Wydawca: Packt Publishing
Founded in 2004 in Birmingham, UK, Packt's mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals. Working towards that vision, we have published over 6,500 books and videos so far, providing IT professionals with the actionable knowledge they need to get the job done - whether that's specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools. As part of our mission, we have also awarded over $1,000,000 through our Open Source Project Royalty scheme, helping numerous projects become household names along the way.
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Mastering QuickBooks 2024. Bookkeeping with US QuickBooks Online for small businesses - Fifth Edition

Crystalynn Shelton

In today's competitive business landscape, efficient financial management is crucial for success. QuickBooks Online has emerged as the go-to accounting software for small businesses, offering a user-friendly platform to manage finances, track expenses, and gain valuable insights. This new edition will help you use QuickBooks Online from scratch and customize it to suit your small business needs. Written by accounting expert Crystalynn Shelton, it takes you on an in-depth journey, from setting up your account to mastering advanced features and customizations.This book empowers you to conquer the latest features of QuickBooks Online 2024,;overcome challenges encountered during migration from desktop to online; plan cash flow, profits, revenue with precision; and streamline billing, expense tracking, and financial reporting. As you progress, you’ll learn to manage sales tax, including how to set up, collect, track, pay, and report sales tax payments. You’ll explore how to export reports to Google Sheets, use the custom chart builder, import budgets, and perform smart reporting with with using data sync with Excel.. You'll learn how to tailor QuickBooks Online to your specific business needs. By the end of the book, you’ll master the art of QuickBooks Online and take control of your business finances

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Building a Next-Gen SOC with IBM QRadar. Accelerate your security operations and detect cyber threats effectively

Ashish M Kothekar, Sandeep Patil

This comprehensive guide to QRadar will help you build an efficient security operations center (SOC) for threat hunting and need-to-know software updates, as well as understand compliance and reporting and how IBM QRadar stores network data in real time.The book begins with a quick introduction to QRadar components and architecture, teaching you the different ways of deploying QRadar. You’ll grasp the importance of being aware of the major and minor upgrades in software and learn how to scale, upgrade, and maintain QRadar. Once you gain a detailed understanding of QRadar and how its environment is built, the chapters will take you through the features and how they can be tailored to meet specifi c business requirements. You’ll also explore events, flows, and searches with the help of examples. As you advance, you’ll familiarize yourself with predefined QRadar applications and extensions that successfully mine data and find out how to integrate AI in threat management with confidence. Toward the end of this book, you’ll create different types of apps in QRadar, troubleshoot and maintain them, and recognize the current security challenges and address them through QRadar XDR.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to apply IBM QRadar SOC’s prescriptive practices and leverage its capabilities to build a very efficient SOC in your enterprise.

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Joomla! Search Engine Optimization. Drive people to your site with this supercharged guide to Joomla! and Search Engine Optimization with this book and

Ric Shreves

Joomla! is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications. SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the process and techniques by which you optmize the content and style of your site in order to induce more people to view it.Joomla! Search Engine Optimization will help you develop and execute an effective search engine optimization strategy for your site. From planning to implementation, the book covers best practices in contemporary SEO.In Joomla! Search Engine Optimization you will learn how to develop a dynamic and productive SEO campaign. Covering both the basics of campaign development as well as the daily work it takes to maintain your SEO competitiveness, this book will show you how to produce a distinct and appropriate strategy for your particular site. In particular you will learn key phrase selection and competitor analysis and the correct groundwork for your dynamic SEO campaign. Joomla! Search Engine Optimization will then show you, by finding the right combination of extensions, how to supercharge your site. You will also be given a guided tour of key SEO services, like Google and Bing Webmaster, in order to implement a progressive and effective link building campaign. You will then learn key expert tips and tricks to enable you to build SEO-effective content which will take your site from invisible to unmissable with little effort.

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Building Data Science Applications with FastAPI. Develop, manage, and deploy efficient machine learning applications with Python - Second Edition

François Voron

Building Data Science Applications with FastAPI is the go-to resource for creating efficient and dependable data science API backends. This second edition incorporates the latest Python and FastAPI advancements, along with two new AI projects – a real-time object detection system and a text-to-image generation platform using Stable Diffusion. The book starts with the basics of FastAPI and modern Python programming. You'll grasp FastAPI's robust dependency injection system, which facilitates seamless database communication, authentication implementation, and ML model integration. As you progress, you'll learn testing and deployment best practices, guaranteeing high-quality, resilient applications. Throughout the book, you'll build data science applications using FastAPI with the help of projects covering common AI use cases, such as object detection and text-to-image generation. These hands-on experiences will deepen your understanding of using FastAPI in real-world scenarios. By the end of this book, you'll be well equipped to maintain, design, and monitor applications to meet the highest programming standards using FastAPI, empowering you to create fast and reliable data science API backends with ease while keeping up with the latest advancements.

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Linux Device Driver Development Cookbook. Learn kernel programming and build custom drivers for your embedded Linux applications

Rodolfo Giometti

Linux is a unified kernel that is widely used to develop embedded systems. As Linux has turned out to be one of the most popular operating systems worldwide, the interest in developing proprietary device drivers has also increased. Device drivers play a critical role in how the system performs and ensure that the device works in the manner intended. By exploring several examples on the development of character devices, the technique of managing a device tree, and how to use other kernel internals, such as interrupts, kernel timers, and wait queue, you’ll be able to add proper management for custom peripherals to your embedded system.You’ll begin by installing the Linux kernel and then configuring it. Once you have installed the system, you will learn to use different kernel features and character drivers. You will also cover interrupts in-depth and understand how you can manage them. Later, you will explore the kernel internals required for developing applications. As you approach the concluding chapters, you will learn to implement advanced character drivers and also discover how to write important Linux device drivers.By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to write a custom character driver and kernel code according to your requirements.

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Learn Three.js. Program 3D animations and visualizations for the web with JavaScript and WebGL - Fourth Edition

Jos Dirksen

Three.js has become the industry standard for creating stunning 3D WebGL content. In this edition, you’ll learn about all the features of Three.js and understand how to integrate it with the newest physics engines. You'll also develop a strong grip on creating and animating immersive 3D scenes directly in your browser, reaping the full potential of WebGL and modern browsers.The book starts with the basic concepts and building blocks used in Three.js and helps you explore these essential topics in detail through extensive examples and code samples. You'll learn how to create realistic-looking 3D objects using textures and materials and how to load existing models from an external source. Next, you'll understand how to control the camera using the Three.js built-in camera controls, which will enable you to fly or walk around the 3D scene you've created. Later chapters will cover the use of HTML5 video and canvas elements as materials for your 3D objects to animate your models. You’ll learn how to use morph targets and skeleton-based animation, before understanding how to add physics, such as gravity and collision detection, to your scene. Finally, you’ll master combining Blender with Three.js and creating VR and AR scenes.By the end of this book, you'll be well-equipped to create 3D-animated graphics using Three.js.

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Mastering Linux Administration. A comprehensive guide to installing, configuring, and maintaining Linux systems in the modern data center

Alexandru Calcatinge, Julian Balog

Linux plays a significant role in modern data center management and provides great versatility in deploying and managing your workloads on-premises and in the cloud. This book covers the important topics you need to know about for your everyday Linux administration tasks.The book starts by helping you understand the Linux command line and how to work with files, packages, and filesystems. You'll then begin administering network services and hardening security, and learn about cloud computing, containers, and orchestration. Once you've learned how to work with the command line, you'll explore the essential Linux commands for managing users, processes, and daemons and discover how to secure your Linux environment using application security frameworks and firewall managers. As you advance through the chapters, you'll work with containers, hypervisors, virtual machines, Ansible, and Kubernetes. You'll also learn how to deploy Linux to the cloud using AWS and Azure.By the end of this Linux book, you'll be well-versed with Linux and have mastered everyday administrative tasks using workflows spanning from on-premises to the cloud. If you also find yourself adopting DevOps practices in the process, we'll consider our mission accomplished.

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Unreal Engine 4.X By Example. An example-based practical guide to get you up and running with Unreal Engine 4.X

Benjamin Carnall

With Unreal Engine 4 being made free to use, for any keen game developer it is quickly becoming the most popular game engine in today’s development industry. The engine offers a rich feature set that can be customized and built upon through the use of C++. This book will cover how to work with Unreal Engine’s tool set all the way from the basics of the editor and the visual scripting system blueprint to the in-depth low-level creation of content using C++.This book will provide you with the skills you need to create feature-rich, captivating, and refined game titles with Unreal Engine 4. This book will take you through the creation of four unique game projects, designed so that you will be ready to apply the engine’s rich development capabilities. You will learn not only to take advantage of the visual tools of the engine, but also the vast and powerful programming feature set of Unreal Engine 4.

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Go Programming Cookbook. Over 85 recipes to build modular, readable, and testable Golang applications across various domains - Second Edition

Aaron Torres

Go (or Golang) is a statically typed programming language developed at Google. Known for its vast standard library, it also provides features such as garbage collection, type safety, dynamic-typing capabilities, and additional built-in types. This book will serve as a reference while implementing Go features to build your own applications.This Go cookbook helps you put into practice the advanced concepts and libraries that Golang offers. The recipes in the book follow best practices such as documentation, testing, and vendoring with Go modules, as well as performing clean abstractions using interfaces. You'll learn how code works and the common pitfalls to watch out for. The book covers basic type and error handling, and then moves on to explore applications, such as websites, command-line tools, and filesystems, that interact with users. You'll even get to grips with parallelism, distributed systems, and performance tuning.By the end of the book, you'll be able to use open source code and concepts in Go programming to build enterprise-class applications without any hassle.

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Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook. Over 60 simple and incredibly effective recipes for harnessing the power of the best Moodle modules to create effective online learning sites

Michael De Raadt, Moodle Trust

Moodle is growing at a seemingly unstoppable rate. One of the key reasons for its popularity lies in its potential to extend with modules, thus making the site easier to administer, add new features, and completely change the way it looks. This book finds you the best Moodle modules, teaches you how to install them, and helps you to master their configuration.There are hundreds of Moodle modules available. Find out which you can trust and how to put them to work. This practical book gives you hands-on experience on using and managing Moodle modules, thus making your learning website feature-rich. It covers many features and techniques in order to allow you to organize your ideas to improve teaching using Moodle as a virtual learning platformThis book begins with simple activities such as adding and installing modules. Then, it moves to a very interesting topic about the integration of multimedia into Moodle, covering major multimedia elements such as images, audio, and video.Social networking applications like Twitter and Facebook are embedded in the Moodle course in order to invent stories, create group works, and create social team interactions with the virtual classroom. But the book doesn't end there, you will also see how to use Moodle to accept and assess coursework submissions, discuss work with students, and deliver quizzes, tests, and videos.The book ends with a chapter full of simple challenges such as adding educational games. This book is written to help you find modules that will be useful to you and your students, and to show examples of how these modules can be setup and used in teaching.