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August 28 2016

VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions

Plan, design, and secure your virtual desktop environments with VMware Horizon 6 View

What You Will Learn

• Learn the strategies and techniques needed to migrate your user population from a traditional physical desktop environment to a successful virtual desktop solution
  
• Plan the approach to deliver, protect, and manage Windows desktops and applications to ensure that users can work anytime, anywhere, on any device
  
• Decide whether to use persistent or nonpersistent vDesktops and understand the impact of both on the VDI environment
  
• Understand the choices around end devices such as thick clients, thin clients, and zero clients
  
• Size the VDI environment correctly to avoid slow logons, poor PCoIP performance, authentication problems, and other random failures
  
• Analyze all of the potential points of failure within a VDI and provide redundancy for each component
  
• Design a backup solution and/or disaster recovery plan to ensure a quick recovery in times of failure
  

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August 29 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 30 2016

Implementing Cisco UCS Solutions

Cisco Unified Computer System is a powerful solution for data centers that can raise efficiency and lower costs. This tutorial helps professionals realize its full potential through a practical, hands-on approach written by two Cisco experts.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the options for Cisco UCS hardware components and their selection
  
• Discover Cisco UCS Emulator-based lab setup
  
• Get to know UCS Manager interface
  
• Know about different LAN and SAN connectivity and failure scenarios
  
• Create identity and resource pools
  
• Developservice profiles for the stateless servers
  
• Learn about RBAC, backup, restore, and cluster configurations
  
• Get introduced to Nexus 1K integration and integrating 3rd party tools for enhanced features
  

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August 31 2016

GitLab Repository Management

Manage your development projects and human resources with utmost efficiency using GitLab. This tutorial shows you how, covering everything from installation and configuration to team building.

What You Will Learn

• Install GitLab on a Linux system with commands for Debian or Ubuntu, with the support of other distributions
  
• Configure GitLab for your needs and infrastructure
  
• Manage users inside GitLab, while securing your code
  
• Document your code with the built-in wikis, getting the whole team up to speed
  
• Use the built-in issue tracker to respond to feature requests and bugs quickly
  
• Create useful teams that can collaborate and control access across projects
  
• Update GitLab with the newest features
  
• Get to know the community and know where to turn if you run into trouble
  

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September 01 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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September 02 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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September 03 2016 

Mastering Ext JS

In this book you’ll learn to develop a complete application with ExtJS. Enhance your existing skills and get a better grasp of the JavaScript framework to create advanced Internet applications.

What You Will Learn

• Develop a content management module
  
• Handle the information on the server side, avoiding the need for JSON files
  
• Create a Wordpress theme
  
• Develop a client e-mail, groups, and security module
  
• Build the application for production
  
• Test an Ext JS application
  
• Reuse code to build the same application as a mobile app
  

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September 04 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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September 05 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
  

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September 06 2016

OpenGL Development Cookbook

OpenGL brings an added dimension to your graphics by utilizing the remarkable power of modern GPUs. This straight-talking cookbook is perfect for intermediate C++ programmers who want to exploit the full potential of OpenGL.

What You Will Learn

• Create an OpenGL 3.3 rendering context
  
• Get to grips with camera-based viewing and object picking techniques
  
• Learn off-screen rendering and environment mapping techniques to render mirrors
  
• Discover shadow mapping techniques, including variance shadow mapping
  
• Implement a particle system using shaders
  
• Learn about GPU-based methods for global illumination using spherical harmonics and SSAO
  
• Understand translucent geometry and order independent transparency using dual depth peeling
  
• Explore GPU-based volumetric lighting using half angle slicing and physically based simulation on the GPU using transform feedback
  

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