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Wow! eBook: Talend Open Studio Cookbook - 6 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Talend Open Studio Cookbook - 6 new eBooks

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Talend Open Studio Cookbook

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 07:17 AM PDT

Book Description

Data integration is a key component of an organization’s technical strategy, yet historically the tools have been very expensive. Talend Open Studio is the world’s leading open source data integration product and has played a huge part in making open source data integration a popular choice for businesses worldwide.

This book is a welcome addition to the small but growing library of Talend Open Studio resources. From working with schemas to creating and validating test data, to scheduling your Talend code, you will get acquainted with the various Talend database handling techniques. Each recipe is designed to provide the key learning point in a short, simple and effective manner.

This comprehensive guide provides practical exercises that cover all areas of the Talend development lifecycle including development, testing, debugging and deployment. The book delivers design patterns, hints, tips, and advice in a series of short and focused exercises that can be approached as a reference for more seasoned developers or as a series of useful learning tutorials for the beginner.

The book covers the basics in terms of schema usage and mappings, along with dedicated sections that will allow you to get more from tMap, files, databases and XML.

Geared towards the whole lifecycle, the Talend Open Studio Cookbook shows readers great ways to handle everyday tasks, and provides an insight into all areas of a development cycle including coding, testing, and debugging of code to provide start-to-finish coverage of the product.

What you will learn from this book

  • Manipulate schemas quickly and easily
  • Validate your data and create test data
  • Use Java code within Talend
  • Debug your Talend code
  • Use tMap effectively
  • Create and manage files including complex file formats
  • Access queues, web services, and XML within Talend
  • Deploy, as well as schedule your Talend code

Approach
Primarily designed as a reference book, simple and effective exercises based upon genuine real-world tasks enable the developer to reduce the time to deliver the results. Presentation of the activities in a recipe format will enable the readers to grasp even the complex concepts with consummate ease.

Who this book is written for
Talend Open Studio Cookbook is principally aimed at relative beginners and intermediate Talend Developers who have used the product to perform some simple integration tasks, possibly via a training course or beginner’s tutorials.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 270 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782167269
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782167266
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Creating Mobile Apps with Appcelerator Titanium

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 07:14 AM PDT

Book Description

Smartphones and tablets have really changed the technological landscape over the last 3-4 years. Much like the web did in the last decade, these powerful tools have changed the way people communicate and access information. Such a wide market creates opportunities for developers who have the skills to develop mobile applications.

“Creating Mobile Apps with Appcelerator Titanium” is a practical, step-by-step guide to building iPhone, iPad, and Android applications using JavaScript. This book will give you a solid grounding of the dos and don’ts of mobile development and also covers a lot of the functionalities offered by the Titanium platform.

This book begins with a look at what the Titanium platform has to offer. By taking you through clear tutorials on developing each application step-by-step, it helps you to apply your newly acquired knowledge afterwards. The difficulty level gradually increases along the course of the book.

Each application from this book covers different aspects of mobile development. Every chapter starts by defining the application's features as well as the user interface structure. Every single code section is then explained and put into context allowing you to gain a clear understanding of their purpose and functionality. The book takes a "small milestone" approach, allowing you to actually run the application and see the progression. Every step is accompanied by many screenshots so you can see the expected result on screen.

You will learn everything you need to know to develop your very own mobile applications. The book takes a laid-back approach to Titanium development and provides information in a way designed to never overwhelm the reader with information and also uses clear diagrams, screenshots, and tips throughout.

What you will learn from this book

  • Create full-fledged applications using native components
  • Save your data using a database and interact with it using SQL
  • Interact with web services to retrieve data from external sources
  • Make your own adventure game (Japanese RPG style)
  • Bring a friend along on your epic adventure by adding online multiplayer to your game
  • Use Geolocation to interact localized data and display it on a map
  • Store your information in a centralized form using Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS) and share this information with other users
  • Integrate your applications with popular social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter

Approach
“Creating Mobile Apps with Appcelerator Titanium” provides a hands-on approach and working examples on creating apps and games as well as embedding them onto a social networking website. Developers can then move on from there to develop their own applications based on the ones they have developed throughout the course of this book.

Who this book is for
“Creating Mobile Apps with Appcelerator Titanium” is for developers who have experience with modern languages and development environments. Also, if you are familiar with the concepts of Object-oriented Programming (OOP), reusable components, AJAX closures, and so on, this book will help you leverage that knowledge in mobile development.

This book will also cater to Titanium users who wish to know more about Titanium's broad range of capabilities and will help you to expand Titanium’s basic set of features by using extension modules.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 318 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849519269
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849519267
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Getting started with JUCE

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 07:10 AM PDT

Book Description

There are a number of frameworks available for developing cross-platform applications. JUCE achieves this with a combination of consistency, ease-of-use, and breadth of functionality. JUCE is a C++ toolkit for building cross-platform applications on PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android. It encourages you to write consistent code and is particularly good for complex, customized GUIs and audio/midi processing; it also includes a vast range of classes to help with all your day-to-day programming tasks

Getting Started with JUCE is a practical, hands-on guide to developing applications using JUCE which will help you get started with many of the core aspects of the JUCE library. The book guides you through the installation of JUCE and covers the structure of the source code tree including some of the useful tools available for creating JUCE projects.

Getting Started with JUCE will guide you through how to use the JUCE library, from the installation of basic tools to developing examples using many of its classes. It will take you through a series of practical examples that show you how to create user interfaces, illustrating the key features.

You will also learn how to deal with files, text strings, and other fundamental data using the JUCE library. In particular, you will learn how to create user interfaces both using code and using the Introjucer tool to layout and configure user interface functionality. You will also manipulate image and audio data and learn how to read and write common media file formats. With this book, you will learn everything you need to know to understand some of the additional helpful utilities offered by JUCE and how to use the JUCE documentation to get started with such classes.

What you will learn from this book

  • Create projects using the Introjucer tool
  • Build user interfaces using code and the graphical editor in the Introjucer
  • Respond to user interaction form sliders, buttons, and text entry
  • Perform fundamental drawing commands
  • Store and manipulate data in dynamic arrays
  • Convert binary files to source code for cross-platform compatibility
  • Store and manipulate application data and settings
  • Read, write, and display image files

Approach
This book is a fast-paced, practical guide full of step-by-step examples which are easy to follow and implement.

Who this book is written for
This book is for programmers with a basic grasp of C++. The examples start at a basic level, making few assumptions beyond fundamental C++ concepts. Those without any experience with C++ should be able to follow and construct the examples, although you may need further support to understand the fundamental concepts.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 158 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1783283319
  • ISBN-13: 978-1783283316
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Learning Devise for Rails

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 07:06 AM PDT

Book Description

There are numerous ways of implementing user sign-ins on your Rails web applications. Of those different ways, using Devise is one of the most popular, quick and flexible way to get user sign-ins working. It is extensible and plays well with other gems such as CanCan (for user privileges) and OmniAuth (for Facebook and Twitter sign-ins).

A hands-on, all-in-one guide that gives you step-by-step instructions along with code examples to implement authentication systems in your application. This book will help you to implement various schemes of authentication systems including authorization and remote authentication, using Devise.

Helping you make your Rails applications more accessible and user-friendly; this book explains how to implement user sign-ins in Rails. It will also show you how to customize user authentication pages, such as sign-in, sign-up, forgot password, and account details, by making use of existing Devise views. In addition, you will learn about facilitating complex privilege rules using the CanCan gem. Finally, you will discover how to make sure your authentication codes work as expected by using integration tests.

You will learn all you need to know to create user email and social network sign-ins quickly, to customize user sign-in-related views, and implement complex privileges, as well as to ensure the stability of your authentication codes by testing them.

What you will learn from this book

  • Understand Devise as a flexible and customizable authentication solution for Rails
  • Customize sign-in, sign-up, password reset, email confirmation, account cancellation, and user account edit pages
  • Hide and show views based on defined user authorization rules using CanCan view helpers
  • Configure OmniAuth to make user sign-ins and sign-ups via social network accounts work on your Rails application
  • Use CanCan abilities to implement simple and SQL-based user privileges to restrict user access
  • Test authentications to ensure code stability

Approach
A hands-on, step-by-step guide to using Devise for authentication in Rails.

Who this book is written for
If you are a web developer who is getting started with Rails and you are looking for authentication solutions, then this is the book for you. If you are a current Rails developer who is looking to extend your authentication implementation with capabilities such as authorization and remote authentication, this book will also be great for you.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 104 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782167048
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782167044
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Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 06:58 AM PDT

Book Description

D3.js is a JavaScript library designed to display digital data in dynamic graphical form. It helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS. D3 allows great control over the final visual result, and it is the hottest and most powerful web-based data visualization technology on the market today.

“Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook” is packed with practical recipes to help you learn every aspect of data visualization with D3.

“Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook” is designed to provide you with all the guidance you need to get to grips with data visualization with D3. With this book, you will create breathtaking data visualization with professional efficiency and precision with the help of practical recipes, illustrations, and code samples.

“Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook” starts off by touching upon data visualization and D3 basics before gradually taking you through a number of practical recipes covering a wide range of topics you need to know about D3.

You will learn the fundamental concepts of data visualization, functional JavaScript, and D3 fundamentals including element selection, data binding, animation, and SVG generation. You will also learn how to leverage more advanced techniques such as custom interpolators, custom tweening, timers, the layout manager, force manipulation, and so on. This book also provides a number of pre-built chart recipes with ready-to-go sample code to help you bootstrap quickly.

What you will learn from this book

  • Learn how to use functional JavaScript so you can write it the D3 way
  • Select and manipulate HTML and SVG elements efficiently in D3
  • Drive your visualization using data
  • Master D3 scales and interpolators
  • Animate your visualization with style
  • Use SVG and various D3 path generators
  • Explore D3 layouts and understand and leverage D3 force
  • Build mobile-first interactive visualization with touch support
  • Test-drive your visualization implementation
  • Build multi-dimensional data visualization with crossfilter and dc.js in minutes

Approach
Packed with practical recipes, this is a step-by-step guide to learning data visualization with D3 with the help of detailed illustrations and code samples.

Who this book is written for
If you are a developer familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and you wish to get the most out of D3, then this book is for you. This book can also serve as a desktop quick-reference guide for experienced data visualization developers.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 338 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 178216216X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782162162
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Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 06:55 AM PDT

Book Description

Business intelligence is becoming more important by the day, with cloud offerings and mobile devices gaining wider acceptance and achieving better market penetration. MicroStrategy Reporting Suite is a complete business intelligence platform that covers all the data analysis needs of an enterprise. Scorecards, dashboards, and reports can be explored and delivered on desktop, the Web, mobile devices, and the Cloud. With the latest Visual Insight tool, MicroStrategy brings the power of BI to the business users, allowing them to discover information without the help of IT personnel.

Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook covers the full cycle of a BI project with the MicroStrategy platform, from setting up the software to using dashboards in the cloud and on mobile devices. This book uses step-by-step instructions to teach you everything from the very basics to the more advanced topics. We will start by downloading and installing the software and a well-known sample SQL Server database. Then, one brick at a time, we will construct a fully-featured BI solution with a web interface, mobile reporting, and agile analytics.

The chapters are ordered by increasing difficulty, and each one builds on top of the preceding chapter so that the learning process is progressive. The examples given in this book are practical, and you will be able to see the immediate result of your efforts. We will first cover setting up the platform, including the creation of the metadata and the different objects that are part of a BI project: tables, attributes, and metrics. Then, we take a look at how to create and analyze reports, charts, documents, and dashboards, as well as how to manipulate data with the desktop application, the web Interface, and an iPad device.

The last part of the book is dedicated to advanced topics like the new agile analytics technology from MicroStrategy, where we cover both Visual Insight and MicroStrategy Cloud Express. Whether you are a database developer, data analyst, or a business user, Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook will get you up to speed with one of the most powerful BI platforms on the market with the smallest possible investment of time and money.

What you will learn from this book

  • Install a complete MicroStrategy server (including a web interface)
  • Create a project and connect to a data warehouse
  • Build reports, graphs, documents, dashboards, and interactive visualizations
  • Configure and use MicroStrategy on mobile devices
  • Add values to the data with month to date and year to date analyses
  • Use In-Memory technology for instant results and data discovery
  • Analyze data in the cloud with MicroStrategy Cloud Express

Approach
Written in a cookbook style, this book will teach you through the use of recipes with examples and illustrations. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions about everything necessary to execute a particular task.

Who this book is for
This book is intended for both BI and database developers who want to expand their knowledge of MicroStrategy. It is also useful for advanced data analysts who are evaluating different technologies. You do not need to be an SQL master to read this book, yet knowledge of some concepts like foreign keys and many-to-many relationships is assumed. Some knowledge of basic concepts such as dimensional modeling (fact tables, dimensions) will also help your comprehension of this book. No previous MicroStrategy knowledge is needed.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 356 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1782179755
  • ISBN-13: 978-1782179757
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