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Social impact communication is quickly become a mandatory skill for leaders of modern businesses and nonprofits, at all levels of an organization. Yet using strategy, language and influence to advance game-changing societal breakthroughs isn¿t something most people learn in college. This book provides a pathway for empathy, clarity and persuasive communication to advance the social impact work that can help people, their families and society.Too often, workplaces leave these essential capabilities to chance or trust osmosis to do the work. These aren¿t skills you can learn in a classroom. They must be learned while actively engaged in the work of social impact leadership. Too many organizations treat social impact communication and programmatic leadership as ¿just another marketing project.¿ It¿s a tremendous missed opportunity for businesses seeking to add value to society and deepen their client/customer relationships. What¿s more, it directly damages other aspects of organizations¿ ESG priorities¿ specifically, their cultivation of a healthy, safe and engaged workplace with team members whose personal values and professional activities are in harmony.Journalist and social impact business executive Nate Birt walks you through the essential mindset shifts and principles needed perform the social impact work that matters and have confidence your headed toward true north. The book includes firsthand insights, how-to strategies and social impact leadership anecdotes, along with insights and tips from dozens of social impact communicators whose perspective will provide you with real-world validation, strategies and encouragement. Each chapter includes a call for personal reflection or action that features a series of question-based prompts to encourage further introspection and journaling. At the end of the book, you'll get access to other resources to continue the conversation and professional development in the area of social impactcommunication.What You'll LearnUnderstand what makes social impact communication fundamentally different from conventional advertising, journalism or marketingSee why social impact communication requires translational communication capabilities within an organization, across partner stakeholders, and with external audiences, clients and customers.Examine how social impact communication cultivates more engaged leaders and teams by unlocking the power of team members¿ individual values and personal purposeWho This Book Is ForSocial-impact executives and their teams in corporate or non-profit settings; non-ESG-focused executives seeking to better understand social impact and associated leadership/management strategies; college or university students seeking to specialize in social impact leadership; think-tank leaders, policymakers or others whose work intersects with social impactdisciplines and decision-making.

Dive into the diverse facets of the Laravel ecosystem. This comprehensive guide will put you on the fast track to becoming an expert in Laravel development. Starting with the fundamentals, yoüll explore essential concepts, enabling you to grasp the framework's structure. Subsequent chapters cover intricate topics, such as advanced routing techniques, database management, and eloquent object relational mapping (ORM), allowing developers to build robust applications. The book offers comprehensive insights into building secure applications with authentication and authorization mechanisms, as well as constructing efficient APIs and employing caching techniques for enhanced performance. Chapters on real-time applications and queues offer practical knowledge to optimize application responsiveness. Advanced package development and performance monitoring provide valuable tools for developing high-quality Laravel packages and debugging. Yoüll also gain expertise in internationalization, front-end development, and database optimization.Building Real-Time Marvels with Laravel doesn't shy away from the latest trends, featuring chapters on serverless computing, progressive web applications (PWAs), and UI/UX design patterns. It also emphasizes security, DevOps, and infrastructure automation. Bonus appendixes feature a handy Laravel cheat sheet, recommended resources, and a glossary of essential terms, making it a comprehensive reference for Laravel enthusiasts.What You Will Learn Gain a comprehensive understanding of advanced routing, database management with eloquent ORM, authentication, and API development.Study caching, database query optimization, queuing, and scaling strategies for high-traffic applicationsExplore advanced middleware, real-time applications, testing, and package development Who This Book Is ForIntermediate to advanced developers.

This book will serve as a framework for you as a software engineer seeking a fulfilling career and wishing to stay passionate and maintain a healthy mental state. It is filled with protocols to achieve effective life-long learning, navigate career development, adapt to changes, maintain work-life balance, and have a healthy lifestyle.As a successful software engineer you tend to focus on improving your technical skills: learning a new programming language, mastering another tool, or using a library. But you also need to build a solid mental framework that will help you navigate your professional development. You need to develop the skills that will help you be a happy software engineer.This book will help you if you feel frustrated, unmotivated, or unhappy; lost in your career path; or uncertain if you want to be a software engineer. It can help you deal with burnout, high levels of stress, or depression; or if you struggle to be productive while working from home. What You Will LearnEfficiently organize your work dayKnow when and how to seek a new project, company, or careerTake care of your body and mind in a software engineering contextUnderstand what contributes to job satisfaction and how to integrate it into your careerUse non-coding activities for your and your company¿s benefitBuild healthy relationships with managers and colleaguesWho This Book Is ForThe typical reader of this book is a software engineer who is highly skilled in technical areas but may feel frustrated, unmotivated, or unhappy in their current position and looking for a way to navigate their professional development and find a healthy work-life balance.The book also will appeal to audiences of other IT or tech professionals, such as project managers, product owners, or designers, who work closely with software engineers and want to understand the challenges they face in their roles. Additionally, individuals who are considering a career in software engineering or development may benefit from the book by gaining insight into the profession and understanding the skills and mindset required to be successful.

Learn to implement web designs using HTML5 and CSS3. This book focuses on the need for responsive web design and how you can leverage HTML5 and CSS3 to create interactive websites that work in the real world. You do not need be a technology expert or have a prior coding background to benefit from this book. All you need is a want to learn and a curious mind to explore the full spectrum of features HTML5 and CSS3 have to offer.You'll see how to migrate legacy websites to responsive websites in a very easy-to-understand, step-by-step, manner. Additionally, you will learn to use supportive software to create, run, and debug any issues that may arise during the development process. This book will also show you how to implement websites that work on multiple devices, and on various browsers such as Opera, Chrome, internet Explorer, or Edge. All this will be explored with supporting files, open-source software, as well as a practical guide to creating your demo website along with learning new technologies.From the basics to more advanced topics, Creating Responsive Websites Using HTML and CSS is for anyone who wants to learn about and build beautiful responsive websites. What You'll LearnCode and design websites using HTML5 and CSS3 Design professional-looking websites using colors, margins, images, and other aspectsCreate a responsive design that will work on laptops, PCs, and any kind of mobile deviceTroubleshoot and fix code errors independently using developer toolsSolve cross-browser responsiveness issues and the challenges that come with different operating systemsWho This Book Is ForStudents and/or website designers who want to upskill their talents

Learn the basics of JavaScript to enhance your web pages. This book focuses on modern JavaScript programming and encourages a well-organized approach to programming in general. JavaScript for Web Developers explains each foundational concept of the language, followed by a practical implementation of that lesson to reinforce what yoüve learned. Author Mark Simon starts with the basics of JavaScript programming, followed by a tutorial on manipulating HTML elements. You will then learn to work with forms, along with CSS and Event Listeners. Hands-on projects will not only solidify each concept in your mind, but they will also give you greater confidence and help you absorb best practices. The book concludes with coverage of Ajax, which will enable you to send and retrieve data from a server asynchronously without interfering with the display and behavior of an existing web page. After reading this book, you will be able to use JavaScript to design and program your own web applications. What Will You LearnUnderstand the basics of JavaScript programmingManipulate and modify web pages with JavaScriptUse JavaScript to interact with HTML and CSSWork with data and understand the basics of working with Ajax Who Is This Book ForBeginning web developers with little to no experience using JavaScript.

Move beyond the tech jargon and the hype of non-fungible tokens (NFT)s and become empowered to think through solutions to solve your specific business problems.¿ NFTs are important because they enable the manipulation of digital assets in ways that are closer to the way we manipulate physical assets. This book will serve as an introduction to the space and as a source of inspiration for connecting problem and solution dots. Understanding what core problems NFTs solve and how they solve them will enable business leaders to design solutions and to put together the teams that will help them deliver on the promises of NFTs. This book is focused on explaining what NFTs are, what problems they solve, and what what technology makes them possible. It provides the larger technological, economic, and political context within which NFTs are emerging. You'll learn how NFTs are currently being used, such as in assessing authenticity, creating scarcity, identifying provenance, establishing and confirming ownership, and enabling the tracking and collection of royalties You'll also see how NFTs allow for the creation of unique digital assets that can be owned and traded just like physical assets. NFTs is your guide to the emerging possibilities of ownership and monetization of digital assets in established industries.What You'll LearnSee what problems NFTs can solveStudy the fundamentals of blockchain technologyUnderstand what ¿Web3¿ means and the possibilities ahead Identify problems that NFTs can solve Deliver NFT and blockchain based solutionsWho This Book Is ForEntrepreneurs, executives, and product line managers in the following industries: Art, Music, Podcasting, Gaming, Finance, and Real Estate. Additional audiences include Retail, Fashion, Entertainment, Event Management and Supply Chain Management.

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Are you a reasonably competent Power BI user but still struggling to generate reports that truly tell the story of your data? Or do you simply want to extend your knowledge of Power BI by exploring more complex areas of visualizations, data modelling, DAX, and Power Query? If so, this book is for you. This book serves as a comprehensive resource for users to implement more challenging visuals, build better data models, use DAX with more confidence, and execute more complex queries so they can find and share important insights into their data. The contents of the chapters are in a question-and-answer format that explore everyday data analysis scenarios in Power BI. These questions have been generated from the author¿s own client base and from commonly sought-for information from the Power BI community. They cover a wide and diverse range of topics that many Power BI users often struggle to get to grips with or don¿t fully understand. Examples of suchquestions are:How can I generate dynamic titles for visuals?How can I control subtotals in a Matrix visual?Why do I need a date dimension?How can I show the previous N month¿s sales in a column chart?Why do I need a Star Schema?Why aren't my totals correct?How can I bin measures into numeric ranges?Can I import a Word document?Can I dynamically append data from different source files?Solutions to these questions and many more are presented in non-technical and easy-to-follow explanations negating the requirement to perform tiresome and fruitless ¿google¿ searches. There are also companion Power BI Desktop files that set out the answers to each question so you can follow along with the examples given in the book..After working through this book, you will have extended your knowledge of Power BI to an expert level, alleviating your existing frustrations and so enabling you to design Power BI reports where you are no longer limited by your lack of knowledge or experience.Who is This Book For: Power BI users who can build reports and now want to extend their knowledge of Power BI.

This book will show you how to build Java-based microservices architecture using the popular Spring Boot framework by evolving a small monolith application to an event-driven architecture composed of several services. This third edition has been updated to cover Spring Boot 3, including its compatibility with Java 17 and Jakarta EE 10, and employs an incremental approach to teach the structure of microservices, test-driven development, and common patterns in distributed systems such as service discovery, load balancing, routing, centralized logs, per-environment configuration, and containerization. Authors Moisés Macero and Tarun Telang get the ball rolling by introducing you to the fundamentals of microservices and Spring Boot before walking you through the development of a basic Spring Boot application. Yoüll then see how to build a front end using React, and learn how to use the data layer to read and write data from and to other systems via Spring Boot and its access to Spring Data and its available APIs. Putting together what you've learned thus far, yoüll begin to transform an application from a monolith to a microservice. This pragmatic approach will enable you to better grasp the benefits of using this type of software architecture, instead of keeping you distracted with theoretical concepts. The emphasis is on what matters most, starting with the minimum viable product, while maintaining the ability to adapt and improve your application as needed. After completing this book, you will have the foundational knowledge necessary to build your own microservice-based applications using Spring Boot.What You Will LearnGain a thorough understanding of microservices architecture and how it differs from monolithic architectures.Discover the step-by-step process of breaking down a monolithic application into smaller, focused servicesBuild microservices with Spring Boot 3, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, React.js, Docker, Cucumber, and moreDevelop Java-based microservices using the latest version of Spring Boot, compatible with Java 17 and Jakarta EE 10.Discover architecture patterns for distributed systems such as asynchronous processing, eventual consistency, resilience, scalability, and moreGain insight into event-driven communication patterns and understand how to design and build event-driven microservicesTrace every request from beginning to end with Sleuth and centralized loggingDeploy your microservices anywhere as Docker containersWho This Book Is ForThose with at least some prior experience with Java programming. Some prior exposure to Spring Boot recommended but not required.

This book is an exhaustive guide to designing and implementing data solutions on Azure. It covers the process of managing data from end to end, starting from data collection all the way through transformation, distribution, and consumption.Modern Data Architecture on Azure begins with an introduction to the fundaments of data management, followed by a demonstration of how to build relational and non-relational data solutions on Azure. Here, you will learn data processing for complex analysis and how to work with CSV and JSON files. Moving forward, you will learn the foundational concepts of big data architecture, along with data management patterns and technology options offered by Azure. From there, yoüll be walked through the data architecture process, including data consortium on Azure, enterprise data governance, and much more. The book culminates with a deep dive into data architecture frameworks with data modeling.After reading this book, you will have a thorough understanding of data design and analytics using Azure, allowing you to collect and analyze massive amounts of data to optimize business performance, forecast future results, and more.What Will You LearnUnderstand the fundamentals of data architecture including data management, data handling ethics, data governance, and metadata managementAnalyze and understand business needs to choose the right Azure services and make informed business decisionsUnderstand Azure Cloud Data design patterns for relational and non-relational data, batch real-time processing, and ETL/ELT pipelinesModernize data architecture using Azure to leverage data and AI to enable digital transformation by securing and optimizing overall data lifecycle managementWho Is This Book For:Data solution architects, data engineers, and IT consultants who want to gain a better understanding of modern data architecture design and implementation on Azure.

This book is a complete guide to using functions in Power Query and is designed to help users of all skill levels learn and master its various functions.The Ultimate Guide to Functions in Power Query begins with an introduction to Power Query and an overview of the different types of functions available, along with detailed explanations of how to use each of them. Yoüll see how to leverage power functions to process and transform large datasets from various sources and learn advanced techniques such as creating custom functions and using conditional statements. The book also covers best practices for using functions, including tips on how to optimize query performance and troubleshoot common errors. Using practical example applications, Author Omid Motamedisedeh demonstrates how to optimize your data processing workflows, saving time and boosting productivity.By the end of the book, readers will have a deep understanding of Power Query functions and be ableto apply their knowledge to a wide range of data analysis tasks.What You Will LearnMaster the fundamentals of Power Query, including how to load and transform data from various sourcesUnderstand all the functions available in Power Query, including text, date/time, logical, numeric, and moreUse functions to transform data and perform complex calculationsEmploy advanced techniques such as custom functions, conditional statements, and working with parametersOptimize query performance, handle errors, and use the M language effectivelyUse real-world examples and exercises to hone your skills and gain practical experience with the toolWho This Book Is ForAnyone who wants to learn how to use functions in Power Query to transform and analyze data. This includes data analysts, business analysts, Excel users, and data scientists. Readers should have a basic understanding of Excel and data analysis concepts, but may be new to Power Query and functions.

Learn to properly test Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications by first writing failing tests, and then by implementing application code to make the failing tests pass. This book will teach you how to employ test-driven development (TDD) using RSpec while building a blog from start to finish. By the end of the book, you will be ready to deploy their fully tested blog to their own production web server using the latest versions of Ruby 3 and Ruby on Rails 7.The biggest challenge with learning and becoming comfortable with test-driven development is that software engineers often cannot imagine what writing a failing test looks like in practice. They write their implementation code first, and only then think about writing tests around their implementation code. This leads to tests that pass by accident, or tests that do not actually test anything. This book will give you the confidence to write tests in the RSpec domain-specific language. You will see your tests fail "properly" before proceeding with writing any implementation code to get them to pass.This book covers the latest techniques for writing RSpec tests, including "system" specs, and the often overlooked "view" specs, and how to integrate RSpec with other tools like Capybara, headless Chrome, and the new web driver gem. It also covers FactoryBot for mock test data and offers experienced advice on how to avoid creating tests that fail randomly.What You Will LearnBuild a blog application from start to finish using test driven developmentInstall and explore popular tools used in professional Ruby software engineeringEvaluate the benefits of effective testing in RSpecExplore Capistrano for advanced user interface testing Who Is This Book ForBeginner to intermediate Ruby software engineers who are interested in learning to use TDD with RSpec to test and build web applications using Ruby on Rails. Readers should have some basic experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails and have read the "Getting Started with Rails" guide, or something similar.

Migrate from pandas and scikit-learn to PySpark to handle vast amounts of data and achieve faster data processing time. This book will show you how to make this transition by adapting your skills and leveraging the similarities in syntax, functionality, and interoperability between these tools.Distributed Machine Learning with PySpark offers a roadmap to data scientists considering transitioning from small data libraries (pandas/scikit-learn) to big data processing and machine learning with PySpark. You will learn to translate Python code from pandas/scikit-learn to PySpark to preprocess large volumes of data and build, train, test, and evaluate popular machine learning algorithms such as linear and logistic regression, decision trees, random forests, support vector machines, Naïve Bayes, and neural networks.After completing this book, you will understand the foundational concepts of data preparation and machine learning and will have the skills necessary toapply these methods using PySpark, the industry standard for building scalable ML data pipelines.What You Will LearnMaster the fundamentals of supervised learning, unsupervised learning, NLP, and recommender systemsUnderstand the differences between PySpark, scikit-learn, and pandasPerform linear regression, logistic regression, and decision tree regression with pandas, scikit-learn, and PySparkDistinguish between the pipelines of PySpark and scikit-learn Who This Book Is ForData scientists, data engineers, and machine learning practitioners who have some familiarity with Python, but who are new to distributed machine learning and the PySpark framework.

This book is for those who wish to understand how Python debugging is and can be used to develop robust and reliable AI, machine learning, and cloud computing software. It will teach you a novel pattern-oriented approach to diagnose and debug abnormal software structure and behavior.The book begins with an introduction to the pattern-oriented software diagnostics and debugging process that, before performing Python debugging, diagnoses problems in various software artifacts such as memory dumps, traces, and logs. Next, yoüll learn to use various debugging patterns through Python case studies that model abnormal software behavior. Yoüll also be exposed to Python debugging techniques specific to cloud native and machine learning environments and explore how recent advances in AI/ML can help in Python debugging. Over the course of the book, case studies will show you how to resolve issues around environmental problems, crashes, hangs, resource spikes, leaks, and performancedegradation. This includes tracing, logging, and analyzing memory dumps using native WinDbg and GDB debuggers. Upon completing this book, you will have the knowledge and tools needed to employ Python debugging in the development of AI, machine learning, and cloud computing applications.What You Will LearnEmploy a pattern-oriented approach to Python debugging that starts with diagnostics of common software problemsUse tips and tricks to get the most out of popular IDEs, notebooks, and command-line Python debuggingUnderstand Python internals for interfacing with operating systems and external modulesPerform Python memory dump analysis, tracing, and loggingWho This Book Is ForSoftware developers, AI/ML engineers, researchers, data engineers, as well as MLOps and DevOps professionals.

JavaScript is a complicated language with a lot of misinformation surrounding how it works. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to JavaScript, from how it works at a technical level to how it is used to create websites and applications. Everything you need to know to start a career in JavaScript development is covered here.How JavaScript Works begins with a practical introduction of the basics before moving into the technical underpinnings of JavaScript, detailing everything you need to know, including variables, memory storage, functions, classes, types, maps, sets and APIs. Once yoüve fully absorbed these key topics. author Jonathan Simpson will show you how to put them into practice, demonstrating how they are employed for modern web development. Yoüll learn how to use JavaScript with HTML and CSS to construct web pages and applications, how to change CSS with JavaScript, and how to utilize Fetch and asynchronous operations.Uponcompleting this book, you will have the foundational knowledge necessary to continue your journey to becoming a professional JavaScript developer.What You Will Learn:Gain insight into the technical essentials of JavaScript and how it worksLearn advanced concepts and such as memory storage and how classes, functions and objects actually workExplore the basic mathematical underpinnings of JavaScriptUnderstand how JavaScript is used to manipulate HTML and CSSObtain the tools and knowledge needed to start your career in web developmentWho This Book Is For:Anyone interested in a web development career, as well as those who may have already embarked on their careers, but who want to deepen their technical understanding of JavaScript and how it works.

Learn how to deploy information assurance risk management strategies that align with the National Institute of Standards and Technology¿s recommendations. This book will show you how to implement information assurance risk management strategies within your organization. Aimed at system administrators and cybersecurity practitioners, author Bradley Fowler first walks you through how to assess known risks in your organization, understand why using a risk mitigation security strategy control profile is essential, and how to create one for your organization. You will then learn how to develop a risk factor table, outlining descriptions for each risk factor within your organization and which software applications yoüll need to rely on for daily business communication and operations. You will also see how to assess and categorize the level of risk within each technology tool, as well as the impact of an information security breach on the organization. As you progress through the book, you'll review privacy issues relating to your organization, develop and manage a privacy compliance risk profile, and develop and manage a privacy compliance control profile. Additionally, you will gain insight into creating a privacy compliance risk mitigation strategy that helps protect your organization even as security threats evolve. Take the first step to safeguarding your company¿s highly valuable information assets today! What You'll LearnUnderstand what information assurance is and how it relates to risk management strategiesAssess, develop, implement, and manage risk management strategies for corporate information systems, technology, and cloud environmentsDevelop and utilize information usage profiles and risk factor tablesUnderstand the value of data encryption and usage of private and public key exchange for information assurance and security Who This Book Is ForInformation system and cloud architects responsible for developing, implementing, and managing corporate information systems and cloud environments.

Developer documentation is a powerful tool in developer relations because it provides all the necessary information during the onboarding process and keeps your users informed on changes such as release notes, status reports and new and updated topics. Using a design thinking approach, this book aims to provide an easy to follow blueprint for building successful developer documentation by using the award winning platformOS developer portal as inspiration.You'll work with practical usable templates, workflows, and tools validated and peer-reviewed by international experts in the fields of documentation, technical writing, developer relations, and UX design. This book reveals the many factors that must be considered while crafting developer documentation, such as hitting the right target audience, designing a seamless onboarding experience, and selecting the right workflows and data analysis methods. You'll delve into this complex mix of topics, each with its unique considerations, and understand why it¿s difficult for those working on developer documentation to understand the process, as well as all the necessary ingredients, tools, and resources to overcome that challenge. Crafting Docs for Success is your one-stop resource for empowering your team and community to contribute and help maintain your documentation, as well as further improve diversity and inclusion. What You'll LearnExamine how user research facilitates documentation developmentUtilize design thinking, community-driven documentation, and Docs as Code Understand editorial workflows and what happens at each stepWrite a style guide from scratch and use it for content productionReview how methods and strategies fall into place during technical implementationWho This Book Is ForSoftware developersand designers, documentation maintainers and managers, technical writers, developer relations practitioners and advocates, technical community managers, developer marketers, and start-up founders, CTOs, and CEOs

This book explains how to implement a data lake strategy, covering the technical and business challenges architects commonly face. It also illustrates how and why client requirements should drive architectural decisions. Drawing upon a specific case from his own experience, author Nayanjyoti Paul begins with the consideration from which all subsequent decisions should flow: what does your customer need? He also describes the importance of identifying key stakeholders and the key points to focus on when starting a new project. Next, he takes you through the business and technical requirement-gathering process, and how to translate customer expectations into tangible technical goals. From there, yoüll gain insight into the security model that will allow you to establish security and legal guardrails, as well as different aspects of security from the end user¿s perspective. Yoüll learn which organizational roles need to be onboarded into the data lake, their responsibilities, the services they need access to, and how the hierarchy of escalations should work. Subsequent chapters explore how to divide your data lakes into zones, organize data for security and access, manage data sensitivity, and techniques used for data obfuscation. Audit and logging capabilities in the data lake are also covered before a deep dive into designing data lakes to handle multiple kinds and file formats and access patterns. The book concludes by focusing on production operationalization and solutions to implement a production setup. After completing this book, you will understand how to implement a data lake, the best practices to employ while doing so, and will be armed with practical tips to solve business problems. What You Will LearnUnderstand the challenges associated with implementing a data lakeExplore the architectural patterns and processes used to design a new data lakeDesign and implement data lake capabilitiesAssociate business requirements with technical deliverables to drive success Who This Book Is ForData Scientists and Architects, Machine Learning Engineers, and Software Engineers.

Understand the basics of flow and learn how to implement guidelines in real-life scenarios, including Robotic Process Automation (RPA) capabilities. This book covers the evolution of flow and how it is transformed to a full-fledged RPA (such as Power Automate).The book starts with an introduction to flow and its transformation to Process Automation. You will learn how to create a Power Automate environment and demonstrate different types of flows within it. Author Goloknath Mishra takes you through various types of cloud flows and their best practices. Desktop Flows (RPA) or Power Automate Desktop (PAD) is discussed and the author teaches you its architecture, installation steps, and how to manage, schedule, and share a desktop. You will learn about Business Process Flow, Process Advisors, and AI Builder. You also will go through licensing considerations in Power Automate and AI Builder, and demonstrate all of your learnings through a mini project.After reading thebook, you will have gained expertise in Power Automate and be able to implement its guidelines and solve problems at your organization.What Will You LearnKnow the difference between Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA)Understand the different types of flows in Power AutomateCreate various types of cloud flows, Desktop flows, Business Process flows, and AI Builder modelsStudy common use cases and be aware of Power Automate best practicesWho This Book Is ForBusiness executives, citizen developers, IT professionals, and computer scientists who wish to efficiently automate monotonous work

Explore the world of Kubernetes and learn the concepts needed to develop, deploy, and manage applications on this container orchestrator. This step-by-step development guide is designed for application developers and support members aiming to learn Kubernetes and/or prepare for interviews. All the concepts in the book are presented in Q&A format, with questions framed exactly the way they are asked in an interview, giving you a distinctive edge in interviews.Yoüll start by understanding how application development and deployment have evolved over the decades leading up to containerization. Yoüll then dive deep into core Kubernetes concepts, learning Kubernetes architecture, Kubernetes objects and workload resources, and how to exploit them to their full potential. Yoüll also learn Kubernetes deployment strategies and concepts related to rollout and rollback.Moving on, yoüll look at two very important aspects of any computing ecosystem: networking and storage. You will gain an understanding of access control in Kubernetes and how to manage a Kubernetes cluster using probes, resource quotas, taints, and tolerations. You will also get an overview of Docker and review Docker and Kubernetes best practices. Finally, you will learn about the kubectl command line tool.What You Will LearnLearn about basic and advanced Kubernetes objects and workload resourcesMaster important concepts such as namespaces, selectors, annotations, and access controlUnderstand the Kubernetes networking and storage systemManage a Kubernetes cluster with the help of probes, resource quotas, limits, and taintsWho This Book Is For Application developers and technical managers¿both on the development and support sides, beginner and intermediate Kubernetes practitioners and aspirants, and those preparing for Kubernetes interviews.

Dive into the world of TypeScript, a popular superset of the JavaScript language that enhances the development experience with static typing. This book covers every aspect of TypeScript in a concise and easy-to-understand style, making it the ultimate resource for mastering TypeScript. Author Ben Beattie-Hood provides comprehensive coverage of TypeScript¿s features, such as structural typing, optionality and union types, computed and recursive types, and much more. Each chapter is packed with practical, real-world examples and insider tips drawn from his 20 years of experience as a trainer, ensuring you understand the most important concepts and learn how to avoid common pitfalls. Modern TypeScript will put you on the path to becoming a TypeScript expert, help you greatly reduce errors, and boost your delivery velocity. Whether yoüre building small projects or large-scale applications, this book will give you the skills and confidence to write cleaner, scalable, and more maintainable code. Don¿t miss this opportunity to elevate your TypeScript proficiency and stay at the forefront of modern development. What You'll LearnUnderstand how TypeScript works and how it fits into the JavaScript ecosystemWork with the type system, including primitives, interfaces, classes, and functionsLeverage the advanced type system with mapped and conditional types, in useful real-world examplesExplore tooling and debugging methods available for TypeScriptFutureproof development projects for scale using the TypeScript tooling Who This Book Is ForDevelopers, designers, and engineers who are writing front end web sites or apps, or using JavaScript-based back end systems, looking to supercharge their skills and knowledge.

This book is a comprehensive guide that will empower you to create robust digital workplace solutions from scratch using SharePoint Online and Microsoft¿s Power Platform. This revised edition incorporates the latest features of SharePoint Online, including Advanced JSON formatting, Power Automate updates, and SPFx updates.Author Hari Narayn kicks things off with an overview of the fundamentals of SharePoint Online, followed by tutorials covering how to analyze business requirements, design solutions, and leverage SharePoint Online's extensive functionalities. The book covers essential topics such as creating basic artifacts, building SharePoint forms using out-of-the-box forms, and mastering JSON formatting through practical examples. Yoüll explore the basics of Power Apps and how to integrate it with SharePoint Online before diving into advanced Power Automate and discovering how to automate processes and streamline workflows.Additionally, yoüll gain insight into SharePoint Framework (SPFx) customization, empowering you to tailor SharePoint Online sites to suit specific needs. Configuration and customization of PnP modern search are also detailed, so that you can optimize search capabilities within SharePoint Online. You will also learn how to integrate Microsoft Teams, MS Graph, and Power Virtual Agents with SharePoint Online to enhance collaboration.After completing this book, you will have the skills and knowledge to build powerful SharePoint Online sites that align with your business requirements. You will also be equipped to seamlessly integrate SharePoint Online with other Microsoft services, creating a cohesive and efficient digital workplace.What You Will LearnLeverage advanced JSON formattingUtilize Power Apps, SPFx using React, and modern searchCreate Advanced Power Automate workflowsDevelop Teams solutions and chatbotsUse Microsoft Graph and PnP JS with SharePoint Online Who This Book Is ForAll SharePoint developers and power users.

Designed for beginners with no knowledge or experience in game development or programming, this book teaches the essentials of the Unity game engine, the C# programming language, and the art of object-oriented programming.

Build elegant, responsive, and stable Java Virtual Machine-based client applications (Fat Clients) with modern user interfaces. This book introduces JavaFX as a frontend technology and utilizes Kotlin instead of Java for coding program artifacts to boost code expressiveness and maintainability. Author Peter Späth employs a hands-on approach, providing practical examples and code to demonstrate each concept. Mid-level Java programming knowledge and a basic understanding of Kotlin are the only prerequisites; experience with JavaFX and frontend coding is not essential.JavaFX is a modern frontend programming toolkit equipped with containers, menus, buttons, sliders, text fields, and various other controls necessary for communicating with your users, all of which are covered here. Despite its name, JavaFX applications can be coded with programming languages other than Java. The central requirement is that any language targeting JavaFX compiles to artifacts runnable on a Java Virtual Machine. Over the course of this book, yoüll learn firsthand why Kotlin, with its elegant and concise syntax, is a perfect match.After completing Frontend Development With JavaFX and Kotlin, you will be able to build frontends of mid-to-high level complexity, depending on present Java skills, and use Kotlin as a language for addressing GUI programming needs and accessing the JavaFX API.What You Will LearnCreate a JavaFX + Kotlin development pipeline for Gradle, Eclipse and IntelliJUse JavaFX scenes, stages, and nodes/controlsMaster JavaFX event handling, effects, and animation using KotlinUnderstand the JavaFX Concurrency Framework and Kotlin Coroutines for JavaFXWho This Book Is ForLow- to mid-level Java or Kotlin developers with or without JavaFX experience who wish to learn how to build JavaFX applications with Kotlin.

This book focuses on how to install C/C++ compilers on Linux and Windows platforms in a timely and efficient way. Installing C/C++ compilers, especially Microsoft compilers, typically takes quite a lot of time because it comes with Microsoft Visual Studio for the vast majority of users. Installing Visual Studio requires usually about 40 GB of disk space and a large amount of RAM, so it is impossible to use weak hardware. The authors provide an easy way to deploy Microsoft C/C++ compiler: with no disk space headache and hardware resources lack. The method described saves significant time since software can even be deployed on removable devices, such as flash sticks, in an easy and portable way. It is achieved by using Enterprise Windows Driver Kit (EWDK), single big ISO image, which can be mounted as virtual device and used directly without any installation. EWDK contains everything from Visual Studio except IDE. EWDK also allows to use MASM64 (Microsoft Macro-Assembly) and C# compilers. With the aid of the MSBuild System, one can compile Visual Studio Projects (.vcxproj) and Solutions (.sln) without even using Visual Studio! Similarly, MinGW compilers can be deployed from 7z/zip archives, simply by unpacking into appropriate location. Both Microsoft C/C++ and MinGW compilers can be used as portable software¿an approach that does not require administrative privileges at all.What yoüll learnRapid installation of modern Microsoft C/C++ and MinGW compilers.How to prepare reusable and portable Microsoft C/C++ and MinGW compilers suite on removable media (flash stick, CD/DVD).How to use Microsoft C/C++ and MinGW compilers even on old/slow computers without standard installation.How to build under Windows the libraries originally designed for Unix-systems.Learn to run multiple versions of these compilers at the same time.Who This Book Is ForReader of all skills who wants to save time and efforts to start to work with C++. Also useful for scientists who are not familiar with software installation.

Discover how shaders can enhance your game and mesmerize players by making graphic gameplay elements more realistic and attractive. This book provides easy-to-follow recipes that will show you how to leverage the Unity Shader Graph to create more immersive, enjoyable games. Author Álvaro Alda takes you through each effect step by step, so that you gain a foundational understanding of how they are created using the Shader Graph tool. Practical projects help you put what yoüre learning into context, from simple effects like 3D scan lines to more complicated effects such as black holes, bubble particles, water, and even interactive snow. Twelve different effects are demonstrated, to cover almost everything related to shader graph. On completing this book, you will have a thorough understanding of the Shader Graph tool and samples to replicate and continue learning from. Whether you are an indie game developer or technical artist,Beginner's Guide to Unity Shader Graph will give you the confidence to use the Shader Graph tool to create games that will keep players glued to their screens. What You Will LearnUnderstand the purpose and use of every node and function in Shader GraphGain a working knowledge of the mathematics needed to use the fragment and vertex shadersCreate complex effects with Shader Graph using post processing and taking full advantage of the URP of the Unity 3D engineDevelop procedural textures using mathematical nodes in Shader Graph Who Is This Book ForTechnical artists, indie developers, and game developers with little to no knowledge of shaders, but who have basic knowledge of Unity. As the Shader Graph in Unity is similar to other shader editors like Amplify, Blender material nodes and Unreal shaders, this book can be used as reference when working with other platforms and game engines different from Unity.