Mastering QGIS. Go beyond the basics and unleash the full power of QGIS with practical, step-by-step examples

Martin Dobias, Richard Smith Jr., GISP, John Van Hoesen, ...

JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook. This book is your one-stop resource for mastering JIRA extensions and customizations

Jobin Kuruvilla, Jobin Kuruvilla

JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development.JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook is a one stop resource to master extensions and customizations in JIRA. You will learn how to create your own JIRA plugins, customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI, work with workflows, issues, custom fields, and much more.JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook starts with recipes on simplifying the plugin development process followed by a complete chapter dedicated to the plugin framework to master plugins in JIRA.Then we will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. We then learn how to program and customize workflows to transform JIRA into a user friendly system.Reporting support in an application like JIRA is inevitable! With so much data spanning across different projects, issues, and so on, and a lot of planning done for the project, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs.We will then look at customizing the various searching aspects of JIRA such as JQL, searching in plugins, managing filters, and so on.JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook steers towards programming issues, such as creating, editing, and deleting issues, creating new issue operations, managing the various other operations available on issues via the JIRA APIs, and so on.In the latter half of JIRA 5.x Development Cookbook, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items, communicate with JIRA via the REST, SOAP or XML/RPC interfaces, and work with the JIRA database.The book ends with a chapter on useful and general JIRA recipes.

Qt 6 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook. Practical recipes for building cross-platform GUI applications, widgets, and animations with Qt 6 - Third Edition

Lee Zhi Eng

With the growing need to develop GUIs for multiple targets and multiple screens, improving the visual quality of your application has become pivotal in helping it stand out from your competitors. With its cross-platform ability and the latest UI paradigms, Qt makes it possible to build intuitive, interactive, and user-friendly UIs for your applications.The third edition of Qt 6 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook teaches you how to develop functional and appealing UIs using the latest version of Qt 6 and C++. This book will help you learn a variety of topics such as GUI customization and animation, graphics rendering, and implementing Google Maps. You’ll also be taken through advanced concepts such as asynchronous programming, event handling using signals and slots, network programming, and other aspects to optimize your application.By the end of this Qt book, you’ll have the confidence you need to design and customize GUI applications that meet your clients' expectations and have an understanding of best-practice solutions to common problems during the app development process.

iOS Game Programming Cookbook. Over 45 interesting game recipes that will help you create your next enthralling game

Bhanu Birani, Chhavi Vaishnav

Mastering RabbitMQ. Master the art of developing message-based applications with RabbitMQ

Yusuf Aytas, Emrah Ayanoglu, Dotan Nahum

RabbitMQ is one of the most powerful Open Source message broker software, which is widely used in tech companies such as Mozilla, VMware, Google, AT&T, and so on. RabbitMQ gives you lots of fantastic and easy-to-manage functionalities to control and manage the messaging facility with lots of community support. As scalability is one of our major modern problems, messaging with RabbitMQ is the main part of the solution to this problemThis book explains and demonstrates the RabbitMQ server in a detailed way. It provides you with lots of real-world examples and advanced solutions to tackle the scalability issues.You’ll begin your journey with the installation and configuration of the RabbitMQ server, while also being given specific details pertaining to the subject. Next, you’ll study the major problems that our server faces, including scalability and high availability, and try to get the solutions for both of these issues by using the RabbitMQ mechanisms. Following on from this, you’ll get to design and develop your own plugins using the Erlang language and RabbitMQ’s internal API. This knowledge will help you to start with the management and monitoring of the messages, tools, and applications. You’ll also gain an understanding of the security and integrity of the messaging facilities that RabbitMQ provides. In the last few chapters, you will build and keep track of your clients (senders and receivers) using Java, Python, and C#.

Instant Windows PowerShell. Manage and automate your Windows Server Environment efficiently using PowerShell

Vinith Menon

Windows PowerShell comprises numerous major features that extend its use, advance its usability, and allow you to control and manage Windows-based environments.Windows PowerShell is backward-compatible. Cmdlets, providers, modules, snap-ins, scripts, functions, and profiles that were designed for Windows PowerShell 2.0 work in Windows PowerShell 3.0 without any changes.A practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear step-by-step exercises which will help you take advantage of the real power that is Windows PowerShell.Starting by listing the New Features in PowerShell 3.0, this book goes on to break down the mystery and confusion that surrounds which feature to use and when. It will take you through a number of clear, practical sections that will help you to take advantage of PowerShell, easily and quickly.You will also learn how to use PowerShell for file and folder management in a Windows Server Environment. The book will also also show you how to use PowerShell Web Access for secure Windows Management anywhere, any time, on any device.Learn how to secure and sign the scripts you write using the script signing feature in PowerShell, understand how to use PowerShell to secure and administer a PKI environment, and discover how to use a BPA module to analyze the security integrity of a system as per Microsoft requirements. If you want to take your first step into PowerShell 3.0 to manage your Windows environment, then this is the book for you.

Mobile Prototyping with Axure 7. Quickly deploy innovative user experience designs to mobile devices for responsive prototyping using the exciting new features of Axure 7 with this book and

Will Hacker

Mobile app and website design are two of of the most popular areas of user experience design. Axure RP 7 allows you to design and build mobile prototypes and deploy them to real devices for testing and stakeholder review. It also allows you to create an interactive HTML website wireframe or UI mockup without coding. Axure 7 has new features such as new widget events, page events, adaptive views, and so on, that give you more flexibility while building mobile prototypes.If you have experience with Axure but have never designed anything for mobile devices or responsive design, this book will get you started right away. This book contains working examples of how to complete some common mobile design tasks using Axure and focuses on creating rich, functional prototypes for mobiles, whether they are apps or websites.Using this practical, example-oriented guide, you will learn how Axure RP 7 can be used by user experience designers to create and deploy mobile prototypes on smartphones and tablets.You will also learn how Axure RP 7 can be used to create adaptive views for multi-device designs, sliding menus, mobile-friendly forms, drag and drop interactions, tool bars, and basic transitional animations common to mobile apps. You will get to know how to publish prototypes so that they can be tested or demonstrated on a real mobile device.

Unity Animation Essentials. Bring your characters to life with the latest features of Unity and Mecanim

Alan Thorn