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The cult Swedish graphic novel that inspired the critically acclaimed Lukas Moodysson film We Are the Best! Coco, Klara and Mathilda have known each other since primary school, where they met in folk dancing class. Now they’re almost teenagers, and their anarchist ideals and dreams of forming a world-beating punk band set them apart from the other girls at school. They can’t play any instruments, practice with pillows and pans, and keep getting told that punk is dead. But they’re not going to let any of those things get in their way… Published in English for the first time, Never Goodnight is a hilarious and life-affirming memoir which will remind you that all you need in life is your best friends, a can of hairspray and three guitar chords.

Investigate and solve problems with Nginx-powered websites using a deep understanding of the underlying principles About This Book Solve problems with your Nginx-powered websites before your audience notices anything Peek into the Nginx architecture and gain knowledge that will help you be valuable to you in the long run Gain knowledge of different types of problems in a step-by-step way Who This Book Is For The book is for technical specialists who already use Nginx to serve web pages for their users. Whether you are an experienced system administrator or a new professional, this book will help you do your job in the most efficient way. What You Will Learn Detect and investigate problems with your web servers Create correct and professional configuration files Get an in-depth understanding of the web server software Interpret Nginx log files easily and with actionable insights Make your websites respond as fast as possible Prevent problems by setting up proper monitoring and alerts In Detail Nginx is clearly winning the race to be the dominant software to power modern websites. It is fast and open source, maintained with passion by a brilliant team. This book will help you maintain your Nginx instances in a healthy and predictable state. It will lead you through all the types of problems you might encounter as a web administrator, with a special focus on performance and migration from older software. You will learn how to write good configuration files and will get good insights into Nginx logs. It will provide you solutions to problems such as missing or broken functionality and also show you how to tackle performance issues with the Nginx server. A special chapter is devoted to the art of prevention, that is, monitoring and alerting services you may use to detect problems before they manifest themselves on a big scale. The books ends with a reference to error and warning messages Nginx could emit to help you during incident investigations. Style and approach This comprehensive tutorial on Nginx troubleshooting takes an practical approach to guiding you through common issues in Nginx server.

Take your QlikView skills to the next level and master the art of creating visual data analysis for real business needs About This Book Explore how to create your own QlikView data laboratory and how to develop QlikView applications using agile project methods Implement advanced data visualization and analysis for common business requirements from the sales, finance, marketing, inventory, operations, and human resources departments Learn from real-life experience shared in this book that will give you the upper hand in your next QlikView project Who This Book Is For This book is intended for developers who want to go beyond their technical knowledge of QlikView and understand how to create analysis and data visualizations that solve real business needs. You should have a basic understanding of advanced QlikView functions. What You Will Learn Apply advanced QlikView techniques such as set analysis and nested aggregation in order to deliver common business requirements Understand real business requirements for sales, finance, marketing, and human resources departments Discover when to apply more advanced data visualization such as frequency polygons, bullet graphs, and XmR charts Go beyond native QlikView and include geographical analysis, planning, and sentiment analysis in your QlikView application Troubleshoot common errors we discover at the moment we visualize data in QlikView Develop a plan to master Qlik Sense data visualization In Detail Just because you know how to swing a hammer doesn't mean you know how to build a house. Now that you've learned how to use QlikView, it's time to learn how to develop meaningful QlikView applications that deliver what your business users need. You will explore the requirements and the data from several business departments in order to deliver the most amazing analysis and data visualizations. In doing so, you will practice using advanced QlikView functions, chart object property options, and extensions to solve real-world challenges. Style and approach This hands-on guide follows the story of a company implementing QlikView as its enterprise data discovery solution. Each chapter starts with an understanding of the business requirements and the data model, and then helps you create insightful analysis and data visualizations. Each chapter expands on what was done in the previous chapter as we follow this continuously improving iterative process.

Orchestrate the designing, development, testing, and deployment of web applications with Symfony About This Book Create a robust and reliable Symfony development pipeline using Amazon's cloud platform Cut development and maintenance costs by defining crystal clear features and possible scenarios for each feature before implementation Follow detailed examples provided in each chapter to create a task management application Who This Book Is For If you are a PHP developer with some experience in Symfony and are looking to master the framework and use it to its full potential, then this book is for you. Though experience with PHP, object-oriented techniques, and Symfony basics is assumed, this book will give you a crash course on the basics and then proceed to more advanced topics. What You Will Learn Install and configure Symfony and required third-party bundles to develop a task management application Set up a continuous integration server to orchestrate automatic builds every time you add a new feature to your project Reduce maintenance costs dramatically using Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) Create a slick user interface using the Bootstrap framework Design robust business logic using Doctrine Build a comprehensive dashboard and secure your project using the Sonata project Improve performance using Redis, Memcache, and Varnish Create customized Symfony commands and add them to your console In Detail In this book, you will learn some lesser known aspects of development with Symfony, and you will see how to use Symfony as a framework to create reliable and effective applications. You might have developed some impressive PHP libraries in other projects, but what is the point when your library is tied to one particular projectWith Symfony, you can turn your code into a service and reuse it in other projects. This book starts with Symfony concepts such as bundles, routing, twig, doctrine, and more, taking you through the request/response life cycle. You will then proceed to set up development, test, and deployment environments in AWS. Then you will create reliable projects using Behat and Mink, and design business logic, cover authentication, and authorization steps in a security checking process. You will be walked through concepts such as DependencyInjection, service containers, and services, and go through steps to create customized commands for Symfony's console. Finally, the book covers performance optimization and the use of Varnish and Memcached in our project, and you are treated with the creation of database agnostic bundles and best practices. Style and approach A step-by-step guide to mastering Symfony while developing a task management application. Each chapter comes with detailed examples.

Learn to solve scientific computing problems using Scala and its numerical computing, data processing, concurrency, and plotting libraries About This Book Parallelize your numerical computing code using convenient and safe techniques. Accomplish common high-performance, scientific computing goals in Scala. Learn about data visualization and how to create high-quality scientific plots in Scala Who This Book Is For Scientists and engineers who would like to use Scala for their scientific and numerical computing needs. A basic familiarity with undergraduate level mathematics and statistics is expected but not strictly required. A basic knowledge of Scala is required as well as the ability to write simple Scala programs. However, complicated programming concepts are not used in the book. Anyone who wants to explore using Scala for writing scientific or engineering software will benefit from the book. What You Will Learn Write and read a variety of popular file formats used to store scientific data Use Breeze for linear algebra, optimization, and digital signal processing Gain insight into Saddle for data analysis Use ScalaLab for interactive computing Quickly and conveniently write safe parallel applications using Scala's parallel collections Implement and deploy concurrent programs using the Akka framework Use the Wisp plotting library to produce scientific plots Visualize multivariate data using various visualization techniques In Detail Scala is a statically typed, Java Virtual Machine (JVM)-based language with strong support for functional programming. There exist libraries for Scala that cover a range of common scientific computing tasks – from linear algebra and numerical algorithms to convenient and safe parallelization to powerful plotting facilities. Learning to use these to perform common scientific tasks will allow you to write programs that are both fast and easy to write and maintain. We will start by discussing the advantages of using Scala over other scientific computing platforms. You will discover Scala packages that provide the functionality you have come to expect when writing scientific software. We will explore using Scala's Breeze library for linear algebra, optimization, and signal processing. We will then proceed to the Saddle library for data analysis. If you have experience in R or with Python's popular pandas library you will learn how to translate those skills to Saddle. If you are new to data analysis, you will learn basic concepts of Saddle as well. Well will explore the numerical computing environment called ScalaLab. It comes bundled with a lot of scientific software readily available. We will use it for interactive computing, data analysis, and visualization. In the following chapters, we will explore using Scala's powerful parallel collections for safe and convenient parallel programming. Topics such as the Akka concurrency framework will be covered. Finally, you will learn about multivariate data visualization and how to produce professional-looking plots in Scala easily. After reading the book, you should have more than enough information on how to start using Scala as your scientific computing platform Style and approach Examples are provided on how to use Scala to do basic numerical and scientific computing tasks. All the concepts are illustrated with more involved examples in each chapter. The goal of the book is to allow you to translate existing experience in scientific computing to Scala.

A foundational yet practical approach to UX that delivers more creative, collaborative, holistic, and mature design solutions, regardless of your background or experience About This Book Improve your UX design awareness and skills Gain greater confidence to know when you have delivered a “good” UX design Learn by example using a book designed by a UX mind for a UX mind Who This Book Is For This book is written for the beginner as well as the experienced UX practitioner, regardless of team size, company size, or job title. It is also intended for anyone with an interest in UX, engages with UX, is involved in any way in interactive problem solving and design, or simply wants to learn more about what we do, how we do it, and why those in the UX field are so passionate about wanting to do it better. What You Will Learn Awaken your UX mind and dispel the myths of non-UX thinkers Create the six optimal conditions for your best ideas to appear Identify and incorporate the ten design principles found in all good UX design Develop a broader understanding of Information Architecture (IA) to better engage, guide, and inform Develop a fundamental understanding of patterns and the properties that create them Raise your level of UX maturity with a strategy that transforms your approach to problem solving and helps others understand the true value of your work Utilize important tools of the UX trade that never go out of style Increase your knowledge of UX, incorporate valuable ideas and insights into your work, and look at design from a very unique perspective In Detail Written in an easy-to-read style, this book provides real-world examples, a historical perspective, and a holistic approach to design that will ground you in the fundamental essentials of interactive design, allow you to make more informed design decisions, and increase your understanding of UX in order to reach the highest levels of UX maturity. As you will see, UX is more than just delighting customers and users. It is also about thinking like a UX practitioner, making time for creativity, recognizing good design when you see it, understanding Information Architecture as more than just organizing and labeling websites, using design patterns to influence user behavior and decision making, approaching UX from a business perspective, transforming your client’s and company’s fundamental understanding of UX and its true value, and so much more. This book is an invaluable resource of knowledge, perspective, and inspiration for those seeking to become better UX designers, increase their confidence, become more mature design leaders, and deliver solutions that provide measurable value to stakeholders, customers, and users regardless of project type, size, and delivery method. Style and approach An in-depth, easy to read, and entertaining journey into and through the world of UX using real-world examples, thoughtful illustrations, and engaging quotes to inspire and explain fully the how and why of UX in a practical and impactful way and used immediately in your own work.

Over 80 simple but creative and structured recipes to explore the capabilities of HTML5 Canvas About This Book Develop simple to advanced recipes of your own, and ultimately produce a great application Discover a better way to use HTML5 Canvas, JavaScript, and CSS Put your creative instincts to use in your day-to-day interface developments Who This Book Is For The book is intended for readers with a preliminary knowledge of JavaScript and CSS. Whether you're a beginner or expert in this technology, the book provides recipes to help you build your own application, presentation, or game. What You Will Learn Draw basic shapes such as lines, arcs, curves, and text using the coordinate system Learn about the animation cycle and use it to animate shapes Grasp the knowledge required to create particles and use them Give various effects to images and videos and also use them in animations Discover the use of event listeners to make recipes interactive and to handle events through event handlers Create good presentation graphics with graphs and charts Learn all about 3D development, from building 3D objects to animating them Convert your knowledge into a complete working game Understand the interoperability and deployment of recipes on different browsers and on different devices In Detail With the growing popularity of HTML5 Canvas, this book offers tailored recipes to help you develop portable applications, presentations, and games. The recipes are simple yet creative and build on each other. At every step, the book inspires the reader to develop his/her own recipe. From basic to advanced, every aspect of Canvas API has been covered to guide readers to develop their own application, presentation, or game. Style and approach All the recipes are sequential and cover the basic and advanced concepts of Canvas. Every recipe is as simple as possible without compromising creativity

Familiarize yourself with probabilistic graphical models through real-world problems and illustrative code examples in R About This Book Predict and use a probabilistic graphical models (PGM) as an expert system Comprehend how your computer can learn Bayesian modeling to solve real-world problems Know how to prepare data and feed the models by using the appropriate algorithms from the appropriate R package Who This Book Is For This book is for anyone who has to deal with lots of data and draw conclusions from it, especially when the data is noisy or uncertain. Data scientists, machine learning enthusiasts, engineers, and those who curious about the latest advances in machine learning will find PGM interesting. What You Will Learn Understand the concepts of PGM and which type of PGM to use for which problem Tune the model’s parameters and explore new models automatically Understand the basic principles of Bayesian models, from simple to advanced Transform the old linear regression model into a powerful probabilistic model Use standard industry models but with the power of PGM Understand the advanced models used throughout today's industry See how to compute posterior distribution with exact and approximate inference algorithms In Detail Probabilistic graphical models (PGM, also known as graphical models) are a marriage between probability theory and graph theory. Generally, PGMs use a graph-based representation. Two branches of graphical representations of distributions are commonly used, namely Bayesian networks and Markov networks. R has many packages to implement graphical models. We’ll start by showing you how to transform a classical statistical model into a modern PGM and then look at how to do exact inference in graphical models. Proceeding, we’ll introduce you to many modern R packages that will help you to perform inference on the models. We will then run a Bayesian linear regression and you’ll see the advantage of going probabilistic when you want to do prediction. Next, you’ll master using R packages and implementing its techniques. Finally, you’ll be presented with machine learning applications that have a direct impact in many fields. Here, we’ll cover clustering and the discovery of hidden information in big data, as well as two important methods, PCA and ICA, to reduce the size of big problems. Style and approach This book gives you a detailed and step-by-step explanation of each mathematical concept, which will help you build and analyze your own machine learning models and apply them to real-world problems. The mathematics is kept simple and each formula is explained thoroughly.

Become a QGIS power user and master QGIS data management, visualization, and spatial analysis techniques About This Book Explore and create time-based visualizations and build interactive maps Maximize your use of the QGIS features, plugins and toolbox automation Packed with lots of sample datasets to enable a better understanding of the code Who This Book Is For If you are an intermediate GIS user, with either previous experience in QGIS or any other GIS application, this is the book for you. The recipes can be used to learn more advanced techniques in QGIS or to replicate the functionalities equivalent to other GIS platforms. This book assumes that you already have a working QGIS system in place. What You Will Learn Import and export common tricky spatial data formats Perform classic vector and raster analysis with QGIS Utilize spatial databases and data management tools Use and create geographic web services and maps Explore and create time-based visualizations Perform network building and routing analysis Extend QGIS capabilities with popular plugins and toolbox automation Make beautiful and unique maps with customized cartography In Detail QGIS is a user-friendly, cross-platform desktop geographic information system used to make maps and analyze spatial data. QGIS allows users to understand, question, interpret, and visualize spatial data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps. This book is a collection of simple to advanced techniques that are needed in everyday geospatial work, and shows how to accomplish them with QGIS. You will begin by understanding the different types of data management techniques, as well as how data exploration works. You will then learn how to perform classic vector and raster analysis with QGIS, apart from creating time-based visualizations. Finally, you will learn how to create interactive and visually appealing maps with custom cartography. By the end of this book, you will have all the necessary knowledge to handle spatial data management, exploration, and visualization tasks in QGIS. Style and approach This book covers practical examples, with step-by-step instructions on how to use real world data covering common GIS operations and the different analysis techniques. It provides detailed explanations and applications of QGIS concepts that will allow the user to effectively analyze spatial data.

Learn how to implement Reactive Programming paradigms with Kotlin, and apply them to web programming with Spring Framework 5.0 and in Android Application Development. About This Book ? Learn how to solve blocking user experience with Reactive Programming and get deep insights into RxKotlin ? Integrate Reactive Kotlin with Spring and build fantastic Android Apps with RxKotlin and RxAndroid ? Build reactive architectures that reduce complexity throughout the development process and make your apps(web and Android) scalable Who This Book Is For This book is for Kotlin developers who would like to build fault-tolerant, scalable, and distributed systems. A basic knowledge of Kotlin is required, but no prior knowledge of reactive programming. What You Will Learn ? Learn about reactive programming paradigms and how reactive programming can improve your existing projects ? Gain in-depth knowledge in RxKotlin 2.0 and the ReactiveX Framework ? Use RxKotlin with Android ? Create your own custom operators in RxKotlin ? Use Spring Framework 5.0 with Kotlin ? Use the reactor-kotlin extension ? Build Rest APIs with Spring,Hibernate, and RxKotlin ? Use testSubscriber to test RxKotlin applications ? Use backpressure management and Flowables In Detail In today’s app-driven era, when programs are asynchronous, and responsiveness is so vital, reactive programming can help you write code that’s more reliable, easier to scale, and better-performing. Reactive programming is revolutionary. With this practical book, Kotlin developers will first learn how to view problems in the reactive way, and then build programs that leverage the best features of this exciting new programming paradigm. You will begin with the general concepts of Reactive programming and then gradually move on to working with asynchronous data streams. You will dive into advanced techniques such as manipulating time in data-flow, customizing operators and provider and how to Use the concurrency model to control asynchronicity of code and process event handlers effectively. You will then be introduced to functional reactive programming and will learn to apply FRP in practical use cases in Kotlin. This book will also take you one step forward by introducing you to spring 5 and spring boot 2 using Kotlin. By the end of the book, you will be able to build real-world applications with reactive user interfaces as well as you’ll learn to implement reactive programming paradigms in Android. Style and Approach Loaded with numerous code examples and real-life projects, this book helps you delve into Reactive Programming with Kotlin, and apply it to real-world Spring-web and Android projects, thus making all your apps reactive.

Tackle the most sophisticated problems associated with scientific computing and data manipulation using SciPy About This Book ? Covers a wide range of data science tasks using SciPy, NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib ? Effective recipes on advanced scientific computations, statistics, data wrangling, data visualization, and more ? A must-have book if you're looking to solve your data-related problems using SciPy, on-the-go Who This Book Is For Python developers, aspiring data scientists, and analysts who want to get started with scientific computing using Python will find this book an indispensable resource. If you want to learn how to manipulate and visualize your data using the SciPy Stack, this book will also help you. A basic understanding of Python programming is all you need to get started. What You Will Learn ? Get a solid foundation in scientific computing using Python ? Master common tasks related to SciPy and associated libraries such as NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib ? Perform mathematical operations such as linear algebra and work with the statistical and probability functions in SciPy ? Master advanced computing such as Discrete Fourier Transform and K-means with the SciPy Stack ? Implement data wrangling tasks efficiently using pandas ? Visualize your data through various graphs and charts using matplotlib In Detail With the SciPy Stack, you get the power to effectively process, manipulate, and visualize your data using the popular Python language. Utilizing SciPy correctly can sometimes be a very tricky proposition. This book provides the right techniques so you can use SciPy to perform different data science tasks with ease. This book includes hands-on recipes for using the different components of the SciPy Stack such as NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, and pandas, among others. You will use these libraries to solve real-world problems in linear algebra, numerical analysis, data visualization, and much more. The recipes included in the book will ensure you get a practical understanding not only of how a particular feature in SciPy Stack works, but also of its application to real-world problems. The independent nature of the recipes also ensure that you can pick up any one and learn about a particular feature of SciPy without reading through the other recipes, thus making the book a very handy and useful guide. Style and approach This book consists of hands-on recipes where you’ll deal with real-world problems. You’ll execute a series of tasks as you walk through scientific computing challenges using SciPy. Your one-stop solution for common and not-so-common pain points, this is a book that you must have on the shelf.

Architect your .NET applications by breaking them into really small pieces - microservices -using this practical, example-based guide. About This Book ? Start your microservices journey and get a broader perspective on microservices development using C# 7.0 with .NET Core 2.0 ? Build, deploy, and test microservices using ASP.Net Core, ASP.NET Core API, and Microsoft Azure Cloud ? Get the basics of reactive microservices Who This Book Is For This book is for .NET Core developers who want to learn and understand the microservices architecture and implement it in their .NET Core applications. It’s ideal for developers who are completely new to microservices or just have a theoretical understanding of this architectural approach and want to gain a practical perspective in order to better manage application complexities. What You Will Learn ? Get acquainted with Microsoft Azure Service Fabric ? Compare microservices with monolithic applications and SOA ? Learn Docker and Azure API management ? Define a service interface and implement APIs using ASP.NET Core 2.0 ? Integrate services using a synchronous approach via RESTful APIs with ASP.NET Core 2.0 ? Implement microservices security using Azure Active Directory, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0 ? Understand the operation and scaling of microservices in .NET Core 2.0 ? Understand the key features of reactive microservices and implement them using reactive extensions In Detail The microservices architectural style promotes the development of complex applications as a suite of small services based on business capabilities. This book will help you identify the appropriate service boundaries within your business. We'll start by looking at what microservices are and their main characteristics. Moving forward, you will be introduced to real-life application scenarios; after assessing the current issues, we will begin the journey of transforming this application by splitting it into a suite of microservices using C# 7.0 with .NET Core 2.0. You will identify service boundaries, split the application into multiple microservices, and define service contracts. You will find out how to configure, deploy, and monitor microservices, and configure scaling to allow the application to quickly adapt to increased demand in the future. With an introduction to reactive microservices, you’ll strategically gain further value to keep your code base simple, focusing on what is more important rather than on messy asynchronous calls. Style and approach This guide serves as a stepping stone that helps .NET Core developers in their microservices architecture. This book provides just enough theory to understand the concepts and apply the examples.

This step-by-step guide demonstrates how to build simple-to-advanced applications through examples in R using modern tools. About This Book ? Get a firm hold on the fundamentals of R through practical hands-on examples ? Get started with good R programming fundamentals for data science ? Exploit the different libraries of R to build interesting applications in R Who This Book Is For This books is for aspiring data science professionals or statisticians who would like to learn about the R programming language in a practical manner. Basic programming knowledge is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Discover techniques to leverage R’s features, and work with packages ? Perform a de*ive analysis and work with statistical models using R ? Work efficiently with objects without using loops ? Create diverse visualizations to gain better understanding of the data ? Understand ways to produce good visualizations and create reports for the results ? Read and write data from relational databases and REST APIs, both packaged and unpackaged ? Improve performance by writing better code, delegating that code to a more efficient programming language, or making it parallel In Detail R is a high-level statistical language and is widely used among statisticians and data miners to develop analytical applications. Often, data analysis people with great analytical skills lack solid programming knowledge and are unfamiliar with the correct ways to use R. Based on the version 3.4, this book will help you develop strong fundamentals when working with R by taking you through a series of full representative examples, giving you a holistic view of R. We begin with the basic installation and configuration of the R environment. As you progress through the exercises, you'll become thoroughly acquainted with R's features and its packages. With this book, you will learn about the basic concepts of R programming, work efficiently with graphs, create publication-ready and interactive 3D graphs, and gain a better understanding of the data at hand. The detailed step-by-step instructions will enable you to get a clean set of data, produce good visualizations, and create reports for the results. It also teaches you various methods to perform code profiling and performance enhancement with good programming practices, delegation, and parallelization. By the end of this book, you will know how to efficiently work with data, create quality visualizations and reports, and develop code that is modular, expressive, and maintainable. Style and Approach This is an easy-to-understand guide filled with real-world examples, giving you a holistic view of R and practical, hands-on experience.

Develop your first interactive 2D and 3D platformer game by learning the fundamentals of C# About This Book ? This is a step-by-step guide to learn the fundamentals of C# 7 *ing to develop GameObjects and master the basics of the new UI system in Unity ? Build and develop your 2D game right from scratch while implementing the principles of object-oriented programming and coding in C# 7 ? Get to grips with the fundamentals of optimizing your game using the latest features of Unity 2017 Who This Book Is For The book is targeted at beginner level Unity developers with no programming experience. If you are a Unity developer and you wish to learn how to write C# *s and code by creating games, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn ? Learn C# 7 using new features like tuples, variables, and non-nullable reference types while building games ? Understand the fundamentals of variables, methods, and code syntax in C# ? Use loops and collections efficiently in Unity to reduce the amount of code ? Develop a game using the object-oriented programming principles ? Implement simple enemy characters into the game to learn point to point movement and Tree behaviors ? Avoid performance mistakes by implementing different optimization techniques ? Export 3D models and 3D animations and import them inside a Unity project ? With your new knowledge of coding, you will be able to look at Unity's Scripting Reference code examples with confidence In Detail With the latest version of Unity 2017 released, are you interested in developing creative and interactive games while learning C# alongside? Then this is the book that you are looking for. Its all about offering you a fun introduction to the world of game programming with C#. You’ll start with the basics to get started with C# 7 and its latest features. Then you’ll see how to use C# 7 and its latest functional programming capabilities to create amazing games with Unity 2017. You’ll create your first C# * for Unity, add objects into it, and learn how to create game elements with them. Then you’ll work with the latest functional programming features of C# and how to leverage them for great game *ing. Throughout the book, you’ll learn to use the new Unity 2017 2D tool set and create an interactive 2D game with it. You will make enemies appear to challenge your player, and go through some optimization techniques to ensure great game performance. At the end, your 2D game will be transformed into 3D, and you’ll be able to skill up to become a pro C# programmer with Unity 2017! Style and approach The book takes a practical, step-by-step approach where you learn C# coding while developing fun and interactive games.

Learn the fundamentals of vue.js by creating complex SPAs with Vuex, vue-router and more About This Book ? We bridge the gap between "learning" and "doing" by providing real-world examples that will improve your web development skills with Vue.js ? Explore the exciting features of Vue.js 2 through practical and interesting examples ? Explore modern development tools and learn how to utilize them by building applications with Vue.js Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who know the basics of JavaScript and are looking to learn Vue.js with real examples. You should understand the basics of JavaScript functions and variables and be comfortable with using CSS or a CSS framework for styling your projects. What You Will Learn ? Looping through data with Vue.js ? Searching and filtering data ? Using components to display data ? Getting a list of files using the dropbox API ? Navigating through a file tree and loading folders from a URL ? Caching with Vuex ? Pre-caching for faster navigation ? Introducing vue-router and loading components ? Using vue-router dynamic routes to load data ? Using vue-router and Vuex to create an ecommerce store In Detail Vue.js is a frontend web framework which makes it easy to do just about anything, from displaying data up to creating full-blown web apps, and has become a leading tool for web developers. This book puts Vue.js into a real-world context, guiding you through example projects that helps you build Vue.js applications from scratch. With this book, you will learn how to use Vue.js by creating three Single Page web applications. Throughout this book, we will cover the usage of Vue, for building web interfaces, Vuex, an official Vue plugin which makes caching and storing data easier, and Vue-router, a plugin for creating routes and URLs for your application. Starting with a JSON dataset, the first part of the book covers Vue objects and how to utilize each one. This will be covered by exploring different ways of displaying data from a JSON dataset. We will then move on to manipulating the data with filters and search and creating dynamic values. Next, you will see how easy it is to integrate remote data into an application by learning how to use the Dropbox API to display your Dropbox contents in an application In the final section, you will see how to build a product catalog and dynamic shopping cart using the Vue-router, giving you the building blocks of an e-commerce store. Style and approach This book takes you three projects, with step-by-step instructions to help you understand the concepts of Vue and put it into practice.

Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Third Edition presents wireless pentesting from the ground up, and has been updated with the latest methodologies, including full coverage of the KRACK attack. About This Book ? Learn wireless penetration testing with Kali Linux ? Detect hidden wireless networks and discover their names ? Explore advanced Wi-Fi hacking techniques including rogue access point hosting and probe sniffing ? Develop your encryption cracking skills and gain an insight into the methods used by attackers and the underlying technologies that facilitate these attacks Who This Book Is For Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Third Edition is suitable for anyone who wants to learn more about pentesting and how to understand and defend against the latest wireless network attacks. What You Will Learn ? Understand the KRACK attack in full detail ? Create a wireless lab for your experiments ? Sniff out wireless packets, hidden networks, and SSIDs ? Capture and crack WPA-2 keys ? Sniff probe requests and track users through their SSID history ? Attack radius authentication systems ? Sniff wireless traffic and collect interesting data ? Decrypt encrypted traffic with stolen keys In Detail As wireless networks become ubiquitous in our lives, wireless penetration testing has become a key skill in the repertoire of the professional penetration tester. This has been highlighted again recently with the discovery of the KRACK attack which enables attackers to potentially break into Wi-Fi networks encrypted with WPA2. The Kali Linux security distribution comes with a myriad of tools used for networking attacks and detecting security loopholes. Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Third Edition has been updated to Kali Linux 2017.3 with the latest methodologies, including full coverage of the KRACK attack and how to defend against it. The book presents wireless pentesting from the ground up, introducing all elements of penetration testing with each new technology. You'll learn various wireless testing methodologies by example, from the basics of wireless routing and encryption through to detailed coverage of hacking methods and attacks such as the Hirte and Caffe Latte. Style and approach Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide, Third Edition is a practical, hands-on guide to modern wi-fi network hacking. It covers both the theory and practice of wireless pentesting, offering detailed, real-world coverage of the latest vulnerabilities and attacks.

Build a resilient cloud architecture to tackle data disasters with ease About This Book ? Gain a firm grasp of Cloud data security and governance, irrespective of your Cloud platform ? Practical examples to ensure you secure your Cloud environment efficiently ? A step-by-step guide that will teach you the unique techniques and methodologies of Cloud data governance Who This Book Is For If you are a cloud security professional who wants to ensure cloud security and data governance no matter the environment, then this book is for you. A basic understanding of working on any cloud platform would be beneficial. What You Will Learn ? Configure your firewall and Network ACL ? Protect your system against DDOS and application-level attacks ? Explore cryptography and data security for your cloud ? Get to grips with configuration management tools to automate your security tasks ? Perform vulnerability scanning with the help of the standard tools in the industry ? Learn about central log management In Detail Modern day businesses and enterprises are moving to the Cloud, to improve efficiency and speed, achieve flexibility and cost effectiveness, and for on-demand Cloud services. However, enterprise Cloud security remains a major concern because migrating to the public Cloud requires transferring some control over organizational assets to the Cloud provider. There are chances these assets can be mismanaged and therefore, as a Cloud security professional, you need to be armed with techniques to help businesses minimize the risks and misuse of business data. The book starts with the basics of Cloud security and offers an understanding of various policies, governance, and compliance challenges in Cloud. This helps you build a strong foundation before you dive deep into understanding what it takes to design a secured network infrastructure and a well-architected application using various security services in the Cloud environment. Automating security tasks, such as Server Hardening with Ansible, and other automation services, such as Monit, will monitor other security daemons and take the necessary action in case these security daemons are stopped maliciously. In short, this book has everything you need to secure your Cloud environment with. It is your ticket to obtain industry-adopted best practices for developing a secure, highly available, and fault-tolerant architecture for organizations. Style and approach This book follows a step-by-step, practical approach to secure your applications and data when they are located remotely.