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Executive’s Cybersecurity Program Handbook
The Fog of More is a term created for the onslaught of vendors and cybersecurity professionals who want to throw money at a problem. The problem turns into appliances, with blinky lights, that never get fully implemented or go unused. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars are spent every year on buying the latest and greatest technology only to miss the fundamentals of implementing basic security controls. We, as professionals, need to take a step back and look at the overall current state of the cybersecurity program and decide where we want to go.
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Expert Delphi
The world of mobile app development is becoming more and more complex. Technology is continuously evolving. Every day, new versions of mobile operating systems are released in the market. Mobile devices are getting new capabilities. User expectations are constantly growing, and it is harder and harder to meet them.The only way to meet and exceed all challenges in the contemporary world of mobile development is to become a developer superhero. Superheroes have super tools. In this book, we are going to embark on the journey of mastering Delphi development to build mobile apps. We will learn how to develop amazing productivity powers and rapidly build stunning cross-platform mobile apps from one codebase.
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Game Development Patterns with Unreal Engine 5
Welcome to Game Development Patterns with Unreal Engine 5. In this book, we will be exploring design patterns, a series of tools and practices through which we can learn to write faster and easier to work with code. We will also be exploring a range of different patterns and learn to apply them to project development in Unreal Engine 5. By the end of this book, you will be able to design systems with the perfect C++/Blueprint blend for maintainable and scalable systems.
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Generating Creative Images With DALL-E 3
Generating Creative Images With DALL-E 3 offers a unique combination of specialized focus, practical guidance, relevance to commercial applications, and ethical awareness. This blend of features sets it apart in the market, making it a valuable resource for anyone looking to explore and master the field of AI-generated art.
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Generative AI for Cloud Solutions
Generative AI – the world has been buzzing about this profound concept recently. Everywhere you turn,whether you are watching the nightly news, listening to some of the brightest business leaders adopting technology, or following the global markets, generative AI is at the forefront of these conversations.This revolutionary technology is being interwoven with all industries, economies, businesses, and organizations at an unprecedented rate.
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Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional
Welcome to Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional! Here, you will learn everything you need to build modern software utilizing Go. Designed for beginners with no prior programming experience required, it offers a comprehensive approach to understanding and leveraging Go’s power and idiomatic nature.
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Hands-On Microservices with Django
Hello, fellow Django developers and others interested in enhancing web applications with microservices. Microservices are playing an important role in today’s web applications. In 2020 alone, market researchers from Gartner saw a 42 percent increase in mentions of microservices architecture on social media. So, microservices are hot, raising questions regarding topics such as what they are and how we can apply them. Fortunately, there is now enough experience building microservices to answer these questions from a real-world perspective. To give you a first idea, a microservice is a single-task piece of software that is part of a larger application and can be used by different applications
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Hands-On Python for DevOps
Welcome to this book! Let’s talk about the content of this book and what you will learn from it.This book is about two things: DevOps and Python. It is about how these two entities, philosophies, frameworks, or whatever you would like to call them interact with each other.This book will help you understand Python on a technical level, but also on a conceptual level,including what distinguishes Python from a lot of other languages and what makes it so popular among programmers and others who provide IT solutions.
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Hands-On Unity Game Development
I can vividly remember the trepidation I felt about telling my parents that I was going to study game development. At that time, in my region, this ambition was dismissed as juvenile and lacking in future prospects. However, my tenacity and determination led me to chase this dream relentlessly. Today,the game industry has grown exponentially, surpassing even the film industry in revenue.
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The OSINT Handbook
You’re about to embark on a fascinating journey into the realms of cybersecurity and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). This book is designed to be your companion as you explore the intriguing world of digital information and how it can be harnessed for various purposes.This book will introduce you to the basics of cybersecurity, from understanding the threats that exist online to learning how to safeguard your digital presence. You’ll discover the importance of being vigilant in the digital world and how even the simplest actions can strengthen your defense against potential cyber attacks.OSINT involves gathering information from publicly available sources, but it’s more than just a Google search. You’ll learn how to effectively locate and analyze information that’s out in the open but is not always easy to find.
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ChatGPT for Java
This book takes you from the ground up to demonstrate how to use ChatGPT programmatically. You will learn the basics of ChatGPT and OpenAI APIs, including how to authenticate, send prompts, generate responses, test in the Playground, and handle errors. Each chapter includes practical exercises which demonstrate different API functionalities and bring your concepts to life. You will learn how to AI-enable your own applications using models such as GPT-4, GPT-3.5, Whisper, DALL-E, and many more.
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Clean Architecture
The title of this book is Clean Architecture. That’s an audacious name. Some would even call it arrogant. So why did I choose that title, and why did I write this book? I wrote my very first line of code in 1964, at the age of 12. The year is now 2016, so I have been writing code for more than half a century. In that time, I have learned a few things about how to structure software systems—things that I believe others would likely find valuable.
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Visual Studio Code Distilled: Evolved Code Editing for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Visual Studio Code is not just another evolved notepad with syntax colorization and automatic indentation. Instead, it is a very powerful code-focused development environment expressly designed to make it easier to write web, mobile, and cloud applications using languages that are available to different development platforms and to support the application development lifecycle with a built-in debugger and with integrated support to the popular Git version control engine.
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Clean Code Principles and Patterns
This book teaches you how to write clean code. It presents software design and development principles and patterns in a very practical manner. This book is suitable for both junior and senior developers. Basic understanding and knowledge of object-oriented programming in one language, like C++, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python or C# is required. Examples in this book are presented in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or C++. Most examples are in Java or JavaScript/ TypeScript and are adaptable to other programming languages, too. The content of this book is divided into eleven chapters.
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C++ Cookbook. How to write great code with the latest C++ releases
C++ Cookbook walks you through all the recent new features. In acookbook-type style that talks about each new class or function, it shows you in simple terms how to use it. Authored by a software professional,with over 3 decades of experience, their passion for coding shows in the book. This book takes the reader on a tour of what they will need to know to be up to date with the latest C++ abilities.
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From Concepts to Code: introduction to data science
The amount of data generated in the world and the number of decisions to be made from this data has never been greater. Over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are produced by humans every day [1], and new units of measure are on the way to quantify data of the future. From healthcare and finance to retail and marketing, every field that isn’t in the technology sector is directly using technology, or likely should be using it.