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XenServer Administration Handbook: Practical Recipes for Successful Deployments
by Tim Mackey J. K. BenedictPacked with practical advice, this hands-on guide provides valuable information you need to most effectively optimize and manage the XenServer open source virtualization platform. Whether you run a modest installation of a few blades or multiple global enterprise datacenters, this book focuses on the most critical issues you're likely to encounter when designing a XenServer deployment and helps you handle day-to-day management tasks.Tim Mackey and J.K. Benedict from Citrix Systems, the company that manages XenServer, show you how to design a deployment through best practices, deployment blueprints, and installation guidelines. The book's second part features concise, easy-to-implement recipes for day-to-day management, such as user rights, backup strategies, and hardware maintenance.Learn precisely what makes a XenServer work, and how it can host 1000 virtual machinesExplore the core components of a production XenServer environmentInvestigate several options on how and where to install XenServerExamine several factors for "right sizing" your XenServer deployment to fit your needsWork with a decision tree to optimize your XenServer deployment designUnderstand how to accommodate guest VM virtualization modesUse recipes that help you plan for, obtain, and apply XenServer upgrades
Yii2 Application Development Cookbook - Third Edition
by Andrew Bogdanov Dmitry Eliseev Alexander MakarovDiscover 100 useful recipes that will bring the best out of the Yii2 framework and be on the bleeding edge of web development today About This Book * Learn how to use Yii2 efficiently through clear examples and core features, and see how to use tests, create reusable code snippets, core widgets, deployment, and more * This book provides you with a wide space for practice approaches and helps you to learn about the new Yii2 framework. * Understand the difference between the Yii 1.x.x versions using useful examples from real web applications Who This Book Is For This book is for developers with good PHP5 knowledge and MVC-frameworks who have tried to develop applications using the Yii 1.x.x version. This book will very useful for all those who would like to try Yii2, or those who are afraid to move from Yii 1.x.x. to Yii2. If you have still not tried Yii2, this book is definitely for you! What You Will Learn * See the new version of the Yii2 framework and application development practices * Write your applications more efficiently using shortcuts, Yii's core functionality, and the best practices in Web 2.0 * Get data from a database, and deal with Active Record, migrations, widgets, and core features * Easily update your skills from the previous version of the framework * Explore how to use Yii with different JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as WebSockets, Angular, Ember, Backbone and React * Learn how to keep your application secure according to the general web application security principle "filter input, escape output. * Write RESTfull Web Services using Yii2 and built-in features * Correctly install and use official extensions in your projects * Effectively create and implement your own Yii extension, and also ensure your extension is reusable and useful for the community In Detail Yii is a free, open source web application development framework written in PHP5 that promotes clean DRY design and encourages rapid development. It works to streamline your application development time and helps to ensure an extremely efficient, extensible, and maintainable end product. Being extremely performance optimized, Yii is a perfect choice for any size project. However, it has been built with sophisticated, enterprise applications in mind. You have full control over the configuration from head-to-toe (presentation-to-persistence) to conform to your enterprise development guidelines. It comes packaged with tools to help test and debug your application, and has clear and comprehensive documentation. This book is a collection of Yii2 recipes. Each recipe is represented as a full and independent item, which showcases solutions from real web-applications. So you can easily reproduce them in your environment and learn Yii2 fast and without tears. All recipes are explained with step-by-step code examples and clear screenshots. Yii2 is like a suit that looks great off the rack, but is also very easy to tailor to fit your needs. Virtually every component of the framework is extensible. This book will show how to use official extensions, extend any component, or write a new one. This book will help you create modern web applications quickly, and make sure they perform well using examples and business logic from real life. You will deal with the Yii command line, migrations, and assets. You will learn about role-based access, security, and deployment. We'll show you how to easily get started, configure your environment, and be ready to write web applications efficiently and quickly. Style and approach The chapters of this book are independent and offer a practical approach to Yii development. You can start reading from the chapter you need most, be it Ajax and jQuery, RESTful Web Services, Database, Active Record, or Official Extensions
Yocto for Raspberry Pi
by Pierre-Jean Texier Petter MabackerCreate unique and amazing projects by using the powerful combination of Yocto and Raspberry Pi About This Book * Set up and configure the Yocto Project efficiently with Raspberry Pi * Deploy multimedia applications from existing Yocto/OE layers * An easy-to-follow guide to utilize your custom recipes on your Raspberry Pi Who This Book Is For If you are a student or a developer of embedded software, embedded Linux engineer or embedded systems in competence with Raspberry Pi and want to discover the Yocto Project, then this book is for you. Experience with Yocto is not needed. What You Will Learn * Explore the basic concept of Yocto's build system and how it is organized in order to use it efficiently with Raspberry Pi * Generate your first image with Yocto for the Raspberry Pi * Understand how to customize your Linux kernel within the Yocto Project * Customize your image in order to integrate your own applications * Write your own recipes for your graphical applications * Integrate a custom layer for the Raspberry Pi In Detail The Yocto Project is a Linux Foundation workgroup, which produces tools (SDK) and processes (configuration, compilation, installation) that will enable the creation of Linux distributions for embedded software, independent of the architecture of embedded software (Raspberry Pi, i.MX6, and so on). It is a powerful build system that allows you to master your personal or professional development. This book presents you with the configuration of the Yocto Framework for the Raspberry Pi, allowing you to create amazing and innovative projects using the Yocto/OpenEmbedded eco-system. It starts with the basic introduction of Yocto's build system, and takes you through the setup and deployment steps for Yocto. It then helps you to develop an understanding of Bitbake (the task scheduler), and learn how to create a basic recipe through a GPIO application example. You can then explore the different types of Yocto recipe elements (LICENSE, FILES, SRC_URI, and so on). Next, you will learn how to customize existing recipes in Yocto/OE layers and add layers to your custom environment (qt5 for example). Style and approach A step by step guide covering the fundamentals to create amazing new projects with Raspberry Pi and Yocto.
You Don't Know JS: ES6 & Beyond
by Kyle SimpsonNo matter how much experience you have with JavaScript, odds are you don't fully understand the language. As part of the "You Don't Know JS" series, this compact guide focuses on new features available in ECMAScript 6 (ES6), the latest version of the standard upon which JavaScript is built.Like other books in this series, You Don't Know JS: ES6 & Beyond dives into trickier parts of the language that many JavaScript programmers either avoid or know nothing about. Armed with this knowledge, you can achieve true JavaScript mastery.With this book, you will:Learn new ES6 syntax that eases the pain points of common programming idiomsOrganize code with iterators, generators, modules, and classesExpress async flow control with Promises combined with generatorsUse collections to work more efficiently with data in structured waysLeverage new API helpers, including Array, Object, Math, Number, and StringExtend your program's capabilities through meta programmingPreview features likely coming to JS beyond ES6
Youngsters Solving Mathematical Problems with Technology
by Susana Carreira Keith Jones Nélia Amado Hélia Jacinto Sandra NobreThis book contributes to both mathematical problem solving and the communication of mathematics by students, and the role of personal and home technologies in learning beyond school. It does this by reporting on major results and implications of the Problem@Web project that investigated youngsters' mathematical problem solving and, in particular, their use of digital technologies in tackling, and communicating the results of their problem solving, in environments beyond school. The book has two focuses: Mathematical problem solving skills and strategies, forms of representing and expressing mathematical thinking, technological-based solutions; and students´ and teachers´ perspectives on mathematics learning, especially school compared to beyond-school mathematics.
Youth 2.0: Social Media and Adolescence
by Michel Walrave Koen Ponnet Ellen Vanderhoven Jacques Haers Barbara SegaertThis book grasps the duality between opportunities and risks which arise from children's and adolescents' social media use. It investigates the following main themes, from a multidisciplinary perspective: identity, privacy, risks and empowerment. Social media have become an integral part of young people's lives. While social media offer adolescents opportunities for identity and relational development, adolescents might also be confronted with some threats. The first part of this book deals with how young people use social media to express their developing identity. The second part revolves around the disclosure of personal information on social network sites, and concentrates on the tension between online self-disclosure and privacy. The final part deepens specific online risks young people are confronted with and suggests solutions by describing how children and adolescents can be empowered to cope with online risks. By emphasizing these different, but intertwined topics, this book provides a unique overview of research resulting from different academic disciplines such as Communication Studies, Education, Psychology and Law. The outstanding researchers that contribute to the different chapters apply relevant theories, report on topical research, discuss practical solutions and reveal important emerging issues that could lead future research agendas.
Zabbix Network Monitoring - Second Edition
by Rihards OlupsGather detailed statistics and data while monitoring the performance and availability of network devices and applications using the all-new Zabbix 3.0 About This Book * Monitor your network and deploy impressive business solutions with Zabbix 3.0 * Manage hosts and system maintenance to keep your network performing for the people who use it * A step-by-step guide to smarter network monitoring Who This Book Is For If you're new to Zabbix look no further than this book. It will show you how to put your sysadmin knowledge to work with Zabbix 3.0 so you can experience the full impact of this useful and increasingly popular tool. What You Will Learn * Get to grips with the fundamentals of Zabbix * Find out how Zabbix's features let you monitor your network with confidence and precision * Learn how to monitor SNMP devices * Manage hosts, users, and permissions while acting upon monitored conditions * Visualize data with the help of ad-hoc graphs, custom graphs, maps, and reports * Simplify complex configurations and learn to automate them * Monitor everything from web pages to IPMI devices and Java applications to and VMware stats * Troubleshoot any network issue - fast In Detail This book is a perfect starting point for monitoring with Zabbix. Even if you have never used a monitoring solution before, this book will get you up and running quickly, before guiding you into more sophisticated operations with ease. You'll soon feel in complete control of your network, ready to meet any challenges you might face. Beginning with installation, you'll learn the basics of data collection before diving deeper to get to grips with native Zabbix agents and SNMP devices. You will also explore Zabbix's integrated functionality for monitoring Java application servers and VMware. Beyond this, Zabbix Network Monitoring also covers notifications, permission management, system maintenance, and troubleshooting - so you can be confident that every potential challenge and task is under your control. If you're working with larger environments, you'll also be able to find out more about distributed data collection using Zabbix proxies. Once you're confident and ready to put these concepts into practice, you'll find out how to optimize and improve performance. Troubleshooting network issues is vital for anyone working with Zabbix, so the book is also on hand to help you work through any technical snags and glitches you might face. Network monitoring doesn't have to be a chore - learn the tricks of the Zabbix trade and make sure you're network is performing for everyone who depends upon it. Style and approach This book is a detailed and practical guide that starts from the fundamentals of Zabbix and takes you all the way to building a network monitoring solution that is capable of gathering data from range of different systems. With tips on low-level details that will boost any Zabbix users confidence and fluency, it's an unmissable resource for anyone interested in what's possible with Zabbix.
The Zen of Social Media Marketing: An Easier Way to Build Credibility, Generate Buzz, and Increase Revenue
by Chris Brogan Shama HyderFreshly Updated Edition of the Ultimate Primer and How-To Guide for Social Media MarketingFive years ago, the first edition of The Zen of Social Media Marketing became a global bestseller. Three years after that, the updated edition helped even more marketers and executives navigate the sometimes-stressful world of social media. Now, this new, up-to-date edition offers timely insight to the ways social media has changed and how best to market in it.Whether you use social media now or not, people are already talking about your company online. By becoming part of the conversation in a more meaningful way, you can start connecting directly to your customers and clients and finding new ones right away with ease and efficiency.Social media marketing isn't like traditional marketing-and treating it that way only leads to frustration and failure. In The Zen of Social Media Marketing, Shama Hyder, social media expert and president of The Marketing Zen Group (MarketingZen.com), teaches you the "Zen" of using social media tools to find your own marketing nirvana.With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Chris Brogan and new and updated content on content marketing, email marketing, the importance of mobile, social advertising, and more, the newest edition of The Zen of Social Media Marketing gives you:A comprehensive overview of why social media works and how to use it to drive traffic to your website and fan pageA proven process to attract followers and fans and convert them into customers and clientsThe latest social media trends and step-by-step guidelines for sites and apps such as Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, Imgur, LINE, and more All new information on why, when, and how to use online advertisingInnovative tips for mobile designEssential advice on content marketing and targeted tactics to enhance your SEOWhy self-expression is the true driver of social media use and how to leverage it for your businessInsights from dozens of leading online marketers and entrepreneurs, with strategies for success
10 LED Projects for Geeks: Build Light-Up Costumes, Sci-Fi Gadgets, and Other Clever Inventions
by John Baichtal10 LED Projects for Geeks is a collection of interactive and customizable projects that all have the humble LED in common, but don’t write them off as basic! You’ll learn how to make challenging and imaginative gadgets like a magic wand that controls lights using hand gestures, a pen-sized controller for music synthesizers, a light strip that dances to the beat of music, and even an LED sash that flashes scrolling text you send from your phone.Every project includes photos, step-by-step directions, colorful circuit diagrams, and the complete code to bring the project to life. As you work your way through the book, you’ll pick up adaptable skills that will take your making abilities to the next level. You’ll learn how to:-Design versatile circuits for your own needs-Build and print a custom printed circuit board-Create flexible circuits which you can use to make any wearable you dream up-Turn analog signal into digital data your microcontroller can read-Use gesture recognition and wireless interaction for your own Internet of Things projects-Experiment with copper tape and create circuits with paper and foi-Build "smart" gadgets that make decisions with sensorsIf you want to experiment with LEDs and circuits, learn some new skills, and make cool things along the way, 10 LED Projects for Geeks is your first step.
11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #616)
by Florentino Fdez-Riverola Juan F. De Paz Mohd Saberi Mohamad Miguel Rocha Tiago PintoBiological and biomedical research are increasingly driven by experimental techniques that challenge our ability to analyse, process and extract meaningful knowledge from the underlying data. The impressive capabilities of next-generation sequencing technologies, together with novel and constantly evolving, distinct types of omics data technologies, have created an increasingly complex set of challenges for the growing fields of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The analysis of the datasets produced and their integration call for new algorithms and approaches from fields such as Databases, Statistics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Optimization, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Clearly, Biology is more and more a science of information and requires tools from the computational sciences. In the last few years, we have seen the rise of a new generation of interdisciplinary scientists with a strong background in the biological and computational sciences. In this context, the interaction of researchers from different scientific fields is, more than ever, of foremost importance in boosting the research efforts in the field and contributing to the education of a new generation of Bioinformatics scientists. The PACBB'17 conference was intended to contribute to this effort and promote this fruitful interaction, with a technical program that included 39 papers spanning many different sub-fields in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Further, the conference promoted the interaction of scientists from diverse research groups and with a distinct background (computer scientists, mathematicians, biologists).
2 em 1: Guia Pokémon 20 dicas e truques que você deve ler + Pokémon Go - Poupando a bateria
by Fernanda Ranieri Silva Game GuidezLIVRO DUPLO: Por um tempo limitado pegue ambos os livros por um preço de pechincha: Dobre sua vida da bateria & acelere seu progresso em Pokémon com este .. LIVRO DUPLO: Por um tempo limitado pegue ambos os livros por um preço de pechincha: Há tantas coisas valiosas, nós sabemos que você vai adorar: Seja o melhor treinador Pokémon que você pode ser! Em nosso guia mergulhamos diretamente nas dicas e truques que o ajudarão a se tornar um mestre no menor tempo possível. Nós o guiamos de mãos dadas com algumas das dicas mais cobiçadas e truques descobertos no jogo até agora. Se você quiser acelerar a sua diversão, este livro é para você! Alguns dos tópicos que abordamos: Começando Encontrando mais Pokémon Aumentando de nível de forma mais rápida e mais eficiente Como encontrar Pokémon em grupo Como economizar sua bateria com estratégias avançadas Itens Dicas e truques de Realidade Aumentada Dicas especiais do Pokéstop Segredos e sugestões Estão incluídos muito mais dicas, truques e segredos. Se você não quiser enrolação e apenas chegar diretamente ao ponto do que deve fazer, este é o livro para você! Leia a sua cópia hoje e torne-se o mestre que você é! Eu posso ensinar-lhe como DOBRAR sua vida da bateria ou mais! Em nosso guia, mergulhamos diretamente nas dicas e truques que o ajudarão a dominar a vida da bateria no menor tempo possível. Nós o guiamos de mãos dadas com algumas das dicas mais cobiçadas e truques descobertos em como salvar a sua preciosa vida da bateria. Se você quiser fazer sua diversão durar um longo tempo, este é o livro para você! Alguns dos tópicos que abordamos: Drenagem de som Aplicativos em segundo plano Como dobrar instantaneamente a sua bateria! Diminu
2D to VR with Unity5 and Google Cardboard
by Roberto DillonThe book provides an up-to-date introduction to the latest version of Unity and its workflow by guiding readers through various prototypes. These range from 2D to 3D game concepts for PC and mobile, will allow readers to get acquainted with several important concepts and allow them to become competent Unity developers able to learn at their own pace. The book starts by introducing Unity and proceeds in building a basic understanding of its main components by developing a first, simple 2D game before proceeding in developing a full casual game to development of a simple but immersive 3D game concept to be tested first on PC before exploring how to port it for mobile VR.using Google Cardboard.
3D Game Environments: Create Professional 3D Game Worlds
by Luke AhearnFrom a steamy jungle to a modern city, or even a sci-fi space station, 3D Game Environments is the ultimate resource to help you create AAA quality art for a variety of game worlds. Primarily using Photoshop and 3ds Max, students will learn to create realistic textures from photo source and a variety of techniques to portray dynamic and believable game worlds. With detailed tutorials on creating 3D models, applying 2D art to 3D models, and clear concise advice on issues of efficiency and optimization for a 3D game engine, Luke Ahearn gives you everything students need to make their own realistic game environments.
3D Photorealistic Rendering: Interiors & Exteriors with V-Ray and 3ds Max (3D Photorealistic Rendering)
by Jamie CardosoIncrease the photorealism of your 3d visualizations with enhanced toolsets of V-ray in 3ds Max. Full-color, step-by-step tutorials about techniques involved in creating photorealistic renders for interior/exterior scenes. Each tutorial includes a 3d project scene to guide you through, production and post-production. The production chapter shows how to create shaders, fine-tune textures and set up a day/night lighting rig. You will be rendering high-res images with render elements included for the final stage of post-production. The book also includes tips about, pre-production, camera settings, verified views, material editors, shaders, 3ds max scripts, and much more!
3D Printing For Dummies
by Richard HorneThe bestselling book on 3D printing 3D printing is one of the coolest inventions we've seen in our lifetime, and now you can join the ranks of businesspeople, entrepreneurs, and hobbyists who use it to do everything from printing foods and candles to replacement parts for older technologies—and tons of mind-blowing stuff in between! With 3D Printing For Dummies at the helm, you'll find all the fast and easy-to-follow guidance you need to grasp the methods available to create 3D printable objects using software, 3D scanners, and even photographs through open source software applications like 123D Catch. Thanks to the growing availability of 3D printers, this remarkable technology is coming to the masses, and there's no time like the present to let your imagination run wild and actually create whatever you dream up—quickly and inexpensively. When it comes to 3D printing, the sky's the limit! Covers each type of 3D printing technology available today: stereolithology, selective sintering, used deposition, and granular binding Provides information on the potential for the transformation of production and manufacturing, reuse and recycling, intellectual property design controls, and the commoditization of products Walks you through the process of creating a RepRap printer using open source designs, software, and hardware Offers strategies for improved success in 3D printing On your marks, get set, innovate!
3rd International Winter School and Conference on Network Science: NetSci-X 2017 (Springer Proceedings in Complexity)
by Erez Shmueli Baruch Barzel Rami PuzisThis book contains original research chapters related to the interdisciplinary field of complex networks spanning biological and environmental networks, social, technological, and economic networks. Many natural phenomena can be modeled as networks where nodes are the primitive compounds and links represent their interactions, similarities, or distances of sorts. Complex networks have an enormous impact on research in various fields like biology, social sciences, engineering, and cyber-security to name a few. The topology of a network often encompasses important information on the functionality and dynamics of the system or the phenomenon it represents. Network science is an emerging interdisciplinary discipline that provides tools and insights to researchers in a variety of domains. NetSci-X is the central winter conference within the field and brings together leading researchers and innovators to connect, meet, and establish interdisciplinary channels for collaboration. It is the largest and best known event in the area of network science. This text demonstrates how ideas formulated by authors with different backgrounds are transformed into models, methods, and algorithms that are used to study complex systems across different domains and will appeal to researchers and students within in the field.
5 Practical React Projects
by Nirmalya Ghosh Michael Wanyoike Dan Prince Andrew Ray Christopher PittThis book is a collection of in-depth tutorials, selected from SitePoint's React Hub, that will guide you through some fun and practical projects. Along the way, you'll pick up lots of useful development tips. It contains: How to Create a Reddit Clone Using React and Firebase by Nirmalya GhoshBuild a CRUD App Using React, Redux and FeathersJS by Michael WanyoikeHow to Build a Todo App Using React, Redux, and Immutable.js by Dan PrinceBuilding a Game with Three.js, React and WebGL by Andrew RayProcedurally Generated Game Terrain with React, PHP, and WebSockets by Christopher Pitt
5G Radio Access Networks: Centralized RAN, Cloud-RAN and Virtualization of Small Cells
by Hrishikesh Venkatarman Ramona TrestianC-RAN and virtualized Small Cell technology poses several major research challenges. These include dynamic resource allocation, self-configuration in the baseband pool, high latency in data transfer between radio unit and baseband unit, the cost of data delivery, high volume of data in the network, software networking aspects, potential energy savings, security concerns, privacy of user’s personal data at a remote place, limitations of virtualized environment, etc. This book provides deeper insights into the next generation RAN architecture and surveys the coexistence of SDN, C-RAN and Small Cells solutions proposed in the literature at different levels.
97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
by Kevlin Henney Trisha GeeIf you want to push your Java skills to the next level, this book provides expert advice from Java leaders and practitioners. You’ll be encouraged to look at problems in new ways, take broader responsibility for your work, stretch yourself by learning new techniques, and become as good at the entire craft of development as you possibly can. <P><P>Edited by Kevlin Henney and Trisha Gee, 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know reflects lifetimes of experience writing Java software and living with the process of software development. Great programmers share their collected wisdom to help you rethink Java practices, whether working with legacy code or incorporating changes since Java 8. <P><P>A few of the 97 things you should know: <P><P>"Behavior Is Easy, State Is Hard"—Edson Yanaga <P><P>“Learn Java Idioms and Cache in Your Brain”—Jeanne Boyarsky <P><P>“Java Programming from a JVM Performance Perspective”—Monica Beckwith <P><P>"Garbage Collection Is Your Friend"—Holly K Cummins <P><P>“Java's Unspeakable Types”—Ben Evans <P><P>"The Rebirth of Java"—Sander Mak <P><P>“Do You Know What Time It Is?”—Christin Gorman
A salvo en la red
by Francisco Castaño Mena Pedro García AguadoDe la mano de Pedro García Aguado y Francisco Castaño Mena llega el tercer volumen del proyecto «Aprender a educar», centrado esta vez en un tema tan preocupante, complejo y actual como el modo en que debemos proteger a nuestros hijos en internet y las redes sociales. <p><p>¿Cuándo debo comprarle un smartphone a mi hijo? ¿Tengo que establecer unas normas de uso? ¿Cómo le protejo de los riesgos de internet? ¿Cómo controlo que no sufra o haga ciberbullying? Desde su proyecto «Aprender a educar», Pedro García Aguado y Francisco Castaño Mena hacen hincapié en la educación familiar como factor clave de protección para prevenir posibles dificultades con los hijos. En este tercer libro, los autores se adentran en las nuevas tecnologías y muestran a padres y profesores cómo educar en su uso. <p>A salvo en la Red es un manual indispensable para que niños y adolescentes reciban una buena educación digital y les enseñemos a utilizar estas herramientas sin riesgo y sacándoles el máximo partido. Con un lenguaje directo y cercano, los autores nos exponen casos reales de su consulta y nos enseñan que las nuevas tecnologías, usadas de forma correcta, pueden convertirse en grandes aliadas.
Aaron Marks' Complete Guide to Game Audio: For Composers, Sound Designers, Musicians, and Game Developers
by Aaron MarksWhether trying to land that first big gig or working to perfect the necessary skills to fill a game world with sound, Aaron Marks’ Complete Guide to Game Audio 3rd edition will teach the reader everything they need to know about the audio side of the multi-million dollar video game industry. This book builds upon the success of the second edition with even more expert advice from masters in the field and notes current changes within the growing video game industry. The tools of the trade excerpts will showcase what professionals, like Marty O’Donnell, Richard Jacques and Tom Salta, use to create their work and to help newcomers in the field prepare their own sound studios. Sample contracts are reviewed within the text as well as helpful advice about contractual terms and negotiable points. These sample contracts can also be found as a downloadable zip for the reader’s convenience. Aaron Marks also explores how to set your financial terms and network efficiently along with examples of how projects can go completely awry and achieving the best results in often complicated situations. Aaron Marks’ Complete Guide to Game Audio serves as the ultimate survival guide to navigating an audio career in the video game industry. Key Features New, full color edition with a complete update of information. Added and expanded coverage of field recording for games, creating voiceovers, adaptive and interactive audio and other cutting edge sound creation and implementation techniques used within games. Update/Replacement of interviews. Include interviews/features on international game audio professionals New and expanded interview features from game composers and sound designers of every experience level such as Keith Arem, Bradley Meyer, Christopher Tin and Rodney Gates including many international professionals like Pasi Pitkanen, Henning Nugel and Christos Panayides. Expanded and updated game console coverage of the Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3 and PS4. Includes new scripting and middleware concepts and techniques and review of powerful tools such as FMOD and Wwise.
Achieving and Sustaining Secured Business Operations: An Executive’s Guide to Planning and Management
by Dinesh Kumar Neelesh AjmaniProactively plan and manage innovation in your business while keeping operations safe and secure. This book provides a framework and practices to help you safeguard customer information, prevent unauthorized access, and protect your brand and assets. Securing company operations is a board-level discussion. Across all industries, companies are pouring millions of dollars into taming cybercrime and other related security crime. Achieving and Sustaining Secured Business Operations presents a holistic approach looking top down, bottom up, and sideways. The end goal is to achieve and sustain a safe environment to conduct secured business operations while continuously innovating for competitive advantage. What You'll Learn Discover why security, specifically secured business operations, needs to be part of business planning and oversight by design and not left to technologists to make the business case Determine what you can do in your role and in your organization to drive and implement integration and improvements in planning and managing secured business operations in conjunction with other business planning and management activities Choose ways in which progress toward achieving and sustaining secured business operations can be measured Understand best practices for organizing, planning, architecting, governing, monitoring, and managing secured business operations Create a framework, including methods and tools for operationalizing assessment, planning, and ongoing management of secured business operations Use cases and potential case studies for various industries and business models Who This Book Is For Chief executive officers and their leadership team; chief operations officers; chief information officers and their leadership team; chief information security officers; business functional middle managers; and enterprise, solution, and information technology architects
Achieving Consensus in Robot Swarms: Design and Analysis of Strategies for the best-of-n Problem (Studies in Computational Intelligence #706)
by Gabriele ValentiniThis book focuses on the design and analysis of collective decision-making strategies for the best-of-n problem. After providing a formalization of the structure of the best-of-n problem supported by a comprehensive survey of the swarm robotics literature, it introduces the functioning of a collective decision-making strategy and identifies a set of mechanisms that are essential for a strategy to solve the best-of-n problem. The best-of-n problem is an abstraction that captures the frequent requirement of a robot swarm to choose one option from of a finite set when optimizing benefits and costs. The book leverages the identification of these mechanisms to develop a modular and model-driven methodology to design collective decision-making strategies and to analyze their performance at different level of abstractions. Lastly, the author provides a series of case studies in which the proposed methodology is used to design different strategies, using robot experiments to show how the designed strategies can be ported to different application scenarios.
ACS Without an Attitude (NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering)
by Christopher Rouff Harold L. Hallock Gary Welter David G. SimpsonThis book de-emphasizes the formal mathematical description of spacecraft on-board attitude and orbit applications in favor of a more qualitative, concept-oriented presentation of these topics. The information presented in this book was originally given as a set of lectures in 1999 and 2000 instigated by a NASA Flight Software Branch Chief at Goddard Space Flight Center. The Branch Chief later suggested this book. It provides an approachable insight into the area and is not intended as an essential reference work. ACS Without an Attitude is intended for programmers and testers new to the field who are seeking a commonsense understanding of the subject matter they are coding and testing in the hope that they will reduce their risk of introducing or missing the key software bug that causes an abrupt termination in their spacecraft's mission. In addition, the book will provide managers and others working with spacecraft with a basic understanding of this subject.
Actionable Intelligence in Healthcare (Data Analytics Applications)
by Amanda Dawson Jay LiebowitzThis book shows healthcare professionals how to turn data points into meaningful knowledge upon which they can take effective action. Actionable intelligence can take many forms, from informing health policymakers on effective strategies for the population to providing direct and predictive insights on patients to healthcare providers so they can achieve positive outcomes. It can assist those performing clinical research where relevant statistical methods are applied to both identify the efficacy of treatments and improve clinical trial design. It also benefits healthcare data standards groups through which pertinent data governance policies are implemented to ensure quality data are obtained, measured, and evaluated for the benefit of all involved. Although the obvious constant thread among all of these important healthcare use cases of actionable intelligence is the data at hand, such data in and of itself merely represents one element of the full structure of healthcare data analytics. This book examines the structure for turning data into actionable knowledge and discusses: The importance of establishing research questions Data collection policies and data governance Principle-centered data analytics to transform data into information Understanding the "why" of classified causes and effects Narratives and visualizations to inform all interested parties Actionable Intelligence in Healthcare is an important examination of how proper healthcare-related questions should be formulated, how relevant data must be transformed to associated information, and how the processing of information relates to knowledge. It indicates to clinicians and researchers why this relative knowledge is meaningful and how best to apply such newfound understanding for the betterment of all.