Rabu, 22 Januari 2014

Wow! eBook: Mastering Apple Aperture - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Mastering Apple Aperture - 5 new eBooks

Link to Wow! eBook

Mastering Apple Aperture

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 07:58 AM PST

Book Description

Apple Aperture is one of the leading photo editing software packages available in today's market. It provides you with all the tools to organize, browse, and perfect your images, so you can make every shot your best shot.

Mastering Apple Aperture aims to teach you the skills and knowledge necessary to become a master of the Apple Aperture software. It will build upon your existing core skills and show you new and advanced ways to get things done in Apple's powerful photography software.

Mastering Apple Aperture starts by showing you the most simple and efficient ways to import and organize your images. It then takes you through the techniques for processing photos before moving on to cover advanced topics like working with tethered shooting, multiple libraries, curves, and metadata.

You will discover how to edit images in Aperture and will gain complete mastery over processing images. You will also explore ways of extending Aperture through the use of plugins and third-party software. This book concludes with tips and tricks for the best ways to output images from Aperture, whether for print or for screen.

What you will learn from this book

  • Master importing your photos into Aperture
  • Understand how raw conversion works and how it affects your photographs
  • Explore Aperture's adjustment panel and learn advanced processing techniques
  • Master the art of entering metadata and learn why it is important
  • Get the best results when outputting your photographs for the Web or other online services
  • Learn how to use other software in tandem with Aperture
  • Optimize Aperture with essential third-party plugins
  • Fix common image problems with Aperture's toolset

Approach
This is a practical, step-by-step guide that aims at taking your understanding of Aperture from novice to master.

Who this book is written for
This book is written for photographers who have an understanding of digital photography and who have a basic level of familiarity with Apple's Aperture software. It is assumed that you have used Aperture and are familiar with the basics of the software.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849693560
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849693561
Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

Related Books

The post Mastering Apple Aperture appeared first on Wow! eBook.

Creating Development Environments with Vagrant

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 07:55 AM PST

Book Description

Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases development/production parity, and makes the “it works on my machine” excuse a thing of the past.

“Creating Development Environments with Vagrant” is a practical, hands-on guide that walks you through the functionality of Vagrant, Puppet, and Chef to create powerful and flexible virtual development environments. Create your own virtualization environments containing configurations for different projects so that you can simulate complicated environments that can be easily shared with colleagues to get your projects up and running quickly and effortlessly.

“Creating Development Environments with Vagrant” starts with an introduction to virtualization and the concepts behind it, why it's useful, and an overview of the architecture of Vagrant. We will learn to install Vagrant and get to know its prerequisites. Covering provisioning scripts with Puppet and Chef, learning to use them independently as well as with Vagrant to create a powerful combination.

If you want to locally test your projects, juggle multiple projects running on different versions of software, easily share technology requirement changes with colleagues, and, most importantly, want to perform all these tasks efficiently, then this book is for you.

“Creating Development Environments with Vagrant” will take you from a virtualization novice to running all of your projects across your team in robust, isolated virtual development environments.

What you will learn from this book

  • Create Vagrant projects
  • Sync folders with your virtual development environment
  • Integrate your own machine with the virtual machine
  • Manage provisioning the server configuration with Puppet and Chef
  • Set up multiple virtual machines for a single project
  • Configure your virtual environment on your network
  • Build your own base box for Vagrant
  • Import and manage operating system images in Vagrant
  • Get to grips with good practices for developing projects on your local machine
  • Set up a simple LAMP server for a Vagrant project

Approach
This is a practical, hands-on guide that will help you set up and implement virtual development environments with Vagrant easily and effortlessly.

Who this book is written for
“Creating Development Environments with Vagrant” is for developers, programmers, and coders who want to maintain multiple projects within their own environment. It is also aimed at companies who are looking to deploy ready-to-go development solutions for new staff or even existing staff moving to new projects, and to enforce a consistent and portable virtual development environment that is easy to create and quick to set up.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 118 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849519188
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849519182
Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

Related Books

The post Creating Development Environments with Vagrant appeared first on Wow! eBook.

Open Source Identity Management Patterns and Practices Using OpenAM 10.x

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 07:51 AM PST

Book Description

OpenAM is a web-based open source application that provides authentication, authorization, entitlement and federation services. OpenAM provides core identity services to simplify the implementation of transparent single sign-on (SSO) as a security component in a network infrastructure. It also provides the foundation for integrating diverse web applications that might typically operate against a disparate set of identity repositories and that are hosted on a variety of platforms such as web application servers.

Open Source Identity Management Patterns and Practices Using OpenAM 10.x is a condensed, practical guide on installing OpenAM to protect your web applications. This book will teach you how to integrate to different identity sources such as Active Directory or Facebook using two-factor authentications.

Open Source Identity Management Patterns and Practices Using OpenAM 10.x looks at Identity Management and how to implement it using OpenAM 10.x. It specifically focuses on providing authentication to your web application using either a local identity source or a cloud-based identity source, so you don't have to worry about authentication in your application.

You will learn how to install OpenAM, and then how to install policy agents against your web and application servers to do authentication. In addition, we'll focus on integrating to applications directly using SAML, either through the use of a small preconfigured application, or through a third-party SAML library. Finally, we'll focus on integrating to cloud identity providers using OAuth 2.0 and utilizing two-factor authentication.

If you want a scalable robust identity management infrastructure, Open Source Identity Management Principles and Patterns Using OpenAM 10.x will get you up and running in the least amount of time possible.

What you will learn from this book

  • Understand Identity Management principles
  • Install OpenAM 10.x
  • Install policy agents against Apache Web Server and Tomcat Servlet Container
  • Implement cross-domain authentication
  • Implement distributed authentication using DMZs
  • Deploy Java application authentication quickly using Fedlets
  • Understand the federation of applications to OpenAM using SAML
  • Integrate to cloud-based identity providers using OAuth 2.0
  • Configure two-factor authentication
  • Implement entitlements with REST and XACML

Approach
This is a Packt Mini in a tutorial format that provides multiple examples on Identity Management using OpenAM 10.x.

Who this book is written for
Open Source Identity Management Patterns and Practices Using OpenAM 10.x is great for developers and architects who are new to Identity Management, and who want a brief overview of what's possible and how to quickly implement a prototype. It's assumed that you've had experience with web applications and some knowledge of Apache and Tomcat.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 116 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782166823
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782166825
Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

Related Books

The post Open Source Identity Management Patterns and Practices Using OpenAM 10.x appeared first on Wow! eBook.

Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 07:43 AM PST

Book Description

Dynamics AX is built on a number of foundation products from Microsoft that are used to make it bigger, better, and stronger than the average business system. Taking advantage of these products will make your life easier. Use these tools to maximize the efficiency of your business management, taking advantage of a powerful and centralized tool set.

“Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook” will show you how to use tools that you already have to extend out Dynamics AX and discover potential new directions. You will be surprised at what you can do on a shoestring budget. The book will allow you to streamline your work processes, and use the system’s powerful and centralised features to the advantage of your organization.

“Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook” will show you how to maximize the potential of Dynamics AX with common and popular tools to enhance your business management systems. We will begin by exploring how to extend Dynamics AX out with SharePoint. After this, the book will guide you through important elements in maximizing business management efficiency, focusing on key aspects like reports, dashboards, and workflows. The book will then finish by teaching you how to customize your management systems, achieving a comprehensive coverage of the most important extension processes relevant to you and your business with very little programming.

This is a book for those of you that want to make the most out of Dynamics AX by using what you already have, and without breaking the bank.

What you will learn from this book

  • Easily create attractive dashboards and reports using Performance Point, PowerView and Excel
  • Improve and maximize the potential of user communication and collaboration with Outlook and Lync
  • Create and configure roles centers for your users
  • Build personal portals and document libraries within SharePoint
  • Create a streamlined organization through workflows
  • Build new help files specific to your business
  • Develop personalized and customized screens

Approach
Follow valuable and practical recipes touring the fundamental features of Dynamics AX extension.

Who this book is written for
This title is for business professionals, such as administrators and consultants, who want to take full advantage of the features of Dynamics AX. This book has a wide appeal and you do not need to be a SharePoint, database or programming expert. As long as you know a little about these elements, you will be able to take full advantage of the business efficiency created with Dynamics AX extensions.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 314 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782168338
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782168331
Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

Related Books

The post Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook appeared first on Wow! eBook.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with Hadoop

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 07:32 AM PST

Book Description

With the explosion of data, the open source Apache Hadoop ecosystem is gaining traction, thanks to its huge ecosystem that has arisen around the core functionalities of its distributed file system (HDFS) and Map Reduce. As of today, being able to have SQL Server talking to Hadoop has become increasingly important because the two are indeed complementary. While petabytes of unstructured data can be stored in Hadoop taking hours to be queried, terabytes of structured data can be stored in SQL Server 2012 and queried in seconds. This leads to the need to transfer and integrate data between Hadoop and SQL Server.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with Hadoop is aimed at SQL Server developers. It will quickly show you how to get Hadoop activated on SQL Server 2012 (it ships with this version). Once this is done, the book will focus on how to manage big data with Hadoop and use Hadoop Hive to query the data. It will also cover topics such as using in-memory functions by SQL Server and using tools for BI with big data.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with Hadoop focuses on data integration techniques between relational (SQL Server 2012) and non-relational (Hadoop) worlds. It will walk you through different tools for the bi-directional movement of data with practical examples.

You will learn to use open source connectors like SQOOP to import and export data between SQL Server 2012 and Hadoop, and to work with leading in-memory BI tools to create ETL solutions using the Hive ODBC driver for developing your data movement projects. Finally, this book will give you a glimpse of the present day self-service BI tools such as Excel and PowerView to consume Hadoop data and provide powerful insights on the data.

What you will learn from this book

  • Use the Native SQOOP Connector for data movement between SQL Server 2012 and Hadoop
  • Configure and use the Hive ODBC driver to enable any ODBC compliant client to consume Hadoop data
  • Create ETL solutions and automate data movement jobs between SQL Server 2012 and Hadoop using SQL Server Integration Services
  • Provide powerful reporting on the integrated data with just a matter of a few clicks using Microsoft self-service BI tools
  • Merge structured and unstructured data together in a common warehouse for analysis, which is essential

Approach
This book will be a step-by-step tutorial, which practically teaches working with big data on SQL Server through sample examples in increasing complexity.

Who this book is written for
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with Hadoop is specifically targeted at readers who want to cross-pollinate their Hadoop skills with SQL Server 2012 business intelligence and data analytics. A basic understanding of traditional RDBMS technologies and query processing techniques is essential.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782177981
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782177982
Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

Related Books

The post Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with Hadoop appeared first on Wow! eBook.

Tidak ada komentar:

Posting Komentar