Learning Anime Studio. Bring life to your imagination with the power of Anime Studio

Chad Troftgruben

Robo-Advisor with Python. A hands-on guide to building and operating your own Robo-advisor

Aki Ranin

Robo-advisors are becoming table stakes for the wealth management industry across all segments, from retail to high-net-worth investors. Robo-advisors enable you to manage your own portfolios and financial institutions to create automated platforms for effective digital wealth management. This book is your hands-on guide to understanding how Robo-advisors work, and how to build one efficiently. The chapters are designed in a way to help you get a comprehensive grasp of what Robo-advisors do and how they are structured with an end-to-end workflow.You’ll begin by learning about the key decisions that influence the building of a Robo-advisor, along with considerations on building and licensing a platform. As you advance, you’ll find out how to build all the core capabilities of a Robo-advisor using Python, including goals, risk questionnaires, portfolios, and projections. The book also shows you how to create orders, as well as open accounts and perform KYC verification for transacting. Finally, you’ll be able to implement capabilities such as performance reporting and rebalancing for operating a Robo-advisor with ease.By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of how Robo-advisors work and be well on your way to building one for yourself or your business.

Building job sites with Joomla!. Establish and be in charge of a job site using easily adaptable Joomla! Extensions

Santonu Kumar Dhar, Chris Davenport

Joomla! is a content management system that helps both novice users and expert developers to create powerful websites. Joomla! has extensions for construcing job sites; web sites for handling employment and careers. It can take hours to build even an elementary job site but imagine yourself building a job site such as Monster, CareerBuilder, a niche job listing such as TechCrunch or your own company job site within few minutes and with minimal development efforts.Building job sites with Joomla! shows you how to create your own job site with Joomla! with the Jobs! Pro extension. From the basic installation and configuration, you will see all the steps required to assemble a working job site in next to no time.This book is a step-by-step tutorial for creating a job site using Joomla!. First you will set up a server environment to install Joomla! 1.5 and Jobs!. Next you will learn how you can use Jobs! configuration settings to control the components of your job site such as adding companies, adding social bookmarking buttons, enabling the users to post their resume online and so on. You will learn to easily manage your site using the Jobs! control panel. This will be followed by using job site template to quickly create a job site and simultaneously test the site you have created. Next you will learn how to speed up the communication between employers and the jobseekers using e-mail templates.You can also entirely control user registration system from Jobs! Pro admin panel. You will also learn to add and manage job types, job categories, and applications to keep your database organized and to keep track of the application status. You will also learn to add a jobseeker or an employer and to manage resume fields. Then you will configure credit systems to charge an amount of money to users according to the specific service provided. By the end of this book you will learn to professionally optimize your Joomla! Job site for search engines and look at list of words that need to be avoided in the URLs.

Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development. Learn to develop and query Analysis Services cubes and models, with a practical, step-by-step approach with this book and

Simon Lidberg, Simon Lidberg

Analysis Services have been the number one OLAP engine for years. With the increased focus on business intelligence solutions, there is a shortage of professionals in this area. Start your journey into becoming a BI developer using the popular tools included in every SQL Server installation.Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development teaches you through clear step-by-step exercises to create business intelligence solutions using Analysis Services. The knowledge gained through these practical examples can immediately be applied to your real-world problems.Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development begins with an introduction to business intelligence and Analysis Services, the world's most-used cube engine. Guiding you through easy-to-understand examples to become a cube developer.Learn how to create a cube including all the advanced features such as KPIs, calculated measures, and time intelligence. Security and performance tuning will also be explored. You will learn how to perform and automate core tasks like deployment and processing. The main focus is on multidimensional cubes, but the creation of in-memory models will also be covered.You will learn everything you need to get started with cube development using SQL Server 2012.

Automated Machine Learning with AutoKeras. Deep learning made accessible for everyone with just few lines of coding

Luis Sobrecueva

AutoKeras is an AutoML open-source software library that provides easy access to deep learning models. If you are looking to build deep learning model architectures and perform parameter tuning automatically using AutoKeras, then this book is for you.This book teaches you how to develop and use state-of-the-art AI algorithms in your projects. It begins with a high-level introduction to automated machine learning, explaining all the concepts required to get started with this machine learning approach. You will then learn how to use AutoKeras for image and text classification and regression. As you make progress, you'll discover how to use AutoKeras to perform sentiment analysis on documents. This book will also show you how to implement a custom model for topic classification with AutoKeras. Toward the end, you will explore advanced concepts of AutoKeras such as working with multi-modal data and multi-task, customizing the model with AutoModel, and visualizing experiment results using AutoKeras Extensions.By the end of this machine learning book, you will be able to confidently use AutoKeras to design your own custom machine learning models in your company.

Odoo 12 Development Cookbook. 190+ unique recipes to build effective enterprise and business applications - Third Edition

Parth Gajjar, Alexandre Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis

Odoo is a powerful framework known for rapid application development. Its latest release, Odoo 12, introduces tons of new features. With this book, you’ll learn how to develop powerful Odoo applications from scratch, using all the latest features.This Odoo cookbook starts by covering Odoo installation and deployment on the server. Next, you’ll explore the Odoo framework with real-world examples. You’ll create a new Odoo module from the ground up and progress to advanced framework concepts. You’ll also learn how to modify existing applications, including Point of Sale (POS). This book is not just limited to backend development; the advanced JavaScript recipes for creating new views and widgets will help you build beautiful UI elements. As you move forward, you’ll gain insights into website development and become a quality Odoo developer by studying performance optimization, debugging, and automated tests. Finally, you’ll learn the latest concepts like multi-website, In-App Purchasing (IAP), Odoo.sh, and IoT Box.By the end of the book, you’ll have all the knowledge you need to build powerful Odoo applications. The development best practices used in this book will undoubtedly come handy when you are working with the Odoo framework.

Wireshark Essentials. Get up and running with Wireshark to analyze network packets and protocols effectively

James H. Baxter, James H Baxter

Bonita Open Solution 5.x Essentials. Developing applications using Bonita Open Solution means you can model business processes in a workflow, and this book teaches you all the fundamentals by taking you through the entire development cycle

Rohit Bhat

Creating delightful web-based applications backed by complex business logic and intricate workflows is just one of the many things you can easily achieve by leveraging Bonita Open Solution. It is a highly customizable and efficient tool for business process modeling. Bonita Open Solution is a one-stop solution for developing scalable applications with a nifty user management system and easy deployment.This pragmatic, hands-on guide to developing complex applications is packed with succinct tips and demonstrations of the various aspects of Bonita Open Solution. This book will show you how to make the best use of the Bonita BPM tool, leverage its powerful backend engine, and design business application workflows with ease. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop a complete business process application.Right from designing web forms to integrating business logic to finally deploying the application on a server, this book takes you through the entire development cycle of an application created using Bonita Open Solution. You will learn about modeling business processes in Bonita, creating customizable web forms, and using connectors, contingencies, and transitions to move forward in the workflow. It also highlights the various page flows available, as well as the ease of use of the drag-and-drop, widget-based modular design of Bonita Studio. After developing the application, you will also learn about the various options for deployment, and the different environments on which it can be deployed.