by Kevin Feasel
Harness the power of PolyBase data virtualization software to make data from a variety of sources easily accessible through SQL queries while using the T-SQL skills you already know and have mastered.PolyBase Revealed shows you how to use the PolyBase feature of SQL Server 2019 to integrate SQL Server with Azure Blob Storage, Apache Hadoop, other SQL Server instances, Oracle, Cosmos DB, Apache Spark, and mo...
Price: $22.29 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
by Aravind Shenoy
Learn to use Bulma in your HTML file by applying easy-to-understand practical examples to create responsive and mobile-first websites.Featuring a step-by-step approach, this book encourages you to modify its code examples and review the changes produced in the output, to thereby reveal the subtle nuances of this awesome utility. Bulma is an impressive, modern framework utility that allows the easy construc...
Price: $26.10 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
by Anand Tamboli
Discover how every solution in some way related to the IoT needs a platform and how to create that platform. This book is about being agile and reducing time to market without breaking the bank. It is about designing something that you can scale incrementally without having to do a lot of rework and potentially disrupting your current state of the work.So the key questions are: what does it take, how long d...
Price: $26.01 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2019
Exploring BeagleBone, 2nd Edition 
by Derek Molloy
Exploring BeagleBone is a hands-on guide to bringing gadgets, gizmos, and robots to life using the popular BeagleBone embedded Linux platform. Comprehensive content and deep detail provide more than just a BeagleBone instruction manual-you'll also learn the underlying engineering techniques that will allow you to create your own projects. The book begins with a foundational primer on essential skills, and t...
Price: $29.78 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2019
Developing 2D Games with Unity
by Jared Halpern
Follow a walkthrough of the Unity Engine and learn important 2D-centric lessons in scripting, working with image assets, animations, cameras, collision detection, and state management. In addition to the fundamentals, you'll learn best practices, helpful game-architectural patterns, and how to customize Unity to suit your needs, all in the context of building a working 2D game.While many books focus on 3D g...
Price: $28.19 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2019
Building Xamarin.Forms Mobile Apps Using XAML 
by Dan Hermes, Nima Mazloumi
Leverage Xamarin.Forms to build iOS and Android apps using a single, cross-platform approach. This book is the XAML companion to the C# guide Xamarin Mobile Application Development. You'll begin with an overview of Xamarin.Forms, then move on to an in-depth XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language) primer covering syntax, namespaces, markup extensions, constructors, and the XAML standard. XAML gives us ...
Price: $26.20 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2019
Quick Start Guide to Penetration Testing
by Sagar Rahalkar
Get started with NMAP, OpenVAS, and Metasploit in this short book and understand how NMAP, OpenVAS, and Metasploit can be integrated with each other for greater flexibility and efficiency. You will begin by working with NMAP and ZENMAP and learning the basic scanning and enumeration process. After getting to know the differences between TCP and UDP scans, you will learn to fine tune your scans and efficient...
Price: $25.56 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2019
by Ralph Lecessi
Reduce development time by organizing your programs as chains of functional interfaces and see that the advantages of using functional interfaces include the flexibility and power of inlined functional chains and reuse of functional methods utilized throughout the Java API. You'll see how complex logical expressions can be reduced to chains of predicates and how chains of comparators can be used to sort dat...
Price: $31.16 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2019
by Edward Pollack
Take a deep dive into the many uses of dynamic SQL in Microsoft SQL Server. This edition has been updated to use the newest features in SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017 as well as incorporating the changing landscape of analytics and database administration. Code examples have been updated with new system objects and functions to improve efficiency and maintainability.Executing dynamic SQL is key to larg...
Price: $30.40 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2019
by James R. Payne
Discover everything you need to know about Python to turn your passion of programming into a job you'll love. Fueled by fun and practical examples, this book gives high schoolers who want learn an easy programming language ideas for how to leverage them in the workforce.Start with the basics and before you know it, you'll be building your own web sites, doing white-hat hacking, finding code bugs and errors,...
Price: $20.98 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2019