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Over 60 easy-to-follow recipes ranging from walking you through key features of Twilio's API to building advanced telephony applications Overview Teaches software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls and send and receive text messages using Twilio's web service APIs The only book that teaches you how to set up your own conference calling system or how to build a PBX for your company, or how to build a local solution that can tell you the weather where you are Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible In Detail Have you ever wanted to integrate phone features into a project you were working on? Maybe you wanted to send SMS mess...

Over 40 recipes on designing professional dashboards by implementing data visualization principles with this book and ebook Overview Utilize the features of Tableau to create, design, and develop effective, beautiful dashboards Use data visualization principles to help you to design dashboards that enlighten and support business decisions Explore Tableau's functionality with practical lessons that help you to build your own solution as you progress through the book In Detail With increasing interest and enthusiasm for data visualization in the media, businesses are looking to create effective dashboards that engage as well as communicate the truth of data. Tableau makes data accessible to everyone, and is a great way of sharing enterprise dashboard...

Deploy, test, and build software to solve real-world automation challenges using Rake Overview Solve real-world automation challenges with human readable code. Build or deploy an application package quickly. Easy-to-follow instructions to speed up tasks and manage them efficiently. In Detail Rake is a build automation tool written in Ruby. It allows you to specify tasks and describe dependencies as well as group tasks in a namespace. Rake uses Ruby's anonymous function blocks to define various tasks, allowing the use of the Ruby syntax. Rake's goal is to automate build processes quickly and expressively. "Rake Task Management Essentials" is a practical guide that covers the latest techniques in building, testing, and debugging rake tasks ...

Learn GameMaker Language programming concepts and script integration with GameMaker: Studio through hands-on, playable examples with this book and ebook Overview Write and utilize scripts to help organize and speed up your game production workflow Display important user interface components such as score, health, and lives Play sound effects and music, and create particle effects to add some spice to your projects Learn how to script common game features: artificial intelligence, collision, reading input, and player feedback Build your own example match-three puzzle and platform games In Detail GameMaker: Studio is a popular game engine used to publish games to a variety of platforms. Although GameMaker: Studio's drag-and-drop functionality makes c...