Kamis, 06 Maret 2014

Wow! eBook: Android Studio Application Development - 6 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Android Studio Application Development - 6 new eBooks

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Android Studio Application Development

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 07:53 AM PST

Book Description

Mobile apps have become extremely popular over the last few years and offer a great opportunity for developers. Android is now one of the most popular mobile systems in the world. The new Android Studio IDE has introduced a specialized development environment, welcomed by the emerging Android community, which is perfect for the development of apps.

“Android Studio Application Development” is a practical guide that will show you how to develop and build Android apps using this new, integrated development environment. Following a tutorial approach, this book will progress from the basics features up until the steps to build for release, using real world examples. This book is a must have for every Android app developer evangelist.

Our book explores the Android Studio development environment in-depth, taking you through the necessary steps to create an app, test it, and prepare it for release. First, you will learn how to use the code editor in order to increase your productivity, and to easily create the screens of your app. Then, this book will show you how to debug your app and examine its performance using the most important additional tools within Android Studio: Android SDK tools. We will also take a look at the existing Google Play Services and how they can be integrated into your app.

Finally, it is important for a developer to be able to search for any help they might need. This book provides a vast help section which covers online documentation, updates, and FAQs.

What you will learn from this book

  • Install Android Studio and configure the Android Software Development Kit
  • Create your first project and explore its structure
  • Improve your productivity while programming, by getting the best from the code editor
  • Design the user interface and learn how to handle user events
  • Integrate the Google Play Services into your app
  • Test your app using the emulator and learn how to manage the virtual devices
  • Run and debug your app
  • Monitor your app whilst it is running and improve its performance
  • Build your app for release

Approach
A practical guide, which will show you how to create Android applications using the new Google official IDE, Android Studio.

Who this book is written for
If you are a developer who wants to learn the key features of Android Studio, and learn how to create their first app, this book is ideal for you! Developers interested in this book should be familiar with the object- oriented programming paradigm, and the Java programming language. It is also recommended that you understand the main characteristics of the Android mobile system.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 110 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1783285273
  • ISBN-13: 978-1783285273
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Administrating Solr

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 07:51 AM PST

Book Description

Implementing different search engines on web products is a mandate these days. Apache Solr is a robust search engine, but simply implementing Apache Solr and forgetting about it is not a good idea, especially when you have to fight for the search ranking of your web product. In such a scenario, you need to keep monitoring, administrating, and optimizing your Solr to retain your ranking.

“Administrating Solr” is a practical, hands-on guide. This book will provide you with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises and some advanced concepts which will help you administrate, monitor, and optimize Solr using Drupal and associated scripts. Administrating Solr will also provide you with a solid grounding on how you can use Apache Solr with Drupal.

“Administrating Solr” starts with an overview of Apache Solr and the installation process to get you familiar with Solr. It then gradually moves on to discuss the mysteries that make Solr flexible enough to render appropriate search results in different scenarios. This book will take you through clear and practical concepts that will help you monitor, administrate, and optimize your Solr appropriately using both scripts and tools. This book will also teach you ways to query your search and methods to keep your Solr healthy and well maintained. With this book, you will learn how to effectively implement and optimize Solr using Drupal.

What you will learn from this book

  • Install Solr and handle requests and responses
  • Utilize various search types like faceted, geospatial, and distributed search
  • Monitor metrics like stats.jsp, Solr with JMX, and password-based authentication both for single-user and multi-user environments
  • Back up your Solr using the Solr Replication Handler and configure your Solr logs
  • Create scripts to configure indexer and slave servers
  • Understand and create business rules using Drools
  • Learn about and configure language detection features like Tika and LangDetect
  • Discover OpenNLP and the activities it can perform including tokenization, sentence splitting, part-of-speech tagging, and so on
  • Implement Apache Solr with Drupal

Approach
A fast-paced, example-based guide to learning how to administrate, monitor, and optimize Apache Solr.

Who this book is written for
“Administrating Solr” is for developers and Solr administrators who have a basic knowledge of Solr and who are looking for ways to keep their Solr server healthy and well maintained. A basic working knowledge of Apache Lucene is recommended, but this is not mandatory.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 120 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1783283254
  • ISBN-13: 978-1783283255
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PySide GUI Application Development

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 07:47 AM PST

Book Description

Elegantly built GUI applications are always a massive hit among users. PySide is an open source software project that provides Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform UI framework. Combining the power of Qt and Python, PySide provides easy access to the Qt framework for Python developers and also acts as an excellent rapid application development platform available on all major operating systems.

This book aims to help you develop GUI applications easily using PySide. Python is easy to learn and use and its programs are relatively shorter than those written in other programming languages like C++ or Java. This book will introduce you to user interface programming in Python, allowing you to develop real-time applications in a shorter amount of time.

This book will take you through everything you need to know to develop UI applications. You will learn about installing/building PySide in various major operating systems as well as the basics of GUI programming. The book will then move on to discuss event management, signals and slots, and the widgets and dialogs available with PySide. Database interaction and manipulation is also covered.

In a nutshell, this book is great for learning how to program applications with GUI and for mastering how to develop your own applications and how to run them across platforms.

What you will learn from this book

  • Download and install/build PySide, a cross-platform GUI development toolkit for Python
  • Program GUI applications in an easy and efficient way
  • Create and work with windowed applications
  • Create menus, toolbars, status bars, and child windows
  • Connect your GUI to a database and manage it

Approach
An accessible and practical guide to developing GUI's for Python applications.

Who this book is written for
This book is written for Python programmers who want to learn about GUI programming. It is also suitable for those who are new to Python but are familiar with object-oriented programming.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 140 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849699593
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849699594
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Website Development with PyroCMS

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 07:44 AM PST

Book Description

As web developers face constant pressure to build websites faster and smarter, many are turning to PyroCMS as a great way to use established programming patterns to create a website. PyroCMS is used by businesses and individuals all over the world and can easily be adopted for your next website project.

Through clear descriptions and code examples, we will show you how to quickly create system themes, manage data streams, and to get the most out of PyroCMS. The book also shows you how to create great websites using the simple methods inherent to PyroCMS. You will learn to make use of smart programming patterns and excellent template tools to build system add-ons and themes.

Leading you through all the major aspects of building a website using PyroCMS, you'll start by learning how to install the system. The book will teach you the basic features of PyroCMS, like how to use the control panel, and will also provide quick tutorials on how to build system add-ons, system themes, custom page types, layouts, and to get the most out of PyroCMS. Finally, you will end by using the built-in Streams module to manage large sets of data for your site.

This is an excellent resource for developers who are looking to easily create & build a variety of websites and web-enabled applications.

What you will learn from this book

  • Create and build a variety of websites and web-enabled applications
  • Build a front-end theme for PyroCMS
  • Understand how to use Tags in the system
  • Employ the streams module to manage data in PyroCMS
  • Establish system add-ons
  • Develop custom page types in PyroCMS
  • Display stream data in your theme

Approach
A practical and a fast-paced guide that gives you all the information you need to start developing websites with PyroCMS. The book is an excellent resource for developers and makes website development easy and financially viable for everyone.

Who this book is written for
This book is ideal if you are a PHP developer who is looking for a great content management system or a web developer looking to speed up your development times. If you are a web developer, you will need to have some familiarity with OOP and the MVC programming pattern, especially if you want to extend PyroCMS by building add-ons.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 104 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1783282231
  • ISBN-13: 978-1783282234
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KNIME Essentials

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 07:40 AM PST

Book Description

KNIME is an open source data analytics, reporting, and integration platform, which allows you to analyze a small or large amount of data without having to reach out to programming languages like R.

“KNIME Essentials” teaches you all you need to know to start processing your first data sets using KNIME. It covers topics like installation, data processing, and data visualization including the KNIME reporting features. Data processing forms a fundamental part of KNIME, and KNIME Essentials ensures that you are fully comfortable with this aspect of KNIME before showing you how to visualize this data and generate reports.

“KNIME Essentials” guides you through the process of the installation of KNIME through to the generation of reports based on data. The main parts between these two phases are the data processing and the visualization. The KNIME variants of data analysis concepts are introduced, and after the configuration and installation description comes the data processing which has many options to convert or extend it. Visualization makes it easier to get an overview for parts of the data, while reporting offers a way to summarize them in a nice way.

What you will learn from this book

  • Install and configure KNIME
  • Create KNIME workflows and report templates
  • Import data to KNIME
  • Transform data with KNIME workflows
  • Enhance your data with data from other sources
  • Visualize data using KNIME
  • Generate reports from your data

Approach
“KNIME Essentials” is a practical guide aimed at getting the results you want, as quickly as possible.

Who this book is written for
“Knime Essentials” is written for data analysts looking to quickly get up to speed using the market leader in data processing tools, KNIME. No knowledge of KNIME is required, but we will assume that you have some background in data processing.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 148 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849699216
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849699211
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Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 07:37 AM PST

Book Description

As the technology landscape moves focus towards smaller devices, the need for building scalable, flexible, lightweight, and real-time communications-based applications grows. HTML 5 and Java EE 7 provide a new synthesis of technologies that demonstrate tremendous scope and potential in areas of device independence, asynchronous communication, interoperability, and portability.

Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with clear and pragmatic information to take advantage of the real power behind HTML5 and Java EE technologies. This book also gives you a good foundation for using them in your applications.

Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON looks at the different HTML5-based Java EE 7 API, and takes a deep dive into the individual areas of technologies to cover basic to advanced concepts, and also provides best practices for each API. You will also learn how to build a REST-based Event Notification Application using the Twitter API, tying all the different technologies together that we will cover. You will also take a look at integrating different Java EE APIs to build a Library Application. If you want to take advantage of using the new HTML5 technologies and Java EE 7 platform, then this is the book for you. You will learn everything you need to know to build portable RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS 2.0, Web Sockets, JSON, and Server-Sent Events.

What you will learn from this book

  • Develop RESTful Web Services using the JAX-RS 2.0 API
  • Build applications with the JavaScript and Java Client API for WebSockets and ServerSentEvents
  • Understand Security and Fault tolerance with WebSockets and ServerSentEvents
  • Produce, parse, and manipulate JSON data with the help of JSON-P API
  • Cover best practices in building applications with WebSockets, ServerSentEvents, and JAX-RS 2.0
  • Learn the aspects of asynchronous programming to improve scalability

Approach
Written as an easy and practical guide, this book is a crash course on using JAX-RS 2.0, JSON, and WebSockets to develop RESTful services.

Who this book is written for
Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON is a perfect reading source for application developers who are familiar with Java EE and are keen to understand the new HTML5-related functionality introduced in Java EE 7 to improve productivity. To take full advantage of this book, you need to be familiar with Java EE and have some basic understanding of using the GlassFish application server.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782178120
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782178125
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