Getting Started with Python and Raspberry Pi. Learn to design and implement reliable Python applications on the Raspberry Pi using a range of external libraries, the Raspberry Pis GPIO port, and the camera module

Dan Nixon

Creative Greenfoot. Build engaging interactive applications, games, and simulations using Java and Greenfoot

Michael Haungs

The Missing Bootstrap 5 Guide. Customize and extend Bootstrap 5 with Sass and JavaScript to create unique website designs

Jeppe Schaumburg Jensen

Bootstrap is one of the world's most popular and easy-to-use frontend UI toolkits for building responsive websites, but few know how to get the most out of its vast range of components, utilities, JavaScript plugins, and other features. The Missing Bootstrap 5 Guide will help you customize Bootstrap 5 with Sass to achieve a layout that stands out from the crowd, enabling you to create something unique that doesn't look like it was created with Bootstrap.With this practical guide to Bootstrap customization, developers working with Bootstrap will be able to utilize powerful customization techniques to create websites with unique designs and exclusive features. You’ll see how you can develop a visually appealing website quickly and easily by taking a hands-on approach to customizing your website using advanced features of CSS, Sass, and JavaScript. Starting with learning how the Bootstrap 5 visual style is created with Sass, you’ll find out how to customize it to fit your needs while achieving the website look you want. You'll then use this knowledge to create a website using most of Bootstrap 5's components and customization with Sass and JavaScript. Finally, you’ll explore various advanced Bootstrap 5 topics related to Sass, CSS, JavaScript, and source code optimization.By the end of this book, you'll be able to design and build modern, captivating, and unique websites on your own using the immense capabilities of Bootstrap 5.

Learning Kubernetes Security. A practical guide for secure and scalable containerized environments - Second Edition

Raul Lapaz

With readily available services, support, and tools, Kubernetes has become a foundation for digital transformation and cloud-native development, but it brings significant security challenges such as breaches and supply chain attacks.This updated edition equips you with defense strategies to protect your applications and infrastructure while understanding the attacker mindset, including tactics like container escapes and exploiting vulnerabilities to compromise clusters. The author distills his 25+ years of experience to guide you through Kubernetes components, architecture, and networking, addressing authentication, authorization, image scanning, resource monitoring, and traffic sniffing. You’ll implement security controls using third-party plugins (krew) and tools like Falco, Tetragon, and Cilium. You’ll also secure core components, such as the kube-apiserver, CoreDNS, and kubelet, while hardening images, managing security contexts, and applying PodSecurityPolicy. Through practical examples, the book teaches advanced techniques like redirecting traffic from misconfigured clusters to rogue pods and enhances your support incident response with effective cluster monitoring and log analysis.By the end of the book, you'll have a solid grasp of container security as well as the skills to defend your clusters against evolving threats.

SQL Injection Strategies. Practical techniques to secure old vulnerabilities against modern attacks

Ettore Galluccio, Edoardo Caselli, Gabriele Lombari

SQL injection (SQLi) is probably the most infamous attack that can be unleashed against applications on the internet. SQL Injection Strategies is an end-to-end guide for beginners looking to learn how to perform SQL injection and test the security of web applications, websites, or databases, using both manual and automated techniques. The book serves as both a theoretical and practical guide to take you through the important aspects of SQL injection, both from an attack and a defense perspective.You’ll start with a thorough introduction to SQL injection and its impact on websites and systems. Later, the book features steps to configure a virtual environment, so you can try SQL injection techniques safely on your own computer. These tests can be performed not only on web applications but also on web services and mobile applications that can be used for managing IoT environments. Tools such as sqlmap and others are then covered, helping you understand how to use them effectively to perform SQL injection attacks.By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with SQL injection, from both the attack and defense perspective.

IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration. Ensure effective and efficient team collaboration by building a solid social infrastructure with IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5

Keith Brooks, Olusola Omosaiye, Mark Harper, David Byrd, ...

When the IT strategy calls for maximizing the value of social software for building effective teams, neither social networking nor team collaboration is sufficient on its own. Lotus Quickr Team Collaboration software delivers the promise of social software; but ensuring that a business's social networking site is compliant can be daunting. This book will help you ensure effective and efficient team collaboration by building a solid social infrastructure with IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5.The book will familiarize system administrators with all the information they need to install, upgrade, and manage IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5. You will also learn to leverage social software principles to foster diverse teams in an interconnected world. This book will help you break virtual boundaries and remove the impediments to the development of high-performance teams through the use of IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5.This practical book starts off by providing you with a clear, detailed walkthrough of key concepts including collaboration beyond document management, and adopting social collaboration in an enterprise.We then examine the product architecture of Lotus Quickr services and provide a walkthrough of deployment aspects of Lotus Quickr to provide a scalable environment through clustering. We cover some of the basic tools used to set up and manage the IBM Lotus Quickr server along with unique methods for upgrading to the latest 8.5 version. We provide you with an in-depth look at the concepts of Lotus Quickr Connectors deployment, management, and a new capability around Windows-based single sign-on to solve a variety of problems.By the end of this book, you will be able to build a well-executed social collaboration platform that delivers the productivity edge needed to succeed in the digitally interconnected business world of today.

Hands-On Serverless Computing with Google Cloud. Build, deploy, and containerize apps using Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and cloud-native technologies

Richard Rose

Google Cloud's serverless platform allows organizations to scale fully managed solutions without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. With this book, you will learn how to design, develop, and deploy full stack serverless apps on Google Cloud.The book starts with a quick overview of the Google Cloud console, its features, user interface (UI), and capabilities. After getting to grips with the Google Cloud interface and its features, you will explore the core aspects of serverless products such as Cloud Run, Cloud Functions and App Engine. You will also learn essential features such as version control, containerization, and identity and access management with the help of real-world use cases. Later, you will understand how to incorporate continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) techniques for serverless applications. Toward the concluding chapters, you will get to grips with how key technologies such as Knative enable Cloud Run to be hosted on multiple platforms including Kubernetes and VMware.By the end of this book, you will have become proficient in confidently developing, managing, and deploying containerized applications on Google Cloud.

Learning Angular. A no-nonsense guide to building web applications with Angular 15 - Fourth Edition

Aristeidis Bampakos, Pablo Deeleman

As Angular continues to reign as one of the top JavaScript frameworks, more developers are seeking out the best way to get started with this extraordinarily flexible and secure framework. Learning Angular, now in its fourth edition, will show you how you can use it to achieve cross-platform high performance with the latest web techniques, extensive integration with modern web standards, and integrated development environments (IDEs).The book is especially useful for those new to Angular and will help you to get to grips with the bare bones of the framework to start developing Angular apps. You'll learn how to develop apps by harnessing the power of the Angular command-line interface (CLI), write unit tests, style your apps by following the Material Design guidelines, and finally, deploy them to a hosting provider.Updated for Angular 15, this new edition covers lots of new features and tutorials that address the current frontend web development challenges. You’ll find a new dedicated chapter on observables and RxJS, more on error handling and debugging in Angular, and new real-life examples.By the end of this book, you’ll not only be able to create Angular applications with TypeScript from scratch, but also enhance your coding skills with best practices.

RHCSA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Comprehensive Mastery for Advanced System Administration and Certification Success

Asghar Ghori

Embark on a journey through Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, beginning with the basics of local installation and initial system interactions. Our course guides you through fundamental and advanced file management techniques, ensuring you can handle any file-related tasks with ease. Explore user management in-depth, from basic to advanced levels, providing you with the skills to manage users and groups effectively.Delve into the core aspects of the Linux operating system, including the Bash shell, process management, and job scheduling. Gain expertise in package management, both basic and advanced, to keep your system up-to-date and efficient. Understand the intricacies of the Linux boot process, system initialization, and system tuning to optimize performance and reliability.The course also covers essential networking concepts, including device management, connections, and hostname resolution. You'll learn to secure your system with SSH, firewall configuration, and SELinux. Additionally, explore storage management, local file systems, and swap configurations to ensure robust data handling. Finally, enhance your automation skills with shell scripting and containers, preparing you for modern DevOps environments.

CompTIA(R) Security+(R) SY0-701 Certification Guide. Master cybersecurity fundamentals and pass the SY0-701 exam on your first attempt - Third Edition

Ian Neil

Building on the success of its international bestselling predecessor, this third edition of the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Certification Guide serves as your one-stop resource for Security+ exam preparation. Written by cybersecurity expert Ian Neil, this comprehensive guide helps you unlock the intricacies of cybersecurity and understand the technology behind the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 certification, ensuring you approach the exam with confidence and pass on your first attempt.By exploring security in detail, this book introduces essential principles, controls, and best practices. The chapters are meticulously designed to provide 100% coverage of the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam objectives, ensuring you have the most up-to-date and relevant study material. By mastering cybersecurity fundamentals, you’ll acquire the knowledge and skills to identify and mitigate threats, manage vulnerabilities, and safeguard enterprise infrastructure. Additionally, the book grants lifetime access to web-based exam prep tools, including 3 full-length mock exams, flashcards, acronyms, along with a 12% Security+ exam discount voucher.Whether you aim to excel the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam, advance your career in cybersecurity, or enhance your existing knowledge, this book will transform you into a cybersecurity expert.

Mastering NLP from Foundations to LLMs. Apply advanced rule-based techniques to LLMs and solve real-world business problems using Python

Lior Gazit, Meysam Ghaffari, Asha Saxena

Do you want to master Natural Language Processing (NLP) but don’t know where to begin? This book will give you the right head start. Written by leaders in machine learning and NLP, Mastering NLP from Foundations to LLMs provides an in-depth introduction to techniques. Starting with the mathematical foundations of machine learning (ML), you’ll gradually progress to advanced NLP applications such as large language models (LLMs) and AI applications. You’ll get to grips with linear algebra, optimization, probability, and statistics, which are essential for understanding and implementing machine learning and NLP algorithms. You’ll also explore general machine learning techniques and find out how they relate to NLP. Next, you’ll learn how to preprocess text data, explore methods for cleaning and preparing text for analysis, and understand how to do text classification. You’ll get all of this and more along with complete Python code samples.By the end of the book, the advanced topics of LLMs’ theory, design, and applications will be discussed along with the future trends in NLP, which will feature expert opinions. You’ll also get to strengthen your practical skills by working on sample real-world NLP business problems and solutions.

The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11. Level up your music recording, arranging, editing, and mixing skills and workflow techniques

Anna Lakatos, Ski Oakenfull

The Music Producer's Guide to Ableton Live will help you sharpen your production skills and gain a deeper understanding of the Live workflow. If you are a music maker working with other digital audios workstations (DAWs) or experienced in Ableton Live, perhaps earlier versions, you’ll be able to put your newfound knowledge to use right away with this book.You’ll start with some basic features and workflows that are more suitable for producers from another DAW looking to transfer their skills to Ableton Live 11.2. As you explore the Live concept, you’ll learn to create expressive music using Groove and MIDI effects and demystify Live 11’s new workflow improvements, such as Note Chance and Velocity Randomization. The book then introduces the Scale Mode, MIDI Transform tools, and other key features that can make composition and coming up with melodic elements easier than ever before. It will also guide you in implementing Live 11's new and updated effects into your current workflow.By the end of this Ableton Live book, you’ll be able to implement advanced production and workflow techniques and amplify live performance capabilities with what the Live 11 workflow has to offer.

.NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development. Leverage a first-class cross-platform UI framework to build native apps on multiple platforms

Roger Ye

An evolution of Xamarin.Forms, .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is a cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML. Using .NET MAUI, you can develop apps that’ll run on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows from a single shared code-base. This step-by-step guide provides a comprehensive introduction to those who are new to .NET MAUI that will have you up to speed with app development using .NET MAUI in no time.The book begins by showing you how to develop a cross-platform application using .NET MAUI and then helps you build an app throughout the chapters. You’ll gain all the knowledge needed to create a cross-platform application for Android, iOS, the mac OS, and Windows from a single shared code-base using .NET MAUI. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with the entire application development lifecycle, from design and implementation through to deployment to the app store through the development of a password manager app using KeePassLib. The concluding chapters will teach you how to integrate the latest frontend technology into your app through .NET MAUI Blazor.By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to develop your own cross-platform applications using .NET MAUI.

Learning Java by Building Android Games. Learn Java and Android from scratch by building six exciting games - Second Edition

John Horton

Android is one of the most popular mobile operating systems presently. It uses the most popular programming language, Java, as the primary language for building apps of all types. However, this book is unlike other Android books in that it doesn’t assume that you already have Java proficiency.This new and expanded second edition of Learning Java by Building Android Games shows you how to start building Android games from scratch. The difficulty level will grow steadily as you explore key Java topics, such as variables, loops, methods, object oriented programming, and design patterns, including code and examples that are written for Java 9 and Android P. At each stage, you will put what you’ve learned into practice by developing a game. You will build games such as Minesweeper, Retro Pong, Bullet Hell, and Classic Snake and Scrolling Shooter games. In the later chapters, you will create a time-trial, open-world platform game. By the end of the book, you will not only have grasped Java and Android but will also have developed six cool games for the Android platform.

ASP.NET Core 9 Essentials. Master Razor Pages, Blazor, and MVC to build powerful, cloud-ready web applications

Albert S. Tanure

Build cutting-edge web applications using ASP.NET Core 9 with this comprehensive guide from Microsoft MVP Albert Tanure, a seasoned .NET expert with over 20 years of experience as a cloud solutions architect. Albert brings unparalleled expertise in building modern web applications to ASP.NET Core 9 Essentials to help you kickstart your journey on the right foot.Starting with the platform’s fundamental concepts, you’ll work through practical exercises to develop web applications with powerful UI frameworks, deliver flexible and scalable solutions through an API approach, and explore advanced topics such as customizing request flows and implementing robust security measures. You’ll get to grips with cloud-native practices to prepare your applications for cloud environments. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, this book is your guide to building modern, secure, and adaptable web applications with ASP.NET Core.By the end, you'll have the skills to create professional web applications that are scalable, resilient, and secure.

Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2. This is the perfect introduction to implementing a virtual desktop using VMware Horizon View. Step by step it gives plenty of handholding on key topics, taking you from novice to knowledgeable in no time

Jason Ventresco

VMware Horizon View helps you simplify desktop and application management while increasing security and control. This book will introduce you to all of the components of the VMware Horizon View suite, walk you through their deployment, and show how they are used. We will also discuss how to assess your virtual desktop resource requirements, and build an optimized virtual desktop. Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2 will provide you the information needed to deploy and administer your own end-user computing infrastructure. This includes not only the View components themselves, but key topics such as assessing virtual desktop resource needs, and how to optimize your virtual desktop master image.You will learn how to design and deploy a performant, flexible and powerful desktop virtualization solution using VMware Horizon View. You will implement important components and features, such as VMware View Connection Server, VMware View Composer, VMware View Transfer Server, and VMware View Security Server.Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2 will take you through application virtualization with VMware ThinApp, the implementation of Persona Management, and creation of Desktop Pools. We then cover View Client options, Desktop maintenance, and Virtual Desktop Master Image. Finally we discuss View SSL certificates management, Group Policies, PowerCLI, and VMware View Design and Maintenance to help you get the most out of VMware View.If you want to learn how to design, implement and administrate a complex, optimized desktop virtualization solution with VMware View, then this book is for you.

VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook. The perfect guide to successful VMware Virtual SAN implementation and operations, with recipes to guide you through the process

Jeffrey M Ransom Taylor, Patrick Carmichael, Simon Gallagher, Jeffrey Taylor

Scientific Computing with Scala. Learn to solve scientific computing problems using Scala and its numerical computing, data processing, concurrency, and plotting libraries

Vytautas Jancauskas

Scala is a statically typed, Java Virtual Machine (JVM)-based language with strong support for functional programming. There exist libraries for Scala that cover a range of common scientific computing tasks – from linear algebra and numerical algorithms to convenient and safe parallelization to powerful plotting facilities. Learning to use these to perform common scientific tasks will allow you to write programs that are both fast and easy to write and maintain.We will start by discussing the advantages of using Scala over other scientific computing platforms. You will discover Scala packages that provide the functionality you have come to expect when writing scientific software. We will explore using Scala's Breeze library for linear algebra, optimization, and signal processing. We will then proceed to the Saddle library for data analysis. If you have experience in R or with Python's popular pandas library you will learn how to translate those skills to Saddle. If you are new to data analysis, you will learn basic concepts of Saddle as well. Well will explore the numerical computing environment called ScalaLab. It comes bundled with a lot of scientific software readily available. We will use it for interactive computing, data analysis, and visualization. In the following chapters, we will explore using Scala's powerful parallel collections for safe and convenient parallel programming. Topics such as the Akka concurrency framework will be covered. Finally, you will learn about multivariate data visualization and how to produce professional-looking plots in Scala easily. After reading the book, you should have more than enough information on how to start using Scala as your scientific computing platform

Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook. A practical step-by-step guide to develop end-to-end extensions to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, with detailed illustrations and explanations

Andy Penver

Oracle's suite of applications is used by many major businesses and public sector organizations throughout the world. Oracle E-Business Suite is the most comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications that enable organizations to make better decisions, reduce costs, and increase performance. The book will show you how to build different types of extensions with different toolsets. It will take you from start to finish with fully working examples.This book will show readers a wide variety of step-by-step examples of how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 in a number of areas. The book focuses on OA Framework personalization and development, WebADI, and BI Publisher. It will take readers through the process of how to get started and what tools are needed. It will explain how to develop working examples and how to deploy them within Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. Learn how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12, using detailed examples to work through how various components are configured and how we can extend standard functionality. The book focuses on OA Framework personalization and development, desktop integration (formerly WebADI), and BI Publisher and each chapter will introduce the topic before going through working examples from start to finish. There are plenty of detailed illustrations throughout each chapter giving clear instructions of what we are doing and why. Each topic will develop a solution that will utilize common core components of a subject area. It focuses on starting an extension right from the beginning to deploying it within E-Business Suite. At the end of each chapter the reader will have a good understanding of what they need to do for each area to take away and start using it in practice. Each chapter will detail how to build an extension in the supported manner and also comes with complete, fully tested code and scripts that can be downloaded.

Advanced TypeScript 3 Programming Projects. Build 9 different apps with TypeScript 3 and JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React, and Vue

Peter O'Hanlon

With the demand for ever more complex websites, the need to write robust, standard-compliant JavaScript has never been greater. TypeScript is modern JavaScript with the support of a first-class type system, which makes it simpler to write complex web systems. With this book, you’ll explore core concepts and learn by building a series of websites and TypeScript apps.You’ll start with an introduction to TypeScript features that are often overlooked in other books, before moving on to creating a simple markdown parser. You’ll then explore React and get up to speed with creating a client-side contacts manager. Next, the book will help you discover the Angular framework and use the MEAN stack to create a photo gallery. Later sections will assist you in creating a GraphQL Angular Todo app and then writing a Socket.IO chatroom. The book will also lead you through developing your final Angular project which is a mapping app. As you progress, you’ll gain insights into React with Docker and microservices. You’ll even focus on how to build an image classification program with machine learning using TensorFlow. Finally, you’ll learn to combine TypeScript and C# to create an ASP.NET Core-based music library app.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to confidently use TypeScript 3.0 and different JavaScript frameworks to build high-quality apps.

Developing High-Frequency Trading Systems. Learn how to implement high-frequency trading from scratch with C++ or Java basics

Sebastien Donadio, Sourav Ghosh, Romain Rossier

The world of trading markets is complex, but it can be made easier with technology. Sure, you know how to code, but where do you start? What programming language do you use? How do you solve the problem of latency? This book answers all these questions. It will help you navigate the world of algorithmic trading and show you how to build a high-frequency trading (HFT) system from complex technological components, supported by accurate data.Starting off with an introduction to HFT, exchanges, and the critical components of a trading system, this book quickly moves on to the nitty-gritty of optimizing hardware and your operating system for low-latency trading, such as bypassing the kernel, memory allocation, and the danger of context switching. Monitoring your system’s performance is vital, so you’ll also focus on logging and statistics. As you move beyond the traditional HFT programming languages, such as C++ and Java, you’ll learn how to use Python to achieve high levels of performance. And what book on trading is complete without diving into cryptocurrency? This guide delivers on that front as well, teaching how to perform high-frequency crypto trading with confidence.By the end of this trading book, you’ll be ready to take on the markets with HFT systems.

Mastering Windows Server 2022. Comprehensive administration of your Windows Server environment - Fourth Edition

Jordan Krause

Written by a 10-time Microsoft MVP award winner with over 20 years of IT experience, Mastering Windows Server 2022 is a practical guide to deploying, securing, and optimizing your server infrastructure. Whether you’re new to server administration or an experienced professional sharpening your skills, this book is designed to be referenced on a regular basis instead of gathering dust on your shelf.Updated for Windows Server 2022, this book covers versions, licensing models, and the latest features while guiding you through single-pane-of-glass administration with tools like Server Manager, PowerShell, and Windows Admin Center. While the primary focus is on Windows Server 2022 LTSC, we also explore SAC server releases, Containers, Nano Server, and OS release cadences.You’ll gain hands-on expertise in remote access technologies, PKI and certificate management, virtualization with Hyper-V, and deploying a Remote Desktop Services farm. Plus, you’ll master Server Core, built-in redundancy, and troubleshooting techniques – all while reinforcing core infrastructure skills like Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Group Policy.

Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan. Develop a modern rendering engine from first principles to state-of-the-art techniques

Marco Castorina, Gabriel Sassone

Vulkan is now an established and flexible multi-platform graphics API. It has been adopted in many industries, including game development, medical imaging, movie productions, and media playback but learning it can be a daunting challenge due to its low-level, complex nature. Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan is designed to help you overcome this difficulty, providing a practical approach to learning one of the most advanced graphics APIs.In Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan, you’ll focus on building a high-performance rendering engine from the ground up. You’ll explore Vulkan’s advanced features, such as pipeline layouts, resource barriers, and GPU-driven rendering, to automate tedious tasks and create efficient workflows. Additionally, you'll delve into cutting-edge techniques like mesh shaders and real-time ray tracing, elevating your graphics programming to the next level.By the end of this book, you’ll have a thorough understanding of modern rendering engines to confidently handle large-scale projects. Whether you're developing games, simulations, or visual effects, this guide will equip you with the skills and knowledge to harness Vulkan’s full potential.

AI-Powered Commerce. Building the products and services of the future with Commerce.AI

Andy Pandharikar, Frederik Bussler

Commerce.AI is a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, trained on over a trillion data points, to help businesses build next-gen products and services. If you want to be the best business on the block, using AI is a must.Developers and analysts working with AI will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical guide. You'll begin by learning the core themes of new product and service innovation, including how to identify market opportunities, come up with ideas, and predict trends. With plenty of use cases as reference, you'll learn how to apply AI for innovation, both programmatically and with Commerce.AI. You'll also find out how to analyze product and service data with tools such as GPT-J, Python pandas, Prophet, and TextBlob. As you progress, you'll explore the evolution of commerce in AI, including how top businesses today are using AI. You'll learn how Commerce.AI merges machine learning, product expertise, and big data to help businesses make more accurate decisions. Finally, you'll use the Commerce.AI suite for product ideation and analyzing market trends.By the end of this artificial intelligence book, you'll be able to strategize new product opportunities by using AI, and also have an understanding of how to use Commerce.AI for product ideation, trend analysis, and predictions.