ROS Robotics By Example. Bring life to your robot using ROS robotic applications

Carol Fairchild, Dr. Thomas L. Harman

The visionaries who created ROS developed a framework for robotics centered on the commonality of robotic systems and exploited this commonality in ROS to expedite the development of future robotic systems. From the fundamental concepts to advanced practical experience, this book will provide you with an incremental knowledge of the ROS framework, the backbone of the robotics evolution. ROS standardizes many layers of robotics functionality from low-level device drivers to process control to message passing to software package management. This book provides step-by-step examples of mobile, armed, and flying robots, describing the ROS implementation as the basic model for other robots of these types. By controlling these robots, whether in simulation or in reality, you will use ROS to drive, move, and fly robots using ROS control.

ServiceDesk Plus 8.x Essentials. A kick-start guide to implement and administer IT Service Management processes with ServiceDesk Plus

Ankush Agarwal

IT service management (ITSM) refers to the implementation and management of quality IT services that meet the needs of your business. ServiceDesk Plus is an integrated web-based helpdesk tool that assists you in planning, setting up, and achieving the timely execution of IT services efficiently.ServiceDesk Plus 8.x Essentials is a practical, hands-on guide that walks you through the features of ServiceDesk Plus 8.x to help you set up and manage day-to-day IT services. The book also helps you to understand and practice the ITIL methodologies while using the tool for daily operations.ServiceDesk Plus 8.x Essentials conceptualizes the ITIL framework and takes you through the core processes and their implementation in ServiceDesk Plus 8.x in an easy and practical manner.The book will also help you to learn the process flows and manage incidents, problems, assets, and configurations while understanding the scope and responsibilities of the helpdesk. It also takes you through controlling changes and releases and highlights the features of the tools. If you need a concise handbook for a complete understanding of the metrics, challenges and risks of ITSM, then you have found the right book.With ServiceDesk Plus 8.x Essentials, you will learn everything you need to know to administer and manage IT services using ServiceDesk Plus, while making ITIL concepts practical and fun.

Django Project Blueprints. Develop stunning web application projects with the Django framework

Asad Jibran Ahmed

Django is a high-level web framework that eases the creation of complex, database-driven websites. It emphasizes on the reusability and pluggability of components, rapid development, and the principle of don't repeat yourself. It lets you build high-performing, elegant web applications quickly.There are several Django tutorials available online, which take as many shortcuts as possible, but leave you wondering how you can adapt them to your own needs. This guide takes the opposite approach by demonstrating how to work around common problems and client requests, without skipping the important details. If you have built a few Django projects and are on the lookout for a guide to get you past the basics and to solve modern development tasks, this is your book.Seven unique projects will take you through the development process from scratch, leaving no stone unturned. In the first two projects, you will learn everything from adding ranking and voting capabilities to your App to building a multiuser blog platform with a unique twist. The third project tackles APIs with Django and walks us through building a Nagios-inspired infrastructure monitoring system. And that is just the start!The other projects deal with customizing the Django admin to create a CMS for your clients, translating your web applications to multiple languages, and using the Elasticsearch search server with Django to create a high performing e-commerce web site. The seventh chapter includes a surprise usage of Django, and we dive deep into the internals of Django to create something exciting!When you're done, you'll have consistent patterns and techniques that you can build on for many projects to come.

Vulkan 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook. Implement expert-level techniques for high-performance graphics with Vulkan - Second Edition

Sergey Kosarevsky, Alexey Medvedev, Viktor Latypov, Anton Kaplanyan

Written by experts with decades of rendering experience, this cookbook equips you with practical, hands-on recipes to master modern 3D graphics development by using bindless Vulkan.Focusing on Vulkan 1.3, this second edition starts by setting up your development environment, and quickly transitions to building a robust 3D rendering framework using self-contained recipes. Each recipe helps you incrementally enhance your codebase, integrating a variety of 3D rendering techniques and algorithms into a cohesive project. You’ll get to grips with core techniques, such as glTF 2.0 physically based rendering, image-based lighting, and GPU-driven rendering. The chapters help you grasp advanced topics, including glTF animations, screen-space rendering techniques, and optimization strategies. You’ll also learn how to use glTF 2.0 advanced PBR extensions and handle complex geometry data, ensuring your rendering engine is both powerful and performant. These new additions will enable you to create dynamic and realistic 3D graphics environments, fully utilizing Vulkan’s capabilities.By the end of this 3D rendering book, you’ll have gained an improved understanding of best practices used in modern graphic APIs and be able to create fast and versatile 3D rendering frameworks.

Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook. Over 70 recipes for making your own games with this Microsoft Windows Phone 7 XNA book and

Zheng Yang

Developing games for Windows Phone 7, a new mobile platform, is your big chance to impact the world of mobile games. The XNA 4.0 for Windows Phone 7 integrates a lot of capabilities from software and hardware for you to create incredible games. The next generation of mobile games will be built by you. Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook is the best choice for you to make a game on Windows Phone 7. The book helps you to master the indispensable techniques to create your games using XNA 4.0. From the basics such as animating a 2D sprite and interacting with the customized graphical user interface to the more challenging such as 3D graphic rendering and collision detection.This comprehensive cookbook covers all the essential areas of XNA game development for Windows Phone 7, such as approaches to control the sensors, gestures and typical kinds of cameras. We also have recipes for sprite animation, texture rendering, and graphical user interface development that will give you a powerful tool to work with 2D effects. After this we move onto the more juicy stuff with recipes covering 3D graphic rendering and collision detection, and major ways to improve your loading efficiency. You will also work with Xbox live so you can take your game global. Finally, no mobile game development book would be complete without a look at performance optimization to make your games run faster. Windows Phone 7 XNA Cookbook will equip you with the firepower to rock the game world.

Canva Cookbook. Unlock the full potential of Canva with practical recipes for creating stunning visuals effortlessly

Barbara Tulissi

Want to make an impact online with stunning visuals, scroll-stopping ads, and polished video? Digital design expert, Barbara Tulissi, shows you how to turn basic Canva skills into professional-level designs with ease.Whether you're a content creator, educator, entrepreneur, or media manager, this book helps you take your visuals to the next level. You’ll begin by building a strong visual identity, working through guided exercises to define your brand’s voice, values, and aesthetic. With that foundation, you’ll dive into a series of focused design recipes covering everything from crafting scroll-stopping posts to producing polished presentations and print-ready assets. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped to create compelling brand identities, impactful marketing materials, scroll-stopping ads, and print-ready designs – all while mastering Canva AI’s Magic Studio to streamline and elevate your design workflow.

Practical Threat Detection Engineering. A hands-on guide to planning, developing, and validating detection capabilities

Megan Roddie, Jason Deyalsingh, Gary J. Katz

Threat validation is the backbone of every strong security detection strategy—it ensures your detection pipeline is effective, reliable, and resilient against real-world threats.This comprehensive guide is designed for those new to detection validation, offering clear, actionable frameworks to help you assess, test, and refine your security detections with confidence. Covering the entire detection lifecycle, from development to validation, this book provides real-world examples, hands-on tutorials, and practical projects to solidify your skills.Beyond just technical know-how, this book empowers you to build a career in detection engineering, equipping you with the essential expertise to thrive in today’s cybersecurity landscape.By the end of this book, you'll have the tools and knowledge to fortify your organization’s defenses, enhance detection accuracy, and stay ahead of cyber threats.

Application Lifecycle Management on Microsoft Power Platform. A comprehensive guide to managing the deployment of your solutions

Benedikt Bergmann, Scott Durow

Managing Power Platform solutions manually can be challenging and time-consuming, as is application lifecycle management (ALM), which encompasses governance, development, and maintenance. This book provides comprehensive coverage of ALM, addressing planning, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance. Drawing on his extensive experience as a Power Platform consultant and Microsoft MVP, Benedikt Bergmann simplifies complex topics, making them accessible and easy to grasp.From planning and designing applications to deploying and maintaining them, this book provides step-by-step instructions, best practices, and real-world examples to effectively manage the entire application lifecycle. You’ll gain insights into optimizing Power Platform's toolbox, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, and Power Virtual Agents, for seamless collaboration, agile development, and rapid application delivery. You’ll also implement best practices for version control, code management, and collaboration using the Microsoft Power Platform.By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to effectively manage the entire application lifecycle, accelerate development cycles, and deliver exceptional solutions with the Microsoft Power Platform.

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Expert Cookbook. Develop, debug, and deploy business solutions for SharePoint applications using Visual Studio 2010 with this book and

Balaji Kithiganahalli

Microsoft SharePoint 2010, is the best-in-class platform for content management and collaboration. With the combined capabilities of Sharepoint and Visual Studio, developers have an end-to-end business solutions development IDE. To leverage this powerful combination of tools it is necessary to understand the different building blocks. This book will provide necessary concepts and present ways to develop complex business solutions and take them further.SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook With Visual Studio 2010 is an instructional guide for developing and debugging applications for SharePoint 2010 environment using Visual Studio 2010. The cookbook approach helps you to dip into any recipe that interests you, you can also read it from cover to cover if you want to get hands on with the complete application development cycle.With this book you will learn to develop event handlers, workflows, content types, web parts, client object model applications, and web services for SharePoint 2010 in an instructional manner. You will discover the less known facts behind debugging feature receivers, deployment of web parts, utilizing free toolkits to enhance the development and debugging experience. You will learn the newer development approach called Visual Web Parts, how to develop and deploy Silverlight applications that can be used with Silverlight web part. You will also explore SandBoxed deployment model and its usage. You will create your own web services for SharePoint and the Client Object Model introduced in SharePoint 2010. All in all, you will develop Sharepoint solutions in an instructional manner that eases the learning process.

Edge Computing Systems with Kubernetes. A use case guide for building edge systems using K3s, k3OS, and open source cloud native technologies

Sergio Méndez

Edge computing is a way of processing information near the source of data instead of processing it on data centers in the cloud. In this way, edge computing can reduce latency when data is processed, improving the user experience on real-time data visualization for your applications. Using K3s, a light-weight Kubernetes and k3OS, a K3s-based Linux distribution along with other open source cloud native technologies, you can build reliable edge computing systems without spending a lot of money.In this book, you will learn how to design edge computing systems with containers and edge devices using sensors, GPS modules, WiFi, LoRa communication and so on. You will also get to grips with different use cases and examples covered in this book, how to solve common use cases for edge computing such as updating your applications using GitOps, reading data from sensors and storing it on SQL and NoSQL databases. Later chapters will show you how to connect hardware to your edge clusters, predict using machine learning, and analyze images with computer vision. All the examples and use cases in this book are designed to run on devices using 64-bit ARM processors, using Raspberry Pi devices as an example.By the end of this book, you will be able to use the content of these chapters as small pieces to create your own edge computing system.

Architecting Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform. An architectural guide to integrating, extending, and innovating enterprise solutions using SAP BTP

Serdar Simsekler, Eric Du

SAP BTP is the foundation of SAP’s intelligent and sustainable enterprise vision for its customers. It’s efficient, agile, and an enabler of innovation. It’s technically robust, yet its superpower is its business centricity.If you’re involved in building IT and business strategies, it’s essential to familiarize yourself with SAP BTP to see the big picture for digitalization with SAP solutions. Similarly, if you have design responsibilities for enterprise solutions, learning SAP BTP is crucial to produce effective and complete architecture designs.This book teaches you about SAP BTP in five parts. First, you’ll see how SAP BTP is positioned in the intelligent enterprise. In the second part, you’ll learn the foundational elements of SAP BTP and find out how it operates. The next part covers integration architecture guidelines, integration strategy considerations, and integration styles with SAP’s integration technologies. Later, you’ll learn how to use application development capabilities to extend enterprise solutions for innovation and agility. This part also includes digital experience and process automation capabilities. The last part covers how SAP BTP can facilitate data-to-value use cases to produce actionable business insights.By the end of this SAP book, you’ll be able to architect solutions using SAP BTP to deliver high business value.

Learn Clip Studio Paint. A beginner's guide to creating compelling art in manga, comics, and animation - Fourth Edition

Inko Ai Takita, Liz Staley

Ever dreamed of creating your own manga art comic books? Whether you're sketching your first character building entire comic panels, this beginner-friendly guide walks you through the essentials of Clip Studio Paint step by step. You’ll master core digital illustration skills – such as layering, penciling, and inking – while exploring storytelling techniques such as panel design, speech bubbles, and sound effects.This edition introduces enhanced guidance on drawing characters with correct proportions and perspective, customizing brushes, using rulers, and applying coloring techniques that will make your art stand out. You’ll also learn how to integrate 3D models to create dynamic poses and gain an introduction to basic animation.Written for aspiring digital artists, this book combines practical, tool-based instruction with creative guidance to support your growth from sketch to finished comic. Packed with clear illustrations and updated content, this fourth edition is ideal for those looking to publish webtoons, graphic novels, or manga art. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to create polished, expressive comics and illustrations with Clip Studio Paint and share them with the world.

Geospatial Analysis with SQL. A hands-on guide to performing geospatial analysis by unlocking the syntax of spatial SQL

Bonny P McClain

Geospatial analysis is industry agnostic and a powerful tool for answering location questions. Combined with the power of SQL, developers and analysts worldwide rely on database integration to solve real-world spatial problems. This book introduces skills to help you detect and quantify patterns in datasets through data exploration, visualization, data engineering, and the application of analysis and spatial techniques.You will begin by exploring the fundamentals of geospatial analysis where you’ll learn about the importance of geospatial analysis and how location information enhances data exploration. Walter Tobler’s second law of geography states, “the phenomenon external to a geographic area of interest affects what goes on inside.” This quote will be the framework of the geospatial questions we will explore. You’ll then observe the framework of geospatial analysis using SQL while learning to create spatial databases and SQL queries and functions.By the end of this book, you will have an expanded toolbox of analytic skills such as PostGIS and QGIS to explore data questions and analysis of spatial information.

VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Cookbook. Click here to enter text

Abhijeet Shriram Janwalkar

VMware vRealize Configuration Manager (VCM) helps you to automate IT operations, manage performance, and gain visibility across physical and virtual infrastructure. It is continuously being used by enterprises to audit the configurations of the VMware infrastructure as well as the Windows, Linux, and UNIX operating systems.This book is filled with practical recipes through which you will learn about the latest features of vRealize Configuration Manager 5.8.X, starting with installation of various tiers of VCM followed by configuration management across physical and virtual servers.Throughout this book, you will explore how VCM can perform tasks such as patch management, compliance assessment, and software package distribution along with Machine filters for new platforms such as RHEL 7 and Windows 10. This book will ease your troubles while upgrading from the existing VCM to the latest version by providing you with step-by-step instructions about the process of migration along with upgrade and maintenance support. This book will help you understand how to integrate vRealize Configuration with other applications along with schedule management and also guide you on how to handle security issues.After reading this book, you will have a clear understanding of how VCM fits in the overall picture of the data center design from a patching and compliance perspective.

Building an FPS Game with Unity. Create a high-quality first person shooter game using the Unity game engine and the popular UFPS and Probuilder frameworks

John P. Doran, jamal seaton

Web Design Blueprints. Build websites and applications using the latest techniques in modern web development

Benjamin LaGrone, Joshua Blackwood

The book delivers simple instructions on how to design and build modern Web using the latest trends in web development. You will learn how to design responsive websites, created with modern Flat User Interface design patterns, build deep-scrolling websites with parallax 3D effects, and roll-your-own single-page applications. Finally, you'll work through an awesome chapter that combines them all. Each chapter features actual lines of code that you can apply right away.

Learning ClojureScript. Master the art of agile single page web application development with ClojureScript

Rafik Naccache, W. David Jarvis, Allen Rohner

Clojure is an expressive language that makes it possible to easily tackle complex software development challenges. Its bias toward interactive development has made it a powerful tool, enabling high developer productivity. In this book, you will first learn how to construct an interactive development experience for ClojureScript.. You will be guided through ClojureScript language concepts, looking at the basics first, then being introduced to advanced concepts such as functional programming or macro writing. After that, we elaborate on the subject of single page web applications, showcasing how to build a simple one, then covering different possible enhancements. We move on to study more advanced ClojureScript concepts, where you will be shown how to address some complex algorithmic cases. Finally, you'll learn about optional type-checking for your programs, how you can write portable code, test it, and put the advanced compilation mode of the Google Closure Compiler to good use.

Data Ingestion with Python Cookbook. A practical guide to ingesting, monitoring, and identifying errors in the data ingestion process

Gláucia Esppenchutz

Data Ingestion with Python Cookbook offers a practical approach to designing and implementing data ingestion pipelines. It presents real-world examples with the most widely recognized open source tools on the market to answer commonly asked questions and overcome challenges.You’ll be introduced to designing and working with or without data schemas, as well as creating monitored pipelines with Airflow and data observability principles, all while following industry best practices. The book also addresses challenges associated with reading different data sources and data formats. As you progress through the book, you’ll gain a broader understanding of error logging best practices, troubleshooting techniques, data orchestration, monitoring, and storing logs for further consultation.By the end of the book, you’ll have a fully automated set that enables you to start ingesting and monitoring your data pipeline effortlessly, facilitating seamless integration with subsequent stages of the ETL process.

Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development

Adrian Zimmerman, Daniel Koch, Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Free, open-source, flexible, and scalable, TYPO3 is one of the most powerful PHP content management systems. It is well suited for creating intranets and extranets for the enterprise. While providing an easy-to-use web interface for non-technical authors and editors of content, its messaging and workflow system enable shared authoring and collaboration. TYPO3 provides flexible and powerful interfaces for both content editors and administrators, giving them full control of the core aspects the system. However for developers who need to customize the system, TYPO3 offers a powerful configuration language called TypoScript. Good knowledge of TypoScript is really a prerequisite for implementing complex applications with TYPO3 and gives developers full control over the configuration of TYPO3 and its template engine. TypoScript enables the complete output template to be created and manipulated, giving you full control over the layout of the site. TypoScript also allows you to integrate dynamic contents, JavaScript-based menus, Flash, Graphics, etc. with ease. You have maximum control over the design of the website and can control all options that would otherwise be addressed by HTML-simple text output, formatting, and much more. TypoScript also allows you to generate graphics at run time and display different content dynamically.

RabbitMQ Cookbook. Knowing a reliable enterprise messaging system based on the AMQP standard can be an essential for today's software developers. This cookbook helps you learn all the basics of RabbitMQ through recipes, code, and real-life examples

Gabriele Santomaggio, Sigismondo Boschi

RabbitMQ is an open source message broker software (sometimes called message-oriented middleware) that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). The RabbitMQ server is written in the Erlang programming language and is built on the Open Telecom Platform framework for clustering and failover. Messaging enables software applications to connect and scale. Applications can connect to each other as components of a larger application or to user devices and data.RabbitMQ Cookbook touches on all the aspects of RabbitMQ messaging. You will learn how to use this enabling technology for the solution of highly scalable problems dictated by the dynamic requirements of Web and mobile architectures, based for example on cloud computing platforms. This is a practical guide with several examples that will help you to understand the usefulness and the power of RabbitMQ.This book helps you learn the basic functionalities of RabbitMQ with simple examples which describe the use of RabbitMQ client APIs and how a RabbitMQ server works. You will find examples of RabbitMQ deployed in real-life use-cases, where its functionalities will be exploited combined with other technologies. This book helps you understand the advanced features of RabbitMQ that are useful for even the most demanding programmer. Over the course of the book, you will learn about the usage of basic AMQP functionalities and use RabbitMQ to let decoupled applications exchange messages as per enterprise integration applications. The same building blocks are used to implement the architecture of highly scalable applications like today's social networks, and they are presented in the book with some examples. You will also learn how to extend RabbitMQ functionalities by implementing Erlang plugins.This book combines information with detailed examples coupled with screenshots and diagrams to help you create a messaging application with ease.

Decentralized Identity Explained. Embrace decentralization for a more secure and empowering digital experience

Rohan Pinto

Looking forward to mastering digital identity? This book will help you get to grips with complete frameworks, tools, and strategies for safeguarding personal data, securing online transactions, and ensuring trust in digital interactions in today's cybersecurity landscape.Decentralized Identity Explained delves into the evolution of digital identities, from their historical roots to the present landscape and future trajectories, exploring crucial concepts such as IAM, the significance of trust anchors and sources of truth, and emerging trends such as SSI and DIDs. Additionally, you’ll gain insights into the intricate relationships between trust and risk, the importance of informed consent, and the evolving role of biometrics in enhancing security within distributed identity management systems. Through detailed discussions on protocols, standards, and authentication mechanisms, this book equips you with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate the complexities of digital identity management in both current and future cybersecurity landscapes.By the end of this book, you’ll have a detailed understanding of digital identity management and best practices to implement secure and efficient digital identity frameworks, enhancing both organizational security and user experiences in the digital realm.

Arduino Home Automation Projects. Automate your home using the powerful Arduino platform

Marco Schwartz

Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices. A complete guide to VxRail appliance design and best practices

Victor Wu

Virtualized systems are well established now, and their disparate components can be found bundled together in hyper-converged infrastructures, such as VxRail from Dell EMC. Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices will take you, as a system architect or administrator, through the process of designing and protecting VxRail systems.While this book assumes a certain level of knowledge of VMware, vSphere 7.x, and vCenter Server, you’ll get a thorough overview of VxRail's components, features, and architecture, as well as a breakdown of the benefits of this hyper-converged system. This guide will give you an in-depth understanding of VxRail, as well as plenty of practical examples and self-assessment questions along the way to help you plan and design every core component of a VxRail system – from vSAN storage policies to cluster expansion. It's no good having a great system if you lose everything when it breaks, so you'll spend some time examining advanced recovery options, such as VMware Site Recovery Manager and Veeam Backup and Replication.By the end of this book, you will have got to grips with Dell’s hyper-converged VxRail offering, taking your virtualization proficiency to the next level.

Extreme DAX. Take your Power BI and Microsoft data analytics skills to the next level

Michiel Rozema, Henk Vlootman

This book helps business analysts generate powerful and sophisticated analyses from their data using DAX and get the most out of Microsoft Business Intelligence tools.Extreme DAX will first teach you the principles of business intelligence, good model design, and how DAX fits into it all. Then, you’ll launch into detailed examples of DAX in real-world business scenarios such as inventory calculations, forecasting, intercompany business, and data security. At each step, senior DAX experts will walk you through the subtleties involved in working with Power BI models and common mistakes to look out for as you build advanced data aggregations. You’ll deepen your understanding of DAX functions, filters, and measures, and how and when they can be used to derive effective insights. You’ll also be provided with PBIX files for each chapter, so that you can follow along and explore in your own time.