Express Your Creativity with Adobe Express. Create stunning graphics, captivating videos, and impressive web pages without any coding skills

Rosie Sue

Working with graphics can be daunting, especially if you don’t have a background in graphic design, but with Adobe Express, you can create stunning content without prior experience. This book will show you how you can choose from thousands of beautiful templates, customize them to your brand, and watch your visuals come to life.This book is your ultimate guide to Adobe Express, covering every function, from formatting typography to animating your graphics. With practical exercises, you’ll be able to put your newfound knowledge into action and start creating right away. You’ll learn the art of crafting stunning social media graphics, thumb-stopping animations, beautiful landing pages, and captivating videos.Whether you prefer the browser or mobile experience, Adobe Express provides the flexibility to create beautiful content seamlessly. Learning new skills and applying them has never been easier, as each chapter equips you to accomplish remarkable feats.By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered Adobe Express for elevating your online presence.

Data Science with .NET and Polyglot Notebooks. Programmer's guide to data science using ML.NET, OpenAI, and Semantic Kernel

Matt Eland

As the fields of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence rapidly evolve, .NET developers are eager to leverage their expertise to dive into these exciting domains but are often unsure of how to do so. Data Science in .NET with Polyglot Notebooks is the practical guide you need to seamlessly bring your .NET skills into the world of analytics and AI. With Microsoft’s .NET platform now robustly supporting machine learning and AI tasks, the introduction of tools such as .NET Interactive kernels and Polyglot Notebooks has opened up a world of possibilities for .NET developers. This book empowers you to harness the full potential of these cutting-edge technologies, guiding you through hands-on experiments that illustrate key concepts and principles. Through a series of interactive notebooks, you’ll not only master technical processes but also discover how to integrate these new skills into your current role or pivot to exciting opportunities in the data science field. By the end of the book, you’ll have acquired the necessary knowledge and confidence to apply cutting-edge data science techniques and deliver impactful solutions within the .NET ecosystem.

Clean Code in PHP. Expert tips and best practices to write beautiful, human-friendly, and maintainable PHP

Carsten Windler, Alexandre Daubois

PHP is a beginner-friendly language, but also one that is rife with complaints of bad code,;yet no clean code books are specific to PHP. Enter Clean Code in PHP. This book is a one-stop guide to learning the theory and best practices of clean code specific to real-world PHP app development environments.This PHP book is cleanly split to help you navigate through coding practices and theories to understand and adopt the nuances of the clean code paradigm. In addition to covering best practices, tooling for code quality, and PHP design patterns, this book also presents tips and techniques for working on large-scale PHP apps with a team and writing effective documentation for your PHP projects.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to write human-friendly PHP code, which will fuel your PHP career growth and set you apart from the competition.

Forecasting Time Series Data with Facebook Prophet. Build, improve, and optimize time series forecasting models using the advanced forecasting tool

Greg Rafferty

Prophet enables Python and R developers to build scalable time series forecasts. This book will help you to implement Prophet’s cutting-edge forecasting techniques to model future data with higher accuracy and with very few lines of code. You will begin by exploring the evolution of time series forecasting, from the basic early models to the advanced models of the present day. The book will demonstrate how to install and set up Prophet on your machine and build your first model with only a few lines of code. You'll then cover advanced features such as visualizing your forecasts, adding holidays, seasonality, and trend changepoints, handling outliers, and more, along with understanding why and how to modify each of the default parameters. Later chapters will show you how to optimize more complicated models with hyperparameter tuning and by adding additional regressors to the model. Finally, you'll learn how to run diagnostics to evaluate the performance of your models and see some useful features when running Prophet in production environments.By the end of this Prophet book, you will be able to take a raw time series dataset and build advanced and accurate forecast models with concise, understandable, and repeatable code.

Adobe Edge Quickstart Guide. Quickly produce engaging motion and rich interactivity with Adobe Edge Preview 4 and above with this book and

Joseph Labrecque

With the advent of HTML5 and CSS3, web designers can now create sophisticated animations without the need of additional plugins such as Flash. However, there hasn't been an easy way for creating animations with web standards until now. This book enables even those with little knowledge of HTML or programming web content to freely create a variety of rich compositions involving motion and interactivity.Learning Adobe Edge will quickly get you up and running with this professional authoring software to create highly engaging content which targets HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. Content created in Adobe Edge does not rely on a plugin ñ so it can be run within any standard browserñ even on mobile.Learning Adobe Edge begins with an overview of the shifting web landscape and the Edge application. We then move on through the variety of panels and toolsets available, and explore the many options we have when creating motion and interactivity using Edge.The book presents the reasoning behind engaging, standards-based web content and how Edge fills the need for professional tooling in this area. In the book we'll examine content creation and how to achieve fluid animation and advanced transitioning through the Edge timeline. Sprinkled throughout the book are tips and references for those coming to Edge from a background in Flash Professional. Whether you are coming to Edge from Flash Professional or are totally new to motion graphics on the web, Adobe Edge Quickstart Guide provides a solid foundation of motion and interactivity concepts and techniques along with a set of demo assets to build upon.

Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance for Administrators. A definitive guide to planning, implementing, and maintaining Microsoft 365 security posture

Sasha Kranjac, Omar Kudovic

In today's hostile cyber landscape, securing data and complying with regulations is paramount for individuals, businesses, and organizations alike. Learn how Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance offers powerful tools to protect sensitive data and defend against evolving cyber threats with this comprehensive guide for administrators.Starting with an introduction to Microsoft 365 plans and essential compliance and security features, this book delves into the role of Azure Active Directory in Microsoft 365, laying the groundwork for a robust security framework. You’ll then advance to exploring the complete range of Microsoft 365 Defender security products, their coverage, and unique protection services to combat evolving threats.From threat mitigation strategies to governance and compliance best practices, you’ll gain invaluable insights into classifying and protecting data while mastering crucial data lifecycle capabilities in Microsoft 365.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to elevate the security and compliance posture of your organization significantly.

Network Science with Python and NetworkX Quick Start Guide. Explore and visualize network data effectively

Edward L. Platt

NetworkX is a leading free and open source package used for network science with the Python programming language. NetworkX can track properties of individuals and relationships, find communities, analyze resilience, detect key network locations, and perform a wide range of important tasks. With the recent release of version 2, NetworkX has been updated to be more powerful and easy to use.If you’re a data scientist, engineer, or computational social scientist, this book will guide you in using the Python programming language to gain insights into real-world networks. Starting with the fundamentals, you’ll be introduced to the core concepts of network science, along with examples that use real-world data and Python code. This book will introduce you to theoretical concepts such as scale-free and small-world networks, centrality measures, and agent-based modeling. You’ll also be able to look for scale-free networks in real data and visualize a network using circular, directed, and shell layouts.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to choose appropriate network representations, use NetworkX to build and characterize networks, and uncover insights while working with real-world systems.

Microservices Design Patterns in .NET. Making sense of microservices design and architecture using .NET Core

Trevoir Williams

Are you a developer who needs to fully understand the different patterns and benefits that they bring to designing microservices? If yes, then this book is for you. Microservices Design Patterns in .NET will help you appreciate the various microservice design concerns and strategies that can be used to navigate them.Making a microservice-based app is no easy feat and there are many concerns that need to be addressed. As you progress through the chapters of this guide, you’ll dive headfirst into the problems that come packed with this architectural approach, and then explore the design patterns that address these problems. You’ll also learn how to be deliberate and intentional in your architectural design to overcome major considerations in building microservices.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to apply critical thinking and clean coding principles when creating a microservices application using .NET Core.