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Usability testing is a sub-discipline of User Experience, and remote testing involves fewer logistics, allows participation regardless of location and is quicker and cheaper to execute than in person studies, but still deliver valuable insights and feedback. This book is your ideal guide to remote usability testing.

Isomorphic JavaScript has been a buzzword lately, allowing developers to utilize a single language throughout their web development stack and build cost-effective and scalable applications. This book is on one such modern web development stack which comprises of web technologies like MongoDB, Express.js, Aurelia.js, and Node.

Spring 5.0 brings major advancements in the rich APIs provided by the Spring framework and thus creates a need for developers to master its tools and techniques to achieve high-performing applications. This book will help you improve the speed of your code and optimize the performance of your apps.

The Faster Web is quickly changing the way we think about Web development. The Web has changed considerably in recent years and is now built upon many new technologies: the HTTP/2 protocol, asynchronous programming, PHP tools like Blackfire.io and server monitoring tools like the TICK stack. This book will help you take a deep dive into these ...

The MERN stack is a collection of great tools - MongoDB, ExpressJS, React, and Node - that provide a strong base for a developer to build easily maintainable web applications. With each of them a JavaScript or JavaScript-based technology, the shared programming language means it takes less time to develop web applications.

Blynk is gaining a lot of popularity among the masses as it is simple and portable to use, and it comes under mobile applications and devices. The book will introduce you to Blynk and will demonstrate how to setup the environment for building IoT applications. You will then deep dive into concepts like building a notification widget, display ...

Metasploit is a popular penetration testing framework that has one of the largest exploit databases around. This book will show you exactly how to prepare yourself for the attacks you will face every day by simulating real-world possibilities.

Network administrators use network scanning tools to build a network inventory and to perform security audits by examining active hosts on a network with the help of IP address ranges. The same principles can also be used in cyber attacks to find weaknesses in a system. This book will help you not only find flaws but also strengthen the ...

Combining React with industry tested server-side technologies such as Node, Express, and MongoDB creates a diverse array of possibilities when developing real-world web applications. This book guides you through setting up for MERN-based web development to building social media, an online marketplace, media streaming, and VR-infused game ...

Robotics is emerging to be a $100 billion industry by 2020 based on current trends and is about to create the largest technological revolution. This book will cover everything you need to know about robotics and will help you to build smart robots using Python.

Node.js is a server-side JavaScript platform using an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model allowing users to build fast and scalable data-intensive applications running in real time. JavaScript is no longer just for browsers and this exciting introduction to Node.js will show you how to build data-intensive applications that run in real time. ...

Office 365, one of the most powerful subscription applications, is renowned for its cost-effectiveness and has a powerful range of cost-effective services. This one-stop solution will help make your organization reliable, scalable, and fast. This book will help you realize this dream easily and effectively.

This book is your guide to quickly get to grips with the most widely used machine learning algorithms. As a data science professional, this book will help you design and train better machine learning models to solve a variety of complex problems, and make the machine learn your requirements.

Swift Language is now more powerful than ever; it has introduced new ways to solve old problems and has gone on to become one of the fastest growing popular languages. It is now a de-facto choice for iOS developers and it powers most of the newly released and popular apps. This practical guide will help you to begin your journey with Swift ...

Vagrant is a tool used to build and manage virtualized environments with ease. Vagrant as a tool has evolved over time from support to virtualization to managing end to end DevOps and infrastructure management. Through this book, you'll be able to quickly install and configure Vagrant to perfectly suit your DevOps and infrastructure needs.

A balance between implementing complex applications and optimizing performance is a present-day need. This book helps you achieve this balance while developing and deploying applications with Kotlin. You will learn how to use profiling tools to detect performance issues and discover bytecode that is generated to overcome performance bottlenecks.

MQTT is a lightweight messaging protocol for small sensors and mobile devices. This book explores the features of the latest versions of MQTT for IoT and M2M communications, how to use them with Python 3, and allow you to interact with sensors and actuators using Python.

Create smart systems to extract intelligent insights for decision making. You will learn about widely used Artificial Intelligence techniques for carrying out solutions in a production-ready environment. You'll explore advanced topics such as clustering, symbolic and sub-symbolic information representation, and many more.

Do you feel you've mastered the Python language and you know everything it takes to write applications that are a class apart? Well, you're in for a surprise! This book covers the darkest secrets of Python, delving into its depths and uncovering things you never would have thought could be done.

Bug bounties have quickly become a critical part of the security economy. This book shows you how technical professionals with an interest in security can begin productively-and profitably-participating in bug bounty programs.

A key problem of software development today is the software bloat, where huge toolchains and development environments are needed in software coding and deployment. Red significantly reduces this bloat by offering a minimal but complete toolchain. This is the first introductory book on Red, and it will get you up and running as quickly as possible.

C++ is one of the most widely-used programming languages and has applications in a variety of fields, such as gaming, GUI programming, and operating systems, to name a few. Through the years, C++ has evolved into (and remains) one of the top choices for software developers worldwide. This book will show you some notable C++ features and how to ...

In this Cookbook, proven, modular recipes take you from the absolute basics to advanced location-based services, security techniques, and performance optimization. You'll learn how to write apps from scratch, ensure interoperability, choose the best solutions for common problems, and avoid development pitfalls.

This book will give you a wide understanding of the principles that underpin layouts in Shiny applications. You will learn about styling using different methods, like bits of HTML added to a vanilla Shiny application, and HTML interfaces. You will also learn about dashboards, navigation bars, and interfaces in Shiny applications.

This book will introduce the AI algorithms to the beginners and will take on implementing AI tasks using various Java-based libraries. It will take a practical approach to get you up and running with building smarter applications using Java programming knowledge.

Become a Python Data Analyst book introduces you to the mainstream libraries of Python's Data Science stack. With proven examples and real-world datasets, this book teaches how to effectively perform data manipulation, visualize and analyze data patterns and brings you to the ladder of advanced topics like Predictive Analytics.

Bootstrap is the world's most popular frontend framework to build web applications. You will be using a template that will help you in building different kinds of real world websites such as a social media website, a company landing page, a media hosting website, and a profile page with ease.

Android Things allows you to build your own smart, connected devices for consumers and industrial use. This book will help you unleash the power of Android Things enabling you to build your own smart devices. We will cover the basics right from installation to advanced topics like Analog Sensors, Digital input/output and Rainbow HAT.

This book is your one point reference guide to get started with OpenGL and C++ for game development. From setting up the development environment to getting started with basics of drawing and shaders along with concepts like lighting, model loading and cube mapping, this book will get you up to speed with the fundamentals.