“…In addition to the fundamentals, you'll learn best practices, helpful game-architectural patterns, and how to customize Unity to suit your needs, all in the context of building a working 2D game. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Agile as Competitive Advantage -- Endnotes -- Part II: Adaptive Methods for Modernizing Marketing -- Chapter 5: A Snapshot of Leading Methods -- Chapter 6: The Skinny on Scrum -- Scrum: A Service Development Method -- How Scrum Works in a Marketing Context -- Scrum Is a Team Sport -- Endnote -- Chapter 7: Kanban: Lean Meets Agile -- Distinct Origins, Shared Philosophy -- Scrum versus Kanban: Similarities and Differences -- Endnote -- Chapter 8: Implementing Agile: Key Considerations -- Forging C-Suite Partnerships -- The Role of the Agile Coach -- Own Your Method -- Set Expectations Up Front -- Endnotes -- Chapter 9: Implementing Agile: Common Objections -- Argument #1: "It Doesn't Scale" -- Argument #2: "We'll Disrupt Active Projects" -- Argument #3: "We Can't Plan Ahead" -- Argument #4: "How Can We Possibly Budget for This?" …”

“…It seems hard to believe today, but there was a time when Air Bnb was the best-kept secret known of travel hackers and couch surfers, Pintrest was a niche web site frequented only by bakers and crafters, LinkedIn was an exclusive network for C-suite executives and top-level recruiters, Facebook was My Space's sorry step-brother, and Uber was a scrappy upstart that didn't stand a chance against the Goliath that was New York City Yellow Cabs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…LTE? 4G? VoLTE? Whaaat? -- A Word about Privacy and Security -- Free usually isn't -- The terms of service can be tricky -- Marsha's sage advice about privacy -- Chapter 2 Buying Your Android Smartphone and Accessories -- Investigate First - Then Make a Buying Decision -- Looking at a phone's physical features -- Reviewing before making a decision -- Considering an older model -- Choosing where to buy your phone -- Consider Your Carrier Choice -- Checking out the carrier's coverage area -- Finding senior discounts on carrier service -- You Need a Few Accessories, Too -- Power charging blocks - volts and watts matter -- MicroSD card -- Phone case -- Phone Sanitizer -- Chapter 3 Activating and Connecting Your Phone -- Unbox Your New Phone -- Insert a SIM Card -- Turn On Your Phone for the First Time -- Connecting to a network -- Setting up a Google account -- Setting up a secure lock -- Restoring data from an older phone -- Learn Android Smartphone Symbols and Gestures -- Recognizing common Android icons -- Meeting the top status bar -- Exploiting screen navigation and gestures -- Part 2 Getting Started with Your Android Smartphone -- Chapter 4 Safety First: Making Your New Phone Private -- Set Up a Screen Lock -- Checking out the screen locking options -- Following the lock screen setup process -- Establish Data Backup…”

“…It connects to the world, yet it is as personal as a well-worn book. And now it has two cameras! Taking Your iPad 2 to the Max is written so that anyone can quickly get up to speed on Apple’s latest hit. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Only two work -- Chapter Ten Selecting Long-Term Winners: Don't Look for the Needle-Buy the Haystack -- A fund failure rate of almost 80 percent -- A death in the family -- The odds against success are terrible: Only two out of 355 funds have delivered truly superior performance -- The Magellan Fund story -- The Contrafund story -- Living by the sword, dying by the sword -- Look (forward) before you leap -- Don't look for the needle, buy the haystack…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Setting up and creating incoming Webhooks -- Sending messages using Webhooks -- Interacting with your Webhooks -- How to use Block Kit -- Building blocks -- Block elements -- Button elements -- Checkbox groups -- Date picker elements -- Image element -- Time pickers -- Types of blocks -- Configuring a Slack API sandbox -- Enter sandbox -- Setting up your sandbox -- Installing Simple IdP -- Summary -- Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots -- Chapter 10: Building Your Own Bot -- Slackbot versus regular bots -- Creating a bot user -- Building your bot user -- Setting up Events API access -- Bringing the bot to your workspace -- Creating an app -- Building and hosting your bot -- Setting up bot tokens -- Finding the right scope(s) -- Authorizing OAuth permissions -- Putting your bot into action -- Scheduled messages -- Slash commands -- Using existing frameworks -- Block Kit -- The Bolt framework -- Testing and pushing your bot live -- Testing -- Updating -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Building Your Own BotBuying, Building, and Outsourcing Your Bot -- Benefits of building your own Slack bot -- Using external and paid frameworks -- Botkit -- Microsoft Bot Framework -- Amazon Lex -- Benefits of buying your own Slack bot -- Brilliant bots for your workspace -- Understanding the cost and time to outsource a bot -- Finding freelancers -- Using Upwork to hire Slack professionals -- Cost for hiring a Slack professional -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Distributing Your App in the Slack App Directory…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using the SELECT statement for generating a new dataset -- Making flexible queries using parameters -- Time for action - getting orders in a range of dates using parameters -- Adding parameters to your queries -- Making flexible queries by using Kettle variables -- Time for action - getting orders in a range of dates by using Kettle variables -- Using Kettle variables in your queries -- Sending data to a database -- Time for action - loading a table with a list of manufacturers -- Inserting new data into a database table with the Table output step -- Inserting or updating data by using other PDI steps -- Time for action - inserting new products or updating existent ones -- Time for action - testing the update of existent products -- Inserting or updating with the Insert/Update Step -- Eliminating data from a database -- Time for action - deleting data about discontinued items -- Deleting records of a database table with the Delete step -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Performing Advanced Operations with Databases -- Preparing the environment -- Time for action - populating the Jigsaw database -- Exploring the Jigsaw database model -- Looking up data in a database -- Doing simple lookups -- Time for action - using a Database lookup step to create a list of products to buy -- Looking up values in a database with the Database lookup step -- Performing complex lookups -- Time for action - using a Database join step to create a list of suggested products to buy -- Joining data from the database to the stream data by using a Database join step -- Introducing dimensional modeling -- Loading dimensions with data -- Time for action - loading a region dimension with a Combination lookup/update step -- Time for action - testing the transformation that loads the region dimension -- Describing data with dimensions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Salute the animal spirit -- IDEA #33: I can see your halo -- IDEA #34: To get to the C-suite, be a generalist -- IDEA #35: The two yous…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.6 Finding the appropriate Composite pattern -- 4.6.1 Sell-Side Hub composite pattern: a definition -- Chapter 5. Proposing a solution -- 5.1 Our starting point -- 5.2 Business pattern selection -- 5.3 Architectural artifacts -- 5.4 Constructing a logical view of the architecture -- 5.4.1 Select Application and Runtime patterns -- 5.4.2 Self-Service business pattern for product configuration, product search and selection and o... -- 5.4.3 Find a match for the registration Self-Service business pattern -- 5.4.4 Collaboration business pattern for customer assistance -- 5.4.5 Collaboration business pattern for notification -- 5.4.6 Information Aggregation pattern for catalog population -- 5.4.7 Information aggregation for technical documentation repository population -- 5.4.8 Access Integration pattern for single sign-on -- 5.4.9 Application Integration patterns -- 5.5 Constructing the proposal -- 5.5.1 Setting the scene -- 5.5.2 High-level summary -- 5.5.3 Overview -- 5.5.4 Solution -- 5.5.5 Risks -- 5.5.6 Dependencies -- 5.5.7 Requirements -- 5.5.8 Out of scope -- 5.5.9 Product suite -- 5.5.10 Proposed project phases -- 5.6 Functional view of the architecture -- 5.6.1 Component list -- 5.6.2 Component relationships -- 5.6.3 Component interactions -- Chapter 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Build an App to Extend/Reignite the Brand -- Apps to Extend a Web-Based Product's Use -- NetSuite -- Fidelity Investments -- Woodforest Mobile Banking -- Chipotle -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Analytical Applications -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Don't Reinvent Any Wheels -- Data Warehouse Primer -- What Is a BI Application? -- Why Buy, When You Can Build? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- CHAPTER 10 Advanced Topics in Pricing -- Nonlinear Pricing -- A Single Two-Part Tariff -- Two Two-Part Tariffs -- Tie-in Sales -- General Justifications for Tie-in Sales -- Tie-in Sales as a Method of Price Discrimination -- Package Tie-in Sales of Independent Products -- Interrelated Demands -- Quality Choice -- Other Methods of Nonlinear Pricing -- Minimum Quantities and Quantity Discounts -- Selection of Price Schedules -- Premium for Priority -- Auctions -- Summary -- Problems -- APPENDIX 10A The Optimal Two-Part Tariff -- APPENDIX 10B Nonlinear Pricing with an Example -- EXAMPLE 10.1 Football Tariffs -- EXAMPLE 10.2 You Auto Save from Tie-in Sales -- EXAMPLE 10.3 Stuck Holding the Bag -- EXAMPLE 10.4 Tied to TV -- EXAMPLE 10.5 Not Too Suite-Mixed Bundling -- EXAMPLE 10.6 Price Discriminating on eBay -- CHAPTER 11 Strategic Behavior -- Strategic Behavior Defined -- Noncooperative Strategic Behavior -- Predatory Pricing -- Limit Pricing -- Investments to Lower Production Costs -- Raising Rivals' Costs -- Welfare Implications and the Role of the Courts -- Cooperative Strategic Behavior -- Practices That Facilitate Collusion -- Cooperative Strategic Behavior and the Role of the Courts -- Summary -- Problems -- Suggested Readings…”