Design, implement, and publish custom Splunk applications by following best practices About This Book This is the most up-to-date guide on the market and will help you finish your tasks faster, easier, and more efficiently. Highly practical guide that addresses common and not-so-common pain points in Splunk. Want to explore shortcuts to perform tasks more efficiently with SplunkThis is the book for you! Who This Book Is For This book is for administrators, developers, and search ninjas who have been using Splunk for some time. A comprehensive coverage makes this book great for Splunk veterans and newbies alike. What You Will Learn Use Splunk effectively to gather, analyze, and report on operational data throughout your environment Expedite your reporting, and be empowered to present data in a meaningful way Create robust searches, reports, and charts using Splunk Modularize your programs for better reusability. Build your own Splunk apps and learn why they are important Learn how to integrate with enterprise systems Summarize data for longer term trending, reporting, and analysis In Detail This book will give you an edge over others through insights that will help you in day-to-day instances. When you're working with data from various sources in Splunk and performing analysis on this data, it can be a bit tricky. With this book, you will learn the best practices of working with Splunk. You'll learn about tools and techniques that will ease your life with Splunk, and will ultimately save you time. In some cases, it will adjust your thinking of what Splunk is, and what it can and cannot do. To start with, you'll get to know the best practices to get data into Splunk, analyze data, and package apps for distribution. Next, you'll discover the best practices in logging, operations, knowledge management, searching, and reporting. To finish off, we will teach you how to troubleshoot Splunk searches, as well as deployment, testing, and development with Splunk. Style and approach If you're stuck or want to find a better way to work with Splunk environment, this book will come handy. This easy-to-follow, insightful book contains step-by-step instructions and examples and scenarios that you will connect to.

Learn how to virtualize your network and discover the full potential of a Software Defined Data Center. A smarter way to use network resources begins here About This Book Experience the dynamism and flexibility of a virtualized software defined data center with NSX Find out how to design your network infrastructure based on what your organization needs From security to automation, discover how NSX’s impressive range of features can unlock a more effective and intelligent approach to system administration Who This Book Is For If you’re a network administrator and want a simple but powerful solution to your network virtualization headaches, look no further than this fast-paced, practical guide. What You Will Learn Deep dive into NSX-v Manager, Controller deployment, and design decisions Get to know the strategies needed to make decisions on each mode of VXLAN that is based on physical network design Deploy Edge Gateway and leverage all the gateway features and design decisions Get to grips with NSX-v Security features and automate security Leverage Cross VC, identify the benefits, and work through a few deployment scenarios Troubleshoot an NSX-v to isolate problems and identify solutions through a step-by-step process In Detail VMware NSX is at the forefront of the software-defined networking revolution. It makes it even easier for organizations to unlock the full benefits of a software-defined data center – scalability, flexibility – while adding in vital security and automation features to keep any sysadmin happy. Software alone won’t power your business – with NSX you can use it more effectively than ever before, optimizing your resources and reducing costs. Getting started should be easy – this guide makes sure it is. It takes you through the core components of NSX, demonstrating how to set it up, customize it within your current network architecture. You’ll learn the principles of effective design, as well as some things you may need to take into consideration when you’re creating your virtual networks. We’ll also show you how to construct and maintain virtual networks, and how to deal with any tricky situations and failures. By the end, you’ll be confident you can deliver, scale and secure an exemplary virtualized network with NSX. Style and approach This book provides you with an introduction to software-defined networking with VMware NSX. Focusing on the most essential elements, so you can put your knowledge into practice quickly, it’s a guide dedicated to anyone who understands that sometimes real-world problems require virtualized solutions.

Develop robust and reusable code using a multitude of design patterns for PHP 7 About This Book Learn about advanced design patterns in PHP 7 Understand enhanced architectural patterns Learn to implement reusable design patterns to address common recurring problems Who This Book Is For This book is for PHP developers who wish to have better organization structure over their code through learning common methodologies to solve architectural problems against a backdrop of learning new functionality in PHP 7. What You Will Learn Recognize recurring problems in your code with Anti-Patterns Uncover object creation mechanisms using Creational Patterns Use Structural design patterns to easily access your code Address common issues encountered when linking objects using the splObserver classes in PHP 7 Achieve a common style of coding with Architectural Patterns Write reusable code for common MVC frameworks such as Zend, Laravel, and Symfony Get to know the best practices associated with design patterns when used with PHP 7 In Detail Design patterns are a clever way to solve common architectural issues that arise during software development. With an increase in demand for enhanced programming techniques and the versatile nature of PHP, a deep understanding of PHP design patterns is critical to achieve efficiency while coding. This comprehensive guide will show you how to achieve better organization structure over your code through learning common methodologies to solve architectural problems. You’ll also learn about the new functionalities that PHP 7 has to offer. Starting with a brief introduction to design patterns, you quickly dive deep into the three main architectural patterns: Creational, Behavioral, and Structural popularly known as the Gang of Four patterns. Over the course of the book, you will get a deep understanding of object creation mechanisms, advanced techniques that address issues concerned with linking objects together, and improved methods to access your code. You will also learn about Anti-Patterns and the best methodologies to adopt when building a PHP 7 application. With a concluding chapter on best practices, this book is a complete guide that will equip you to utilize design patterns in PHP 7 to achieve maximum productivity, ensuring an enhanced software development experience. Style and approach The book covers advanced design patterns in detail in PHP 7 with the help of rich code-based examples.

Learn how to build beautiful and highly customizable web interfaces by leveraging the power of Bootstrap 4 About This Book Adapt and customize Bootstrap to produce enticing websites that fit your needs Explore Bootstrap's grid system, helper classes, and responsive utilities Extend Bootstrap with jQuery plugins and learn how to create your own custom plugins Who This Book Is For This book targets intermediate-level front-end web-developers. The book is not intended to be an introduction to web development. As such, the book assumes that readers have a firm grasp on the basic concepts behind web-development, as well as essential HTML, JavaScript and CSS skills. What You Will Learn Create a professional Bootstrap-based website from scratch without using third-party templates Apply the Bootstrap mobile-first grid system and add responsiveness and aesthetic touches to image elements Style various types of content and learn how to build a page’s layout from scratch by applying the power of Bootstrap 4 Take advantage of Bootstrap’s form helper and contextual classes Infuse your web pages with life and movement using Bootstrap jQuery plugins Customize the behavior and features of Bootstrap’s jQuery Plugins extensively Optimize your Bootstrap-based project before deployment Incorporate Bootstrap into an AngularJS or React application and use Bootstrap components as AngularJS directives or React components In Detail Bootstrap 4 is a free CSS and JavaScript framework that allows developers to rapidly build responsive web-interfaces. Right from the first chapter, dive into building a customized Bootstrap website from scratch. Get to grips with Bootstrap’s key features and quickly discover the various ways in which Bootstrap can help you develop web-interfaces. Then take walk through the fundamental features, such as its grid system, helper classes, and responsive utilities. When you have mastered these, you will discover how to structure page layouts, use forms, style different types of content and utilize Bootstrap’s various navigation components. Among other things, you will also tour the anatomy of a Bootstrap plugin, creating your own custom components and extending Bootstrap using jQuery. Finally, you will discover how to optimize your website and integrate it with third-party frameworks. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough knowledge of the framework’s ins and outs, and be able to build highly customizable and optimized web interfaces. Style and approach This comprehensive step-by-step guide walks you through building a complete website using Bootstrap 4. Each chapter is accompanied by source code and screenshots, and focuses on a distinct set of lessons that are illustrated within the context of a demo project.

Put Google Classroom to work while teaching your students and make your life easier About This Book This is the first book to guide educators step by step through teaching with Google Classroom It’s focused on you, your students, and providing great learning experiences easily It’s easy to follow, with everything you need to get started and keep going even if you’re not a technology fan Who This Book Is For This is a book for educators who want to use Google Classroom to teach better. It’s not for geeks. There are rich examples, clear instructions, and enlightening explanations to help you put this platform to work. What You Will Learn Create a Google Classroom and add customized information for each individual class Add students to a Google Classroom Send announcements and questions to students Create, distribute, collect, and grade assignments through Google Classroom Add events to and share a Google Classroom’s calendar with parents to track a student's progress Reuse posts, archive classrooms, and perform other administrative tasks in Google Classroom Use Google Docs Add-ons, and Google Chrome Webstore Apps and Extensions to enhance assignments Set up Google Classroom’s mobile app In Detail Google Classroom helps teachers bring their work online. According to Google Trends, it’s already bigger than Moodle after barely a year in the wild. This book is a complete start-to-finish guide for teachers using Google Classroom for the first time. It explains what Google Classroom is, what it can do, how to set it up, and how to use it to enhance student learning while making your life as a teacher easier. It shows you how to place resources and activities online, gather assignments, and develop group and individual activities. It’s not just a manual, you’ll also discover inspiring, easy ways to put Google Classroom to work for you and your class. Style and approach This is a step-by-step guide to using Google Classroom, the rapidly emerging platform for education, effectively.

Perform cloud-based machine learning and deep learning using Amazon Web Services such as SageMaker, Lex, Comprehend, Translate, and Polly Key Features * Explore popular machine learning and deep learning services with their underlying algorithms * Discover readily available artificial intelligence(AI) APIs on AWS like Vision and Language Services * Design robust architectures to enable experimentation, extensibility, and maintainability of AI apps Book Description From data wrangling through to translating text, you can accomplish this and more with the artificial intelligence and machine learning services available on AWS. With this book, you’ll work through hands-on exercises and learn to use these services to solve real-world problems. You’ll even design, develop, monitor, and maintain machine and deep learning models on AWS. The book starts with an introduction to AI and its applications in different industries, along with an overview of AWS artificial intelligence and machine learning services. You’ll then get to grips with detecting and translating text with Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Translate. The book will assist you in performing speech-to-text with Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Polly. Later, you’ll discover the use of Amazon Comprehend for extracting information from text, and Amazon Lex for building voice chatbots. You will also understand the key capabilities of Amazon SageMaker such as wrangling big data, discovering topics in text collections, and classifying images. Finally, you’ll cover sales forecasting with deep learning and autoregression, before exploring the importance of a feedback loop in machine learning. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to implement AI in AWS through hands-on exercises that cover all aspects of the ML model life cycle. What you will learn * Gain useful insights into different machine and deep learning models * Build and deploy robust deep learning systems to production * Train machine and deep learning models with diverse infrastructure specifications * Scale AI apps without dealing with the complexity of managing the underlying infrastructure * Monitor and Manage AI experiments efficiently * Create AI apps using AWS pre-trained AI services Who this book is for This book is for data scientists, machine learning developers, deep learning researchers, and artificial intelligence enthusiasts who want to harness the power of AWS to implement powerful artificial intelligence solutions. A basic understanding of machine learning concepts is expected.

React Native's ability to build performant mobile applications with JavaScript has resulted in its popularity amongst developers. Developers now have the luxury to create incredible mobile experiences that look and feel native to their platforms with the comfort of a well-known language and the popular React.js library. This book will show you how to build your own native mobile applications for the iOS and Android platforms while leveraging the finesse and simplicity of JavaScript and React. Throughout the book you will build three projects, each of increasing complexity. You will also link up with the third-party Facebook SDK, convert an app to support the Redux architecture, and learn the process involved in making your apps available for sale on the iOS App Store and Google Play. At the end of this book, you will have learned and implemented a wide breadth of core APIs and components found in the React Native framework that are necessary in creating great mobile experiences. What you will learn ?How to create mobile-performant iOS and Android apps using JavaScript and React ?The potential of each API and component, putting them into practice throughout the course of three projects ?The process of integrating the Facebook SDK to build an app that connects to third-party data ?Every step taken to implement Redux, a popular state management library, in your mobile apps

Bring the power of functional programming to Swift to develop clean, smart, scalable and reliable applications. About This Book ?Written for the latest version of Swift, this is a comprehensive guide that introduces iOS, Web and macOS developers to the all-new world of functional programming that has so far been alien to them ?Get familiar with using functional programming alongside existing OOP techniques so you can get the best of both worlds and develop clean, robust, and scalable code ?Develop a case study on example backend API with Swift and Vapor Framework and an iOS application with Functional Programming, Protocol-Oriented Programming, Functional Reactive Programming, and Object-Oriented Programming techniques Who This Book Is For Meant for a reader who knows object-oriented programming, has some experience with Objective-C/Swift programming languages and wants to further enhance his skills with functional programming techniques with Swift 3.x. What You Will Learn ?Understand what functional programming is and why it matters ?Understand custom operators, function composition, currying, recursion, and memoization ?Explore algebraic data types, pattern matching, generics, associated type protocols, and type erasure ?Get acquainted with higher-kinded types and higher-order functions using practical examples ?Get familiar with functional and non-functional ways to deal with optionals ?Make use of functional data structures such as semigroup, monoid, binary search tree, linked list, stack, and lazy list ?Understand the importance of immutability, copy constructors, and lenses

Master the art of detecting and averting advanced network security attacks and techniques About This Book ?Deep dive into the advanced network security attacks and techniques by leveraging tools such as Kali Linux 2, MetaSploit, Nmap, and Wireshark ?Become an expert in cracking WiFi passwords, penetrating anti-virus networks, sniffing the network, and USB hacks ?This step-by-step guide shows you how to confidently and quickly detect vulnerabilities for your network before the hacker does Who This Book Is For This book is for network security professionals, cyber security professionals, and Pentesters who are well versed with fundamentals of network security and now want to master it. So whether you're a cyber security professional, hobbyist, business manager, or student aspiring to becoming an ethical hacker or just want to learn more about the cyber security aspect of the IT industry, then this book is definitely for you. What You Will Learn ?Use SET to clone webpages including the login page ?Understand the concept of Wi-Fi cracking and use PCAP file to obtain passwords ?Attack using a USB as payload injector ?Familiarize yourself with the process of trojan attacks ?Use Shodan to identify honeypots, rogue access points, vulnerable webcams, and other exploits found in the database ?Explore various tools for wireless penetration testing and auditing ?Create an evil twin to intercept network traffic ?Identify human patterns in networks attacks In Detail Computer networks are increasing at an exponential rate and the most

Create interactive and responsive cross-browser apps with SASS and Compass About This Book Create data-intensive, highly scalable apps using Sass and COMPASS Master the concepts of Sass and COMPASS and unleash your potential to develop enterprise-grade apps This book is an experts’ guide on leveraging Sass and COMPASS features Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at those who know CSS3 and HTML5 quite well and who've built a few small-to-medium-sized websites from scratch using Sass and Compass. What You Will Learn Master Sass and Compass features Familiarize yourself with CSS and HTML concepts that are vital for a good Sass workflow. Build real-world websites focusing on layouts and content aspects Work on a grid system using Compass and Susy Automate your workflow with Gulp Write functions and mixins to leverage the control flow In Detail CSS and Sass add elegance and excellence to the basic language, and consist of a CSS-compatible syntax that allows you to use variables, nested rules, mixins, inline imports, and much more. This book will start with an overview of the features in Sass and Compass, most of which you'll already be familiar; however, this will ensure you know what’s expected as the book goes deeper into Sass and Compass. Next you will learn CSS and HTML concepts that are vital to a good Sass workflow. After all, Sass exists to simplify writing CSS, but it won’t teach you how to make clean, scalable, reusable CSS. For that, you need to understand some basic concepts of OOCSS, SMACCS, and Atomic Design. Once you’ve brushed up on the important concepts, it’s time to write some Sass. Mainly you’ll write a few functions and mixins that really leverage control flow using @if / @else loops and you’ll learn how to figure out when and why things are going wrong before they bring you to a stop. Moving further, you’ll learn how to use @debug, @warn and @error to properly handle errors. You’ll also learn about Gulp and how to use it to automate your workflow and reduce your repetitive tasks. And finally you’ll learn about sourcemaps. With sourcemaps, you’ll be able to write, debug, and view your Sass and Compass all from within the browser. It’ll even LiveReload too! As a bonus, you’ll take a look at that funky Flexbox, currently all the rage! You’ll learn how powerful and flexible it really is, and how you can use it with Compass. Best of all, it falls back very gracefully indeed! In fact, you’ll be able to apply it to any existing project without having to change a line of the original CSS. Style and approach This book will provide readers with practical, actionable expertise to enhance their knowledge

Achieve the gold standard in penetration testing with Kali using this masterpiece, now in its third edition! About This Book Get a rock-solid insight into penetration testing techniques and test your corporate network against threats like never before Formulate your pentesting strategies by relying on the most up-to-date and feature-rich Kali version in town—Kali Linux 2 (aka Sana). Experience this journey with new cutting-edge wireless penetration tools and a variety of new features to make your pentesting experience smoother Who This Book Is For If you are an IT security professional or a student with basic knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems, including an awareness of information security factors, and you want to use Kali Linux for penetration testing, this book is for you. What You Will Learn Find out to download and install your own copy of Kali Linux Properly scope and conduct the initial stages of a penetration test Conduct reconnaissance and enumeration of target networks Exploit and gain a foothold on a target system or network Obtain and crack passwords Use the Kali Linux NetHunter install to conduct wireless penetration testing Create proper penetration testing reports In Detail Kali Linux is a comprehensive penetration testing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit the vulnerabilities uncovered in the target network environment. With Kali Linux, you can apply appropriate testing methodology with defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan, resulting in a successful penetration testing project engagement. Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing is a fully focused, structured book providing guidance on developing practical penetration testing skills by demonstrating cutting-edge hacker tools and techniques with a coherent, step-by-step approach. This book offers you all of the essential lab preparation and testing procedures that reflect real-world attack scenarios from a business perspective, in today's digital age. Style and approach This practical guide will showcase penetration testing through cutting-edge tools and techniques using a coherent, step-by-step approach.

Learn how to build native, cross-platform mapping apps with this comprehensive and practical guide, using the MVVM pattern About This Book Enhance the user experience with the power of ArcGIS runtime SDK for .NET. This clear, well segregated book has all the information you need on ArcGIS Runtime SDK. Just name it—this book has it! This highly practical book empowers you to build your own custom application! Get to know the inner details of ArcGIS Runtime SDK from our experts, in this book written by Ron Vincent, with 24 years' experience in the GIS industry and many in GIS training. Who This Book Is For This book caters to long-term users of Esri’s technologies that are new to mobile development or are transitioning from older Esri technologies such as ArcGIS Engine. It is also for users who are unfamiliar with Esri or GIS and are in need of a mapping solution for either their desktop or a mobile platform, or both. The book requires knowledge of .NET. What You Will Learn Understand and implement the MVVM pattern using MVVM Light Create and add layers from offline and online resources such as ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS for Server Create a 2D or 3D map and decide what kind of symbology to use Symbolize the layers based on the geometry Search and find objects in the layers Geocode an address and create a route using an address Edit layer objects from online content and offline content Test the application using test-driven development and then build and release the application for the intended audience In Detail ArcGIS is a geographic information system (GIS) that enables you to work with maps and geographic information. It can be used to create and utilize maps, compile geographic data, analyze mapped information, share and discover geographic information and manage geographic information in a database. This book starts by showing you where ArcGIS Runtime fits within Esri’s overall platform strategy. You'll create an initial map using the SDK, then use it to get an understanding of the MVVM model. You'll find out about the different kinds of layers and start adding layers, and you'll learn to transform maps into a 3D scene. The next chapters will help you comprehend and extract information contained in the maps using co-ordinates and layer objects. Towards the end, you will learn to set the symbology, decide whether to use 2D or 3D, see how to implement 2D or 3D, and learn to search and find objects. You'll also get to grips with many other standard features of the Application Programming Interface (API), including create applications and finally testing, licensing, and deploying them. Once completed, you will be able to meet most of the common requirements of any mapping application for desktop or mobile platforms. Style and approach This comprehensive book takes a completely practical approach, where every chapter explains the important concepts and demonstrates a practical application of them in a hands-on manner.

Boost your confidence and get the competitive edge you need to crack the exam in just 21 days! About This Book Day-by-day plan to study and assimilate core concepts from CISSP CBK Revise and take a mock test at the end of every four chapters A systematic study and revision of myriad concepts to help you crack the CISSP examination Who This Book Is For If you are a Networking professional aspiring to take the CISSP examination and obtain the coveted CISSP certification (considered to be the Gold Standard in Information Security personal certification), then this is the book you want. This book assumes that you already have sufficient knowledge in all 10 domains of the CISSP CBK by way of work experience and knowledge gained from other study books. What You Will Learn Review Exam Cram and Practice review questions to reinforce the required concepts Follow the day–by-day plan to revise important concepts a month before the CISSPexam Boost your time management for the exam by attempting the mock question paper Develop a structured study plan for all 10 CISSPdomains Build your understanding of myriad concepts in the Information Security domain Practice the full-blown mock test to evaluate your knowledge and exam preparation In Detail Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is an internationally recognized and coveted qualification. Success in this respected exam opens the door to your dream job as a security expert with an eye-catching salary. But passing the final exam is challenging. Every year a lot of candidates do not prepare sufficiently for the examination, and fail at the final stage. This happens when they cover everything but do not revise properly and hence lack confidence. This simple yet informative book will take you through the final weeks before the exam with a day-by-day plan covering all of the exam topics. It will build your confidence and enable you to crack the Gold Standard exam, knowing that you have done all you can to prepare for the big day. This book provides concise explanations of important concepts in all 10 domains of the CISSP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK). Starting with Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability, you will focus on classifying information and supporting assets. You will understand data handling requirements for sensitive information before gradually moving on to using secure design principles while implementing and managing engineering processes. You will understand the application of cryptography in communication security and prevent or mitigate strategies for network attacks. You will also learn security control requirements and how to assess their effectiveness. Finally, you will explore advanced topics such as automated and manual test result analysis and reporting methods. A complete mock test is included at the end to evaluate whether you're ready for the exam. This book is not a replacement for full study guides; instead, it builds on and reemphasizes concepts learned from them. Style and approach There are many overlapping concepts that are applicable to more than one security domain in the CISSP exam. Hence, the eight security domains are aligned in a logical order so as to cover the concepts in the most appropriate sequence in this guide. Each chapter provides an illustration in the form of a flow diagram at the start to supply an overall view of the concepts covered in that chapter. This will facilitate a bird's-eye view of the chapter contents and the core security concepts covered. You can refer to this book throughout while preparing for the test or most importantly systematically revise the eight domains on a day-by-day basis up to one month before the exam. Hence the chapters are divided into 21 convenient days.

Unleash the power of the latest Spring MVC 4.x to develop a complete application About This Book Work through carefully crafted exercises with detailed explanations for each step will help you understand the concepts with ease You will gain a clear understanding of the end-to-end request/response life cycle, and each logical component’s responsibility This book is packed with tips and tricks that demonstrate industry best practices on developing a Spring-MVC-based application Who This Book Is For The book is for Java developers who want to exploit Spring MVC and its features to build web applications. Some familiarity with basic servlet programming concepts would be a plus, but is not a prerequisite. What You Will Learn Familiarize yourself with the anatomy of the Spring 4.X development environment Understand web application architecture and the Spring MVC request flow Integrate bean validation and custom validation Use error handling and exception resolving Get to grips with REST-based web service development and Ajax Test your web application In Detail Spring MVC helps you build flexible and loosely coupled web applications. The Spring MVC Framework is architected and designed in such a way that every piece of logic and functionality is highly configurable. Also, Spring can integrate effortlessly with other popular web frameworks such as Struts, WebWork, Java Server Faces, and Tapestry. The book progressively teaches you to configure the Spring development environment, architecture, controllers, libraries, and more before moving on to developing a full web application. It begins with an introduction to the Spring development environment and architecture so you're familiar with the know-hows. From here, we move on to controllers, views, validations, Spring Tag libraries, and more. Finally, we integrate it all together to develop a web application. You'll also get to grips with testing applications for reliability. Style and approach This book takes a pragmatic step-by-step approach to web application development using Spring MVC, with informative screenshots and concise explanation.

Create the perfectly customized system by unleashing the power of Android OS on your embedded device About This Book Understand the system architecture and how the source code is organized Explore the power of Android and customize the build system Build a fully customized Android version as per your requirements Who This Book Is For If you are a Java programmer who wants to customize, build, and deploy your own Android version using embedded programming, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn Master Android architecture and system design Obtain source code and understand the modular organization Customize and build your first system image for the Android emulator Level up and build your own Android system for a real-world device Use Android as a home automation and entertainment system Tailor your system with optimizations and add-ons Reach for the stars: look at the Internet of Things, entertainment, and domotics In Detail Take a deep dive into the Android build system and its customization with Learning Embedded Android Programming, written to help you master the steep learning curve of working with embedded Android. Start by exploring the basics of Android OS, discover Google’s “repo” system, and discover how to retrieve AOSP source code. You'll then find out to set up the build environment and the first AOSP system. Next, learn how to customize the boot sequence with a new animation, and use an Android “kitchen” to “cook” your custom ROM. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build customized Android open source projects by developing your own set of features. Style and approach This step-by-step guide is packed with various real-world examples to help you create a fully customized Android system with the most useful features available.

Master the art of advanced VoIP and WebRTC communication with the most dynamic application server, FreeSWITCH About This Book Forget the hassle - make FreeSWITCH work for you Discover how FreeSWITCH integrates with a range of tools and APIs From high availability to IVR development use this book to become more confident with this useful communication software Who This Book Is For SysAdmins, VoIP engineers – whoever you are, whatever you’re trying to do, this book will help you get more from FreeSWITCH. What You Will Learn Get to grips with the core concepts of FreeSWITCH Learn FreeSWITCH high availability Work with SIP profiles, gateways, ITSPs, and Codecs optimization Implement effective security on your projects Master audio manipulation and recording Discover how FreeSWITCH works alongside WebRTC Build your own complex IVR and PBX applications Connect directly to PSTN/TDM Create your own FreeSWITCH module Trace SIP packets with the help of best open source tools Implement Homer Sipcapture to troubleshoot and debug all your platform traffic In Detail FreeSWITCH is one of the best tools around if you’re looking for a modern method of managing communication protocols through a range of different media. From real-time browser communication with the WebRTC API to implementing VoIP (voice over internet protocol), with FreeSWITCH you’re in full control of your projects. This book shows you how to unlock its full potential – more than just a tutorial, it’s packed with plenty of tips and tricks to make it work for you. Written by members of the team who actually helped build FreeSWITCH, it will guide you through some of the newest features of version 1.6 including video transcoding and conferencing. Find out how FreeSWITCH interacts with other tools and APIs, learn how to tackle common (and not so common) challenges ranging from high availability to IVR development and programming advanced PBXs. Great communication functionality begins with FreeSWITCH – find out how and get your project up and running today. Style and approach Find out how it works, then put your knowledge into practice - that's how this advanced FreeSWITCH guide has been designed to help you learn. You'll soon master FreeSWITCH and be confident using it in your projects.

Acquire and analyze data from all corners of the social web with Python About This Book Make sense of highly unstructured social media data with the help of the insightful use cases provided in this guide Use this easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to apply analytics to complicated and messy social data This is your one-stop solution to fetching, storing, analyzing, and visualizing social media data Who This Book Is For This book is for intermediate Python developers who want to engage with the use of public APIs to collect data from social media platforms and perform statistical analysis in order to produce useful insights from data. The book assumes a basic understanding of the Python Standard Library and provides practical examples to guide you toward the creation of your data analysis project based on social data. What You Will Learn Interact with a social media platform via their public API with Python Store social data in a convenient format for data analysis Slice and dice social data using Python tools for data science Apply text analytics techniques to understand what people are talking about on social media Apply advanced statistical and analytical techniques to produce useful insights from data Build beautiful visualizations with web technologies to explore data and present data products In Detail Your social media is filled with a wealth of hidden data – unlock it with the power of Python. Transform your understanding of your clients and customers when you use Python to solve the problems of understanding consumer behavior and turning raw data into actionable customer insights. This book will help you acquire and analyze data from leading social media sites. It will show you how to employ scientific Python tools to mine popular social websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Quora, and more. Explore the Python libraries used for social media mining, and get the tips, tricks, and insider insight you need to make the most of them. Discover how to develop data mining tools that use a social media API, and how to create your own data analysis projects using Python for clear insight from your social data. Style and approach This practical, hands-on guide will help you learn everything you need to perform data mining for social media. Throughout the book, we take an example-oriented approach to use Python for data analysis and provide useful tips and tricks that you can use in day-to-day tasks.

Over 100 hands-on recipes to effectively solve real-world data problems using the most popular R packages and techniques About This Book Gain insight into how data scientists collect, process, analyze, and visualize data using some of the most popular R packages Understand how to apply useful data analysis techniques in R for real-world applications An easy-to-follow guide to make the life of data scientist easier with the problems faced while performing data analysis Who This Book Is For This book is for those who are already familiar with the basic operation of R, but want to learn how to efficiently and effectively analyze real-world data problems using practical R packages. What You Will Learn Get to know the functional characteristics of R language Extract, transform, and load data from heterogeneous sources Understand how easily R can confront probability and statistics problems Get simple R instructions to quickly organize and manipulate large datasets Create professional data visualizations and interactive reports Predict user purchase behavior by adopting a classification approach Implement data mining techniques to discover items that are frequently purchased together Group similar text documents by using various clustering methods In Detail This cookbook offers a range of data analysis samples in simple and straightforward R code, providing step-by-step resources and time-saving methods to help you solve data problems efficiently. The first section deals with how to create R functions to avoid the unnecessary duplication of code. You will learn how to prepare, process, and perform sophisticated ETL for heterogeneous data sources with R packages. An example of data manipulation is provided, illustrating how to use the “dplyr” and “data.table” packages to efficiently process larger data structures. We also focus on “ggplot2” and show you how to create advanced figures for data exploration. In addition, you will learn how to build an interactive report using the “ggvis” package. Later chapters offer insight into time series analysis on financial data, while there is detailed information on the hot topic of machine learning, including data classification, regression, clustering, association rule mining, and dimension reduction. By the end of this book, you will understand how to resolve issues and will be able to comfortably offer solutions to problems encountered while performing data analysis. Style and approach This easy-to-follow guide is full of hands-on examples of data analysis with R. Each topic is fully explained beginning with the core concept, followed by step-by-step practical examples, and concluding with detailed explanations of each concept used.

Master complex workflows and conquer the world with Python and Maya About This Book Improve your modelling skills and reduce your *ing problems using Python in Maya Learn to communicate with web applications using Python for easier team development A quick and practical answer to every problem you can have whilst *ing in Maya with Python Who This Book Is For This book is for Python developers who have just started *ing with Maya. What You Will Learn Find out how to use Python *ing to automate tedious tasks Create functional user interfaces to make *s easy to share with others Add new functionality to Maya via the power of *ing Import and export arbitrary data into and out of Maya Improve your workflow, and that of your team Create custom create custom controls to make rigs that are easy to work with Implement a system to render 3D assets for isometric games Use * jobs to trigger actions automatically in response to user interaction Open a command port to allow other applications to communicate with Maya In Detail Maya is a 3D graphics and animation software, used to develop interactive 3D applications and games with stupendous visual effects. The Maya Programming with Python Cookbook is all about creating fast, powerful automation systems with minimum coding using Maya Python. With the help of insightful and essential recipes, this book will help you improve your modelling skills. Expand your development options and overcome *ing problems encountered whilst developing code in Maya. Right from the beginning, get solutions to complex development concerns faced when implementing as parts of build. Style and approach This book is comprised of a set of practical recipes, grouped under specific topics, which can be referred to independently or in sequence. These recipes provide quick solutions to common problems, and cover most of the real-world scenarios that developers are likely to face when working with Maya.

Learn functional data structures and algorithms for your applications and bring their benefits to your work now About This Book Moving from object-oriented programming to functional programmingThis book will help you get started with functional programming. Easy-to-understand explanations of practical topics will help you get started with functional data structures. Illustrative diagrams to explain the algorithms in detail. Get hands-on practice of Scala to get the most out of functional programming. Who This Book Is For This book is for those who have some experience in functional programming languages. The data structures in this book are primarily written in Scala, however implementing the algorithms in other functional languages should be straight forward. What You Will Learn Learn to think in the functional paradigm Understand common data structures and the associated algorithms, as well as the context in which they are commonly used Take a look at the runtime and space complexities with the O notation See how ADTs are implemented in a functional setting Explore the basic theme of immutability and persistent data structures Find out how the internal algorithms are redesigned to exploit structural sharing, so that the persistent data structures perform well, avoiding needless copying. Get to know functional features like lazy evaluation and recursion used to implement efficient algorithms Gain Scala best practices and idioms In Detail Functional data structures have the power to improve the codebase of an application and improve efficiency. With the advent of functional programming and with powerful functional languages such as Scala, Clojure and Elixir becoming part of important enterprise applications, functional data structures have gained an important place in the developer toolkit. Immutability is a cornerstone of functional programming. Immutable and persistent data structures are thread safe by definition and hence very appealing for writing robust concurrent programs. How do we express traditional algorithms in functional settingWon’t we end up copying too muchDo we trade performance for versioned data structuresThis book attempts to answer these questions by looking at functional implementations of traditional algorithms. It begins with a refresher and consolidation of what functional programming is all about. Next, you’ll get to know about Lists, the work horse data type for most functional languages. We show what structural sharing means and how it helps to make immutable data structures efficient and practical. Scala is the primary implementation languages for most of the examples. At times, we also present Clojure snippets to illustrate the underlying fundamental theme. While writing code, we use ADTs (abstract data types). Stacks, Queues, Trees and Graphs are all familiar ADTs. You will see how these ADTs are implemented in a functional setting. We look at implementation techniques like amortization and lazy evaluation to ensure efficiency. By the end of the book, you will be able to write efficient functional data structures and algorithms for your applications. Style and approach Step-by-step topics will help you get started with functional programming. Learn by doing with hands-on code snippets that give you practical experience of the subject.

Change the way your organization deploys software at scale with this face paced guide to the world of Docker About This Book Cut through the noise and in simple terms learn to package your applications and test, ship, and scale your containers Find and build images and successfully run your programs within containers Build, deploy, and test your Docker containers and put them to work in production Who This Book Is For This book is for IT professionals, system administrators, and DevOps professionals or anyone looking to quickly develop and deploy software to production at scale. If you are interested in Docker, DevOps, or containers in general, don’t look any further. What You Will Learn Understand Docker’s architecture Build, ship, and run distributed applications Deploy, automate, and manage the execution of applications within Docker Scale and virtualize images and containers Utilize the networking features that Docker offers Use repositories to store and retrieve images In Detail This fast-paced practical guide will get you up and running with Docker. Using Docker, you will be able to build, ship, and run many distributed applications in real time. You will start with quickly installing Docker and start working with images and containers. We will present different types of containers and their applications, and show you how to find and build images. You will learn how you can contribute to the image repository by publishing different images. This will familiarize you with the image building process and you will be able to successfully run your programs within containers. By finishing this book, you will be well equipped in deploying your applications using Docker and will have a clear understanding of concepts, techniques, and practical methods to get it running in production systems. Style and approach This book takes a fast-paced practical approach that quickly gets you up and running with Docker so that you spend less time learning and more time deploying Docker containers effectively. This book contains a mix of concepts, practical examples, techniques, and the most up-to-date content to run things effectively in production. We’ll show you the easiest way to speed up your development and deployment with Docker.