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Unity iOS Essentials

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:44 AM PST

Unity iOS Essentials

Book Description

is the perfect tool for creating games for a number of platforms. Whether it's for the , , , or some combination of the three, this book takes a practical approach which maximizes performance while maintaining maximum compatibility across the entire mobile device line up.

Essentials takes you through all aspects of Unity for . Mobile means thinking about mobile performance, multiple device screen resolutions, deploying a single application to multiple devices, understanding integration, taking advantage of advanced lighting and culling systems, and integrating a mobile game with a server back end. This comprehensive book on developing Unity games for covers it all and demonstrates the concepts using practical tips, scripts, shaders, and projects.

Learn plan for supporting multiple devices before you start writing your first script. Consider performance and advanced game topics that will speed up your game development while solving real world problems. Add GUIs, use sophisticated concepts, and examine scripts and shaders, interact with servers, and interact with projects that deal with real issues. Unity Essentials provides you with a fully illustrated and fully commented guide for realising your game idea using advanced concepts that work on the family of mobile devices.

What you will learn from this book:

  • Plan and organize game levels to work on the various iOS devices: , , and .
  • Important iOS performance considerations and how iOS platforms differ from desktop platforms.
  • Develop games that work with multiple device screen resolutions and orientations.
  • Manage sophisticated game state and user preferences.
  • Essential .NET classes.
  • Develop a four wheeled vehicle with realistic physics.
  • Deal with the various methods of culling available in Unity 3D for iOS.
  • Integrate Unity3D for iOS games with servers to store things like high scores and achievements.

Approach
You will start by considering the essential differences between mobile and desktop game development. You will then get straight into creating unity projects that will run on the entire spectrum of iOS devices.

Who this book is written for
This book is for people who want to plan, develop, and deploy Unity 3D games on iOS mobile platforms, including iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Anyone who has experience with the free desktop version of Unity 3D can pick up this book and learn take the desktop skills and optimize them to work on the mobile iOS platforms. Some of the features in this book discuss the Pro features of Unity 3D for iOS so a Pro license is required to use some of the features (notably Occlusion Culling and Beast Light mapping).

Book Details

  • Paperback: 358 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849691827
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849691826
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WordPress 3 For Business Bloggers

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:41 AM PST

WordPress 3 For Business Bloggers

Book Description

makes the of blogging easy. But there's more to a successful than just churning out posts. You need to understand the advanced and promotion techniques to make your stand out from the crowd, attract visitors, benefit your brand, and deliver a worthwhile return on your investment.

3 for Bloggers shows you use WordPress to run your business blog. It covers everything you need to develop a custom look for your blog, use analytics to understand your visitors, market your blog online, and foster connections with other bloggers to increase your traffic and the value of your blog.

You begin by identifying your blog's strategic goals before going step-by-step through the advanced techniques that will grow your blog to its full business potential.

You will learn build a custom theme for your blog and incorporate multimedia content like images and video. Advanced promotion techniques like and media are covered in detail before you learn how to monetize your blog and manage its growth.

WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers will help you to create a blog that brings real benefits to your business.

What you will learn from this book:

  • Develop a ‘blogging business plan’ – clarify your blogging goals and sketch out a process for achieving them in WordPress
  • Build a custom theme so that the look of your blog immediately communicates your brand to visitors
  • Engage with the blogosphere and create beneficial relationships with other bloggers, making the most of each other's traffic and customers
  • Optimize your site for search by incorporating good practices into your blog strategy and content
  • Use media marketing such as Twitter, , Digg, Reddit, and Delicious to drive traffic to your blog
  • Monitor visitors and analyze their activity using WordPress.com stats, Feedburner for your RSS feeds, and Google Analytics
  • Manage adverts and implement revenue-generating features using Google AdSense and affiliate programs
  • Incorporate multimedia on your blog, including video and image galleries

Approach
This is a practical, hands-on book based around a fictitious case study blog, which you will build on a server using WordPress. The case study grows chapter by chapter, from installing your local server, right up to the finished blog.

Who this book is written for
This book is for anybody running or starting a business blog using WordPress, whether you plan to use your blog for and marketing, or want to profit directly from blogging.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 346 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849511322
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849511322
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Liferay: Beginner’s Guide

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:39 AM PST

Liferay: Beginners Guide

Book Description

portal is a leading horizontal portal product, written in . It has the power to provide the intranets and extranets of large corporations. will allow you to build your company's portal quickly, efficiently, and in a custom way to suit the needs of your corporation.

Liferay Beginner's Guide will show you set up your own site from scratch. Most books assume that you have knowledge of portals before working with Liferay and so include more theory than practice. However, only enthusiasm is required for reading this book as the step-by-step instructions, which follow the creation of a sample community site, will make it easy to install and configure Liferay, set up a Liferay portal instance, and use the out-of-the-box portlets of Liferay.

By following the logical flow of the chapters and the creation of the sample site, you will set up your Liferay site in several quick and easy stages. You will start by installing Liferay in your application server or servlet container of choice. You will learn customize the look and feel of the portal, change the URL of the site and create your own communities and organizations within the portal, then add users to them. By the end of the book, you will have a fully operational Liferay portal and the confidence to maintain and customize it to meet your needs.

What you will learn from this book:

  • Set up and run Liferay portal in an application server of your choice and configure with MySQL Database
  • Apply a theme to portal pages and change their layouts
  • Create communities, organizations and User groups
  • Add users, create portal pages and apply permissions
  • Create web content and publish content on portal pages
  • Build community pages using out of box and custom portlets
  • Set up collaboration applications in the portal
  • Configure and run an online store

Approach
Part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series, each chapter follows the creation of a fictional neighbourhood site to demonstrate an aspect of Liferay portal with practical examples, screenshots, and step-by-step instructions.

Who this book is written for
All you need in order to benefit from the Liferay Beginner's Guide is experience. No prior knowledge of Liferay is required, although experienced Liferay portal programmers who need to get up to speed with its latest features will also find this book useful.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 396 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849517002
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849517003
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OCA Oracle Database 11g: SQL Fundamentals I

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:35 AM PST

OCA Oracle Database 11g: SQL Fundamentals I

Book Description

The 11g: Fundamentals I exam is the first stepping stone in getting the Certified Associate Certification for 11g. The language is used in every major relational database today and understanding the real world application of it is the key to becoming a successful DBA.

This book gives you: the essential real world skills to master relational data manipulation with SQL and prepares you to become an Certified Associate. Beginners are introduced to concepts in a logical manner while practitioners can use it as a reference to jump to relevant concepts directly.

We begin with the essentials of why databases are important in today’s information technology world and how they work.

We continue by explaining the concepts of querying and modifying data in Oracle using a range of techniques, including data projection, selection, creation, joins, sub-queries and functions. Finally, we learn to create and manipulate database objects and to use them in the same way as today’s expert SQL programmers.

This book prepares you to master the fundamentals of the SQL language using an example-driven method that is easy to understand

This definitive certification guide provides a disciplined approach to be adopted for successfully clearing the 1Z0-051 SQL Fundamentals I exam, which is the first stepping stone towards attaining the OCA on 11g certification.

Each chapter contains ample practice questions at the end. A full-blown mock test is included for practice so you can test your knowledge and get a feel for the actual exam.

What you will learn from this book:

  • Get insights into the fundamentals of databases and how they work
  • Create and manipulate databases
  • Create complex reports by joining data from multiple tables
  • Use functions to manipulate data for solving real world problems
  • Create database objects from scratch to store the types of data used in businesses today
  • Use SQL in application
  • Aggregate data transformation using group functions
  • Combine SQL queries

Approach
This book is packed with real word examples. Each major certification topic is covered in a separate chapter, which helps to make understanding of concepts easier. At the end of each chapter, you will find a variety of practice questions to strengthen and test your learning.

You will get a feel for the actual SQL Fundamentals I exam by solving practice papers modeled on it.

Who this book is written for
This book is for anyone who needs the essential skills to pass the Oracle Database SQL Fundamentals I exam and use those skills in daily life as an SQL developer or database administrator.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 460 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849683646
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849683647
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Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11 Expert Guide

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:33 AM PST

Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11 Expert Guide

Book Description

Hyperion Interactive Reporting is one of many products in the Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus software suite, an industry-leading intelligence platform.  The primary focus of the Interactive Reporting product is to provide strong relational querying and data analysis capabilities, where the software provides significant flexibility for creating custom dashboards, interfaces, and data analysis routines through the use of and built-in software functionality.  While Interactive Reporting is extremely flexible, performing advanced operations in the software is complicated and requires basic knowledge and an advanced understanding of the software.  This book continues from where The Analyst's Guide to Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11 completed and provides the reader with the information to successfully execute the advanced features of the product along with examples and specific techniques applicable to everyday use.

The Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11 Expert Guide provides software users and developers with many examples of the techniques used by software experts. The book begins with an introduction to leveraging advanced features of the project and an introduction to .  Dashboards are a major focus of the book with four chapters focused on building a simple to complex dashboard including functions, global objects, and syncing selections across dashboards.  The book places an emphasis on learning methods for data analysis by using advanced and built-in functions, and a unique approach to using code to generate batch reports and exports is provided.  The Dashboard Studio Optimize Utility and the Dashboard Studio Merge utility are explained in detail, and the approach to building and using a central code repository for use in dashboards and computations across multiple documents in an enterprise is demonstrated.

This book will help the reader become an expert user of the software, providing the skills necessary to understand, communicate, and perform advanced level tasks.  The authors' experience in developing and supporting Interactive Reporting users is very apparent throughout each chapter of the book.  While the book displays content and examples from version 11 of the software, the book is also applicable to previous versions of the software dating back to version 8, so readers not currently using Interactive Reporting 11 will find the book applicable to daily use with the product.

What you will learn from this book:

  • Introduction to JavaScript and programming in Interactive Reporting
  • Simple to complex dashboards and methods used by developers to build advanced interfaces
  • Advanced techniques for building computed items with built-in and JavaScript functions
  • Leverage Report sections to create briefing slides and custom programming to build batch exports
  • Merging and modifying a document with the Dashboard Studio and Dashboard Studio Optimize Utility
  • Create a centralized code database for use across multiple Interactive Reporting documents in the enterprise

Approach
This book is written in a simple, easy to understand format with screenshots, code samples, and step-by-step explanations that will guide you through the advanced techniques used by the experts.

Who this book is written for
If you are an Oracle Hyperion Interactive reporting user or developer looking to become an expert in the product, then this book is for you. You will require a basic knowledge of Interactive Reporting, as this book starts with a brief overview and then dives into advanced techniques, functions, and best practices.  Beginner users should consult The Business Analyst's Guide to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11 to gain insight on the software product.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 276 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 184968314X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849683142
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