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Cheer and Loathing: Scattered Ramblings on Indie Animation (Focus Animation Ser.)
by Chris RobinsonOne of the most acclaimed writers in animation returns with this informal sequel to his previous books on indie animation, Unsung Heroes of Animation, Animators Unearthed, and Mad Eyed Misfits. In this collection, award-winning writer, Chris Robinson, looks at a wide range of films, topics (sex, censorship, cultural politics, programming, felt, gifs, VR, dogs) and filmmakers (Masaaki Yuasa, Xi Chen, Gil Alkabetz, Jacques Drouin, Bordo, Rosto, Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León, George Schwizgebel, Lizzy Hobbs, Andreas Hykade, Leah Shore, and many others). Eclectic, brief, fiery, and opinionated, Robinson’s gonzo-tinged writing will amuse, confuse, annoy, and maybe even inspire while, hopefully introducing readers to the wonders of independently-produced animation.
Chef: Powerful Infrastructure Automation
by Earl Waud John Ewart Matthias MarschallLearn Chef Provisioning like a boss and discover how to deploy software and manage hosts, along with engaging recipes to automate your cloud and server infrastructure with Chef. About This Book • Leverage the power of Chef to transform your infrastructure into code to deploy new features in minutes • Get step-by-step instructions to configure, deploy, and scale your applications • Master specific Chef techniques to run an entire fleet of machines without breaking a sweat. Who This Book Is For If you are a system administrator, Linux administrator, a cloud developer, or someone who just wants to learn and apply Chef automation to your existing or new infrastructure, then this learning path will show you all you need to know. In order to get the most out of this learning path, some experience of programming or scripting languages would be useful. What You Will Learn • Install Chef server on your own hosts • Integrate Chef with cloud services • Debug your cookbooks and Chef runs using the numerous inspection and logging facilities of Chef • Extend Chef to meet your advanced needs by creating custom plugins for Knife and Ohai • Create a perfect model system • Use the best test-driven development methodologies In Detail Chef is a configuration management tool that turns IT infrastructure into code. Chef provides tools to manage systems at scale. This learning path takes you on a comprehensive tour of Chef's functionality, ranging from its core features to advanced development. You will be brought up to speed with what's new in Chef and how to set up your own Chef infrastructure for individuals, or small or large teams. You will learn to use the basic Chef command-line tools. We will also take you through the core concepts of managing users, applications, and your entire cloud infrastructure. You will learn the techniques of the pros by walking you through a host of step-by-step guides to solve real-world infrastructure automation challenges.You will learn to automate and document every aspect of your network, from the hardware to software, middleware, and all your containers. You will become familiar with the Chef'sProvisioning tool. By the end of this course, you will be confident in how to manage your infrastructure, scale using the cloud, and extend the built-in functionality of Chef itself.The books used in this Learning Path are: 1) Chef Essentials 2) Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook – Second Edition 3) Mastering Chef Provisioning Style and approach This fast-paced guide covers the many facets of Chef and will teach administrators to use Chef as a birds-eye lens for their entire system. This book takes you through a host of step-by-step guides to solve real-world infrastructure automation challenges and offers elegant, time-saving solutions for a perfectly described and automated network.
Chef Cookbook - Third Edition
by Matthias MarschallMaster over 80 incredibly effective recipes to manage the day-to-day complications in your infrastructure About This Book • Immediately apply Devops techniques and methods, then combine them with powerful Chef tools to manage and automate your infrastructure • Address the growing challenges of code management, cloud, and virtualization with Chef quickly • Explore and implement the important aspects of Chef Automate using this recipe-based guide Who This Book Is For This book is for system engineers and administrators who have a fundamental understanding of information management systems and infrastructure. It is also for DevOps Engineers, IT professionals, and organizations who want to automate and gain greater control of their infrastructures with Chef. No experience with Chef is needed, but may help. What You Will Learn • Test your cookbooks with Test Kitchen • Manage cookbook dependencies with Berkshelf • Use reporting to keep track of what happens during the execution of chef-client runs across all of the machines • Create custom Ohai and Knife plugins • Build a high-availability service using Heartbeat • Use a HAProxy to load-balance multiple web servers In Detail Chef is a configuration management tool that lets you automate your more cumbersome IT infrastructure processes and control a large network of computers (and virtual machines) from one master server. This book will help you solve everyday problems with your IT infrastructure with Chef. It will start with recipes that show you how to effectively manage your infrastructure and solve problems with users, applications, and automation. You will then come across a new testing framework, InSpec, to test any node in your infrastructure. Further on, you will learn to customize plugins and write cross-platform cookbooks depending on the platform. You will also install packages from a third-party repository and learn how to manage users and applications. Toward the end, you will build high-availability services and explore what Habitat is and how you can implement it. Style and approach This book follows a recipe-based approach and covers all the important topics you need to know. If you don't want to dig through a whole book before you get started, this book is for you, as it features a set of independent recipes you can try out immediately.
Chef Essentials
by John EwartIf you have some understanding of IT infrastructure principles and are ready to find out what Chef is all about, then this guide will show you all you need to know. In order to get the most out of this book, some experience of programming or scripting languages would be useful.
Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook
by Matthias MarschallChef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook contains practical recipes on everything you will need to automate your infrastructure using Chef. The book is packed with illustrated code examples to automate your server and cloud infrastructure.The book first shows you the simplest way to achieve a certain task. Then it explains every step in detail, so that you can build your knowledge about how things work. Eventually, the book shows you additional things to consider for each approach. That way, you can learn step-by-step and build profound knowledge on how to go about your configuration management automation.This book is for system engineers and administrators who have a fundamental understanding of information management systems and infrastructure. It helps if you've already played around with Chef; however, the book covers all the important topics you will need to know. If you don't want to dig through a whole book before you can get started, this book is for you, as it features a set of independent recipes you can try out immediately.
Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook - Second Edition
by Matthias MarschallThis book is for system engineers and administrators who have a fundamental understanding of information management systems and infrastructure. It helps if you've already played around with Chef; however, this book covers all the important topics you will need to know. If you don't want to dig through a whole book before you can get started, this book is for you, as it features a set of independent recipes you can try out immediately.
Chefsache Digitalisierung 4.0
by Jörg Reinnarth Claus Schuster Jan Möllendorf André Lutz Peter BuchenauDas Buch aus der Chefsache-Reihe zeigt auf, welche Bedeutung und Auswirkungen die digitale Transformation auf unser persönliches, gesellschaftliches und berufliches Umfeld hat. Praxisnah lernt der Leser Chancen und Perspektiven kennen, die so offen sind, dass er sie jederzeit für sich adaptieren kann. Es geht um Projekte, Maschinen, Prozesse, Kompetenzen, Führung und vor allem um Menschen. So wird ebenfalls aufgezeigt, wie es bei all der Technologie- und Prozessorientierung gelingt, den Rollen und Bedürfnissen von Führungskräften und Mitarbeitern neu gerecht zu werden. Ihr Reisebegleiter für den digitalen Weg.
Chegue à primeira página do Google: Dicas de SEO para marketing online
by Antonio Jorge Santos Jason MatthewsEste livro é dedicado aos donos de sites e blogs que fazem o que podem para melhorar a performance dos seus sites. Eu sei como é. Desejo que você possa alcançar as pessoas de todo o mundo. Chegue à primeira página do Google com dicas fáceis de SEO. Um pouco de SEO (Search engine optimization), pode colocar qualquer site no topo sem gastar dinheiro. Descubra maneiras de usar as palavras-chave, meta descrições, tags, categorias, títulos, link-building e muito mais. Instruções passo a passo para colocar o seu site na primeira página do Google. Qualquer um pode fazer isso. Não vai custar nada mais que um pouco de tempo. Você vai descobrir: As melhores palavras-chave, tanto de cauda curta quanto de cauda longa; Meta tags com meta descrições para o código fonte da página; Maneiras para otimizar textos e imagens; Back-links para outros sites; Como monitorar as tendências dos visitantes; Plataformas online e acréscimo de visibilidade; Ferramentas de mídias sociais (Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter, etc.); Como fazer network com pessoas de todo o mundo; E muito mais... Dentro de algumas semanas ou meses, você vai ver resultados reais e vai chegar à primeira página.
Chemical Information Mining: Facilitating Literature-Based Discovery
by Debra L. BanvilleThe First Book to Describe the Technical and Practical Elements of Chemical Text MiningExplores the development of chemical structure extraction capabilities and how to incorporate these technologies in daily research workFor scientific researchers, finding too much information on a subject, not finding enough information, or not being able&nb
Chemical Kinetics with Mathcad and Maple
by Valery Ochkov Viktor KorobovThe authors explain at length the principles of chemical kinetics and approaches to computerized calculations in modern software suites -- mathcad and maple. Mathematics is crucial in determining correlations in chemical processes and requires various numerical approaches. Often significant issues with mathematical formalizations of chemical problems arise and many kinetic problems can´t be solved without computers. Numerous problems encountered in solving kinetics´ calculations with detailed descriptions of the numerical tools are given. Special attention is given to electrochemical reactions, which fills a gap in existing texts not covering this topic in detail. The material demonstrates how these suites provide quick and precise behavior predictions for a system over time (for postulated mechanisms).Examples, i.e., oscillating and non-isothermal reactions, help explain the use of mathcad more efficiently. Also included are the results of authors' own research toward effective computations.
Chemical Optimization Algorithm for Fuzzy Controller Design (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
by Oscar Castillo Patricia Melin Leslie AstudilloIn this book, a novel optimization method inspired by a paradigm from nature is introduced. The chemical reactions are used as a paradigm to propose an optimization method that simulates these natural processes. The proposed algorithm is described in detail and then a set of typical complex benchmark functions is used to evaluate the performance of the algorithm. Simulation results show that the proposed optimization algorithm can outperform other methods in a set of benchmark functions. This chemical reaction optimization paradigm is also applied to solve the tracking problem for the dynamic model of a unicycle mobile robot by integrating a kinematic and a torque controller based on fuzzy logic theory. Computer simulations are presented confirming that this optimization paradigm is able to outperform other optimization techniques applied to this particular robot application.
Chemistry Education and Sustainability in the Global Age
by Chin-Cheng Chou Hsiao-Lin Tuan Hsin-Kai Wu Jing-Wen Lin Mei-Hung ChiuThis edited volume of papers from the twenty first International Conference on Chemical Education attests to our rapidly changing understanding of the chemistry itself as well as to the potentially enormous material changes in how it might be taught in the future. Covering the full range of appropriate topics, the book features work exploring themes as various as e-learning and innovations in instruction, and micro-scale lab chemistry. In sum, the 29 articles published in these pages focus the reader's attention on ways to raise the quality of chemistry teaching and learning, promoting the public understanding of chemistry, deploying innovative technology in pedagogy practice and research, and the value of chemistry as a tool for highlighting sustainability issues in the global community. Thus the ambitious dual aim achieved in these pages is on the one hand to foster improvements in the leaching and communication of chemistry--whether to students or the public, and secondly to promote advances in our broader understanding of the subject that will have positive knock-on effects on the world's citizens and environment. In doing so, the book addresses (as did the conference) the neglect suffered in the chemistry classroom by issues connected to globalization, even as it outlines ways to bring the subject alive in the classroom through the use of innovative technologies.
CherryPy Essentials: Rapid Python Web Application Development
by Sylvain HellegouarchThe book starts with two chapters dedicated to CherryPy, its history and installation. It then moves through a gentle introduction to the main features and concepts of CherryPy to a thorough review of its core capabilities. After laying this foundation the book dives into a real-world example, detailing important steps in the creation of a photoblog application. These chapters cover database manipulation via Object Relational Mapping (ORM), using web services to enhance the application, and client-side scripting through AJAX. Finally, the book covers the need for unit, functional, and performance testing before closing with deployment solutions for a CherryPy-based application. This book is principally geared towards Python web developers, who are looking to add the power of the CherryPy library to their existing Python skillset. It assumes a good working knowledge of Python. Although the CherryPy toolkit is at the core of the book, many other common libraries are introduced
Chetada: mi vida en videojuegos
by Karen MeadEn Chetada: mi vida en videojuegos, la escritora Karen L. Mead echa un vistazo a su larga historia videojueguil e intenta descubrir qué está pasando. ¿Cómo los recuerdos del tiempo gastado en mundos imaginarios se relacionan con nuestros recuerdos de sitios reales? ¿Es posible que los recuerdos de los juegos sean de alguna forma más genuinos que los recuerdos de sitios reales, y si lo son, por qué? Mead mira a los increíblemente populares videojuegos que definieron una era, como Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy VII y Starcraft, entre otros, para ver cómo estos juegos se convirtieron tanto en una parte de su vida como un escape de ella.
Chicas en Tecnología®: Reiniciando el sistema
by Mariana Varela Carolina Hadad Sofía ContrerasLa tecnología tiene un papel determinante en lo cotidiano: el trabajo, la educación y la vida social. Pero es un área desigual para las mujeres. Este libro da cuenta de la brecha de género en tecnología y de la invisibilización de las pioneras y las líderes, pero es también una invitación a reiniciar el sistema, a que las mujeres consideren a la tecnología como una aliada para mejorar el mundo. La tecnología tiene un papel determinante en lo cotidiano: el trabajo, la educación y la vida social. Pero es un área profundamente desigual para las mujeres. La disparidad comienza en la infancia -a las niñas les regalan una cocinita y a los niños, videojuegos- y continúa durante la escolarización, la formación profesional, la capacitación, en el ambiente laboral o cuando deciden emprender. Las mujeres chocan constantemente con la estigmatización, la mirada estereotipada, la brecha salarial, discriminación y violencia. Cuando en 2015 Sofía Contreras, Carolina Hadad, Melina Masnatta y Mariana Varela crearon la organización Chicas en Tecnología® con el objetivo de achicar la brecha de género en ese campo, el feminismo no tenía la fuerza de hoy en la escena pública, y si bien se ganaron derechos, aún falta mucho. Con datos, fuentes, investigaciones, análisis y la experiencia de las autoras, este libro evidencia las barreras que las mujeres enfrentan en el ambiente tecnológico, pero además propone cambios e ideas en educación, liderazgo, emprendedorismo, mentoreo. Rescata de la invisibilización a las pioneras y demuestra por qué es fundamental que haya cada vez más líderes mujeres y multiplicidad de voces. Chicas en Tecnología® es una invitación a reiniciar el sistema, a que las mujeres consideren a la tecnología como una aliada para mejorar el mundo.
The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook: Set Up and Run an Organization’s Data Supply Chain
by Martin TrederThere is no denying that the 21st century is data driven, with many digital industries relying on careful collection and analysis of mass volumes of information. A Chief Data Officer (CDO) at a company is the leader of this process, making the position an often daunting one. The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook is here to help.With this book, author Martin Treder advises CDOs on how to be better prepared for their swath of responsibilities, how to develop a more sustainable approach, and how to avoid the typical pitfalls. Based on positive and negative experiences shared by current CDOs, The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook guides you in designing the ideal structure of a data office, implementing it, and getting the right people on board.Important topics such as the data supply chain, data strategy, and data governance are thoughtfully covered by Treder. As a CDO it is important to use your position effectively with your entire team. The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook allows all employees to take ownership in data collaboration. Data is the foundation of present and future tech innovations, and you could be the leader that makes the next big impact.What You Will LearnApply important elements of effective data managementGain a comprehensive overview of all areas of data (which are often managed independently Work with the data supply chain, from data acquisition to its usage, a review of all relevant stakeholders, data strategy, and data governanceWho This Book is ForCDOs, data executives, data advisors, and all professionals looking to understand about how a data office functions in an organization.
Chief Information Officer Role Effectiveness
by Alexander Hütter René RiedlThis book reviews latest research on the effectiveness of the chief information officer (CIO) in organizations and its impact on IT success. It presents a model of six different roles, in which a contemporary CIO can act: technology provider, strategic supporter, business thinker, innovation driver, integration advisor, and relationship manager. The book analyses the effectiveness of the CIO role based on four antecedents: CIO personal competence, CIO hierarchical position, the management environment, and the IT infrastructure of the organization in which the CIO operates. Altogether the literature review synthesizes the results of highly fragmented work related to CIO role effectiveness reported in 98 studies published during the past three decades. The book contributes to information systems literature by integrating what is known about the scope and responsibilities of CIO organizational roles in the present management context, and by guiding research and practice in revealing how and why CIOs can achieve effectiveness in the six roles. The book concludes with a discussion of the limitations of the study and potential avenues for future research.
Child Data Citizen: How Tech Companies Are Profiling Us from Before Birth
by Veronica BarassiAn examination of the datafication of family life--in particular, the construction of our children into data subjects.Our families are being turned into data, as the digital traces we leave are shared, sold, and commodified. Children are datafied even before birth, with pregnancy apps and social media postings, and then tracked through babyhood with learning apps, smart home devices, and medical records. If we want to understand the emergence of the datafied citizen, Veronica Barassi argues, we should look at the first generation of datafied natives: our children. In Child Data Citizen, she examines the construction of children into data subjects, describing how their personal information is collected, archived, sold, and aggregated into unique profiles that can follow them across a lifetime.
Childhood, Mobile Technologies and Everyday Experiences
by Emma BondThis timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet technologies. Drawing on up-to-date research, it explores the relationship between childhood as a social and cultural construction and the plethora of mobile internet technologies which have become ubiquitous in everyday life.
Children and Computers in School
by Kwok-Wing Lai Gerald A. Knezek Betty A. Collis Keiko T. Miyashita Willem J. PelgrumThis volume integrates research findings from three multinational studies conducted to examine the impact of children's use of computers in school. Conclusions are drawn from in-depth analyses of trends in more than 20 nations. Its seven authors from four nations were key researchers on these projects. Both a study and a product of the information age, this work is of prime importance to teachers, teacher educators, and school administrators. This work is unique in three important ways: * it presents data gathered in many regions of the world; * many of the authors are well-known and respected for their previous work in educational studies; and * the chapters are designed in such a way that the majority of the book is easily accessible to professionals such as classroom teachers who are interested primarily in findings, results, and outcomes rather than the methodology of the research.
Children and Families in the Digital Age: Learning Together in a Media Saturated Culture
by Ellen Wartella Elisabeth Gee Lori TakeuchiChildren and Families in the Digital Age offers a fresh, nuanced, and empirically-based perspective on how families are using digital media to enhance learning, routines, and relationships. This powerful edited collection contributes to a growing body of work suggesting the importance of understanding how the consequences of digital media use are shaped by family culture, values, practices, and the larger social and economic contexts of families’ lives. Chapters offer case studies, real-life examples, and analyses of large-scale national survey data, and provide insights into previously unexplored topics such as the role of siblings in shaping the home media ecology.
Children and Television Consumption in the Digital Era: Use, Impact and Regulation
by Barrie GunterChildren and Television Consumption in the Digital Era provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary research on the developmental impact of children’s screen engagement in modern society. Barrie Gunter explores how the world of television has evolved to become almost unrecognisable from the broadcast landscapes present over the last years of the 20th century. This key text considers how screen-based entertainment has become increasingly interactive, and how children have become accustomed to creating their own television schedules through streamed services. It explores key topics including screen experiences and the manifestation of prosocial and antisocial behaviour, advertising and the development of consumerism, and the evidence of screen time on a child’s health and school performance. Gunter insightfully assesses television content that children are exposed to and its impact on cognitive and behavioural development. Featuring commentary on the challenges regulators face to keep up with rapidly developing screen technologies and suggestions on how parents can mediate their children’s screen behaviour, this text is an essential read for researchers and students taking courses in child development, family studies, broadcasting and communication.
Children, Technology and Healthy Development: How to help kids be safe and thrive online
by Catherine KnibbsHow can adults keep children safe and healthy online now and in the future? How can we thrive alongside technology? This highly accessible book unpacks the latest psychological research, attachment theory and neurobiology to offer parents and professionals insight into how technology impacts children’s development, and how to navigate our lives online. Cath Knibbs shares her extensive experience to reveal what we know about human behaviour in cyberspace, and particularly that of children using devices, consoles and social media platforms. She offers deeper understanding of how and why children engage online and shows parents and professionals how, rather than being overwhelmed by the dangers and pathologies of cyberspace, we can learn to support children in using technology healthily. She covers key topics including social media use and abuse, impact of screen time, issues around gaming, and extreme behaviours online. By the end of this book you will be able to understand your child better, and have an understanding of what is happening in their minds, brains and bodies in relation to the technological and digital world. Children, Technology and Healthy Development is for all parents, and professionals in psychology, education, social care and the police who are concerned with understanding how we support children in an online world. It will also be valuable reading for those in tech design interested in the impact of technology on the developing human.
Children’s Online Behaviour and Safety: Policy and Rights Challenges
by Andy PhippenThis book explores the use of technology in young people's social lives against a backdrop of "online safety measures" put in place by the UK government to ensure safe and risk free engagement with online services. The UK landscape is used as a case study to compare the grass roots of digital behaviours with attempts by policy makers to control access and prohibit "bad" behaviours. In conducting an analysis of current UK policy positions and media perspectives against ethnographic research in areas such as gaming and sexting, the book highlights the flaws in approaching the control of disruptive social behaviours using prohibitive approaches. It also highlights the gulf between the experiences of young people and the capabilities of the school system to deliver effective education around safe online behaviours. The author illustrates the complex relationship young people have with technology, as active engagers rather than passive consumers, and looks at the ways in which their needs for effective education and resilience are currently not being met. Furthermore, he demonstrates how, in an effort to make them safe, stakeholders are eroding children's fundamental rights. Children's Online Behaviour and Safety will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and students researching and practicing in education, sociology, children's law, children's digital rights and social policy.
China and the Internet: Using New Media for Development and Social Change
by Song ShiTwo oversimplified narratives have long dominated news reports and academic studies of China’s Internet: one lauding its potentials to boost commerce, the other bemoaning state control and measures against the forces of political transformations. This bifurcation obscures the complexity of the dynamic forces operating on the Chinese Internet and the diversity of Internet-related phenomena. China and the Internet analyzes how Chinese activists, NGOs, and government offices have used the Internet to fight rural malnutrition, the digital divide, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other urgent problems affecting millions of people. It presents five theoretically informed case studies of how new media have been used in interventions for development and social change, including how activists battled against COVID-19. In addition, this book applies a Communication for Development approach to examine the use and impact of China’s Internet. Although it is widely used internationally in Internet studies, Communication for Development has not been rigorously applied in studies of China’s Internet. This approach offers a new perspective to examine the Internet and related phenomena in Chinese society.