Mastering PowerShell Scripting. Automate and manage your environment using PowerShell 7.1 - Fourth Edition

Chris Dent

PowerShell scripts offer a convenient way to automate various tasks, but working with them can be daunting. Mastering PowerShell Scripting takes away the fear and helps you navigate through PowerShell's capabilities.This extensively revised edition includes new chapters on debugging and troubleshooting and creating GUIs (online chapter). Learn the new features of PowerShell 7.1 by working with parameters, objects, and .NET classes from within PowerShell 7.1.This comprehensive guide starts with the basics before moving on to advanced topics, including asynchronous processing, desired state configuration, using more complex scripts and filters, debugging issues, and error-handling techniques. Explore how to efficiently manage substantial amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell 7.1. This book will help you to make the most of PowerShell's automation features, using different methods to parse data, manipulate regular expressions, and work with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

Modern Computer Vision with PyTorch. A practical roadmap from deep learning fundamentals to advanced applications and Generative AI - Second Edition

V Kishore Ayyadevara, Yeshwanth Reddy

Whether you are a beginner or are looking to progress in your computer vision career, this book guides you through the fundamentals of neural networks (NNs) and PyTorch and how to implement state-of-the-art architectures for real-world tasks.The second edition of Modern Computer Vision with PyTorch is fully updated to explain and provide practical examples of the latest multimodal models, CLIP, and Stable Diffusion.You’ll discover best practices for working with images, tweaking hyperparameters, and moving models into production. As you progress, you'll implement various use cases for facial keypoint recognition, multi-object detection, segmentation, and human pose detection. This book provides a solid foundation in image generation as you explore different GAN architectures. You’ll leverage transformer-based architectures like ViT, TrOCR, BLIP2, and LayoutLM to perform various real-world tasks and build a diffusion model from scratch. Additionally, you’ll utilize foundation models' capabilities to perform zero-shot object detection and image segmentation. Finally, you’ll learn best practices for deploying a model to production.By the end of this deep learning book, you'll confidently leverage modern NN architectures to solve real-world computer vision problems.

Mastering Azure Virtual Desktop. The ultimate guide to the implementation and management of Azure Virtual Desktop

Ryan Mangan, Jim Moyle

Azure Virtual Desktop is a cloud desktop virtualization platform that securely delivers virtual desktops and remote apps. Mastering Azure Virtual Desktop will guide you through designing, implementing, configuring, and maintaining an Azure Virtual Desktop environment effectively. This book can also be used as an exam preparation guide to help you sit the Microsoft AZ-140 exam.You’ll start with an introduction to the essentials of Azure Virtual Desktop. Next, you’ll get to grips with planning an Azure Virtual Desktop architecture before learning how to implement an Azure Virtual Desktop environment. Moving ahead, you’ll learn how to manage and control access as well as configure security controls on your Azure Virtual Desktop environment. As you progress, you’ll understand how to manage user environments and configure MSIX app attach and other Azure Virtual Desktop features to enhance the user experience. You’ll also learn about the Azure Active Directory (AD) join and getting started feature. Finally, you’ll discover how to monitor and maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop environment to help you support your users and diagnose issues when they occur.By the end of this Microsoft Azure book, you’ll have covered all the essential topics you need to know to design and manage Azure Virtual Desktop and prepare for the AZ-140 exam.

Learning Nagios 3.0. A comprehensive configuration guide to monitor and maintain your network and systems

Wojciech Kocjan, Nagios Enterprises

3D Deep Learning with Python. Design and develop your computer vision model with 3D data using PyTorch3D and more

Xudong Ma, Vishakh Hegde, Lilit Yolyan

With this hands-on guide to 3D deep learning, developers working with 3D computer vision will be able to put their knowledge to work and get up and running in no time.Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, this book lets you explore and gain a thorough understanding of state-of-the-art 3D deep learning. You’ll see how to use PyTorch3D for basic 3D mesh and point cloud data processing, including loading and saving ply and obj files, projecting 3D points into camera coordination using perspective camera models or orthographic camera models, rendering point clouds and meshes to images, and much more. As you implement some of the latest 3D deep learning algorithms, such as differential rendering, Nerf, synsin, and mesh RCNN, you’ll realize how coding for these deep learning models becomes easier using the PyTorch3D library.By the end of this deep learning book, you’ll be ready to implement your own 3D deep learning models confidently.

SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook. Featuring over 80 sophisticated recipes, this is a superb tutorial for ABAP developers and consultants. It teaches you advanced SAP programming using the high level language through diagrams, step-by-step instructions, and real-time examples

Rehan Zaidi

ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is SAP's proprietary 4th Generation Language (4GL). SAP core is written almost entirely in ABAP.ABAP is a high level programming language used in SAP for development and other customization processes.SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbookù covers advanced SAP programming applications with ABAP. It teaches you to enhance SAP applications by developing custom reports and interfaces with ABAP programming. This cookbook has quick and advanced real world recipes for programming ABAP.It begins with the applications of ABAP Objects and ALV tips and tricks. It then covers Design Patterns and Dynamic Programming in detail.You will also learn the usage of quality improvement tools such as transaction SAT, SQL Trace, and the Code Inspector.Simple transformations and its application in Excel Downloading will also be discussed, as well as the newest topics of Adobe Interactive Forms and the consumption and creation of Web services. The book comes to an end by covering advanced usage of Web Dynpro for ABAP and the latest advancement in Floorplan Manager.

Python Data Cleaning and Preparation Best Practices. A practical guide to organizing and handling data from various sources and formats using Python

Maria Zervou

Professionals face several challenges in effectively leveraging data in today's data-driven world. One of the main challenges is the low quality of data products, often caused by inaccurate, incomplete, or inconsistent data. Another significant challenge is the lack of skills among data professionals to analyze unstructured data, leading to missing valuable insights that are difficult or impossible to obtain from structured data alone.To help you tackle these challenges, this book will take you on a journey through the upstream data pipeline, which includes the ingestion of data from various sources, validation and profiling of the data for high-quality end tables, and writing data to different sinks. You’ll focus on structured data by performing essential tasks such as cleaning and encoding datasets and handling missing values and outliers before learning how to manipulate unstructured data with simple techniques. You’ll also be introduced to a variety of natural language processing techniques, from tokenization to vector models, as well as techniques for structuring images, videos, and audio.By the end of this book, you’ll be proficient in data cleaning and preparation techniques for both structured and unstructured data.

BeagleBone By Example. Click here to enter text

Pei JIA, Jayakarthigeyan Prabakar, Alexander Hiam

BeagleBone is a low cost, community-supported development platform to develop a variety of electronic projects. This book will introduce you to BeagleBone and get you building fun, cool, and innovative projects with it. Start with the specifications of BeagleBone Black and its operating systems, then get to grips with the GPIOs available in BeagleBone Black. Work through four types of exciting projects: building real-time physical computing systems, home automation, image processing for a security system, and building your own tele-controlled robot and learn the fundamentals of a variety of projects in a single book. By the end of this book, you will be able to write code for BeagleBone in order to operate hardware and impart decision-making capabilities with the help of efficient coding in Python.