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July 29 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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July 30 2016

PySide GUI Application Development

Newbies to GUI programming in Python will find this book indispensable. As well as the basic concepts, you’ll be taught PySide in detail through practical instructions and create your own applications with customized widgets and dialogs.

What You Will Learn

• Download and install/build PySide, a cross-platform GUI development toolkit for Python
  
• Program GUI applications in an easy and efficient way
  
• Create and work with windowed applications
  
• Create menus, toolbars, status bars, and child windows
  
• Connect your GUI to a database and manage it
  

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July 31 2016

Node Security

For an in-depth understanding of how you can secure your Node.js applications, this is the ideal book. By learning to write code defensively and adopting security techniques you will be able to withstand common web attacks.

What You Will Learn

• Master the origins of the Node.js and npm projects
  
• Understand the architecture, including the event-loop and asynchronous I/O
  
• Delve into the key aspects of avoiding some common pitfalls of JavaScript development
  
• Incorporate ES5's security improvements, including strict-mode
  
• Add static code analysis and the code-quality it promotes
  
• Explore the basics of proper error-handling within Node applications
  
• Understand the architecture of Express and Connect
  
• Adapt common authentication and authorization schemes
  

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[Isuru]

August 1 2016

Skill Up 2016: Developer Skills Report

It's back! Our Skill Up campaign has returned, and with it our latest Skill Up report. Want to know what skills everyone else is learning this year to ensure you don't fall behind and can be the developer you want to be? Download our report and see exactly what you need to know today!

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[Isuru]

August 2 2016

Linux Mint Essentials

A practical guide to Linux Mint for the novice to the professional

What You Will Learn

• Explore Linux Mint's functions
  
• Configure and install the distribution
  
• Discover the Cinnamon user interface
  
• Manage user permissions
  
• Understand how to launch programs
  
• Learn how to use shell commands
  
• Set up Mint Firewall to prevent attacks and explore disaster recovery
  
• Play music and videos
  
• Manage digital camera photos
  
• Troubleshoot your Mint system
  

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August 3 2016

Mastering Apache Cassandra

Learn how to build more robust, scalable databases using Cassandra. From beginners to intermediates, this practical guide covers all the bases to help you get the most out of your infrastructure and using the full potential of Cassandra.

What You Will Learn

• Write programs using Cassandra’s features more efficiently
  
• Learn how to get the most out of a given infrastructure and Improve performance, tweak JVM
  
• Manage clusters and perform housekeeping activities
  
• Keep an eye on Cassandra processes and machines that hold the data store – get to know simple monitoring mechanisms, such as open sourced and proprietary ones
  
• Squeeze the value of the data that you hold in Cassandra
  
• Learn CQL 3 quickly and use Cassandra with Java, Python, NodeJS, Scala, and PHP
  

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August 4 2016

HBase Design Patterns

Design and implement successful patterns to develop scalable applications with HBase

What You Will Learn

• Install and configure a Hadoop cluster and HBase
  
• Write Java code to read and write HBase
  
• Explore Phoenix open source project to talk to HBase in SQL
  
• Store single entities, generate keys, use lists, maps, and sets
  
• Utilize UUID for generic key generation to store data and deal with large files
  
• Use denormalization to optimize performance
  
• Represent one-to-many and many-to-many relationships and deal with transactions
  
• Troubleshoot and optimize your application
  

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August 5 2016

Learning NGUI for Unity

Leverage the power of NGUI for Unity to create stunning mobile and PC games and user interfaces

What You Will Learn

• Build customizable 2D and 3D in-game user interfaces
  
• Use NGUI to save options, implement volume modification, launch animations, and change variables
  
• Enhance your UI using draggable panels, animations, content alignment, and localization
  
• Implement your own sprites and fonts to customize your user interface
  
• Move elements through code and handle collisions to create a game
  
• Create an effective and user-friendly cross-platform main menu
  
• Deal with different screen sizes and aspect ratios
  

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August 6 2016

Xamarin Mobile Application Development for iOS

If you want to develop iOS apps with Xamarin, and this comprehensive tutorial has it all. Covering everything from the UI to using TestFlight, it’s your fast route to the App Store.

What You Will Learn

• Create a working user interface
  
• Understand and write a cross-platform configuration system
  
• Learn how to create an SQLite helper system and master the basics of LINQ
  
• Use and manipulate graphics
  
• Get the most out of your iOS device with very little code
  
• Publish your very own app on Apple’s app store
  
• Come to terms with threading in a mobile world
  

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August 7 2016

wxPython 2.8 Application Development Cookbook

Quickly create robust, reliable, and reusable wxPython applications

What You Will Learn

• Set up the wx main frame by adding your own Frame class to the application
  
• Create two stage widgets by using a three step process
  
• Set up an event handler, customize, receive and handle events by using custom controls and event propagation
  
• Create tooltips with rich content and add tooltips to controls
  
• Retrieve information from users using common Dialogs
  
• Enhance design and layout, hide and show controls dynamically during runtime by using sizers
  
• Create a custom XRC resource handler class to use custom widget classes in XRC
  
• Simplify window layout using the SizedControls library
  
• Draw basic shapes in a Device Context and draw gradients with ease by using a GraphicsContext
  
• Design a custom dialog class
  
• Make multi-threaded wxPython applications
  
• Capture output from other applications and display it in a wxPython GUI
  
• Access platform specific application and resource directories using wxStandardPaths
  
• Embed images into python files using wxPython's embedded image tool and classes
  
• Add robust exception handling to an application
  
• Bundle a wxPython application for distribution making your applications interface translatable
  

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