Axure Rp 6 Prototyping Essentials: Creating Highly Compelling, Interactive Prototypes With Axure That Will Impress and Excite Decision Makers

Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials is a detailed, practical primer on the leading rapid prototyping tool. Short on jargon and high on concepts, real-life scenarios and step-by-step guidance through hands-on examples, this book will show you how to integrate Axure into your UX workflow. This book is written for UX practitioners, business analysts, product managers, and anyone else who is involved in UX projects. The book assumes that you have no or very little familiarity with Axure. It will help you if you are evaluating the tool for an upcoming project or are required to quickly get up to speed in a project you just joined. The book assumes some familiarity with the principles of the User Centred Design methodology.

Axure Rp 6 Prototyping Essentials

Unknown, Author

Packt Publishing

Hands-on recipes to improve your website's load speed and overall user experience with Varnish Cache Overview  Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.  Connect and health-check application servers with Varnish Cache. Load balance requests across clustered servers. Define caching policies and request/response workflow.  In Detail When you're doing business on the Web, every second counts. 80 percent of the end user response time is spent on downloading content to the browser, and Varnish Cache is here to help you solve this problem in a simple and effective way. "Varnish Cache How-to" is a practical, hands-on guide that will take you from beginner to advanced, improving your website speed and dropping the bounce and page abandonment rates of your website. With easy-to-follow recipes, this book will help you take advantage of caching your application server's response to avoid a duplicated workload. This book will take you from the installation of the Varnish Cache server to defining caching policies, the normalization of static content, and a final production-ready fast and scalable cache server. You will learn to balance requests across servers based on input data or pre-defined settings, create persisted sessions (sticky sessions), compress static content, and modify requests. If you want to improve the speed and also provide a fail-over mechanism to achieve a fast and available website, then this book is for you.  By the end of this book, you'll learn how to scale and improve the user's experience by providing a fast and available website. What you will learn from this book  Install and configure Varnish Cache. Connect application servers to Varnish Cache. Load balance requests. Request and response workflow inside the Varnish. Caching and compressing static content. Session and cookie handling. Invalidating stale content.  Approach Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. Get the job done and learn as you go. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step recipes which will get you started with Varnish Cache. Practical examples will help you to get set up quickly and easily. Who this book is written for This book is aimed at system administrators and web developers who need to scale websites without tossing money on a large and costly infrastructure. It's assumed that you have some knowledge of the HTTP protocol, how browsers and server communicate with each other, and basic Linux systems.

Instant Varnish Cache How-to

Moutinho, Roberto

The definitive introduction to the Laravel PHP web development framework. Overview  Create databases and models using Laravel migrations and the powerful Eloquent model Get started with a useful application example that is immediately applicable to real-world applications Learn how to implement powerful relationships with Eloquent  In Detail Laravel is fundamentally changing the PHP web-development landscape. Laravel is bringing the paradigm-shifts that PHP developers have been craving. We now can take control of our application architecture and advance our craft without needing to fight against our tools. Laravel's philosophy is to provide a highly flexible architecture and an extremely expressive API while emphasizing PHP’s strengths and abstracting out its weaknesses. For these reasons Laravel is ideal for quickly creating high performance, robust applications. By providing developers with tools for automating tasks including database schema modification, CRUD operations, and testing we're able to reduce our workload, application complexity, and human-error. "Laravel Starter" is the ideal introduction to this game-changing framework. Learn best-practiced approaches to web-application development with Laravel from a seasoned professional. It starts out by installing and configuring the framework step-by-step. Then you'll use Laravel best-practices to create a private user administration system that is ready for real-world use. The later part deals with digging deep into Eloquent relationships, exploring the different relationship types and how Eloquent is working under-the-hood to simplify your life without forcing you to relinquish control. Exploring Laravel's simple yet flexible authentication system, data validation, and filters allows you to easily run code before and after your controller actions. Finally, it discusses Laravel bundles, the most flexible PHP modular code implementation in its weightclass. Focused on the how as much as the why, Laravel Starter gives you the tools to immediately begin creating professional web-applications with Laravel. What you will learn from this book  How to install and configure Laravel Creating and using Eloquent models How to understand and utilize Eloquent relationships Routing to controllers and closures Using Laravel's authentication system Utilizing filters to secure your site's private areas Learn how to use bundles to add functionality to your site Use Laravel's validator class to validate your forms or anything else Use form and HTML helpers to abstract and ease working with some HTML elements  Approach This book is a practical, task-based, step-by-step tutorial that demonstrates topics ranging from MVC code-separation, to code-modularity, to utilizing ActiveRecord for data abstraction which are explained from the ground-up to provide a strong framework of understanding for creating professional web-applications with Laravel.  Who this book is written for This book is ideal for programmers familiar with PHP who are interested in learning the Laravel way of solving the common problems faced in their day to day work.

Laravel Starter

Computers & Technology

McCool, Shawn

Networking & Cloud Computing

Easy, hands-on recipes to help you understand Hive and its integration with frameworks that are used widely in today's big data worldAbout This BookGrasp a complete reference of different Hive topics.Get to know the latest recipes in development in Hive including CRUD operationsUnderstand Hive internals and integration of Hive with different frameworks used in today's world.Who This Book Is ForThe book is intended for those who want to start in Hive or who have basic understanding of Hive framework. Prior knowledge of basic SQL command is also required What You Will LearnLearn different features and offering on the latest HiveUnderstand the working and structure of the Hive internalsGet an insight on the latest development in Hive frameworkGrasp the concepts of Hive Data ModelMaster the key concepts like Partition, Buckets and StatisticsKnow how to integrate Hive with other frameworks such as Spark, Accumulo, etcIn DetailHive was developed by Facebook and later open sourced in Apache community. Hive provides SQL like interface to run queries on Big Data frameworks. Hive provides SQL like syntax also called as HiveQL that includes all SQL capabilities like analytical functions which are the need of the hour in today's Big Data world.This book provides you easy installation steps with different types of metastores supported by Hive. This book has simple and easy to learn recipes for configuring Hive clients and services. You would also learn different Hive optimizations including Partitions and Bucketing. The book also covers the source code explanation of latest Hive version.Hive Query Language is being used by other frameworks including spark. Towards the end you will cover integration of Hive with these frameworks.Style and approach Starting with the basics and covering the core concepts with the practical usage, this book is a complete guide to learn and explore Hive offerings.

Apache Hive Cookbook

Mehrotra, Shrey

Bansal, Hanish

Chauhan, Saurabh

Software

Monitor, edit, and debug any web page in real time with this handy practical guide Overview  Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results. Modify HTML on the fly. Profile and Debug JavaScript. Change the look and feel of any element  In Detail With the advent of RIAs (Rich Internet Applications), most web pages are driven by a combination of JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, and so on. It is difficult for front end and web developers to debug and fix issues that crop up on client machines. Firebug helps to solve this; it is a wonderful toolkit to help identify and fix issues that would ordinarily take much longer to find and fix. Instant Firebug Starter is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear step-by-step exercises to help you take advantage of the full power that Firebug offers. This book will give you a great grounding in using Firebug to debug, fix, and optimize your web pages. From installation to navigating the various panels to edit, inspect, and modify your webpages, this practical guide will help you through the wilds of Firebug without a single bite. A step-by-step description of key features is provided with the help of simple and concise examples. Each chapter will help you understand the key features of Firebug with tips and tricks that will become the foundation of your knowledge in the future. The Instant Firebug Starter can be used as an end-to-end guide or as a desk reference with sections that deal with all the key aspects of web development like CSS, Javascript, and AJAX. This Instant Firebug Starter guides you through the basics of Firebug and contains years' worth of industry knowledge and expertise. This knowledge has been stripped back to 60 pages of useful insights, tips, tricks, and the latest techniques that will get you up to speed in no time. What you will learn from this book  Get to grips with the basics of Firebug's panels and their functions. Inspect, edit and play with HTML sources. Discover various ways to analyze the performance of your web application on the browser. Track XmlHttpRequest and XmlHttpResponse as well as monitoring AJAX calls. Explore the value of properties and constants of any DOM object. Monitor, edit, and remove cookies from Firebug.  Approach Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. This easy to understand Starter guide will get you up to speed with Firebug quickly and with little effort. Hands-on and practical examples allow you to get a feel for the tool and get used to using it on a day-to-day basis. Who this book is written for If you are just starting out with web development and looking to improve your site with Firebug, then this guide is for you. If you have a basic understanding of web development then this guide is easy to follow and will benefit your site no end.

Instant Firebug Starter

Luthra, Chandan

Web Development & Design

Gather detailed statistics and data while monitoring the performance and availability of network devices and applications using the all-new Zabbix 3.0About This Book<ul>
<li>Monitor your network and deploy impressive business solutions with Zabbix 3.0</li>
<li>Manage hosts and system maintenance to keep your network performing for the people who use it</li>
<li>A step-by-step guide to smarter network monitoring</li>
</ul>Who This Book Is ForIf you're new to Zabbix look no further than this book. It will show you how to put your sysadmin knowledge to work with Zabbix 3.0 so you can experience the full impact of this useful and increasingly popular tool.What You Will Learn<ul>
<li>Get to grips with the fundamentals of Zabbix</li>
<li>Find out how Zabbix's features let you monitor your network with confidence and precision</li>
<li>Learn how to monitor SNMP devices</li>
<li>Manage hosts, users, and permissions while acting upon monitored conditions</li>
<li>Visualize data with the help of ad-hoc graphs, custom graphs, maps, and reports</li>
<li>Simplify complex configurations and learn to automate them</li>
<li>Monitor everything from web pages to IPMI devices and Java applications to and VMware stats</li>
<li>Troubleshoot any network issue - fast</li>
</ul>In DetailThis book is a perfect starting point for monitoring with Zabbix. Even if you have never used a monitoring solution before, this book will get you up and running quickly, before guiding you into more sophisticated operations with ease. You'll soon feel in complete control of your network, ready to meet any challenges you might face.
Beginning with installation, you'll learn the basics of data collection before diving deeper to get to grips with native Zabbix agents and SNMP devices. You will also explore Zabbix's integrated functionality for monitoring Java application servers and VMware.
Beyond this, Zabbix Network Monitoring also covers notifications, permission management, system maintenance, and troubleshooting - so you can be confident that every potential challenge and task is under your control. If you're working with larger environments, you'll also be able to find out more about distributed data collection using Zabbix proxies.
Once you're confident and ready to put these concepts into practice, you'll find out how to optimize and improve performance. Troubleshooting network issues is vital for anyone working with Zabbix, so the book is also on hand to help you work through any technical snags and glitches you might face. Network monitoring doesn't have to be a chore - learn the tricks of the Zabbix trade and make sure you're network is performing for everyone who depends upon it.Style and approachThis book is a detailed and practical guide that starts from the fundamentals of Zabbix and takes you all the way to building a network monitoring solution that is capable of gathering data from range of different systems. With tips on low-level details that will boost any Zabbix users confidence and fluency, it's an unmissable resource for anyone interested in what's possible with Zabbix.

Zabbix Network Monitoring Second Edition

Olups, Rihards

Turn your digital data into dynamic graphics with this exciting, leading-edge cookbook. Packed with recipes and practical guidance it will quickly make you a proficient user of the D3 JavaScript library. Overview <ul>
<li>Create stunning data visualization with the power of D3</li> <li>Bootstrap D3 quickly with the help of ready-to-go code samples</li> <li>Solve real-world visualization problems with the help of practical recipes</li> </ul>
In Detail D3.js is a JavaScript library designed to display digital data in dynamic graphical form. It helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS. D3 allows great control over the final visual result, and it is the hottest and most powerful web-based data visualization technology on the market today. "Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook" is packed with practical recipes to help you learn every aspect of data visualization with D3. "Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook" is designed to provide you with all the guidance you need to get to grips with data visualization with D3. With this book, you will create breathtaking data visualization with professional efficiency and precision with the help of practical recipes, illustrations, and code samples. "Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook" starts off by touching upon data visualization and D3 basics before gradually taking you through a number of practical recipes covering a wide range of topics you need to know about D3. You will learn the fundamental concepts of data visualization, functional JavaScript, and D3 fundamentals including element selection, data binding, animation, and SVG generation. You will also learn how to leverage more advanced techniques such as custom interpolators, custom tweening, timers, the layout manager, force manipulation, and so on. This book also provides a number of pre-built chart recipes with ready-to-go sample code to help you bootstrap quickly. What you will learn from this book <ul>
<li>Learn how to use functional JavaScript so you can write it the D3 way</li> <li>Select and manipulate HTML and SVG elements efficiently in D3</li> <li>Drive your visualization using data</li> <li>Master D3 scales and interpolators</li> <li>Animate your visualization with style</li> <li>Use SVG and various D3 path generators</li> <li>Explore D3 layouts and understand and leverage D3 force</li> <li>Build mobile-first interactive visualization with touch support</li> <li>Test-drive your visualization implementation</li> <li>Build multi-dimensional data visualization with crossfilter and dc.js in minutes</li> </ul>
Approach Packed with practical recipes, this is a step-by-step guide to learning data visualization with D3 with the help of detailed illustrations and code samples. Who this book is written for If you are a developer familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and you wish to get the most out of D3, then this book is for you. This book can also serve as a desktop quick-reference guide for experienced data visualization developers.

Data Visualization with D3.Js Cookbook

Qi Zhu, Nick

Do it all with Java! All you need is Vaadin and this book which shows you how to develop web applications in a totally hands-on approach. By the end of it you'll have acquired the knack and taken a fun journey on the way.  Overview  Learn how to develop Vaadin web applications while having fun and getting your hands dirty Develop relevant and unique applications following step-by-step guides with the help of plenty of screenshots from the start The best available introduction to Vaadin with a practical hands-on approach and easy to read tutorials and examples  In Detail Vaadin is a mature, open-source, and powerful Java framework used to build modern web applications in plain Java. Vaadin brings back the fun of programming UI interfaces to the web universe. No HTML, no CSS, no JavaScript, no XML. Vaadin lets you implement web user interfaces using an object oriented model, similar to desktop technologies such as Swing and AWT. Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner’s Guide is an engaging guide that will teach you how to develop web applications in minutes. With this book, you will Develop useful applications and learn basics of Java web development. By the end of the book you will be able to build Java web applications that look fantastic. The book begins with simple examples using the most common Vaadin UI components and quickly move towards more complex applications as components are introduced chapter-by-chapter. Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner’s Guide shows you how to use Eclipse, Netbeans, and Maven to create Vaadin projects. It then demonstrates how to use labels, text fields, buttons, and other input components. Once you get a grasp of the basic usage of Vaadin, the book explains Vaadin theory to prepare you for the rest of the trip that will enhance your knowledge of Vaadin UI components and customization techniques. What you will learn from this book  Create Vaadin applications using Eclipse, Netbeans, and Maven Use input components such as text fields, buttons, combo boxes, check boxes, and more Use layouts, panels, and windows to arrange UI components Incorporate navigation capabilities to Vaadin applications Use tables and trees to present complex data Use advanced components such as progress indicators, context menus, sliders, and drag-and-drop capabilities Include custom HTML, Flash, and other web content in Vaadin applications Customize UI components by using CSS Develop your own components  Approach This book is a hands-on Beginner’s Guide for developers who are new to Vaadin and/or Vaadin UI components. The book will teach readers through examples to use each of the exciting components to build and add various aspects of the user interface to their web apps. Who this book is written for If you have experience with the Java language and want to create web applications that look good without having to deal with HTML, XML, and JavaScript, this book is for you. Basic Java programming skills are required, but no web development knowledge is needed at all.

Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide

Duarte, Alejandro

Over 70 hands-on recipes to quickly and effectively integrate Lucene into your search application About This BookMake the most of Lucene by understanding its philosophy and leveraging the data searching capability of your applicationExplore techniques to design scalable and succinct search applicationsPacked with clear, step-by-step recipes to walk you through the capabilities of LuceneWho This Book Is ForThis book is for software developers who are new to Lucene and who want to explore the more advanced topics to build a search engine. Knowledge of Java is necessary to follow the code samples. You will learn core concepts, best practices, and also advanced features, in order to build an effective search application.What You Will Learn Explore the best practices to make the most of your search application Create and write documents in an index Customize scoring and boosting in your application to influence search results Expand Lucene's functionality, such as spatial searching and faceting with add-on modules Load and initialize the library and build a search index of data Understand trading between NRT latency and throughput Optimize your search applications by employing features such as near real-time (NRT) search In DetailLucene 4 Cookbook is a practical guide that shows you how to build a scalable search engine for your application, from an internal documentation search to a wide-scale web implementation with millions of records. Starting with helping you to successfully install Apache Lucene, it will guide you through creating your first search application. Furthermore, the book walks you through analyzing your text and indexing your data to leverage the performance of your search application. As you progress through the chapters, you will learn to effectively search your indexes and successfully employ real-time searching.The chapters start off with simple concepts and build up to complex solutions that should help you on your way to becoming a search engine expert.

Lucene 4 Cookbook

Ng, Edwood

Mohan, Vineeth

Nginx can be an ideal replacement or supplement to Apache. Learn just how straightforward it can be to embrace the Nginx alternative and run a server designed 100% for today's web using this brilliant tutorial.  Complete configuration directive and module reference Discover possible interactions between Nginx and Apache to get the best of both worlds Learn to configure your servers and virtual hosts efficiently A step-by-step guide to switching from Apache to Nginx  In Detail Nginx is a lightweight HTTP server designed for high-traffic websites, with network scalability as the primary objective. With the advent of high speed Internet access, short loading times and fast transfer rates have become a necessity. This free, open source solution will either come as a full replacement of other software such as Apache, or stand in front of your existing infrastructure to improve its overall speed. "Nginx HTTP Server - Second Edition" provides a detailed guide to setting up Nginx in different ways that correspond to actual production situations: as a standalone server, as a reverse proxy, interacting with applications via FastCGI and more. In addition, the complete directive reference will be your best friend at all stages of the configuration and maintenance processes. This book is the perfect companion for both Nginx beginners and experienced administrators. For beginners, it will take you through the complete process of setting up this lightweight HTTP server on your system and configuring its various modules to get it to do exactly what you need, in a fast and secure way. For more experienced administrators, this book provides different angles of approach that can help you make the most of your current infrastructure. Nginx can be employed in many situations, whether you are looking to construct an entirely new web-serving architecture or simply want to integrate an efficient tool to optimize your site loading speeds. This book takes you through the setup and configuration of Nginx by detailing every step of the way, from downloading to configuring your server in a selection of common architectures. What you will learn from this book  Download and build Nginx from source along with its dependencies The basics of Nginx configuration: syntax, structure, semantics Create virtual host configurations effortlessly Discover all first-party modules and how to enable, configure and use them Establish advanced rewrite rules with the Nginx Rewrite module Set up Nginx to work with PHP, Python and more via FastCGI Configure Nginx to work as a frontend for your existing HTTP server Learn how to port your Apache rewrite rules through three practical examples Troubleshoot if something goes wrong with the server  Approach This tutorial book includes detailed instructions for each of the processes it describes: downloading and installing the application, configuring and using modules, and much more. It provides a step-by-step tutorial to replace your existing web server with Nginx. With commented configuration sections and in-depth module descriptions, you will be able to make the most of the performance potential offered by Nginx.

Nginx HTTP Server - Second Edition

Nedelcu, Clément

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