Tabla de Contenidos: “…Key questions for assessing, and learning from, development agency performance in supporting strategy processes -- Options for monitoring -- 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…7.2 Control Risk Self-Assessment (CRSA)7.3 The CRSA Process; 7.4 Integrating Self-Assessment and Audit; 7.5 Fraud Investigations; 7.6 Information Systems Auditing; 7.7 Compliance; 7.8 Value for Money (VFM); 7.9 The Consulting Approach; 7.10 The 'Right' Structure; 7.11 New Developments; Summary and Conclusions; Endnotes; 8 Setting an Audit Strategy; Introduction; 8.1 Risk-Based Strategic Planning; 8.2 Resourcing the Strategy; 8.3 Managing Performance; 8.4 The Auditor Appraisal Scheme; 8.5 Methods of Staff Appraisal; 8.6 The Audit Manual; 8.7 Time Monitoring System; 8.8 Audit Planning Process…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Getting Started; 01.01Running Multiple Versions of Visual Studio Side-By-Side; 01.02Getting Table of Contents in Visual Studio 2010 Online Help; Online Help; Using Classic View; 01.03Exporting Your Environment Settings; 01.04Remove Projects from the Recent Projects List; 01.05AutoRecover; 01.06Improving Performance by Changing the Visual Experience in Visual Studio 2010; 01.07Change Tool Window Animations; 01.08Importing or Changing Your Environment Settings…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4 Predicting Contention Characteristics; 4.1 Modeling Contention Characteristics; 4.2 Approximation Using PMUs; 4.2.1 PMUs for Memory Resource Usage; 4.2.2 Regression to Determine Coefficients; 5 Evaluation; 6 Related Work; 7 Summary; References; About the Authors; 3 An Outlook of High Performance Computing Infrastructures for Scientific Computing; 1 Introduction; 2 Modern Microprocessor Based Computer Systems; 3 Computing Shift: from Serial to Parallel; 4 Implicit Parallelism; 4.1 Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP); 4.1.1 Major Kinds of ILP…”

“…Follow McClatchy's no-nonsense and practical approach, and you'll soon manage--and even lead--at your highest level of personal performance"--…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ticks -- Signals -- Alarms -- Multiprocessing -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Prominent OOP Features -- Object inheritance -- Objects and references -- Object iteration -- Object comparison -- Traits -- Reflection -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Optimizing for High Performance -- Max execution time -- Memory management -- File uploads -- Session handling -- Output buffering -- Disabling debug messages -- Zend OPcache -- Concurrency -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Going Serverless -- Using the serverless framework -- Using Iron.io IronWorker -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Reactive Programming -- Similarities with event-driven programming -- Using RxPHP -- Installing RxPHP -- Observable and observer -- Subject -- Operator -- Writing custom operators -- Non-blocking IO -- Using React -- Installing React -- React event loop -- Observables and event loop -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Common Design Patterns -- Base patterns -- The registry pattern -- Creational patterns -- The singleton pattern -- The prototype pattern -- The abstract factory pattern -- The builder pattern -- The object pool pattern -- Behavioral patterns -- The strategy pattern -- The observer pattern -- The lazy initialization pattern -- The chain of responsibility pattern -- Structural patterns -- The decorator pattern -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Building Services -- Understanding the client-server relationship -- Working with SOAP -- XML extensions -- Creating server -- Creating WSDL file -- Creating client -- Working with REST -- JSON extensions -- Creating server -- Creating client -- Working with Apache Thrift (RPC) -- Installing Apache Thrift -- Defining service -- Creating server -- Creating client -- Understanding microservices -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Working with Databases -- Working with MySQL -- Installing MySQL -- Setting up sample data -- Querying via the MySQLi driver extension -- Connecting…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Playing videos -- OMXPlayer for video playback -- Playing audio -- Aplay for audio playback -- OMXPlayer for audio playback -- Using AirPlayer -- Using alsamixer -- Installing OSMC -- Configuring OSMC -- Enabling other codecs -- Wireless configuration -- Media sources -- Using add-ons -- AirPlay -- Enabling CEC and remotes -- Performance optimization -- Overclocking -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Running Your Pi from a Battery's Power Source -- Hardware requirements -- Charging stations -- Battery packs -- Voltage regulator -- Ohm's Law -- Discharge curves -- Discharge characteristics -- Putting it all together -- How long will it last? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…DiscussionSee Also; 1.6 Connecting the System; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.7 Connecting a DVI or VGA Monitor; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.8 Using a Composite Video Monitor/TV; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.9 Adjusting the Picture Size on Your Monitor; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.10 Maximizing Performance; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.11 Changing Your Password; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.12 Setting the Pi to Boot Straight into a Windowing System; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also…”

“…Packed with best practices and advanced tips and techniques on Android tools, development cycle, continuos integration, release management, testing, and performance, this book offers professional guidance to experienced developers who want to push the boundaries of the Android platform with the developer tools. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Design-driven versus a human-centered approach -- 1.5. Focus on performance and well-being -- 2. Management and Ergonomic Approaches toward Innovation and Design -- 2.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Kapitel 11: Schnelleinstieg und RAW-Entwicklung -- 11.1 Die Schritte -- 11.2 Erklärung zu den verwendeten Filtern -- (RAW-)Entwicklung -- Sättigung/Dynamik-Filter: -- Polarisationsfilter -- 11.3 Hautretusche und Porträtbearbeitung -- Die Schritte -- 11.4 Schnellentwicklung per Stapelverarbeitung -- Die Schritte -- 11.5 Schwarz-Weiß mit Zusatzebene -- 11.6 Teilcolorierung/Colorkey -- 11.7 Die Alternativen -- S/W-Umwandlung mit Maske -- S/W-Umwandlung mit dem HSL-Filter -- 11.8 Trick: Schnelles Bildaufpeppen mit Ebenenkopie -- 11.9 Profitrick: Logo mit einem Klick -- 11.10 LUTs zur Übernahme von Presets aus Lightroom -- 11.11 Performance-Tipps -- Wie geht es weiter? -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Customer Feedback -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Transitioning from Data Developer to Data Scientist -- Data developer thinking -- Objectives of a data developer -- Querying or mining -- Data quality or data cleansing -- Data modeling -- Issue or insights -- Thought process -- Developer versus scientist -- New data, new source -- Quality questions -- Querying and mining -- Performance -- Financial reporting -- Visualizing -- Tools of the trade -- Advantages of thinking like a data scientist -- Developing a better approach to understanding data -- Using statistical thinking during program or database designing -- Adding to your personal toolbox -- Increased marketability -- Perpetual learning -- Seeing the future -- Transitioning to a data scientist -- Let's move ahead -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Declaring the Objectives -- Key objectives of data science -- Collecting data -- Processing data -- Exploring and visualizing data -- Analyzing the data and/or applying machine learning to the data -- Deciding (or planning) based upon acquired insight -- Thinking like a data scientist -- Bringing statistics into data science -- Common terminology -- Statistical population -- Probability -- False positives -- Statistical inference -- Regression -- Fitting -- Categorical data -- Classification -- Clustering -- Statistical comparison -- Coding -- Distributions -- Data mining -- Decision trees -- Machine learning -- Munging and wrangling -- Visualization -- D3 -- Regularization -- Assessment -- Cross-validation -- Neural networks -- Boosting -- Lift -- Mode -- Outlier -- Predictive modeling -- Big Data -- Confidence interval -- Writing -- Summary -- Chapter 3: A Developer's Approach to Data Cleaning -- Understanding basic data cleaning…”

“…What You Will Learn Use functional data structures and algorithms to solve problems Understand the intricacies of the type system Create a simple parser for integer expressions with additions Build high-performance web services with Haskell Master mechanisms for concurrency and parallelism in Haskell Perform parsing and handle scarce resources such as filesystem handles Organize your programs by creating your own types and type classes In Detail Haskell is a purely functional language that has the great ability to develop large and difficult, but easily maintainable software. …”

“…Design documents and implement real world e-commerce applications with Couchbase About This Book Get acquainted with Couchbase architecture and design your document-based data schema Implement full text search using industry standard elastic search plugins Develop critical and high performance applications using this hands-on tutorial guide Who This Book Is For If you are new to the NoSQL document system or have little or no experience in NoSQL development and administration and are planning to deploy Couchbase for your next project, then this book is for you. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Front Cover""; ""Modeling and Simulation of Computer Networks and Systems""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Overview and Goals""; ""Features of the Book""; ""Organization and Scanning of Chapters""; ""Target Audience""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Protocols and services in computer networks and systems""; ""1 Wireless and mobile technologies and protocols and their performance evaluation""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Wireless and mobile technologies""; ""2.1 2G and 2.5G technologies""; ""2.1.1 GSM""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Technical challenges and open issues; 3. Performance measures; 4. Computational approaches; 4.1. …”

“…If you need an in-memory database or a high-performance cache system that is simple to use and highly scalable, Redis is what you need. …”

“…What You Will Learn Create and configure a libGDX project to get started with making games Get to grips with a simple game loop that will drive your games Manage game assets to reduce code duplication and speed up development Pack game assets together into single assets to increase your game's performance Display textures on the screen and manipulate them with play input Play various types of sounds that a game can generate Design and modify a game user interface with libGDX's built-in tools Develop a game that will run across various platforms In Detail LibGDX is a cross-platform game development framework in Java that makes game programming easier and fun to do. …”

“…The advanced portions of the book begin by showing you how to tune your apps' performance and memory usage, to give you a truly professional edge. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Connecting to a Wireless Network via the Console -- Chapter 6 The Raspberry Pi Configuration Tool -- Running the Tool -- The System Tab -- Filesystem -- Password -- Hostname -- Boot -- Auto Login -- Network at Boot -- Overscan -- Rastrack -- The Interfaces Tab -- Camera -- SSH -- SPI -- I2C -- Serial -- 1-Wire -- Performance -- Overclock -- GPU Memory -- Localisation -- Locale -- Timezone -- Keyboard -- Chapter 7 Advanced Raspberry Pi Configuration -- Editing Configuration Files via NOOBS -- Hardware Settings: config.txt -- Modifying the Display -- Boot Options -- Overclocking the Raspberry Pi -- Disabling L2 Cache -- Enabling Test Mode -- Memory Partitioning -- Software Settings: cmdline.txt -- Part 2 Building a Media Centre or Productivity Machine -- Chapter 8 The Pi as a Home Theatre PC -- Playing Music at the Console -- Dedicated HTPC with OSMC -- Streaming Internet Media -- Streaming Local Network Media -- Configuring OSMC -- Chapter 9 The Pi as a Productivity Machine -- Using Cloud-Based Apps -- Using LibreOffice -- Image Editing with the Gimp -- Part 3 Programming the Pi -- Chapter 10 An Introduction to Scratch -- Introducing Scratch -- Example 1: Hello World -- Example 2: Animation and Sound -- Example 3: A Simple Game -- Interfacing Scratch with Hardware -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11 An Introduction to Python -- Introducing Python -- Example 1: Hello World -- Example 2: Comments, Inputs, Variables, and Loops -- Example 3: Gaming with pygame -- Example 4: Python and Networking -- Further Reading -- Chapter 12 Minecraft Pi Edition -- Introducing Minecraft Pi Edition -- Installing Minecraft -- Running Minecraft -- Exploration -- Hacking Minecraft -- Part 4 Hardware Hacking -- Chapter 13 Learning to Hack Hardware -- Electronic Equipment -- Reading Resistor Colour Codes -- Sourcing Components -- Online Sources -- Offline Sources…”