Senin, 10 Maret 2014

Wow! eBook: Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design - 6 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design - 6 new eBooks

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Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 08:03 AM PDT

Book Description

Hyper-V Server offers an inexpensive and simple way to consolidate your existing server applications. Failover Clustering adds convenience and protections to keep those systems running. A well-designed cluster requires understanding many topics, but the time invested in learning pays off with a system that all but takes care of itself.

Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design is a comprehensive look at the technologies that comprise a cluster of Microsoft Hyper-V Servers. This book will take you through planning your deployment, selecting the appropriate components, building and testing your cluster, and maintaining it for optimal performance.

If you want to Master Hyper-V cluster design and create scalable, fault-tolerant Hyper-V Servers, then this book is for you!

Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design tackles the common stumbling blocks in cluster design and deployment. You'll learn the intricacies of shared storage design as well as how to exploit networking hardware for optimal Hyper-V cluster performance.

You'll learn how to design systems that match your actual workload instead of the theoretical environment of a test lab. By the end of this book you will know how to plan, deploy and maintain a high available, high performance Hyper-V cluster.

What you will learn from this book

  • Practical and efficient Hyper-V Server clustering planning and design
  • Deployment and maintenance with PowerShell and graphical tools
  • Proper selection of shared storage systems
  • Proper design and configuration of networking for Hyper-V clusters
  • Automate maintenance strategies without service interruptions
  • Advanced network design for clustered virtual environments
  • Balance and measure our cluster's performance
  • Correct disaster planning and recovery
  • Understanding the new Hyper-V and cluster features in 2012 R2

Approach
This book is written in a friendly and practical style with numerous tutorials centred on common as well as atypical Hyper-V cluster designs. This book also features a sample cluster design throughout to help you learn how to design a Hyper-V in a real-world scenario.

Who this book is for
Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design is perfect for the systems administrator who has a good understanding of Windows Server in an Active Directory domain and is ready to expand into a highly available virtualized environment. It only expects that you will be familiar with basic hypervisor terminology.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 462 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 178217768X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782177685
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Groovy 2 Cookbook

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 07:59 AM PDT

Book Description

Get up to speed with Groovy, a language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that integrates features of both object-oriented and functional programming. This book will show you the powerful features of Groovy 2 applied to real-world scenarios and how the dynamic nature of the language makes it very simple to tackle problems that would otherwise require hours or days of research and implementation.

Groovy 2 Cookbook contains a vast number of recipes covering many facets of today’s programming landscape. From language-specific topics such as closures and metaprogramming, to more advanced applications of Groovy flexibility such as DSL and testing techniques, this book gives you quick solutions to everyday problems.

The recipes in this book start from the basics of installing Groovy and running your first scripts and continue with progressively more advanced examples that will help you to take advantage of the language’s amazing features.

Packed with hundreds of tried-and-true Groovy recipes, Groovy 2 Cookbook includes code segments covering many specialized APIs to work with files and collections, manipulate XML, work with REST services and JSON, create asynchronous tasks, and more. But Groovy does more than just ease traditional Java development: it brings modern programming features to the Java platform like closures, duck-typing, and metaprogramming.

In this new book, you’ll find code examples that you can use in your projects right away along with a discussion about how and why the solution works. Focusing on what’s useful and tricky, Groovy 2 Cookbook offers a wealth of useful code for all Java and Groovy programmers, not just advanced practitioners.

What you will learn from this book

  • Use Groovy with different IDEs and Operating Systems
  • Integrate Groovy with Java and understand the peculiar features of the language
  • Work with files of different formats, like PDF, Excel, and Zip
  • Manipulate XML and work with JSON
  • Access databases using the elegant Groovy API
  • Unleash the power of asynchronous programming using the advanced features of the GPars API
  • Learn how to use Groovy to test your Java code and other testing techniques
  • Master the metaprogramming capabilities of the language and learn how to write Domain Specific Languages

Approach
This book follows a Cookbook style and is packed with intermediate and advanced level recipes.

Who this book is written for
This book is for Java developers who have an interest in discovering new ways to quickly get the job done using a new language that shares many similarities with Java. The book's recipes start simple, therefore no previous Groovy experience is required to understand the code and the explanations accompanying the examples.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 394 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849519366
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849519366
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Application Development with Parse using iOS SDK

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 07:55 AM PDT

Book Description

Parse using iOS SDK is a new technology, and is the first of its kind in the field of mobile application development. It provides you the cloud where you can keep your data, host your code, and even your website without any hassle. It provides SDK so that you can access your data through your mobile and web applications.

This practical, hands- on guide will help you to instantly get started with Parse iOS. It is packed with step- by- step exercises, which will help you to take advantage of the real power of the Parse iOS cloud backend service, and provides you with an example- based approach to help you build applications using Parse iOS.

Starting with Parse iOS installation, we will move onto integration, and finally, this guide will end with the development of an application using Parse iOS. You will also learn about securing your application data by specifying ACL and Roles to your data objects. We will also learn about configuration in detail, and the implementation of cloud code to make your application lighter on the client side. You can take advantage of iCloud by hosting your website as well.

You will learn everything that you need to know to develop your application using Parse iOS as a backend.

What you will learn from this book

  • Learn how to handle objects and queries in Parse
  • Work with subclasses and files, to use the Parse iOS cloud to save data
  • Discover how to configure your application on Parse along with its installation in your project
  • Use Parse analytics for tracking users’ activity on applications
  • Understand user creation with login process and user roles to secure data on Parse iOS cloud
  • Get to grips with the different ways to handle errors along with securing your data on cloud

Approach
A practical guide, featuring step-by-step instructions showing you how to use Parse iOS, and handle your data on cloud.

Who this book is written for
If you are a developer who wants to build your applications instantly using Parse iOS as a back end application development, this book is ideal for you. This book will help you to understand Parse, featuring examples to help you get familiar with the concepts of Parse iOS.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1783550333
  • ISBN-13: 978-1783550333
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BuddyPress Theme Development

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 07:50 AM PDT

Book Description

BuddyPress is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to create communities. BuddyPress themes, whilst based on WordPress, have a lot of extra templates that set them apart. Having a custom theme for your community has numerous benefits, so learning how to create a theme is a great step in your BuddyPress journey.

BuddyPress Theme Development is part rough guide and part practical, hands-on tutorial. It will give you an insight into the state of BuddyPress themes and will take you beyond a simple theme into a world of custom possibilities. This book begins with a look at the state of BuddyPress themes available on the Internet, including themes using responsive web design. It will then walk you through the various theme options from theme compatibility through to child themes and creating a custom theme.

You will also learn how to create your own theme from conception through to testing and launch. You will also add functionality to enhance your community and learn how to theme-check your theme before release. If you want to design BuddyPress themes, this is the book for you.

With this book, you will learn everything you need to know to get started with BuddyPress theme development and begin to create your own themes.

What you will learn from this book

  • Develop your own customized BuddyPress theme
  • Use CSS to make changes to theme compatibility
  • Create custom templates for BuddyPress components
  • Build your own widgets to use in your theme
  • Run theme-checks on your themes

Approach
This book is a hands-on tutorial guide to using BuddyPress.

Who this book is written for
This book is great for designers and developers who are looking to learn how to develop BuddyPress themes. It's assumed that the reader has some understanding of WordPress and is familiar with CSS and HTML.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 130 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1783281618
  • ISBN-13: 978-1783281619
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Getting Started with Greenplum for Big Data Analytics

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 07:46 AM PDT

Book Description

Organizations are leveraging the use of data and analytics to gain a competitive advantage over their opposition. Therefore, organizations are quickly becoming more and more data driven. With the advent of Big Data, existing Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions are becoming obsolete, and a requisite for new agile platforms consisting of all the aspects of Big Data has become inevitable. From loading/integrating data to presenting analytical visualizations and reports, the new Big Data platforms like Greenplum do it all. It is now the mindset of the user that requires a tuning to put the solutions to work.

“Getting Started with Greenplum for Big Data Analytics” is a practical, hands-on guide to learning and implementing Big Data Analytics using the Greenplum Integrated Analytics Platform. From processing structured and unstructured data to presenting the results/insights to key business stakeholders, this book explains it all.

“Getting Started with Greenplum for Big Data Analytics” discusses the key characteristics of Big Data and its impact on current Data Warehousing platforms. It will take you through the standard Data Science project lifecycle and will lay down the key requirements for an integrated analytics platform. It then explores the various software and appliance components of Greenplum and discusses the relevance of each component at every level in the Data Science lifecycle.

You will also learn Big Data architectural patterns and recap some key advanced analytics techniques in detail. The book will also take a look at programming with R and integration with Greenplum for implementing analytics. Additionally, you will explore MADlib and advanced SQL techniques in Greenplum for analytics. This book also elaborates on the physical architecture aspects of Greenplum with guidance on handling high-availability, back-up, and recovery.

What you will learn from this book

  • Load data from multiple data sources using the built-in ELT / ETL
  • Learn Parallel Processing / MPP / MapReduce techniques
  • Program with R and MADlib
  • Understand back-up and recovery implementation in Greenplum
  • Optimize data processing and querying using optimal distribution and partitioning strategies
  • Exchange data between the Greenplum Database and Hadoop
  • Handle high-availability requirements on Greenplum
  • Integrate ETL, reporting, and visualization tools

Approach
Standard tutorial-based approach

Who this book is for
“Getting Started with Greenplum for Big Data” Analytics is great for data scientists and data analysts with a basic knowledge of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence platforms who are new to Big Data and who are looking to get a good grounding in how to use the Greenplum Platform. It's assumed that you will have some experience with database design and programming as well as be familiar with analytics tools like R and Weka.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 172 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782177043
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782177043
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Financial Management

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 07:40 AM PDT

Book Description

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application used in all kinds of organizations around the world. An ERP helps to integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization. It provides a great variety of functionalities in different areas such as accounting, sales and purchases processing, logistics, and manufacturing.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Financial Management explains all you need to know to successfully handle your daily financial management tasks. You will learn about functionalities such as the sales and purchase processes, payments, bank account management, reporting taxes, budgets, cash flow, fixed assets, inventory valuation, and business intelligence.

This book comprehensively walks you through all the financial management features inside Dynamics NAV following a logical schema. This book is focused on what’s most important to you, the functionalities of Dynamics NAV, and it covers all setup explanations in a single chapter.

You will gain in-depth knowledge about functionalities, including sales and purchase processes, pricing, document approval, payments, bank management, and accounting transactions. You will also learn about VAT reporting, fixed assets, inventory valuation, annual account closing, consolidation, reporting, and business intelligence.

By the end of this book, you will have also learned about budgets, cash flow management, currencies, intercompany postings, and accounting implications on areas such as jobs, services, warehousing, and manufacturing.

What you will learn from this book

  • Learn about all the Dynamics NAV functionalities for financial management
  • Understand the sales and purchases processes including customers, vendors, pricing, and the document workflows
  • Manage due dates for receivables and payables and manage credit cards and other payment methods
  • Report taxes and post accrual entries or valuate your inventory
  • Learn the importance of dimensions for reporting and business intelligence purposes
  • Create budgets and manage cash flows
  • Set up an application to use custom charts of accounts or different VAT posting groups
  • Get an overview of the accounting implications of areas such as jobs, services, warehousing, and manufacturing

Approach
This book is an in-depth, practical tutorial demonstrating both the essential basic concepts and the more advanced concepts of financial management in Dynamics NAV.

Who this book is for
This book is for financers and accountants who are using Dynamics NAV as their ERP and financial management system. It will also help Dynamics NAV consultants and project managers of organizations who use the system for their daily work. Additionally, the book helps Dynamics NAV developers to understand the use of standard applications in organizations and helps them to develop improved features that are better integrated with existing ones.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 134 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782171622
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782171621
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