| "Zabbix Network Monitoring Essentials" |
| ""Zabbix Network Monitoring Essentials" is an extensive video course that gives a complete introduction into the key features of the enterprise-grade Zabbix monitoring software. Learn how to set up your own monitoring server and leverage many useful features that are hidden in the documentation. The course starts by showing you a fresh installation of the Zabbix server. All relevant functionality will be explained step by step while going through the web interface. First you'll learn how to gather information from your servers by using the Zabbix agent. You'll then make use of triggers to define which conditions depict actual problems and should raise an alert. Additionally you'll learn how to visualize the items and triggers in screens and maps. By the end of the course you will have set up and learnt to manage a Zabbix server like a pro. About the Author Christoph Haas is a system administrator and web application developer with 17 years of experience in this field. He received a diploma in Computer Science and is currently leading the IT department of a software company in Hamburg, Germany. In his spare time he contributes to the open source community as a Debian developer or by working on websites that he is currently refactoring in Ruby on Rails. Some of the most noticeable contributions are the mail server tutorials he maintains on his website"
Price: 84.99 |
| "Building a 2D Game with GameMaker: Studio" |
| "Building a 2D Game with GameMaker: Studio will demonstrate everything from the main interface and programming to creating an artificial intelligence, teaching you everything you need to know in order to create your own games in GameMaker: Studio. This course is a step-by-step walkthrough that will showcase GameMaker: Studio and Game Maker Language (GML) through a series of small, practical examples. These examples consist of concise videos that demonstrate the essential programming techniques and concepts that you'll need to get started in game development. You'll begin with an overview of the interface to familiarize yourself with it, and steadily work your way towards building a platformer with all the usual trimmings such as a score counter, health monitor, enemies, and even artificial intelligence. You will then learn about things such as animating sprites, using objects, best practices when creating resources, and much more, all of which leads up to creating a platformer game. Building a 2D Game with GameMaker: Studio covers everything you need to use GameMaker: Studio and will lay the groundwork for future games of your own. About the Author Nathan Auckett is an advanced Game Maker user and has been using the software for five years. He started using Game Maker during its seventh version and ever since has been using the built-in programming language to create his own games. In 2012 he began creating small tutorials on various topics in Game Maker and has since then created over 30 tutorials helping people achieve a variety of different tasks in Game Maker."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Building an Application with CoffeeScript" |
| "This video course provides invaluable insight into the practical usefulness of CoffeeScript, how it can simplify web development, and allow us to easily build web applications or re-factor existing ones. From getting acquainted with CoffeeScript all the way to using it in production, this course focuses on the practical aspects of the language. Youll get to see all it offers, such as the simplified syntax compared to JavaScript, the impressive build tools, and the possibilities to simplify your project structure. You'll build an application while learning the specifics of the language and the many tricks CoffeeScript has up its sleeve. You will use JavaScript libraries to avoid reinventing the wheel, while inventing some wheels of our own in order to better understand some advanced concepts . We'll go through a really simple MVC framework that provides the basis of a simple document editing application that can export documents to the desktop (from the Web). The app well be building is fully extensible so you can easily make it your own. Want a note-taking app? We have you covered. Want to extend the app to something more? By all means, you'll have a skeleton app which you can revamp again and again to build various apps with CoffeeScript. About the Author Darko is a developer who likes to work on the experimental side of things and enjoys exploring programming in its various shapes and sizes. His current favorite is CoffeeScript, which he uses day-to-day, both on client and server-side via nodejs. He is employed at MediaLab, a company working with various types of media, while taking part in different projects. His current obsession is functional programming, especially combinators and their practical usage."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Building a Single Page Web Application with KnockoutJS" |
| "Knockout is a JavaScript MVVM (Model View ViewModel) library that helps you create rich, dynamic user interfaces with clean, maintainable code. Moreover, Knockout automatically updates the UI when your data model state changes, ridding you of the need to refresh the page. As a developer, discover how you can use KnockoutJS to architect a complete single page web application from start to finish while maintaining its structure and flexibility! This course walks you through the process of creating a real-life web application using the MVVM pattern to add functionality to the code as it evolves. If your JavaScript often turns into a giant convoluted mess while building an application with Knockout, this video course will give you an insight on how to organize your code to avoid this. Starting with an overview of the core concepts behind KnockoutJS to create a real-world application, you'll begin your journey by first learning to build a simplified version of Google Docs. You'll discover the power of data binding and dependency tracking to automatically keep various parts of your application in sync. Next, youll learn how you can use debugging techniques to track errors before moving on to creating a spreadsheet to represent more complex data structures. Lastly, youll learn how to create a form and then save and load a page using server side functionality. The final section of the course lets you explore best practices and some additional tools you can use to ensure a maintainable code base."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Building a RepRap 3D Printer" |
| "This video course teaches you how to make a 3D printer for yourself and calibrate and adjust it perfectly. You will get to know how to solve and prevent common problems and discover alternative solutions to tailor your 3D printer to your liking and needs. You will learn how to assemble parts for your 3D printer and build it with ordinary tools and skills. The course starts off with assembling of the Y-Unit and the XZ-Unit before moving on to the extruder and wiring. Next, you will be shown how to execute some simple calibrations and suddenly you're printing in 3D with your very own 3D printer. By the end of the video, you will be a junior 3D printing expert. This 3D printer used for demonstration in this course is especially designed for easy assembly and use, and gives you a head start in building your own 3D-printers for now and for the future. About the Author Bram de Vries is a mechanical engineer and social scientist dedicated to open hardware. He has previously worked at Demotech, developing pro-poor technologies in Guatemala, Ethiopia, and India. The overarching aim of his work is to open up innovations and make them accessible. For the last four years, his focus has moved from water pumps to open source 3D printing. He also tutors Blender courses."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Moodle for Mobile Learning" |
| ""Moodle for Mobile Learning" will show you how you can transform your classroom by using mobile learning activities. You will learn how to create engaging mobile content in Moodle that will captivate your students and with the help of social media, students will be able to communicate and collaborate more effectively. "Moodle for Mobile Learning" starts with the setting up of Moodle to enable effective learning through mobile devices. It ends by looking at different mobile activities that a teacher can use to engage their classroom. Along the way we have easy-to-follow, clear video instructions that will revolutionize the way you teach. You will learn how to set up up Moodle, including theming for mobile devices and the new Moodle mobile app. You will discover different ways of creating innovative content and assessments for mobile devices. You will be able to use social media to interact with your students. Assessment and communication through mobile devices will add a new dimension to your course. "Moodle for Mobile Learning" will help you to achieve a different classroom from the one you currently have. It will give you the skills and techniques to transform your teaching, through easy-to-follow, practical video tutorials. About the Author Graeme has been involved with learning technology for over 10 years and has been a Moodle administrator for the last four years. He recently project managed his organization's move from Moodle 1.9 to Moodle 2.1. Graeme devised the concept for the soon-to-be-released Caboodle Moodle block. This block has been created through a combined project with five educational institutions, and aims to increase the student utilization of e-resources by making access to the resources easier."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Beginning PhoneGap" |
| "This video course shows you how to build a fully functional mobile application with PhoneGap quickly and easily. You will begin by installing PhoneGap before moving on to learn how to use PhoneGap-related tools to host, develop, test, debug, build, and release mobile application libraries. You will then dive into the core of PhoneGap application development by learning how to use CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript/Framework, and the PhoneGap API from a mobile applications perspective. With the help of step-by-step examples, easily understandable code, and dynamic demos, you will be able to introduce mobile end-to-end solutions that integrate mobile apps into external services. By the end of the course, you will know how to use PhoneGap in a convenient manner to write powerful and fascinating apps that run anywhere, quickly. About the Author Keyang Xiang is the tech lead and application architect in the Professional Service department of FeedHenry Ltd. He received his MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Limerick. He has been working as a software engineer for over 5 years. His working areas mainly include mobile enterprise application solutions, mobile application engineering, web application development, cloud computing, and enterprise solution development based on Java or .Net. After enjoying his teenage life in China, he is now living in Ireland and can be contacted at http://keyangxiang(dot)com. Keyangs employer, FeedHenry, provide a mobile application platform to enterprises to simplify their mobile initiatives and empower them to engage more effectively with employees, customers, and partners through the mobile channel. The platform is cloud-based and supports app development, integration to backend systems, and deployment to multiple devices as well as app management and reporting."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Getting Started with Unity 4 Scripting" |
| "Getting Started with Unity 4 Scripting will explain everything that you need to know; from the basics of the Unity game engine, through to how the component system and Input Manager works. Learn how to create a custom GUI and set up basic AI pathfinding systems, and progressively cover more advanced topics such as inter-communication between the different languages that the Unity game engine supports. With this video course, you will learn about render loops and basic entry point functions that the Unity engine exposes, followed by the component system, Input system, Gizmos, character controllers, and GUI Scripting. This video course culminates by teaching you about the AI system and the script compilation orders that the Unity game engine provides, as well as all the basic components that comprise a good game. Learn everything you need to know about how scripting in Unity works; everything from exposing variables in scripts, entry point functions, render loops, and colliders, including how to make them work, to an in-depth introduction of the component system and its intricacies. Discover how to add, remove, and create custom components, as well as about the anatomy of the Input, GUI, and Gizmos system, how they work, and how they behave in tandem. By the end of this course, you'll be knowledgeable enough to create any basic game by harnessing the power of Unity. About the Author Juan Sebastian started to develop an interest in computer graphics and visualization software early in his college years, when he started to work at the virtual reality lab on a laparoscopic surgery simulator; there after he did his internship in web design, but he knew that game development was the way to go. He found web development boring, and got entry level work at a game studio as a Junior Programmer. There he started to learn Unity and work on some games, and he also started to work on side projects of his own. After he graduated, he moved to Denmark to work at Unitys head quarters as the Doc Engineer, where he was in charge of all documentation. In this role, he created a parser to automatically translate all the examples written in JavaScript to C# and Boo. After 2 years, he moved to Chile to work in Unity as the core programmer on a marketing research simulator made in Unity. There he was in charge of all the connections and hardware interactions with the engine."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Getting Started with Magento" |
| "This video will guide you through the daunting world of setting up, customizing, and running your own online store with the world's #1 eCommerce platform. It covers everything from installation to configuration, customization and managing every aspect of your store's frontend and the customer's experience. Beginning with the very basics of installation, well cover everything you'll need to get your web store up and running. Getting Started with Magento will cover everything you need to know; from populating your store with products to creating custom product types, and the addition of simple or complex product types. Youll also learn how to configure your store to accept payment, process taxes, and handle shipping. In addition to managing your products, this course will also show you how to modify and add pages, and change their layout and theme. Once youve completed this course, your web store will be fully functional and ready for business online. About the Author Scott Tolinski graduated from the University of Michigans Performing Arts Technology Program, and is currently the senior frontend developer for Q LTD in Ann Arbor, MI. He has worked actively in the fields of web creation and production for over 10 years. In 2012, Scott Tolinski created Level Up Tuts, providing free web development tutorials on Youtube. A breakdancer, hip hop expert, founder of a competitive Bboy dance crew, and lover of all things kung fu, Scott is inspired by a glass of fine wine or a steaming hot cup of green tea."
Price: 84.99 |
| "RESTful Services with ASP.NET Web API" |
| "This video course is a great starting point for any web developer who wants to create simple web APIs in minutes. By applying your knowledge of ASP.NET in conjunction with the information provided in this video tutorial, you will learn to master the art of building RESTful services by example. The video course begins with a brief introduction that will soon get you up to speed with the framework, and will then get you building a fully-functional Web API from scratch during the course of the tutorial. You will learn some of the important features of ASP.NET Web API and how it aligns to the REST standard. You will explore the different implementation strategies and get familiar with some security implementations and ways to extend your APIs, including how to wire up the client side to the service. The tutorial also contains information on automatic documentation generation and deployment strategies such as publishing to Azure. This video tutorial provides you with a comprehensive, clear, and easy-to-follow guide to creating RESTful services with ASP.NET Web API. About the Author Fanie Reynders is a Microsoft Certified Professional from South Africa and a web Technology Evangelist in his own right, with over 9 years of development experience on the Microsoft stack. He actively writes and speaks about the technology he loves to anyone who is willing to listen and has recently been featured in the DNC Magazine, as well as presenting at Microsoft Dev4Devs conference."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Effective Gradle Implementation" |
| "This course will show you how to use Gradle effectively and will help you overcome these issues with the build tool called Gradle. The authors, Ryan and Lee, will take the user from a point of having just a basic development background to being able to implement Gradle in a variety of languages, utilizing Gradle in some beneficial ways including continuous integration and artifact management. You will learn to build and deploy your code effectively. Gradle is quickly becoming the de facto build tool for Java, Groovy, C++, and other platforms, and is rapidly replacing Maven and Ant systems. Learn how to integrate your IDE, leverage Ant or Maven build assets, deploy artifacts, and integrate with continuous integration servers. You can follow along with step-by-step instructions for the most common IDEs, programming languages, and artifact servers to implement. You will leave the course feeling like you have a good handle on Gradle and confident to begin planning and building your implementation. About the Author Lee Fox is a technologist with a strong background in software development. He has served in architecture roles for companies like 3M, AT&T Wi-Fi Services, Borland, and Pervasive. His software development history has always focused on maintaining quality. He is an Agile pragmatist as he strives to help organizations become more effective in their technical and software development implementations while maintaining a high degree of quality. Lee received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Southwest Texas State University. He is also a Certified ScrumMaster and Trained Innovation Games Facilitator. Lee is co-founder of Xan Endeavors. Ryan is the Chief Systems and Software Architect and Director of Products at ReachForce, and was formerly Lead Architect. He maintains the grails-quartz plugin, GVPS Grails plugin, and Struts 1 plugins, and is co-chair of the Austin Groovy and Grails User Group in Austin, TX. Ryan is currently building a Grails infrastructure for ReachForce as well as teaching Grails to the developer team. Ryan is also the co-founder of Xan Endeavors, LLC, a collaboration of software development, consulting, coaching, and innovation games. In the past, Ryan has architected a Grails solution that allows rapid deployment of Developer Program portals for all kinds of companies, specializing in the mobile industry. He has also built Java- and Linux-based webcasting for events such as SXSW, built telecom software, and SaaS systems for the financial sector."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Building an App UI with PrimeFaces" |
| "The tutorial starts off with configuring the required components: PrimeFaces, NetBeans, MongoDB, MongoVUE, JSF, and Spring. You then go on to develop a very basic JSF and PrimeFaces UI for your website using Spring and Mongo running on a Tomcat server. Next you will upgrade the website using more features like the creation of the data administration pages and securing the administration pages. Finally you will use CSS and JSF templates to finish off a functional database-driven website with a beautiful and neat interface. This set of videos will show you how to take full advantage of PrimeFaces by coupling it with JSF, Spring, and MongoDB to create a user interface that meets your demands of flexibility and extensibility. Kobus has been programming since the age of 11. He has worked with Visual Basic, Delphi, and Waba, and wrote probably one of the first databases for the Palm OS and Windows CE machines. He then moved on to Java development using J2EE. From South African Breweries to Discovery Life, he has worked with a variety of organizations. Currently he is working at Flight Centre Australia where his main task is to develop and maintain a system that is written in Java, Spring, and PrimeFaces. In his spare time, he has been involved in projects like building a bomb prop for his business and a battlebox. It is while working on such projects that he stumbled upon the DLP 3D printer technology. He then designed his own DLP-based 3D printer that is currently in the prototype stage."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript" |
| "This course is a comprehensive introduction to UnrealScript presented by Alan Thorn, veteran game developer and author with over 12 years of industry experience. Taking a step-by-step approach, youll move from the basics of configuring the UDK and its files to coding a feature-filled game complete with timed behavior and editor integration. Clear and concise, this course takes you from start to finish through the creation of a practical game in UnrealScript, demonstrating the core features of the language along the way. It starts by exploring how to configure UDK files and software and ends with a working game featuring time-limits, editor integration, component-based actors, and custom Kismet nodes. Overall, youll see how to build a game from the ground up. Along the way, youll explore core UnrealScript features such as console commands for improving debugging, class states for dynamically changing actor behavior, custom Kismet nodes to control program flow visually, the ability to tweak class settings through text-based configuration files, and much more besides. By the end of this course, youll have coded a feature-filled game in UnrealScript and the UDK. In achieving this, youll establish a solid foundation in UnrealScript that you can utilize when building your own games. About the Author Alan Thorn is a London-based game developer, freelance programmer, and author with over 13 years of industry experience. He founded Wax Lyrical Games in 2010, and is the creator of the award-winning game, Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok. He is the author of 10 video-training courses and 11 books on game development, including Unity 4 Fundamentals: Get Started at Making Games with Unity, Focal Press, UDK Game Development, and Pro Unity Game Development with C#, Apress. He is also a visiting lecturer on the Game Design & Development Masters Program at the National Film and Television School."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Virtual Environments with Hyper-V Server 2012 R2" |
| "Building and Managing Clusters with Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 is a video series designed to present the complexities of Hyper-V and failover cluster configuration in easily digestible chunks. The segments feature demonstrations of the concepts explained in the video, being executed on an actual Hyper-V cluster. You'll begin with the basics of setting up your nodes, gathering them into the cluster, and working with your shared storage system. Then you'll get an in-depth tour of managing your systems using the built-in graphical tools and PowerShell cmdlets. With that foundation, you'll learn advanced concepts of virtual machine migration and cluster protection. You'll also discover detailed maintenance steps, such as how Cluster-Aware Updating keeps your nodes patched without impacting virtual machines. Building and Managing Clusters with Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 will present you with the knowledge and examples you need to successfully design and deploy your own Hyper-V clusters. About the Author Eric Siron has over 15 years of professional experience in the information technology field. He has architected solutions across the spectrum, from two-user home offices to thousand-user enterprises. He began working with Microsoft Hyper-V Server in 2010, and has focused on Microsoft Virtualization technologies ever since. He is currently employed as a senior system administrator at The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa. He is a regular contributor to the Hyper-V Portal blog hosted by Altaro Software. In addition to this book, he is the author of Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design, Packt Publishing, and the creator of the screencast series, Building and Managing a Virtual Environment with Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, Packt Publishing."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Building a Road using Civil 3D" |
| "This course starts off with an overview of the interface of Civil 3D, showing you how Civil 3D applies settings and styles to automate object placement. Building on this knowledge, you will learn to create and edit surfaces, alignments, and profiles. Once you have the core components to roadway modeling ready, you will discover how to create assemblies and subassemblies which are the building blocks of your corridor. You will then build your corridor model, and learn how to use the intersection design wizard to create a complete road. Finally, you will learn how to lay out and edit a pipe network. By the end of this course, you will be able to apply what you've learnt to create all Civil 3D objects necessary to build a road. About the Author Seth Cohen is Vice President of 3C CAD Inc. 3C CAD specializes in civil engineering and CAD applications including Civil 3D, Map 3D, AutoCAD, MicroStation, and InRoads. 3C CAD Inc conducts many classes for CAD professionals and specializes in providing project start-up and CAD standards implementation for commercial and government organizations. Founded over 15 years ago, 3C CAD Inc has extensive experience in civil engineering, helping managers, designers, and construction firms implement CAD, produce plans, as well as aid in AMG (Automatic Machine Guidance)."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Oracle Data Integrator Essentials" |
| "Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is Oracles strategic tool covering all your data integration requirements. ODI lets you write custom code easily, extract data from source files, transform data in a staging area, and load this data to your target database. So, if you are a database administrator with an aim to effectively use ODI as a powerful tool for data integration solutions, its time you started making the most of it. This video course will show you how to use ODI for your data transformation and integration projects. It will also provide you with valuable input on which methods to use for various ODI objects according to the situation, with examples based on real-life requirements. Covering all the key ODI concepts, this video course shows you how to make the best use of ODIs declarative approach to define your strategy with Knowledge Modules. First, you are made familiar with the basics of ETL processes and then learn how to use of ODI development objects with the help of practical examples. You then move on to get an understanding of ODIs transformation vehicles and its interface, followed by how ODI packages can be used to develop more workflow-based data integration tasks. Next we show you how reusable objects can be customized by using variables to suit your needs. The following sections broaden your understanding of topologies, scenarios, load plans, and data integration solutions. By the end of the course, you will have enough knowledge of ODI, development, deployment, and maintenance techniques to give you the confidence to develop your own data integration projects."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Building an Architectural Walkthrough Using Unity" |
| "Starting from 3D models in common architectural software, we will discuss the workflow to load the models into Unity and even incorporate model changes. The building model will be refined, with better materials and lighting, so it looks attractive to the visitor. With a few basic scripts, we add the necessary interactivity and finally export it into an application you can share. This video tutorial shows an efficient and easy approach to apply an architectural 3D model into your project for quick and reliable results. About the Author Stefan Boeykens is an architect-engineer from Leuven (Belgium). After graduation, he was involved in architectural practice for about 4 years, before returning to the KU Leuven for his PhD in 2007 on the integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the design process. He worked on a variety of research and education projects, ranging from CAD and BIM to metadata for architectural archives and cost simulations. His main research interests are BIM, 3D modeling and visualization, digital historical reconstruction, parametric design, programming, and interoperability between a variety of software tools, with a special focus on openBIM."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development" |
| "This video course provides you with a step-by-step tutorial for building a basic component with frontend editing. You will also learn how to build both content and search plugins for your component, how to build a module to display data from your component, and finally how to build a template using Bootstrap CSS. The course starts by teaching you how to build a basic, bare bones component for inserting and displaying recipes using the minimum amount of code that is needed for a component. No component is complete without search and content plugins. You will start off by building standard search and smart search plugins, a content plugin for inserting our components data into a content item, and adding code to insert other plugins data into our display page. The plugins will make our recipes searchable on the site and will enable the insertion of recipes into content articles. You will then move on to build a basic module, add standard field types, and finally add a custom field type when standard fields are not enough. The module will display select recipes from our collection. Finally, you will also learn how to build a template that uses Twitter Bootstraps CSS. Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development makes it fast and easy to develop your own custom Joomla! components, plugins, modules, and templates. About the Author Donna Vincent has been developing websites since 2004, and she has been using the Joomla! platform since 2006. In 2009, she began developing custom Joomla! extensions for her clients. She is also an EDI and barcode programmer. Donna lives and works in the New York City area and enjoys food photography when not building websites."
Price: 84.99 |
| "CryENGINE SDK Game Programming Essentials" |
| "This video course provides you with hands-on exercises that walk you through programming with CRYENGINE using C++ and Lua. Everything is presented with visual learners in mind, so you not only see what is happening on screen but also participate in creating your own code through step-by-step instructions. In this video course, we start out by getting ready for the CryENGINE code by setting up our Visual Studio. Next we learn the correlation between editor-spawned entities and those spawned through C++. We then set out to create our very own entity in C++, in particular, a Proximity Mine entity. Further on, we will add Lua functionality to our newly created entity. Further into the course, we turn our attention to the Flowgraph editor where we create some advanced AI behaviors and then proceed to test them out. Lastly, we will create our very own Mine Listener Flowgraph node that will be used to listen for mines being placed by a target entity. CRYENGINE Game Programming Essentials is an amazing and exciting video course that will capture the interest of all aspiring game programmers. The activities you perform in this course are fun, practical, and tackle real-word game programming problems with ease. This video course will help you greatly in your endeavors to become a game programmer. About the Author Richard is a hardworking, very intelligent software engineer with a passion to teach and help others. He has captured the attention of over 250,000 people through his YouTube channel in his efforts to educate beginners in the field of game development using CryENGINE technology. He also has an extensive IT background, working in the computer/software diagnosis/repair fields for the past 6 years. Lately, he has been heavily involved in C++ game and middle-ware development and has opened his own indie game studio Hawk Eye Games where he plans to create compelling 2D and 3D video games for all ages, in genres ranging from platform games all the way to RPGs."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Building Interactive Graphs with ggplot2 and Shiny" |
| "This course helps you move beyond the default graphics offered by R and shows you how to start making elegant and publication-ready plots. It equips you with a good command over ggplot 2 to build sophisticated and interactive graphs that suit your own data requirements. This practical course shows you how to build statistical plots layer by layer by following along with the examples provided. Youll first get familiar with the basics of ggplot2 by understanding the use of the building blocks of standard statistical plots and see how you can combine elements to make new graphics. Next, youll learn how to customize your graphs, and finally youll explore how to make interactive webpages to present your work or analyze your data. About the Author Christophe Ladroue has many years of experience in machine learning and statistics. Most of his work has been focused on developing tools for the analysis of biological data, from genetics to physiology, and his scientific publications span from medical journals to pure statistics. He has used and has been teaching R and ggplot2 for a few years and he occasionally posts related articles on his personal blog"
Price: 84.99 |
| "Build a Network Application with Node" |
| "This video course is a step-by-step guide for creating a high performance server in JavaScript. The course begins with installing Node, to understanding modules and file streams, and setting up a server. The course also teaches you different web application frameworks and explores advanced features such as web sockets and key-value stores. This comprehensive video tutorial will take you from a beginner-level programmer and teach you everything you need to know to get productive with Node. Fundamental concepts are illustrated with brief examples and many sample projects that help grasp the complex functionality in an easy manner. With a primer on modules and npm, you'll understand how to work with building blocks of Node and publish your own creations. Accelerated development with frameworks like Express will make your app more responsive with caching and real-time communication. This course is an indispensible guide to building a Node app, whether from the ground up or with the help of higher-level frameworks. About the Author Joe Stanco (@JoeStanco) is a frontend developer living in NYC. His fascination with code started with the Tandy Trash 80 PCa present for his seventh birthday. He has been programming in JavaScript for 15 years. A versatile developer, he has cultivated expertise in UI design as well as proficiency in backend languages such as Ruby, PHP, and Perl. He holds a BA from Bard College and a certificate in Software Development from Columbia University. Joe currently oversees a team at BuzzFeed tasked with implementing R&D projects and innovative partner integrations for clients like GE and Pepsi. He has worked at a variety of startups throughout his career, including Animoto, ASMALLWORLD, Vonage, and Travelocity. In his free time, he teaches 4th graders how to build robots with Lego Mindstorms for NY Cares. He is also an avid supporter of LISA (Leaders in Software and Art), a digital art salon founded in 2009."
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| "Pentaho Reporting" |
| "You will learn exactly how to develop basic and advanced reports using the Pentaho Report Designer environment, and a more customized Java environment. All of the examples are described in-depth with the source code, and you will be guided through this book using a step-by-step approach which will ensure that youll achieve impressive results. This course begins with the installation of the Java Development Environments using practical examples, moving onto how to develop impressive reports using tables, charts and sub-reports. The examples will also be shown in a Java development environment for web and swing applications. Next, you will be taken on a practical run through the Pentaho Report Designer. This guide will then explain Java APIs, data source connections, and the development of several chart types. You also learn the most relevant, advanced features needed to make a report , such as internationalization, parameterization, interaction, functions, expressions, sub-reports and cross-tabs, leading the way to the use of reports in the Pentaho Suite (especially in the Pentaho BI server and Pentaho Data Integration). With the Pentaho Report basic and advanced development video course, you'll get in touch with the enterprise development of reports, with one of the most relevant Open Source Business Intelligence solutions. About the Author Francesco Corti is a Senior Consultant in Business Intelligence and Enterprise Content Management solutions. His experience is based on several enterprise projects for a relevant variety of customers in different fields with different dimensions (from small to big companies). Since 2009, he has been covering the role of PreSale support together with the role of Tech Leader, and since 2012 he began to document some of his open source projects and his experience in a personal blog. Since 2012, he has contributed to Cose Non Javiste; a technical blog written in Italian. Regarding the Business Intelligence skills, Francesco is an enthusiast of the open source solutions with Pentaho Open Source BI, but has relevant experience with SAP Business Objects (today called SAP Business Intelligence), QlikView, Oracle Hyperion, EssBase, and even Microsofts BI Platform."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Rapid EmberJS" |
| "This video course is a quick introduction to the intriguing Emberjs framework. Youll learn about the basic features of Emberjs and how to build adaptable client-side web apps with minimum time and effort. While building a functional Ember application, you will see how Ember works and how to use its powerful data binding features. You will then move on to understand how an Ember application is structured and configured by writing the router mapping. By the end of the course, you will know how data can be represented in an Ember application and how the content of your web pages can be generated automatically. Using an example-driven approach, this course will give you the basic tools you need to make your very own impressive Ember applications. About the Author William Hart has led a bit of a varied life, having started out as a business graduate working in Logistics and now working as a mechanical engineer for an Oxford-based technology startup. He is a mostly self-taught programmer having caught the bug hacking LogoWriter on a laptop in the early 90s. William found Emberjs during the Beta phase and immediately fell in love with it. He has used Ember to make websites and web and mobile apps ever since. He has written a few Ember tutorials on his website"
Price: 49.99 |
| "Building Web Applications with Spring MVC" |
| "Based on an example of an online e-commerce chocolate store, this video course helps you learn the concepts of MVC and utilize the rich support of the Spring MVC framework to build dynamic web applications. You start by installing the Spring Tool Suite IDE and creating your first Spring MVC application. Next, you will learn how to integrate the model and business services to add functionality to the application. You then move on to learn about the process of creating a product catalogue and how to develop the user registration page functionality. You will then proceed to create an e-commerce shopping cart that helps users place orders and then implement constraints for the process. Finally, you will learn how to use Freemarker (a template engine for the Java platform) and Apache Tiles (a template composition framework) and design a RESTful API to implement the ordering functionality as a REST web service. About the Author Koushik Kothagal has over 12 years of professional experience working with various server-side technologies and developing web applications. He has worked extensively with Java, Spring, Oracle, and other enterprise technologies. He loves teaching, and when hes not coding Java, hes probably teaching it! In his spare time, he runs the tutorial website Java Brains which covers various enterprise Java technologies."
Price: 84.99 |
| "HTML5 Animation and Transition" |
| "In "HTML5 Animation and Transition", you'll be learning how to develop rich, complex motion graphics using HTML5 APIs such as DOM, CSS3, Canvas, SVG, and WebGL, as well as the basic mathematical concepts behind complex animationsessential knowledge for any modern web developer. In the "HTML5 Animation and Transition" video course, we will tackle everything that you need to know in order to become an expert at animating elements using the latest HTML5 APIs, starting from the most rudimentary methods such as using the DOM, to the most modern ones such as SVG, CSS3, Canvas, and WebGL. At the same time, you'll also be learning the mathematical concepts required to make complex animations. Using the first chapters, you will learn (or refresh!) concepts such as vectors, vector operations, interpolations, and easing and acceleration. Then, you'll learn how to display static graphics on the screen using several rendering methods available in HTML5, such as DOM, CSS3, SVG, Canvas, or WebGL. Once you've learned how to display things on the screen, you'll dedicate entire chapters to implement several animation examples using every single rendering method. About the Author Mario Andrs Pagella is the author of "Making Isometric Social RealTime Games with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, O'Reilly Media". He has been developing web applications for almost 15 years and currently works as a Technology Consultant developing websites, mobile apps, and social games for many clients from around the world as well as a Senior Open Standards Developer at R/GA. When he is not spending time developing Indie games, writing game and web development articles for his blog, or advocating the use of HTML5 and JavaScript through his Twitter account, he loves to research and develop experimental projects. Andrs currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with his fiance."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Drupal 7 Module Development" |
| "In this course you will learn to build a Drupal custom module by completing short tasks and ultimately weave the tasks together to get a completed and fully functional module. Drupal 7 Module Development introduces you to module development by understanding the essential hooks and functions, building tables and querying the Drupal database, exploring module security, performance and how our module interacts with Drupal core and contributed modules. Each video walks you through essential Drupal functions and demonstrates how to use these functions in a module that we build hands-on together Drupal 7 Module Development starts by showing you how to set up your local development environment to support custom module development. You will learn how to use the best tools and configure them. Next you will learn to configure a Feeds importer to import content into your site that you will then leverage with your custom module and write a menu callback using hook_menu and hook_permissions. We will then look at the form API and write a hook_form_alter function and create a .install file and build a db schema function to create a table in our database Finally we create a block using our module and theme the block. We end the course by reviewing our module from a security and performance standpoint. From the local development to the review of security we build a custom module step-by-step throughout the courses short videos. About the Author Trevor James is a Drupal developer residing in Middletown, MD, USA. Trevor has been using Drupal intensively since 2007 and designing websites for over 15 years using a combination of HTML, CSS, ColdFusion, PHP, jQuery, and JavaScript. Trevor's focus is on building Drupal-based web applications and portals for education, non-profit, and medical systems, and small business environments. He is interested in the best methods of integrating web services with Drupal sites, optimizing Drupal sites' performance, and using Drupal content types, Views, Panels, and other contributed modules to develop front-end interfaces that support data intensive websites. He loves teaching people about Drupal and how to use this excellent open source content management framework."
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| "Building Your First Application with Go" |
| "Building the First Application with Google Go is your way into the world of software development. Go has a robust library and advanced techniques. This makes it a great language that can even be understood by people with no experience in programming. Take a journey through the concepts presented by the Google Go language! Go is a language with no legacy, well suited for software developers, be it for beginners or experienced users. The Google Go language presents fresh patterns of software development. You will learn about the core distinctive features of Go goroutines and channels, which are used to design concurrent applications. You will gain familiarity with approaches of structuring application code, by breaking it into reusable components like functions, packages, and objects. Object-oriented programming; one of the central paradigms of modern software development, is also covered in this course. It offers the most popular and well-tested patterns for building brilliantly structured applications; the course finishes with creating a production-ready image manipulation program, which is built as a web application. The course will help you to start building applications with Google Go right off the bat. Packed with examples, especially with a finished production-ready application from the final section, the course gives you the right vision of what software source code should look like. About the Author Rostyslav Dzinko is a software architect who has been working in the software development industry for more than six years. He was one of the first developers who started working with the Go language far earlier than the first official public release of Go 1.0 took place. Rostyslav uses the Go language daily and has successfully used it in production for more than two years, building a broad range of software from high-load web applications to command-line utilities. Rostyslav has a Masters degree in Systems Engineering and will complete a PhD thesis in a year and a half."
Price: 84.99 |
| "JBoss EAP Configuration, Deployment, and Administration" |
| "JBoss EAP Configuration, Deployment, and Administration will teach you everything you need to know in a hands-on, interactive way. You'll follow step-by-step instructions that walk you through the key features of JBoss. Beyond that we will dive deep into the inner workings of Java, which will help you troubleshoot problems quickly and easily. Learn about the most popular ways to configure JBoss and ensure maximum uptime and scalability for your applications. Take a tour of the most popular Java Enterprise features, beginning with databases and JMS, and rounding off at logging. Along the way, we'll dive into troubleshooting common problems such as out of memory errors and performance optimization. JBoss EAP Configuration, Deployment, and Administration will highlight the differences between standalone and domain mode, explaining why you would use domain mode and how it differs from the traditional standalone approach. We'll dive into configuring databases and message queues and also show you how to integrate them into your application when running on JBoss. We continue our journey with setting up HTTP request load balancing, and setting up a cluster of highly available JBoss nodes, while demonstrating how easy it is to finely manage classloading dependencies for your applications. We cover some extra performance features and new security features such as the Vault, which you can use to encrypt plain-text passwords in configuration files. We talk about some development features new with JBoss EAP, such as Arquillian, a test harness for testing CDI and EJB beans without a full blown startup/shutdown container cycle. Lastly, we'll talk in depth about JBoss logging, how to use the logging framework provided by the container or roll your own logging in your application. JBoss EAP Configuration, Deployment, and Administration will quickly turn you into a well-rounded JBoss administrator. We'll focus on key features of the JBoss Application Server that will make you a power user, quickly and easily. About the Author Jason Shepherd is a technical support engineer working for Red Hat in Australia. He's helped countless users with Jboss problems, and has experience with more types of problems with Jboss than you can imagine. Before working for Red Hat he worked as a Java developer writing web applications, and web service implementations for a major travel company. He has first hand experience with enterprise application development in real-life situations."
Price: 84.99 |
| "Cassandra Administration" |
| "This video course provides you with the necessary know-how to effectively administrate and perform operations in Cassandra. You will also get to know, from an architecture perspective, how Cassandra differs from traditional databases and other popular NoSQL databases. The course starts off by showing you the steps to build your own cluster, and introduces you to the different use cases for Cassandra. Along the way, you will encounter caveats based on scenarios that may not be a good fit. After learning how to install Cassandra, you will learn how to use different monitoring tools and methods to import and export large amount of data. Next, primary and secondary indexes are explained to help you select the appropriate indexing that enables fast and efficient data lookup to respond to search and retrieval requests. Finally, you will use various tools to facilitate performance tuning, and conduct a stress test on a cluster, and interpret the performance results. By the end of this course, you will have developed the required skills to install and set up any Cassandra cluster, along with administrating and managing daily operations easily. About the Author C Y Kan is an expert in information technology system integration and enterprise application development. He has over 20 years of IT experience, including 12 years of project management and application architecture design in many large-scale distributed systems. He is a specialist in various technologies such as Java, JEE, Spring, Mule, Hadoop, Cassandra, and Oracle. He received a Bachelors degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Hong Kong and a Masters degree in engineering management from the University of Technology, Sydney. He also holds many professional qualifications such as PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, Scrum Master, CISSP, TOGAF9, SOA Certified Architect, ITIL, and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt."
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| "Creating Reports with SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services" |
| "Creating Reports with SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services will show you how to develop practical reports that utilize tables and matrices, along with bold objects such as pie charts and gauges that quickly gain the attention of the viewer and deliver your message. With this course, you can acquire the essential skills you need to make an impression on your customers, your audience, or your boss. About the Author Dr. Dallas Snider is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of West Florida (UWF). He received his Ph.D. in Integrated Computing and M.S. in Instrumental Sciences from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He received his B.A. in Physics from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. Before joining UWF, he worked as a Data Warehouse Developer for Northrop Grumman Information Systems, and prior to that as a Database Application Developer for Acxiom and Euronet. Dr. Snider's research and teaching interests include data mining, data warehousing, software development, and security."
Price: 84.99 |
