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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book takes a practical, step-by-step approach to working with email. We start by establishing the basics, so that your users can send and receive their email in their favourite email client. We then move on to look at providing web access, so that users can access their email out of the office. After this we look at the features you'll want to add to improve email productivity: virus protection, spam detection, and automatic email processing. Finally we look at an essential maintenance task: backups. This book aimed at 'unofficial' sysadmins in small businesses, who want to set up a Linux-based email server without spending a lot of time becoming expert in the individual applications. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Paperback. Condizione: Fine. Explore the aspects of financial modeling with the help of clear and easy-to-follow instructions and a variety of Excel features, functions, and productivity tips Key Features A non data professionals guide to exploring Excel's financial functions and pivot tables Learn to prepare various models for income and cash flow statements, and balance sheets Learn to perform valuations and identify growth drivers with real-world case studies Book DescriptionFinancial modeling is a core skill required by anyone who wants to build a career in finance. Hands-On Financial Modeling with Microsoft Excel 2019 examines various definitions and relates them to the key features of financial modeling with the help of Excel. This book will help you understand financial modeling concepts using Excel, and provides you with an overview of the steps you should follow to build an integrated financial model. You will explore the design principles, functions, and techniques of building models in a practical manner. Starting with the key concepts of Excel, such as formulas and functions, you will learn about referencing frameworks and other advanced components of Excel for building financial models. Later chapters will help you understand your financial projects, build assumptions, and analyze historical data to develop data-driven models and functional growth drivers. The book takes an intuitive approach to model testing, along with best practices and practical use cases. By the end of this book, you will have examined the data from various use cases, and you will have the skills you need to build financial models to extract the information required to make informed business decisions. What you will learn Identify the growth drivers derived from processing historical data in Excel Use discounted cash flow (DCF) for efficient investment analysis Build a financial model by projecting balance sheets, profit, and loss Apply a Monte Carlo simulation to derive key assumptions for your financial model Prepare detailed asset and debt schedule models in Excel Discover the latest and advanced features of Excel 2019 Calculate profitability ratios using various profit parameters Who this book is forThis book is for data professionals, analysts, traders, business owners, and students, who want to implement and develop a high in-demand skill of financial modeling in their finance, analysis, trading, and valuation work. This book will also help individuals that have and don't have any experience in data and stats, to get started with building financial models. The book assumes working knowledge with Excel.

Frain, Ben. Responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3: learn responsive design using HTML5 and CSS3 to adapt websites to any browser or screen size. Birmingham: Packt Publishing, 2012, 305pp., PAPERBACK, very good. Community experience distilled. ISBN 9781849693189.

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Soft Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 161pp. An open-source approach to building feature-rich telephony systems. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.25 x 7.5 inches.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to creating complete Node apps and understanding how to build, deploy, and test your own apps. About This Book Entirely project-based and practical Explains the "Why" of Node.js features, not just the "how", providing you with a deep understanding and enabling you to easily apply concepts in your own applications Covers the full range of technologies around Node.js NPM, version control with Git, and much more Who This Book Is For This book targets anyone looking to launch their own Node applications, switch careers, or freelance as a Node developer. You should have a basic understanding of JavaScript in order to follow this course. What You Will Learn Learn the fundamentals of Node Build apps that respond to user input Master working with servers Learn how to test and debug applications Deploy and update your apps in the real world Create responsive asynchronous web applications In Detail Learning Node.js Development is a practical, project-based book that provides you with all you need to get started as a Node.js developer. Node is a ubiquitous technology on the modern web, and an essential part of any web developers' toolkit. If you are looking to create real-world Node applications, or you want to switch careers or launch a side project to generate some extra income, then you're in the right place. This book has been written around a single goalturning you into a professional Node developer capable of developing, testing, and deploying real-world production applications. Learning Node.js Development is built from the ground up around the latest version of Node.js (version 9.x.x). You'll be learning all the cutting-edge features available only in the latest software versions. This book cuts through the mass of information available around Node and delivers the essential skills that you need to become a Node developer. It takes you through creating complete apps and understanding how to build, deploy, and test your own Node apps. It maps out everything in a comprehensive, easy-to-follow package designed to get you up and running quickly. Style and approach This book is entirely project-based. From the very beginning you'll be programming every single app and completing various challenges designed to help test and reinforce what you've learned. There's no copying-and-pasting here. This book is about writing code and building projects. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This book is an innovative and essential short guide for everyone on how to structure your data and set-up your MySQL database tables efficiently and easily. If you're creating a dynamic web application using open-source tools, then you're probably going to be setting up a MySQL database. Getting the design of this database right for your application and its data is vital, but it's often an intimidating and little-known process for non-developers and developers alike. Written by the creator of the popular phpMyAdmin tool, this book is a short but complete guide on how to design good data structures for MySQL. For most of us, setting up the database for an application is often an afterthought. While you don't need to be a professional database designer to create a working application, knowing a few insider tips and techniques can make both the process easier and the end result much more effective. This book doesn't set out to make you an expert in data analysis, but it does provide a quick and easy way to raise your game in this essential part of getting your application right. The book covers: Asking users the right questions to collect relevant data for the system you are building Detecting bad structures Sound data-naming techniques, for both table and column names Modeling data with future growth in mind Implementing security policies with data privileges and views Tuning the structure for performance Producing system documentation (data dictionary, relational schema) Testing the model with appropriate SQL queries This book takes a practical approach, implementing all theoretical concepts with examples. It is a fast-paced tutorial that focuses on critical decisions that you need tomake every time you build MySQL databases. It is rich with tips and advice from an experienced practitioner. The book is ideal for anyone working with applications that use a MySQL database backend will benefit greatly from the advice and techniques in this book. Although a working knowledge of both SQL and MySQL is assumed, the book is suitable for both beginners and intermediate users alike. Whether you read it through and absorb the advice or work through it on a live project, the efficiency and maintainability of your databases will certainly improve as a result. Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Data Collection Chapter 3: Data Naming Chapter 4: Data Grouping Chapter 5: Data Structure Tuning Chapter 6: Case Study: An Airline System This book is an innovative and essential short guide for everyone on how to structure your data and set-up your MySQL database tables efficiently and easily. If you're creating a dynamic web application using open-source tools, then you're probably going to be setting up a MySQL database. Getting the design of this database right for your application and its data is vital, but it's often an intimidating and little-known process for non-developers and developers alike. Written by the creator of the popular phpMyAdmin tool, this book is a short but complete guide on how to design good data structures for MySQL. For most of us, setting up the database for an application is often an afterthought. While you don't need to be a professional database designer to create a working application, knowing a few insider tips and techniques can make both the process easier and the end result much more effective. This book doesn't set out to make you an expert in data analysis, but it does provide a quick and easy way to raise your game in this essential part of getting your application right. The book covers: Asking users the right questions to collect relevant data for the system you are building Detecting bad structures Sound data-naming techniques, for both table and column names Modeling data with future growth in mind Implementing security policies with data privileges and views Tuning the Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Publisher's note: A new sixth edition, updated with enhanced Jira 8.21 and Data Center features has now been published. Key Features Work on agile projects in Jira from both the administrator and end user's perspective Explore the improved Scrum and Kanban board and backlog Work through exercises at the end of each chapter to reinforce your skills Book DescriptionAtlassian Jira enables effective bug tracking for your software and mobile applications and provides tools to track and manage tasks for your projects. Jira Essentials is a comprehensive guide, now updated to Jira 8 to include enhanced features such as updates to Scrum and Kanban UI, additional search capabilities, and changes to Jira Service Desk. The book starts by explaining how to plan and set up a new Jira 8 instance from scratch before getting you acquainted with key features such as emails, workflows, business processes, and much more. You'll then understand Jira's data hierarchy and how to design and work with projects. Since Jira is used for issue management, this book delves into the different issues that can arise in your projects. Youll explore fields, including custom fields, and learn to use them for more effective data collection. Youll create new screens from scratch and customize them to suit your requirements. The book also covers workflows and business processes, and guides you in setting up incoming and outgoing mail servers. Toward the end, youll study Jira's security model and Jira Service Desk, which allows you to run Jira as a support portal. By the end of this Jira book, you will be able to implement Jira 8 in your projects with ease. What you will learn Understand Jira's data hierarchy and how to design and work with projects in Jira Use Jira for agile software projects, business process management, customer service support, and more Understand issues and work with them Design both system and custom fields to behave differently under different contexts Create and design your own screens and apply them to different project and issue types Gain an understanding of the workflow and its various components Set up both incoming and outgoing mail servers to work with e-mails Who this book is forThis book will be especially useful for project managers but it's also intended for other Jira users, including developers, and any other industry besides software development, who would like to leverage Jira's powerful task management and workflow features to better manage their business processes. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Get the best out of Node.js by mastering its most powerful components and patterns to create modular and scalable applications with ease About This Book Create reusable patterns and modules by leveraging the new features of Node.js . Understand the asynchronous single thread design of node and grasp all its features and patterns to take advantage of various functions. This unique guide will help you get the most out of Node.js and its ecosystem. Who This Book Is For The book is meant for developers and software architects with a basic working knowledge of JavaScript who are interested in acquiring a deeper understanding of how to design and develop enterprise-level Node.js applications. Basic knowledge of Node.js is also helpful to get the most out of this book. What You Will Learn Design and implement a series of server-side JavaScript patterns so you understand why and when to apply them in different use case scenarios Become comfortable with writing asynchronous code by leveraging constructs such as callbacks, promises, generators and the async-await syntax Identify the most important concerns and apply unique tricks to achieve higher scalability and modularity in your Node.js application Untangle your modules by organizing and connecting them coherently Reuse well-known techniques to solve common design and coding issues Explore the latest trends in Universal JavaScript, learn how to write code that runs on both Node.js and the browser and leverage React and its ecosystem to implement universal applications In Detail Node.js is a massively popular software platform that lets you use JavaScript to easily create scalable server-side applications. It allows you to create efficient code, enabling a more sustainable way of writing software made of only one language across the full stack, along with extreme levels of reusability, pragmatism, simplicity, and collaboration. Node.js is revolutionizing the web and the way people and companies create their software. In this book, we will take you on a journey across various ideas and components, and the challenges you would commonly encounter while designing and developing software using the Node.js platform. You will also discover the "Node.js way" of dealing with design and coding decisions. The book kicks off by exploring the basics of Node.js describing it's asynchronous single-threaded architecture and the main design patterns. It then shows you how to master the asynchronous control flow patterns,and the stream component and it culminates into a detailed list of Node.js implementations of the most common design patterns as well as some specific design patterns that are exclusive to the Node.js world.Lastly, it dives into more advanced concepts such as Universal Javascript, and scalability' and it's meant to conclude the journey by giving the reader all the necessary concepts to be able to build an enterprise grade application using Node.js. Style and approach This book takes its intended readers through a comprehensive explanation to create a scalable and efficient real-time server-side apps. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. This book is an example-driven tutorial that takes you through the process of building Model-View-Controller-based web applications. You will create and develop a storefront application. It also covers common mistakes and best practices that will be helpful for developers. This book is for PHP web developers who want to get started with Zend Framework. If you are already using this framework, you will learn how to use it in the best way and produce better applications. Basic knowledge of Object Oriented design will be helpful. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Discover the best way to build, design and launch professional websites with Squarespace quickly, without needing to learn any code About This Book Discover time-saving tricks and best practices, and avoid common pitfalls while creating a website Create visually stunning Responsive Design templates for your website with Squarespace 7 Understand how to monitor, measure, and manage your website after launching it Who This Book Is For This book is ideal for anyone who wants to learn how to use the latest version of Squarespace to create a website from scratch and take it through to go-live. You don't need any prior experience with Squarespace, HTML, or CSS, or building websites in general as everything is done using Squarespace's simple, browser-based interface. What You Will Learn Develop an essential Website Toolkit that will act as reference and materials for your entire project, ensuring you stay on-target to meet your objectives Set up your Squarespace account, learn how the interface works, and select the correct template for your website's purpose and goals Create your website framework, fill it with content, and arrange your pages using Squarespace's easy drag-and-drop tools Customize your site's look and feel to match your brand, and create a stunning visual impact for your website on all types of devices, including mobiles and tablets Configure the core functions your business needs, whether connecting to social media, promoting events, showcasing your work, or selling goods and services online Learn time-saving tricks and how to avoid common pitfalls from an experienced professional with years of Squarespace experience Gain valuable insights about search engine optimization, communicating effectively online, and other e-marketing advice How to monitor, measure, and manage your website post-launch In Detail Squarespace is a web-based tool that allows non-technical people to create and manage professional-looking websites quickly, without needing to write any code. It empowers business owners to take total control of their own websites, without needing to pay someone to design or maintain it. This book covers much more than just how to use Squarespace. It covers all aspects of creating a successful business website, from developing your brand identity, to writing and structuring content to match your target audience's needs, and dozens of other other valuable tips that will help your website shine. Most importantly, you'll learn the correct steps to follow in order to ensure your project is smooth and stress-free. The book starts by helping you plan your website project and gather all the raw materials you'll need. Next, you'll set up your account and become familiar with the terminology and tools that you'll be using. Once you've learned the basics of how the Squarespace interface, templates, and different page types operate, you will create the framework of your website, ready for you to insert content and functionality. Then, once all the core elements are in place, you'll apply the aesthetic fine-tuning needed to bring your website in line with your brand. After the aesthetics have been honed and all functions tested, you will launch your website and drive traffic to it, monitor it, and improve it. Style and approach This easy-to-follow guide will teach you to build websites the easiest way in the latest version of Squarespace. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Use PySpark to easily crush messy data at-scale and discover proven techniques to create testable, immutable, and easily parallelizable Spark jobsKey FeaturesWork with large amounts of agile data using distributed datasets and in-memory cachingSource data from all popular data hosting platforms, such as HDFS, Hive, JSON, and S3Employ the easy-to-use PySpark API to deploy big data Analytics for productionBook DescriptionApache Spark is an open source parallel-processing framework that has been around for quite some time now. One of the many uses of Apache Spark is for data analytics applications across clustered computers. In this book, you will not only learn how to use Spark and the Python API to create high-performance analytics with big data, but also discover techniques for testing, immunizing, and parallelizing Spark jobs.You will learn how to source data from all popular data hosting platforms, including HDFS, Hive, JSON, and S3, and deal with large datasets with PySpark to gain practical big data experience. This book will help you work on prototypes on local machines and subsequently go on to handle messy data in production and at scale. This book covers installing and setting up PySpark, RDD operations, big data cleaning and wrangling, and aggregating and summarizing data into useful reports. You will also learn how to implement some practical and proven techniques to improve certain aspects of programming and administration in Apache Spark.By the end of the book, you will be able to build big data analytical solutions using the various PySpark offerings and also optimize them effectively.What you will learnGet practical big data experience while working on messy datasetsAnalyze patterns with Spark SQL to improve your business intelligenceUse PySpark's interactive shell to speed up development timeCreate highly concurrent Spark programs by leveraging immutabilityDiscover ways to avoid the most expensive operation in the Spark API: the shuffle operationRe-design your jobs to use reduceByKey instead of groupByCreate robust processing pipelines by testing Apache Spark jobsWho this book is forThis book is for developers, data scientists, business analysts, or anyone who needs to reliably analyze large amounts of large-scale, real-world data. Whether you're tasked with creating your company's business intelligence function or creating great data platforms for your machine learning models, or are looking to use code to magnify the impact of your business, this book is for you. In this book, you'll learn to implement some practical and proven techniques to improve aspects of programming and administration in Apache Spark. Techniques are demonstrated using practical examples and best practices. You will also learn how to use Spark and its Python API to create performant analytics with large-scale data. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Get up and running with Roblox environment and Luau programming basics to build and share your gamesIncludes an exclusive invite to join the online Roblox game development communityKey Features* Begin coding in Luau: build player avatars, battlefields, game physics, countdown timers, a nd more* Learn tips, tricks, best practices, and advanced Roblox coding techniques for game creation* Join the Roblox coding bookclub to discuss queries, provide solutions, and ask Zander for advice on Roblox gamingBook DescriptionRoblox is a huge entertainment platform like no other for both playing and creating games. With over 200 million monthly active users, Roblox has enabled new and experienced developers to create successful games, often called experiences, that can be played globally at no cost.Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd edition builds a solid foundation of concepts you need to embark on the journey of building 3 games in Roblox in an increasing order of complexity.Create obstacles and traps for an Obby and overcome them to win the game alongside other players and earn rewards.In the next game, manage player avatars, their weapons, a battlefield, add programming logic for the players to find their weapons and fight, with a reward for the last player standing.Take your game development skills to another level, building a multi-player game. Add a timer for players to locate items to escape while Granny hunts for each player to eliminate all of them before the time ends.Finally, you'll delve into the logistics of game production, focusing on optimizing your games' performance by implementing impressive mechanics, monetization, and marketing practices. We also discuss how metaverse is set to change the dynamics of user experience and what the future holds for Roblox game developers.Let's create and share experiences through play!What you will learn* Understand how to use Roblox Studio and other free resources* Learn coding in Luau: basics, game systems, physics manipulation, etc.* Test, evaluate, and redesign to create bug-free and engaging games* Use Roblox programming and rewards to make your first game* Move from lobby to battleground, build avatars, locate weapons to fight* Character selection, countdown timers, locate escape items, assign rewards* Master the 3 Ms: Mechanics, Monetization, Marketing (and Metaverse)Who This Book Is ForGet started with building your first game on the Roblox platform. This book is for anyone interested in learning the fundamentals of Luau programming and Roblox Studio and needs direction to build and share games. If you're already familiar with Roblox and are looking for tips, tricks, and the best Roblox and Luau practices for efficient development, you'll find this book helpful.The book requires no prior knowledge of game development. Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd edition builds a solid foundation of concepts you need to embark on the journey of building 3 games in Roblox in an increasing order of complexity. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Enhance your data analysis and predictive modeling skills using popular Python toolsKey FeaturesCover all fundamental libraries for operation and manipulation of Python for data analysisImplement real-world datasets to perform predictive analytics with PythonAccess modern data analysis techniques and detailed code with scikit-learn and SciPyBook DescriptionPython is one of the most common and popular languages preferred by leading data analysts and statisticians for working with massive datasets and complex data visualizations.Become a Python Data Analyst introduces Pythons most essential tools and libraries necessary to work with the data analysis process, right from preparing data to performing simple statistical analyses and creating meaningful data visualizations.In this book, we will cover Python libraries such as NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, seaborn, SciPy, and scikit-learn, and apply them in practical data analysis and statistics examples. As you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to efficiently use the Jupyter Notebook to operate and manipulate data using NumPy and the pandas library. In the concluding chapters, you will gain experience in building simple predictive models and carrying out statistical computation and analysis using rich Python tools and proven data analysis techniques.By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience performing data analysis with Python.What you will learnExplore important Python libraries and learn to install Anaconda distributionUnderstand the basics of NumPyProduce informative and useful visualizations for analyzing dataPerform common statistical calculationsBuild predictive models and understand the principles of predictive analyticsWho this book is forBecome a Python Data Analyst is for entry-level data analysts, data engineers, and BI professionals who want to make complete use of Python tools for performing efficient data analysis. Prior knowledge of Python programming is necessary to understand the concepts covered in this book Become a Python Data Analyst book introduces you to the mainstream libraries of Pythons Data Science stack. With proven examples and real-world datasets, this book teaches how to effectively perform data manipulation, visualize and analyze data patterns and brings you to the ladder of advanced topics like Predictive Analytics. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Discover how to use the LEGO SPIKE Prime kit and boost your confidence in robotics, coding, and engineeringKey FeaturesGet up and running with new parts not seen in previous LEGO kitsGain deeper insights into non-compatible sensors and components that work with all prior LEGO components and third-party elementsExplore new features and experiment with new robot builds with LEGO's new coding platformBook DescriptionThe new LEGO SPIKE Prime is one of the latest additions to the LEGO robotics line of products. This book will help you to enjoy building robots and understand how exciting robotics can be in terms of design, coding, and the expression of ideas.The book begins by taking you through a new realm of playful learning experiences designed for inventors and creators of any age. In each chapter, you'll find out how to build a creative robot, learn to bring the robot to life through code, and finally work with exercises to test what you've learned and remix the robot to suit your own unique style. Throughout the chapters, you'll build exciting new smart robots such as a handheld game, a robotic arm with a joystick, a guitar, a flying bird, a sumobot, a dragster, and a Simon Says game.By the end of this LEGO book, you'll have gained the knowledge and skills you need to build any robot that you can imagine.What you will learnDiscover how the LEGO SPIKE Prime kit works, and explore its parts and the elements inside themBuild and design robots that go beyond basic robotic designsCreate interactive robots with the help of sensorsExplore real-world robots and learn how to build them by yourselfFind out challenging ways to remix build ideas with your own imagination and skillsDevelop coding skills using the Scratch programming interfaceWho this book is forThis book is for robot enthusiasts, LEGO lovers, hobbyists, educators, students, and anyone looking to learn about the new LEGO SPIKE Prime kit. The book is designed to go beyond the basic builds to intermediate and advanced builds, while also helping you to learn how to add your own personal touch to the builds and code. To make the most of this book, you'll need a basic understanding of build techniques, coding in block-based software environments, and weaving them together to create unique robot builds. This book takes you through a learning experience designed for inventors and creators of any age. You'll be able to take a hands-on approach to building your confidence in robotics technology in a creative way. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.