Tropic of Kansas: A Novel by Christopher Brown
By Christopher Brown
“Futurist as provocateur! the area is sheer batshit genius . . . a very hallucinatorily expected environment.”—William Gibson, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author
“Timely, darkish, and eventually hopeful: it could possibly no longer ‘make the US nice again,’ yet however, it simply might.”—Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling and award profitable writer of Homeland
Acclaimed brief tale author and editor of the area fable Award-nominee Three Messages and a caution eerily envisions an American society unraveling and our borders closed off—from the opposite side—in this haunting and provocative novel that mixes Max Barry’s Jennifer Government, Philip ok. Dick’s vintage Man within the excessive Castle, and China Mieville’s The urban & the City
The us of a isn't any extra. damaged into warring territories, its heart has develop into a desert DMZ often called “the Tropic of Kansas.” even though this gaping geographic gap has no transparent obstacles, we all know it really is out there—that once-bountiful a part of the heartland, damaged through greed and exploitation, the place forget now breeds unrest. tourists seem during this arid American wasteland: Sig, the fugitive orphan of political dissidents, and his foster sister Tania, a central authority investigator whose look for Sig leads her into her personal past—and in the direction of an unforeseen future.
Sig promised these he loves that he could make it to the progressive redoubt of occupied New Orleans. yet first he needs to live on the wild edgelands of a barren mid-America policed by means of citizen militias and self reliant drones, the place one unsuitable stream can suggest trap . . . or dying. One step at the back of, undercover within the underground, is Tania. Her infiltration of clandestine networks made up of previous know-how and new politics quickly transforms her into the hunted one, and offers her a shot at being the agent of actual change—if she is keen to renounce the explosive govt secrets and techniques she has sworn to guard.
As brother and sister traverse those colossal and unsafe badlands, their paths will finally intersect at the entrance strains of a revolution whose fuse they're approximately to light.
Mastering Concurrency Programming with Java 8 by Javier Fernandez Gonzalez
By Javier Fernandez Gonzalez
Master the rules and methods of multithreaded programming with the Java eight Concurrency API
About This Book
- Implement concurrent functions utilizing the Java eight Concurrency API and its new components
- Improve the functionality of your functions or approach extra information even as, making the most of your entire resources.
- Construct real-world examples regarding computer studying, facts mining, picture processing, and client/server environments
Who This e-book Is For
If you're a useful Java developer with a superb realizing of concurrency yet don't have any wisdom of ways to successfully enforce concurrent courses or use streams to make tactics extra effective, then this booklet is for you.
What you'll Learn
- Design concurrent functions through changing a sequential set of rules right into a concurrent one
- Discover tips on how to keep away from the entire attainable difficulties you may get in concurrent algorithms
- Use the Executor framework to regulate concurrent initiatives with no growing threads
- Extend and adjust Executors to evolve their habit on your needs
- Solve difficulties utilizing the divide and triumph over procedure and the Fork/Join framework
- Process vast info units with parallel streams and Map/Reduce implementation
- Control data-race stipulations utilizing concurrent info buildings and synchronization mechanisms
- Test and computer screen concurrent applications
In Detail
Concurrency programming permits numerous huge initiatives to be divided into smaller sub-tasks, that are extra processed as person projects that run in parallel. the entire sub-tasks are mixed jointly as soon as the mandatory effects are completed; they're then merged to get the ultimate output. the total technique is particularly advanced. This strategy is going from the layout of concurrent algorithms to the checking out section the place concurrent purposes desire additional cognizance. Java contains a accomplished API with loads of ready-to-use elements to enforce strong concurrency functions in an ideal way, yet with a excessive flexibility to evolve those parts on your needs.
The ebook starts off with an entire description of layout rules of concurrent functions and the way to parallelize a sequential set of rules. we are going to enable you use the entire parts of the Java Concurrency API from fundamentals to the main complex strategies to enforce them in robust concurrency purposes in Java.
You may be utilizing real-world examples of complicated algorithms with regards to laptop studying, facts mining, usual language processing, photograph processing in buyer / server environments. subsequent, you'll find out how to use an important parts of the Java eight Concurrency API: the Executor framework to execute a number of initiatives on your functions, the phaser classification to enforce concurrent projects divided into levels, and the Fork/Join framework to enforce concurrent initiatives that may be cut up into smaller difficulties (using the divide and overcome technique). towards the top, we'll hide the recent inclusions in Java eight API, the Map and decrease version, and the Map and acquire version. The e-book also will train you concerning the information buildings and synchronization utilities to prevent data-race stipulations and different serious difficulties. ultimately, the e-book ends with a close description of the instruments and methods that you should use to check a Java concurrent application.
Style and method
A whole advisor enforcing real-world examples with algorithms regarding laptop studying, info mining, and common language processing in client/server environments. all of the examples are defined in a step by step approach.
LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide by Colin Holgate
By Colin Holgate
Symfony2 Essentials by Wojciech Bancer
By Wojciech Bancer
A fast paced developer's advisor to utilizing Symfony2 to make your daily internet improvement paintings extra efficient
About This Book
- Build net purposes with the newest positive factors of Symfony2
- Focus on universal projects similar to growing CRUD, growing an API, and supplying a login
- Install and configure Symfony2 and assessment it in your daily needs
Who This ebook Is For
This publication is focused at professional programmers, specifically these skilled in a heavily comparable know-how comparable to Yii or Laravel, yet who now desires to examine Symfony speedy. This ebook also will turn out to be priceless for knowledgeable personal home page builders who are looking to discover and overview new frameworks and their chances in day by day tasks.
What you'll Learn
- Familiarise your self with the Symfony framework, its most modern beneficial properties, and the way to put in it
- Discover the concept that of bundles and their application
- Handle translations inside of Symfony, permit translations, and how to deal with database translations
- Understand Symfony's safeguard version, how one can safe purposes, and enforce a customized authentication supplier through the use of FOSUserBundle
- Explore using Twig, locate most sensible practices round its utilization, and detect its universal pitfalls
- Create inner instructions that would deal with sending email reminders to your app
- Develop a plugin for the profiler to supply customized information regarding your application
- Deploy purposes according to Symfony2 utilizing quite a few equipment together with uncomplicated FTP copying, rsync, CI deployment, and more
In Detail
Symfony is a unfastened and open resource Hypertext Preprocessor MVC net software improvement framework, which is helping you create and keep internet purposes and exchange recurrent coding initiatives. It integrates with an autonomous library, PHPUnit, to provide you a wealthy checking out framework. it really is the best and most well liked frameworks in the marketplace. renowned tasks comparable to Drupal, Laravel, and phpBB additionally use Symfony. Its well-organized constitution, fresh code, and reliable programming practices make internet improvement a breeze.
Symfony2 necessities will consultant you thru the method of making a pattern internet program with Symfony2. you are going to create a To-Do software, utilizing the various most ordinarily used Symfony2 elements, and observe how you can practice those improvement initiatives efficiently.
This ebook introduces you to the Symfony framework with a brief set up advisor and a short rationalization of its key positive factors together with the MVC structure, twig templating, dependency injection, and extra. you are going to learn how to deal with dependencies, create controllers, perspectives, and API calls, and safe your application.
Next, you are going to battle through the stairs which are universal for many net purposes, which come with writing CRUD and AJAX, dealing with varieties, validation, translations, and the command-line interface, and electronic mail sending gains. The publication ends with top practices, debugging, profiling, and deployment procedures.
By the top of this publication, you might have realized the way to mix a Symfony2 framework with different open resource code to hurry up the improvement process.
Style and approach
A fast paced, step by step consultant with examples on the way to write the most typical items of code whereas constructing commonplace internet purposes with Symfony.
Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume by Ben Forta
By Ben Forta
Web Application Development with MEAN by Amos Q. Haviv,Adrian Mejia,Robert Onodi
By Amos Q. Haviv,Adrian Mejia,Robert Onodi
Unlock the ability of the suggest stack via developing beautiful and real-world projects
About This Book
- Learn in regards to the varied elements that include a median software to build an absolutely useful suggest program utilizing the simplest third-party modules
- A step by step consultant to constructing the suggest stack parts from scratch to accomplish greatest flexibility while construction an e-commerce application
- Build optimal end-to-end net functions utilizing the suggest stack
Who This publication Is For
This studying direction is for internet builders who're skilled in constructing purposes utilizing JavaScript. This path is for builders who're attracted to studying easy methods to construct glossy and a number of net functions utilizing MongoDB, convey, AngularJS, and Node.js.
What you are going to Learn
- Build glossy, end-to-end net purposes through utilizing the full-stack net improvement resolution of MEAN
- Connect your convey software to MongoDB and use a Mongoose version and construct a posh software from begin to end in MongoDB
- Employ AngularJS to construct responsive UI components
- Implement a number of authentication techniques akin to OAuth, JsonWebToken, and Sessions
- Enhance your website's usability with social logins comparable to fb, Twitter, and Google
- Secure your app by means of developing SSL certificate and run fee structures in a stay environment
- Implement a talk software from scratch utilizing Socket.IO
- Create allotted functions and use the facility of server-side rendering on your applications
- Extend a undertaking with a real-time bidding method utilizing WebSockets
In Detail
The suggest stack is a set of the preferred sleek instruments for internet improvement. This path might help you to construct a customized e-commerce app in addition to a number of different purposes. you'll growth to making a number of functions with suggest.
The first module during this path offers you the abilities you want to effectively create, continue, and try out a median software. beginning with suggest center frameworks, this path will clarify each one framework key ideas of MongoDB, convey, AngularJS, and Node.js. we are going to stroll in the course of the various instruments and frameworks that might support expedite your day-by-day improvement cycles.
After this, the subsequent module will enable you create your individual e-commerce software utilizing the suggest stack. It takes you step-by-step during the parallel technique of studying and development to improve a production-ready, top of the range e-commerce website from scratch. It additionally exhibits you ways to regulate person authentication and authorization, fee a number of fee structures, upload a product seek and navigation characteristic, installation a production-ready e-commerce website, and at last upload your personal fine quality characteristic to the site.
The ultimate step during this path will aid you construct a greater origin to your AngularJS apps. you will the right way to construct advanced real-life purposes with the suggest stack and some extra complicated tasks. you are going to get to grips with WebSockets, construct real-time internet functions, create auto-destructing entities, and notice easy methods to paintings with financial facts in Mongo. additionally, you will easy methods to a construct real-time e-commerce application.
This studying course combines the superior that Packt has to supply in a single entire, curated package deal. It comprises content material from the subsequent Packt products:
- MEAN internet improvement through Amos Haviv
- Building an E-Commerce software with suggest via Adrian Mejia
- MEAN Blueprints by means of Robert Onodi
Style and approach
This direction will commence with the creation to intend, progressively progressing with development purposes in every one framework. every one transition is definitely defined, and every bankruptcy starts with the necessary historical past knowledge.
Beneath His Wings: The Plot To Murder Lindbergh by F. Granato
By F. Granato
In the United States, victory within the First nice conflict below a decade sooner than has already turn into a far off reminiscence. yet in defeated Germany, torn and humiliated through the phrases of the Treaty of Versailles, rearming has already began in secrecy. it is just an issue of time earlier than Europe explodes in struggle back. The Orteig Prize – visible by means of the Germans as an Allied try to seat Paris because the capital of Europe
-- is the ultimate humiliation. The Germans sabotage a number of makes an attempt at luck even ahead of Lindbergh's test.
Will an identical destiny anticipate Lindbergh? Or can the Allies harness their may perhaps and unravel to guard the younger pilot – and weigh down a German super-plot to hunt revenge opposed to America?
The Woman of Flowers (Heirs to Byzantium Book 2) by Susan Shwartz
By Susan Shwartz
Alexa, princess of Byzantium, used to be destined to rule together with her committed brother Marric till the evil forces solid darkish magic on her and made her betray him. hence Marric feels lower than attack and a usurper has seized the throne—and through ability either magical and ethical, defeated Alexa. stored by way of warrior allies, Alexa has been taken to an surprising northern land. confident of Marric’s loss of life, she is fed on through guilt—and worry. Even from afar, the usurper’s strength reaches out to catch her. Savage desires terrorize her nights, prophecies of doom disenchanted her days, and the fiery magic runs wild inside her soul.
CodeIgniter Web Application Blueprints by Rob Foster
By Rob Foster
About This Book
- Create your individual dynamic net program utilizing wireframes, databases, and language files
- Develop special purposes to accomplish uncomplicated projects, equivalent to authorizing clients, sharing pictures, or creating a buying platform
- Explore the MVC framework with assistance from a few initiatives constructed during this book
Who This booklet Is For
If you're a Hypertext Preprocessor programmer or developer searching for a framework to speedy enhance your functions, this publication is for you. the must haves wanted will be past event with CodeIgniter.
What you are going to Learn
- Create a base program to shape the development blocks to enhance your individual internet applications
- Develop a person authorization approach to allow person entry and allow the resetting of passwords
- Build an software to add images besides their descriptions
- Develop a URL shortener to create a brand new URL and reserve it to the database
- Design a task board to create and checklist new jobs and likewise check in clients and agents
- Construct an software to assign time opposed to activity, through including filters and pictures to data
- Expand an e-commerce site to supply on-line buying facility to users
In Detail
Loosely in response to the Model-View-Controller development, CodeIgniter is an open resource framework for program improvement. It permits you to increase initiatives by means of supplying a wealthy set of libraries for universal initiatives, together with an easy interface and logical constitution to entry those libraries.
The e-book starts off with making a "base" software, that allows you to be used to improve all of the next tasks during this publication. Taking you thru the deploy of CodeIgniter and Twitter Bootstrap, you may be brought to a couple universal helpers and libraries. The e-book will then take you thru many tasks, constructed upon the bottom software. The initiatives comprise a dialogue discussion board, a photograph sharing web site, and an e-commerce site. in the direction of the top, you've got 8 tasks that you should boost and amend.
This is an easy-to-follow advisor including a few initiatives that enable you advance full-featured functions at a quick pace.
Force.com Development Blueprints by Stephen Moss
By Stephen Moss
About This Book
- Create complicated cloud functions utilizing the easiest Force.com technologies
- Bring your cloud software rules to industry speedier utilizing the confirmed Force.com infrastructure
- Step-by-step tutorials make it easier to quick boost real-world cloud applications
Who This ebook Is For
If you could have a few event with the Force.com platform and want to take your talents to the subsequent point, this is often the booklet for you.
What you are going to Learn
- Create complex cloud functions utilizing the simplest Force.com technologies
- Bring your cloud software rules to industry swifter utilizing the confirmed Force.com infrastructure
- Create a Salesforce neighborhood utilizing Site.com
- Develop an e-commerce software utilizing Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, Heroku, and Visualforce
- Build a standard CRM resolution with a customized Apex workflow feature
- Use the Salesforce Platform cellular SDK to construct a cellular application
- Discover the way to combine your software into the cloud through interacting with cloud-based APIs
In Detail
No you'll dispute the sheer strength and breadth of the Force.com cloud improvement platform and its effect on hundreds of thousands of builders the world over. The superb variety of applied sciences on supply may cause confusion between builders in terms of utilizing them to construct real-world applications.
Starting with the best way to advance a Salesforce group, you'll commence a whirlwind journey around the Force.com platform, utilizing it to construct functions for the e-commerce, CRM, reporting, and cellular topic domains.
Along the way in which, additionally, you will use a myriad of state of the art applied sciences, together with Apex, Visualforce, JavaScript, Twitter Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, Heroku, and new Salesforce1 applied sciences equivalent to writer actions.
Packed with real-world examples and insights received from enforcing suggestions for purchasers within the box, Force.com improvement Blueprints will turn out an integral reference in terms of development Force.com cloud functions. This publication provides you with the sting you want to boost Force.com cloud functions that may satisfaction your customers.