Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ruby extensions and programming libraries -- 1.4. Out-of-the-box Ruby tools and applications -- Summary -- Chapter 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rotatable and Resizable Interfaces -- Creating Rotatable and Resizable Interfaces with Interface Builder -- Reframing Controls on Rotation -- Swapping Views on Rotation -- Summary -- Q&amp -- A -- Workshop -- Further Exploration -- HOUR 18: Extending the Touch Interface -- Multitouch Gesture Architecture -- Detecting Taps -- Detecting Swipes -- Detecting Pinches -- Using the Shake Gesture -- Summary -- Q&amp -- A -- Workshop -- Further Exploration -- HOUR 19: Sensing Movement with Accelerometer Input -- Accelerometer Background -- Sensing Orientation -- Detecting Tilt -- Detecting Movement -- Summary -- Workshop -- Further Exploration -- HOUR 20: Working with Rich Media -- Exploring the Rich Media Frameworks -- Preparing the Media Playground Application -- Using the Movie Player -- Creating and Playing Audio Recordings -- Accessing and Playing the iPod Library -- Summary -- Q&amp -- A -- Workshop -- Further Exploration -- HOUR 21: Interacting with Other Applications -- Getting Images from the iPhone Image Library and Camera -- Creating and Sending Email -- Accessing the Address Book -- Summary -- Q&amp -- A -- Workshop -- Further Exploration -- HOUR 22: Implementing Map and Location Services -- Core Location -- Map Kit -- The Compass -- Summary -- Q&amp -- A -- Workshop -- Further Exploration -- HOUR 23: Application Debugging and Optimization -- Debugging in Xcode -- Monitoring with Instruments -- Profiling with Shark -- Summary -- Workshop -- Further Exploration -- HOUR 24: Distributing Applications Through the App Store -- Preparing an Application for the App Store -- Submitting an Application for Approval -- Promoting Your Application -- Other Distribution Methods -- Summary -- Q&amp -- A -- Workshop -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Python and Elevation Data -- ASCII Grid files -- Reading grids -- Writing grids -- Creating a shaded relief -- Creating elevation contours -- Working with LIDAR -- Creating a grid from LIDAR -- Using PIL to visualize LIDAR -- Creating a Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) -- Summary -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 7 Developing the Skill of Envisioning -- Functional Reimagining -- Multiverse Reimagining -- Part Four Discover and Rediscover -- Chapter 8 Systemic Design and the Lost Art of Synthesis -- The Interconnectedness of Parts within a System -- Dimensions of Systems -- The Lost Art of Synthesis -- Notes -- Chapter 9 The Organization as a Chessboard: Seeing the Pieces -- How to Determine Whether You Are Focused on a Subset of the Whole System -- A Note for Individual Contributors -- Notes -- Chapter 10 The Organization as a System -- Intraorganizational Systems -- Interorganizational Systems -- Industry-Specific Organizational Systems -- Chapter 11 Broken Systems -- The Hedberg Strategy -- A Broken System -- One Reimagining of Internal Technology Organizations -- A Second Reimagining of Internal Technology Organizations -- Part Five Clear the Digital Fog -- Chapter 12 Chaos, Noise, and Epistemology in the Digital Age -- Chaos, Noise, and the Three Logical Fallacies -- Epistemology in the Digital Age -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the Factory Floor -- The Divide Within -- The Divide Across -- The View from One Side of the Field -- The View from the Other Side of the Field -- The Divide Without -- Note -- 14 The Multiplication of Expertise: A Leadership Imperative -- Three Altitudes of Inputs and Outputs -- Example A -- Example B -- Notes -- Part Six Design for Inevitability -- Chapter 15 From Data-Driven to Reason-Driven -- Aristotle's Conundrum -- Organizational Empiricism -- Organizational Reasoning (from Data-Driven to Reason-Driven) -- Notes -- Chapter 16 The Reformational Economics of Linear and Exponential Value -- Linear versus Exponential Value in the Case of Capability -- Notes -- Chapter 17 The Reformational Economics of Omission and Commission -- Outcome Bias in the Face of Failure…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Program structure -- Console application -- Building a forms application -- The Object Pascal language phrasebook -- Tokens -- Constants -- Types -- Inline variables declaration -- Sets and arrays -- Helpers -- Generics -- Anonymous code -- Operator overloading -- Runtime type information -- Custom attributes -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Packing Up Your Toolbox -- Technical requirements -- Working with files and streams -- Working with JSON -- Writing JSON -- Reading JSON -- Using the JSON wizard in Delphi 12 -- Working with XML -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Using the Parallel Programming Library -- Technical requirements -- Using threads -- Access synchronization -- Calling Synchronize -- Atomic operations -- Using a critical section -- Using TMonitor -- Exploring the Parallel Programming Library -- Parallel loops -- Using tasks -- The beauty of futures -- Summary -- Part 2: Going Mobile -- Chapter 5: Playing with FireMonkey -- Technical requirements -- Drawing in code -- Get moving with timers -- Precise timing -- The power of parenting -- Shapes -- Animations -- Touching the screen -- Touch -- Gestures -- Multi-touch -- Game of Memory -- Designing the game -- Working with images -- Designing the user interface -- Aligning, anchoring, and margins -- Layouts -- Building the main form of the game -- Storing the game's configuration…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using try . . . except . . . else . . . finally -- Raising Your Own Exceptions -- Chapter 10 Working with External Files -- Understanding Text and Binary Files -- Opening and Closing Files -- Reading a File's Contents -- Looping through a File -- Looping with readlines() -- Looping with readline() -- Appending versus overwriting files -- Using tell() to determine the pointer location -- Moving the pointer with seek() -- Reading and Copying a Binary File -- Chapter 11 Juggling JSON Data -- Organizing JSON Data -- Understanding Serialization -- Loading Data from JSON Files -- Converting an Excel date to a JSON date -- Loading unkeyed JSON from a Python string -- Loading keyed JSON data from a Python string -- Changing JSON data -- Removing data from a dictionary -- Dumping Python Data to JSON -- Chapter 12 Interacting with the Internet -- Seeing How the Web Works -- Understanding the mysterious URL -- Exposing the HTTP headers -- Opening a URL from Python -- Posting to the web with Python -- Scraping the web with Python -- Storing the parsed content -- Chapter 13 Libraries, Packages, and Modules -- Understanding the Python Standard Library -- Using the dir() function -- Using the help() function -- Exploring built-in functions -- Exploring Python Packages -- Importing Python Modules -- Chapter 14 The Ten Most Essential Aspects of Python -- Being Pythonic -- Identifying the Importance of Indents -- Understanding Python Syntax -- Appreciating the Flexibility of Python Variables -- Seeing Lists as Your Friend -- Controlling Your Program -- Understanding Python Functions -- Figuring Out Errors -- Using Other People's Modules -- Using the Web and AI When You Have Problems -- Index -- EULA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1: Up and Running with Your iPhone -- Chapter 1: Setting Up and Navigating Your iPhone -- Meeting Your iPhone's Hardware -- Setting Up and Activating Your iPhone -- Starting to Use Your iPhone -- Locking and Unlocking Your iPhone -- Powering Down Your iPhone -- Chapter 2: Mastering Essential Moves -- Tapping, Swiping, Dragging, and More -- Getting the Hang of the Onscreen Keyboards -- Multitasking and Switching Apps -- Navigating beyond the First Home Screen Page -- Organizing Home Screen Icons into Folders -- Visiting App Library -- Working with Widgets -- Searching Your iPhone -- Using Notifications -- Using Today View -- Customizing the Lock Screen -- Using Standby -- Chapter 3: Getting in Sync -- Syncing via iCloud -- Syncing with Your Mac or Windows PC -- Syncing Contacts and Calendars -- Syncing Your Media -- Syncing Items Manually -- Chapter 4: Using Control Center and Siri -- Controlling Control Center -- Summoning Siri -- Chapter 5: Setting Your iPhone Straight -- Meeting the Settings Screen -- Apple ID and iCloud Settings -- Airplane Mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Cellular, and Personal Hotspot -- Notifications, Sounds &amp -- Haptics, Focus, and Screen Time Settings -- General Settings -- Control Center Settings -- Display &amp -- Brightness Settings -- Home Screen &amp -- App Library Settings -- Accessibility Settings -- Wallpaper -- Standby -- Siri &amp -- Search -- Face ID/Touch ID &amp -- Passcode -- Emergency SOS -- Exposure Notifications -- Battery -- Privacy &amp -- Security -- Chapter 6: Finding and Managing Apps -- Where and How Do You Get Apps? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Setting up our environment -- Data representation -- Creating tensors -- Tensor rank -- Properties of tensors -- Basic tensor operations -- Hello World in TensorFlow -- Debugging and solving error messages -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 3: Linear Regression with TensorFlow -- Technical requirements -- Linear regression with TensorFlow -- Evaluating regression models -- Salary prediction with TensorFlow -- Loading the data -- Data preprocessing -- Model building -- Model evaluation -- Making predictions -- Saving and loading models -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Classification with TensorFlow -- Technical requirements -- Classification with TensorFlow -- Evaluating classification models -- Confusion matrix -- A student dropout prediction -- Loading the data -- Exploratory data analysis -- Data preprocessing -- Model building -- Classification performance evaluation -- Summary -- Questions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Name -- Copyright and Credits -- Dedicated -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Begin with NGINX -- Chapter 1: Downloading and Installing NGINX -- Installing NGINX via package managers -- NGINX-provided packages -- Compiling NGINX from source -- Installing GNU Compiler Collection -- The PCRE library -- The zlib library -- OpenSSL -- Downloading and compiling the NGINX source code -- Websites and resources -- Version branches -- Features -- Downloading and extracting -- Exploring the options for configuring the compilation -- The easy way -- Path options -- Build configuration issues -- Compiling and installing -- Controlling the NGINX service -- Daemons and services -- Users and groups -- NGINX command-line switches -- Starting and stopping the daemon -- Testing the configuration -- Other switches -- Adding NGINX as a system service -- systemd unit file -- Handling system errors -- A quick overview of the possibilities offered by NGINX Plus -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Basic NGINX Configuration -- Delving into the configuration file syntax -- Configuration directives -- Organization and inclusions -- Directive blocks -- Advanced language rules -- Looking at the base module directives -- What are base modules? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- 1: Variational Analysis and Variational Rationality in Behavioral Sciences: Stationary Traps -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Variational Rationality in Behavioral Sciences -- 1.2.1 Desirability and Feasibility Aspects of Human Behavior -- 1.2.2 Worthwhile (Desirable and Feasible) Moves -- 1.3 Evaluation Aspects of Variational Rationality -- 1.3.1 Optimistic and Pessimistic Evaluations -- 1.3.2 Optimistic Evaluations of Reference-Dependent Payoffs -- 1.4 Exact Stationary Traps in Behavioral Dynamics -- 1.5 Evaluations of Approximate Stationary Traps -- 1.6 Geometric Evaluations and Extremal Principle -- 1.7 Summary of Major Finding and Future Research -- References -- 2: A Financial Model for a Multi-Period Portfolio Optimization Problem with a Variational Formulation -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Financial Model -- 2.3 Variational Inequality Formulation and Existence Results -- 2.4 Numerical Examples -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- 3: How Variational Rational Agents Would Play Nash: A Generalized Proximal Alternating Linearized Method -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Potential Games: How to Play Nash? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Captivate Prime is an enterprise LMS -- Captivate Prime is a cloud-based LMS -- Captivate Prime is a learner-centric LMS -- Captivate Prime in the Adobe Digital Learning Solutions ecosystem -- Adobe Captivate -- Adobe Connect -- Conclusion -- Captivate Prime and Adobe Experience Cloud -- Prime and Adobe Experience Manager -- Prime and Marketo Engage -- Selling Captivate Prime content -- Conclusion -- Getting Access to Captivate Prime -- Activating Your Trial Account -- Discovering Your Prime Account URL -- Getting to know Captivate Prime -- Modifying your account settings -- Changing the default language of your Prime account -- Understanding the main roles -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Customize the Look and Feel of Captivate Prime -- Technical requirements -- Modifying the name and the subdomain of your Prime account -- Using a custom domain -- Branding your Captivate Prime account -- Uploading your logo -- Customizing the color theme -- Other visual customizations -- Customizing the learner's experience -- Understanding the Classic and the Immersive experiences -- Discovering the Classic learner experience -- Discovering the Immersive learner experience -- Other customizations -- Going headless with Captivate Prime -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Uploading Learning Content and Managing the Content Library -- Technical requirements -- Getting content into Captivate Prime -- Integrating third-party, off-the-shelf content -- Uploading your own custom content -- Conclusion -- Creating custom course modules -- Logging in as an Author -- Modules, courses, and learning programs -- A first look at the Content Library…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Chapter 6: Building a Classification Model with Spark * -- Types of classification models -- Linear models -- Logistic regression -- Multinomial logistic regression -- Visualizing the StumbleUpon dataset -- Extracting features from the Kaggle/StumbleUpon evergreen classification dataset -- StumbleUponExecutor -- Linear support vector machines -- The naà ̄ve Bayes model -- Decision trees -- Ensembles of trees -- Random Forests -- Gradient-Boosted trees -- Multilayer perceptron classifier -- Extracting the right features from your data -- Training classification models…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 13 Quiz -- Answers to Chapter 13 Quiz -- Book 5: Solving Linear and Polynomial Equations -- Chapter 14: Establishing Ground Rules for Solving Equations -- Creating the Correct Setup for Solving Equations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Further reading -- Chapter 9: Finding Optimal Solutions -- Technical requirements -- Minimizing a simple linear function -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Minimizing a non-linear function -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using gradient descent methods in optimization -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using least squares to fit a curve to data -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Analyzing simple two-player games -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Computing Nash equilibria -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Further reading -- Chapter 10: Improving Your Productivity -- Technical requirements -- Keeping track of units with Pint -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Accounting for uncertainty in calculations -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Loading and storing data from NetCDF files -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Working with geographical data -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Executing a Jupyter notebook as a script -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cascading the one-to-one persist operation -- Cascading the one-to-one merge operation -- Cascading the one-to-one delete operation -- The one-to-one delete orphan cascading operation -- Cascade on Many To Many -- Cascade of the persist many to many operation -- Dissociation of one side in the many to many association -- Tricks for many to many CascadeType.REMOVE -- Conclusion -- News from Java EE 7 -- Result set -- Stored procedures -- Converters -- Named entity graphs -- JPQL improvements -- API Criteria bulk operations -- Unsynchronized persistence context -- Indexes -- Packages and entities -- DataSources and connectors -- Deployment of the DataSource -- DS file -- XA and non XA -- Activating the deployer -- XML configuration -- Web console -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Implementing Business Logic -- Scopes in EJB -- Singleton -- Local and remote interfaces -- Remote clients -- EJB client library -- Remote naming project -- Combining the remote naming project and EJB client library -- Local and remote homes -- The session context -- Transactions -- Exceptions -- Transaction management annotation -- Transaction attributes -- Security -- EJB container configuration -- Session beans -- Stateless -- Stateful -- Singleton -- Entity beans -- Remote -- Thread pools -- IIOP -- In VM remote interface invocations -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Working with Distributed Transactions -- Transaction overview -- BMT and CMT -- Descriptor configuration -- Remote transaction -- Transactions and resource managers -- ACID properties -- Enterprise concurrent API -- Managed executor service -- Set of threads -- Transactional tasks -- Levels and transaction isolation problems -- Isolation violations -- Dirty read -- Non-repeatable read -- Phantom read -- Isolation levels -- Read committed -- Read uncommitted -- Repeatable read -- Serializable -- Transaction models…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Getting Error Messages from Resource Bundles -- The Custom Converter Sample Application -- Supplying Attributes to Converters -- Implementing Custom Validator Classes -- Registering Custom Validators -- Validating with Bean Methods -- Validating Relationships between Multiple Components -- Implementing Custom Converter and Validator Tags -- Conclusion -- 8 EVENT HANDLING -- Events and the JSF Life Cycle -- Value Change Events -- Action Events -- Event Listener Tags -- The f:actionListener and f:valueChangeListener Tags -- Immediate Components -- Using Immediate Input Components -- Using Immediate Command Components -- Passing Data from the UI to the Server -- Method Expression Parameters: JSF 2.0 -- The f:param Tag -- The f:attribute Tag -- The f:setPropertyActionListener Tag -- Phase Events -- System Events: JSF 2.0 -- Multi-Component Validation -- Making Decisions before Rendering the View -- Putting It All Together -- Conclusion -- 9 COMPOSITE COMPONENTS: JSF 2.0 -- The Composite Tag Library -- Using Composite Components -- Implementing Composite Components -- Configuring Composite Components -- Attribute Types -- Required Attributes and Default Attribute Values -- Manipulating Server-Side Data -- Localizing Composite Components -- Exposing a Composite's Components -- Exposing Action Sources -- Facets -- Children -- JavaScript -- Backing Components -- Packaging Composite Components in JARs -- Conclusion -- 10 AJAX: JSF 2.0 -- Ajax and JSF -- The JSF Life Cycle and Ajax -- The JSF Ajax Recipe -- The f:ajax Tag -- Ajax Groups -- Ajax Field Validation -- Ajax Request Monitoring -- JavaScript Namespaces -- Handling Ajax Errors -- Ajax Responses -- The JSF 2.0 JavaScript Library -- Passing Additional Ajax Request Parameters -- Queueing Events -- Coalescing Events -- Intercepting jsf.ajax.request() -- Using Ajax in Composite Components -- Conclusion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.6.1 Image Formats, Containers, and Compression Standards -- 3.7 Speech and Audio Coding -- 3.8 Shannon-Fano Coding -- 3.9 Human Coding -- 3.10 Arithmetic Coding -- 3.11 Lempel-Ziv-Welch Coding -- 3.12 Run-length Encoding -- 3.13 MPEG Audio and Video Coding Standards -- 3.14 Psychoacoustic Model of Human Hearing -- 3.14.1 The Masking Phenomenon -- 3.14.2 Temporal Masking -- 3.14.3 Perceptual Coding in MPEG Audio -- 3.15 Dolby -- 3.16 Linear Predictive Coding Model -- 3.17 Solved Problems -- Multiple Choice Questions -- Review Questions -- Part B: Error Control Coding -- Chapter 4: Coding Theory -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Types of Codes -- 4.2.1 Code Rate -- 4.3 Types of Errors -- 4.4 Error Control Strategies -- 4.4.1 Throughput Efficiency of ARQ -- 4.5 Mathematical Fundamentals -- 4.5.1 Modular Arithmetic -- 4.5.2 Sets -- 4.5.3 Groups -- 4.5.4 Fields -- 4.5.5 Arithmetic of Binary Field -- 4.5.6 Roots of Equations -- 4.5.7 Galois Field -- 4.6 Vector Spaces -- 4.6.1 Subspace -- 4.6.2 Linear Combination -- 4.6.3 Basis (or Base) -- 4.6.4 Dimension -- 4.6.5 Orthogonality -- 4.6.6 Dual Space -- 4.7 Matrices -- 4.7.1 Row Space -- 4.8 Solved Problems -- Multiple Choice Questions -- Review Questions -- Chapter 5: Linear Block Codes -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Generator Matrices -- 5.3 Parity-Check Matrices -- 5.3.1 Dual Code -- 5.4 Error Syndrome -- 5.4.1 Undetectable Error Pattern -- 5.5 Error Detection -- 5.6 Minimum Distance -- 5.7 Error-detecting Capability -- 5.8 Error-correcting Capability -- 5.9 Standard Array and Syndrome Decoding -- 5.9.1 Coset and Coset Leader -- 5.10 Probability of Undetected Errors Over a BSC -- 5.11 Hamming Code -- 5.12 Solved Problems -- Multiple Choice Questions -- Review Questions -- Chapter 6: Cyclic Codes -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Generation -- 6.2.1 Generation and Parity-check Matrices -- 6.2.2 Realization of Cyclic Code…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Programming by visualizing the big picture -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Predicting Votes with Linear Models -- Required packages -- Setting up the data -- Training and testing datasets -- Predicting votes with linear models -- Checking model assumptions -- Checking linearity with scatter plots -- Checking normality with histograms and quantile-quantile plots -- Checking homoscedasticity with residual plots -- Checking no collinearity with correlations -- Measuring accuracy with score functions -- Programatically finding the best model -- Generating model combinations -- Predicting votes from wards with unknown data -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Simulating Sales Data and Working with Databases -- Required packages -- Designing our data tables -- The basic variables -- Simplifying assumptions -- Potential pitfalls -- The too-much-empty-space problem -- The too-much-repeated-data problem -- Simulating the sales data -- Simulating numeric data according to distribution assumptions -- Simulating categorical values using factors -- Simulating dates within a range -- Simulating numbers under shared restrictions -- Simulating strings for complex identifiers -- Putting everything together -- Simulating the client data -- Simulating the client messages data -- Working with relational databases -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Communicating Sales with Visualizations -- Required packages -- Extending our data with profit metrics -- Building blocks for reusable high-quality graphs -- Starting with simple applications for bar graphs -- Adding a third dimension with colors -- Graphing top performers with bar graphs -- Graphing disaggregated data with boxplots -- Scatter plots with joint and marginal distributions -- Pricing and profitability by protein source and continent -- Client birth dates, gender, and ratings -- Developing our own graph type - radar graphs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Deep learning frameworks -- Setting up a cloud-based deep learning environment with GPU support -- Choosing a cloud provider -- Setting up your virtual server -- Configuring your virtual server -- Installing and updating deep learning dependencies -- Accessing your deep learning cloud environment -- Validating GPU-enablement on your deep learning environment -- Setting up a robust, on-premise deep learning environment with GPU support -- Neural network basics -- A simple linear neuron…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Regular expressions -- Wrapping up with Ruby basics -- Developing custom modules -- Building a module in a nutshell -- The architecture of the Metasploit framework -- Understanding the file structure -- The libraries layout -- Understanding the existing modules -- The format of a Metasploit module -- Disassembling the existing HTTP server scanner module -- Libraries and the function -- Writing out a custom FTP scanner module -- Libraries and functions -- Using msftidy -- Writing out a custom SSH-authentication with a brute force attack -- Rephrasing the equation -- Writing a drive-disabler post-exploitation module -- Writing a credential harvester post-exploitation module -- Breakthrough Meterpreter scripting -- Essentials of Meterpreter scripting -- Setting up persistent access -- API calls and mixins -- Fabricating custom Meterpreter scripts -- Working with RailGun -- Interactive Ruby shell basics -- Understanding RailGun and its scripting -- Manipulating Windows API calls -- Fabricating sophisticated RailGun scripts -- Summary and exercises -- Chapter 3: The Exploit Formulation Process -- The absolute basics of exploitation -- The basics -- The architecture -- System organization basics -- Registers -- Exploiting stack-based buffer overflows with Metasploit -- Crashing the vulnerable application -- Building the exploit base -- Calculating the offset -- Using the pattern_create tool -- Using the pattern_offset tool -- Finding the JMP ESP address -- Using the Immunity Debugger to find executable modules -- Using msfpescan -- Stuffing the space -- Relevance of NOPs -- Determining bad characters -- Determining space limitations -- Writing the Metasploit exploit module -- Exploiting SEH-based buffer overflows with Metasploit -- Building the exploit base -- Calculating the offset -- Using the pattern_create tool -- Using the pattern_offset tool…”