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: $21.73 | 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: $25.03 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
by Alan Beaulieu
As data floods into your company, you need to put it to work right away—and SQL is the best tool for the job. With the latest edition of this introductory guide, author Alan Beaulieu helps developers get up to speed with SQL fundamentals for writing database applications, performing administrative tasks, and generating reports. You'll find new chapters on SQL and big data, analytic functions, and working ...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | 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
The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition 
by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
For twenty years, the lessons from The Pragmatic Programmer have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development, independent of any particular language, framework, or methodology. This classic title is regularly featured on "Top Ten" lists, and many corporations issue it to their new hires.This new 20th Anniversary Edition offers a fresh look at the modern deve...
Price: $31.99 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | 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