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August 8 2016

Kali Linux Social Engineering

Effectively perform efficient and organized social engineering tests and penetration testing using Kali Linux

What You Will Learn

• Clone websites to gain a victim's passwords and security information
  
• Undertake credential harvester attacks through spear-phishing and web jacking
  
• Perform client-side attacks through SET
  
• Get hands on with practical advice on eliciting identity details
  
• Counteract these techniques if they are being used against you
  

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[Isuru]

August 9 2016

R Graph Essentials

Use R's powerful graphing capabilities to design and create professional-level graphics

What You Will Learn

• Understand and implement the basic graphics syntax and techniques
  
• Create scatterplots and line plots, and include mathematical expressions in them
  
• Include more advanced graphics and color palettes in your graph
  
• Create and customize graphs using the qplot function
  
• Customize the graphics, backgrounds, sizes, and colors of your graph using ggplot
  
• Add layers to your graph using ggplot
  
• Make publication-quality graphs using ggplot
  

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[Isuru]

August 10 2016

StartupPro: How to set up and grow a tech business

Practical guidance on how to turn your passion, idea, and technical skills into a successful business

What You Will Learn

• Differentiate between a “dream idea” and a “potential business.”
  
• Develop confident social media skills and learn best practices to positively affect brand building, lead generation, and customer satisfaction
  
• Discover the key to good marketing
  
• Create and manage intellectual property such as patents, trademarks and copyrights
  
• Develop and practice team building, communication and leadership skills
  
• Understand different types of company organization and what type fits you best
  

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[Isuru]

August 11 2016

Storm Real-time Processing Cookbook

Java developers can expand into real-time data processing with this fantastic guide to Storm. Using a cookbook approach with lots of practical recipes, it’s the user-friendly way to learn how to process unlimited data streams.

What You Will Learn

• Create a log spout
  
• Consume messages from a JMS queue
  
• Implement unidirectional synchronization based on a data stream
  
• Execute disaster recovery on a separate AWS region
  

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[Isuru]

August 12 2016

Mastering Python Regular Expressions

For Python developers, this concise and down-to-earth guide to regular expressions is all you need to gain vital new knowledge. From a theoretical overview to Python specifics, it explains everything in crystal clear language.

What You Will Learn

• Explore the regular expressions syntax
  
• Improve the readability and future maintenance of the regex
  
• Find solutions for typical problems with regular expressions
  
• Familiarize yourself with match and search operations
  
• Leverage the look around technique to create powerful regular expressions
  
• Gain insight on the uses of Groups
  
• Get to know how the regex engine works through the Backtracking process
  
• Enhance the performance of your regular expressions
  

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[Isuru]

August 13 2016

Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

Improve your Backbone.js skills with this step-by-step guide to patterns and best practice. It will help you reduce boilerplate in your code and provide plenty of open source plugin solutions to common problems along the way.

What You Will Learn

• Develop custom plugins and mixins to reduce boilerplate in your code
  
• Learn about Backbone view management with nested views, subviews, layout manager, and Marionette views
  
• Understand template management by storing and pre-compiling templates
  
• Explore model validation with validation plugins and learn model serialization and relational data management with nested models
  
• Work with collections to implement multiple sorting and filtering behavior
  
• Create solid application architecture with AMD and different popular design patterns
  

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[Isuru]

August 14 2016

Building Multicopter Video Drones

Build and fly multicopter drones to gather breathtaking video footage

What You Will Learn

• Discover the physics of multicopter flight
  
• Browse through the plethora of turnkey systems to choose a fabricated platform that suits your needs
  
• Get acquainted with safety precautions to minimize your legal and financial liability
  
• Calculate the specifications of the components you're purchasing to maximize flight time and performance
  
• Program and calibrate the guidance system of your drone
  
• Familiarize yourself with the key maneuvers for cinematic multicopter videography
  
• Understand post-production editing and preparation techniques to improve your multicopter footage
  

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[Isuru]

August 15 2016

Moodle Gradebook - Second Edition

Explore the Moodle Gradebook and discover how to set up and customize it to track students' progress

What You Will Learn

• Simplify your tasks with the easy-to-use features of the Gradebook
  
• Grade work and provide feedback using online and offline methods
  
• Use advanced grading options such as marking guides and rubrics
  
• Customize the Gradebook to your needs by creating categories for group-graded activities
  
• Successfully calculate and track grades with preset aggregation types based on your course requirements
  
• Track and assess students' progress using activity completion reports
  

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[Isuru]

August 16 2016

PhoneGap for Enterprise

Master the art of building secure enterprise mobile applications using PhoneGap

What You Will Learn

• Develop cross-platform mobile enterprise apps using PhoneGap
  
• Understand the PhoneGap system and app architecture
  
• Communicate between the mobile device and the backend using XHR and WebSockets for data transmission
  
• Build a middle tier using Node.js to connect to the data store
  
• Discover how PhoneGap allows you to whitelist trusted domains
  
• Handle online/offline states by learning how to handle application and network status events
  

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[Isuru]

August 17 2016

Net Framework 4.5 Expert Programming Cookbook

.Net Framework 4.5 Expert Programming Cookbook" will teach you about the advanced concepts and new features of the core framework, Window Forms, threading, and parallel programming, ASP.Net, Silverlight, WCF, WPF, ADO.Net, and Entity Framework using a real life problem/solution approach with a hands-on style.

What You Will Learn

• Create metadata-driven code, including properties, events, and custom attributes
  
• Understand multi-threading, thread-safety, and the parallel framework extensions to avoid threading pitfalls in your Window Forms, WPF, and Silverlight applications
  
• Implement .NET patterns in application design, assessing a given pattern’s fit in a given context and current state of .NET patterns
  
• Create secured and REST based WCF services
  
• Learn new controls such as Ribbon Control and live data shaper to customize your applications
  
• Use advanced concepts of Application Events and Windows Forms to create a re-usable Window Forms component
  
• Understand new features of ASP.Net websites to enable Google/Facebook SSO based authentication and add non-obstructive validation along with embedding maps in your websites
  

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