| "Rapid UnderscoreJS" |
| "UnderscoreJS is a library of utility functions for JavaScript that helps to minimize the complexity most users face in building programs, that is, simplifying their JavaScript code. It can be used with any other library or framework and provides many useful methods for this very reason. It works great as an addition to jQuery, AngularJS, BackboneJS, or any other framework you might be using, or you can use it with plain old JavaScript.Rapid UnderscoreJS is a quick introduction to making the most of the UnderscoreJS library. Using a practical example project it shows you not just how but why you would want to use UnderscoreJS' methods.We'll start off by learning what the UnderscoreJS library is and why you would want to use it, and discover how to incorporate UnderscoreJS into an existing Browser or NodeJS-based project. Further, we will dive deeper into the UnderscoreJS concepts that can help us deal with arrays and objects using Underscore's functions for filtering, grouping, and sorting. We will explore JavaScript's this context to manage binding and see how new functions can easily be made by partially applying the existing functions. We'll control the running of a function using debounce, throttle, once, and after, and also how this leads to simplifying techniques when building user interfaces and dealing with outside data sources. Finally, we'll learn Underscore's HTML templating abilities and chaining and finish up with a brief taste of libraries that extend Underscore.By the end of this course, you will understand how UnderscoreJS helps you to efficiently develop web applications using a functional approach to JavaScript.About the AuthorThomas Parslow is a Brighton-based freelance developer specialising in JavaScript and Python. He has been writing software for over almost two decades and has worked in both IT industry and academia for applications ranging from robotics control and computer vision through to touch surfaces and web applications. Thomas is a co-organizer of the successful learn-to-code workshop Coding For Humans and regularly speaks at technical events."
Price: 49.99 |
| "Docker for Web Developers" |
| "Docker is a tool that allows you to develop software faster, more reliably, and with less fuss! Backed by the likes of Red Hat, Microsoft, and VMWare, this is one of the fastest-adopted technologies ever seen, and it can help you work more effectively.Docker for Web Developers will take you on a journey from a Docker novice to master. With the aid of step-by-step videos, you will use Docker to win at 2048, contribute to a real web development project in minutes, and learn the tricky art of container orchestration. By the end of this video course, you'll be ready for anything Docker can throw at you!This video course puts you in the position of an engineer who knows nothing about Docker but needs to learn it fast. With realistic examples, you will work and play with Docker and get progressively experienced as the course advances.Throughout this video course we will cover a lot of ground, including building your own images, using the Docker Hub workflow to turbocharge development, sharing your work with others, running your work in production environments, and ensuring that everything works smoothly.By the end of this course, you will have all the tools you need to make Docker useful for you and your business, and you will learn how you can leverage Docker in a web development workflow.About the AuthorIan Miell is a software engineer who has worked on some of the world's busiest e-commerce systems for over a decade, writing their code and keeping them running. He maintains a technical blog and ShutIt, a tool used to build complex Docker containers."
Price: 74.99 |
| "Learning Meteor Application Development" |
| "Learning Meteor Application Development will get you up and running on the Meteor platform, and have you well on your way to creating powerful, effective web and mobile applications in hours instead of weeks. By taking advantage of all of Meteor's efficient development capabilities, you can take your development skills to the next level, and build those killer apps" you've been dreaming about.We'll begin by installing Meteor, configuring the development environment and building a baseline application, allowing us to quickly and easily create a fully functional application.Then we'll create a full-stack application, and build a simple, elegant, data-reactive UI. We will connect that UI to back-end services by creating a MongoDB data collection, Meteor DDP services, and a RESTful API. As we come to the end we will test our application and deploy it to Meteor's servers or to a customized production environment, so that we can show it off to the world!About the AuthorIsaac Strack is a design technologist and STEM education advocate, currently working as a Solutions Consultant for Adobe Systems. With 15+ years experience in Management Information Systems, Web and Creative technologies, Isaac has a strong background in modern web application development. A self-proclaimed Meteor junky, He is the co-captain of the MeteorSLC Meetup group, he is the author of the Packt Publishing book Getting Started With MeteorJS JavaScript Framework, he wrote the soon-to-released Packt book Meteor Web Applications Cookbook, and he assisted as a Technical Reviewer on the recent Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor. He holds a patent for online fraud detection and is an experienced lecturer/speaker, speaking at conferences such as UtahJS, NMC Summer Conference, and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)."
Price: 74.99 |
| "Learning Git" |
| "Learning Git will help you gain an insight on using different features of Git to increase efficiency in a collaborative work environment.Start off by installing Git and learn about different version control approaches. Walk through different types of workflows available and select the one best suited for you. Initialize your first repository to start working on your project. Develop an authentication system for your repositories with the help of SSH keys. Combine your work with that of several other contributors with the help of branching and forking. Using pull requests put your work in sync with that of other patrons. Delve through various concepts like rebasing and rewriting commands to manage your commit history. Furthermore, learn to tag different versions of code to identify them easily. Finally, analyze the changes in the code and trace them to its early stage. Towards the end of the course, you'll be well versed with using diverse features of Git to your own advantage!About the AuthorSam Slotsky is a software engineer and saxophonist originating from Sioux City, IA. He attended the University of Iowa for Computer Science and Music and is currently employed by Ackmann & Dickenson, Inc. of Minneapolis, specializing in backend web applications, databases, and JavaScript. Additionally, Sam has authored and contributed to open source packages for use with the Meteor framework and makes occasional posts on Coderwall's tech blog."
Price: 74.99 |
| "Mastering MEAN Web Development" |
| "Building a website or mobile app using modern technologies can be a daunting task. Choosing and installing the tools alone can take hours of frustration, and code might not be very efficient. But with the MEAN stack at your aid, you can make the most of JavaScript to create websites and apps that are high in performance, unbeaten in quality, and easy on you. Mastering MEAN Web Development gives you a start-to-finish solution for using modern technologies, writing high quality code, and deploying a live website with the MEAN stack.This video course uses the mean-seed Yeoman generator to equip you with all the modern tools and workflows. It shows you the best practices of using Angular directives and writing automated tests right from the start. You will first see how to get a scaffolded out functioning website and then add in custom code and tests to make it go live. You will then learn how to go further with GruntJS commands to build and test your application. With this course, you will learn the three core frontend languages (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and dive into some more tricky topics to successfully build a full stack application complete with a database layer, backend server, and frontend client.By the end of this course, you will be building websites that look good and perform great in no time.About the AuthorLuke Madera has over 7 years of experience building modern websites and cross-platform mobile applications for both freelance contract work and various startups. He specializes in full stack JavaScript and the MEAN stack. He wrote generator-mean-seed, which is the third most popular MEAN Yeoman generator. Luke is passionate about leadership, entrepreneurship, health and fitness, the outdoors, adventures, playing all kinds of sports and games, and cooking.I'd like to thank my family for all their love, support, and guidance. My mom for always pushing me and believing in me, my dad for helping teach me to code and being my mentor, and my brother for working alongside me to build modern websites, and especially for his work on the MEAN stack."
Price: 94.99 |
| "Mastering D3 JS" |
| "Everyone collects data, but few ever understand their data. That's because they need a graph or a diagram to force them to notice what they never expected to see. Data is useless without a picture and D3JS is the workhorse of turning data into pictures. Most charting libraries on the Web rely on it.Mastering D3JS will show you everything that goes into a data visualization from start to finish. You will learn about the details of using D3JS, structuring and debugging your code, and the logic behind data visualization.You will start the course with some data and a goal. You will then be guided on the quest of turning that data into an interactive picture for the Web. Following the example, you will master D3 layouts, learn about adding animations and user interaction to make your visualization responsive, scrape more data when needed, and learn about making pretty maps. You will learn to use libraries such as Bootstrap, Figue, and Lo-dash to add those extra features. If an obstacle appears, you will conquer it. Finally you'll learn to debug your code and learn the best practices of this trade. You'll also see some interesting examples of good visualization and information design.When you finish the course, you will have mastered data visualization with D3JS. You will be an expert!About the AuthorSwizec Teller is a digital nomad and full stack web engineer. He travels the world and helps startups win by setting up new teams, training juniors, and fixing spaghetti code or implementing new features. His code has been used by MasterCard, Commerzbank, Google, Mashable, Lyft, and many others. He previously published a book called Data Visualization with D3JS aimed at people learning D3JS from scratch. For the past few years he's also been working on a project to help programmers be more awesome, called Why Programmers Work at Night. Swizec's work has been featured in Business Insider, LifeHacker, Huffington Post, and several dead-tree magazines. He's spoken on BBC Radio, appeared on Slovenian national television, and given talks all over the world."
Price: 94.99 |
| "Mastering Python" |
| "This course takes you on a journey from the basics of operating in a Python development environment through to advanced topics and master-level techniques. It presents you with a guide to Python and its standard library, focusing on language and library elements that are particularly useful for tool authors and system programmers.We start off with the basics to set up a functioning environment, creating packages, and running them on the command line. Through our journey, we'll highlight the major aspects of managing our Python development environment, handling parallel computation, and mastering asynchronous I/O for improved performance of our system. Finally, we'll learn the secrets of metaprogramming and unit testing in Python arming you with the perfect skillset to be a Python expert.Mastering Python will get you up to speed in everything from basic programming practices to high-end tools and techniques that will help you set apart as a successful Python programmer.About the Author Daniel Arbuckle holds a doctorate in Computer Science, and works as a Python programming consultant."
Price: 94.99 |
| "Building Applications with Ext JS" |
| "Ext JS is a powerful framework for developing complex web applications for your business. With more such business applications moving to the web everyday, a framework such as Ext JS can speed up your development and help you sharpen the quality of your applications.This video course will take you through the components of the framework that you need for a typical business application. You will get a thorough overview of how the Ext JS data package works, how it interacts with the many frontend widgets, and general concerns such as security, production optimized code, and continuous integration. We'll then show you data using the wide variety of components available, before moving on to charting and graphics, and bringing our app to life. Finally, you will deploy and test your code to make your application production-ready. By the end of this course, you will cover all the key aspects of the Ext JS framework and successfully build and deploy your application.About the AuthorSimon is the head of the Big Data team at Red Gate, focusing on researching and building tools to interact with Big Data platforms. Previously, he has worked in the data intensive worlds of hedge funds and financial trading, ERP, and e-commerce, as well as designing and running nationwide networks and websites. These days, his head is in Big Data and visualisation.In the course of those roles, he's designed and built several organisation-wide data and networking infrastructures, headed up research and development teams, and designed (and implemented) numerous digital products and high-traffic transactional websites.For a change of technical pace, he writes and produces screencasts on frontend web technologies such as ExtJS, and is an avid NodeJS programmer. In the past, he has also edited novels, written screenplays, developed websites, and built a photography business."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Building Databases with Redis" |
| "Redis has been used as a supportive database management system for years, although it is capable of being used as a type of main storage managing data consistency and high-load resilience. It is a simple-to-use database management system with transparent data structures and commands that predict queries, and extremely fast execution time.This video course is a great way to get acquainted with the Redis database. Take a journey from simple data architectures presented with key-value storage of strings to other topics including hash maps, lists, sets, and more. You will become familiar with a broad range of Redis commands, ways to configure and secure Redis servers, and learn how to scale your databases horizontally and vertically. Finally, you will understand how to set up reliable clusters, administrate them, and add your own commands to Redis using the Lua programming language.By the end of the course, you will know how to make use of all of Redis' features, from programming to administrative features, allowing you to design production-ready storage.About the AuthorRostyslav Dzinko is a software architect who has been working in the software development industry for more than 7 years. Rostyslav has been using Redis for years either as a main or a supportive type of storage used to build high-responsive networks and web services. Rostyslav uses Redis DBMS daily, and has been successfully using it in production for more than four years, building broad range of software. Rostyslav has a master's degree in Systems Engineering and is currently doing a PhD.I would like to give many thanks to my beautiful wife for her patience and support in this journey of bringing the course to life, knowing about my passion to sharing information and teaching people. I would also like to thank my parents for supporting me in my life with software development, and especially my father who was the first to introduce me to programming. This video course would just not be possible without all of them. And the last person I would like to mention is my friend and colleague Dmitry Firsov, whom I would also like to thank for our interesting chats and discussions on Redis administration topics. Thank you all."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Learning AngularJS Directives" |
| "It can be hard to maintain a balance between visual elements of an application associated with HTML and CSS and aspects such as UI Interaction and form validation. Wouldn't it be great if you could use HTML as your own domain specific language (DSL) and have it be a custom thing tuned exactly to the elements and attributes you need for the project you're building?AngularJS provides this exact solution by separating these two features so that you can make changes in the visual layout without affecting your code. Backed by directives, AngularJS will help you to add functionality to HTML so that you can build interactive, engaging web applications.Directives help you to extend your HTML and teach it new tricks to visually enhance your websites without compromising your code. This video course covers everything you need to use directives in your own apps, from creating directives to isolating their scope, applying transclusion, and injecting dependencies.Firstly, we will learn how to include HTML snippets in our code using directives and create a directive to start working with it. We will use isolate scope to configure our directives individually and style them. Next, we will take a look at different operators to bind functions and make our directives interactive. We will explore the concept of transclusion and apply it to make our code more effective. Once we've done this, we will restrict our directives to be used as an element, attribute, class or a comment according to our needs. We will also discover the difference between link and controller functions and inject dependencies to create testable components and co-ordinate our directives to work together. By the end of this course, you'll be proficient with creating and using fully functional directives to your advantage.This course explains the various concepts of AngularJS directives step-by-step, with a hands-on approach and examples to help you understand and use directives in your code.About the AuthorJohn Munsch is a professional software developer with over 28 years of experience. For the last 2 years, he has been leading a team that builds modern web app frontends with AngularJS. This was after a couple of years he spent doing the same kind of work with BackboneJS, UnderscoreJS, and HandlebarsJS. He's definitely enjoying a life full of JavaScript, AngularJS, and NodeJS after more than 20 years spent in the Java, C++, and C world."
Price: 49.99 |
| "Mastering Kendo UI" |
| "You have probably already heard about Kendo UI and the extensive range of widgets it comes with; but there's more to Kendo UI than just widgets. Kendo UI has a full featured framework, and when you put it all together, you can run your application using Kendo UI MVVM, Kendo UI widgets, and the Telerik backend for your data storage.With Mastering Kendo UI, you will be taken on a journey through building a fully functioning blog application with Kendo UI.You start off by installing a toolbox full of awesome functionality including Kendo UI, Bootstrap, and Telerik's backend services. Next, you will build a Content Editor by using the MVVM (Model-View-View-Model) architecture to control the widgets. You will then move on to creating a Blog Editor along with a Post Editor and then create and validate a form. You will also see how to troubleshoot some common issues that developers face every day. The video series doesn't stop here, but you will also learn how to do more with cleaner and more concise code using the Kendo UI library, jQuery, and Telerik's Everlive. Once you are done with the application, you will jump into some more advanced topics and look into Layouts, Views, and Routing.At the end of these 120 minutes, you will have a strong foothold on the important aspects of Kendo UI and will be able to build your own apps with confidence.About the AuthorChuck Catron is a software developer who got started way back when Visual Basic 5 was cool. Before becoming a programmer, Chuck was in the Navy for 6 years as a Fire Control Technician working on a missile system. Chuck has been learning JavaScript, JQuery, and Kendo UI for the last 4 years. Chuck started his web development career in 2003 and has always strived to be learning and closer to the edge than the corner. Chuck is a husband, dad, step-dad, and dog dude."
Price: 94.99 |
| "Kali Linux Web App Testing" |
| "With an ever-changing online environment, security is a constantly growing concern. It's hard for web developers to keep up with new and emerging techniques that attackers may use to hack into a site. In such a scenario, Kali Linux emerges as a powerful package to penetration test your website or application.Kali Linux Web App Testing will help you prevent different cyber attacks from basic vulnerabilities to ones less spoken of. Firstly, you will be introduced to injection techniques such as SQL injection along with SQLMap. After that, you'll learn what XSS injection is and how to use XSSER against it. Then you'll walk through local and remote file inclusions and ways to counteract them. You'll also learn other cyber invasions such as Remote Command Execution and Cross Site Request Forgery. Furthermore, you'll see what Open Redirects and Open Proxies are and how to tackle them. Finally, you'll learn the concept of Clickjacking and how to avoid it. Towards the end of this course, you'll not only be familiar with various cyber attacks and vulnerabilities, but also know different approaches to deal with them.The course follows a strict hands-on approach; combined with practical examples, it will help you to understand, how these attacks work and how to combat them effectively.About the AuthorJack (linkcabin) is a UK-based independent security researcher, who has a huge passion for information security. He loves reverse engineering, finding vulnerabilities in web applications, and creating video content. He is in the Halls of Fame of Netflix, AT&T, and eBay. Jack also catalogues some of his more technical findings on a blog, and various information security professionals read about them. Much of his day is spent e-mailing companies about vulnerabilities that he comes across in their websites. He finds the offensive side of security an interesting area, and is passionate about researching and communicating with various people about the importance of security. He also aims to change the existing public opinion on hackers."
Price: 74.99 |
| "Building Responsive Data Visualizations with D3 JS" |
| "As part of the user interface, it is important that data visualizations are context aware and should adjust according to screen size, media type, and other similar aspects. To tackle this, it is essential for web developers to ace at both D3 and responsive design using Bootstrap to make visualizations responsive across different viewing platforms. D3 is currently the go-to data visualization library, offering greater integration with web standards, and better customizability than other data visualization libraries available.This video course starts out by describing ways in which D3JS fits into existing web standards to provide data visualization solutions that can be easily integrated. After working through the basic flow of simple visualizations, we'll start adding features: tooltips, axes, and scales. We'll take a look at interactivity and transitions. Then we'll walk through the use of external data sources, including CSV, TSV, JSON, and GeoJSON, which will prepare us for more in-depth visualizations.Further on we'll tackle responsive design, covering all the basic concepts, and then work our way through a site mockup the old fashioned way, looking for breakpoints and using media queries to provide smooth screen size transitions. Our work with responsive design will then be applied to a number of our early data visualizations.We'll resume our focus on responsive design later in the course when we'll cover using Bootstrap and PymJS, a JavaScript library that enables the embedding of responsive iFrames. The data visualizations we'll tackle in the final sections of the course will include mapping with Topo and GeoJSON.By the end of this course, you will have an armoury full of tools to create feature-rich data visualizations with D3JS that are responsive on different platforms.About the AuthorMerrill Cook is currently a freelance data journalist, who has helped to strategize, implement, and market infographics, interactive graphics, interactive maps, scrolling story pages, and a variety of other online media types. He is also the manager of an independent online course and online course platform ranking site."
Price: 84.99 |
| "JavaScript High Performance" |
| "One of the most common challenges JavaScript developers face is creating a number of applications and maintaining them to run smoothly. The aim of this course is to deliver critical tips and techniques to help you create smarter and faster applications.JavaScript High Performance focusses on making your JavaScript code run more efficiently, raising your app performance.Start off by minifying and caching your code, be it JavaScript, HTML or CSS. Walk through different methods including creating location references, condensing var definitions and so on, helping you gain a solid foundation of the basic practical approaches. Next, discover the most potent ways to refer to functions and classes, learn how to streamline loops and arrays, and detect and avoid any memory leaks. Also, improve the appearance of your app by using sleek animations, without compromising performance.By the end of this course, you'll be confident in dynamically improving the performance of your app.The course follows a strict hands-on approach and introduces you to various methods which will help you maintain and rev-up your JavaScript based app. Using bad sample code, learn various ways to transform code and discover how to implement this yourself in your own app.About the AuthorBen Fhala discovered his passion for data visualization six years ago while he was working at Parsons in New York, in their data visualization department PIIM. He is the owner of the online video training school and an Adobe ACP. He enjoys spending most of his time learning and teaching, and has a love for visual programming and visualization in general. Ben has had the honour of developing applications for US Congress members, Prime Ministers, and Presidents around the world. He has built many interactive experiences for companies such as Target, AT&T, Crayola, Marriott, Neutrogena, and Nokia. He has technically directed many award-winning projects and has been a part of teams that have won three Agency of the Year awards."
Price: 94.99 |
| "Mastering CSS" |
| "CSS is a deceptively simple presentation language that has significantly developed over the last few years. Frontend developers need to keep style sheets manageable and organized by taking a modular approach to building a website. They can either wrestle with it, or learn how to master it in order to easily apply layouts and styles with precision.This web development video course has been designed to help you build your knowledge of CSS and master one of the most valuable tools in modern web design.We start off with a brief review of the foundations of CSS by using a good text editor to automate your authoring and set up a CSS baseline. We then move on to creating a layout with floats and a functioning menu with dropdowns, taking a modular-organized approach to CSS. We'll also go into detail about CSS3 properties such as transforms, transitions, and animations. By the end, you'll have an understanding of responsive web design, web fonts, icon fonts, and techniques used to support retina devices; all things a modern frontend web developer must know.We deep dive into a lot of details of CSS in this course, from creating a modern looking ghost button and a big call-to-action button to the supposedly difficult and scary SVG. Mastering CSS will arm you with all the knowledge, tips, and tricks you need to make you stand out in the world of developing complex, responsive, feature-rich web applications.About the AuthorRich Finelli is a husband and a father living in Piscataway, NJ, working as a frontend developer. He's truly passionate and excited for all frontend technologies and enjoys learning about web design and development. He also teaches two courses on CSS at Mercer County Community in NJ, and writes about web design on his blog."
Price: 94.99 |
| "XNA 3D Game Development By Example" |
| "With the dawn of XNA back in 2006, Microsoft has offered us an easy way to create 3D games, and this framework has evolved to its fourth version.XNA 3D Game Development By Example is THE video course for starting game development on the Windows platform. This video series will go over the all the essential technical aspects of building good games. This video series will show you how to build a 3D puzzle game for Windows, and point future game developers in the right direction. It will also show you how to design your own framework, something you can use to build upon for future projects.The XNA framework empowers us to build 2D and 3D games for PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7, and we'll use those capabilities to create stunning 3D games for Windows. We start with drawing 2D and 3D graphics, both static and animated, followed by several techniques to build a custom framework that'll make your life easier while building games.We also cover the various ways of handling user input and help set the mood of our game by playing both 2D and 3D sound. Finally, we'll build an actual 3D puzzle game together from the ground up that will run on Windows.About the AuthorBrecht Kets is a Senior Lecturer at Howest University in Belgium, where he teaches game development in one of the leading international game development study programs, Digital Arts and Entertainment. He's been actively involved in game development for several years, and has been writing about XNA since the launch in December 2006. He hosts the website and has received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in the category DirectX/XNA five times in a row for his contributions in the community. Brecht has also co-authored the video series XNA 3D Game Development By Example, Packt Publishing.Thomas Goussaert graduated in Digital Arts And Entertainment (DAE), from Howest University. With a wide range of skills acquired by his studies, he explored the world of programming and game development. Thomas is always curious and eager to learn new things; always feeding his passion for programming. Now he's a lecturer at Howest University, where he teaches game development in one of the leading international game development study programs, Digital Arts and Entertainment. It's nice to have a passion for programming, but it's even better to share it with the world! Thomas has also co-authored the video series XNA 3D Game Development By Example, Packt Publishing."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Designing Moodle Themes" |
| "Themes in Moodle are plugins that help you to create a different look and feel for your Moodle courses. These themes act as custom skins" which help you to make your courses stand out from the rest. With your personalized themes, you will enjoy functionality and elevated performance along with a very unique design for your own brand" of courses.This tutorial offers you a step-by-step guide to building your own customized themes on top of the existing Moodle plugins. This comprehensive video tutorial will introduce you to the process of selecting the Moodle themes that best suit your requirements and then further customizing them to your design needs. You will learn to identify the elements that will make your Moodle course better, followed by ways to achieve superior functionality.You will learn how themes can help you build an exclusive look for your courses and create a positive user experience for your viewers. You will go through a quick tour of pre-installed themes in Moodle, and then learn how to customize the appearance of elements of any theme that you select. If you are working with a Moodle administrator, you'll learn how to download and install new themes, and to modify their appearance quickly and easily using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). A quick drive through this course and you will be on the road to developing a strong brand identity for all your Moodle courses and programs.About the AuthorSusan Smith Nash, who has been involved in the design, development, and administration of e-Learning programs and courses since earning her Ph.D. in the late 1990s, has developed and administered online courses on many platforms, using many different learning management systems. She is responsible for developing degree and certificate programs delivered in online and hybrid formats and has worked on implementing e-Learning in universities, corporations, and associations.The author of the award-winning e-Learning blog E-Learning Queen and several books on e-Learning, Susan Smith Nash has focused on developing courses that optimize user experience and enhance performance, outcomes, and course persistence/completion.Her portfolio of publications includes peer-reviewed articles and books, including the following: The video Moodle for Training and Professional Development, Packt Publishing, 2013"
Price: 84.99 |
| "XNA 3D Toolkit" |
| "Using XNA, you can get up and running with 3D graphics development in no time, and you will quickly start developing fun gaming experiences. Developing a 3D graphics engine can be very rewarding when done right; learn how to get an immediate payoff so you can focus on developing your game. This course includes videos on shader development, coding for extensibility, scene construction, and multi-platform game development.XNA 3D Toolkit will walk you through all the information you need to develop a 3D graphics engine. Along the way, you will learn how to deal with a complex game scene and how to incorporate and work with in-game debugging tools. This is a great series for anyone who wants to get an in-depth view of how to design 3D graphics using XNA.Starting from scratch, with this course you'll learn all the building blocks needed for developing a cross platform 3D graphics engine. You'll build upon this until you have a sound infrastructure that will allow you to quickly implement the functionality needed for your future games.XNA 3D Toolkit helps you learn how to effectively work with models, providing you with the ability to go from concept to scene. You'll learn how to display your models many times on the screen without wasting memory, as well as making them look ultra realistic. You will then move on to creating a basic foundation for physics and shaders to get the most out of your engine. Once everything is in place, you'll learn how to add all of your content to a scene to produce a high-quality effect. Lastly, we will ensure that your game is ready for the real world by deploying it to the Xbox and Windows Phone Emulator.By the end of this course, you should be comfortable using all the tools necessary to start creating your very own 3D video games.About the AuthorDustin Heffron is an avid gamer and programmer. He has over 8 years of experience programming in various languages and environments including Linux, Windows, embedded systems, and various consoles. He has been working with XNA since version 2.0 and has created everything from 3D military applications to small 2D games. Dustin currently works for Johnson Controls where he creates a variety of tools to integrate with AutoCAD to facilitate the design of HVAC equipment. He is also currently working on a variety of different game projects using Monogame. Dustin has previously helped Packt as a technical reviewer for the book XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example and the video series 3D XNA Game Development by Example.Larry D. Louisiana has worked as Lead Software Developer at Magenic since 2010. He is a self-taught programmer with a dual bachelor's degree in Biology and Chemistry from Minnesota State University in Moorhead. Larry is an accomplished problem-solver who has published peer-reviewed research in synthetic chemistry. Larry is a Minnesota native who spent his summers working on a family carnival and his winters working in a sawmill. He is an outdoor enthusiast with formal training in forestry and fire fighting. His hobbies include gaming, abstract mathematics, and fishing.Larry is currently a Software Consultant at Magenic as well as a Microsoft Gold Partner, where his main focus has been developing, architecting, and leading teams of developers working on web and business applications using Microsoft technologies."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Salesforce CRM: The Definitive Admin" |
| "This video course provides readers with a complete guide to managing and configuring Salesforce for your organization. This course covers all the important topics within the application, in a manner which covers both real-life solutions as well as common best practices used throughout the communityThe video course begins with discussing how to set up organization wide settings and then moves on to topics such as user management, configuration, data management, analytics, and business processes. The course also discusses how to extend the application and the different best practices when working with the platform.Starting from how to initially set up the organization in Salesforce, the course moves to cover a breadth of different topics. This includes settings such as default currencies, locale, time zone, as well as the default language. It later moves on to how to manage users within the system and then properly set up a security model across different users. The video course will also tackle ways to configure and extend the systems functionality by creating custom fields and objects, as well as creating business rules such as workflow rules and approval processes.The course aims to provide beginners with a solid baseline to configuring an application, as well as provide novices with the ammunition they need to make Salesforce the perfect fit for their organization."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Building Hadoop Clusters" |
| "Hadoop is an Apache top-level project that allows the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It allows you to deliver a highly available service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone to failures. While Big Data and Hadoop have seen a massive surge in popularity over the last few years, many companies still struggle with trying to set up their own computing clusters.This video series will turn you from a faltering first-timer into a Hadoop pro through clear, concise descriptions that are easy to follow.We'll begin this course with an overview of Amazon's cloud service and its use. We'll then deploy Linux compute instances and you'll see how to connect your client machine to Linux hosts and configure your systems to run Hadoop. Finally, you'll install Hadoop, download data, and examine how to run a query.This video series will go beyond just Hadoop; it will cover everything you need to get your own clusters up and running. You will learn how to make network configuration changes as well as modify Linux services. After you've installed Hadoop, we'll then go over installing HUEHadoop's UI. Using HUE, you will learn how to download data to your Hadoop clusters, move it to HDFS, and finally query that data with Hive.Learn everything you need to deploy Hadoop clusters to the Cloud through these videos. You'll grasp all you need to know about handling large data sets over multiple nodes.About the AuthorSean Mikha is a technical architect who specializes in implementing large-scale data warehouses using Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) technologies. Sean has held roles at multiple companies that specialize in MPP technologies, where he was a part of implementing one of the largest commercial clinical data warehouses in the world. Sean is currently a solution architect, focusing on architecting Big Data solutions while also educating customers on Hadoop technologies. Sean graduated from UCLA with a BS in Computer Engineering, and currently lives in Southern California."
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| "Introducing AngularJS" |
| "This is Volume 3 of a 3 part series, Introducing AngularJS. We recommend that you view these volumes in sequential order so that you can follow along with our author Mathieu Chauvinc from start to finish. You can find other volumes in this series on Udemy by following the links below:Volume 1: Introducing AngularJS-Volume 1Volume 2: Introducing AngularJS-Volume 2AngularJS is a Google-backed JavaScript framework that simplifies the development of single-page applications and other web page JavaScript widgets. It is one of several modern frameworks that are revolutionizing web development by bringing a fresh, more professional orientation to application building. Developers will love working with the framework, which allows them to focus their time on actual logic, instead of having to deal with repetitive tasks such as rendering and event binding.Introducing AngularJS will show you how to build a complete application in a very short time, yet without cutting corners that would be detrimental to code quality. We will take you through a concrete application, a movie library app, one step at a time, in order to introduce the concepts behind all the moving parts of an AngularJS application.We will start by quickly scaffolding an entire application's structure using Yeoman. This will lay the foundations of our application in a well-structured manner. Then we'll focus on displaying data and allowing the user to interact with the application, and how can Angular help us handle rendering and events binding, so we can focus more on the app logic itself. We'll peek into templates and controllers, and will see how Angular's declarative nature makes it obvious which element is in charge of which functionality.We will then introduce a second view to the application, and show how to handle routing between the two views, including reading parameters from the URL and how we can very quickly create new routes with the companion tool Yeoman.You will also learn how to load data from an API using AJAX, both from the same server as the app, as well as from an external source. Finally, we will close by introducing services that are Angular data-layer singleton objects as well as building a client-side data persistence using LocalStorage.Introducing AngularJS will guide you through all the aspects of an Angular application, start-to-finish, view logic to data layer and persistence. You will learn how Angular makes developers lives easier by taking care of rendering and event handling, giving you more time to focus on what you love: the actual logic of the app. With Yeoman, you will also guarantee the quick creation of new views, routes, and controllers, without ever having to create a file manually.About the AuthorMathieu Chauvinc is a Managing Director at Red Ape Solutions and has made Angular the company's weapon of choice in building complex single-page applications and neat hybrid mobile apps. He has been involved in web technologies for over a decade, from Django to Node, SQL to NoSQL, Mootools to Angular, continuously trying to keep the right balance between the excitement of new frameworks and the stability of proven ones. He always has a special place in his heart for Python and Django.He holds a Master's degree in Engineering from the German University Karlsruhe and a Master's degree in Engineering from the French ENSAM (Paris). Despite an engineering background, he has always had a passion for knowledge sharing, which has followed him to this day. He regularly conducts corporate or free training on various I.T. topics in his adoptive country of Malaysia."
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| "Building Interactive Dashboards with Tableau" |
| "As businesses collect increasing amounts of vital data, the need for effective, intuitive, and actionable interfaces increases every day. Tableau is part of a new class of business intelligence tools, which dramatically reduce the time and technical acumen required to derive insights from data and publish it in a consumable format. We'll begin by laying the groundwork for a successful dashboard and then move on to constructing five different dashboards of increasing complexity.Starting with the Strategic/Executive dashboard, we'll design a few of the most common dashboard elements and assemble our first complete dashboard. Next, we'll show you how to use Tactical dashboards for visualizations that can help depict progress and draw attention to important areas. We'll then dive into increasing the dashboard interactivity by using Operational dashboards when focusing on granular detail. Using advanced techniques in Tableau, we'll then show you how to use Analytical dashboards that can provide you with the tools to effectively extract knowledge from your data. We'll also walk through how to quickly create a visualization using Ad-hoc dashboards that allow you to effectively keep an eye on a specific area of interest. Lastly, we'll cover the styling settings and publication options and conclude with best practices.This course guides you through the entire how and why" of each task in the dashboard creation process, which will translate easily to your own dashboard projects. About the AuthorTony Kau is a Tableau Desktop 8 Qualified Associate, and he is putting its power to use in his role as a reporting analyst for a Fortune 500 company. His analytical background spans a decade, during which he has used a variety of business intelligence software, though none were better than Tableau. His passion is efficiently leveraging data to inform strategic business decisions.He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Oregon, and his background includes web design, programming, and financial analysis."
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| "Mastering Express Web Application Development" |
| "Express is a fantastic JavaScript framework, but most people only scratch the surface. With just a few changes, Express can adapt to your work strategy, rather than things being the other way around. Express is perfect for developing APIs with performance in mind, and as it's a thin layer on top of standard web technologies it allows you to add any additional technology you want!Mastering Express Web Application Development will introduce the tools and libraries you need to take your Express development career to the next level. By learning how to use tools to make your life easier, you can do more in less time.To start, we'll create a new Express application, learn how to configure it and increase application visibility by using logs. We will explore Express itself, along with various libraries that will help improve your development experience. We'll be building on the previous section's work each time. As we move on we'll take a look at technologies such as SSL and Nginx, and work through deploying your application to production in a secure and scalable way. Furthermore, we will study various existing Express projects that are open source, and a review of how they are structured to help you to organize your own applications in a systematic way.By the end of the course, you will be an expert in using a wide range of new tools and libraries which will help you deliver the best value to your customers. About the AuthorMichael Heap is a polyglot developer who spends most of his time working with high volume real-time systems. He's an established conference speaker, and is passionate about sharing what he's learned during his career so far.He holds a first class computing degree from Leeds Metropolitan University, and has been programming for just over 10 years. On a daily basis you'll find him writing NodeJS, PHP or Go (with a little Python/Scala thrown in to keep it interesting)."
Price: 94.99 |
| "Building a Responsive Site with Zurb Foundation" |
| "Zurb Foundation is one of the most diffused best performing front-end design frameworks out there.Dealing with browser compatibility, media queries, style consistency, and effective layouts could be a huge pain today, but Foundation comes to the rescue. With minimal effort, it allows you to create a production ready, responsive website or is a great starting point for a highly customized project.Building a Responsive Site with Zurb Foundation will show you every major aspect of the framework, as well as general best practices and workflow tips, guiding you through the process of creating a live mock-up for a photography website. Every video will introduce some of Foundation's features and will use them to enhance the website in order to provide a practical experience with all the topics.The course begins with an empty folder, where we'll install the Zurb Foundation framework and will start adding new pages and enhancements to cover all the key aspects of the framework itself.We begin our journey by explaining why there is a need for a framework, how to set up a modern working environment, and how to scaffold a new project with Zurb Foundation. We'll then immediately introduce some responsive design key concept as well as the advantages of a mobile-first approach and how Foundation helps us with these scenarios.As we advance through the course, we'll introduce all the major aspects of the framework, translating them in working code for our website. We are going to deal with navigation techniques as well as typography, content elements, and forms. As we come to an end, we'll emphasize how to deal with media elements in a responsive environment, trying out different approaches to effectively show image galleries both on desktop and mobile.Through the whole course, we'll witness some general best practices such as using a semantic mark-up using SASS and how to optimize our work for deployment. Finally, we'll cover some JavaScript elements, showing how Foundation helps us introduce some dynamism on our website with nearly no programming knowledge.At the end of the course, you will have the skills to create responsive websites starting from scratch by making use of all the Foundation elementsAbout the AuthorAndrea Moretti is a freelance developer. He has worked on various websites using Zurb Foundation Framework as well as big web application projects where Foundation is used side to side with other technologies. He is an active open source contributor and is actually maintaining Foundation templates for static site generator such as Middleman and Docpad.He teaches JavaScript and PHP at Fusolab 2.0 in Rome and is an active member of the RomaJS JavaScript user group. He's passionate about beautiful code, functional programming, syntactic sugar, and sugar-free chocolate.He is also a photographer and photo assistant, having worked on assignments for the major Italian magazines as well as luxury hotels, art galleries, Italian textile firms, big corporations, and food-related events."
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| "Learning Django Web Development" |
| "Forget working with long, boring lines of code! With Django at your command, make the most of your time by building professional grade web applications in minutes. With the help of a suite of useful and time-saving tools, reduce or eliminate the work needed for the most common tasks to create highly functional and flexible apps.Learning Django Web Development will help you build a solid foundation for constructing your own web applications as quick as it gets.Start off by installing Django and initializing your project. Analyze Django's in-built admin interfaces and utilize them to handle your application content. Furthermore, manage the data using generic views and auto-generated forms. With that, create an authentication system for your app by using login forms and finally walk through the process of deploying your application to the web.Towards the end of the course, you'll know everything there is to know from creating your app to deploying it with the help of the invaluable features of Django.About the AuthorMatthew Nuzum has been developing web applications since 1999 and has worked for several start-ups including Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, as well as Fortune 500 companies. He has a passion for helping others learn new technologies and has written numerous tutorials and help documents as well as running a web-focused user group based in his hometown of Des Moines."
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| "Introducing Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner" |
| "Web developers today are looking to create reusable workflows and development tools in JavaScript that will dramatically streamline development. Grunt helps you achieve that and more. In addition to being able to run custom commands easily, Grunt makes your web development experience very rewarding by reacting whenever a file is changed and performs the actions needed.This course will help in all aspects of development, from writing better code to deploying compact production packages.You'll start with a simple Grunt file and move on to building a fully functional workflow and deployment system. You'll learn how to deal with simple tasks such as renaming, moving, and combining files, before moving on to more complex activities such as creating concise and compact deployment packages. You'll learn how to create a basic file then build upon it by adding modules to achieve various levels of automation that were previously difficult to attain. Next, you'll learn to use a range of plugins to achieve concatenation, image minification, and create responsive images. Before we reach the end, you will learn to compile many types of languages and then will test your code using multiple testing frameworks such as JSLint, PhantomJS, and Behat. Finally, you'll be introduced to some advanced uses of Grunt involving custom command-line commands you want to use.Once you are done with this course, developing workflows will be a breeze for you.About the AuthorDaniel Linn has been into technology since 1992 when his father brought a modem home from his work at the cable companies for testing and he saw his first rollover image. His career has spanned all aspects of the software development life cycle, and over that time he's fulfilled many different roles including Designer, Developer, Project Manager, Database Admin, and Front End Architect, with some Dev Ops thrown in from time to time. He is currently the Director of Development at Metal Toad, a Portland-based technology consulting firm specializing in mobile, desktop, and web applications and solutions."
Price: 49.99 |
| "Learning Grunt" |
| "Grunt, an industry-standard JavaScript task runner, is used by professionals to tame and automate the most repetitive parts of the workflow. It is loaded with a wealth of free plugins that are available online empowering you to maximize your development time and minimize human error; just what every developer wants!Learning Grunt is a systematic guide that will help you build up your workflow from installing and using Grunt to a basic degree, to advanced configurations and creating your own plugins.We'll start off by creating our development area and getting Node and Grunt installed. Then, we'll move on to look at some Grunt basics including defining and running tasks as well as working with configuration. Next we'll dive into getting the first iteration of our workflow setup, with a focus on running basic tasks. From there, we'll evolve our workflow into a more advanced build system focusing on tasks such as loading modules better using RequireJS, and testing our application using Karma and Jasmine. Lastly, you'll learn how to create your very own plugins in order to make your workflow unstoppable.This course will give you the workflow you need to help you focus on building high-quality applications and sites instead of wrestling with manual processes.About the AuthorDan Wellman is a JavaScript developer based in the UK. He has a decade of hard-earned experience working for companies big and small including local boutique design agencies, and more recently, the Skype division of Microsoft.Dan has written and co-written nine books for Packt, mostly centered on jQuery and jQuery UI, and he regularly creates immersive video tutorials for various websites and companies."
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| "Mastering Cassandra" |
| "As technology evolves, the constant upsurge of data creation leads to a continuous need for a more flexible, secure, and reliable manner of storage. Luckily, Cassandra is able to tackle this growing challenge. Cassandra is a flagship NoSQL database with decentralized, fault-tolerant, scalable, and low-cost features making it a core component of cloud computing systems. The more recent versions have greatly improved the security features, making it suitable for use in enterprise systems. When combined with Java and Spring frameworks, Cassandra can formulate a complete application stack thereby enabling efficient data management.Mastering Cassandra is a power house of various advanced techniques that will help you become an expert in professional-level data management. This video course starts off from the essence of the web application architecture to setting up the environment with a single-node Cassandra cluster, and takes you to a level where you can build, implement, and secure web applications with ease.In this step-by-step guide we will develop a real-time web portal application in Java and Cassandra. We'll start off by touching upon the major components of a Java web application and the development tools for the course, and then go deeper into the system analysis and designing of the CassandraWebTrader focusing on the Spring Framework projects. Through our journey to master Cassandra, we'll be working with core concepts and design patterns such as dependency injection, aspect-oriented programming, model-view-controller, and enterprise integration patterns.We'll build the CassandraWebTrader and implement all the typical functions of a web application as well as demonstrate the application of modeling-by-query techniques of Cassandra data modeling. In addition to this, we'll understand the techniques and design trade-offs of a real-world complex system. Finally, we will ace production configuration of CassandraWebTrader and discuss the most pertinent tasks in our daily operations, such as application monitoring and database backup.By the end of this course, you will be armed with all the knowledge needed to efficiently design and develop Java web applications using Cassandra.About the AuthorC Y Kan is an expert in system integration and has over 20 years of IT experience, including 15 years of project management and architect role in many large-scaled local and international projects. He received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Hong Kong and later a Master's degree from the University of Technology, Sydney and holds many professional qualifications such as PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, CISSP, ITIL, TOGAF9 and SOA Certified Architect.He has expertise and strong interests in software technologies and development methodologies, including enterprise architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture, Java-related technologies, Oracle databases, iOS application development, Scrum, Extreme Programming, agile software development, various kinds of project management methodologies."
Price: 94.99 |
| "Learning Flask" |
| "With a growing skills gap, the need for talented developers is greater than ever before. A basic grounding in building apps with a framework as minimalistic, powerful, and easy-to-learn as Flask will be a useful skill to launch you on a career as an entrepreneur or web developer. Flask is a Python micro-framework that makes web application development as easy as saying it.This course will give you a basic grounding in the fundamental concepts of web development, as well as the hands-on experience you require to successfully build web apps with Flask.We'll start by turning your computer into a modern development machine. Next, we'll move beyond static websites and develop a powerful database-backed dynamic Flask app. We won't stop there, because we'll also cover how to implement a full authentication system.Finally, we'll extend the app's functionality by learning how to integrate it with third-party APIs.When you finish this course, you will be fully equipped to build your very own custom web apps.About the AuthorLalith Polepeddi has been working with Flask since discovering it to be an easy way to learn about web development. He's written about Flask for Tuts+ and TechPro. Aside from Flask, Lalith is interested in applying computer science to address problems in parallel domains, such as biology."
Price: 74.99 |
| "Learning Functional JavaScript" |
| "Along with being tried and trusted, functional programming is one of the biggest current trends in programming. Its focus on side-effect free code, unadorned data manipulation and simple structures promote a coding style that reduces bugs, and lifts the level of abstraction to a point where we can achieve more with less code. All topics discussed in the course can be used to various degrees in any code-base even if your daily work is with a huge object-oriented project, the techniques discussed will certainly be useful.Learning Functional JavaScript will show you how to build powerful abstractions by combining many small and simple functions, and how to strip your data modeling to the necessities. We start by investigating the power of higher-order functions by diving right into the implementation of the sample application. We then elaborate by partially applying and composing functions before we end up with lazy evaluation to boost our abstraction power and performance.Right from the start we'll dive into the implementation of a text-based adventure game. We will also see how function composition is used to solve specific problems in this domain by combining highly generic functions. We learn function programming techniques that help improve asynchronous code used to load the game from disk.Later we'll become acquainted with a few other examples as well, as we learn about designing applications around an immutable data structure. And we end our journey with a discussion of recursion and how it relates to lazy data structures, and show examples of using previously discussed techniques on infinite data sets.At the end of the course, you'll be proficient with the basic functional programming techniques and will be able to optimize your JavaScript code by applying them. Learning Functional JavaScript teaches you all the basic functional programming techniques and shows you how to apply them to JavaScript, and how they can be used to solve highly practical problems.About The AuthorChristian Johansen is a passionate programmer working with Oslo-based consultancy Kodemaker. He's a man with an eclectic background, having worked with everything from Unix systems tuning and ops to various server-side applications and JavaScript heavy frontend development. Christian is the author of Test-Driven JavaScript Development, and he maintains several open-source projects, including the JavaScript test-framework BusterJS and the popular mocking framework SinonJS. Functional programming is a long-standing interest, most recently practiced with Clojure and JavaScript."
Price: 74.99 |
