| Learn Corona SDK Game Development Posted: 20 Jun 2013 12:37 PM PDT 
Book Description Corona SDK is one of the most popular app and game mobile development platforms in the world, and Learn Corona SDK Game Development walks you through creating a full-featured Corona game from scratch to the App Store. You’ll learn Lua basics (the foundation of Corona), how to add and manipulate graphics, and how to use controls like multitouch, accelerometer, and gyroscope. You’ll also learn how to use Box2D (Corona physics under the hood), and how to add sound effects and music. As you’re polishing your game, you’ll also learn about ads, in-app purchases, and OpenFeint and Game Center integration. Finally, you’ll learn the ins and outs of getting a game into the App Store or other app marketplaces. Whether you’re developing exclusively for iOS, or whether you’re developing for Android or other platforms, Learn Corona SDK Game Development explains just what you need to launch your career as a mobile game developer. What you'll learn - Just enough Lua to get started with Corona
- How to put your Corona code together
- How to work with images and effects
- Adding music and sound
- Game physics and AI
- Working with app stores and marketplaces
Who this book is for
Beginning mobile game developers, with a grasp of the basics of programming, who want a complete walkthrough of the Corona app and game development tool, or iOS or Android developers who want to learn about Corona SDK. Table of Contents
Part 1: Get Ready… Get Set…
Chapter 1. Say Hello to My Little Friend: The Corona SDK
Chapter 2. The Pillar of Creation: Lua Part 2: Go!
Chapter 3. Basic Application Structure
Chapter 4. Title, Menu, and Settings Scenes
Chapter 5. The Game, Part 1: Core Game Code
Chapter 6. The Game, Part 2: Main Loop
Chapter 7. The Game, Part 3: Player Control Input
Chapter 8. The Game, Part 4: Collision Events
Chapter 9. Wrapping Up Part 3: The Postgame Show
Chapter 10. Odds and Ends
Chapter 11. Testing and Publishing Book Details - Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Apress (May 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430250682
- ISBN-13: 978-1430250685
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| Big Data Analytics Using Splunk Posted: 20 Jun 2013 12:34 PM PDT 
Book Description Big Data Analytics Using Splunk is a hands-on book showing how to process and derive business value from big data in real time. Examples in the book draw from social media sources such as Twitter (tweets) and Foursquare (check-ins). You also learn to draw from machine data, enabling you to analyze, say, web server log files and patterns of user access in real time, as the access is occurring. Gone are the days when you need be caught out by shifting public opinion or sudden changes in customer behavior. Splunk's easy to use engine helps you recognize and react in real time, as events are occurring. Splunk is a powerful, yet simple analytical tool fast gaining traction in the fields of big data and operational intelligence. Using Splunk, you can monitor data in real time, or mine your data after the fact. Splunk's stunning visualizations aid in locating the needle of value in a haystack of a data. Geolocation support spreads your data across a map, allowing you to drill down to geographic areas of interest. Alerts can run in the background and trigger to warn you of shifts or events as they are taking place. With Splunk you can immediately recognize and react to changing trends and shifting public opinion as expressed through social media, and to new patterns of eCommerce and customer behavior. The ability to immediately recognize and react to changing trends provides a tremendous advantage in today's fast-paced world of Internet business. Big Data Analytics Using Splunk opens the door to an exciting world of real-time operational intelligence. - Built around hands-on projects
- Shows how to mine social media
- Opens the door to real-time operational intelligence
What you'll learn - Monitor and mine social media for trends affecting your business
- Know how you are perceived, and when that perception is rising or falling
- Detect changing customer behavior from mining your operational data
- Collect and analyze in real time, or from historical files
- Apply basic analytical metrics to better understand your data
- Create compelling visualizations and easily communicate your findings
Who this book is for
Big Data Analytics Using Splunk is for those who are interested in exploring the heaps of data they have available, but don't know where to start. It is for the people who have knowledge of the data they want to analyze and are developers or SQL programmers at a level anywhere between beginners and intermediate. Expert developers also benefit from learning how to use such a simple and powerful tool as Splunk. Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Big Data and Splunk
Chapter 2. Getting Data into Splunk
Chapter 3. Processing and Analyzing the Data
Chapter 4. Visualizing the Results
Chapter 5. Defining Alerts
Chapter 6. Web Site Monitoring
Chapter 7. Using Log Files To Create Advanced Analytics
Chapter 8. The Airline On-Time Performance Project
Chapter 9. Getting the Flight Data into Splunk
Chapter 10. Analyzing Airlines, Airports, Flights, and Delays
Chapter 11. Analyzing a Specific Flight Over the Years
Chapter 12. Analyzing Tweets
Chapter 13. Analyzing Foursquare Check-Ins
Chapter 14. Sentiment Analysis
Chapter 15. Remote Data Collection
Chapter 16. Scaling and High Availability Appendix A. The Performance of Splunk
Appendix B. Useful Splunk Apps Book Details - Paperback: 376 pages
- Publisher: Apress (May 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 143025761X
- ISBN-13: 978-1430257615
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| Pro SharePoint 2013 Administration, 2nd Edition Posted: 20 Jun 2013 12:26 PM PDT 
Book Description Pro SharePoint 2013 Administration is a practical guide to SharePoint 2013 for intermediate to advanced SharePoint administrators and power users, covering the out-of-the-box feature set and capabilities of Microsoft’s collaboration and business productivity platform. SharePoint 2013 is an incredibly complex product, with many moving parts, new features, best practices, and “gotchas.” Author Rob Garrett distills SharePoint’s portfolio of features, capabilities, and utilities into an in-depth professional guide—with no fluff and copious advice—that is designed from scratch to be the manual Microsoft never wrote. Starting with a detailed deployment and initial configuration walkthrough, the book covers all major feature areas, including document management, social computing, metadata management, and administration. You’ll also learn about planning for capacity, backup administration and disaster recovery, business intelligence, monitoring, and more. Unlike other books, Pro SharePoint 2013 Administration covers all elements of the product, but has a specific emphasis on features new and enhanced in the 2013 release. Pro SharePoint 2013 Administration is the only book you’ll need as you set out to deploy and administer SharePoint 2013. What you'll learn - Install SharePoint 2013 quickly and easily
- Manage and configure SharePoint using the central administration console
- Set up a suitable site structure, navigation model, and metadata
- Configure search
- Harness the power of social computing, document management, and business intelligence using out of the box features
- Use SharePoint to implement online processes, and integrate line of business systems
Who this book is for
Pro SharePoint 2013 Administration is for IT professionals who set up or build SharePoint implementations. It is aimed at administrators and advanced power users who are responsible for SharePoint in a professional capacity. It is written for the type of person who will install and configure SharePoint, and then build a SharePoint implementation using the out-of-the-box features. Pro SharePoint 2013 Administration is the perfect book for advanced users who wish to build intranets, extranets, or Web sites using SharePoint 2013 functionality. Table of Contents
Chapter 1. SharePoint 2013 Overview and New Features
Chapter 2. New Installation and Configuration
Chapter 3. Working with PowerShell
Chapter 4. Upgrading from SharePoint 2010
Chapter 5. Health Monitoring and Disaster Recovery
Chapter 6. Users, Profiles, and Social Networking
Chapter 7. Security and Policy
Chapter 8. Claims-Based and Federated Authentication
Chapter 9. Content Model and Managed Metadata
Chapter 10. Publishing and Web Content Management
Chapter 11. Documents and Records Management
Chapter 12. Business Intelligence
Chapter 13. Business Connectivity Services
Chapter 14. Microsoft Office Integration and Office Web Applications
Chapter 15. SharePoint Search
Chapter 16. SharePoint Designer and Branding Book Details - Paperback: 672 pages
- Publisher: Apress; 2nd Edition (May 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430249412
- ISBN-13: 978-1430249412
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| Lobbyists at Work Posted: 20 Jun 2013 12:23 PM PDT 
Book Description “Lobbyists at Work is a must-read for anyone interested in the serious business of government. Leech’s probing questions reflect her years of research tracking the real impact of money and influence on policy.” —Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. (Chairman, Patton Boggs LLP) Received wisdom has it that lobbyists run the American government on behalf of moneyed interests. But what makes lobbyists run, and how do they induce legislators and bureaucrats to do their bidding? These are questions for which even the harshest critics lack satisfying answers. Lobbyists at Work explores what lobbyists really do and why. It goes behind the scenes and brings back in-depth interviews with fifteen political advocates chosen to represent the breadth and diversity of the lobbying profession. The interviewees profiled in this book range from the top lobbyists-for-hire at the most powerful K Street firms to pro bono lobbyists for the disenfranchised and powerless. The roster spans all types of lobbyists working for all types of clients and seeking to influence all levels and branches of government. The permutations include business-lobbying-government, government-lobbying-government, government-to-business revolving door, regulatory lobbying, state and local lobbying, citizen-advocacy lobbying,single-issue lobbying, and multiple-issue lobbying. In colorful and sometimes hilarious detail, the interviewees take the reader through their arsenals of traditional and next-generation lobbying techniques, including face-to-face persuasion of elected officials and their staffs, educational campaigns and coalition-building, ghost-drafting complex legislation and regulation for government committees and agencies, contributions, and social media campaigns. In Lobbyists at Work, the normally self-effacing subjects open up about themselves and their profession: why they chose to become lobbyists, what motivates them to keep lobbying, how they cultivate their lobbying influence, how they adjust to changes in the rules affecting their lobbying methods, and what they actually do at work each day (and night). As an authority on lobbying respected in Washington for her impartiality, Professor Beth Leech elicits frank disclosures, career tips, and riveting stories about the good, the bad, and the ambivalent on both sides of the symbiotic relationship between government officials and lobbyists. What you'll learn
As a result of reading Lobbyists at Work, you will learn: - what lobbyists really do and to what extent the stereotypes about lobbyists are warranted (if you are a general reader)
- expert tips on how to multiply your political influence (if you are a citizen activist)
- what types of lobbying jobs are available and how different types of lobbyists spend their workdays (if you aspire to be a lobbyist)
- how to manage and build your lobbying career (if you are already a lobbyist)
- Howard Marlowe, The Lobbyists’ Lobbyist
- Robert Walker, Former Congressman Lobbyist
- Nick Allard, Patton Boggs Lobbyist
- Julie Stewart, Single-Issue Citizen Advocate
- Laura Murphy, ACLU Rights Lobbyist
- Lyle Dennis, Specialty Lobbyist
- Dale Florio, State House Lobbyist
- Christina Mulvihill, Corporate Lobbyist
- Leslie Harris, Internet Freedom Lobbyist
- Mark Burnham, State University Lobbyist
- Danielle Her Many Horses, Native American Gaming Lobbyist
- Timothy Richardson, Police Officers’ Lobbyist
- Jonathan Schleifer, Educational Change Lobbyist
- Faith Shapiro, ACLU Intern; Angela Guo, CAP Action Intern
- Craig Holman, Public Citizen Lobbyist
Who this book is for
Lobbyists at Work appeals to a broad readership, including all American citizens who are alarmed by news coverage of the outsized role of influence-mongering on our system of government and want to dig deeper; students of politics, especially in courses focusing on interest groups; prospective lobbyists finishing their degrees or already working in politics; and the 200,000 lobbyists operating today in the United States. Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Howard Marlowe, The Lobbyists' Lobbyist
Chapter 2. Robert Walker, Former Congressman Lobbyist
Chapter 3. Nick Allard, Patton Boggs Lobbyist
Chapter 4. Julie Stewart, Single-Issue Citizen Advocate
Chapter 5. Laura Murphy, ACLU Rights Lobbyist
Chapter 6. Lyle Dennis, Specialty Lobbyist
Chapter 7. Dale Florio, State House Lobbyist
Chapter 8. Christina Mulvihill, Corporate Lobbyist
Chapter 9. Leslie Harris, Internet Freedom Advocate
Chapter 10. Mark Burnham, State University Lobbyist
Chapter 11. Danielle Her Many Horses, Native American Gaming Lobbyist
Chapter 12. Timothy Richardson, Police Officers' Lobbyist
Chapter 13. Jonathan Schleifer, Educational Change Advocate
Chapter 14. Angela Guo, CAP Action Intern; Faith Shapiro, ACLU Intern
Chapter 15. Craig Holman, Public Citizen Lobbyist Book Details - Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Apress (May 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430245603
- ISBN-13: 978-1430245605
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| Reasonably Simple Economics Posted: 20 Jun 2013 12:19 PM PDT 
Book Description The goal of Reasonably Simple Economics is, not surprisingly, simple: to help us think like economists. When we do, so much of the world that seemed mysterious or baffling becomes more clear and understandable—improving our lives and providing new tools to succeed in business and career. In a chatty style, economist Evan Osborne explains the economic foundations behind the things we read about or see in the news everyday: - Why prices for goods and services are what they are
- How government spending, regulation, and taxation can both hinder and help the economy
- Why and how some people get fabulously rich
- How entrepreneurs reorganize society beneficially
- Why markets sometimes fail and when or if governments should intervene when they do
- How economics and statistics can explain such things as discrimination in hiring and providing services (and why discriminators are shooting themselves in the foot), why we're smarter than we've ever been, and how technology makes the idea of Earth's "carrying capacity" meaningless
Along the way, you will learn the basic concepts of economics that well-educated citizens in democratic countries should know, like scarcity, opportunity cost, supply and demand, all the different ways economies are “managed,” and more. In the manner of The Armchair Economist, The Undercover Economist, or Naked Economics, Osborne uses current examples to illustrate the principles that underlie tragedies like the Greek economy or the global market meltdown of 2008, and triumphs like the continuing dominance of Silicon Valley in the tech world or why New York City markets are stuffed with goods despite the difficulty in getting them there. As Osborne points out, the future, in economic terms, has always been better than the past, and he shows you how to use that knowledge to improve your life both intellectually and materially. What you'll learn - How to think like an economist and better understand the world and your place in it
- Basic economic concepts like supply and demand and marginal costs and benefits
- How and why people "respond to incentives," and why this is a life-changing idea
- Why "the crowd" is invariably wise and what to learn from it
- Why speculators and “middlemen” improve life not just for themselves but for the rest of us
- Why living standards have risen dramatically in the last century and why they will continue to as time marches on
- Why taking advantage of “decentralized knowledge” to pounce on opportunity is critical for your success
Who this book is for
The audience for this book is anyone who wants to know answers to such questions as why the price of gasoline rises and falls dramatically, whether we are in fact "mortgaging our children's future" through deficit spending, what the economic principles behind every great fortune are, and anything else governed by the principles of economics (which is most things). Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Supply and Demand, Considered Separately
Chapter 3. Supply and Demand, Considered Together
Chapter 4. The Economics of Information or Knowledge
Chapter 5. Public and Private Decision Making
Chapter 6. Who Makes How Much, and Why
Chapter 7. The Middleman and the Entrepreneur
Chapter 8. Time and Risk
Chapter 9. The Entrepreneur and Some Economics of the Future
Chapter 10. T he Things Only Government Can Do
Chapter 11. Macroeconomics: The Big, Often Blurry Picture
Chapter 12. Macroeconomics: Stabilizing the Economy, or Not
Chapter 13. Macroeconomics: The Short and the Long Runs Book Details - Paperback: 332 pages
- Publisher: Apress (May 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430259418
- ISBN-13: 978-1430259411
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