Monday, November 12, 2012

The Manga Guide to Physics

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Book Details 
Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: No Starch Press; 1 edition (May 20, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593271964
ISBN-13: 978-1593271961
File Size : 46.7 Mb | File Format: PDF

Book Description

"I found the cartoon approach of this book so compelling and its story so endearing that I recommend that every teacher of introductory physics, in both high school and college, consider using it."
—American Journal of Physics

“Absolutely amazing for teaching complex ideas and theories. . . Excellent primers for serious study of physics topics.”
—Physics Today

Megumi is an all-star athlete, but she's a failure when it comes to physics class. And she can't concentrate on her tennis matches when she's worried about the questions she missed on the big test! Luckily for her, she befriends Ryota, a patient physics geek who uses real-world examples to help her understand classical mechanics-and improve her tennis game in the process!

In The Manga Guide to Physics, you'll follow alongside Megumi as she learns about the physics of everyday objects like roller skates, slingshots, braking cars, and tennis serves. In no time, you'll master tough concepts like momentum and impulse, parabolic motion, and the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration.

You'll also learn how to:
  • Apply Newton's three laws of motion to real-life problems
  • Determine how objects will move after a collision
  • Draw vector diagrams and simplify complex problems using trigonometry
  • Calculate how an object's kinetic energy changes as its potential energy increases
If you're mystified by the basics of physics or you just need a refresher, The Manga Guide to Physics will get you up to speed in a lively, quirky, and practical way.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Does Physics Bother You?

1: Law of Action and Reaction
2: Force and Motion
3: Momentum
4: Energy

Epilogue
Appendix: Making Sense of Units

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The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra

Posted by Unknown On 2:51 PM | 1 comment

Book Details 
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: No Starch Press (May 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593274130
ISBN-13: 978-1593274139
File Size: 21.4 Mb | File Format: PDF

Book Description

Reiji wants two things in life: a black belt in karate and Misa, the girl of his dreams. Luckily, Misa’s big brother is the captain of the university karate club and is ready to strike a deal: Reiji can join the club if he tutors Misa in linear algebra.

Follow along in The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra as Reiji takes Misa from the absolute basics of this tricky subject through mind-bending operations like performing linear transformations, calculating determinants, and finding eigenvectors and eigenvalues. With memorable examples like miniature golf games and karate tournaments, Reiji transforms abstract concepts into something concrete, understandable, and even fun.

As you follow Misa through her linear algebra crash course, you’ll learn about:
  • Basic vector and matrix operations such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication
  • Linear dependence, independence, and bases
  • Using Gaussian elimination to calculate inverse matrices
  • Subspaces, dimension, and linear span
  • Practical applications of linear algebra in fields like computer graphics, cryptography, and engineering
But Misa’s brother may get more than he bargained for as sparks start to fly between student and tutor. Will Reiji end up with the girl—or just a pummeling from her oversized brother? Real math, real romance, and real action come together like never before in The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra.

Table of Contents

1: What Is Linear Algebra?
2: The Fundamentals
3: Intro to Matrices
4: More Matrices
5: Introduction to Vectors
6: More Vectors
7: Linear Transformations
8: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors

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Final Cut Pro X Cookbook

Posted by Unknown On 11:20 AM | 1 comment

Book Details 
Paperback: 452 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1849692963
ISBN-13: 978-1849692960
File Size: 61.5 Mb | File Format: Epub + PDF

Book Description

As technology becomes more and more accessible and easier to use, we are expected to do more in less time than ever before. Video editors are now expected to be able not only to edit, but create motion graphics, fix sound issues, enhance image quality and color and more. Also, many workers in the PR and marketing world are finding they need to know how to get viral videos made from start to finish as quickly as possible. Final Cut Pro X was built as a one-stop shop with all the tools needed to produce a professional video from beginning to end.

The “Final Cut Pro X Cookbook” contains recipes that will take you from the importing process and basic mechanics of editing up through many of FCPX’s advanced tools needed by top-tier editors on a daily basis. Edit quickly and efficiently, fix image and sound problems with ease, and get your video out to your client or the world easily.

No program gets you from application launch to the actual editing process faster than FCPX. After covering the basics, the book hits the ground running showing readers how to produce professional quality videos even if video editing isn’t your day job.

The recipes inside are packed with more than 300 images helping illustrate time-saving editing tools, problem-solving techniques and how to spice up your video with beautiful effects and titles. We also dive into audio editing, color correction and dabble in FCPX’s sister programs Motion and Compressor!

With more than 100 recipes, the Final Cut Pro X Cookbook is a great aid for the avid enthusiast up to the 40-hour-a-week professional. This book contains everything you need to make videos that captivate your audiences.

What you will learn from this book
  • Import media from tons of different sources
  • Organize your media the way you want with keywording and Favorites
  • Learn about tons of editing tools to save you time during the editing process
  • Add professional, non-cheesy animated titles and transitions to enhance your videos’ look
  • Edit videos in beat to your soundtrack
  • Make your images whiz around the screen with easier-than-ever keyframing
  • Isolate, fix, or remove certain colors with advanced color correction tools
  • Export to DVD, Blu-Ray, YouTube, Apple devices and more without leaving the program!
  • Edit multicamera projects together with an all-new multicam tool
  • Remove backgrounds with the brand new easy-to-use Keyer
Approach

Written in cookbook style, this book offers many recipes to edit slick, professional videos with FCPX. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. The book is designed so that you can read it chapter by chapter, or you can look at the list of recipes and refer to them in no particular order.

Who this book is written for

If you’ve been toying around with iMovie and want more power or you’ve taken FCPX for a whirl and simply can’t find the fastest, most efficient workflow, this book will help! Veteran editors will find just as much useful info as FCPX is radically different than its predecessor, Final Cut Pro 7.

Table of Contents 

Chapter 1: Importing Your Media
Chapter 2: Customizing Your Workflow
Chapter 3: Basic Editing Mechanics
Chapter 4: Enhancing Your Editing
Chapter 5: Sweetening and Fixing Your Sound
Chapter 6: Practical Magic a.k.a Useful Effects
Chapter 7: Titles, Transitions,  and Generators
Chapter 8: Get Your Movie to Move
Chapter 9: Altering the Aesthetics of Your Image
Chapter 10: Getting Your Project Out of FCPX

Appendix: Working with Motion and Compressor

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Piwik Web Analytics Essentials

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Book Details 
Paperback: 326 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1849518483
ISBN-13: 978-1849518482
File Size: 18.7 Mb | File Format: Epub + PDF

Book Description 

Without web analytics, you are blind on the internet. In order to improve conversions and revenue on your web- site, you need to know what is going on. Piwik gives you this data and unlike Google Analytics, gives you total control over its usage. Unlike Google analytics where the data can be read by Google, Piwik maintains complete confidentiality of your website data. By harnessing the power of your tracked data, you can raise the conversion rates on your website to new heights.

“Piwik Web Analytics Essentials” will show you how to install Piwik Open Source Analytics and have you tracking your website’s visitors within an hour after you pick up the book! After that, you will learn how to track custom events and programmatically trigger tracking events. The book continues with ecommerce tracking and advanced Piwik API usage.

This book will take you from installing Piwik on your web server to writing custom tracking code for your apps.

You will learn goal and event tracking techniques and how to add them to your standard tracking to fine tune your analytics results. Nothing is untrackable using Piwik: ecommerce shopping carts, web apps, phone apps, and more can make use of Piwik tracking capabilities.

“Piwik Web Analytics Essentials” will walk you through every step with detailed screenshots and plenty of example code.

What will you learn from this book
  • Install Piwik on a web server
  • Add Piwik tracking to websites
  • Customize Piwik JavaScript tracking code
  • Track goals and marketing campaigns
  • Track events using Piwik
  • Track ecommerce sales, lost sales, and conversion rates
  • Integrate Piwik with your application
  • Customize Piwik to provide your own web analytics service to clients or customers
Approach

Packed with code and the necessary screenshots, this is a step-by-step comprehensive tutorial which will help you learn about Piwik quickly and easily.

Who this book is written for

This book is for everyone ranging from a reader who is new to web analytics to a seasoned coding expert wanting to switch to Piwik from another analytics tool. If you are a newbie, you will learn to install Piwik, install tracking, and customize the JavaScript for their custom needs, as well as why they need to track their visitors. If you are an advanced reader, you will learn to mix JavaScript with PHP, Flash, and other languages in order to write plugins for custom software.

Table of Contents 

Chapter 1: Installation and Setup
Chapter 2: Using Piwik's Interface  and Reports
Chapter 3: Tracking Visitors with Piwik
Chapter 4: Setting Up and  Tracking Goals
Chapter 5: Tracking Marketing Campaigns
Chapter 6: Tracking Events
Chapter 7: E-commerce Tracking
Chapter 8: Piwik Website and  User Administration
Chapter 9: Advanced Tracking  and Development
Chapter 10: Piwik Integration

Appendix A: Tracking API Reference
Appendix B:  Analytics API Reference

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BMC Control-M 7

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Book Details 
Paperback: 534 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1849682569
ISBN-13: 978-1849682565
File Size: 19 Mb | File Format: Epub + PDF

Book Description

Control-M is one of the most widely used enterprise class batch workload automation platform. With a strong knowledge of Control-M, you will be able to use the tool to meet ever growing batch needs. There has been no book that can guide you to implement and manage this powerful tool successfully… until now. With this book you will quickly master Control-M and be able to call yourself “a Control-M” specialist!

“BMC Control-M 7: A Journey from Traditional Batch Scheduling to Workload Automation” will lead you into the world of Control-M and guide you to implement and maintain a Control-M environment successfully. By mastering this workload automation tool, you will see new opportunities opening up before you.

With this book you will be able to take away and put into practice knowledge from every aspect of Control-M – implementation, administration, design and management of Control-M job flows, and more importantly how to move into workload automation and let batch processing utilize the cloud.

You will start off with batch processing and workload automation, and then get an understanding of how Control-M meets these needs. Then we will look more in depth at the technical details of Control-M, and finally look at how to work with it to meet critical business needs. Throughout the book, you will learn important concepts and features, as well as learn from the Author’s experience, accumulated over many years. By the end of the book you will be set up to work efficiently with this tool and also understand how to utilize the latest features of Control-M.

What you will learn from this book
  • Understand the concepts of traditional batch processing and workload automation
  • Plan and implement Control-M infrastructure by using the right technology in the right place
  • Familiarize yourself with the GUI interface and define Control-M job flows to meet both simple and complex batch processing needs
  • Get hands-on experience with various types of Control-M add-on modules (Control Modules), and understand how they can simplify and enhance existing batch flows
  • Complete advanced administration tasks and performance tuning using best practices
  • Take one step further into the world of workload automation by using the latest features available in Control-M
Approach

This book is written in a direct to-the-point style to provide everything you need to start with Control-M. From this book, you will not only learn the technical aspects of Control-M, but also understand how things should be done in real environments and why things are done that way.

Each chapter of the book starts with a short description of what you will learn and a list of things you are expected to master by the end of it. The book can be read straight through, from cover to cover. It emphasizes the things you need to know, in a logical progression, along with advice for further reading or other tasks you might be interested in.

Table of Contents 

Chapter 1: Get to Know the Concept
Chapter 2: Exploring Control-M
Chapter 3: Building the Control-M Infrastructure
Chapter 4: Creating and Managing Batch Flows with  Control-M GUI
Chapter 5: Administrating the  Control-M Infrastructure
Chapter 6: Advanced Batch Scheduling and Management
Chapter 7: Beyond Everyday Administration
Chapter 8: Road to Workload Automation

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Excel Programming with VBA Starter

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Book Details 
Paperback: 60 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1849688443
ISBN-13: 978-1849688444
File Size: 2.7 Mb | File Format: EPub + PDF
Book Description 

Do you have repetitive tasks that you would like to get rid of for good? Would you like to integrate Office Applications in order to streamline some of your tasks? Then look no further. This compact book will provide you with the knowledge to get your VBA programming off the ground and up to a comfortable cruising speed.

“Excel Programming with VBA Starter” was born out of the need to have a short, but yet all-encompassing book that would give you a solid foundation in programming with Visual Basic for Applications. This book will enable you to harness the power of VBA in Excel and put it to good use throughout the course of your working day.

Can’t find properties and methods of an object? Don’t know what a property, method or object is? Covering simple and advanced topics, create powerful, reusable examples such as IO, picking files from within Excel and automatically attaching them to e-mails. Learn and use the concept of encapsulation to condense code into bite-size methods to be easily accessed from within your projects, plus much more.

What you will learn from this book
  • Get started with recording and play macros
  • Learn to use sub routines, with and without arguments
  • Create user-defined functions (UDFs)
  • Work with loops and effectively debug your code
  • Use UDFs to describe arguments, create custom categories and more
  • Reference external libraries and use them in your project
  • Program interaction and sharing with other Office Applications
  • Learn to work with enumeration
  • Use advanced features and work with Windows APIs
  • Create classes and hide away complex code
Approach

This is a starter guide, covering the basics you need to get up and running as quickly as possible.

Who this book is written for

This book is written for users of Excel who want to speed up and streamline normally arduous tasks for maximum productivity.

Table of Contents 

1. So, what is VBA?
2. Recording a macro, adding modules, browsing objects, and variables
3. Quick start – VBA programming
4. Top features you'll want to know about
5. People and places you should get to know

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What’s New in SQL Server 2012

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Book Details 
Paperback: 238 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (September 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 184968734X
ISBN-13: 978-1849687348
File Size: 19.6 Mb | File Format: EPub + PDF
Book Description

Microsoft SQL Server has been part of the enterprise database landscape since SQL Server 7 arrived in 1998 and has evolved into the relational and BI platform of choice by businesses around the globe. The performance and full feature set of SQL Server has been widely recognized by the business community and it is viewed as a powerful weapon in their database and business intelligence arsenal. SQL Server brings numerous benefits to all businesses, central to which is a thorough understanding of the technology, both current and new.

This is the book both DBAs and developers always wanted to buy but could never find in the bookstore. This is a SQL Server book that contains only the new features introduced in SQL Server 2012.

This book will give you a competitive advantage by helping you to quickly learn and understand the new features of SQL Server 2012. Most readers will already have an established knowledge of SQL Server and will want to update their 2008/2008R2 knowledge swiftly with least pain.

This book takes you through all of the new features of SQL Server 2012, from installing core database services and features, to the new administration and updated Transact-SQL functions. You will discover the new Analysis Services features, introduce data alerts and reporting features and explore the new enhancements to Integration Services. In addition you will learn how to automate, cleanse and transform critical business data with DQS and world-class enterprise level availability features.

Finally, you will venture into simulating real-world database loads using Distributed Replay and complete your journey with a look at the new SQL Server cloud services and the new Hadoop big data platform.

What will you learn from this book
  • Learn how to install SQL Server 2012 core database features and advanced services
  • Master day to day administration tasks in the new SQL Server Management Studio
  • Take command of Transact SQL’s new keywords and functions
  • Explore the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) new development environment
  • Find out about the new FileTable data type
  • Learn about the Business Intelligence Semantic Models (BISM) in Analysis Services
  • Take advantage of Reporting Services Data Alerts
  • Find out about the new SSIS catalog, the SSIS Admin security role and how to upgrade from previous versions
  • Create a Data Quality Services (DQS) project and cleanse real-world data
  • Understand the new AlwaysOn Availability Features
  • Test new hardware and vendor upgrades using Distributed Replay
  • Discover the forthcoming Hadoop data platform and how to migrate to SQL Azure
Approach

This is a hands-on book to quickly get you up to speed with SQL Server 2012. It covers all the new features of the core database engine as well as the business intelligence (BI) services.

The book begins by taking you step-by-step through the installation process, showing you what to install and which services and features you need. Once you have your SQL Server in place, you learn how to administer it and then explore new T-SQL functions to expand your query-writing toolkit. You will discover how the enhancements to Integration Services, Analysis Services and Reporting Services make developing BI solutions easier. It will then introduce you to SQL Server Data Tools, your new and improved development environment for creating database and BI projects.

A hands-on example guides you through the steps required to run Distributed Replay, giving you the experience you need to apply this in the field. The book then takes you through a detailed example to show you how to create a Data Quality Services project and cleanse real-world data. Easy to follow code samples provide you with the queries you need to set up Availability Groups using the new AlwaysOn technology.

Once you are comfortable with these new features you will be ready to migrate your data to the cloud and into SQL Azure. An exploration of Hadoop will help you understand big data and how it really is the next big thing.

Who this book is for

This concise reference is for database administrators, SQL Server Developers and BI professionals. Anyone who is familiar with SQL Server 2008 R2 and needs to make the jump to the latest version with the shortest learning curve will find this book useful.

Table of Contents 

Chapter 1: Installing SQL Server 2012
Chapter 2: SQL Server Administration
Chapter 3: Transact SQL
Chapter 4: Analysis Services
Chapter 5: Reporting Services
Chapter 6: Integration Services
Chapter 7: Data Quality Services
Chapter 8: AlwaysOn
Chapter 9: Distributed Replay
Chapter 10: Big Data and the Cloud

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