by Johan Vos, Stephen Chin, Weiqi Gao, James Weaver, Dean Iverson
Use the JavaFX platform to create rich-client Java applications and discover how you can use this powerful Java-based UI platform, which is capable of handling large-scale data-driven business applications for PC as well as mobile and embedded devices. The expert authors cover the new more modular JavaFX 9 APIs, development tools, and best practices and provide code examples that explore the exciting new fe...
Price: $31.20 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Rashid Khan, Anik Das
Learn best practices for building bots by focusing on the technological implementation and UX in this practical book. You will cover key topics such as setting up a development environment for creating chatbots for multiple channels (Facebook Messenger, Skype, and KiK); building a chatbot (design to implementation); integrating to IFTT (If This Then That) and IoT (Internet of Things); carrying out analytics...
Price: $27.63 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Butch Quinto
Utilize this practical and easy-to-follow guide to modernize traditional enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence environments with next-generation big data technologies.Next-Generation Big Data takes a holistic approach, covering the most important aspects of modern enterprise big data. The book covers not only the main technology stack but also the next-generation tools and applications used fo...
Price: $33.51 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Open Source Intelligence Methods and Tools 
by Nihad Hassan, Rami Hijazi
Apply Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques, methods, and tools to acquire information from publicly available online sources to support your intelligence analysis. Use the harvested data in different scenarios such as financial, crime, and terrorism investigations as well as performing business competition analysis and acquiring intelligence about individuals and other entities. This book will also i...
Price: $25.44 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Aswin Pranam
Gain all of the techniques, teachings, tools, and methodologies required to be an effective first-time product manager. The overarching goal of this book is to help you understand the product manager role, give you concrete examples of what a product manager does, and build the foundational skill-set that will gear you towards a career in product management. To be an effective PM in the tech industry, you ...
Price: $37.33 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Developing Bots with Microsoft Bots Framework
by Srikanth Machiraju, Ritesh Modi
Develop Intelligent Bots using Microsoft Bot framework (C# and Node.js), Visual Studio Enterprise & Code, MicrosoftAzure and Cognitive Services. This book shows you how to develop great Bots, publish to Azure and register with Bot portal so that customers canconnect and communicate using famous communication channels like Skype, Slack, Web and Facebook. You'll also learn how to build intelligence i...
Price: $36.42 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Examine the history of smart homes, how technology shapes our lives, and ways you can think about the home when developing new products. This book presents the opportunities in the homespace that will come from understanding the history and multiple players that have contributed to the development of the home in general.You'll start by breaking down the historical, societal and political context for th...
Price: $32.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Bikramaditya Singhal, Gautam Dhameja, Priyansu Sekhar Panda
Understand the nuts and bolts of Blockchain, its different flavors with simple use cases, and cryptographic fundamentals. You will also learn some design considerations that can help you build custom solutions.Beginning Blockchain is a beginner's guide to understanding the core concepts of Blockchain from a technical perspective. By learning the design constructs of different types of Blockchain, you w...
Price: $26.63 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
The Tech Professional's Guide to Communicating in a Global Workplace
by April Wells
Information technologists are increasingly being made part of global teams, and are confronting the challenges of communicating across a variety of linguistic and cultural boundaries. This book helps you rise to those challenges by helping you know what to say, what not to say, and even where to sit in meetings and in social situations.People talk about the increasingly global nature of work, and that is on...
Price: $19.56 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
The Data-Driven Project Manager
by Mario Vanhoucke
Discover solutions to common obstacles faced by project managers. Written as a business novel, the book is highly interactive, allowing readers to participate and consider options at each stage of a project. The book is based on years of experience, both through the author's research projects as well as his teaching lectures at business schools.The book tells the story of Emily Reed and her colleagues ...
Price: $20.96 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018