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Want to know how to use an electronic component? This second book of a three-volume set includes key information on electronics parts for your projects--complete with photographs, schematics, and diagrams. You'll learn what each one does, how it works, why it's useful, and what variants exist. No matter how much you know about electronics, you'll find fascinating details you've never come across before.Perfect for teachers, hobbyists, engineers, and students of all ages, this reference puts reliable, fact-checked information right at your fingertips--whether you're refreshing your memory or exploring a component for the first time. Beginners will quickly grasp important concepts, and more experienced users will find the specific details their project...

If you're looking for a scalable storage solution to accommodate a virtually endless amount of data, this book shows you how Apache HBase can fulfill your needs. As the open source implementation of Google's BigTable architecture, HBase scales to billions of rows and millions of columns, while ensuring that write and read performance remain constant. Many IT executives are asking pointed questions about HBase. This book provides meaningful answers, whether you're evaluating this non-relational database or planning to put it into practice right away.Discover how tight integration with Hadoop makes scalability with HBase easierDistribute large datasets across an inexpensive cluster of commodity serversAccess HBase with native Java clients, or with gate...

Discover why Vagrant is a must-have tool for thousands of developers and ops engineers. This hands-on guide shows you how to use this open source software to build a virtual machine for any purpose-including a completely sandboxed, fully provisioned development environment right on your desktop.Vagrant creator Mitchell Hashimoto shows you how to share a virtual machine image with members of your team, set up a separate virtualization for each project, and package virtual machines for use by others. This book covers the V1 (1.0.x) configuration syntax running on top of a V2 (1.1+) core, the most stable configuration format running on the latest core.Build a simple virtual machine with just two commands and no configurationCreate a development environm...

Entirely rewritten for Apple's Swift programming language, this updated cookbook helps you overcome the vexing issues you're likely to face when creating apps for iOS devices.You'll find hundreds of new and revised recipes for using the iOS 8 SDK, including techniques for working with Health data and HomeKit accessories, enhancing and animating graphics, storing and protecting data, sending and receiving notifications, and managing files and folders among them. Each recipe includes sample code on GitHub that you can use right away.Use CloudKit APIs to store information in the cloud with easeCreate custom keyboards and extensionsAccess users' health-related information with HealthKitInteract with accessories inside the user's home with HomeKitCreate v...

Learn to make iOS apps even if you have absolutely no programming experience. This hands-on book takes you from idea to App Store, using real-world examples-such as driving a car or eating at a restaurant-to teach programming and app development. You'll learn concepts through clear, concise, jargon-free language.This book focuses on Apple's new programming language, Swift. Each lesson is divided into two parts: the lecture portion explains the terms and concepts through examples, and the exercise portion helps you apply these concepts while building real-world apps, like a tip calculator. Learn how to think differently-and see the world from a whole new perspective.Learn the basic building blocks of programmingDive into the Swift programming language...