With modern tools. it is possible to create a production grade, full-stack application using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript alone. The combination of MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js has become so popular that it has earned the title MEAN stack which Adam Bretz and Colin J Ihrig explore in detail in this book. They begin by covering Node.js, to lay the groundwork for the server-side work before moving on to MongoDB. Later they cover the basics of Express applications via topics like routes and middleware and wrap up with several chapters on AngularJS. 

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 This updated cookbook provides detailed recipes for a managing wide range of common iOS game-development issues, ranging from 2D and 3D math to SpriteKit and OpenGL to performance—all revised for Swift. Jonathon Manning and Paris Buttfield-Addisont provide simple, direct solutions to common problems found in iOS game programming. Need to figure out how to give objects physical motion, or want a refresher on gaming-related math problems? This book provides sample projects and straightforward answers. 

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Written by a team that includes Patrick LeBlanc, a key member of the BI product team at Microsoft, this book provides best practices for building complete BI solutions using the full Microsoft toolset. You will learn how to use SQL Server Analysis and Reporting Services, along with Excel, SharePoint, and other tools to provide effective and cohesive solutions for the enterprise. Coverage includes BI architecture, data queries, semantic models, multidimensional modeling, data analysis and visualization, performance monitoring, data mining, and more, to help you learn to perform practical business analysis and reporting. Written by an author team that includes a key member of the BI product team at Microsoft

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Written by research methodologist, Robert Kabacoff, this expanded second edition is subtitled Data Analysis and Graphics with R and takes a direct and modular approach to quickly give readers the information they need to produce useful results. With a complete R language tutorial, it focuses on realistic data analyses and a comprehensive integration of graphics, it follows the steps that real data analysts use to acquire their data, get it into shape, analyze it, and produce meaningful results that they can provide to clients.

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Among the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages—it’s minimal in nature, you don’t need to install anything on your nodes, and it has an easy learning curve. In this practical guide Lorin Hochstein shows you how to write playbooks (Ansible’s configuration management scripts), manage remote servers, and explore the tool’s real power: built-in declarative modules.

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Edited by Jonathan Follett with the subtitle "UX for Genomics, Robotics, and the Internet of Things" this is a collection of essays in which designers, engineers, and researchers discuss their approaches to experience design for groundbreaking technologies. Design not only provides the framework for how technology works and how it’s used, but also places it in a broader context that includes the total ecosystem with which it interacts and the possibility of unintended consequences. If you’re a UX designer or engineer open to complexity and dissonant ideas, this book is a revelation.

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Turn your R code into packages that others can easily download and use. Hadley Wickham shows you how to bundle reusable R functions, sample data, and documentation together by applying  his package development philosophy. In the process, you’ll work with devtools, roxygen, and testthat, a set of R packages that automate common development tasks. 

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A practical guide to using Apache Storm for the real-world tasks associated with processing and analyzing real-time data streams. Sean T. Allen, Matthew Jankowski and Peter Pathirana start by building a solid foundation of Storm essentials so that you learn how to think about designing Storm solutions the right way from day one. But it quickly dives into real-world case studies that will bring the novice up to speed with real-time event processing using Storm.

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As part of the "Pocket Primer" series, Oswald Campesato provides an overview jQuery with and tutorial videos on using it, covering jQuery UI Controls, jQueryMobile, HTML5 Technologies with jQuery, and more. It is primarily for self-directed learners who are comfortable with HTML/CSS/Javascript and who  want to learn jQuery. It also has coverage of CSS3, HTML5 Canvas and PhoneGap. Includes companion DVD.

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As leaders in the design and creation of security products authors Qing Li and Gregory Clark deliver unparalleled insight into the development of comprehensive and focused enterprise security solutions. In this handbook for security in modern times, they walk you through the process of translating your security goals into specific security technology domains, formulating the best deployment strategies, and verifying the solution by analyzing security incidents and divulging hidden breaches.

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This hands-on guide provides an easy, step-by-step approach to installing, using, and maintaining these popular relational database engines. Author Russell Dyer, Curriculum Manager at MariaDB and former editor of the MySQL Knowledge Base, takes you through database design and the basics of data management and manipulation, using real-world examples and many practical tips. Exercises and review questions help you practice what you’ve just learned.

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