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If you're grounded in the basics of Swift, Xcode, and the Cocoa framework, this book provides a structured explanation of all essential real-world iOS app components. Through deep exploration and copious code examples, you'll learn how to create views, manipulate view controllers, and add features from iOS frameworks

Learn how to solve challenging machine learning problems with TensorFlow, Google's revolutionary new software library for deep learning. If you have some background in basic linear algebra and calculus, this practical book introduces machine-learning fundamentals.

With this practical guide, you'll learn how Kudu's architecture and features solve a unique problem in the Hadoop ecosystem. If you're familiar with other storage layer projects such HDFS, HBase, Spanner, and Cassandra, you'll quickly learn-and appreciate-the unique contribution Kudu makes to this ecosystem.

Challenges us to step back and take an objective look at the technology driving our lives. The author illustrates that we're forgetting one important thing - our Selves, the human spirit from which technology stems. He examines the deceiving virtues of technology - how we're killing education, socializing our machines, and mechanizing our society.

In this practical book, two expert product managers provide straightforward guidance for people looking to join the thriving enterprise market. Authors Blair Reeves and Benjamin Gaines explain critical differences between enterprise and consumer products, and deliver strategies for overcoming challenges when building for the enterprise.

Continuous delivery adds enormous value to the business and the entire software delivery lifecycle, but adopting this practice means mastering new skills typically outside of a developers comfort zone. In this practical book, Daniel Bryant and Abraham Marn-Prez provide guidance to help experienced Java developers master skills such as architectural design, automated quality assurance, and application packaging and deployment on a variety of platforms.Not only will you learn how to create a comprehensive build pipeline for continually delivering effective software, but youll also explore how Java application architecture and deployment platforms have affected the way we rapidly and safely deliver new software to production environments.Get advice for beginning or completing your migration to continuous deliveryDesign architecture to enable the continuous delivery of Java applicationsBuild application artifacts including fat JARs, virtual machine images, and operating system container (Docker) imagesUse continuous integration tooling like Jenkins, PMD, and find-sec-bugs to automate code quality checksCreate a comprehensive build pipeline and design software to separate the deploy and release processesExplore why functional and system quality attribute testing is vital from development to deliveryLearn how to effectively build and test applications locally and observe your system while it runs in production

This O'Reilly cookbook provides more than 150 recipes to help scientists, engineers, programmers, and data analysts generate high-quality graphs quickly-without having to comb through all the details of R's graphing systems.

How do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? This practical guide shows you how to validate product and company ideas through customer development researchbefore you waste months and millions on a product or service that no one needs or wants.With a combination of open-ended interviewing and fast and flexible research techniques, youll learn how your prospective customers behave, the problems they need to solve, and what frustrates and delights them. These insights may shake your assumptions, but theyll help you reach the "e;ah-ha!"e; moments that inspire truly great products.Validate or invalidate your hypothesis by talking to the right peopleLearn how to conduct successful customer interviews play-by-playDetect a customers behaviors, pain points, and constraintsTurn interview insights into Minimum Viable Products to validate what customers will use and buyAdapt customer development strategies for large companies, conservative industries, and existing products

Getting Started with Soldering not only teaches new makers and experimenters the core principles of soldering, it also functions as an excellent reference and resource for beginners and more advanced makers alike.

Do you feel like your thoughts, ideas, and plans are being suffocated by a constant onslaught of information? Do you want to get those great ideas out of your head, onto the whiteboard and into everyone elses heads, but find it hard to start? No matter what level of sketching you think you have, Presto Sketching will help you lift your game in visual thinking and visual communication.In this practical workbook, Ben Crothers provides loads of tips, templates, and exercises that help you develop your visual vocabulary and sketching skills to clearly express and communicate your ideas. Learn techniques like product sketching, storyboarding, journey mapping, and conceptual illustration. Dive into how to use a visual metaphor (with a library of 101 visual metaphors), as well as tips for capturing and sharing your sketches digitally, and developing your own style.Designers, product managers, trainers, and entrepreneurs will learn better ways to explore problems, explain concepts, and come up with well-defined ideas - and have fun doing it.

iOS 11, Swift 4, and Xcode 9 provide many new APIs for iOS developers. With this cookbook, youll learn more than 170 proven solutions for tackling the latest features in iOS 11 and watchOS 4, including new ways to use Swift and Xcode to make your day-to-day app development life easier. This collection of code-rich recipes also gets you up to speed on continuous delivery and continuous integration systems.Ideal for intermediate and advanced iOS developers looking to work with the newest version of iOS, these recipes include reusable code on GitHub, so you can put them to work in your project right away.Among the topics covered in this book:New features in Swift 4 and Xcode 9Tools for continuous delivery and continuous integrationSnapshot testing and test automationCreating document-based applicationsUpdated Map view and Core Location featuresiOS 11s Security and Password AutofillData storage with Apples Core DataCreating lively user interfaces with UI DynamicsBuilding iMessage applications and sticker packagesIntegrating Siri into your apps with Siri KitCreating fascinating apps for Apple Watch

Learn how to build app store-ready hybrid apps with the Ionic 2, the framework built on top of Apache Cordova (formerly PhoneGap) and Angular. This revised guide shows you how to use Ionics tools and services to develop apps with HTML, CSS, and TypeScript, rather than rely on platform-specific solutions found in Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.Author Chris Griffith takes you step-by-step through Ionics powerful collection of UI components, and then helps you use it to build three cross-platform mobile apps. Whether youre new to this framework or have been working with Ionic 1, this book is ideal for beginning, intermediate, and advanced web developers.Understand what a hybrid mobile app is, and what comprises a basic Ionic applicationLearn how Ionic leverages Apache Cordova, Angular, and TypeScript to create native mobile applicationsCreate a Firebase-enabled to-do application that stores data across multiple clientsBuild a tab-based National Park explorer app with Google Map integrationDevelop a weather app with the Darksky weather API and Googles GeoCode APIDebug and test your app to resolve issues that arise during developmentWalk through steps for deploying your app to native app storesLearn how Ionic can be used to create Progressive Web Apps

Using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for illustrations only scratches the surface of this formats potential on the web. With this practical guide, youll learn how to use SVG not only for illustrations but also as graphical documents that you can integrate into complex HTML5 web pages, and style with custom CSS. Web developers will discover ways to adapt designs by adding data based graphics, dynamic styles, interaction, or animation.Divided into five parts, this book includes:SVG on the web: Understand how SVG works with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to define graphicsDrawing with markup: Learn the vector language of x and y coordinates that let SVG create basic and custom shapesPutting graphics in their place: Use the coordinate system to draw SVG shapes and text at different scales and positionsArtistic touches: Explore how color is used, how strokes are created and manipulated, and how graphical effects like filters, clipping, and masking are appliedSVG as an application: Make your graphic more accessible to humans and computers, and learn how to make it interactive or animated

Learn how to automate your build, integration, release and deployment process with Jenkins, the popular Java-based open source tool that has revolutionized the way teams think about continuous integration (CI).

Why does poor software quality continue to plague enterprises of all sizes in all industries? Part of the problem lies with the process, rather than individual developers. This practical guide provides ten best practices to help team leaders create an effective working environment through key adjustments to their process.As a follow-up to their popular book, Building Maintainable Software, consultants with the Software Improvement Group (SIG) offer critical lessons based on their assessment of development processes used by hundreds of software teams. Each practice includes examples of goalsetting to help you choose the right metrics for your team.Achieve development goals by determining meaningful metrics with the Goal-Question-Metric approachTranslate those goals to a verifiable Definition of DoneManage code versions for consistent and predictable modificationControl separate environments for each stage in the development pipelineAutomate tests as much as possible and steer their guidelines and expectationsLet the Continuous Integration server do much of the hard work for youAutomate the process of pushing code through the pipelineDefine development process standards to improve consistency and simplicityManage dependencies on third party code to keep your software consistent and up to dateDocument only the most necessary and current knowledge

If youre a web designer or app developer interested in sophisticated page styling, improved accessibility, and saving time and effort, this book is for you. This revised edition provides a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of the latest CSS specifications.CSS is a constantly evolving language for describing the presentation of web content on screen, printers, speech synthesizers, screen readers, and chat windows. It is used by all browsers on all screen sizes on all types of IoT devices, including phones, computers, video games, televisions, watches, kiosks, and auto consoles. Authors Eric Meyer and Estelle Weyl show you how to improve user experience, speed development, avoid potential bugs, and add life and depth to your applications through layout, transitions and animations, borders, backgrounds, text properties, and many other tools and techniques.This guide covers:Selectors, specificity, and the cascadeValues, units, fonts, and text propertiesPadding, borders, outlines, and marginsColors, backgrounds, and gradientsFloats and positioning tricksFlexible box layoutThe new Grid layout system2D and 3D transforms, transitions, and animationFilters, blending, clipping, and maskingMedia and feature queries

Making Things Smart teaches the fundamentals of the powerful ARM microcontroller by walking beginners and experienced users alike through easily assembled projects comprised of inexpensive, hardware-store parts.

Light up your life with ingenious LED projects perfect for the whole family! This beautifully presented book is filled with full-color photographs and step-by-step instructions for projects that can be completed by even the youngest Maker

Each volume of William Gurstelle's unique, hands-on journey through history examines remarkable inventors whose insights and inventions helped create our modern world.

Voice user interfaces (VUIs) are becoming all the rage today. But how do you build one that people can actually converse with? Whether youre designing a mobile app, a toy, or a device such as a home assistant, this practical book guides you through basic VUI design principles, helps you choose the right speech recognition engine, and shows you how to measure your VUIs performance and improve upon it.Author Cathy Pearl also takes product managers, UX designers, and VUI designers into advanced design topics that will help make your VUI not just functional, but great.Understand key VUI design concepts, including command-and-control and conversational systemsDecide if you should use an avatar or other visual representation with your VUIExplore speech recognition technology and its impact on your designTake your VUI above and beyond the basic exchange of informationLearn practical ways to test your VUI application with usersMonitor your app and learn how to quickly improve performanceGet real-world examples of VUIs for home assistants, smartwatches, and car systems

As technology becomes deeply integrated into every aspect of our lives, weve begun to expect more emotionally intelligent interactions. But smartphones dont know if were having a bad day, and cars couldnt care less about compassion. Technology is developing more IQ, but it still lacks EQ.In this book, Pamela Pavliscakdesign researcher and advisor to Fortune 500 companiesexplores new research about emotion, new technology that engages emotion, and new emotional design practices. Drawing on her own research and the latest thinking in psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, Pamela shows you how design can help promote emotional well-being.Youll learn:How design has transformed emotion and how tech is transforming it againNew principles for merging emotional intelligence and design thinkingHow to use a relationship model for framing product interactions and personalityMethods for blending well-being interventions with design patternsHow emotional resonance can guide designers toward ethical futuresImplications of emotionally intelligent technology as it scales from micro- to mega-emotional spheres

Concurrency can be notoriously difficult to get right, but fortunately, the Go open source programming language makes working with concurrency tractable and even easy. If youre a developer familiar with Go, this practical book demonstrates best practices and patterns to help you incorporate concurrency into your systems.Author Katherine Cox-Buday takes you step-by-step through the process. Youll understand how Go chooses to model concurrency, what issues arise from this model, and how you can compose primitives within this model to solve problems. Learn the skills and tooling you need to confidently write and implement concurrent systems of any size.Understand how Go addresses fundamental problems that make concurrency difficult to do correctlyLearn the key differences between concurrency and parallelismDig into the syntax of Gos memory synchronization primitivesForm patterns with these primitives to write maintainable concurrent codeCompose patterns into a series of practices that enable you to write large, distributed systems that scaleLearn the sophistication behind goroutines and how Gos runtime stitches everything together

This hands-on guide provides the knowledge and tools you need to measure, deploy, and manage your web application infrastructure before you experience explosive growth. In this thoroughly updated edition, authors Arun Kejariwal (MZ) and John Allspaw provide a systematic, robust, and practical approach to capacity planning.

This practical guide to using Keystone provides detailed, step-by-step guidance to creating a secure cloud environment at the Infrastructure-as-a-Service layer-as well as key practices for safeguarding your cloud's ongoing security.