Cross-Platform Desktop Applications
Desktop application development has traditionally required high-level programming languages and specialized frameworks. With Electron and NW.js, you can apply your existing web dev skills to create desktop applications using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And those applications will work across Windows, Mac, and Linux, radically reducing development and training time. Cross-Platform Desktop Applications guides you step by step through the development of desktop applications using Electron and NW.js. This example-filled guide shows you how to create your own file explorer, and then steps through some of the APIs provided by the frameworks to work with the camera, access the clipboard, make a game with keyboard controls, and build a Twitter desktop notification tool. You'll then learn how to test your applications, and debug and package them as binaries for various OSs. ...
Desktop application development has traditionally required high-level programming languages and specialized frameworks. With Electron and NW.js, you can apply your existing web dev skills to create desktop applications using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And those applications will work across Windows, Mac, and Linux, radically reducing development and training time. Cross-Platform Desktop Applications guides you step by step through the development of desktop applications using Electron and NW.js. This example-filled guide shows you how to create your own file explorer, and then steps through some of the APIs provided by the frameworks to work with the camera, access the clipboard, make a game with keyboard controls, and build a Twitter desktop notification tool. You'll then learn how to test your applications, and debug and package them as binaries for various OSs. ...
Annual Editions, 22nd Edition
The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. Each Annual Editions volume has a number of features designed to make them especially valuable for classroom use; including a brief overview for each unit, as well as Learning Outcomes, Critical Thinking questions, and Internet References to accompany each article. ...
The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. Each Annual Editions volume has a number of features designed to make them especially valuable for classroom use; including a brief overview for each unit, as well as Learning Outcomes, Critical Thinking questions, and Internet References to accompany each article. ...
CompTIA Linux+/LPIC-1 Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Premium 2nd Edition
The premium edition features the bestselling book plus one year of unlimited access to Practice Labs for CompTIA Linux+, including real world hands-on tasks carried out on real hardware simply accessed from a web browser. An innovative, hands-on study system from a team of CompTIA certification and Linux experts, CompTIA Linux+/LPIC-1 Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Premium Edition with Online Practice Labs offers complete lab based coverage of CompTIA Linux+ exams LX0-103 and LX0-104. The Practice Labs platform offers an opportunity to work with industry standard technologies to provide hands-on experience and help you develop a deeper understanding of the topics covered in the certification exams. One year of online access includes: Real hardware and software needed to develop your practical skills - this is not a simulation but access to the actual equipment you would expect to find in any work place along with a wide range of industry standard technologies; Certification ...
The premium edition features the bestselling book plus one year of unlimited access to Practice Labs for CompTIA Linux+, including real world hands-on tasks carried out on real hardware simply accessed from a web browser. An innovative, hands-on study system from a team of CompTIA certification and Linux experts, CompTIA Linux+/LPIC-1 Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Premium Edition with Online Practice Labs offers complete lab based coverage of CompTIA Linux+ exams LX0-103 and LX0-104. The Practice Labs platform offers an opportunity to work with industry standard technologies to provide hands-on experience and help you develop a deeper understanding of the topics covered in the certification exams. One year of online access includes: Real hardware and software needed to develop your practical skills - this is not a simulation but access to the actual equipment you would expect to find in any work place along with a wide range of industry standard technologies; Certification ...
Principles of Computer Security, 5th Edition
Learn IT security fundamentals while getting complete coverage of the objectives for the latest release of CompTIA Security+ certification exam SY0-501. This thoroughly revised, full-color textbook discusses communication, infrastructure, operational security, attack prevention, disaster recovery, computer forensics, and much more. Written by a pair of highly respected security educators, Principles of Computer Security: CompTIA Security+ and Beyond, Fifth Edition (Exam SY0-501) will help you pass the exam and become a CompTIA certified computer security expert. Ensure operational, organizational, and physical security; Use cryptography and public key infrastructures (PKIs); Secure remote access, wireless networks, and virtual private networks (VPNs); Authenticate users and lock down mobile devices; Harden network devices, operating systems, and applications; Prevent network attacks, such as denial of service, spoofing, hijacking, and password guessing; Combat viruses, worms, Trojan ...
Learn IT security fundamentals while getting complete coverage of the objectives for the latest release of CompTIA Security+ certification exam SY0-501. This thoroughly revised, full-color textbook discusses communication, infrastructure, operational security, attack prevention, disaster recovery, computer forensics, and much more. Written by a pair of highly respected security educators, Principles of Computer Security: CompTIA Security+ and Beyond, Fifth Edition (Exam SY0-501) will help you pass the exam and become a CompTIA certified computer security expert. Ensure operational, organizational, and physical security; Use cryptography and public key infrastructures (PKIs); Secure remote access, wireless networks, and virtual private networks (VPNs); Authenticate users and lock down mobile devices; Harden network devices, operating systems, and applications; Prevent network attacks, such as denial of service, spoofing, hijacking, and password guessing; Combat viruses, worms, Trojan ...
Gray Hat Hacking, 5th Edition
Fortify your network and avert digital catastrophe with proven strategies from a team of security experts. Completely updated and featuring 13 new chapters, Gray Hat Hacking, The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Fifth Edition explains the enemy's current weapons, skills, and tactics and offers field-tested remedies, case studies, and ready-to-try testing labs. Find out how hackers gain access, overtake network devices, script and inject malicious code, and plunder Web applications and browsers. Android-based exploits, reverse engineering techniques, and cyber law are thoroughly covered in this state-of-the-art resource. And the new topic of exploiting the Internet of things is introduced in this edition. Build and launch spoofing exploits with Ettercap; Induce error conditions and crash software using fuzzers; Use advanced reverse engineering to exploit Windows and Linux software; Bypass Windows Access Control and memory protection schemes; Exploit web applications with Padding Oracle Att ...
Fortify your network and avert digital catastrophe with proven strategies from a team of security experts. Completely updated and featuring 13 new chapters, Gray Hat Hacking, The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Fifth Edition explains the enemy's current weapons, skills, and tactics and offers field-tested remedies, case studies, and ready-to-try testing labs. Find out how hackers gain access, overtake network devices, script and inject malicious code, and plunder Web applications and browsers. Android-based exploits, reverse engineering techniques, and cyber law are thoroughly covered in this state-of-the-art resource. And the new topic of exploiting the Internet of things is introduced in this edition. Build and launch spoofing exploits with Ettercap; Induce error conditions and crash software using fuzzers; Use advanced reverse engineering to exploit Windows and Linux software; Bypass Windows Access Control and memory protection schemes; Exploit web applications with Padding Oracle Att ...
Exam Ref 70-346 Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements, 2nd Edition
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-346, and demonstrate your real-world mastery of the skills needed to provision, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Microsoft Office 365 identities and cloud services. Designed for experienced IT pros ready to advance their status, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level. The new Second Edition reflects all updated exam topics released by Microsoft through mid-2017. It covers the expertise measured by the following objectives: Provision Office 365; Plan and implement networking and security in Office 365; Manage cloud identities; Implement and manage identities by using DirSync; Implement and manage Federated Identities single sign on; Monitor and troubleshoot Office 365 availability and usage. Microsoft Exam Ref publications stand apart from third-party study guides because they: Provide guidance from Microsoft, the creator of Microsoft certification exams; Target IT professional-l ...
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-346, and demonstrate your real-world mastery of the skills needed to provision, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Microsoft Office 365 identities and cloud services. Designed for experienced IT pros ready to advance their status, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level. The new Second Edition reflects all updated exam topics released by Microsoft through mid-2017. It covers the expertise measured by the following objectives: Provision Office 365; Plan and implement networking and security in Office 365; Manage cloud identities; Implement and manage identities by using DirSync; Implement and manage Federated Identities single sign on; Monitor and troubleshoot Office 365 availability and usage. Microsoft Exam Ref publications stand apart from third-party study guides because they: Provide guidance from Microsoft, the creator of Microsoft certification exams; Target IT professional-l ...
Exam Ref 70-768 Developing SQL Data Models
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-768 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions development with SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services (SSAS), including modeling and queries. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Design a multidimensional BI semantic model; Design a tabular BI semantic model; Develop queries using Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) and Data Analysis Expressions (DAX); Configure and maintain SSAS. This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives; Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you; Assumes you are a database or BI professional with experience creating models, writing MDX or DAX queries, and using SSAS. ...
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-768 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions development with SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services (SSAS), including modeling and queries. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Design a multidimensional BI semantic model; Design a tabular BI semantic model; Develop queries using Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) and Data Analysis Expressions (DAX); Configure and maintain SSAS. This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives; Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you; Assumes you are a database or BI professional with experience creating models, writing MDX or DAX queries, and using SSAS. ...
Exam Ref 70-762 Developing SQL Databases
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-762, Developing SQL Databases - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills for building and implementing databases across organizations. Designed for database professionals who build and implement databases across organizations and who ensure high levels of data availability, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Design and implement database objects; Implement programmability objects; Manage database concurrency; Optimize database objects and SQL infrastructure. This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives; Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you; Assumes you have working knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Transact-SQL, and relational databases. Exam 70-762 focuses on skills and knowledge for building and implementing databases across organizations and ensuring high levels of data availa ...
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-762, Developing SQL Databases - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills for building and implementing databases across organizations. Designed for database professionals who build and implement databases across organizations and who ensure high levels of data availability, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Design and implement database objects; Implement programmability objects; Manage database concurrency; Optimize database objects and SQL infrastructure. This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives; Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you; Assumes you have working knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Transact-SQL, and relational databases. Exam 70-762 focuses on skills and knowledge for building and implementing databases across organizations and ensuring high levels of data availa ...
Exam Ref 70-761 Querying Data with Transact-SQL
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-761 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of SQL Server 2016 Transact-SQL data management, queries, and database programming. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Filter, sort, join, aggregate, and modify data; Use subqueries, table expressions, grouping sets, and pivoting; Query temporal and non-relational data, and output XML or JSON; Create views, user-defined functions, and stored procedures; Implement error handling, transactions, data types, and nulls. This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives; Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you; Assumes you have experience working with SQL Server as a database administrator, system engineer, or developer; Includes downloadable sample database and code for SQL Serve ...
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-761 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of SQL Server 2016 Transact-SQL data management, queries, and database programming. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Filter, sort, join, aggregate, and modify data; Use subqueries, table expressions, grouping sets, and pivoting; Query temporal and non-relational data, and output XML or JSON; Create views, user-defined functions, and stored procedures; Implement error handling, transactions, data types, and nulls. This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives; Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you; Assumes you have experience working with SQL Server as a database administrator, system engineer, or developer; Includes downloadable sample database and code for SQL Serve ...
Exam Ref 70-767 Implementing a SQL Data Warehouse
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-767 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills for managing data warehouses. This exam is intended for Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) data warehouse developers who create business intelligence (BI) solutions. Their responsibilities include data cleansing as well as ETL and data warehouse implementation. The reader should have experience installing and implementing a Master Data Services (MDS) model, using MDS tools, and creating a Master Data Manager database and web application. The reader should understand how to design and implement ETL control flow elements and work with a SQL Service Integration Services package. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Design, and implement, and maintain a data warehouse; Extract, transform, and load data; Build data quality solutions. This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives; Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you; Assumes you have working kno ...
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-767 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills for managing data warehouses. This exam is intended for Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) data warehouse developers who create business intelligence (BI) solutions. Their responsibilities include data cleansing as well as ETL and data warehouse implementation. The reader should have experience installing and implementing a Master Data Services (MDS) model, using MDS tools, and creating a Master Data Manager database and web application. The reader should understand how to design and implement ETL control flow elements and work with a SQL Service Integration Services package. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Design, and implement, and maintain a data warehouse; Extract, transform, and load data; Build data quality solutions. This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives; Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you; Assumes you have working kno ...