resource for unlocking the full potential of Tableau.

Swift by Example

Giordano Scalzo

Datadog Cloud Monitoring Quick Start Guide. Proactively create dashboards, write scripts, manage alerts, and monitor containers using Datadog

Thomas Kurian Theakanath

Datadog is an essential cloud monitoring and operational analytics tool which enables the monitoring of servers, virtual machines, containers, databases, third-party tools, and application services. IT and DevOps teams can easily leverage Datadog to monitor infrastructure and cloud services, and this book will show you how.The book starts by describing basic monitoring concepts and types of monitoring that are rolled out in a large-scale IT production engineering environment. Moving on, the book covers how standard monitoring features are implemented on the Datadog platform and how they can be rolled out in a real-world production environment. As you advance, you'll discover how Datadog is integrated with popular software components that are used to build cloud platforms. The book also provides details on how to use monitoring standards such as Java Management Extensions (JMX) and StatsD to extend the Datadog platform. Finally, you'll get to grips with monitoring fundamentals, learn how monitoring can be rolled out using Datadog proactively, and find out how to extend and customize the Datadog platform.By the end of this Datadog book, you will have gained the skills needed to monitor your cloud infrastructure and the software applications running on it using Datadog.

SDL Game Development. If you're good with C++ and object oriented programming, this book utilizes your skills to create 2D games using the Simple DirectMedia Layer API. Practical tutorials include the development of two wickedly good games

Shaun Mitchell

SDL 2.0 is the latest release of the popular Simple DirectMedia Layer API, which is designed to make life easier for C++ developers, allowing you simple low-level access to various multiplatform audio, graphics, and input devices.SDL Game Development guides you through creating your first 2D game using SDL and C++. It takes a clear and practical approach to SDL game development, ensuring that the focus remains on creating awesome games.Starting with the installation and setup of SDL, you will quickly become familiar with useful SDL features, covering sprites, state management, and OOP, leading to a reusable framework that is extendable for your own games. SDL Game Development culminates in the development of two exciting action games that utilize the created framework along with tips to improve the framework.

Building Wireless Sensor Networks Using Arduino. Leverage the powerful Arduino and XBee platforms to monitor and control your surroundings

Matthijs Kooijman

Terraform for Google Cloud Essential Guide. Learn how to provision infrastructure in Google Cloud securely and efficiently

Bernd Nordhausen

Google Cloud has adopted Terraform as the standard Infrastructure as Code tool. This necessitates a solid understanding of Terraform for any cloud architect or engineer working on Google Cloud. Yet no specific resources are available that focus on how to use Terraform on Google Cloud.This is the first book that teaches Terraform specifically for Google Cloud. You will take a journey from the basic concepts through to deploying complex architectures using Terraform. Using extensive code examples, you will receive guidance on how to authenticate Terraform in Google Cloud. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with all the essential concepts of the Terraform language as applied to Google Cloud and deploy complete working architectures at the push of a button. Finally, you’ll also be able to improve your Terraform workflow using Google Cloud native and third-party tools.By the end of this Terraform book, you will have gained a thorough understanding of Terraform and how to use it on Google Cloud, and be able to develop effective Terraform code, build reusable code, and utilize public domain Terraform modules to deploy on Google Cloud faster and more securely.

The Complete Power BI Interview Guide. A modern approach to acing the data analyst interview and landing your dream job

Sandielly Ortega Polanco, Gogula Aryalingam, Abu Bakar Nisar Alvi

The Complete Power Interview Guide helps you excel in a Power BI interview, secure desired roles, and be ready with the knowledge and skills to ace your role from the first day. Whether you're beginning your career journey or transitioning into a data analytics role, this guide offers hands-on skills and interview questions you need to succeed as a BI or data analyst. This book also offers supplemental content for PowerBI certification exams like PL-300. The book will equip you with the knowledge and strategies to effectively navigate the competitive job market. From creating an outstanding online professional profile to optimizing your resume and building a compelling work portfolio, you'll learn how to establish a strong personal brand. The essentials of Power BI, including data preparation, data modeling, DAX programming, expert report development, and impactful storytelling, are covered in-depth through real-world examples and valuable tips.By the end of this book, you'll have the confidence to interview for Power BI roles, navigate technical assessments, answer behavioral questions, and tackle case studies. You’ll have gained applied knowledge and the competitive edge needed to succeed in the data analytics job market and stay ahead of industry trends for career advancement.