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Become a better, more productive programmer through a series of projects that will help you deeply understand and master each of the design patterns covered.

and internationally-acclaimed speaker, Chander Dhall, demonstrates current website design scalability patterns and takes a pragmatic approach to explaining their pros and cons to show you how to select the appropriate pattern for your site.

This book provides readers from any background with the information that they need to implement Visual Studio Team System 2005 swiftly and effectively whether they be architects, developers, project managers or testers.

This book gives readers inside information on the architecture of .NET 2.0 IL (Intermediate Language), straight from the most reliable possible source - Serge Lidin, the language's designer.

Authors Chand and Gold also show C# programmers how to work with XML classes and how to integrate XML into the ADO.NET architecture. The book provides programmers with handy ideas about taking advantage of the VS.NET IDE and how you can tie your data to the myriad of powerful controls including the multi-faceted Data Grid.

Explaining the concepts behind PowerShell, this book uses real-world examples and scripts to introduce PowerShell operations in the context of deploying, migrating, managing, and monitoring SharePoint 2016. It is aimed at Administrators, developers and DevOps engineers working with SharePoint 2016. No experience with PowerShell is required.

Home theater enthusiasts with basic technical PC skills are shown how to set up an HTPC entertainment center.

This is a detailed guide to the cross-platform Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine (OGRE) 3D engine. The authors begin with obtaining the source code, move on to using the rendering library, and conclude with the polishing of the final application.

Get a jump start on using Azure HDInsight and Hadoop Ecosystem components. As most Hadoop and Big Data projects are written in Java, Scala or Python, this book minimizes the effort to learn another language and is written from the perspective of a .NET developer. Hadoop components are covered, and code samples are written in .NET only.

Exploring fundamental to advanced topics, this book s approach is based on 'Six degrees of separation', which states that everyone and everything is a maximum of six steps away. It also covers advanced text mining techniques, neural networks and deep learning techniques, and their implementation. The code will be available as iPython notebooks.

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The second edition of Baum's Definitive Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS has been updated for RIS 2.0.

Push your GameMaker programming skills to the edge with 100 programming challenges using the popular GameMaker: Studio and GML. Each challenge includes an outline of the challenge, a scoring and time guide, useful GML code, and a working example provided in GMZ format. For more advanced programmers, each challenge comes with an additional task to complete.Think you're a good GameMaker game application developer or programmer? Think again with this awesome book!What You'll LearnUpgrade your skills with each specific game application coding challengeCreate many different game events, action or scenariosCode for many different kinds of game applications or themes from space to adventure to sports to fantasyWho This Book Is ForGameMaker and GameMaker: Studio users and coders.  

Design and build custom hardware interfaces for the Raspberry Pi and discover low cost display and sensor options for embedded system projects. With this book you'll master 12C communications using Raspbian Linux in C++ and perform ADC and DAC experiments. You'll experiment with debounce buttons and switches using hardware and software solutions. Develop flywheel rotary encoder effects for ease of tuning and construct a hardware interface to the Music Playing Daemon (MPD) with developed software. Discover how to add your own hardware keypad for remote combination lock applications. Custom Raspberry Pi Interfaces offers a thorough chapter on interfacing 5-volt systems to 3.3-volt Raspberry Pis designed to expand your choice of peripheral options. Ready to go C++ programs involving GPIO and I2C peripherals are provided. This book also explores ADC, DAC, rotary encoders, CMOS shift registers. I2C I/O extenders. What you'll learn:Build simple, low cost input/output interfaces including rotary encoders Interface with 5-volt devices from a 3-volt Raspberry Pi system Apply analog to digital and digital to analog conversions on the Pi Read potentiometers (volume control) from the Pi Determine step, directions, and velocity of a rotary encoder Perform remote interfacing using the I2 PCF8574 chipWork with external CMOS devices like the 74HC595 (in C++)Who this book is for:Students and hobbyists interested in building custom interfaces for their Raspberry Pis.

Learn how to measure success at the individual and organizational levels. By measuring success in multiple dimensions using multivariate methods you will be able to determine what works and what doesn't. The key is to measure and promote progress in terms of organizational vision, mission, and overarching goals.Business leaders too often succumb to the working assumption that they only have to show shareholders and boards of trustees that they are turning a profit-the higher the profit, the more successful their stewardship of the company. Wrong! To truly thrive and endure, all organizations-corporate, government, small, large, nonprofit, or startup-need to define and pursue the underlying purpose for their existence.To measure success, leaders today are missing a key meta-analytic in their toolbox. In this book, metrics consultant Martin Klubeck provides it to them. Success Metrics steps you through the process of identifying and combining the right measures to gauge, narrate, and guide your organization's progress toward true success. All organizations have a common goal to be successful. All leaders want to make data-informed decisions and use measures to improve processes, communicate progress, and gain support. The problem is that proxy or partial measures don't measure overall success and can be misleading. They measure performance parameters, progress on a specific task, customer feedback, and other piecemeal indices-which taken separately fail to describe an organization's progress toward overall success.The author's integrated measures of success can be used to communicate organizational progress to stakeholders, shareholders, boards of trustees, corporate leaders, the workforce, and the customer base and thereby galvanize broad commitment to organizational success. Klubeck shows how his principles and methods of measuring overall success can be applied at all levels: individual, team, group, department, division, and organization.What You Will Learn:Understand why you should measure success instead of performanceUnderstand what to measure and what not to measureIntegrate the measures of success to tell a complete storyShare measures of success with different audiencesWho This Book Is ForOrganizational leaders at all levels from the executive suite to middle management, analysts and consultants who are tasked with designing metrics programs for organizations, individuals interested in adapting the author's framework to measure overall personal success in multiple dimensions

Expand your skills for laying out and formatting documents and eBooks deployed for screen viewing on computers, tablets, and smart phones. The book covers how to add interactivity to reflowable and fixed layout eBooks, interactive PDF documents, and take advantage of Adobe's new Publish Online (Preview). Tips, techniques, and workarounds offer you a comprehensive view at adding interactivity to any kind of document and deploy them on social media and web sites.Learn essential skills for composing documents in Adobe InDesign, how to work with styles, format text and graphics, work with rich media, create multi-state objects, hyperlinks, and animations. What You'll Learn:Set up documents for interactive digital publishingCreate Animations in InDesignBuild and work with Multi-State ObjectsWho This Book Is ForGraphic designers, book designers, and publishers

Accelerate your company's growth in a disciplined fashion. This book provides leaders of large and small companies a proven comprehensive framework to think systematically about growth options and to yield practical strategies that produce faster growth.Drawing insights from case studies of successful and unsuccessful companies, strategy teacher and venture capitalist Peter Cohan models his systematic approach to brainstorming, evaluating, and implementing growth strategies across five dimensions: Customers, Geography, Products, Capabilities, Culture. He examines each of these five growth dimensions in turn, selecting and organizing his cases to compare the growth strategies deployed successfully and unsuccessfully by large and small companies along the given dimension. In each of his five dimensional chapters, the author derives from his case analyses the key principles and processes for creating and achieving faster growth.Professor Cohan draws on a network of hundreds of founders, CEOs, and investors developed through his decades of consulting, authorship of 11 books, and over five years as a Forbes columnist. He shows through many compelling stories how leaders craft effective growth strategies.Business leaders will learn the following lessons from this book:Achieving rapid but sustainable growth is a business leader's most important responsibility - and leaders must approach this challenge with a mixture of vision, intellectual humility, and a willingness to experiment and learn from failure.The growth challenges facing companies that are currently growing quickly differ from the ones that stagnating or shrinking companies must overcome.Companies can achieve growth along one or more of the dimensions simultaneously - and they often expand geographically to customers in the same segments.Useful insights can emerge from comparing case studies of successful and unsuccessful companies pursuing similar growth strategies.Companies should select a growth strategy based on three factors: the attractiveness of the growth opportunity, the company's capabilities to provide superior value to customers in the selected market, and the expected return on investment in the growth vector.Companies should select a growth strategy that best fits their capabilities and culture and they must enhance both to adapt to new growth opportunities.Who This Book Is ForThe people in companies who are responsible for growth: chief executive officers, chief marketing officers, chief product officers, heads of business development, product managers, sales people, and human resources managers

Learn the psychological constrictions of attention, perception, memory, disposition, motivation, and social influence that determine whether customers will be receptive to your digital innovations. Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology fills a need for entrepreneurs, designers, and marketing professionals in the application of foundational psychology to user-experience design. The first generation of books on the topic focused on web pages and cognitive psychology. This book covers apps, social media, in-car infotainment, and multiplayer video games, and it explores the crucial roles played by behaviorism, development, personality, and social psychology. Author David Evans is an experimental psychology Ph.D. and senior manager of consumer research at Microsoft who recounts high-stakes case studies in which behavioral theory aligned digital designs with the bottlenecks in human nature to the benefit of users and businesses alike. Innovators in design and students of psychology will learn: The psychological processes determining users' perception of, engagement with, and recommendation of digital innovationsExamples of interfaces before and after simple psychological alignments that vastly enhanced their effectivenessStrategies for marketing and product development in an age of social media and behavioral targetingHypotheses for research that both academics and enterprises can perform to better meet users' needs Who This Book Is For Designers and entrepreneurs will use this book to give their innovations an edge on what are increasingly competitive platforms such as apps, bots, in-car apps, augmented reality content. Usability researchers and market researchers will leverage it to enhance their consulting and reporting. Students and lecturers in psychology departments will want it to help land employment in the private sector. Praise "e;Bottlenecks' is a tight and eminently actionable read for business leaders in startups and enterprises alike. Evans gives us a rich sense of key psychological processes and even richer examples of them in action."e; - Nir Eyal, Author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products "e;Clients frequently ask our UX researchers and designers for deeper truths about why certain designs work and others fail. Bottlenecks offers practical explanations and evidence based on the idea that human cognition did not begin with the digital age."e; - John Dirks, UX Director and Partner, Blink UX "e;Bottlenecks brings together two very important aspects of user experience design: understanding users and translating this into business impact. A must-read for anyone who wants to learn both."e; - Josh Lamar, Sr. UX Lead, Microsoft Outlook

Automate the predictive analytics process using Oracle Data Miner and Oracle R Enterprise. This book talks about how both these technologies can provide a framework for in-database predictive analytics. You'll see a unified architecture and embedded workflow to automate various analytics steps such as data preprocessing, model creation, and storing final model output to tables.You'll take a deep dive into various statistical models commonly used in businesses and how they can be automated for predictive analytics using various SQL, PLSQL, ORE, ODM, and native R packages. You'll get to know various options available in the ODM workflow for driving automation. Also, you'll get an understanding of various ways to integrate ODM packages, ORE, and native R packages using PLSQL for automating the processes.Data Science Automation Using Oracle Data Miner and Oracle R Enterprise starts with an introduction to business analytics, covering why automation is necessary and the level of complexity in automation at each analytic stage. Then, it focuses on how predictive analytics can be automated by using Oracle Data Miner and Oracle R Enterprise. Also, it explains when and why ODM and ORE are to be used together for automation.The subsequent chapters detail various statistical processes used for predictive analytics such as calculating attribute importance, clustering methods, regression analysis, classification techniques, ensemble models, and neural networks. In these chapters you will also get to understand the automation processes for each of these statistical processes using ODM and ORE along with their application in a real-life business use case.What you'll learnDiscover the functionality of Oracle Data Miner and Oracle R EnterpriseGain methods to perform in-database predictive analyticsUse Oracle's SQL and PLSQL APIs for building analytical solutionsAcquire knowledge of common and widely-used business statistical analysis techniquesWho this book is forIT executives, BI architects, Oracle architects and developers, R users and statisticians.