Sexy Web DesignSexy Web Design is an easy-to-follow guide that reveals the secrets of how to build your own breathtaking web interfaces from scratch. You'll be guided through the entire process of creating a gorgeous, usable web site by applying the timeless principles of user-centered design.
Even if you're short on design skills, with this book you'll be creating your own stunning web sites in no time at all. ...
AngularJS: Novice to NinjaAngularJS: Novice to Ninja is the perfect book to journey into the world of AngularJS, the superheroic JavaScript framework. Developed and maintained by Google, AngularJS brings the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern to JavaScript applications and provides a high quality foundation for building complex and powerful apps quickly.
You'll begin with the basics including Angular's magical two-way data binding and how to write test-friendly code. In no time you'll be moving on to understand more advanced topics like scope, dependency injection, filters, and much more. ...
Neo4j EssentialsWith a rise in the popularity of NoSQL databases, Neo4j provides a viable alternative for storage, processing, and querying highly connected data natively in the form of graphs. It saves you the trouble of tabular data formats and join operations while providing a fast querying language called Cypher, which is declarative and works on the principle of pattern matching. It is an open source database and has been tailored to be integrated into a wide variety of scenarios, platforms, and tools.
This book will guide you from the phase where you have to choose the appropriate license towards the deployment phase, instilling good design practices along the way. It will cover every required phase needed by a successful project. Using a fictitious project as a case study, you will learn the various implementation details and concepts of Neo4j that will help you develop your use cases quickly. ...
Mastering Ext JS, 2nd EditionThis book will help you to utilize Ext JS to its full potential and will show you how to create a complete Ext JS application from scratch.
You'll begin by learning how to create the project's structure, splash screen, login screen, dynamic menus, open screens dynamically and master-detail grids, and much more. You will also learn how to export data to Excel including PDFs and images, while always keeping best practices in mind.
Following this, you'll discover how to use the MVC architecture, the new MVVM. Next, you'll learn how to customize themes and how to prepare the application to be ready for deployment upon completion.
By the end of the book, you will have learned everything you need to know to truly master Ext JS and start building advanced applications. ...
Learning OpenStack Networking (Neutron)OpenStack provides a rich API that enables users to architect networks, create virtual machines, and scale their application as they see fit. However, it suffered limited network implementations, providing only basic networking through Linux VLANs and iptables. With the arrival of Neutron, you can achieve so much more with OpenStack. Whether you are new to OpenStack Networking (Neutron) or have experience, this book will provide you with the skills needed to successfully design, create, customize, and maintain the core network foundation of an OpenStack cloud using the Neutron networking API.
From start to finish, this tutorial will educate you on the various network features of OpenStack in the Havana release and how they work together. With ample screenshots, examples, and command-line output that provide a consistent experience, this book will give you a foundation from which you can build your very own OpenStack cloud with advanced networking services. ...
Learning CephCeph is an open source, software-defined storage solution, which runs on commodity hardware to provide exabyte-level scalability. It is well known to be a highly reliable storage system that has no single point of failure.
This book will give you all the skills you need to plan, deploy, and effectively manage your Ceph cluster, guiding you through an overview of Ceph's technology, architecture, and components. With a step-by-step, tutorial-style explanation of the deployment of each Ceph component, the book will take you through Ceph storage provisioning and integration with OpenStack.
You will then discover how to deploy and set up your Ceph cluster, discovering the various components and why we need them. This book takes you from a basic level of knowledge in Ceph to an expert understanding of its most advanced features. ...
Learning SaltStackSaltStack is one of the best infrastructure management platforms available. It provides powerful tools for defining and enforcing the state of your infrastructure in a clear, concise way.
This book will start with the installation and setup of Salt along with your first commands, and will take you through all the tools you'll need to manage your infrastructure. You'll learn how to use SaltStack's remote execution system to run commands across your whole infrastructure in seconds. Then, with SaltStack's configuration management system, you'll be able to define the state of your infrastructure in a reproducible, stable manner. You'll also learn a number of other tools within SaltStack that will allow you to create an adaptive, reactive, and self-healing infrastructure. Finally, by the end of the book, you'll be able to build a reliable, scalable, secure, high-performance infrastructure and fully utilize the power of cloud computing. ...
Splunk EssentialsSplunk is a powerful tool that is used extensively to search, monitor, and analyze any machine data.
This book is designed to introduce you quickly to the benefits of using the Splunk Enterprise system. Understanding this technology will allow you to engage with your important data and ensure that it is collected, stored, managed, reported on, and utilized well to enable you to make better business decisions. By equipping you with this knowledge, you will be better prepared to tackle data issues in the fast-paced business world of today. You will learn about various vital topics such as data collection, managing apps, creating reports, and analyzing data using Splunk. You will also be equipped with skills to help you obtain a Twitter API key for use with the Twitter app for Splunk. ...
Puppet Cookbook, 3rd EditionPuppet is a configuration management system that automates all your IT configurations, giving you control of what you do to each node, when you do it, and how you do it.
Puppet Cookbook Third Edition takes the reader from a basic knowledge of Puppet to a complete and expert understanding of Puppet's latest and most advanced features. Updated with the latest advancements and best practices, it gives you a clear view on how to "connect the dots" and expands your knowledge to successfully use and extend Puppet.
This book delves into various aspects of writing good Puppet code, which includes using Puppet community style, checking your manifests with puppet-lint, and learning community best practices, with an emphasis on real-world implementation. ...
Raspberry Pi Networking CookbookThe Raspberry Pi is more than just a platform for teaching students how to program computers! The recipes in this book show you how this inexpensive computer can be used out of the box for a number of practical solutions that utilize existing networks and connectivity.
The Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook is an essential reference full of practical solutions for use both at home and in the office. Beginning with step-by-step instructions for installation and configuration, this book can either be read from cover to cover or treated as an essential reference companion to your Raspberry Pi.
Full of practical and engaging content designed to expand and build upon your existing skills as you work through individual recipes, any computer novice can quickly learn how to become a Raspberry Pi expert without any programming knowledge required. The Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook will allow you to revolutionize how you use technology on a daily basis, ranging from sharing your media acro ...