Graphics and Multimedia for the Web with Adobe Creative Cloud
by Jennifer Harder
Upgrade your skills in Adobe Creative Cloud and enhance your corporate or personal website with multimedia and graphics. In this book you'll look at the latest versions of five core Adobe programs: Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate (formerly Flash), Media Encoder and Dreamweaver. As you work with each of these programs to create images, animations, audio and video you will see how each one can help you c...
Price: $54.70 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Database Benchmarking and Stress Testing
by Bert Scalzo
Provide evidence-based answers that can be measured and relied upon by your business. Database administrators will be able to make sound architectural decisions in a fast-changing landscape of virtualized servers and container-based solutions based on the empirical method presented in this book for answering "what if" questions about database performance.Today's database administrators face n...
Price: $23.76 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by John Baichtal
10 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 ...
Price: $11.45 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2018
by Sean T. McHugh
Learn the core concepts and techniques you need to know to take better photos, from choosing the best lens for your stylistic goals to selecting the right camera settings for different lighting conditions.With clear explanations and highly visual examples, Sean T. McHugh takes you from basic concepts like exposure and depth of field to more advanced topics, such as how camera lenses and sensors capture ligh...
Price: $20.36 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2018
A Beginner's Guide to Circuits 
by Oyvind Nydal Dahl
A Beginner's Guide to Circuits is the perfect first step for anyone ready to jump into the world of electronics and circuit design.First, you'll learn to read circuit diagrams and use a breadboard, which allows you to connect electrical components without using a hot soldering iron! Next, you'll build nine simple projects using just a handful of readily available components, like resistors, t...
Price: $8.91 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2018
by Lyza Danger Gardner
JavaScript on Things is your first step into the exciting and downright entertaining world of programming for small electronics. If you know enough JavaScript to hack a website together, you'll be making things go bleep, blink, and spin faster than you can say "nodebot".Are you ready to make things move? If you can build a web app, you can create robots, weather stations, and other funky gadg...
Price: $31.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2018
by Michael Nygard
If you're a software developer, and you don't want to get alerts every night for the rest of your life, help is here. With a combination of case studies about huge losses - lost revenue, lost reputation, lost time, lost opportunity - and practical, down-to-earth advice that was all gained through painful experience, this book helps you avoid the pitfalls that cost companies millions of dollars in ...
Price: $30.79 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2018
by Jos Dirksen
WebGL makes it possible to create 3D graphics in the browser without having to use plugins such as Flash and Java. Programming WebGL, however, is difficult and complex. With Three.js, it is possible to create stunning 3D graphics in an intuitive manner using JavaScript, without having to learn WebGL. With this book, you'll learn how to create and animate beautiful looking 3D scenes directly in your bro...
Price: $38.84 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2018
Internet of Things Programming Projects
by Colin Dow
The Internet of Things (IOT) has managed to attract the attention of researchers and tech enthusiasts, since it powerfully combines classical networks with instruments and devices.In Internet of Things Programming Projects, we unleash the power of Raspberry Pi and Python to create engaging projects. In the first part of the book, you'll be introduced to the Raspberry Pi, learn how to set it up, and the...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2018
by Brian Huang, Derek Runberg
The Arduino microcontroller makes it easy to learn about electronics, but it can be hard to know where to start. The 10 projects in this book will teach you to build, code, and invent with the super-smart Arduino and a handful of parts.First, you'll master the basics with a primer that explains how a circuit works, how to read a wiring schematic, and how to build and test projects with a solderless bre...
Price: $8.25 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2017